skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Romance languages is that they shifted the burden of complexity from orthography to grammar with all the verb conjugations that a speaker has to memorize in all tenses and moods such as the bloody subjunctive :)
You are kidding aren't you?
I appreciate you saying that. Thank you.
The article makes it sound like a black hole with the mass of Everest wouldn't be scary, since it would only have strong attractive force within a few meters. But wouldn't it fall to the center of the earth, absorbing anything in its way and then wouldn't the earth fall into it? Seems like its lack of strength at a few meters isn't what makes it not-scary.
That's where Ansible + Capistrano can work together nicely.

No need to change your application or deviate significantly from a "vanilla" Ubuntu install - just add your nginx, Passenger configs to Ansible, build the server, and then deploy with Capistrano.
Where are you reading that currencies require sovereign powers?
How about hospital bills? Taxes? Obligatory insurances?
I've spent probably 500-1000 hours thinking about linear logic and narrative structures and this blows everything I've put together out of the water... I'm very impressed, and am looking forward to reading it through.

If the author is reading this, please consider submitting your work to some literary theory journals. Literary theory has decayed into something tired and vague, and this sort of heroic formalism could really make a splash! I mean, this is actual literary theory!
But in Sicily there are different dialects of the same mother language, is that right?
Its not empty. It includes autorun installability for Windows (presumably 95 and later) as well as what appears to be a version for SGI which understandably requires a bit more manual effort. Here is an excerpt of the Release Notes:

Release Contents

----------------

N64 Sound Tools version 3.14 consists of four different components.

1. Sound Tools
The Sound Tools are the GUI applications used by musicians to create
music for games. These tools are located in the $(INSTALL)\N64Tools
directory. Where $(INSTALL) is the installation directory (typically C:\).

The two main applications are the N64 Waveform Editor (dse.exe) and
the N64 Sequencer (dream.exe).

2. Sound Tools Libraries
The Sound Tools Libraries contains two different libraries; the Sound Tools
API Library and the N_Audio Driver for Sound Tools. These libraries allow
programmers to incorporate music created by the PC Sound Tools into their games.

The Sound Tools API Library is located in:
$(INSTALL)\N64Tools\lib\lib-src
The N_Audio Driver for Sound Tools is located in:
$(INSTALL)\N64Tools\lib\n_gaudio.

In addition, the library files (.a) are installed in:
$(ROOT)\usr\lib
and the corresponding include files (.h) are installed in:
$(ROOT)\usr\include\PR.

Where $(ROOT) is the location of the N64 operating system. This is so the library
files are in the proper directory for linking at compile time.

3. Sound Tools Manuals
This release contains three HTML manuals: the Sound Tools User's Guide,
the Sound Tools Programmer's Guide and the Tutorial Guide. Pointers to
all three manuals have been created under "N64"\"Sound Tools" in your Start
Menu.

The Sound Tools User's Guide describes how to use the Sequencer and Waveform
Editor. The Sound Tools Programmer's Guide explains the Sound Tools API Library.
Finally, the Tutorial Guide gives a brief overview of the process used to create
music and incorporate it into your game code.

The Sound Tools Manuals are located in $(INSTALL)\N64Manuals\Sound_Tools.

4. Demos
A number of new demos have been added since the previous version of Sound
Tools. These demos illustrate how to use the Sound Tools API Library
to perform a number of functions, such as fading songs in and out, creating
sound effects, using markers in a song file, using a lookup table and more.

The demos are located in $(INSTALL)\N64Tools\Demos. You can compile each demo
seperately by changing to a specific demo directory and typing 'make'. Or
you can compile all demos at once by typing 'make' in the top-level demo
directory.

EDIT: updated repeatedly trying to fix formatting (and personal grammar failing).
Fred Smith on the Birth of FedEx (2004)
In our company, the practice is to refer to MS SQL server as "Sequel Server", and MySQL as "My S. Q. L.". I think it's not clear-cut.
It was hard for me to find projects I found interesting enough to contribute to.

