skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: Is encouraging non-native speakers (especially given China's increasing global role) to learn Chinese not a sufficient reason? I understand that you're suspicious, but I have no involvement other than an interest in learning the language in the future.

Perhaps today some/many Chinese look upon Mao's action unfavorably, but if it improves productivity for future generations was it worth it?
Not a bad idea; with practice, that representation could provide approximate time at a glance.

However, the on-off indicators shown here seem more precise, if less readable at a glance. With a bit of additional logic, a clock could translate the current time into a set of lights that could form rudimentary digit representations, providing an instantly readable time. Some rough sketches suggest that around 7 oblong lights or "segments" per digit could form readable, unambiguous decimal digits; the leftmost digit of the hour would only need two of those, making a total of 23 "segments", or more if showing seconds. Somewhat more than the binary version, but far more usable.
Samsung has good hardware, but their software is so bad. I didn't mind because I could root it and install cyanogen. But they made that impossible to do on the S4. That's just malicious. I'm convinced their software engineers have a competition to see who can write the worst code without getting fired and get it shipped. Clearly nobody has ever been fired at samsung.

Their awful software combined with their pathological paranoia about people rooting their phones means I'll never buy a samsung product again.
An Apple TV app for this would be great
This Firefox bug has been open for nearly 15 years, and still is
I make a Python extension for SQLite (APSW) and by far the single biggest Microsoft annoyance is the compilers. I support Python 2.3 to 3.5, and see downloads of the binaries for all of those versions (!), both 32 and 64 bit where relevant.

Getting a system setup where each Microsoft Visual Studio version is present, and then having to use the Resource Kits for 64 bit compilers is very painful, and likely impossible to repeat (the various installers randomly disappear). Should I ever lose the system, I'll probably give up on providing Windows binaries.

Microsoft do already provide a small compiler bundle for the most recent version, but that doesn't reflect the user base. I would be delighted if Microsoft provided a more complete compiler bundle (no guis, only enough to keep the various versions of Python happy). Or alternatively do what the IE team did and provide virtual machines preconfigured. That would make supporting Windows a far smaller burden.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11144896
Despite Huawei making it, you can't buy it throughout Asia (or at least China)?
Exactly. Switching between work, family, and personal time became difficuly in the beginning because i literally brought my work home with me.

Luckily i have my wife yo remind me at times.
The pants part sounds interesting... ill try that for a week and see how it goes.
Also would be interested in an iOS app version of this.
Remember that annoying guy who thought Encyclopedia Britannica was his Key to the Information Age? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMpgcz6s-eI
Should EnQ Get to Sell Spots in IRS Phone Queue?
From a security standpoint, allowing a user root access means allowing others to modify the underlying filesystem without validation. This means things like Samsung Pay become vulernable. Tripping the Knox counter is the only way to ensure that the software hasn't been modified by a malicious party. The majority that enjoys using Samsung Pay is a bigger than the minority that benefits from rooting. While the reasons you state are a probably factor, I think security is the biggest reason for the bit.
I found I had to build a whole parallel patch management system to rationally deal with svn. Applying the same patch in multiple branches was a royal PITA in svn; in git, it's trivial.

git status will tell you how to throw away local changes, btw. Depending on the kinds of changes (e.g. edit/delete added, staged or not) need different commands.
With enough artillery and men it actually did work in many cases. The large scale assaults regularly made progress measured in miles. The problem was that you couldn't meaningfully continue an advance or exploit a breakthrough. Once you left your trenches you also left your supply lines. The enemy could respond to any breakthrough with overwhelming force mobilized by their own rails and roads.
When your friend sees your non-factory clean S6, he associates all those custom features with an S6, and not a rooted S6.

Wouldn't the fact that "you can do all these cool things once it's rooted" increase the perceived value and help drive sales and push towards manufacturers making it easier to root? IMHO the big selling point is all the apps, not just what software came with the hardware.
Would you count programming as being in the first item? A lot of what keeps it from being automated is the boundary between the human specification and the machine implementation.
The state of Crop Modelling
Snowed in at NASA, Keeping Watch Over a Space Colossus
I find the signal user interface just great. No really, it's fine. Just use it and recommend it to your friends and contacts.

Full disclosure, I have no association whatsoever with signal, it's just good.
For irony's sake, Ghostery shows this page hitting DoubleClick, New Relic, and Media.Net.

