skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "sola lingua bona est lingua mortua" version is listed as "Dog Latin" (or mock Latin) in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(S)

(Perhaps "unum bonum lingua mortua" would work, as translate.google.com's advises ;-)
Funny you should say that, given that oil is the classic example of a market controlled by a cartel of non-free governments.
A Heroku-like PaaS layer that serves as a manager for—but crucially, doesn't attempt to abstract away—a set of IaaS components would be interesting. Sort of a convention-over-configuration CLI tool for interacting with some CloudFormation-like API.

The "non-abstraction" part doesn't seem to be in any cloud provider's interest to sell, though; even with AWS, when you allocate a database, it doesn't result in a new EC2 instance for the DB being dropped into your bag of instances, such that you just get charged instance fees for the instance. Instead, it all gets packaged up so that you can be charged higher, separate, value-based database fees. It's a bit ridiculous.
Looks like SQLite is historically targetting a range of platforms that includes ones without a fully functional, standard-compliant printf(). Yes, that means it doesn't rely on much of anything elese provided by the C runtime and the operating system.

That reminds me: as an emebedded systems programmer, I've encountered a proper standards-compliant C compiler that allowed switching between a full, light and no version of printf() with a switch - you were allowed to omit just that one bit of the standard library for some significant savings in RAM and ROM usage. Of course, it was a little wonder for me at the time that a standards-compliant C compiler existed on that platform at all, but to realize that printf() function could often be the most heavy part of the application was another thing altogether... mind-expanding, really. The lesser C compiler vendors would just cut corners on the standard library implementation where they see fit, but that one left standard compliance as an option.
If you have only 25 people, you have few enough that you can reasonably discuss just about everything with the whole team. So, you can reasonably talk about what kind of "engineering effectiveness" work you need, and its priority relative to the other tasks on your list. How much time you spend on it then depends on where the task falls on https://xkcd.com/1205/ as well as how much time you can spare from your current workloads.
The thing that makes capital punishment barbaric is that it's the equivalent of cutting off a thief's hand. It's a naked form of punishment, that seeks only to punish, not to repair or restitute, and which causes irreversible and grave damage. There is a simple alternative here for the truly guilty: life imprisonment and forced restitution (letting someone work to pay off their debt to society). I can only see two reasons to have capital punishment at all: bloodlust, and cost cutting (avoiding the expense of imprisonment). Either of those have no place in an enlightened justice system which aims to repair the damage done, not exacerbate it.
Google advertisers can now use email addresses to target ads
معلم تركيب سيراميك الكويت هاتف 51387985 سيراميك الكويت
Economic efficiency is basically GDP / input, with the input chosen by what you're trying to measure the efficiency of. It's extremely approximate as a measure of anything real. It's easily skewed because GDP isn't a particularly good measure to start with. It's hard to take measures that use GDP very seriously for countries with large offshore banking sectors, for example.
I miss international support on Medium. Or maybe recognition? But also in terms of features, like national "communities" or filters. I've thought about posting there but recognize that brand as one aimed for quality long form posts, but can't be assed to write all that in English. :( I want to be able to visit a medium.com/ger, medium.com/swe, etc.

It's seemingly not even a topic brought up there in a FAQ or so. Funny, since I think it would open up many new markets.
Please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How many people don't have contacts anywhere? No family or friends, nobody from the neighborhood who joined the military and moved away?

That's just inertia.
There actually are Screen Protector that allows you to press the space next to the Home Button, and the "touch" will signal to the same side's top corner of the screen.
Reading Patterns for Better User Experience
He was talking about Guantanamo, presumably ("extralegal holding facility")
The 2015 U.S. Mobile App Report
Horse chestnut herb
The new Facebook Notes rocks. It's not as feature rich as Medium but the user connections are, of course with over a billion users, incredible and unmatched.
You are so right about the "cross-functional team including the primary users in the room"

Back in 94 I and another developer did a similar RAD/DSDM project for British telecom we delivered in 28 days what had been quoted as taking 2 years by another part of the company.

I recon that that single month I did more for the company than he rest of my 15 year time with BT
Amen! Can i get a witness!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280894
I really didn't understand why they didn't started to work at scala and make it better?!

Like modularize it more so they can have a subset working on Java and make the compiler faster / better / more tooling support.

That would've been better with yet another JVM language.
The community is splitting and splitting and still most people think in the same niche, but they always use their different syntax.

I mean kotlin does a lot of things like scala but still tries to be his own language and doesn't use as much fp as scala does.
it also uses 'it' instead of '_' not sure why they came to 'it' also the data classes so much work around stuff, thats just aweful.

Hopefully Java will get more functional so that we don't get a too fragmented community.

