skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phonetic alphabets have strong precedents - and have had strong backers - in English as well. See the Shavian alphabet[1] for a relatively recent example. Others were drawn up by such as Benjamin Franklin and Sir Isaac Pitman, famed for his shorthand.

One of the greatest impediments to these systems was that, while pronunciation may be picked up from spelling in a so-called phonemic system (assuming a bog-standard means of determining stress, which English doesn't have), spelling does not always follow from pronunciation - not unless you happen to speak precisely the English that the standards body prefers. English phonology, particularly when it comes to vowels, varies so wildly from place to place that any new, purportedly simpler system will be met with resistance from the majority of speakers to whom the system seems to be wrong, messy, and arbitrary. As a simple and common example, that of 'Mary, merry, and marry': do you collapse these three vowels, as many English speakers do, thus frustrating those who would like to make the distinction in print; or do you retain the three and in doing so create three new arbitrary-seeming spellings for words that to many speakers are homophones? Do you, as in Shavian, retain an R at the ends of "star" and "mother," or do you bow to common British pronunciations and excise these in spelling as in speech - something another phonetician, Henry Sweet[2], would have recommended?

(We see something similar in the promotion of and resistance to new programming languages: fixing some problems is not always enough to attract adopters away from a language which is at least doing the job. Imperfections stand out in novel tools, even if other improvements have been made and the imperfections are nothing new.)

Shorthand authors were well aware of the difficulties in teaching a "phonography," or phoneme-based system, to a duplicitous student body. This is one of the reasons that many English shorthand systems do away with almost all vowels, except perhaps to indicate where the vowel occurs and what broad family of like sounds it belongs to. Of course, eliminating vowels is one of the best ways to promote speed in writing; but there was also the problem that, where writing a vowel was desired (e.g. to differentiate 'tarp' from 'trap'), not all students will agree on which symbol ought to be used for each vowel sound - the sound varying from person to person, even within the same county or town. These shorthand systems were left ambiguous on purpose, so that teaching speed might be improved alongside writing speed. No need for a student to learn whether the first vowel in 'father' is indeed the same as the one in 'bought' - and from whose mouth, anyway?

It is possible that in an IPA-based system, English spelling may differ from person to person as widely as pronunciation does. Surely, however, that would make things more difficult for second-language learners than having to contend with one standard that happens to be riddled with inconsistencies? (Or perhaps not?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sweet
Wow, this article sounds like the perfect invite to not work too hard in life and just cruise by. Thanks! Thats just what more American's need, a reason not to work!

And yes, I read the comments here about working hard, then letting the chips fall where they may. But that was not the message of the article. It was just one line smashed between a bunch of crap about accepting where you are in life. WTF is this junk?

If your life sucks, make it better. No one will do it for you. Period.
I still can't find anything better to program to than Nujabes. I'm going to give this a genuine shot, but Jun Seba really left his mark on me for life. I find myself listening to his albums and songs at least twice a day.

I think it's because of his repetitive beats, smooth strings and soft instrumentation. There's a reason there are 10 hour 'homework' edits on youtube for almost all of his songs.

Counting Stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-tTmSY4m4M

Voice of Autum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvcQWJaaQDw

Arurian Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6E9WMM0vko
On VR: Medical uses, though niche, have deep pockets and there is a desperate need for VR there.

75% of children that experience an ICU still have PTSD (among other problems) 90 day after discharge. The DoD funded Bravemind project (Oculus Rift with a clinical 'wizard of Oz'-type iPad interface) has shown real progress for PTSD treatment. Maybe the Bravemind for children stuck in ICU can reduce psychosis, need for anti-depressants with co-morbidities, and general depression for these children. Meningitis patients and those about to undergo organ donation are isolated for a long period in-hospital; boredom doe not help their recovery at all. Imagine a hololens in a long term ICU situation. Suddenly this room that is filled with wires, beeping machines, scary stuff even to adults, it can become fun, it can become 'their' ICU. Think a boggart from Harry Potter, what is scary is now funny. Mario or Iron Man is now dancing on the ventilator. Imagine the healing that can come from bedridden patients that can take a walk in their backyards again, that can play again with their dogs.

The applications for surgeons are great as well. With VR they can see with more than just small holes and the tips of endoscopes. The vascular system comes out at them in real time and in real dimensions. Now the nurses can see what is going on with a patient's womb as labor is progressing from across the hospital and behind walls. The education is also great. Now a patient herself can better understand what is going on with her body. She can see what the doctor is telling her, and not be confused with jargon or a typo in a take-home sheet. And this can all be personalized to the patient themself.