Also, I hope RedMorph is better at engineering than writing web page copy:

Intergrated

Innapropriate

SyderWeb

The manual looks good, however.
I frequently donate directly to needy children. Other worthy causes as well. I don't have a choice when it comes to taxes - a large fraction of them are used for highly immoral purposes. As a moral person I do not support paying more taxes. In fact, I have made major life changes in order to minimize the amount of taxes the government can force me to pay. It's really the only way to bring such a huge out of control government under control - starve it.
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With people I know, that's usually the prompt to jump to a related topic. Long conversations tend to end up looking like collaborative Wikipedia link surfing.
Perfect is the enemy of better.

English has verb conjugations too. Grab, grabbed, grabbing etc. While we do have a few gendered nouns such as blonde vs blond. I will grant you gendered nouns on the whole, but you're still only standing on one leg (gendered nouns) which is a relic but overshadowed by any number of facts in Spanish's favor.

Spanish is mostly phonetic, which for dyslexics makes them easier to learn. This has been proven. The benefits to Spanish over alternatives are long-reaching.

Such as that English is a linguistic island or that Spanish orthography is objectively the best on Earth for natural, world-languages. It was also better put together with the inclusion of the '¿' '¡' marks. It's a fantastic piece of orthography.
As far as being a chore, if I didn't speak English or Spanish, I'd much rather be asked to learn Spanish between the two and would prefer to not waste my time with English or similar nonsensical language.

Mastery in any language is a lifelong effort but Spanish has the linguistic gold standard for its written form. While it's still another language and not 'easy', there are savings on effort and time overall to reach fluency. I speak both daily. In programming terms, it would be just "the best tool for the job".
You're a terrible person - why call me out for being wrong, then when I show you that you are wrong, just vanish? That's un-australian.
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This is why the fun questions are unanswered or ambiguous. You can learn the process, but not the answer.

Its a but more invested though.
In Toronto, Canada, taxis run 24/7 with 2 shifts of drivers.
Insurance costs about $10,000 annually, more or less.
On a per hour basis that = $1.14 per hour. Uber should obtain insurance on their driver fleet on that basis
To be more precise, English uses word order to do what most other Indo-European languages do with declination and conjugation.

The hardest part of learning German was getting used to V2 verb order (or similarly, verbs with separable prefixes). I can understand the rule perfectly fine, but parsing sentences in real time is extremely challenging.
This also varies between English accents. Many American-English accents will pronounce "Mary", "merry", and "marry" the same, but in British-English they all sound different.
I agree this is scaremongering at Uber's expense. I'd like them to be transparent about their interview/hire/employ process.

I understand they do a criminal "background check" and they have a formal interview, just the same as any cab company. Do they only do a criminal background check in the country of their employment? Or do they also run it in countries they've just moved from, etc?
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There's a meme that Obama has been much harsher on whistleblowers than predecessors, but it falls apart on closer inspection:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701813

The most important takeaway is that the sample size on leak prosecutions is very, very low, so happenstance alone can make a President look unusually hostile. Here, it's a combination of happenstance, a shift in media norms, and cases begun under the previous President.
I'm not quite sure what to call it, other than operations research.

People focus a lot on consumer/entertainment applications, but I think heavy and high tech industry will rapidly adopt AR. Imagine a mechanic working their way through an interactive checklist while completing some maintenance task on a jet engine or other complex machinery. Even with hardware as rudimentary as google glass that's useful. But then consider Boeing in the moment that said engine unexpectedly caught fire. Imagine that they can go back and review footage of every time folks touched some component on that engine, or use basic machine vision techniques to confirm the position or state of some part? Now imagine they have that kind of visibility into the majority of what people's hands do on the shop floor or in hangers.

There will be social issues and debate over this, which we're seeing with police body cameras, but I think ultimately safety will trump people's reluctance to have their every task recorded. Certainly in industries with high safety/risk implications, we'll see similar strong arguments for going there.
But, can we really replicate sunlight? Might sound pessimist but the sun is a star, 1AU away, with a huge mass compared to earth, and It's the energy source for life here. Seems like a very long shot aspiring to create an artificial replacement for that, even for the narrow objective of tricking our bodys.