P.S.: Yes everything has it's place i just dislike whats happening in the it, so that everybody wants to do his own thing instead of working together.
> There is nowhere to go, not with the available physical space.

I think that taking a classical digital still image on a tiny sensor is probably soon going to hit an "ISO-wall", but so far we haven't started doing much trickery with the images apart from simple noise/sharpness/toning treatments.

I think smartphones will lead the development of "cheats" to get better images. Imagine taking a portrait of 3 people in low-light by exposing a 1 second film (maybe including a couple of flashes). The processor then works (very hard) to build together single frame in which everyone's eyes are open, the moving subjects are frozen and sharp, and the shadow detail is pulled from the dark background by averaging out the noise from the thousands of frames.

I think the accelerometer should be used to trace the movement during this exposure, which can be used in combination with the anti-shake blur removal algorithms which are being introduced into various programs now.

Add to this some other technologies like deep learning that can be used to "guess" what's in a region of an image where we have noisy, obscured or OOF data.

I'm optimist, I think we will see not better classical images, but just better images. There will be lots of crazy "three-eyes"-artifacts produced by this, just like we see when programs try to stitch panoramas. Also, it will upset photography purists to no end. It will question the entire notion of what a photograph is.
Nah, just fire the starting pistol again every hundred meters and call it a new sprint. /s
Sometimes I wonder whether the problem isn't actually over preparation for testing - because that's where the stress is.

When I was at prep school exams were just a special week at the end of each term (maybe year, it was a while ago) - but not much significant effort was made to prepare in any way. They were simply a measure of how much had been gleaned from lessons.

A couple of weeks later we'd get a special "exam form orders" describing our results in relation to our peers (which happened every fortnight regardless - it's just this one was based on exams). Some people cared more than others, but I don't remember anyone being distraught before or after.

I'm also not sold on the fact that the kind of revision typically practised leads to long term retention - but that's just my humble opinion.
Free! Oil has the most friction applied of almost any commodity! In its untaxed state it is cheaper to buy than Coca Cola
This article repeats the assertion that there is no such thing as a 10x engineer but doesn't site anything that shows such. It has become a popular meme but I know counterexamples from people I have worked with that were significantly more effective (10x minimum) engineers than others.

Does anyone have anything that shows they don't exist? I'm starting to think it's something average engineers like to repeat to convince themselves that there isn't anyone really 'better' than them. Sort of a reincarnation of the condescending "there are no winners or losers" thing we do with childrens sports.
I think the point is that the term is ambiguous.
Hmm, I'm not so sure. For two reasons: If we assume that life naturally arises when light is shone at rocks for long enough then we might assume that life on mars would have an independent origin. However, this does not necessarily mean that life there will have orthogonal biochemistry. It may be that the biochemistry we observe on earth is the biochemistry most likely to emerge in a wide range of environments.

On the other side we should consider the possibility that space is porous to life. That life is able to travel between bodies or on bodies that pass through the vacuum of space. In this case we should expect that while there may be independent origins of life, within relatively short distances a certain kind of biochemistry might come to dominate.

Add to this the quite important role that exogenous organic chemicals likely played in the emergence of life on earth, in the case where life arose here and on mars independently. It is probably more likely that life would emerge through roughly the same processes wherever it emerges, therefore in roughly similar environments and using roughly the same building blocks (organic molecules constructed in space and deposited through impacts) we might expect it to have similar forms. I would say that Titan is likely to have something entirely different to earth life - owing to it's very different environment...
Show HN: Ec2hashcat – password cracking in the cloud
Gathering $350K: A journey through our seed funding
Why are you so angry ?
I think the Browser uses the under key for form fields. So the javascript doesn't see the ctrl+z events.
The globally addressable addresses that my ISP doles out. Because NAT breaks so many things and firewalling is much better done on the endpoints. (And I'm not going to put crappy consumer electronics on my network since they would be big liabilities behind NAT as well)
Kotlin, Spring Boot, React.js Example Webapp
Is There a Positive ROI in Automated Web Tests?
I have kids. I'm already there.
I always remember when I was working in a restaurant aged 16 there was one chap who would always demand a "bonus" for coming in at short notice to cover someone's shift. The rest of us would typically have just said ye or nay depending on whether we were free and wanted the cash.

