skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I have an open source project that's in an early stage, and I'm trying to figure out whether structuring it as a nonprofit is a good idea. I'm quite curious to hear more about the reasoning behind this decision as well.
would there be a corollary to 1, in that the Software would then have to support every possible configuration, and then purely due to resources, wouldn't be optimized for any?
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I don't like everything Google does, and perhaps not even every decision you've been a party to (who knows), but aside from your new habit of ending every other sentence with a smiley, I am grateful to have someone with direct, in-depth knowledge commenting on Googley issues here. Thanks!
That's a perfect submission for @issuesfromhell

https://twitter.com/issuesfromhell
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Oh dear christ.

A lot of the medical devices that could actually help people are well within the ability of even a small team of undergrads to produce--and many do!

It's the sheer fuckheadedry of the market and regulatory environment and capture of the FDA and insurers that basically make bringing anything to bear a tedious, hair-graying experience.
>You can also copy and paste Japanese text into the app like song lyrics, textbook readings, videogame scripts, or books, and it will automatically find all the words contained in the text, and generate flashcards from them.

How would 「気に入らない」 be parsed for flashcards?

An entry for 気 with it's most common meaning(s) and an entry for 入る with it's most common meaning(s)?
Does it leverage text to speech for pronouciation purposes?
I guess he's referring to things like the maybe monad.
Neither does; the author is linking to the i386 documents, where there is indeed a difference between syscall and C calling conventions on some operating systems. On x86_64, everyone follows the SysV ABI and uses registers for both purposes.
Surgical residents work 100+ hours a week. They are working on life/death situations. Somehow they manage to not kill most people.
A Mythbuster and More Discuss the Rise of the Makers
Maybe I'm naive, but I'm hoping that the lawsuits from this will be the start of a push for data-breach insurance, and that the insurers, as Bruce Schneier has been advocating for many years, will force the security that the marketing VP doesn't see the need to pay for.
Ghetto culture and unfair incarceration predates the war on drugs. It's important to address the core problem, not just its symptoms.

You'll have a very hard time finding anyone on HN to take the other side of an argument about ending the drug war. Everyone here agrees with you. The author of the paper agrees with you. Drug prohibition is not a live issue on HN in general.
Nature already chose your genome to excel at hunting animals in groups and gathering berries off of the ground. I'm guessing your full time occupation involves neither of those things, even under very broad definitions. We're extremely adaptable.
There should be no guilt on either side. Sometimes putting time into investigating the stack trace isn't worth it for the user. However, reporting it still a good idea because the developer might recognize a regression or another angle at a bug being already experienced. If not, it's not a big deal to dismiss.
Heroku has cheap, easy, and performant hosting that is ideal for prototyping and scaling out an early stage company. It gets more expensive as you get "big" and it seems most of the posts as of late related to databases, scaling, and containerization have focused on building for "big". Heroku "just works" and while that is fantastic for many, the interesting stuff that hits the front page is often the "cooler" stuff that takes a lot more engineering to roll out. I think Heroku and PaaS tools in general have become the new "normal" and people rarely discuss "normal" on a news site. ( Just my observations over the years )
Looks great! Any timeline on Android?
Domain Driven Design for Services Architecture
ok lets say this is true. If I want to continue using Spotify, how do I block them from looking at my pictures and contacts on a stock nexus 5 running a stock android 4.4.3 ?
I suspect breaking out the simulated world into the real world will become an interesting meta-challenge, whether you like it or not :).
The Apache Software Foundation is also a 501(c)(3). To keep that status, we have to be very careful about maintaining vendor independence. We are constrained on what we can do with donations, and we must ensure that our projects do not unduly privilege any commercial actor -- they can't use us to fund activities which would ordinarily be taxed.

Consortiums are more at home in 501(c)(6).
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IMHO with the current management Twitter will stagnate and die.
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Do you think 1 sq km of farmland causes more negative externalities than building and maintaining a skyscraper + 1 sq km of solar panels? That sounds really implausible, can you explain a bit?
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Thanks for the thorough response. Yeah, pretty much. It's good that you all have thought about this stuff. There's always a PVP aspect if you're ever going to put yourself public or on the leaderboards, but that's just part of the game. I can always start out anonymous and go public if I turn out to be any good...
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This and the drone operators that like to fly at Cars&Coffee events.

Yes, it's a great idea to fly a drone around lots of expensive cars and people without insurance, skill or experience.

