skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being bilingual is just another proxy for a middle class or higher upbringing.

... or you could be raised by immigrants who continue to speak their mother tongue at home while the children learn English (or whatever else is the primary language) via TV/School/Public. There's nothing higher upbringing about retaining your parents' culture. If anything, it's more associated with lower class families.
My mother died from breast cancer, so yes, cancer is fucking scary. So is JavaScript, which is metastasizing into nearly every other application domain in IT, including the mobile space, the server side, the Internet of Things, video gaming, etc. I've made it my personal mission to evangelize against this language. (Previously, I was a Smalltalk evangelist.)
Microsoft TLS 1.2 downgrade bug and how it was fixed
I still don't think it will happen. Worst case scenario, someone's gonna make a very nice deal when buying them.
What alarms me is the amount of Teslas, Mercedes-AMG M models and other kind of extremely expensive cars parked in their parking lots and in the area surrounding their HQ here in Berlin. In the last one and a half year I've witnessed such a crescendo of the car show-off level that's I'm worried about their paychecks politics. An average salary of ~80k/y, as reported in the linked piece, explains a lot.
reposting/finding/sharing/curating content

You mean, stealing content from others, right?
In Québec, a number of people believe that being bilingual is merely an excuse to not learn French, and thus they feel that bilingualism encroaches upon French. They reason that if you see a sign that is both in English and French, then you'll feel no need to learn French, and thus French would lose ground. Since there is English all around Québec, English is in no similar peril.

There may be some merit to this theory, in view of the fate of Welsh or Gaelic in the British Isles, or of French in Louisiana or the Canadian Maritimes. It may well be that Québec's stubbornness against English is the only thing that is keeping the language alive. Even so, I wish that true bilinguals, of which there are many, especially in the Montréal area, would not become the collateral damage of this fight.
It's pretty much as Velox and bbrazil said.

You can use "low-coherence interferometry" to measure tiny signals that would be undetectable otherwise. Combine a "reference" beam with a "signal" beam and you get a measurable interference pattern, even when the magnitude of the signal beam is miniscule.

This is what a real-life interference pattern looks like (I just acquired this from an actual interferometer illuminating a painted metal surface):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30682604/fringe_signal.p...

This is now an established medical imaging method (Optical Coherence Tomography) to create 3d scans of biological tissue. It can also be used to measure distance or elevation changes on a surface of anything from a micrometer-level scale to a planetary surface. All you need is to use light with the right wavelengths and two measurements "arms" of roughly the same length.
Depends a lot on where you live. Live in a lower class Hispanic neighborhood? Both English and Spanish would be pretty essential.
Europe’s exascale supercomputer prototype comes ARMed to the core
Agree. The article could just as well be written about any other successful high-growth company. Continued survival will require further capital investment...no sh@*t! Obviously the author is just trolling for views. If SC announces another round, and then turns a profit in 3 years, someone will write another article about their "amazing turnaround".
"Forced to close" is a really, really big stretch here.

They have a huge community, play an important role in online music, and have a seemingly excellent engineering team. I'm sure they would be acquired by a major media player long before they ever closed, but I don't see that happening any time more. I bet they'll just double-down and raise more money while trying to develop more subscription revenue offerings to music consumers.
What would you consider to be a viable alternative?
I believe that's almost completely false.

My wife was raised in a country where one language was spoken in the house, but she was taught at school in a completely different language. Absolutely nothing to do with being middle class or having a higher upbringing. It was mandated by the State that she be taught in one language, but they couldn't force a local population to completely change their mother tongue in the home and in private.

There are many other situations I can imagine, and know of first hand, where people of all socio-economic levels speak more than one language.

The only time I can think bilingualism may be such a proxy is in a largely mono-linguistic culture.
HPKP will accept if any of the fingerprints match -- I was wondering how I could transition certificates when using it, and hadn't noticed that fact. So to transition to a new certificate, specify the fingerprint of the old AND new certificates, for at least as long as the max-age. You can also specify the fingerprint of any certificate in the trust chain. I plan on pinning the let's encrypt certificate, instead of the specific certificates let's encrypt issues, and trusting let's encrypt to implement the domain validation correctly.
Describing People as Particles Isn’t Always a Bad Idea
there are two excerpts from their financial accounts in there if that makes you any happier (and justifies my use of the plural :) one from the P&L and one from the staffing section

The article is working on what's publicly available (there's a surprise), as they can hardly work on what Soundcloud hasn't released! My guess would be that if Soundcloud had managed to get into profitability that quickly then soundcloud would've got a press release out to say that.

edit - didn't realise they were a UK company. So the full accounts and company filing history are https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06343600/filing-h...

definitely their cash position at the end of 2014 was not of the best...
> While SoundCloud brought in €17.35m ($15.37m) in 2014, it lost a total of €39.14m ($44.19m). Employee wages during that period also increased 42.5% to €17.9m, meaning that the average wage per employee for that year totalled €79,980.

