skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. You have made me remember that I also learned it like that at school. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that since school (maybe once in a blue moon, but it seems to be really infrequent), so I just forgot about it and say "have". It would be interesting to have the opinion of native speakers on this.

For the record, I'm now learning some Mandarin Chinese and apparently this kind of phenomenom is even stronger in that language (I say "apparently" because my Chinese level is still very basic, but that's what people who know more say). The first word you learn when studying Chinese as a foreign language is 你好 (nihao) for "hello", but apparently no one says that in China in real life, and the same goes for 你好吗？(how are you). There is also a controversy about a tone which is taught as a falling-rising tone but it doesn't actually rise unless the syllable is pronounced in isolation (and you hardly ever pronounce a syllable in isolation in real life...)

Weird stuff. I wonder what similar absurdities foreign students of Spanish (my native language) are subject to :)
"Survive" is the one bit of advice that, by definition, is immune to survivorship bias.

Basically, Justin is saying "the ones that survived are the ones that survived". It's stating the painfully obvious, however it's a simple contrast to the normal "strategic" advice.

Paul Graham writes about this a lot:

http://paulgraham.com/aord.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

http://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
Sudo cd
Computer Store Manager Predicts Future (1979) [video]
I think you're misguided in defending Pocket by focusing an implementation details. You're ignoring that user data and freedom is also at the heart of the discussion. Mozilla put Pocket right in front of their users and actively encouraged them to use a US-based, proprietary service.

> The Pocket client code is free and open source

That's meaningless in the bigger picture. Defaults are powerful. Mozilla added a feature to Firefox (arguably bloat by making the UI more complex) which encouraged their users to give their data to a third party company, one not bound by Mozilla's goals of openness, transparency and freedom. The alternative was to wait and build a similar feature into Firefox Synx which offers true user freedom (self hosting) and really respects freedom (no data harvesting). See the discussion in the bugtracker. That's why users like me disagree with the Pocket decision. The client code is irrelevant.
The toughest problem I've had in employment is merely getting hired to be one of the weakest people overall on a team because it means the company hiring you must have one heck of a leap of faith or they've become desperate a little. As it stands, I've been mostly a mismatch or the person that gets burdened with the team workload and burn out repeatedly trying to keep disasters from happening constantly while trying to mentor and hire others to take over.
I'm missing where these records are present. I basically see plate numbers timestamps and coordinates no other columns on these datasets.
What’s wrong with London’s tech industry?
That's a pro. Variation sucks. What you want is competing contributors and stakeholders to ensure a single entity's interests don't win. I would argue the massive WebKit/Chromium ecosystem has lots of competing contributors.
The Future of Big Data – Leonard Schaeffer in 1979
How recently was that? They made a big public effort during the Drupal 8 project to become more open, welcoming, and responsive, and it would interesting to know if that made a difference.
I find the Khan Academy analysis on compression to be missing any consideration of caching. They're seeing a 2.5% hit for compressing individual JS files vs. their existing JS bundles, or a ~16kb increase on a ~646kb baseline. That seems small enough that I'd also want to see modeling of the bandwidth savings from the finer-grained caching of individual files to get a more complete picture. As cited, only new[1] visitors to the site incur the hit stated, but this page is nominally the homepage for logged-in users. So it seems that recurring usage should be common here, but perhaps there's a non-intuitive usage pattern for their site? In any event, recurring visitors may have to redownload far less total bytes due to ongoing site changes given the improved cache locality of an individual JS file approach.

OTOH, the Google App Engine webserver latency issue looks straightforward and is a great reminder to measure and analyze results for ongoing HTTP/2 deployments.

[1] "new" as "cache miss on all JS assets"
Grapheme-cluster strings are neat, and the decision to normalize makes sense in that context. But how does Perl 6 handle filenames, which can't be safely round-tripped through grapheme strings?
"Polish Remover"

A bottle of solvent or leader of the Nazi party?
“Snowden Effect” in Action: NSA Authority to Collect Bulk Phone Metadata Expires
That link seems to be unavailable in the USA; here's a mirror. http://b.1339.cf/kqyvngq.webm

The opening credits are pretty cool too, but from a traditional animation perspective rather than geek cred: http://b.1339.cf/dbbbhjp.webm
> It still sounds inflammatory to me

It rally wasn't meant to be. The article in question was very good, I thought, except for its needlessly inflammatory reference to something which still gets emotions high (for no particularly good reason, since the facts are easily available, but that's neither here nor there).

Articles like this would be much more persuasive if they stuck to the (incredibly important) facts, and didn't engage in fantasies, stoking the fires of needless dissent as they do so.
1980 – Nobel Winner [Dr. William Lipscomb] Looks at Future of Big Data
in the commission of a crime or to mislead the investigation of a crime.
"I deeply believe that if three recent college grads (and one dropout) could turn an online reality tv show into a billion dollar company then literally anyone can be successful online."

