skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you're an early adopter / power user, exposed to this plenty, and most users aren't that savvy.

Though I also find these types of messages annoying, they do seem to get to a higher interaction rate from normal users.
It's funny how the article quietly assumes "Scotland+France+England" = "Europe".
> Until the rise of scripting languages we would use compiled languages for everything.

That was because at the time, forking was expensive, threading was too hard, and memory leaked like a sieve. Rust addresses all of these problems, and does it nicely.
'Miracle' student survived his body being frozen solid
> But the information density of a language has to go somewhere. In English, I guess this is facilitated by a relatively granular sound system and complex grammar. Mandarin ended up with a relatively simple and inflexible sound system and simple grammar, so the complexity went into the characters.

What do you mean by "information density of a language"? The way you used it makes it sound like a human language must have a certain "information density" to be useful, and that in English this is achieved via complex grammar but in Mandarin it is achieved via complex characters.

That is confusing to me, because if a certain level of information density is necessary for an effective human language, then wouldn't it be necessary to have that in both the spoken form and the written form of that language?

With most languages, the written form and the spoken form are essentially the same language. Any sentence in one can be expressed in the other. People often use longer sentences and more complex sentences when writing, and use more redundancy when speaking, but that is due to the medium, not the language being expressed using that medium--with the written language the reader can control the rate of reading and can jump around in a sentence if needed to deal with complexity, so longer and more complex sentences work better written than spoken. They are still the same language. One could write just like one speaks, or speak just like one writes. Is this not the case with Mandarin?
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It's a technical phrase, not a value statement.

Unearned income refers to income received by virtue of owning property (known as property income), inheritance, pensions and payments received from public welfare. The three major forms of unearned income based on property ownership are rent, received from the ownership of natural resources; interest, received by virtue of owning financial assets; and profit, received from the ownership of capital equipment. As such, unearned income is often categorized as "passive income".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearned_income

This covers the policy debate part, which you may be referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearned_income#Taxation
Yeah, the cool thing about React is that its fairly pluggable. So stuff like server side rendering is not "React" specific but more so Node specific.
Unfortunately the article linked doesn't go into much more detail than the headline.

More in-depth article here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/76126951/being-frozen-...
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'Frozen' Man Revived After Being Found in the Snow with No Pulse
Get people to become habitual users then raise the price and get businesses to pay for it instead of consumers.

It kind of looks like MagicBus' marketing is already setting up to do this.
El Reg since day one has always had a somewhat less than deferential style of writing. The original founder, Mike Magee[0], intended the reporting style to be tabloid-like right from the get-go.

You either love or hate The Register, personally I've enjoyed reading it since 1997 and get a good chuckle each morning from some of their amusing bylines.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Magee_(journalist)
start walking/hiking/running. It has one benefit in that you can think about your SaaS with the added circulation helping the mind.
I managed over 90 days on my PC (ubuntu 14.04) at the office. I would go for more but there was power outage and all my bragging rights are gone.
It's hyperbole.
There's another major problem: preventing peasants from being a threat whilst still yielding some benefit from the longbow could easily have been achieved by restricting archery training to nobles and selected privileged guards, who had more time and inclination towards military training than the peasantry anyway. This would have resulted in less firepower than the English mass armies, but far more than the crossbows they used instead (indeed, since the principal advantage of the longbow over the crossbow was rate of fire, it would have been even more important to take advantage of in an army with a relative shortage of archers)

Alternate hypothesis: the French lacked the experience of the English/Welsh in making longbows and training people to use them, so struggled to see any evidence of superiority when experimenting with longbows over the crossbow technology they were more familiar with. A local maximum.

And the posited relationship between (in)stability and training regimes for the wider population looks more plausible flipped on its head: the less stable English kings paid less attention to the promotion of archery than Edward III not because they hoped laxity in training would result in any peasant armies raised against them being worse shots, but simply because they had more important things to worry about than archers.
> finally, crossbows really are the better weapon - once you start factory-making them, your army can be raised and trained faster

But the army you raise is less effective; quantity vs quality.

A country which did not want or could not afford to train longbow men may have had a deeper flaw: its model. Perhaps the real reason England could beat France had been a long time in the making: a strong economy, and politically society that afforded it a more equipped better trained army.

