skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comapring apples and oranges.

Facebook ad clicks are not the same thing as advertised website's uniques/visitors/hits/sessions/whatever. Especially if the latter is using external tracking that uses JS and tends to be blocked/opt-out by some.

Facebook clicks are really 'clicks', not 'unique people clicking', they are also not 'successfully redirected after click', maybe not even 'click successfully finished and not reverted by aborting'. It just means someone clicked or tapped on the thing used to advertise.

So yes, you get what you pay for, and in the case of Facebook it's their definition of a 'click' you are paying for.

By the way:
You get pretty close to their numbers when using a redirect script that loads in a few ms and just writes 'hits' to a database and then again redirects to you to your normal target website. Not 100%, but much better than using GA or any other external tracking on the target website.
Movable type actually proves the author's point. It was an amazing idea which didn't take off in China as fast as it did in the West, precisely because it was a huge hurdle to manufacture the ~1000s of blocks required to represent each Mandarin word.
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With the exception of the US, who taxes its citizens globally, I would assume this would push many people to move abroad to a country without a wealth tax. France is great and all, but I wouldn't want to be a tax resident there. If you're worth €50m, it's just too expensive.

Given you already paid capital gains tax (or income tax) when you generated that wealth, there's also the double taxation component. Wealth taxes (at least to me) seem like a great way to punish people who are doing well.

At the end of the day, we're living in a globalised world, where borders matter less and less (at least in the west).
I wondered if they might live on an integer latitude/longitude coordinate, but checking street view on the few that are anywhere near a street in the Atlanta area seems negative.
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> An equivalent premise to this author's would be to say that the inconsistent spelling and grammar of English is a millstone around its neck.

I quote from the article:

> I discussed the prima facie unsuitability of English to serve as a world communication medium.

Which is linked to another article that discusses exactly that: http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/11/23/the-unsui...
Mandarin does do that, but it's not quite the same thing.
> ...the idea that even relatively small investments of time/effort/organization can multiply into massive outcomes when steadily applied. I’m pretty excited to see what I could do with a more deliberate effort.

My first deliberate effort is in progress here - https://github.com/jamii/notes/ - aiming for around 15 books over 3 weeks.
Yes, I read that, and of course it is possible. Nevertheless the fact that the centralized government was unstable and news would not travel too fast makes me think that it is a bit strange nobody tried it in 150 years. The maps of France they present also shows that lots of territories would not recognize the French crown for long time. Those could have developed the technology and either take over the throne or give the crown one more reason to develop the technology themselves.

Maybe the line is thin, but given the long times it seems strange to me that there has not been at least an attempt to this (at least to my knowledge, but they don't cite any such event).
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I certainly never would have expected to meet somebody from WaniKani here. I agree with everything you said.
And that's why I like you.
Using adjectives in the “wrong” order doesn’t really change the meaning significantly though, it just sounds a little weird to a native speaker.

I don’t think anyone claims that spoken Chinese is particularly hard compared to other languages, but that the written form is measurably harder than languages that use an alphabetic orthography.

(I have read claims that Russian is particularly difficult though - can anyone comment?)
Thank you. You're right that I'd need a developer in any case to first customise the theme, but then also to add customisations over time.

It's still holding us back, though, having a PHP app that a developer needs to edit, instead of allowing any of the team to add content to the site.
this absolute nonsense , to say black people in england arent culturally black is absurd. Black people the world over share a common ancestry and have commonalities in thier culture the melting pot of england has created a unique black culture in just the same way as america has created a unique african-american culture for its own immigrants. You clearly are not black , have no understanding of black culture and are attempting to defend your mistreatment of african americans against an english counter example by spouting nonsense.
"The use of social network contacts as a basis for establishing credit worthiness is questionable; just because some of my friends have bad credit scores doesn’t mean I do."

I'd wager that if you're friends have bad credit scores it is more likely that you will have a bad credit score. Does the author seriously think that Facebook / banks will assume that someone has a low credit score because they went to school with somebody who has a low credit score?

If you are statistically more likely to default on a loan you can't reasonably expect not to pay a higher interest rate.
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> Because if I disagree with you, I must be drinking Google's coolaid, right?

Well on HN, it seems Google cannot do no wrong and Oracle is the devil, regardless of them both being corporations and not really persons.

> before you say the quote was part of "putting on a happy face", maybe have a look at what he had to say when he was called as Google's witness in Oracle v Google. It is also telling that he was called in by Google, rather than Oracle.

