skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japanese tends to be a lot more "conglomerative" than English, presumably because it has kanji—which are little self-contained nuggets of meaning—as one of its fundamental units. Many words are formed by cramming together smaller meaningful parts, with the result being still fairly concise.

In addition to the benefits for creating new words, this is a huge help in reading unfamiliar words: even if you don't know all the nuances, you can often get the basic meaning of an unknown word from the meanings of its component parts.

[This is true of kanji themselves as well... kanji are (essentially) conglomerations of simpler kanji, and you can get some (very rough) idea of the meaning and pronunciation of an unknown kanji by looking at its parts.]
I wrote up a fairly detailed explanation of the Thredis locking strategy, it took me a while to realize that a lot fewer locks than it seems at first is needed: https://github.com/grisha/thredis/blob/c9207a373c3ff0c9fb70a...
Yeah I also get a lot of bash hate. To me it is super reliable, stable, and applicable to so many problems.

Although I have to admit it's a little like C++ in that everyone has their own little dialect.
Wine-staging to be an official part of WineHQ
I agree... I have noticed how annoying the ubiquitous sound of scooters is in Europe and would hate to hear the sound of drones all over the place.
I teach CS at a Japanese school and I used this word to explain what is a stack. (For queues, I used the word "tokoroten")
Just an FYI, but vender is a valid alternative spelling for vendor. It's 'the new yorker's' preferred spelling, and may bleed to other writers.
thanks~! Going to try it out then =p
The Twitter bird picture can be compressed losslessly to under a thousand bytes with ImageOptim.
Elon Musk: VW Shows We've 'Reached the Limit of What's Possible with Gasoline'
Very interesting. Is your project open source by any chance?
> Less an issue of the computing power, more an issue of the knowledge.

I think you're mixing up two issues:

(a) Strengthening DES against differential cryptanalysis is a knowledge issue. The NSA knew about that attack, and maybe the Soviets knew too, but the public didn't.

(b) The key length for DES however is entirely a computing power issue; it is not a knowledge issue. It would be obvious to everyone even in 1977 that a 64-bit key as originally proposed would have been better than the 56 bits they ended up using[1]. Furthermore, everyone understood how to do a brute force attack, but it just wasn't feasible for the public. Only the NSA would have had the budget and inclination to develop special-purpose computing hardware to actually do it in the 1980's DES era.

[1]I have to mention one nitpick here, otherwise someone else will point it out. The 56-bit key length was supposedly ideal because DES would have been more easily cracked using differential cryptanalysis than brute force with any key longer than 56 bits. Thus the NSA can claim, "no we didn't weaken DES by shortening the key, we optimized it because 64 bits doesn't buy you extra security over 56 bits". But that argument is bogus. They could have improved DES in such a way that it used 64-bit keys and wasn't vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis. But they did the latter and not the former, because it keeps DES secure against the Soviets (assuming they knew about differential cryptanalysis) and against the public (who can't mount a brute force attack) but does allow the NSA to be able crack it.
Product Placement: Selling the grasp for what isn’t there
The recent run up in property prices in most major western cities makes me think the home owning class isn't in too bad of a shape. If you own a house in Vancouver, the Bay area, Toronto, London etc. you basically won the lottery. If you are a young adult, well ... hope your parents help you out?

My parents were immigrants and not savvy enough to buy a house. I'm wondering how I can ever afford a 200K down payment on a million dollar house, and if that is in any way a reasonable idea. Taxing income is the wrong approach since people getting income are contributing to society. The lottery winners who happened to own houses in the right place .. I'm not sure what they contributed.
So Utopia? Also, see Neverland.

We can imagine that world, but does it really help professionals in any way if they do imagine it?
There is a One-time payment option.
How to Keep Loving Someone
If this article is even remotely correct, then we pretty much know exactly what happened to Michael Rockefeller.
High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets
Property taxes? I'm not a fan of the idea that the property I "own" is basically just the right to rent it from the government. There's no true land-ownership anymore. Also, as noted above, property taxes can be a huge burden on those retired/on a fixed income.