Children's Hospital Colorado services from the Canadian to the Mexican border; it's Flight For Life air ambulances are the best in the world. A little birdy has mentioned to me that in late April there may or may not be a 'push' for VR in medicine announced there. Hopefully we can help heal these children better in this new future.

How do you think VR can be use in Medicine? I would love to hear ideas from HN.
I'm Gen X. I did a ton of pretty crappy jobs in my early 20's while I worked out what I wanted. Building site labouring, warehouse picking, farm work, retail work, you name it I did it. During that time, on the wages I earned from those jobs, I could afford to rent a (small and pretty crappy) place to live, eat 3 meals a day, maintain a car (though I ended up ditching it in favour of public transport) and have some money left over for entertainment.

I never needed to work multiple jobs, and while I was never able to take holidays or be extravagant, it was an OK life.

I was in the UK rather than the US, but I'm not sure that makes any difference.

When did we accept that life in your early 20's needed to be so hard?
To be fair, taxi drivers are also self employed, usually don't get health insurance or vacation either. Uber isn't "changing that game" in the private car-for-hire business.
I agree. Their website is just a bitstream sent down the tube. How it's rendered is totally not their business. If I wanted to use Lynx to render everything in text or use that's my prerogative.
The newest strategy for saving bees is really, really old
Nice job Andrew. So that's what the big secret was at Cluecon! :)
While this is is nice, the main breakthrough of CoeLux is the simulation of Rayleigh scattering, not just a bright diffused light.
SEO (the white hat kind) is one such alternative.
So... something like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ

It's scary just how much Minority Report has predicted has come true. It's almost like the movie gave advertisers a playbook.
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> Why do you need global search?

You must not be a twitter power user, global search is one of its most powerful feature. You can know what's happening anywhere in the world about any topic in real time.
Excluding Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, is Yahoo unprofitable?
Whatever it is, I hope they have a solution for the issue of different focus for overlay and reality. Basically I won't use it if I get a headache.

http://www.osa-opn.org/home/articles/volume_26/february_2015...
We did a lot of this in our compilers class. A lot of fun.
The book is architected around three exceptionally rich (and well-studied) examples: wolves, elephants, and dolphins (esp., killer whales). But he spends a great deal of time on other species (birds, fish, and yes, insects) and you would be missing the point of the book to think he's only talking about "higher" species.

Read the book -- it really is mind-altering.
I can't tell whether some of these pictures are photos or renderings.
English authorities tried light touch regulation, and companies like Google and Vodaphone a used the fuck out of it.

Google's illegal (because that's what it was) scheme got shut down, and the light touch regulation means it's hard to fine them, or even take them through court.

Too many people in this thread are claiming that what Google was doing is legal - it wasn't, which is why they've stopped doing it and repaid (albeit a tiny amount of) tax.
Man, if this is happening right now whilst the world demand for oil is high, what's going to happen to them when demand is lessened due to new technology?
1983? He'd get in after his first try, with "password".
I work in tech and I am not supported by ads. If you are in tech and are supported by ads, find a different line of work in tech.

If you work in tech the first thing you should do is take the moral argument and throw it out the window. Moral systems of obligation do not work well on the net. You run into one of two conditions quickly. The first is immoral operators/providers will push moral operators out of business (free services where you are spied on by unknown agents, but the spies pay for your usage, such as free email has been for years). Or, immoral users sharing other people's work for free. Some of them want to share everything freely. Other just want to share work that is difficult to find legally. Paid services don't work well because they quickly become fragmented leaving the user to buy Youtube Red, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc because each content producer wants to maximize their profits. Digital piracy succeeded because of its utility. There is low to no cost to the end user and the end product had more utility than the paid product. Pirated movies didn't have ads. They could be played on more players. They didn't have country content restrictions. DRM didn't randomly fail. They by definition are a product of a free market competing with other piracy groups.

Of course Hollywood has a huge amount of power and has the FBI as their lapdog to prevent their product from being infringed. The ad industry does not. You will see more of a push for them to push ad blocking as a type of legal infringement.
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I'm in NZ and bought my 6P from the Google store and it arrived safely 3 days later. I think it got shipped from Singapore (?)

I was a little worried Customs would stop it and try to charge me some kind of duty but nope :)

Nexus 6P is amazing, SO much better than my Galaxy S3
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You're reaching very very far. It's not so much the value of life as much as the life experiences pain and suffering. I'm done here.
How dare she complain about the meager scraps she's been thrown. The nerve! If she wanted a good job, she should have racked up a lot of dept and rolled the dice. You can't blame employers for paying minimum wage when there are so many desperate people who will take her place after all. That would be unamerican! AmIRight?
IPs are still visible. And when you can tie IPs to individual households, addresses, and credit card information there's a lot of information to be gained.
Omg yes the experience resetting a phone with 2FA is hilariously bad. I get an SMS I can't read!

