skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This puzzles me to no end.

The answer is economics. When you want to sell a product, it makes sense to fine-tune it as much as possible to the largest, most profitable market, and then re-use the product infrastructure (e.g. production, design, marketing, delivery) to other markets.

For a very long time, starting with the British empire, the largest, most affluent market has been English speaking, and since the end of WWII it was the US.

This lead to the emergence of a US-focussed music industry that resells its goods in the rest of the world . A similar phenomenon is at play in other domains like films. As US customers can always easily access products tailored to their preferences, which includes a strong preference for English-language lyrics, it has become economically essentially impossible to be globally successful with (non-instrumental) pop music that is not sung in English. This is a self-reinforcing phenomenon.

Interestingly, the dominance of English as voice of pop-music, evaporates as soon as instrumental music is considered: Techno, House, DnB, Dubstep etc shows no dominance of native speakers of English.

For a variety of reasons, I expect that English will not be as dominant in the future:

- Rise China as biggest, most affluent unified market for pop-music. This will lead to a preference of the Chinese customer for music. This market will be so large and lucrative as to compensate for the lack of Chinese as second-language, which is powerful for English.

- The massive lowering of the cost of music production, marketing and (in particular) distribution. The more cheaply we can produce music, the more it makes economic sense to target niche markets.
Repository: https://github.com/tra38/Architect

I wish the Readme.md had been computer generated.
>But at the same time, we technologists as a class knew academically that these capabilities could be abused, but nobody actually believed they would be abused. Because why would you do that? It seemed so antisocial as a basic concept.

What's with 'we?' The various classes of technologists that I've been a member of - from the teen hax0r BBS days thru the crypto lists and Usenet groups to actual working professionals have absolutely believed this. It takes a truly spectacular amount of naivety to believe the contrary.

I have a deep and profound respect for Snowden, who has certainly sacrificed any possible semblance of a normal life in his native culture and likely narrowly escaped a worse fate, something he must certainly have known was a risk. It is his very naivety that made him such a perfect whistleblower : he's in there looking around and he's like "Holy crap! These guys are into some profoundly bad shit! I have to tell everyone!"

There's probably a hiring policy moral for black ops shops in there somewhere.
I don't think it's silly trolling. It's subtle and overt sexism. It is a big deal. It shows a few people can derail productive discussion and flag posts off of the frontpage.
This particular Flat Earth Society is a satirical group where they entertain themselves with ingenious rationalizations such as the one you linked to. I wouldn't imagine that there is a single true believer among them.
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why do British singers (at least some of them) sing in American accent?

To increase the probability of appealing to customers in the (currently) largest and most profitable market. Moreover, singing with a US accent does not endanger sales elsewhere, including the UK.
Thanks for sharing.

I'm also aphantasic and the fun part of reading this was the differences between our internal experiences. I have a great sense of direction and I love navigating and exploring new places.

I don't really have a mind's ear, either, just the "milk voice" as he calls it, although when I started studying Chinese and learning the tones, I had this crazy experience where I heard a melody in my head for the first time. Now I'd say I have something like a speaker that sometimes plays music, but I can't really control it. (Great, now I can get music stuck in my head.)

I have a similar experience with episodic memory, which is strange, because generally I have a great memory. In high school, I could read a chapter of a book and remember it word for word the next day (but my memory was not photographic!) I've always been deeply unsentimental and, instead of being sad about it, my attitude has always been "destroy the past to create the future."
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On a related note, here's my page on the evolution of hot air balloons: http://www.theymadethat.com/things/hot-air-balloon

If you like what you see, please upvote and comment on my Apply HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523675
That women wear it daily while it doesn't even cross most guy's minds. Also that women wear it, and are expected to wear it, to look better while, again, the concept rarely crosses most men's minds.
Human culture, I guess if you step back far enough. I say culture because I don't think makeup is tied to genetics.
Recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11538355
I got 20 out of 40.

When I try to picture the examples in my mind, they all start out as a blurry blob like impressions that increase in detail gradually. It's as if I'm watching the drawing process occur step-by-step.

In the beach example I saw the following features appear one after another in this order: the sand, the water horizon, a set of palm trees on each side, a pirate ship, the sun, and a gift shop.