Not to mention, property taxes fluctuate wildly and are incredibly hard to predict and plan for. "Reassessments" happen randomly, seem to be applied haphazardly/unequally (see Philadelphia for a recent example) and can in a few short years move home ownership from affordable to unaffordable for the same person with an unchanging situation.

It's hardly a silver bullet. You can never actually pay off a piece of property.
Yes and no. They're primarily used by PMs but the developers certainly have to use them to work on bugs, features, etc. and update status.
It's sad the DEA would rather watch people die in the street from heroin overdoses than just ease up on the prescription opiates.

Surely it's preferable to enable junkies than kill them and feed the cartels?
This article doesn't really say much, and in any case, the VW cars in question were diesel vehicles, so that episode says nothing about what can be done with gasoline technology.
Facebook replacement, email replacement, Windows replacement, etc etc...we heard about these attempts for a long time and yet they failed. Why?

From the article, is the problem really the technical complexity or the empty rooms? Is it privacy? Or, is there really a problem at all? Of course there is! Just like any other businesses/companies there some people that will always complain!

In the case of TinyLetter, it is NOT a replacement of Facebook. It will NOT be -- far from it. People don't use Facebook just to communicate. Some people use it to advertise, to sell, to communicate (sure), to look for old friends, to pretend to be somebody else, to boast that they are successful, to look for missing people important to them just like this:

http://gary.littlethings.com/gary-bentley-nurse/?utm_source=...

Now, can you do this in a newsletter? Don't think so...
Glad to see pud is still knocking around. Didn't realize he was the TinyLetter guy. FC was one of the best things ever to hit the web. As for E-mail vs. Fb...

It is simply an issue of control: Content, speed, and the Signal-to-Noise ratio. And that goes for both the Sender and the Receiver. Makes e-mail the obvious choice.
ARIN IPv4 Pool Reaches Zero
people die in large numbers from overdoses from prescription opiates too - easing access to prescription opiates is a terrible solution
The iPad Pro and Apple's walled garden
This is a really sad story of how America is failing the middle class. Ohio used to be a major manufacturing hub - no longer. Now there are more deaths from heroin overdose in Ohio than car crashes. It started with the widespread accessibility of Oxycontin, then after the reformulation, heroin.

Chicago is the major importing hub for drugs - hence all the violence - and it fans out from there. We have no border security in the south, and people wonder how the drugs get in. The US is not powerless to stop any of this, but we need to admit we have a serious problem and start implementing solutions.
Autocomplete as an interface
TempleOS at 1024x512 resolution
Saying that 'Jira is better than lots of other tools out there' is sort of like saying that breaking your finger is better than breaking your femur. Although technically true, that's not to say that breaking your finger or using Jira is enjoyable.[1]

[1] n.b. I have never broken either my finger or my femur, but I have used Jira[2] quite a bit over a period of 8 years.

[2] I am also amused by the origin of the name: "Although normally styled JIRA, the product name is not an acronym, but a truncation of Gojira, the Japanese name for Godzilla,[6] itself a reference to JIRA's main competitor, Bugzilla." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIRA
You've done that quite well. I'm surprised its that thick, but it looks like it give the numbers an awesome rounded look.

Really adds to the organic look and feel.

Well done!
Bluetooth headphones FTW
I'm sure someone will get on it soon...right after they finish implementing RFC 6214 (:
Junkies are junkies. At least the pills are pure, consistent, and cheap so they don't have to die or rob you and me for a fix.
prescription opiates started the problem with heroin. the history of oxycontin is a sad one for the country. with the recent pharma/biotech explosion, lots of companies are trying to get in on the painkiller game as well. there's really no need for much of it. I've had multiple minor surgeries in the past few years and the doctors have never wanted to give me painkillers. Just take some tylenol.