Although for me the factory reset did fix my post-upgrade performance failings... But I'm just using a moto g 2.

That said, the space gobbling is making 8GB stock in value-priced devices ludicrous. I can barely fit all the stock software, much less 3rd-party apps.

Thanks so much for not letting me uninstall hundreds of MB in international keyboards I'll never use - yay, pinyin.
Man that stuff is amazing. You/this comment is exactly why I read comments. GREAT STUFF.
it's like seeing the same situation in all developing nations but not as bad as Saudi Arabia.

We no longer have any guarantees that our parents had. We no longer have the resources or lack of debt from our previous generation of careless expenditure.

In lot of ways millenials are fucked, but looks like more so for countries that put all their eggs in one basket.
Without more data, I'll take Yahoo over 90% of these companies. Unicorns: https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies
Yes, but that has advantages of its own including you can speak more concisely in Spanish. Thus even that isn't a complete negative and it's probably Spanish's most difficult aspect to learn. English is going to lose to Spanish in a linguistic head-to-head on almost all fronts other than the fact it's more popular (a big deal in itself but that's not what we're discussing).

As someone who speaks both, and picked up Spanish later on in life (post-30), the fact I appreciate Spanish more as a language is a testament to its great design.
It gets worse,

>90 percent of government revenues are from oil; 70 percent of working Saudis are employed by the government

I don't think they've worked out the problem of stable succession either, given that every change in King has been from a brother to another[0], rather than to a son.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Saudi_Arabia#Kings_of_...
I find it super difficult to find the tools to do that. There are no courses for it no books, and people don't tell you that you're pronouncing something wrong because they think it would be unpolite.

I'd love to hear some tips on how to work on improving my accent. I moved to Sweden 10 years ago and Swedish is my 4th language.
I wonder if taught English is more standardised than native English. I can certainly think of things I hear regularly that might surprise even a native speaker. Couple of examples:

- The informal form of 'you' persists to some extent in parts of Yorkshire - "Where are you going?" often becomes "Where's tha goin'?"

- There is slang that I rarely hear outside of my immediate family (though I suspect it's more common than I realise) - "seef" for example (from "see if"), "I was seeing if it was in the car" is almost always "I was seefing it was in the car"
It's not a question of technology - the technology is impressive. I think the argument is that their aren't legitimate use cases outside of gaming.
Sounds like it was an interesting social experiment with all that money over several decades.

"70 percent of working Saudis are employed by the government; and even the private sector remains heavily dependent on government spending."
Press a tiny button on the G5's edge and the bottom and battery easily separate from the phone.

Incidentally, several years ago Chinese manufacturer Jiayu made an iPhone-looking phone also called the G5 and having a dedicated button to release the back cover:

http://amirexpress.ir/index.php?route=product/product&produc...
4B in annual revenue.
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Succession is especially complicated since the King may take any number of wives, meaning there are a lot of brothers in line.
Oh thanks, usually HN catches double-posts as an upvote, but I didn't notice it was already submitted with a slightly different URI.
Given the money they'll have to pay her to remove her, she's sitting pretty. She'll never have to work again.

Nice job if you can get it. You don't even need to be accountable!
One of the reviews I saw said the rebooting time was pretty fast
"Gets the stupid work done so you can actually make something." I really like that line. I hate boilerplates in general but that line just draws me in to use it.
Let's say we pick a random person and make them learn a completely unrelated language. Sometimes they will learn faster than others, like Spanish or Swahili vs English or Mandarin. Why would we expect them all to be the same difficulty?
While not quite phones, some Thinkpads have precisely the battery arrangement you describe.
Generally, I just tend to end up talking about things that can't be trivially fact-checked. YMMV I guess
It was a very slow moving ship.
What do you mean that wasn't super realistic. People have figured out peoples passwords and security questions by researching their target. Its basic social engineering.
Come on, this is penny pinching.

Amazon charges 1/50,000th of a penny per 100ms, so 1 second is still 1/5000th of a penny. You need 5000 seconds so well over an hour (90 minutes) to pay Amazon a measly 1 cents for an hour of their resources.
Good to know it is just this organization having the awful ideas. ;)

Btw- I've worked with some great Dutch developers and am in awe of all of the talent there from the things I've seen over the years. The language isn't bad either. :) Just saying it's a mutt language like English, but mutts are good things. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
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I use these for coding/studying all the time. If you download all of them and put them on shuffle you basically have ~40 hours of music to jump into at any given moment.
Yes it does matter. It's presence, and the interactive responsiveness between participants. Loading a script / playing a script won't have that. What you're describing will be the new bot, and identifying them will be like having street smarts.
> You can't blame employers for paying minimum wage

Some jobs pay more than others. Some jobs pay less than others. Unless you are arguing for completely equal pay then some people are going to have jobs that pay less than other people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
I had an S3 which never received a single update; was on Android 4.1.2 until I finally replaced the phone recently.