/sarcasm
There's a long, long road between not "going hungry" and maximizing your individual potential, and anyone that survived the first .com bubble unscathed knows that the latter has far more lasting power.
Can't wait for Stripe to be available in more countries without having to have a US bank account to set it up.
Shrug, if we have a new generation that can't socialize but is super smart then that's the next wave of humanity and it's our job to get support them and make sure they succeed. The alternative is trying to beat the genetics out of them, which won't work.
Thanks for the feedback. I have quite a bit written already and was just getting to the concept of timing and clocking signals.
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I think they were comparing based on the performance of a simple application:

"For a semi-complex application like TodoMVC, it is more than 20 times faster than React with less code, and a much smaller library."

I think the comparison makes sense because Imba seems to imply a lightweight framework. At least, the generated code in the examples on the front page references a `t$` function, which has to come from somewhere.
@chrisvasselli:

When I was a child, my parents tried to teach me Japanese as my first language, but we live in Brazil and that didn't work out, as soon as I got into school I dropped it and started to speak exclusively in Portuguese. Still I have some knowledge of "spoken Japanese", even though I don't know how to write the kanjis.

That's why I found this clippings feature really great. I can read the pronunciation over the kanjis and deduce what it means by context, I've always missed that when trying to study Japanese, and if I can't deduce its meaning, it's also easier to lookup in the dictionary if I know its pronunciation (in the app it's probably just a click). Some people think that going through this trouble actually helps memorizing the kanjis, but for me it's just a time consuming task.

Too bad I have no plans to buy an iPhone. No plans for an Android or a web version?

Also, how did you get these texts to feed the clippings? By hand? Scraping?
In a way, it's a tragedy of the commons thing. Part of what makes a neighborhood nice is... well, the people. People that have lived there for a long time, contributing to the local economy and community. In a city, where you can't easily expand supply, this has two effects: it drives the demand up and the supply down, yeah? So, now you have people who see dollar signs, and jump on every bit of open housing to rent it out on AirBnB- but doing so means they're not contributing back to the community in the same way it originally became desirable. So, in a way, they're draining the value others created.

I do have another note regarding how that value contributes to a community's overall welfare, but I've got to get back to work. I'll edit it this evening.
...and thats when it becomes a normal payment provider. I worked for one that invested far more in its call centers than its APIs. It actually worked very well for them!
I'm not saying that the world is fair, or unfair, or even that I'm fair, or unfair. I'm just saying that as a person (with limited time as we all are) who works for a small fairly innovative consulting company, a resume that shows 12 years of ASP dev will get pushed to the back of the list. I don't have an HR dept. That person may be a perfect fit. This is the guy's best possible chance. Nonetheless, I have limited time and will interview fresh-outs or jr devs with more diverse skillsets first, and an old-dog ASP dev only as a last resort. Diamond in the rough? Well, I have no idea about the diamond thing, all I know upfront is it's certainly the rough, and probably not worth my time.
Looks great!

Two suggestions:

1.) Make this a Show HN, and change the link to the iTunes web page, not a deep link into iTunes (annoying)

2.) Remove the "endorsed by Apple" - or explain what you mean. It seems strange and might get you in trouble with Apple... no fun.
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Now that is interesting: the possibility of a whole new type of reality built of Dark Matter!
In this case, there's actually an entry in the dictionary for 「気に入る」, so it will figure out that this is a conjugation of that entry, and use 「気に入る」and its most common meaning as the flashcard.

Many of these kinds of phrases exist in the dictionary (I'm using JMDict under the hood), but for those that don't, it would create two flashcards, one for each word. The flashcards are set by default to use the most common meaning, but if there are alternative meanings, you can choose to show those in addition, or instead of the most common meaning.
Yes, but only after 2-3 listens.
I think I did run across this in my initial research, but I was also interested in learning LaTeX and thought this project would be a good excuse to do that.
When cultural heritage gets a digital life
Use tramp from your local emacs

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
Not yet! But it's on my short list of features to add! Good to know there's interest.
Lets face it - responsive images can be made so complex that we end up just giving up dealing with them.

This is a small plugin that aims to make it completely straight forward to at least do a good job of handling pixel densities.

Won't do nearly as much as some of the more complex plugins based on the picture tags, etc, but the goal is making it so easy to use that there's not really any reason not to :)
I remember reading about a lady that went to college in California and returned to Malaysia or Indonesia and tried 3 different startups till one stuck. I think the name of the startup was Tappy http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33828010 how about trying to join a startup like this and use it as a mentor-ship to learn from?
Sorry it was Vietnam, but still Southeast Asia
Yeah, it's a real crowd pleaser, particularly if you play the individual components of the signal one-at-a-time first, so they hear nothing linguistic, and then combined, language!