We've probably had less of a need for legal painkillers than ever - surgery and medical technology keeps getting better and better - minimally invasive and the like - and yet we have more legal painkillers than ever. Something doesn't add up.
iPhone 6s waterproof [video]
Google fixes nearly decade-old Linux kernel TCP bug
It is controversial whether property taxes are regressive or progressive. Your view is common but an alternate view is that property taxes are taxes on housing consumption and are thus regressive.
Something like a local news team via a mesh network.
I don't see how this is a middle class failure issue. We should prescribe less opiates, full stop. Without over prescription this issue would not exist.
> In Asia, primarily China, the Facebook killer is WeChat which is basically Instagram and WhatsApp.

And banking.

A huge 'value add' which has caught on is being able to send real-life money with no transaction fees to other people.

And treated in novel ways - 'lucky money' to send friends in your friend circles, paying for a taxi, utility bills, seeing a movie, train and plane tickets, etc.
No, the DEA crackdown on pill mills started the problem with heroin. When your choices are expensive black market oxy and cheap black tar, that's when you switch to heroin.
Blackberry: Is This the New Droid You're Looking For?
Try putting the phone on a surface and press down on one of the system apps (like say, Maps) to get tactile feedback that is distinct from a vibration.
May be too much, too late
If you're sure a stock is overvalued, then it isn't gambling :-)
In California, property taxes are usually only reassessed on sale. There is also an inflation linked increase, but it's capped at a maximum of 2%. So you can end up with people who have been living in houses for 20 or 30 years who are paying an order of magnitude less in property tax than if they'd just bought the same house today. This also means that if you buy a house in a down market then you're likely to save a lot in terms of property taxes. Disclaimer: I am not a tax adviser etc.
Tell HN: Go traceroute `bad.horse`
I'd love to see a postmortem on Atlassian's rise to fame where other tools haven't succeeded.

I remember reading a brief comment by Joel Spolsky saying he wasn't too worried about "those blokes from Australia". At lot more people I work with know more about Jira than Fogbugz.

IMO Atlassian do OK tools. But nothing to justify the hype they are always receiving. What am I missing - Price? Features? Implementation pain (or lack thereof)?
It would be awesome if HACKERnews could see a NYT article and link to the Google search redirect. I hope that's not too much of a technical challenge given the name...
You have to restart it twice a day. It remembers your tabs, so it's just a short click and you are back exactly as before.
>people die in large numbers from overdoses from prescription opiates too

What's your evidence for this?
Google's Search Market Share Down Year-Over-Year
The downfall of American industry and manufacturing didn't start with "the widespread accessibility of Oxycontin". It started with the Globalization movement, where poorly-paid foreign labor was combined with then-decreasing costs of global shipping.

Since when is Chicago a major hub for importing drugs? What's your source? From where are they imported and how - air? Why do you tangent to border security?
The more powerful a tool is, the higher the learning curve. When you're designing a tool to have broad appeal, you should try to balance the usefulness of the tool for a variety of use cases against the need of the user to become productive in a relatively short time.
Metal detecting is a really great hobby if digging for dirty jeans doesn't sound like much fun.
Are you joking or what? I, personally, don't use gmail, that's not the problem. The problem is everyone else does. And have you ever (in last 5 years or so) tried using your personal email server to communicate with them? I'm guessing you have not, because otherwise you would know how painful it is, as Google does everything to make it painful as hell. Large portion of my contact list are gmail users, especially that part of my contact list who I'm not friendly enough with to tolerate continuously ending up in their “Spam” folder. And that's exactly what you do, when you write to gmail from your own private email server — end up in their “Spam” folder, no matter what you do. So if you are ever going to communicate via email with whoever you might call your customer, you are basically forced to use gmail or another large email service which will be whitelisted on other large email services. 2015 is not the year of free Internet.
Likewise. Presumably you'd use 320x240 (or maybe even lower) if you were doing GSM. Ideally, I'd like to see it work over a reasonably large wifi mesh network to create a local news station of sorts.
Also, the Macbook trackpads do still 'give way' and have a bit of travel in them. I would imagine that helps with the 'illusion'.
>This technique to edit genomes is only a decade old.