He was a crap awful waiter and no-one was best pleased to find out he was getting more money just for showing up. Wasn't enough for us to change our behaviour though... haggling for money is just so undignified
I'd assume they just go to his estate unless he specifically specified otherwise.
Which tells me that you never worked on a platform with multiple servers and complex network and storage situation.
Atleast not for a few years when your infrastructure bitrots away and you're fighting to keep it all together most of the time. But by then you're used to the mess. No big deal.
I feel the author has chosen poor examples for illustrating 'bad code'. Does he really think so little of the id software team that they aren't aware of these things? There's no mention of the fact that in the real world, all the patterns and weird tricks there are won't save you from compromising on a perfect design to get stuff done & shipped.
The real cost is in the externalities: CO2 emissions -> climate change -> costs
Vast amounts of energy lol has the reporter not been to a blast furnace or an aluminum smelting plant or an actual energy intensive plant.
Not so long ago it was stated frequently and with certainty that there was no liquid water on Mars. That there could be no liquid water on Mars. Which having read into the topic I thought was obviously non sense. Now every one is like there's water on mars, we've know for a while - you can see the flows. In fact we deliberately don't go to places likely to be wet for fear of cross contamination. I feel like I have been fed spin. Why don't other people see this and more importantly why aren't other people angry at being mislead? I feel like there is a consistent attempt to manipulate the truth before it is presented for public consumption, in many spheres of life. Who are these people that deem themselves entitled enough to decide what is known and what is unknown?
I see here all over the place (only) comments about the grading and in general the current state of education as the root of the issue and what is to do about it, but as the title says the issue is the resilience. Although what I'm going to say may sound like a joke, it isn't meant to be one: Our society does not have enough (or any kind of) psychological resilience testing. Currently all of us are allowed to take any kind of risks regardless of the capacity for risk-bearing and its consequences. All of us want the cherry on the top of the cake and therefore jump at it, even the ones of us that do not feel competitive enough. That is reckless, and the consequences of immature decisions then falls on the rest of society which will have to deal with the broken ones. Yes, the education may be too damaging than it has to be and if so an attention in this regard is welcomed, but there also should be a better selection of candidates. It does not have any sense nor it is moral to let ignorant wannabes to throw themselves at something that may clearly surpass their potential.
Old school investigative journalism, in other words.
Done right the DC is always running off battery the backup gensets are there to replace the mains power.
Colon / bowel cancer has a relatively high success rate when treated (compared to other cancers), but as with all cancers, it is important to catch it early.

Not to be to graphic, but if you have blood in your stool (especially if it is dark red in colour rather than bright red), then you should take yourself immediately to the doctors and tell them. They can take a stool sample and if necessary, refer you for a colonoscopy.

You can be sedated for the colonscopy if you don't like the idea of being awake for it under a local. You normally get a dose of Propofol injected into you (like Michael Jackson) and you wake up feeling refreshed and slightly pissed off that the nurse dared to wake you up from your beautiful embracing slumber. The procedure really isn't as bad as you think it is going to be. The preparation for it is much worse (not painful, just unpleasant).

You will then know for certain whether or not you have a really nasty cancer problem, or just plain old piles. People with Ulcerative Collitis and Crohn's have a higher risk of bowel cancer, so it important that they get checked regularly (talk to your doctor).

Don't delay. It could cost you your life. Men are often the worst for procrastinating over such a decision.

Update - I don't want anyone to think that I'm am suggesting Alex delayed seeing a doctor btw. I just wanted to impart some general wisdom that might save someone else's life.
For the regular tests I know one Telco DC that used to run daily tests of its generators.
Sneaker Wars: Inside the Battle Between Nike and Adidas
Though this is true. No one knows everything and the chain is as strong as its weakest link. Ultimately 10x programmers have to end up working with 1x 2x 3x.. you get the idea. They also have to deal with tools and bad decision making and bureaucracy and real life. Success is often defined by how well everyone and the market come together. Was Jack a 10x programmer, I doubt that very much. The focus should be on how to make everyone better. Not how each programmer can show off his skills at the cost to other people who might not be as good as him. In fact that's why programmers in the Valley aren't making a million a piece. They don't stick together, they compete to outdo each other, and management moves in for the kill.
That sucks. I've been lucky not to have any last minute cancellations by host so far. A lot of hosts list on multiple sites, so in your case there might have simply taken a better offer via another site.
How to Hook Up in Public
I think that's pretty reasonable, but if martian life has a completely different biochemical basis, it might be much less able to adapt. So, maybe, it has managed to hold on for a billion years, but terrestrial microbes may come equipped with a much richer genetic library, allowing them to adapt exponentially more quickly and overrun martian life.

Another way to look at it is that Mars seems to have almost no biodiversity, so it's possible that martian life forms may be well adapted to their environment, but not for competition. Terrestrial microbes have evolved in an utterly brutal competitive environment and they've been shown to adapt to extreme conditions, so it's not unthinkable that they may have a substantial edge over martian life.

Maybe. Just a laymen, so I could be totally wrong.
Updated iBeacon Bible 3.0 now available
Well they could be..
Demand Side Response is a mechanism where utility companies pay energy consumers to stop using grid power at peak times. Effectively a company is treated as a power generator but instead of selling power to the grid they just consume less either by turning stuff off or relying on on-site power generation for a while.