I wonder if the advantages of a democracy - political stability and a (usually) advanced economy - also translate into the modern battlefield.
pay yourself first and choose the 110 an hour rate. You have a limited lifetime on this Earth.
I don't understand. Are there any philosophers saying that the problem of homelessness is Amazon's fault? Because it seems to me that the people who say that that's what philosophers are saying, simply say that to ridicule a position they don't fully understand so they don't have to listen to what the philosophers actually have to say. I mean, if philosophers have been studying the issue for ages, maybe, just maybe they have a point that's at least worth listening to? Because I do know one thing: no one is blaming Amazon for creating the problem of homelessness.
If the system is suitably firewalled, it's OK to not update regularly.

If the system is sufficiently critical, it may be hard to update or migrate it. And if it's still safely working there's no real incentive to do so.
Maybe consider doing comprehensive medical testing? If everything is okay it will help reduce your anxiety about it. If not it will probably help more than any amount of exercise ever will.
>> So was that a dig against jQuery?

No way I would disrespect jQuery in any way. I learnt a lot of JS by digging into jQuery code and from this book from its author "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja"
But I hate it when people who have done some simple basic programming and used jQuery think that they know JS
Well, you're not dead until you're warm and dead.
I think "inflammation" is the modern day's "bad humors". We don't really understand the relationship between inflammation and illness and yet inflammation get's sold to the public as an important cause. Unfortunately, anti-inflammatory drugs don't improve outcomes for heart disease or Alzheimer's, even though inflammation is somehow implicated.

So mucking about with worms or other parasites to give the immune system something to do is most likely not a good idea until we better understand the underlying mechanisms.
Truth is its a developer tool that just provides basic logging for debugging. Its not sexy, and its not actually shipping out of the shop. Just a few members of my dev team have adopted it. And it was written on company time, so the company technically owns it.

I Work in an aging framework for electronics testers written in a combination of C#/VB/LabVIEW its highly asychronous nature make debugging the system an issue.
I fucking love the name =)
Man found 'frozen solid' recovers to become living medical miracle
Hi. We try to ease the managing of basic server installs with our Cloudron platform as well, but take a different route than Sandstorm. https://cloudron.io/
Personally selfhosting blogs and other things was the main driver why to work towards our product. Playing sysadmin and maintaining those selfhosted apps, taking care of domains and certs...all that is just not very much fun for me after having it done once :-)
if it is something any regular person on the street would use, get some business cards focused on the application with the website and start handing them out.

Who is your one user? Do they fit any particular category? Ask them if they have friends that would use your software.
Asimov wrote an essay on this back in 1980, called _The Unsecret Weapon_, in the collection _The Sun Shines Bright_. Same conclusion, IIRC.

However I've never found a copy online, which is a shame because I remember it has being one of his best.
There is also a test suite b/c cargo makes it stupidly easy to write tests.

I actually find myself pining for the simplicity of #[test] in other languages. It makes the Write->Test->Write loop so much faster.
1) the rich have more disposable income and there are quite a few techies with money to burn. The Leaf isn't that capable of a car. I will be watching GM to see if they can push the Bolt out in real numbers instead of compliance only.

2/3) and severe range drop in winter, driving with minimal heat because of the range loss, and more. Unless you are driving a Tesla which has that huge range buffer its not fun if you already are near you car's max range and cold weather sets in.

Give it five years and we might be in a cell phone phone like era, but it isn't decided still that all battery is how it will pan out. Batteries still suffer a horrible weight to KwH ratio that works against auto manufacturers trying to trim weight to increase range. Finally thirty minutes to recharge is fine if your home or going to be parked, otherwise its still a major issue.
So... Implanting symbiotic worms in our bodies for improved immunoresponse? Someone has been watching Stargate SG-1.
i wonder what happens to tlds like .cc/Cocos Islands when rising sea levels wash away their associated territories
This is irrelevant to the case of referrer spamming.

Vouching may help preventing spam from percolating to public-facing pages through automated mention processing, but it does absolutely nothing to stop or to discourage referrer spam, which is aimed at the actual owners of the resource rather than their visitors.
How to access Slack with command line IRC client irssi
C++ complexity: it's a feature
According the the latest news release we should be having a new jihad on salt, damn the lack of evidence.

You’re probably eating too much salt, new guidelines say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/0...
how about some more core Javascript

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
My bad, of course I meant the famous English victories, changed the post to reflect that.
Heavy selection bias.
great idea, but having an centralized service is risky. if they go away, you will not only have a 404 but a dns error. and while it's nice that they have a contingency plan, abide it can not be possible.
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> Nobody has ever argued that NO SALT is the right idea.

Some people have been saying exactly that, e.g.: http://www.enformy.com/blog/benefits-of-no-salt-diet.php
Can you provide a concrete example ?