There must be some scientific knowdlegde regarding this that I ignore.
NO! You are not morally obligated to pay one more penny in taxes than what you legally are required to! It's got nothing to do with morals. If the system is broken, then abuse it until the law makers are forced to fix it. Hate the game, not the player.
Is there Haskell involved in the WebRTC code or is pretty much all JavaScript?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11142986
English conjugation is much simpler, there are usually only one to two forms per tense instead of six.
How is this different from Akamai's IP Application Accelerator (https://www.akamai.com/us/en/solutions/products/web-performa...)? Honestly curious.

I would love to see a consumer videoconferencing service built on top of one of these networks.
The problem with English is you have to memorise the vocabulary multiple times, you have to memorise the word, often how it declines, and also do the above for written because they way it's spelled and spoken is usually not consistant. Not to mention the fact that there are tons of words which sound almost identical but have different meanings. You're deriding Russian for having issues, and yes it's complicated, but once you learn the rules you can largely speak it. Words sound as they are spelt for the most part, decline predictably based on rules, and you can often figure out a word based on what it is built from. So all you need to do is learn the rules and build up your vocabulary, the rules for declension are consistant as are the spelling.
I don't mind to try this new one... my favourite is http://musicforprogramming.net, all tracks are available as podcasts on iOS devices too.
Somebody on reddit made a cheap do-it-yourself version for their basement office for $150 (using LED lights for plants):

http://imgur.com/a/r31Gb

While definitely not the same, there should be an opportunity for something costing less than $35,000 while still getting closer.

For example here is DIY 90,000 lumen flashlight that supposedly cost $250-350:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVqRy0sWWY&t=3m40s

Using 10 of these LED chips:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100W-Warm-White-3000K-LED-Light-High...
How about what he did during the spree, which was work as an Uber driver between slayings.
Gear VR to get Dynamic Streaming for 360 video
10 and 11 are effectively just saying that the string returned by setlocale(), getenv() or strerror() might be a string constant, which are already unmodifiable.
I always find Samsung devices have more consistent performance on weaker hardware than the pure-google alternatives, and I assume their choice to trail Google's releases is part of that. For example, I don't blame them for maintaining the stock browser over Chrome.
Word of mouth, which is what really works anyway?

Good service, good products, both go a long, long way towards places I want to buy things. I mostly put items on my Amazon wish list when someone recommends them, not based on ads I see.
How do you stream a cigar to your iphone? Is there an ad every fifth puff?
rather just listen to the band placebo.
Facebook makes sense.
The C standard is clear on the issue

The problem is succinctly summarised by the saying "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." Unfortunately what most programmers think of as "C" is subtly different from how the standard defines it. In other words, perhaps we should fix compilers (and eventually the standard) to match reality instead of the other way around.

The standard even states in the section on undefined behaviour that "behaving during translation or program execution in a documented manner characteristic of the
environment" --- exactly what C programmers are usually expecting from UB --- is a possible choice.
Agreed regarding Carlin's storytelling ability. I tried to get into The History of Rome podcast after Blueprint for Armageddon and just couldn't engage. Got spoiled by Dan.

I too was disappointed in the speed with which the last two years of the war were covered. Of course being an American I wanted to hear more about Pershing, the Marines and the Battle of Bellau Wood, Frank Duke, Eddie Rickenbacker, etc.

I recall reading/hearing an interview with Carlin prior to the release of the last episode where he explained that they were going to finish the series up even if it meant it was a 15 hour sixth episode. So you're right, I think they were definitely rushing the last couple of years.

I think it's a testament to the complexity of the war, though that the first two years really required 15 hours to explain adequately. I'm on my third listening through and still feel like there's so much I don't have straight yet.
Clang also has a more explicit __builtin_assume(expression) builtin, although anecdotally GCC makes better use of these hints. Folly has a function to make it portable:

https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/bb5ed8070d533c016e1e9...
Seems like you agree that the miners are in charge here. You read the Bram Cohen criticisms of classic vs core coin?
re: content

There are some who believe that distribution channels are actually more valuable than any content that passes through them. That is, content distribution is potentially a higher value business than content creation.

Assuming the Internet as a distribution channel, who owns or controls access to it? Rhetorical question.

One view is that the price of internet access is the price of "content".

If the internet was meant to be a medium for paid content, then why has so much content been shared through it "for free" beginning in the late 80's/early 90's and continuing even today?

I certainly do not know. What I remember is that only a minority of the population were avid www users when the public www first appeared in 1993.