Actually, this technique is about 3 years old.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6121/819.short
Why are you so adamant about protecting the freedom of strangers to make someone's online life a living hell? To send them specific, personal, detailed threats? I don't understand why you believe that is 'speech' worth protecting.

Sure, there's a line, and some behavior that people complain about as harassment doesn't cross that line, but some behavior is way out of order and should be stopped, with the force of law. Drawing those lines, between what is acceptable and what is not, is the job of laws. That isn't the top of a slippery slope, it's not the thin end of a wedge that leads to censorship, it's the way society functions.
The problem is that the statistics (that I've read anyway) make no distinction between people who die from the use of drugs that are available on prescription, versus those that die from overdose of drugs they have been specifically prescribed. When someone is prescribed drugs they will not be prescribed 2 drugs that cause harm when taken together (such as sleep meds and pain meds) but when people have their prescription cut off and turn to the black market they're doing it in a completely unsupervised environment. What we need is to start prescribing opiates for recreational use and eliminate the black market. Opiates cause no harm (the worst side effect is constipation) so there is no reason that we should be trying to stop people from using them recreationally other than knee jerk moral panic and conservatism.
I can see no reason why heroin and opioid maintenance clinics can't exist in every decent sized city in the USA.

People go in, receive a clean injection of unadulterated drug from a medical professional, have access to counselors and job recruiters, etc.

Requiring a payment for the dose to make the clinic self-sustaining can still create availability that far undercuts the cartels. Or, through donors, it can be provided for free.

People who are seriously addicted will no longer need to steal to feed their habits. The cartels will lose their best source of income. And very, very few people are going to go to a heroin clinic to use heroin for the first time.

"Hey man, what do you want to do this weekend?"

"Well, I was thinking of going to the clinic and claiming to be a heroin addict. I've always wanted to try that."
Symbols are very limited and many require even more cultural background similarities than text. You soon run out of simple symbols and end up with ambiguous or meaningless abstractions (what does "three nested red triangles" mean?), lots of icons that look almost alike, or symbols that allude to things based on cultural assumptions, outdated metaphors, or linguistic relations that strangers are equally unlikely to understand.

Pictionary and charades are completely based around the idea that communication without words is more challenging.
It's interesting to see how old the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia really is. We've had a friendly business relationship since 1930!
I think Gatsky is referring to the method described here:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537916/rebooting-the-hu...
You guys did a good job!! Amazing.
Well, i'm a doctor so part of this is an argument from authority. But arguments from authority are stupid. So here are some references:

[0] - CDC report describing epidemic in prescription opiate deaths

[1] - NIH report showing overdose deaths. the relevant stats: Since 2001, prescription opiate deaths have risen from 6000 to around 16,000. Over the same period, heroin overdoses went from 2,000 to 8,000. This data is to 2013. So there is a clear problem, and in fact prescription opiates cause significantly more deaths than heroin.

[2] - a report from closer to (my) home and region of practice detailing increases in prescription drug use in Australia and increase in opiate-related deaths secondary to this

[0] http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html

[1] http://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/ov...

[2] https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2011/195/5/prescription-opioi...
Which works right up until the point that the amount you spend is only a fraction of your income. Then suddenly your effective tax rate is a fraction of someone who is poor.

Consumption tax is 100% broken.
Worse yet, the police spend more time looking for "drug money" to keep for themselves rather than looking for drugs.
I read the Washington Post comments and am discouraged. I read the HN comments - here where I see evidence of higher than average reason and compassion - and am depressed.