I really can't see this assumption made anywhere in the paper.
JsonPack, high-performance and easy-to-use JSON serialization for C++11
I went from years of using blogger.com to trying Wordpress for a few months. Then I switched to Jekyll and statically generated blog articles. In the end I went back to blogger.com because I figured that if I needed a 3rd party like discus for comments, then I might as well use blogger.com
I see why you were downvoted for the initial comment, but I don't see why you are being downvoted for this one. This seems like a creative list of alternatives to back your complaint. Personally I don't think the name should change at all. Although, I do like ff for the alternative name you could give it in your head that describes the exclamations of the processes involved. Upvoted for creativity and constructivity.

Edit: also, dms? o_O ...
Usually you'd be running the same userland daemons on FreeBSD that you might on Linux. Web servers, databases, OpenSSHd, file networking protocols (FTP, SMB, NFS, etc), and so on aren't generally tied to a particular kernel version since ABIs are not subject to frequent changes (it would be very bad if they were).

So with that in mind, you can update your userland on FreeBSD without updating your kernel in much the same way as you can do with Linux. Though it is recommended that you update the entire stack on either platform.
they probably become a TLD without country affiliation. like .amazon or .google
Sure, but let's have that debate, and set down a philosophy around that. What you're arguing is not that Java is everything - but that a polyglot stack has dangers, that certain tools are often unobjectably better than others, and that we shouldn't sugar coat that. I agree, as would many of our friends in the space.

But if you're saying that everyone who is in Javascript, Ruby, Python, Go, PHP (and others) should all refactor into Java because it's the one and only ideal web backend in 2016 (or design new apps exclusively in Java) - I could pick a 1000 holes in that argument. The original comment I reacted to was:

> If you're not picking the JVM in 2016 to build your core services and web applications then you're making a mistake

My apologies if this comes across negatively (which I don't intend, as this is a respectful debate among people who care deeply about their craft) - but I'm just not convinced that you're really a full supporter of the original commenter. Your blog seems to show a fair degree of pragmatism (you consider other languages/frameworks, might use them, are ok if your friends are not using Java). I'm totally fine with "I think the majority of people should use Java" (I don't fully agree with that, but in a world where many people knew that ecosystem, I think it's a great choice) - but the commenter went much further. If s/he is looking to start a debate, then I'm fine; if that person would join any company and religiously uphold that viewpoint, I don't think they'd be the right person for many companies.

P.S. If I'm wrong, and if Java is the ecosystem that for the next few years the rules them all, I really want to make a Lord of the Rings-inspired meme about it
Information flows through a subset of high-traffic ‘hub neurons’ in the brain
Enough+of+the+Fighting,+Its+Time+to+Heal
During Ramadan Muslims are not allowed to drink water, right? That probably means their mouth is very dry during the fasting time meaning there's more than usual amount of odor-causing bacteria in their mouth.
>(I have read claims that Russian is particularly difficult though - can anyone comment?)

In what way? It uses an alphabet just like Latin-based languages, and it's more phonetic than English (but not completely phonetic). I'm sure anyone can learn to write/read Cyrillic in a few days if they already know Latin. The actual language is harder than English because of large number of noun/adjective declensions (depending on plurality, case, gender) which would be a pain to memorize for a non-native. But being an Indo-European language it's still pretty similar to English as far as languages go. Chinese, having a completely different writing system, completely different sentence structure, completely different fixed expressions, completely different sounds (and tones!) is orders of magnitude harder.
More likely, your "type B" programmer will build a half-assed MVP with 20% of the initial features that will break every 5 seconds and thus the "million dollars paying startup" will lose their customers to the saner competition.

I will also very much question your visionaries/maintenance distinction. Many dynamic languages today are influenced by technology developed in academia. This is because the "type B coder" you are speaking of lacks the theoretical foundation to build sound abstractions that are proven to not break.

I would describe myself very much as a "type B" personality - I'm completely disorganized, messy and lazy. I've event gotten into (physical) fights with flatmates over this.

And precisely because of this, I'm choosing technology that takes away all the rigid bookkeeping and context switching that is needed when writing anything more complex than a basic Bootstrap/Angular/whatever bullshit CRUD app.