There are so many things wrong with drawing that conclusion.
My first Show HN, my first Chrome extension, my first open source app. Lots of firsts, would love feedback and/or ideas.

Basically it's a little extension that replaces people's real names with their nicknames. E.g. Donald Trump = "Drunk Uncle". Pretty simple really, just about ~50 lines of JS.
Does anyone know of other blog posts like this? I watch a lot of anime, but never see anything written in English about the creation of many of the impressive animation and CG usage.
Just for example, this will certainly make life a lot more dangerous for people trying to get away from or remain hidden from an abusive spouse.
> Her job don't require critical thinking skills.

So you say. Look I don't mean to say you don't know better but it's hard for me to come up with any profession that does not require critical thinking skills. No matter what 'simple' task I want to do - say one that normally would be someone's day job - I always find that it requires more knowledge, skill and more thinking than I anticipated.
"As advertisements from the later period suggest, the role of the space-age woman was as the helpful wife — not the person doing the calculations."

What the advertisement really suggests is that someone felt the need to promote women's role as housekeepers. You can also find adds with women smoking, which shows cigarette companies tried to get the non-smoking part of population as customers.
> Browsers of the day (Internet Explorer 5, Netscape) stopped being able to render pages properly a very long time ago

No, not really. Those browsers still render pages just as properly as they ever did.
Scaling down power generation when demand is low is not something nuclear is good at. Battery or energy storage systems that could store excess power from the grid would help any sort of power generation technique become more efficient and reliable.

There is a lot of hand waiving and fudging the numbers when it comes to the cost of nuclear. One-off proprietary designs, using proprietary fuel systems, using proprietary operational methodologies is not cost effective. Economies of scale are not in nuclear's favor, and even "at scale" you're looking at billions of dollars worth of investment before the first watt is produced. The need for large-scale waste transportation, storage and reprocessing is not a solved problem. The Nuclear Solves Everything™ thought process requires a lot of head-in-the-sand thinking.
GlassDoor shuts off your access to the site if you don't provide it a review and salary information. (Unless you're a cheater and pretend to have come across it through a Google search, like myself.) In this way, it is less likely that GlassDoor experiences this problem compared to the average review system; anyone who uses it must participate, not just angry people.
No one would ever say "have got", it's the sort of redundancy that naturally gets distilled down to the minimum required in everyday language.

I imagine this sort of focus on technically correct but functionally useless things is pretty common when studying languages. I took a few years of German in school, and literally 25% of our time was spent memorizing the various forms of der and matching nouns to them. I haven't been to Germany, but my understanding is that you won't get laughed out of too many rooms if you use die when you should have used den.

I didn't keep up with the language, and I can barely understand even basic German at this point. I do still remember my der/ein charts though. I'm not really convinced that was the best use of my time.
Sorry. That said, it's still way too much. Adafruit sells the B+ with tax + shipping for $40.26. Adding up, it's still less than $60.
English is a lot closer to Dutch though. We learn Dutch, French, English, German and even Latin in school, so we are culturally habituated to the importance of languages. I coincidentally also speak Finnish and Swedish (which feels almost like a Dutch-Limburg dialect), and like the other poster said, it's not a surprise to me the Swedish speaking population in Finland thinks English is easier to learn.

As to Antirez: if only my C would be as good as yours...
They could have captured basically all the potential benefit of this dataset while more-or-less curtailing the potential for abuse with very little effort: Just give salted hashes of the license plate numbers rather than sharing them in the clear.
An example of people trying to stop somebody from giving a talk for trumped up political reasons.

Heck, between him, Rice, and Maher, he's the least unsavory.
I always hear US people point out privacy issues with scenarios of insurance companies. Is this a real world problem? Do insurance companies actually browse available data and define different rates for every citizen based on whether they attend gym, go to chemo, go to nightclubs, or have bad marks at school?
Transporter:Commercial Pilot
It's also worth remembering that Firefox WAS a research project. At the time, general consensus was that web browsers would be just a part of a suite of content-specific internet browsers: email, news, calendar, etc...

The fact that you could ditch all of that and just render web pages better and gain market share was a surprise.
I don't think vending machines even now will give pennies in change.
> What each of the companies had in common was that they built something that was useful, created a feedback loop of getting user feedback and iterating on the product, and kept at their startups long enough for the market they were in to mature.

> I deeply believe that if three recent college grads (and one dropout) could turn an online reality tv show into a billion dollar company then literally anyone can be successful online.

Not anyone, but far more people than currently are. The only problem is that very few people get the opportunity required.