I never see whole images appear instantly but have met people that claim such.
You should read "Thinking, fast and slow", then.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550380
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ECMAScript doesn't have cancellable promises, but then again it doesn't have observables or async iterators either.

Native observables are less capable in this regard than native promises since they're non existent yet.

Bluebird promises are cancellable.

For what it's worth I've discussed this personally with Meijer (it's Meijer, not Meijers) and he agrees that cancellable promises are not problematic one bit.

Promises, observables and other async primitives all co-exist just fine :)
This is starting to remind me of Minecraft recipes. There's all sorts of trade-offs, and we can eat lots of grain, but sometimes we need meat, so by "trading in" some grain plus an animal plus a little time, we get a little meat back.
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Sample traction:
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Writing prompt + narrative for discussion:
https://medium.com/@qzayyan/you-have-invented-an-a-i-1638246e93ca#.a53jw4x5

My name is Zayyan and I’ll be hanging out on this thread; stoked to hear what the HN community thinks about ‘ambient computing’, ‘nearables’, and Airbear!
I think he's right. His statement is carefully phrased. Yes, of course, all sorts of intelligent people have argued that the tools of mass surveillance could be developed and could be abused.

But only a very small number of people picked up on AT&T Room 101 and Echelon and so on, and saw their significance. Unfortunately those things were more like news stories than events that redefined people's thinking. Mass surveillance simply wasn't a part of the conversation for the vast majority of technologists who mattered, i.e. the ones building the products we all use.

The NSA leaks changed all that. Now you have the guys running WhatsApp and Apple talking about this stuff. And even though for politeness reasons they sometimes talk in hypotheticals, "if we don't encrypt it could be abused by bad governments", it's as clear as day that what they really mean is "because we don't encrypt it is being abused by our governments".
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Try being a 64-year-old female widow who lives alone, has worked online for 20 years, loves tech and discovered a fascination with programming and lives in...wait...a town of 400 that does not have a grocery store, coffee house or gas station. People say to me that most of the time they have no idea what I am talking about. Good news is we have fiber in this rural farm town filled with wealthy farmers. Meet ups I have avoided driving to because .well..I'd be the old person at the table and that makes me uncomfortable. I understand your words oh so well. Too well.

So.. I began learning about farming to see if there was an intersection between coding and farming. A Ted talk on that topic inspired me. Now I am trying to bring ag based technology projects here in order to stimulate interest in coding by conservative blue collar ag and worker types

Maybe my story will plant an idea within you!
And here I thought progress was supposed to make it easier on each generation.

But that only applies to washing machines, not when it's about avoiding "2 hours up-hill, in the snow, even in summer, both directions" commutes, I guess.
If you wait until the simulation is complete, a buton thay says "random" appear just below the map and you can see how one of the pacmans (the champion?) performs in the map.

I tried to change "foodEaten - 2 * poisonEaten" to "foodEaten - 10 * poisonEaten" but then the pacman walks a little and then it starts to go in a "circle"(square) up>left>down>right>[repeat]. It get's too cautious :(.
You're falling victim to the same trap as what Snowden is talking about.

Serial numbers on bills are routinely scanned and tracked. There's a discussion here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3ou4h4/e...

It's not done at the point of sale. It's done when the money is returned to the banks themselves, and when they're dispensed at ATMs. Cash doesn't circulate for long and anti-money laundering laws prevent payment for many expensive items in cash, so this can provide important clues about where the money goes.

For instance, withdraw money from an ATM, pay for food at your local grocery shop, and the bank/govt can see "withdrawal from account Herr Schmidt at 7:03pm Thursday, deposited by a grocery store down the road the next day" and conclude the money was used to buy food ... or at least had at most one hop in between.
Sounds like he knows how to invert binary trees [1]. So the rest will come later...

[1] - https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en
Bet you cant hold your laugh
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Just to be clear. I don't consider it a craft that's below me, I'm a working progammer. I don't consider the use of the word craft to be in any way derogatory either. Quite the opposite. I have a knowledge base from CS and a knowledge base of craft skills that is derived from the practical professional application of the former. I consider these to be separate domains. The latter is not in any way a prerequisite for the former. The obverse may not be true. YMMV.
Last I heard, Fiat (now FCA) was still headquartered in Turin. Isn't it now?
Ask HN: Should I quit my job
I am working at a late stage startup with good compensation and the stock payout would be pretty good if it could exit.