This is because refactoring is a lot harder in a language without structure. I would never dare rip out the base data structures and replace them with something completely different in a project with more than 2kloc in a language without types. While in a logically sound language I do that daily and don't even care - a perfect fit for my "type B" personality.
I would at least let people see other boards when changing from their current country to "All", now it requires you to register, and that's quite a hurdle.
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Would it be beneficial for me as a developer to take these machine learning courses? I took a course in the uni a while back and know the general techniques, but I'm not sure how it would help me in my career unless I'm doing some cutting edge work in the field or focusing on a machine learning career, in which case wouldn't I need to be pursuing a postdoc or something in it?
Yeah, the better example for English would've been the spelling. Ghoti and so on, dyslexia is a significant problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia#Language

My wife knows Russian and 5-6 other languages on a tourist level or better. She says Russian has both a difficult and a simple aspect: Newspapers use a large vocabulary so reading with moderate education is tricky, but people's accents are easier to deal with.
HN guidelines suggest that this is off-topic; it offers no useful/relevant information -- it does not "gratify one's intellectual curiosity":

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You need some pretty specific muscles for bowmanship, which don't really equate to a bodybuilder's physique. That goes both way, I wouldn't be sure whether Arnie in his best days could draw a 150 lbs bow, and I'm dead certain that Daffyd Longbowman didn't look like a candidate for Mr. Universe.

But you still had some pretty healthy specimens, which brings to mind one important factor that's often forgotten: It's not like archers were suddenly useless when they couldn't fire their bows anymore. They were decently well armed and armored, and if you're swarmed by guys with mauls (and possibly deep in mud), your fancy chain & plate doesn't really help you all that much.
Excellent. I've been thinking about having a SSHD keylogger post to slack (or some other log). It's crazy that sshd doesn't have this functionality built-in. It's so important to know what your admins are executing on your machines. Aside from the fact that they might have been compromised, it's just good to know what sort of general administration is being done.
That's a great idea. But I didn't find any docs that explain how to override DND. I opened a feature request instead, so we'll see how it goes :)
'Something is technically wrong' #TwitterDown
I'm curious. Why?

I know there have been attempts to each people purely spoken language and purely written, but those are rare. In practice the two seem strongly connected.
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Out of curiosity: how fast is it compared to (let's say) V8's JSON.stringify/JSON.parse?
Good electric car battery standard would solve almost all of the problems of electric cars.

1. The battery is where most development happens and where it's most needed. So you don't have to worry about your car getting too old too fast. Just get fresh battery.

2. Range: just swap the battery if you run out of juice. They could be rented like gas bottles are at service station.

3. Battery charge lifespan.

4. Potentially emerging fuel cells. They are just a way to burn something into electricity. Why do you care what kind of black box feeds you car some current?

How could this be done? Build robots at service stations that lift a battery pack into the bottom of the car. Good place could be where the spare wheel currently goes. Bottom of the trunk. You could steal mechanical locking from intermodal containers, just scale it down. And electric connectors could be upscale speakon connectors stolen from pro audio.
> For over a century the longbow reigned as undisputed king of medieval European missile weapons. Yet only England used the longbow as a mainstay in its military arsenal; France and Scotland clung to the technologically inferior cross-
bow.

> England alone, for a 150-year window in late medieval Europe, was politically stable enough to render the longbow its rulers’ optimal technology choice. In contrast, in France and Scotland political instability prevailed, rendering the crossbow the optimal technology choice for rulers in these nations.
Andrew Orlowski's pro-copyright cheerleading was what turned me off it. He can be very nasty about people he disagrees with.
That last sentence is the conclusion of 'The Logic of Political Survival', by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, et al.

Unfortunately, I haven't gone through it in ten years, and I have a sneaking suspicion that it might have some faulty methodology.
It's called the "No Salt Diet" but it doesn't actually cut out salt completely. It's more about processed rubbish and vast quantities of added salt.

Either which way, you are probably right. If you look hard enough, there probably is somebody out there saying anything you want. I should adjust the statement to:

> Nobody qualified to talk on the subject has ever ...
> thik of an army of a thousand Arnold Schwarzeneggers - these guys cold deliver hundreds of foot pounds from their arms. Robin Hood would have been built like The Rock

As a nitpick: No, he would not. You don't achieve anything near build of Arnold or The Rock without steroids (both have admitted to steroid use), nor do you achieve it with more endurance focused training rather than maximising load for a low number of reps. Big and strong, sure, but much more compact.

A boxer would be a more natural comparison.
Most people buy a car every three years. Sounds similar to how often people switch cell phones. I don't think electric cars change much in regards to people always wanting something different or the shiny new model.

The awesome thing about the Tesla is all the over the air updates. Other car makers want you to buy the new model to get the new features.

I worked in the car biz for a long time.
Some people go to extreme lengths to implant beneficial flora into their gut... with, I kid you not, POO TRANSPLANTS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy).

Seems like it's mostly done for medical reasons at the moment, but I could easily see this becoming a fad craze.

You can actually buy poo tablets, and become a poo donor. http://www.openbiome.org/