It so nicely captures one of the key takeaways from my own line of research, which focuses on our robustness, as listeners, to problems and variability in the signal.
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>we actually automatically optimized them against a huge set of vocabulary lists that a Japanese native, English fluent speaker made for Japanese students studying English. This gives us the best chance of picking the Japanese word that a Japanese native speaker would choose for a given English word.

That's actually a pretty awesome way to handle it compared to other methods I've seen used.

>As for the furigana, since we're taking arbitrary user input, there are bound to be mistakes here or there, and that's the case with this app too.

Of course, I'm understanding of that issue. Parsing arbitrary input will always have errors, Google isn't exempt from this problem either. :)

It's very, very difficult to get some of these things right (and sometimes just impossible given current technology/software).

My issue with it is that not all people who use the app will be technologically savvy and understand that the furigana could be wrong. For someone learning a new language, giving the wrong reading could be extremely detrimental for them.

I guess just voicing a gripe I have. I understand from a marketing point, every JP app does this when they automatically add furigana readings. I just wish there was some transparency that they aren't always accurate. :\
I've long wondered this. I haven't followed the evolution of Twitter's homepage, but I'd be really shocked if they hadn't tested this to death.

The thing is, this keeps causing me to miss moments to engage with them. Someone posts a link, I find something on a website, etc. that go to Twitter? BAM! SIGN-UP NOW OR LEAVE!

While I do of course have an account, if I were a non-user, I'd keep thinking "why would I sign-up when I have no idea if it is worth my time to be nagged by you via email?"

There's a well understood notion that on user-generated content sites like Twitter, Reddit, etc. the number of content producers is relatively low compared to the number of content consumers. While I don't have data to support my hypothesis on this yet, my gut tells me that you have a better chance of converting people to content producers if you can get them hooked on being a content consumer. Lowering the barrier to entry for that is critical. If I felt like I was really missing out on all the cool stuff going on within Twitter, I might be more inclined to sign up if I hadn't yet, and exposing that data lowers the barrier to entry.

But again, I'd be shocked if they hadn't tested that to death.
I remember reading Timeline and Prey in high school. They were amazing books to me at the time. I just couldn't put them down. I never cared too much about how scientifically accurate they were though. That's like complaining about the plot holes in Back to the Future. It's entertainment, so to me he did his job well.
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So what happens when someone(s) decide to automate a drone protest over a runway. Just set it and forget it. They fly till they drop and block airspace by just flying 100 ft above a runway and fly back and forth. They would be able to shut down an airport. That's what.

Kinda like these folks who shit down a river. But there's no one to arrest.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/08/greenpe...
Not a fan of their support, or rather lack thereof.
Because the question is not about general law principles. It is testing to see if you know the tort of public disclosure of private facts and if you know about the right of publicity.

Importantly, let me be more clear:

* The definition of "newsworthy" in this case is a term of art, not a matter of "it is not newsworthy in the same way that stories about the hulk are not newsworthy." Newsworthy, in this instance, does not mean meritorious as a subject of news, but merely of public interest. In this case, yes, it is newsworthy. This is the way courts use this word in this context.

* Case law is very, very resoundingly settled on this matter. Activity you conduct in public can be recorded and broadcast for a huge variety of purposes - end of story. The only really restricted purposes, in fact, are those that imply sponsorship or endorsement, or are injurious as a matter of libel - meaning there is a material falsehood. This question is structured, specifically, to see if the reader knows about the laws of libel and publicity - truth is a defense to libel (this is a true recount of facts occurring in the broadcast of the footage) and newsworthiness is an exception to violation of rights of publicity (which are typically only violated when implying sponsorship or endorsement).

The reason the questions don't make sense, then, is for the very reason that a lot of people don't respect what lawyers do (note: I am in now way implying you do not - you have put time and thought into your response and I found it very stimulating! I am talking in general) - because though we use english as the language of practice it does not mean we use the commonly used english definitions of those words in the legal context. Here, in this context, without knowing a fair amount of law, you wouldn't know that there were specific privacy rights being dealt with and that "newsworthy" is a term of art. In other words, the question being asked is absolutely no less technical than the question on mortgages - except that mortgages are so esoteric no one accidentally mistakes understanding mortgages for the mere fact that they are explained in english words. If I could go back in time, I'd write laws in camelcaps to make it clear that the legal definition of newsWorthy is different than the lay meaning of newsworthy.
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The UK's Channel 4 News has a good video report on Dismaland here (approx 6 mins):

Dismaland: inside Banksy’s dystopian playground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wruEnynr1w
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Interesting to consider, but we're not reprogramming human DNA so much as adding and removing bytes to the compiled output by trial and error.