Wow, that is ridiculously high, especially so for Berlin.
The initial commenter said just that, by comparing 18th century indian share of world trade etc with that after british rule - asserting that the difference is entirely because of British actions. That's what I was disputing.

We actually don't know if India would have been worse or better off without Britain's influence, and we can't possibly know.

Your data is not relevant to this discussion. I'm aware that Britain treated India as a vassal state and don't dispute it, I'm not sure what you think your data proves but it isn't anything I have argued.

I'd suggest that Germany didn't have colonies because it didn't industrialise and didn't unify itself politically until late in the game and therefore did not have the ability to project power, not that it didn't industrialise because it didn't have colonies - that's a pretty bizarre interpretation of history, once again.

"What can I make up on the hoof to support my notion that Britain is uniquely evil and all of India's ills are 100% the fault of Britain" is not a credible position.
The auditor has clearly stated that it has doubts about the company as a 'going concern'. This is a technical term in auditing that implies the auditor has doubts that the company will survive (i.e, will have to liquidate) another twelve months. It's not a willy nilly "growing company is losing money" type statement, it means there is a fundamental problem in how the company is financed and operated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_concern
absolutely wonderful! the list of projects on the site is definitely worth a visit. http://www.stupidhackathon.com/
We converted an Access front-end connected to a SQL Server instance and rebuilt the front-end with Rails to have a internal website for data entry and Tableau to automate reports. Highly recommend.
All the sites that have predicted youtube as unprofitable assume google is paying standard bandwidth rates, with the peering arrangements they have with ISPs of virtually any size, they pay next to nothing to reach 95% of end users.
Have you looked at https://hearthis.at already?
While SoundCloud brought in €17.35m ($15.37m) in 2014, it lost a total of €39.14m ($44.19m). Employee wages during that period also increased 42.5% to €17.9m, meaning that the average wage per employee for that year totalled €79,980

Seems like a pretty generous wage increase for a company in the red.
I thought it was supposed to be worth more than Spotify a few weeks ago? [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10965558
Wow, I'm very impressed, surprised this works so well. Any chance we can get Exile 3: Ruined World added to this? Probably my favorite Windows 3.1 game and the full version is now available for free from the developer.

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/exile3/winexile3.html

Actually, if I can do it myself I'll look into it tonight, there's a few titles I could upload like this if possible...
wild speculation or a broken press embargo?

press conference is streamed in an hour here: https://youtu.be/zyo4DFr4D4I
Rooftop Solar Providers Face a Cloudier Future
Last time I checked it's much cheaper to get document scanner with ADF built together with a laser printer than to buy one standalone. I was quite surprised.
Physicist here. You're off base.

a) Saying "gravitational waves don't shake the mirrors, it's length contraction" is as confused as saying "the Sun doesn't pull on the Earth, it bends spacetime around it". In each case, you're describing the same mechanism with different words. The whole point of the equivalence principle is that gravitational forces are equivalent to changing the local inertial frame. Ultimately, the Einstein field equations are what they are, but both types of description in words are correct (and inexact).

b) Virgo and GEO600 didn't detect gravitational waves. LIGO did.
The claim that Subversion or CVS would have killed Linux is rather questionable, given that projects like FreeBSD have been chugging along using them for decades. That's not to say Git isn't a big improvement, but I don't think it's essential.
SpiritJS – Easily animate objects on the web
No mention of how British colonials were drinking it to cover up the awful taste of quinine, taken to combat malaria.
We use clipboard.js in our product, it was the perfect replacement for flash copy. I highly recommend it, our users were none the wiser when we swapped it out.
Link to book content: https://basarat.gitbooks.io/typescript/content/
VLC does all sorts of things that are prohibited by the MAS. For a start you wouldn't be able to open a video file and have VLC automatically pick up an adjacent subtitles file.

A lead VLC dev listed a bunch of the issues here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7039737

I agree about the store app itself being awful
On my machine it is only cask.
They don't use reporting.
You're correct about MAS apps stopping when the certificate expires. Several of my purchased MAS apps were broken to the point of being unusable when Apple's MAS certificate expired [1]. It happened in mid November 2015, but Apple didn't completely fix it until the end of January 2016 [2].

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/12/mac-app-store-apps-damag...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT205702
Leading Remotely: Going from Abstract Goals to Measurable Results
Check out subBlue's work http://sub.blue/fractal-lab
How Fraud Proofs May Improve SPV Node Security in Bitcoin
No need to guess! You're right, A and C are closest - (A-C) shows fewer differences than (B-C). Here are the diffs for the images (with C-C as a sanity check):

http://i.imgur.com/GQGLE61.jpg

As other commenters have said, C is just the highlight-free version of A, which the diffs fairly clearly show.