It wasn't until I had an overarching purpose that I found success. It took about 5 years.
The cloud environment is becoming a "wild wild west" just like the app stores were a few years ago. It all has to do with how much money is being made in those markets. Maybe this is the result of AWS finally breaking out their revenue numbers.

There is so much marketing and plugging of alternatives to [INSERT CLOUD PROVIDER/LAYER HERE] that there really isn't any substance to all this other than reading like an advertisement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10607393
I've been trying to use SubResource Integrity on all my sites as well as Content-Security-Policy headers. This makes it so it's better to link to static assets rather than embed javascript or CSS within the page.

Using HTTP2 has meant that there are no longer any performance downsides to multiple include directives. I'm pretty happy about that.
The Bully Proof Classroom App
I've always found the Haskell community very helpful and willing to go to great lengths to explain complicated concepts to newcomers.
No. All the data that they use is self-reported (when you sign up for health insurance, they ask you if you smoke, etc).
Do you really think it could be mode?

(Also, it would be very strange to use "average of the top 1 percent" to mean "99.5th percentile")
Neanderthals ‘kept our early ancestors out of Europe’
Rwb: the React workbench
> I don't think this is a good solution. [...] Should have financial people show [...]

Friend, if you have a better way to solve the problem, go solve the problem. I'm sure that nothing would make the DWP folks happier than to have nobody need them anymore.

But until then, maybe consider keeping your opinion-hole closed? There are few things I find less helpful on HN than nominally smart people that come in and denigrate somebody else's solution to a problem that they have absolutely no intention of solving themselves.
The BPC Online Academy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10625418
In theory, small black holes should kill themselves almost immediately, but this aside - I find the argument that a small black hole is not dangerous because you have to get really close to it - not a valid argument (as a layman!). Assuming the black hole did not destroy itself and was big enough to attract nearby molecules and atoms, it would suck in all the molecules nearby in an endless stream, getting bigger and bigger and accelerating its growth, until it consumed the earth.
Outliers don't show anything.
As a native English speaker learning Spanish, one thing I've found especially helpful is watching Spanish programming with Spanish subtitles. Such resources used to be difficult to find, but with SAP on cable systems [1], YouTube videos [2], and streaming programming [3], it's never been easier. And Spanish is easy to spell; I'd bet the returns to watching English programming with English subtitles would be even higher, given that English spelling is a bit, um, tough.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_audio_program. I particularly like watching children's programs, which focus on vocabulary acquisition for everyday terms.

[2]: See especially http://www.bookbox.com/.

[3]: E.g., Club de Cuervos and Narcos on Netflix.
Here's the Ceptre repo. The interpreter is written in Standard ML.

http://www.github.com/chrisamaphone/interactive-lp
syl20bnr bristles too easily at any criticism of the project though. I think he would do better ignoring reddit &c entirely instead of acting as PR manager.
Agreed. Elixir is my first foray into functional programming and the paradigm is obviously different from OO.

The Elixir community on both IRC and Slack have been incredibly patient and helpful for a hack like me. Both in solving specific problems and teaching how to solve future issues myself the next time around.
I like Intaglio [1] for vector drawing. It always seems to get overlooked in threads like these, so I suspect it's not as well known as it IMHO deserves to be.

[1] http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Intaglio/
> darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.
Are there any online versions of the manuals? What are the "Sound Tools"? The description is "applications used by musicians to create music for games" Sounds like some kind of tracker, or DAW... does anyone have any screen shots or online info about them? (I don't have a windows machine, and I don't even know what you do with a .iso file anymore!)
Relative 'new comers' to the block, the Ionic Framework has an amazing hands on team behind it and the community as a whole is fantastic. http://ionicframework.com
I've loved contributing to Krita. It's also heartwarming seeing the lead contributors doing things like sending out stacks of postcards to donors, and great that IRC is for both devs and users.
Personally I think Clojure takes the benevolent dictator model too far. It's possible to be a benevolent dictator and still publish patches for review before you merge them, even if you do intend to have the final say. Rich just runs git commit && git push without telling anyone what he's working on. Most of the time it works out but in the most recent development cycle it's been kind of a mess.
From my experience, no.
Good point. I think I agree.
I'm guessing mean. It's a power law distribution, a few people are eye poppingly wealthy, and even fewer are double pop, but you might not have eyes left after the first one.
Succeeding at sales: a guide for small business owners
I'll try to address:

* Perhaps surprising, but Brazil is an interesting market. We have a connected young generation and most industries' current players are bad.