In practice, there's good reason to be concerned that we might achieve the opposite: popularise a modification with a reasonably well understood "positive" characteristic and then discover the negative effects on many thousands of humans that have had the modification some time afterwards. Of course this happens with conventional medicine too, but it's a little easier to trial a remedy when you don't have to create new humans for each trial, and negative effects are less likely to be irreversible when they're caused by something sufferers take rather than something sufferers are.
http://play.golang.org/p/hR7iVDC-Vu

Yes, that is a very nasty bug indeed. I think I'll be sticking with 1.4.2 for quite some time..

Does anyone else feel like 1.5 was released prematurely before it was honestly ready to go out the door? At this point Go is more than 5 years old; these kinds of amateur issues seem unacceptable.

Can anyone comment on what it's like when new versions of Java have been released throughout the past 20 years? I am curious if regressions and stability issues are common in that ecosystem.

My experience with Scala has been that things are quite bulletproof by the time they actually get released for wide-consumption.
If you were building your own vs buying one pre-built you would need to do a lot of research first. That would involve reading a lot of blogs and forums and watching a lot of videos. During that time you're bound to pick up a few things not directly related to which parts to buy.
A key difference is how the two companies approached their nichification. Yahoo took a kitchen-sink approach——trying to cram every category link into its homepage, in the process transforming itself into a cluttered mess, and ultimately defeating its core purpose as a search engine: to make things easy to find.

Google, on the other hand, kept its homepage relatively clean and simple. It held to the belief that the search query should be the point of entry in any session, and that nothing should stand between the user and her query.

Basically, Google never tried to become a portal. The SERPs may have changed dramatically over the years, but the starting point is (more or less) the same.

"It's in my maps and my phone and my TV and my car; it's everywhere."

That's because various devices are supplanting the web browser as points of entry into the internet under specific circumstances. Google's integration into those apps and devices is its attempt to maintain its position as the internet's de facto user interface. (It's also a good way to collect and organize information from the ever-growing, ever-diverging set of sources generating information.) Whichever way the internet goes, Google needs to go with it.
And a canada goose will cause a contained failure of a CFM56 turboprop the likes of which (or equivalents) equip most B737s and A320s. The miracle on the Hudson was an A320 hitting a flock of geese on take off.

The good news is that for most passenger planes, a drone ingest would be unlikely to do more than take out an engine or smash the cockpit windows. Both severe issues but issues which an airliner can be expected to survive.

That said, a CFM56 engine costs somewhere around 5-10m dollars. So how do you find the drone's owner to bill them for it?
You can use the successor directly with your cluster and from the bug tracker they seem to be open to bug reports if functionality for use without a DCOS acount is broken, so I don't see what's so "evil"?
> ... and plenty of good-will toward their child to the point where they are trying to intervene even before the child is born.

Sure they do - right up until it goes wrong. How many of those parents are prepared to unconditionally love their children if they are born crippled, say? It seems to me that the parents who want their children to be "better" are less likely to love them as they need if they come out "wrong".
We can disagree on definitions then.
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Its hard to feel too bad for the victims of these attacks, given that their behavior hurts others. Oh wow I think I'm getting old.
What Works After 7nm? How Far Fin-FET Can Be Pushed
It might be long enough for some, but not the others. Startups need to have majority of things right even before getting into YC and then improve more under YC mentoring.
Minor but they would win if they sued you.
AFAIK the LLVM Foundation's primary operations are organizing LLVM developer conferences, which seems like it could be justified as educational undertaking.
IT Companies in China Are Hiring Cheerleaders to Boost Job Efficiency
Guess it depends if anyone is being paid to log the IPs in the swarm and do anything with them.

I'd imagine if you treat it like downloading a TV show or something and use a suitable VPN you'll be mostly fine. Probably just comes down to how much someone is willing to pay to go after people downloading it.

Otherwise I expect others to analyze the dump and publish their findings in less dodgy formats.
To paraphrase ESR: thank you for this grandmotherly kindness. :)
I actually have no plans to take a stab at the world of Youtube stardom--I'm just not a performer in that regard.

I'm a senior digital media guy so I'm more curious about it from an advertising/audience/CPM standpoint TBH.

I understand luck is a large factor, but the barrier to entry for this seems to be pretty nails, a soothing voice, and the ability to film yourself opening a box of kids toys and putting them back in. The more interesting part of it is the marketing side frankly, which entails how they built their viewership, what they do to actively promote it, etc.
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