1 - Yes it was part of "putting on a happy face"

2 - Usually when one gets called to the court, it is not easy to say no, regardless which side puts your name on. So Google lawyers just were faster than Oracle's.

3 - Ah but he testified on court. Well, having been born in a country just getting of dictatorship and where corruption is part of daily life, I don't believe people always "tell the truth and only the truth" when at court.

The fact is that Google forked and frozed the Java eco-system.

Now in 2016 we are stuck with a Java 6 and a half, with no future in sight for newer versions. With the community coming up with hacks to try to use newer language features.

Java 9 and 10+ will bring major language features making it even worse to keep Java applications portable between the real Java and Android Java.

Google just managed to do what Microsoft failed at, and yet Google gets the brownie points.
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Of course, gotta have that "but model checkers are better!" from pron.
It is not straightforward at all. Most homeless people suffer from a mental illness. You'd have to treat that first. Some of them might not want to be treated though...

The notion that the owners of capital would want to have homeless people is absurd. The "capitalists" would like everyone to be working, as higher production means more profits for them. The state may need to step in with a minimum wage (or basic income), but otherwise the system should work fine.
You can often guess meaning or sound from the character.

E.g. 海, 洲, 流 (sea, continent, flow) all have three dots on the left indicating they relate to water.

And 领, 玲, 铃 are all pronounced ling due to the 令 component.

Characters that aren't widely used you don't need to learn to write, and reading is much easier than writing. If you see a big complicated character in a noodle-y context you pretty much know it's going to be biang.

If you don't know the pronunciation of a character it's not too far from not knowing the meaning of a random English word like "kaiserin", apart from being slightly harder to guess pronunciation on average.
For supporting legacy browsers you need to fall back to polling unfortunately.

A better option than repeated requests every X seconds (or X times per second) is long polling (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology for brief notes and your preferred search engine for many examples). You can only do this if you control the back-end (so can dictate its API) or the API you are using explicitly supports long polling, of course.

There are a number of libraries out there that try to wrap the different methods into one so you don't have to worry about compatibility, using the more efficient websockets where possible, falling back to long-poll where not, and sometimes other methods in between (integrating a little bit of flash for instance). http://socket.io/ is probably the best know of these.
It's not available online. The story originally came from the NY Times, but I think Business Insider has the best info as they directly quoted a section from it.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/apple-walked-away-from-iad...
I remember a discussion on a FreeBSD mailing list, around 2003-2004, where people bragged about the impressive (though in comparison to this headline, puny) uptimes of a few years.

One of the developers remarked that while he was proud the system he worked on could deliver such uptimes, having an uptime of, say, three years, on a server, also meant that a) its hardware was kind of dated and b) it had not received kernel updates (and probably no other updates, either) for as long. (Which might be okay, if your system is well tucked away behind a good firewall, but is kind of insane if it is directly reachable from the Internet.)

Still, that is really impressive.
Large corporations are not stupid. They have decades of sales data. They can definitely predict demand a year in advance, and they do.

I don't actually think they are overproducing. They make a huge markup on new cars, so having to discount a few that don't sell isn't a loss.

Also factories are pretty much large fixed costs. Overproducing actually doesn't cost that much. The car might only cost $500 worth of raw materials, but the cost of the factories and infrastructure necessary to turn that into a car is massive.

>(aka. no one wants to buy the last few carrots)

Which is literally only true for vegetables, not the economy in general. And you only need to sacrifice a handful of vegetables to for it, so it's a fixed cost.
As I mentioned in one of the earlier comments, the difference in reported numbers is just too big. Some amount of discrepancy is acceptable.

If people are clicking on FB ads and not landing on our website for whatever reason, then those are probably bot clicks.
Ferrets are relatively common domestic pets in the UK. Perhaps because the sport of ferreting was historically more prevalent here?
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I still remember being blown away when I realised how institutionally organised longbow practice was as I read this Rosemary Sutcliff as a child

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1195105.The_Armourer_s_H...
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> Elm's HTML engine conceptually the same as React+Redux and Om Now. It's just a big single atom app state with ways to describe how to update it. It has all the same problems as Om Now (maybe not quite as bad because it doesn't have cursors, but it doesn't solve the data-as-a-graph problem).

That's really not true. The nature of the Elm architecture means it already does this:

> Instead, Om Next asks you to define a set of mutation operations which can change your application’s state.

except it calls that "the `update` function".