* I would argue it's about avoiding reinventing the wheel. Datomic gives you easy scale-out and auditing, and Clojure gives you a flexible, pragmatic functional language with good async/threading primitives running on stablished platforms (JVM and web browsers). I guess going off the beaten path is not necessarily more work if you're taking a shortcut.
Netbeans and dokku are two nice ones as far as I understand
Very interesting - I wonder why they did not choose to run the beam through water to dissipate energy?
New Addition to the Family, the Home Lab Family
Mostly because they found rewarding opportunity as leaders of teams.
Relaxed is useful when you need atomicity but not consistency between cores. x86 guarantees that all reads/writes are atomic, i.e. no torn reads/writes but I don't think all architectures have this guarantee.

Also there maybe times in your program where you know that your thread has exclusive access to the variable during a certain segment of the program. During this segment it may be beneficial to do lazy reads/writes then complete the critical section with a release operation.

This is used heavily in single producer single consumer queues.
How Melinda Gates Became the World's Most Powerful Advocate for Women and Girls
Ahh, thanks. Must've mounted it incorrectly somehow!
Manipulate a radio controlled clock via speaker
Rust language! One of the most supportive groups I've ever been involved with.
XVim (XCode Pluggin for VIM-style bindings) https://github.com/XVimProject/XVim
Bad copywriting at its finest: "No isn’t always no"
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=london+electric+car+bays&s...
Ask HN: How can two software companies doing the same thing coexist
How would you explain software companies that are doing the same thing coexisting in the same market( horizontal/vertical )

I would expect that one of them is going to be better -> users choose the better product -> the one with the better product is going to have a monopoly over the market.

Examples of companies doing the same thing:

Website builders:

Wix , weebly

Web stores builders:

Wix , weebly , Shopify , Big Cartel , woocommerce

Help desk:

Zendesk , freshdesk , helpscout , groovehq

( not software but sill ):

Payment:

Stripe, Braintree

Tablets:

Ipad, Microsoft surface
Krita developers are working on improvements to the Mac OS port, keep an eye out for 3.0 and 3.1 come out in the next few months.
Unfortunately, all priors are incorrect.
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" I wonder if the author could try disabling HDMI to see if power is reduced...."

from comments ~ http://www.midwesternmac.com/comment/3216#comment-3216 in this article, "Controlling both the PWR and ACT LEDs on the Raspberry Pi 2" ~ http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/raspberry-p...
It sure feels like N64 era software... http://i.imgur.com/Qj4Ow9t.png
I am of a similar sentiment. Why try to plug holes (charity) when we should building a better ship (social programs, tax incentives, etc)? Trying to work on a small scale is noble, but not at all efficient.
CSV parser in Coffeescript
That will teach me to post on mobile without spellcheck :) still, I'd never confuse it's / its, their / they're / there, have / of... so I'm already better than a lot of native speakers ;P
Apparently this is where you can play the games created by their generative algorithm: http://play.typesafety.net/
They actually lowered their shipping costs at the end of the campaign. I had the option to add $3 to my initial order for an additional C.H.I.P. Still expensive, but better.
Interested to hear from people inside of VATLER about Luxe (http://luxe.com). I see people in Luxe hoodies and scooters all over San Francisco. Seems like Luxe is doing awesome and taking over. What did they do different from VATLER?
> This is great reporting. The reporter explicitly pointed out it isn't necessarily a causal effect instead of exploiting the misunderstanding that it might be.