How many teams get help from YC followed by millions of funding from other investors? How many can spend 5 years working on a project that isn't profitable? As a percentage of people, it's far below 0.1%.

When there's a scalable YC alternative (like equity crowdfunding, maybe) we'll see just how many good technology businesses are possible. It seems nearly unlimited, if you're aiming for Star Trek.

I think there are tens of thousands of 2-10 person teams that are waiting for an opportunity to show us what they have.
> That's a pro. Variation sucks.

No, it doesn't. A browser engine monoculture means that a single engine's bugs and quirks become the standard. As a result the Web platform gets worse, and it becomes harder for new browser engines to enter the market.

For example: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2013/02/a-small-example-of-value...

> What you want is competing contributors and stakeholders to ensure a single entity's interests don't win.

That is not the case in practice with either WebKit or Blink.

> I would argue the massive WebKit/Chromium ecosystem has lots of competing contributors.

Not really. There are two primary ones: Apple and Google. Both organizations have essentially as close to absolute sway over their respective projects as to what Web platform features they implement and how they choose to implement them as to make no difference.
So, don't make us go to sleep without knowing how to actually pronounce Twinings! I have no idea and now want to know.
Alot of features are still missing, but its totally possible to play a fun few games. And the good thing is that you regurlarly get new features (And its free...)
It's not just lossy compression you lose things like layers and stuff when you flatten the file to a bitmap.

In the general sense this is the correct behaviour but in the specific instance of doing simple bitmap manipulation like cropping "export as save" is expected and since thats the most common use case for many people it's probably frustrating.

To be perfectly honest people using gimp for image cropping should use something else, gimp gui is clunky, it starts slowly and there is no benefit.
After reading about soap manufacturing I started making my own - not because I want to, but because it is impossible to know what they put in soap and, amazingly, the ingredient list on the side of the soap is not required to tell you all the ingredients (and they don't). Apparently, big companies manage the list of generally recognized as safe ingredients, and when they add ingredients to that list it prevents the FDA from regulating that ingredient. So we are surrounded by ingredients that aren't disclosed and associated with many diseases - but the FDA is prevented from regulating those ingredients. I look forward to the day when our society can again get control back from the corporations so that I can start buying soap again.
Unless your software happens to be fondly remembered in an article (or 3d hypercybervis, or whatever we have then).
Not a biologist: is it possible that they kind of imitated each other?

If one species develops the color as a warning to predators, then once those predators learn to ignore this species, I can imagine it'd be advantageous for similar species to look like this as well.
Agreed on a cheap board with wifi capability. It would be nice to have a board stuck in the attic without having to run wires.
Ars Technica already got 4.6M scans from 3.5 years of collection, and all it took was FOIA requests: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/we-know-where-you...
Really? You might want to read up on the DPPA (Public Law 103-322). I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure tracking a plate back to a home address is a big no-no under Federal law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_Privacy_Protection_...
I was travelling through Vietnam and thought it funny just how many diacritic marks Vietnamese text makes, and thought that English was better because it doesn't need them. Then I realised that - holy shit! - English needs them big time. Look at wind (air movement) and wind (wrap around), or wound (injury) and wound (past tense wrap). Or even read (view text present tense) and read (view text past tense).

Admittedly I'm only a monoglot, but Engish seems pretty brutal in expecting you to figure out the correct sounds from the context. A few diacritics sprinkled in could likely really help newcomers with appropriate sounds.

On a tangent, one of the things I like about written Spanish is that you know at the beginning of a sentence whether it's a question or an exclamation. It's always a bit weird when reading a long sentence in a novel, to get to the end of it and think "oh, that was actually a question..."
I don't know about blog posts, but if you want to see a lot of (fictionalized) details about how the sausage is made, you should watch Shirobako.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/shirobako
This is a survey article of sorts built on shaky foundations. The most relevant paper to read in relation to this story is this one: "Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test." http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...

By the time the results get distilled into a Guardian article, the situation is probably hopeless.
This. I actually joined HN years ago just to praise Tom Lane for his outstanding support (I hope I remember this correctly).
Upsilon Mazes
Out of curiosity, what were the bad things in Barcelona? I've got an interest myself, but haven't really investigated yet.
> My first professional rule is to try to be one of the dumbest people in the room.

I did that early in my career without much difficulty. As I've gotten older, I've found most companies don't want to pay a programmer with 5-15+ years experience to be the dumbest person in the room. They want to pay them to be the smartest person in the room for somebody with 0-5 years experience.
You don't need funding for all internet projects. I had none, and run a successful online company. Supports me, and I'm free of my time.