I suspect it was my carrier's fault (Spark NZ) not Samsung. After that experience I switched to Nexus 6P, and won't be using any phone in which the carrier gets to install any kind of software :)
Planet Money did a recent podcast about the situation http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/03/465476188/episo...
Blockchain makes everyone store a copy of the whole twitterverse on their hard drive. In 2013, Twitter said they were storing 22 megs/second, that's 57 terabytes/month. It may have doubled since then.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw...
Sadly they write little substantial about the internal construction principle so I'm making an educated guess:
Based on the pictures one can see that relatively hard shadows are created as expected by a point-like light source (like a far away sun). Also in the movie it can be seen that the 'sun' moves with the camera when the camera moves.
The hard shadows would be created if all light emitting the 'window' are almost parallel, which would require some kind of optics. So I'm guessing that the 'skylight' is made of a slightly curved backside supporting a large number of white LEDs. Each LED then would have a small lense so that all light is emitted within a very narrow angle. The slight curvature of the backside would then lead to the apparent movement of the light-source if the camera moves. (Because one would look into the opening angle of a different portion of the LEDs)
The blue color itself is a layer of nano-particles leading imitating Rayleigh scattering of the atmosphere.
2006 decree makes it such that next King is elected by a counsel of Princes.
She spent all right. A fortune on her pay and perks, and a hell of a lot on parties!
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Lot of things scatter. There is probably something cheaper than $35,000 per light.

Maybe milk could be used? :)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wyj6iHUndhg/UXpUk6HxfLI/AAAAAAAACu...

http://thestandardmodel.blogspot.com/2013/04/when-i-was-chil...

It feels like they charge so much not because there would be some principal engineering / technical obstacle but simply because they can. They have been the first who realized something like this can be done (now that LED lighting progressed so far) and for rich customers this is a feature that's highly desirable, so they are willing to pay so much.

They do have a good marketing. Their business model depends on others thinking there is some special magic.

I had to see that reddit post to even start questioning that something like this could be replicated.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

Try saying that in Japanese or Chinese. Not the same effect.
I had the same reaction until I read the article. I think it's the type of objects and the small room that looks a lot like the ones used in rendering demos that gave me that same impression. Just waiting for them to put a glass of water to show transparency or something similar ;p
Yellow pages? Somewhere you go search for the information you need, when you need it, with noone showing it down your throat. Examples are Amazon, Ebay, (ad-less) Google, ...
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"If she wanted a good job, she should have racked up a lot of dept and rolled the dice"

Nice straw man.
You could perhaps just let that huge burden and pressure go, and just not work so hard. Maybe not even care about so many things in the world. Stop sacrificing and take some time to pamper yourself. Even if you have no money, just go out with a few buddies and party. Or save up some money, and go on a road trip. I know it's good to have "goals" in life, and aim high, but sometimes that mindset can be unhealthy if things don't work out. Sometimes you just gotta shrug, and say 'screw it', I'm going to start having fun in this life, and forget about goals.
Maybe she is complaining too much but when I was in my twenties people actually were paid OK money even for "low-end" jobs (even startups offered better stock options compared to now). I think it's just disrespectful when a company pays its people starvation wages. I guess this is another side effect of inequality: Companies want their workers for free while spending insane amounts on offices, executives and buying other companies.

Together with student loans, sky-high house prices and employers wanting them to work for almost free, I understand that people in their twenties are down on the system.
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This seems like a non-sequitur. A Saudi crisis due to cheap oil, but cheap oil is a result of increased Saudi oil production, to squash American and other shale extractors…?
Perhaps this will spell the end of the Saudi drift scene [1][2], which is ridiculous anyway.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafheet

[2]https://youtu.be/6yPIBKOQnTI
They are capable of making world class products still that drive revenue. Their fantasy football UI is the best IMO, and they managed to use that platform to drive their daily fantasy gambling that they have tied to it. Hopefully they could repeat it for Yahoo Banking etc.
Not a native speaker, but I speak Mandarin.

I'd say it's because to a Mandarin speaker A.P.P is easier to pronounce than 'app' (Mandarin doesn't have any syllables that end with a p sound, but it does have syllables that start with p).

There's also a history of 3 letter acronyms imported from English, such as DVD, VCD, MP3 which are all pronounced letter by letter and even though APP is not an acronym, to a native speaker it fits a similar pattern.