It's popular in lots of industries but there seems to be relatively little (publicised) adoption in the data center business yet.
Radioactive waste from spent nuclear fuel has a shelf life of hundreds of thousands of years. Maybe even more than a million, it’s not possible to precisely predict.

The fact that a journalist can write such a thing demonstrates the level to which public discourse about the sciences has sunk. We have very accurate measurements of the half-lives and decay pathways of all the isotopes found in non-trivial quantities in spent nuclear fuel, and it is indeed very possible to predict the level of radioactivity at a given time in the future.
The maturity of visual programming
I'd recommend the newer tre agrep instead:
https://github.com/laurikari/tre/

Wikipedia does a decent job of explaining the differences:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrep
Final Update on the JetBrains Toolbox. Open Letter by JetBrains CEO
Amazon Once had a $23M book
At first I expected an article on Twitter platform for 3rd parties where 1000 flowers bloom and 999 of them get ripped.

Twitter has a horrible, slow moving, bloated interface. I m facing countless examples of disturbances every day.

Maybe a single platform based on PHP could be better, if Facebook is so usable?
Oh, I didn't intend to underplay the importance of having an effective team. It just feels like we are pretending that extremely skilled people don't exist and I'm not sure why. I know a principal engineer at (giant networking company) that does clear close to 1 million a year after bonuses and stock because of the special project he is on and he was invited to that project because he is so effective.
As said on http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.11.7/index.html#scala.concur... the default global should not be imported all over the place. It's better to declare functions with an implicit ExecutionContext and try to declare your execution contexts in a few well-known places.

The (web) app I'm working on uses several ExecutionContexts (database access has a specific one for example.)
Mind-blowing stuff. Imagine if he folds this into Prezi...
Jessie is here for the Raspberry Pi
Kotlin brings few very clear improvements to Java, while Scala is a completely different language. There is no single "make it better" that would work for both.

> Hopefully Java will get more functional so that we don't get a too fragmented community.

Java did so much harm to programming community, it basically destroyed reputation of strong static typing as something considered "fun". Maybe it's time to move on, to split into better, more modern, elegant and expressive languages.
The point of the essay is that the incompetence causes reasonable doubt not to mean much. And that's why they end up executing innocent people.
Identifier locator addressing
The fact that they can do it and are banned by an EULA is just as creepy (if not more) than them actually doing it.
> Once your engineering org gets to be a certain size the benefits you can obtain by investing in making all your engineers slightly more productive start to swamp the slight gains that one team might get from doing things their own, slightly different way.

I like to think of this idea as group vs. individual velocity. Yes, you personally might be able to go faster by introducing new technologies - but everyone else is slowed down by having to learn it. Knowing which few of these technologies will be an overall win is the tricky bit.
Sounds like the Ashley Madison business model
And that kids is how it is done - anchor at something unacceptable as a starting point, so you can fallback to the deal you really wanted.
I just opened their site and I was welcomed with :

"Sorry, this request is coming from a country which we currently do not support."

Woah! So if I am from a country you do not support, I can't even know what you guys do.
Yes, this was wishful thinking on my part. sp332 is right, there was no decision to implement this. They choose to put their efforts towards mozjpeg instead: http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2014/mozjpeg-3-0/
Manjaro 15.09 Bellatrix Update with Calamares Installer, Tweaks and Applications
Yes! I've looked for something like this. I would love to use this to build UI on iOS. So far you have to resort to Paintcode that generates code but I rather have something agnostic.
Minor side-issue: 2014 WC final Germany/Argentina; Brazil/Germany was in semi-finals.
Yes, it sounds very familiar. Thanks!
Warning: Too many active WebGL contexts. Oldest context will be lost.

Safari 8.0.5 on my 13' r-mbp
I do. Thanks :)
Yeah, from the title you'd expect an article about Chinese politics. Turns out it's just an Effectiveness Engineer using fancy phrases without understanding their historical significance.
Not if we invent methods to reduce the shelf life. Difficult to predict indeed :)
I will just say again like I always do, there is no solution to the problem. You hire, you try, and if no good, you fire.

I have some thoughts regarding possibly giving the interviewer some more leeway (like for engineers, don't start off with solve this first) but haven't thought enough about that.
Not in the terrible third world education system I went through, thankfully.

[No sarcasm here, it is generally terrible, but I went to a relatively good place]
Fair enough.. Than a B-Corp, Non-Profit, or private member funded CO-OP type organization with a charter?
The only circumstances I can think of in which the decay of radioactive waste might be unknown is in the case of mixed waste where the content or origin is unknown or ambiguous. Some old waste material might fall into that category, but I don't think that recent spent reactor fuel would.