Now, not everyone could have done what I did, but it's far more than 0.1% of people.
Out of curiosity: does Heroku give you a better deal as you grow? I know for a fact Salesforce will discount their licenses more and more and you buy bigger quantities and sign up for longer contracts. It'd be surprising if Heroku doesn't do this at all...!
That's a pretty passive attitude to take. One amazing thing about software projects, for a technical person, is that you don't have to wait around to find someone to give you money to play with.
The tokens you're suggesting sound like sort of a precursor to today's gift cards. Coke would certainly have been making money on tokens purchased but not spent.
I would interview--they are not allowed to take your pregnancy into account. They are legally forbidden from asking you about that or how you would manage your children.

Good luck with the interview!
It's amazing that this pure meritocracy happens to favor a small group of friends!
Hey nice, a new release, I was getting worried that the project was going down.
To be honest, the average C++ programmer should not be bothered with any of the concurrency stuff. The chance that you get it wrong and introduce subtle concurrency bugs that will obviously only show up in production environments is simply too great.

What is needed is a bunch of concurrently usable STL containers (eg. checks for invalidating iterators on entering items into a map from another thread), akin to the java.util.concurrent library. That way you separate the tricky concurrency stuff out from the people that probably do not understand it.
I'm reading through the paper on DeBaCl right now which might be a little more accessible than the paper you found. I think the gist of it is that Level set trees offer better theoretical guarantees due to other methods being less rigorous with their theory.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.8136v1.pdf
I have a mesh network of atmel 328p using nrf24l chips. The connection isn't super fast but the chips are cheap (~$1 ea. at 10 on a board ready to go), and I doubt there's anything I could/would do with a 328p that would max the data rate. They'd probably work pretty well for a low speed link on the pis.

Only caveat I've found is that they're extremely picky about getting clean power on the +3.3V rail.
There's a trade-off between evaluating everything on a case-by-case basis (which takes time and energy) and using general rules of thumb that allow quick decisions making, but is essentially discrimination.

I like to reflect on my own judgement before I actually need to use it, deciding which rules will be acceptable, what situations call for carefulness, what ideas I should be wary of even if I'm in a horrible mood.
The subconscious is a wonderful thing, but sometimes it's nice to take charge of one's own thoughts a little bit.
If you have more than one Pi, you need another SD card, another charger, another HDMI cable, so again you are back to full price. There should really be just a way to connect all PIs to a single USB-powered portable drive. SD card is such as poor choice and a poor design decision choice. Sorry.

I completely disagree. SD cards are dirt cheap nowadays - you can get a pack of five 8GB Sandisk cards for ~$16 on Amazon - and they allow the users to carry their own computer home instead of being stuck in the classroom.
Query your local weather by fingering graph.no
Eg. by running "finger newyork@graph.no"
1. Because it shows how much one have to spend for the more expensive model.

2. I don't not know Adafruit, but most people I know got their PI from one of the partners. If we got ripped off, that's a fault on RPF (https://www.raspberrypi.org/).

I actually mixed up model B and model B+, I owned both. Model B is the more recent one is more expensive. But I got both when they first came out, so equally just ordering from the approved distributor the cost was pretty much the same.

I am not going to argue cent by cent with you, the final bill for each setup came around $100, and at the time they were the cheapest and most reliable. Also, there have been many reports on which SD card is better for the model, so I didn't just pick a random cheapest SD card. Your mileage varies. Whether I got ripped off any $10, $20 or not, the end result is still the same. The overall cost is larger.
> in 10 years I'll likely no longer write code professionally

why?
Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions
Twine-ings. As in twine/string. Rhymes with wine. The 'ings' is pretty standard, like in 'things'.

Twinings is a name, though - and all bets are off when it comes to name pronunciation.
"I can think of other projects that have been mentioned that I would like to take on, but it seems there's always something in upper management that keeps them from getting going."

Lose the passive attitude about "upper management," and go talk to them. They're just people with opinions. Talk them into supporting one of the projects that you wish you could take on, and volunteer to take it on. Stand in the room and explain persuasively, using numbers and emotions, that they can make or save money on a project.

If you can't successfully construct such a pitch/argument for a given project then quite probably mgt. was correct NOT to have pursued the idea.

If they are truly dysfunctional you will quickly find this out by observing how they handle it.

If they shoot you down (dysfunctionally or for good reasons), you have lost nothing, but maybe it did provide a little of that needed excitement for a while. And maybe they'll admire the chutzpah and remember you later when some project comes along that they DO want to support.

If they give you the green light, then you will have ample excitement for some time to come, with new things to learn and new challenges. Maybe they'll even let you hire some people to help.

You can always make it a condition of your continued employment, i.e. "I am moving in such-and-such direction and would love it if the company can grow around me." (Translation: This is what I want to do, with or without you.) If it doesn't work out, THEN think about moving on.

Late edit: Forgot to add: GOOD LUCK!