The graph problem also seems slightly different, although it is way less convenient than Om Next as it is less declarative and must be bubbled through intermediate "components", Elm "render state" (and render hierarchy) doesn't have to match the application state, it's perfectly possible (and very useful) to duplicate, denormalise and process application state during rendering to match your rendering hierarchy (although it is a very bad idea to denormalise the application state itself).

Elm's trouble is mostly the "remote mismatch".
FWIW digikam has a colour search - could check their code and see what they're doing.
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There are so-called phono-semantic compound characters [1] which consist of two other characters, a part indicating its meaning, and one part indicating its reading. This has helped me tremendously while memorizing the readings of Japanese kanji - and guessing the readings of unknown characters does work incredibly well after you have learned the most common ones which are used as components in more complex characters.
As a very simple example, 仲 is a combination of 人 (person) and the reading of 中 and means relation, relationship (which is vaguely indicated by the human character).

You are correct, though: This is not failsafe and characters can have multiple readings or lack this phono-semantic notion altogether (also, since the characters are originally Chinese it doesn't work as well in Japanese, I believe), but I think it is the closest thing to guessing a word's pronunciation that these languages offer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classificati...
They barely even share that. The word for "not" in Mandarin is 不是, but in Cantonese it's 唔係. "Book" is 书 in Mandarin, but 冊 in Hokkien.

There are enough differences between the various "dialects" in both the spoken and written form, that there's a debate as to whether they should be considered "dialects" at all, or a separate language altogether.
If there's an issue here, it's not that the root stores adding Amazon's root certs are doing anything nefarious: it's simply that Microsoft should improve their communication.
Because Google are an advertising company. The company that we call Google is also the heir of Doubleclick.
I'll be extremely disappointed if this type of content starts to get airtime on HN. Save it for Reddit.

Ridiculous.
Model checkers are not "better", but if you want to use formal methods in the industry, today, chances are you'll be using a model checker.
Interesting read of the introduction - and very good points. Perhaps yew was also way too hard to come by / expensive for the Scottish?

Also, it does make sense that training long term military personel was reserved to the ruling feudal class. Still, producing a longbow compatible population (of strong, loyal) men might have had other costs then political ones. Precision wise, a longbow is not a real tournament weapon - and you needed tall, strong men to wield it.
> Working for an employer has nothing to do with the extravagantly wealthy.

You're very right about this, it was wrong of me to describe the purpose of the operation as being that of making someone rich. The purpose is to maximise profits for the employer – which can lead to extreme wealth or poverty, depending on your success. Besides, in order to appreciate how shit a situation is for someone it is irrelevant to know whether someone else is profiting from it. So thanks for pointing that out.

> Working a job tends to make people better off [...] It's strictly better for the homeless to have one more job opportunity, than one fewer.

I think this is wishful thinking. The article actually points out that this is not true: getting this job actually made the situation worse for a lot of them.

> but are you prepared to provide them yourself?

As a pauper myself, I am not. I don't have the resources to do so.

> to criticize those who do something positive

As I tried to show before, good intentions was not what motivated Amazon to offer jobs to these people. Also, leaving someone worse off than before is not what I would call a positive outcome. So this cannot be my position.

> By demonizing companies that offer jobs to poor people or the homeless,

I definitely did not mean to demonise Amazon. I pointed out in my last comment that this was a feature of our world, not a feature of a particular company. That's the saddest thing of this whole story: Amazon acted completely rationally, and it's easy to see how it almost had no choice but to use up these homeless people and then throw them away. Not because it's evil, but because that's what's required of it as a company. If Amazon stops churning out profits, it won't be a company for much longer.

> you're committing the fallacy called the Copenhagen Interpreation of Ethics.

Nitpick: what you call the Copenhagen Interpreation of Ethics is not a fallacy, there's no logic involved here since it relates to people's moral values. It's a phenomenon at best. But once again, the point was not to say that Amazon is evil; the point is to say this world is broken.
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Yet a doctor can travel between countries who agree to have "equivalence" between qualifications.

Law obviously makes sense when so much is state specific, I'd be less convinced by nursing.
I like to think I am very conscious of copyright. I might not always adhere to it in my person life (who can claim they do these days?!) but professionally, everything is done strictly legitimately. With that in mind... Am I the only person who is slightly uncomfortable with the phrasing around PD and CC0? With other copyright licenses there is somebody there is saying they own something.