I agree this is great reporting but your comment suggests there is no causal effect, which is not the case as concluded by the researchers (or as presented in this article).

Only the first part of the study doesn't demonstrate causality which is why the author states "Of course, this association does not demonstrate causality" which is why the researchers then "showed the study participants a pie chart depicting simulated economic data in their home state" and that's how they determined there is a causal effect. In the abstract for the study which you link to it even states "To better establish causality..."
+1. The community is a big part of the Elixir ecosystem.
Cho’Gall Spotlight – Heroes of the Storm
I would not bet on this without a schematic for the new Zero to check against, or a shipping device to test it on. I suspect that the D-/D+ lines of the PWR port are not even connected to the SOC.

The linked cable is probably not appropriate anyway since it is USB 3.0. The 3.0 "B" plug is not compatible with a 2.0 "B" receptacle.

Edit: As far as I can tell from this information about the SOC http://elinux.org/RPi_BCM2835_Pinout there is only one pair of USB D-/D+ lines. I don't see another IC that could act as an onboard hub, so I think it's hardware limited to supporting a single USB port.
IMHO they need to push 2.10 out quickly with no new features unless they are completely ready to go. Then I'd like to see GTK3 get done with Wayland support. At that point GIMP would finally have its internals up to date. Feature work should be a lot easier from there.
> Nuclear safety is not to be taken lightly.

Safety in general is not to be taken lightly. But we should assess the relative safety of different technologies fairly. We don't do that with nuclear; we hold it to standards far higher than the ones we enforce for other technologies, even though those other technologies have killed orders of magnitude more people. That is not rational.

> this stuff is hard, really hard, and it's getting harder over time as more failure scenarios are known.

This could be said of any technology. But again, we hold nuclear to far higher standards than we do other technologies that have failure scenarios which have already killed orders of magnitude more people.
If you install it there is a manual. Several, actually.

Programmer's Manual: http://i.imgur.com/yUwNhrZ.png

User's Manual: http://i.imgur.com/zXUkv2T.png

Tutorial: http://i.imgur.com/RspXq2i.png
He's not saying everyone will be successful, he simply means there's nothing innately special about people who are successful and you shouldn't rule yourself out because you don't think you're [insert adjective here] enough. You need to be a moderately smart person who works hard, follows the right formula and gets a little lucky. You might still fail but it's definitely worth a shot.
Good lord this author has an agenda.
The Rise and Fall of the Unicorns
Nice try, killer bees.
SQLAlchemy - Great docs, well programmed, very extensible/flexible/powerful.
Do you mean steam?
> EX: We can manufacture 40+% efficient solar cells, sure there expensive,

20% is the theoretical max for photovoltaics.

And it's "they're expensive."
They have the opposite model: give it away to small players to hook them up, then rake it in from heavy users.
I've made small code contributions to Firefox and Servo, both Mozilla projects, and I have nothing but good things to say about everyone involved with the two projects. As a newcomer to both, the respective teams were very welcoming, helpful, and most of all, patient especially during the review process.
I definitely agree that the most popular languages, tools, frameworks, paradigms, etc. are by definition not the best. These are popular because they're used by average programmers. They get the job done, though not in the best way, and are popular because of that (see for example Javascript).

I found that Clojure (my first Lisp) was the easiest language to pick up that I've ever learned. Partly, that's because I've been doing this a long time, but I also think it speaks volumes to the simplicity of Lisps and Clojure in particular. I have no doubt that I could teach it to programmers and non-programmers alike rather quickly and I really wish it was at least studied, if not used, more so that people would have more experience with functional concepts. Even just a week or two of studying it is quite beneficial and a good contrast to typical OO languages.
> the new EPR reactor in finland

I was actually talking about nuclear energy in US; I'm not familiar with the legal regimes in other countries to know how much of an impact lawsuits have been. France, at least, has been getting the majority of their electricity from nuclear reactors for several decades now, so clearly it is possible to have a saner legal environment.