EDIT: For reference, here's A-B.

http://i.imgur.com/DW8TL7A.jpg
> But so far no one has seen a disadvantage either. Right?

No, researchers have found disadvantages to bilingualism. Bilinguals tend to know fewer words in their first language than monolinguals [1]. Bilinguals also experience more tip-of-the-tongue moments [2,3] and are slower in picture-naming tasks than monolinguals [2].

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201306/d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_of_the_tongue#Effects_of_b...

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862226/
I have a strong belief in heartis.at as the new soundcloud and baboom.com as the real marketplace (which disrupts the industry).
"When groups of figures are spelled out, the chance of an error in transmission is reduced to a minimum."

I guess its easier for the receiving operator to detect the error in "One Thosand" compared to "100" when coming over in serial (Original message being "One Thousand" and "1000" respectively).
There is a very bitter fight over it.

In Quebec the law forces children to go through school in French. A great deal of tech companies have fled and a great deal of innovation in general has fled. No one would move to SV if their children were forced to suffer through school in a complete foreign language.
And from the SF one held last May: https://stupidhackathon.github.io/
When I learn something, I ask a question on Stack Overflow and I answer it myself, which is perfectly allowed and encouraged. The advantage with putting it on Stack Overflow is that I get corrections or better answers over time.
We don't have enough data yet, but seems to work better on people who use the computer often. Older demo or people who are on the go constantly, prefer phone calls obviously.

As far as disadvantages, this is not a replacement to email or phone, it's more to get faster the call/meeting. You let people chose how to get in touch first and chat has much less friction than phone calls...

You can also use it to warm up leads
I would add university notes. I was really clumsy with mine but my gf has all her notes for all the classes from uni. It takes up two large shelves, it's freaking massive. We want to scan it but it's a huge task.
I don't know a huge amount about language design, compiler implementatin, etc. However, a personal anecdote - One of the bigger surprises for me when I was beginning programming was that better hardware couldn't compensate for my flaws as a software developer.

I created a script that migrated data to a new system. The script took 48 hours to run, and we needed to do it over a weekend. The lead dev was unhappy with the performance. I suggested we just use a more powerful machine, and he gave me permission, but said it wouldn't help. I can't remember the specs of the machine, but it was double/triple as expensive as the original machine.

It improved performance only marginally. I went through my scripts, and started to debug it, looking for problems. Optimising my scripts easily doubled or tripled the speed.
I think there is an elephant in the room here. There is no easy way to have a control subject.

Each person they test has a unique set of abilities and intelligence level.

My children are bilingual, and I know many other families that have children who are being brought up in a bilingual environment.

I have an example of a bilingual child that didn't say anything almost at all until they were 2.5 years old. My daughter has language skills that are advanced for her age in comparison to her monolingual peers of the same age. But she is just bright (parental bias I know). My younger son appears to be improving even faster, but then he has a bilingual older sibling, so that isn't a surprise.

The point is that it all depends on the person, as to how well they can adapt to a bilingual upbringing. They are so many factors involved, that it becomes impossible to categorically compare one person against another. Apples to oranges, every single time.
Just like how we're now writing about Twitter's 'amazing turnaround' after only 10 years of losing money. Oh, wait...
I believe it's actually the arc producing the sound, otherwise the cable would make the noise regardless of the presence of the arc.

Whether that's what jacquesm is referring to or not, idk.
The problem is that now investors are asking themselves more frequently, after a few years of sight-unseen venture investing, if it really makes sense for them to keep funneling money into companies that might never turn a profit, let alone have a profitable exit at the horizon.
The talk around here (let me say that again: "the talk") is that investors are getting tighter and tighter and money is not so easy to get anymore. If you follow the startup scene here you can certainly spot some worrying indicators that confirm that sentiment. Add to the mix that the traditionally conservative German/European investor is reading the same news we're all reading about the imminent burst of the Silicon Valley hyper-valuation bubble.
You don't have to, it has an email fallback
My brother said this one time and I think it applies here. In terms of career success, IQ is the Y Axis you start out at, but hard work is the X axis representing how far you get in that field. It is the responsibility of those high on the Y axis to push just as hard along the X axis. What is success for one person is not success for another, so just set expectations based on things that take hard work as opposed to brute force intelligence. School isn't really an indication either way of future success, of my smartest friends, they typically end up closer to the top of their field, but many failed at school/academic pursuits and got into other lines of work, creative endeavors, etc.
> In Québec, a number of people believe that being bilingual is merely an excuse to not learn French, and thus they feel that bilingualism encroaches upon French.