The problem is I find my job to be boring and unfulfilling. I don't think I learnt much over the past year. Now I am almost depressed after days after days' bug fixing (mostly) and some uninspiring tasks.

I need two more years for the stock to be fully vested. Now I am thinking if I should quit so at least I could find another startup at least I could have interesting work to do.

Would love to hear what you guys thought! Thanks!
This reads like an ad for TipRanks.
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Y but how long will it take to get to the point where enough users have browsers that support WASM ? 10 years?
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In my experience, independent bands starting small tend to flock to English everywhere too, without many prospects. Most then understandably stay small.

"When you want to sell a product, it makes sense to fine-tune it as much as possible to the largest, most profitable market"

Not if it's totally cornered and over-saturated.
Talking to Yourself May Actually Be a Good Idea (2012)
This post helped me realize that all my big breakthroughs in understanding were triggered by conferences in USA, and before that, getting lucky and Interacting with the right people who I mostly met through meet ups (yeah philly lambda!) I am very proud of my open source works but none of it would have happened without the breakthroughs.
> Companies have of course to keep prudent accounts or go out of business.

Wrong comparison. A politician is to government what a CEO is to a company. Loads of CEOs make terrible decisions to appease the stock market short-term, then leave the company before shit hits the fan. Replace "CEOs" with "prime ministers" and "stock market" with "electorate". Human nature is what it is.
You missed a few British territories.

Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Jersey, Isle of Man, and Bermuda is the full list I think.

Makes statements from Cameron on the topic especially hypocritical.
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Well, the alternative would have been posting the data without any attribution to where I got it from. Would that have been better?

I also followed AMD in Google News but honestly couldn't find anything too interesting there.
It is quite hard to think of a tax haven that is not part of the Commonwealth or former British Empire, Panama being one of the few. A true tax haven is a different thing to mechanisms like the 'Double Irish', seems UK PLC is getting even with that.

The Square Mile - 'City of London' - is like a country within a country too, so lots of strange finance things go on with London being one big black hole that money orbits, mysteriously.

This is how Britain punches above its weight to make London a 'world city' as far as global capitalism is concerned. This has been going on for centuries.
You don't get day to day supervision. Rather, you set your own agenda. Talk to product groups, figure out what could be new stuff. A lot of the work is prototyping and experimentation. It is easy to fall into rat holes. Ultimately, your performance review will come and you have to justify your existence (i.e. salary). Lots of freedom but also responsibility. I end up hacking a lot but many people at this level also have teams .. usually informally (i.e. people they work with for a particular project).
One summer in the early 2000s there was a blackout along the whole west coast, I was in Palm Springs where the temperatures that time of year regularly exceed 110F. The water filtration shut off so all the city's water was declared possibly contaminated and the gas pumps were off so if you needed gas to get to water there was none. People realized the last clean source of water was bagged ice and started forming mobs banging on the locked doors of convenience stores. I saw people siphoning other people's gas. Basically all hell broke loose. The kicker? The power was only out for 6 hours. When people are scared it doesn't take long.
That's...a lot of wood. This is all hardwood, seasonsed for a year? How large a piece of property would you need to sustainably re-grow that much wood indefinitely (wood growth rates in the Yukon are slower than in more temperate regions)?

What is the R-value and ACH [1] airtightness at 50 PA of such a house? I've been researching using two feet thickness of Pittsburgh Corning FOAMGLAS with an airtight building envelope that conforms to PassivHaus airtightness standards, and comparing the capital outlay of that with the anticipated opex cost savings. But I live in a far more mild climate than the Yukon, so my payoff period is measured in many decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_changes_per_hour
Looting, assault, rape, and wanton destruction happen when a city's sports teams win championships. I think your looting-bar is way too high.
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Even if that's the case, I hope to still be a developer in 10 or 15 years from now, and I'm betting people will still be using the internet then too.
as long as you are consistent, it really doesn't matter. Even in academic or technical writing (i am in Australia), you can use american spellings or british spellings and noone really cares. Perhaps you have to let go of the "one true way" of spelling/grammar, if things seem to work fine without it.
Agree, last time the world had any significant CPU performance increase was SandyBridge, and that was the tipping point. Since then we have been using the same CPU performance with less energy usage. Apple already knows this that is why they continue to refine in other areas ( Macbook being a prime example ) rather then providing more and more performance where the user don't need / feel.