First, if you believe that the crack down on prescription narcotics have first and foremost hurt addicts, you're very mistaken. Addicts easily moved on to heroin, as this piece shows. People with cancer and debilitating nerve disorders like chronic shingles, CPRS, trigeminal neuralgia, and some kinds of neuropathy, who total over a million in the U.S. alone, are the ones who have suffered greatly even though opiate painkillers are safe and effective when used correctly. These are the kinds of diseases than make grown men cry in pain and bring on suicidal thoughts in previously happy, non-depressed individuals (I know, I've seen it up close).

Second, if you believe that the US can some how magically win the drug war by cracking down on the southern border, I have a bridge to sell you. Drug smugglers come in by boat to Washington State, by plane across Canada to Montana, and by submarine into the Florida coast. Wasting billions building some "impregnable" fence across our southern border will only increase the number of smugglers coming in from our other borders. And then what? We shut down all our borders?

Seriously, when I read these comments coming from HN, bastion of rational thought, I just want to curl up in a corner and cry.
The article uses terms like "epidemic," but the map graphic suggests a national mortality rate of around 2.5 per 100,000. That's 0.0025%, or 7,500 people per year.
On the other hand, I would argue that engineering, architecture, and industry rely heavily on visual languages such as technical drawings, blueprints, control/process flow diagrams, etc. Text is a good bet, but it's inadequate for a lot of problems related to the physical world that require spatial reasoning.

Agreed. Diagrams can of course be expressed as text, but would you rather read SVG XML, or look at the actual diagram?
I have 100 tabs open right now across 12 windows... I think I have a problem.
But as a general form of communication between humans I think visual is powerful. Even illiterates, children understand visual. Expressing complex abstractions in text and understanding it, at present requires a human to undergo about 15 to 20 years of education atleast and that too with some proficiency with the language.

On the computing front, I agree that the text is pervasive, reliable. This brings to me to ask myself that is it because since the text was invented to current education system we are conditioned to prefer text? Computing power for human race non-existent until now to tackle non-text communications at a massive scale and hence text was the natural choice. May be in future we will explore/invent ways to handle visual info same as text (to large extent).
Step 1. Folks in society can no longer tolerate even a little discomfort.

Step 2. These folks go to the doctor demanding pain relief. The doctor no longer bothers telling them to rest up and take some tylenol. Instead she hands out Oxy.

Step 3. Patient will never want to give up the Oxy (at best), or craves more as the drugs effects lessen over time. An addict is created.

Step 4. Patient looks to the blackmarket for supply of Oxy or alternatives.

You can solve the problem by either re-educating society to toughen up (eliminate step 1) or tell doctors to stop handing out opiates like candy (eliminate step 2).

Neither is going to happen. This has been going on since before opium was made illegal.

There are much better ways to deal with physical pain, the problem is they require a lot of effort ... and a pill is just an Rx away. This works for short periods of pain (such as immediately after surgery) but is very bad for chronic long term pain.
The issue, at least with the government, is that you can't win.

Whenever you hear people complain about how impossible it is to comply with all the procedures and processes and regulations for getting a government contract to develop some software, it's a safe bet that those procedures and processes and regulations were all put in place by well-intentioned people who wanted to prevent corruption. But as people found more inventive ways of being corrupt, the countermeasures had to grow more complex and invasive, until finally they reached the point where only a handful of companies would actually bother to achieve compliance, guaranteeing them a steady stream of contracts regardless of performance. Which is precisely the result that wasn't supposed to happen.

Also, the mixed socialist/capitalist economies of Europe seem to do better, on average, than our much more capitalist-leaning system, largely because they aren't afraid to implement certain programs and regulations that in the US would be screamed down as creeping socialism even when they'd be more effective than what we actually do.
Junkies are junkies... as in... what? they are always going to chase the high? or they are less of a person than a non-junkie?

The answer to heroin abuse is not prescription fast acting opiates, which themselves have significant abuse potential, but treatment programs such as suboxone, bup or methadone. The pattern of use needs to change from the epic highs and withdrawal cycles which generate the behaviour of an addict (and is still there with oxycodone due to the pharmacology of the drug) to a substance that maintains opioid receptor agonism for longer periods