> is aboud three times as expensive as planned

How experienced is this construction company at building nuclear reactors?
I was one of the original raspberrypi.org trolls for a couple of months. RS Components scammed me with a "preorded" and kept moving delivery date for HALF A YEAR, while at the same time __already delivering__ to newer customers - they prioritised fresh customers over me, because they already had my money :/

Similar thing happened again with Zero, all big fat distributors (this includes Adafruit) engaged in scamming early customers by bundling $5 product with $2 of cables and upselling whole thing as a $20-60 pack(!!). They went as far as removing $5 product listing altogether. http://www.adafruit.com/pizero had $5 listed for maybe few hours, then they deleted it. They still list other out of stock products there.

To this day Pee foundation acts shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU every time someone complaints about official distributors being scammy. Whole thing would go a lot smoother (from the client perspective) if they didnt shield predatory marketing tactics of those resellers. Today I understand it wasnt rPi fault, but Im sure other people dont, and acting as a PR for element14 will never work if you promise X and element14 silently delivers X+super cheap piece of crap at 4x the price (before taxes) behind your back.
Adventures in oversized imaging: digitizing a Japanese Tax Map from 1837
The Haxe community is pretty awesome! :)
Ok, clj-throwaway : ) .

First, I have to say that I'm not a Clojure contributor, and haven't contributed a line of code.

I am "just" a Clojure user. Clojure by itself is already pretty good. Nothing is perfect of course. I want Clojure to keep improving in all kinds of ways (smaller memory footprint than C, please? when can I get THAT? oh, can you also throw in the 1 ms startup time, thanks :)), but I also want it to work well, including my existing and previous code. When something is already pretty good, you work twice as hard at not screwing it up first before you mess too much with it.

What specifically do you mean by "mess"? What has been "messed up"? Has your Clojure code stopped working? Has it become slower with a new release? Has there been a glaring memory leak that renders your server useless after a few hours of running? Because I can point you to a number of "open-source" projects with huge funding where that has been the case.
> There are indexers that help find content that does not suffer from this problem but they come and go.
The succession is:
President

Vice President (also nominally the leader of the Senate)

Speaker of the House

President pro tempore of the Senate

Cabinet by seniority of the cabinet position, starting w State
I'm brazilian and have been working with Clojure for a few years and used Datomic on a project earlier this year. Are you planning on hiring? Sorry for the thread hijack.
Agreed. They annoy all the types of people that I'd much rather not work with, and I honestly believe that Mozilla is better off without them. I don't care how irreplaceable they think they are. Nobody's irreplaceable, and there is plenty of talent and skill out there that isn't associated with such noxious people.

Mozilla's hardly alone here. Plenty of other open source communities are like that. It's just they get the most flak, for some reason.
compared to the germans? sure.
compared to swedes? nope.

/schluchtenscheisser
I bought a "banana pi" which had specs that made it look like a rpi2 killer, but cheaper.

You get what you pay for. 2/3 usb ports never worked. The support was pretty much non-existent.

If the CHIP is anything like that, I don't care if it has 16 gigs of ram. The hardware doesn't matter if you cant figure out how to use any of it.
I also suggest that with high income inequality the rich simply do not have the ability to raise the entire lower class significantly with donations

The paper (linked elsewhere in the comments) suggests something along those lines.

In addition, where greater inequality exists, the living conditions of the poor are particularly bleak and the apparent costs of low economic standing are more glaring. These settings may increase higher-income individuals’ concerns about losing their privileged position, concerns that in turn may lead to less willingness to share resources with others. In contrast, where inequality is low, higher-income individuals might be as generous as their lower-income counterparts, or even more generous because their greater capacity to give makes giving more affordable to them.

That reasoning might have not made it into the ars article.

While this is worthwhile discussion to have, I'm not sure it really explains this effect. They found that lower income people (in the lower 15% range) in those same unequal areas did not demonstrate this correlation. Are the poor somehow less aware of the beneficial impacts that a gift to another in the dictator game will raise that other person's stature in life?
Its the official opinion of the collective internet.
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