I'm particularly uncomfortable with Flickr's "no known copyright restrictions". What if people infer PD from that and upload it somewhere else under CC0? Then it gets sucked into this finda.photo? Yuck.

As for finda.photo, why are you truncating the source down to just a domain name?! Many of the sources include proper uploader details so why aren't you copying those over and displaying them?

I know you're not required to, but attribution isn't a bad thing if you can give it. I for one would be much happier using a photo if I knew exactly where it came from.
Like all things in life, higher abstraction level of Haskell is not free. The price is more complex language (which many people don't have the capacity to properly learn) and less predictable runtime behaviour.
You can look at it as paying for access, or you can look at it as revenue share.
Apple Hires Another Big Name for Virtual Reality Push
> An example of 'unreal' code would be me spending a weekend trying to write Goodstein's Theorem in Coq. 'Real' code would be a web app written in Perl.

I doubt that "web app written in Perl" will be a realistic target for provably-correct code in, say, the next decade. It's much more likely that, as the cost of verification decreases, critical components will start becoming verified. For example, the core routines of encryption libraries, network schedulers, payment systems, etc.

Even so, some properties (e.g. memory safety) can be proven at the language level. That way, by verifying a Perl interpreter, we automatically verify every "web app written in Perl" for free ;)
Why degrade something when you found something else that you think is better?

The game of one-upping doesn't raise the quality of the discussion.

- Chuck Norris
I think it's a long and complicated story. Some credit Clinton with it, others say Gingrich's did far more. Maybe partly it was luck due to the swings and roundabouts of the economic cycle. To be honest I think politicians can't really control these things, the best they can do is cause as little harm as possible. Even positive policies simply create the conditions for the economy to improve. They don't actually make it improve.
Oracle is really letting out Google secrets. First Android earnings, now this. Both said not to be public knowledge. Google going to go after oracle now?
I expected a new speech synthesis or something. Rather dissapointed :/
> so forgive me if I'm not willing to throw them under the bus for at least trying to help

It's not Amazon I want to throw under the bus. They did what any rational player would do in their situation. What I want to throw under the bus is the situation itself, aka, how we organise our world.
You may find that the relationship between birth rate and standard of living is the opposite of what you described.

We actually have some pretty good existing examples to draw from to conclude this. Japan has arguably the highest standard of living, but also a decreaseing birth rate.

Women in Australia and America are having children later in life, and having fewer of them as well.

Meanwhile in developing countries where access to birth control and education are more limited, birth rates are sky high.
Flagged. This is a video that was posted shortly after the first version came out. From the tesla announcement: "Tesla requires drivers to remain engaged and aware when Autosteer is enabled. Drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel."

It's not news, and it's stupid behaviour - risking both his and others' lifes
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Indeed, things you think are salty are not the foods you get most your salt intake from. The biggest source of salt in your diet is actually often bread! Typical store-bought bread is around 0.75g of salt per 100g. Several EU countries recommend a daily intake of 250g of bread, which gives you the same amount of salt as a 100g bag of potato chips.
I read an interview with Andrew Ng, a well known Chinese AI research that works for Baidu. He talked about his work on speech recognition. And how it's such a big deal in China. I guess they use it a lot more than in the US. That makes more sense in the context of this article.
I don't agree. An iPhone without search is a really poor smartphone. An iPhone without Kik is not a poor smartphone.

Few people consider yahoo or bing search comparable in quality to google.

So what parent finds odd, is that Apple is asking the best in class to pay them, to improve their product.
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Yes, I had to check as after posting the initial message I remembered seeing a child walking a ferret on a lead in Penryn. I've never seen one wandering the streets of Oxford though...

They don't appear to make it into the top 10 pets of 2014: http://www.pfma.org.uk/pet-population-2014

Perhaps a ferret adoption drive is necessary! http://ferretshelters.org/
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I must have gone blind, thank you :)
>It is not straightforward at all. Most homeless people suffer from a mental illness.

Unsurprisingly unemployment and homelessness and being told that it's all your fault causes mental illness, especially when combined with attempts to self medicate with drugs or alcohol.

>The notion that the owners of capital would want to have homeless people is absurd. The "capitalists" would like everyone to be working, as higher production means more profits for them.

More unemployed + homeless

=> More afraid workers

=> Workers who are willing to take a lower wage

=> Higher profits

The notion that higher production automatically leads to higher profits is pretty comical.
Would you elaborate a bit? You may have a point, but your comment is too generic. I thought that the story, and especially the presentation, was interesting, and it was sober. What didn't you like?