That's a completely different meaning of bilingualism. The article is about people's bilingualism (so canadian speaking both english and french) not about bilingual signage.
Show HN: AWS config file loader for JavaScript CLI tools
BTW, you can build your own Michelson interferometer (when it was first constructed, it was a technical marvel, involving a large hunk of metal floating on mercury, deep down in a building, and even then the experiment was affected by subtle vibrations): https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=66...
More about this on http://chatpage.io
Show HN: Skim faster with visual summarization
Want to see how Apache Flink and Apache Spark behave? Do it your self
Exactly, why would I refer my friend to a product I haven't even tried yet? That's not how referral works at all, that's how spamming works.
Binding Threads and Processes to CPUs in Rust
But eating radioactive sandwiches and sipping radioactive coffee does cause you to develop superpowers?
Speed Dialer Aims to Profit Off IRS' Terrible Customer Service
The Story of How the State of Michigan Poisoned Flint
What is the difference in the features between the free, basic and standard plans?
Marcobot: the first robot to stand for election as US president
Harbour: A DBase III and Clipper Compiler
What about just take a picture?
But as people have noted, if you don't have the hardware, it's impossible to test that any changes actually work.

If we're just talking about pure refactoring that doesn't change any output, you could test that the generated machine code is identical. But then you have to ask, why isn't there a stable API rather than all this refactoring churn?

I guess this is just the way LLVM and Clang are designed -- all components really tightly coupled together. And it's a successful project so it must be working out for them. But...!
Another poster shared a direct link to the CDN, may help: https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xlt1/v/t42.1790-2/12709279...
How many inches of lead on the ground is considered safe?
Dolphin does have text reflow. There is an option that says 'Auto-fit pages' in advanced settings, which is the same thing as text reflow. That option is the only reason I'm using Dolphin as my mobile browser. I used to use Opera before, but after they switched to Blink, an annoying bug that reloads a tab when it is selected, became a deal breaker for me.
Intro to Basic SIP Architecture
Well, you could get a new Ural 4320 for about 2 million roubles (25K USD):

http://uraltrucks.com/ural-4320-1031-truck/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Ji7D2WT3I
Where is the evidence that Soundcloud is or will have trouble raising money? Pandora just raised $300m in December. Deezer (france) raised €100m less than 2 weeks ago. And Spotify is looking for $500m (just 8 months after raising ~$500m) right now.
Ford is launching an on-demand bus service in Kansas City
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Soundcloud may have good reasons for that...

Anecdotally I see 10x conversion rates in western countries, despite having higher active user counts outside of there.
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Especially given that good talent here in Berlin is much much cheaper. 80k/year scores you some superstar devs, while that's probably the peanuts some out-of-school pre-puberal intern would earn at a Valley startup.

What's really expensive here is management people and the way German hire the mid-level management is broken most of the time. I don't know if it's a German thing or a global corporate thing, but I've personally witnessed some pretty interesting hiring horror stories.
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Browse() function demo: https://harbour.github.io/samples/browse.html
MMIX is fully documented, though. Being an educational platform is a valid reason to be supported.
That does make sense, but I guess what I still don’t understand is how light can be reflected by a mirror (made of atoms) so precicely that it doesn’t hide sub-atomic differences. Won’t the light hit "different atoms" on the mirror, so to speak, thus changing the distance travelled by much more than fractions of the size of a single atom?
> Bialystok is not. “That’s not how science works: You don’t sign a contract to not change anything in your protocol as the research evolves,” she says.

She's unfortunately right -- all too often protocol, hypotheses and analytical technique are changed to fit each other, reach a p-value of 0.05 and achieve publication.

For this reason among many there may indeed be value in sticking to original protocols and having to publish results. Negative and unclear results can be as useful as positive results, and what's ultimately published may end up less biased as well, which would be another plus.
Yup, must be a LOT of money at stake.
"Only has simulators" is very different from "nobody can use". MMIX has value.
Considering techcrunch article was published less than a month ago it is safe to ignore the article.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/24/why-soundcloud-will-be-wort...
So tired of these technically voxel engines but not at all the voxels I remember. Anyone remember Delta Force or Ken Silverman's Voxlap? Those are voxel engines. These Minecraft clones may use the data structure of voxels however they lack the beauty of a true voxel engine. (I think Delta Force faked some of it's voxels, but I digress.)
The way a startup can become a bloated corporation-like structure here in Europe is a surprisingly fast process.
Reposts? They are currently my #1 annoyance on soundcloud.
I'm following 300+ artists and they increased my stream's size by at least 4x.

It's not about "finding, sharing and curating" but to spam your stream with duplicate tracks.

Imagine an artist reposting his own tracks. Then his network does. As does his label. And his friend. And then all of them repost a playlist with this track on it. Yay!

Please give us an option to hide them...