So, in 1993, why upload "free content" that would otherwise be under paid subscription?

For the novelty of it?

To jumpstart the www?

To entice people to use the www?

Regardless of the reason, the end result is that the genie is out of the bottle.

The sharing of content "for free" started early on and continued unabated, even as www usage grew.

Today, if an internet subscriber seeks "content" she will find it, in large quantities, without ever paying anyone, except her access provider.

Greeting users with a deluge of advertising is not going to change the facts: users are continually presented with free content that they once would have had to pay for. The deluge of ads is not a "cost" of the content. It's just a new source of revenue for those who want to play www middleman (who should be very thankful for all the money they have made without ever having had to create any real content). At the same time, as a result the signal to noise ratio has become a serious problem for many www users.

(Users are also presented with enormous amounts of fake, garbage "content". That only highlights how open and inexpensive content distribution has become.)

It is undeniable that users can block the ads and other garbage and keep the content. The content is not going away. And the www will still keep growing.

With the barriers to distribution so low, it is no surprise that users should have to filter out some garbage.

The only surprise is how long it's taken them to start doing it.

What's nice is that filtering can be automated, in the same way the generation of ads and fake content have been automated.

There was time in the history of email before the ubiquitous use of spam filters. And there is a time in the history of the www before the ubiquitous use of ad blockers. That time is coming to a close.
...and when did he last sell Insurance? Why is this relevant? Because 'some girl' scooped the press?
As a musician, I remember 10/15 years ago what online medias told my kind "Adapt, go sell t-shirts". The irony.
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+apple+pay+for+product+p...
Your theory is thought provoking but it seems to fall under the same problems as the others.

1. How do you regulate that companies are actually giving things up? People will hide things if it's beneficial to them and there's very little you can do about it short of becoming the police state you said you didn't want.

2. How do you deal with the fact that some entities will have more resources than others to make use of that open data? It doesn't seem to level the playing field as you suggest. If you think that you can force them to level the playing field because their pursuits will be open as well, go to 1.

3. Innovation, competition, defense, dealing with other countries who won't act the same way and a long etc.

While I understand the abstract concept I'm not sure how much thought you've put into it with regards of the practicality.
Are you implying that advertising is a skilled art that we should pay for?
I see. The article had and outdated price. I still hold my opinion, but good for them if they can keep lowering the cost. The thing does look awesome.
nor should, pay a permanent price

Correct. This is just a job. If she gave it her best and more and they fail, then that is just outside her hands.

Edit. no one knows what the fuck it is

Correct again. Apple:iPhone/Mobile. Google:Search. Microsoft:Windows/Software/PC. Facebook: Connection/Address Book. Wikipedia:Encyclopedia. Yahoo and Twitter, while very useful to millions, suffer the same problem.
Well, the second regulation would definitely disallow things like Uber. The first regulation is quite reasonable, but I don't see why it is Uber's responsibility to ensure compliance when all of its drivers are independent contractors. At some point, if people lie about their insurance status, they should be found out and punished.
The bitcoin blockchain simply won't do that. Lightning network might. Satoshi was a brilliant guy, but got a number of things wrong as well. (Namecoin for example)
Ask HN: Is Carnegie Mellon University in Silicon Valley a Coding Bootcamp?
Extra swappable batteries take way less space than external battery charging packs. Charging cables are also a pain on the move.

Useful when out of charging range for an extended period, like when hiking or cycling.
Its not a problem with Uber but with the drivers. Uber could require proof of appropriate insurance when onboarding new drivers though.
It's "sham stimulation" (that's the technical term used in research) and, in the case of direct current stimulation, it means what you described. The current used for tDCS is too low to be perceived, so no current is an acceptable placebo.
AFAIK, Uber holds on to your trip data forever. There is not an option to say expire my trip history after x months.
I have no idea about England. Not everyone lives in England, some of us even live in Asia. My point is that Uber should follow the laws of the countries they are in, and if those laws are holy (in the sense that adequate insurance is not enforced or not apparent), then that is a problem with the laws, not Uber's business model.
Apple's Newton platform ran on multiple devices with touchscreens, including phones and PDAs which could connect to the Internet and send/receive text messages.

In fact, the current VP of iPad Product Marketing was one of the Newton's marketing product champions.
> 70% of the population is under 30

I don't see this ending well, there is no way this leads to a sustainable balanced system.