Interestingly 2011 was also the year SSD were available in not so luxury price. It was the when 64GB dropped to around $100. Anandtech has been calling this as the largest performance upgrade in history. And I would agree you should trade SSD for ANY CPU performance. That is assuming you are not using some more then a decade old CPU or you already have 16+ GB memory.

If the rumours are true then it is a combination of things making this a perfect storm ( not sure if that is the right way of putting it). Intel no longer has a significant lead in Fab node processing. The money from Mobile processor has help pure play foundry to catch up big time. Zen would offer significant performance increase that pass what most consider as enough ( for now ), and Intel hasn't had much performance gain with Skylake. Running along is the perfect match of new GPU coming from AMD. Which should be first the time ever AMD has a APU competitive with Intel in performance and run circles around Intel in GPU performance.

This sounds all good good for AMD, that is until Intel provides more detail on Goldmont, their next gen Atom.
Goldmont, and its Apollo Lake platform, provides all the essential features one would expect for the most common PC user for a very cheap price. Cherry Tail, based on Airmont was already doing well in Surface 3, if Goldmont as rumours suggest provides much higher IPC ( think Core2 Duo like performance rather then SandyBridge ) and comes with Skylake Gen9 GPU along with much cheaper price, this could be a tough battle.

Can wait for both to reveal more details, 2016 will be an interesting year for PC.
I recently faced the decision whether to rewrite

I took over a rails + angular 1 codebase from another developer who left the company. I would be working on the project for few months.

I rewrote the entire app with Meteor + React in few weeks. Best decision I ever made. Even though the app has same features, customers say the app is faster, has less bugs, and overall feels more solid. Security is also better because of the pub/sub system. It also gave me a chance to fully understand the ins and outs of the database and how the app works.

I can also develop features much faster with Meteor + React than with Rails + Angular 1. So time spend re-writing is saved by enabling faster feature development.
If I say for source - kids documentary I watched 20 years ago will it fly?
The analogy is poor. The argument being discussed is whether Bill did something bad and uses the results to fuel the good he does in order to atone for his bad. In your analogy, the pimp does something good and uses it to fuel the bad he does.

For the record, Bill's business practices sucked, but there's no denying that he had better vision for tech than the monster of his day, IBM. Each age has its villain, each of which has been far from what the world considers to be truly evil.
TIL some people have seriously negative connotations of the word 'craft', which appears to have made it a poor word choice, please see my explanatory comment above. I'd be interested to hear if there's some context I'm missing. Both responses that express negative interpretations of the word have mentioned computer scientists' attitudes, but I don't hang out with any IRL. Have I missed out on some historic flame war?
I found the source code to UAE-0.1, and I got it running on Windows 10
Isn't insider trading illegal?
In case anyone is wondering, NodeJS v6 is right around the corner with V8 5.x. Node is going to get a serious boost of ES2015 features.

Including but not limited to: Proper tail recursion (^_^) and destructuring.

Tracked at http://node.green

We don't have an ES2015 features page up to date yet, but it's going to be ready any day now (and we're going to link to node.green anyway most likely).
Ban hasbara editors.
My guess is it's a 2.4Ghz narrow beam jammer. It would likely have little effect on say a 400Mhz receiver. Not to mention it is reliant on a predicable failsafe. What if the failsafe is 100% throttle. It would be pretty easy to make this device useless.
Yep just wish things could move along faster :)
I worked for AMD in the x86 64bit multicore expansion days (2006ish) There really has been much since then except the ATI acquisition. Selling to Chinese manufacturers sound like a last ditch effort unfortunately.
There will be a polyfill for unsupported browsers. It should be easy to convert most, if not all wasm to asm.js, which can be executed by any browser with typed arrays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDBjRHC7Ro
The Retro Hour Podcast – Episode 16 (Viva Amiga)
Listen to Donald Trump robocall urging California's 'no party preference' voters to register as Republicans. see more here sh.st/IS9mr
I really enjoyed reading this. Very well written!
" if there's no tax rate competition"

The point is, these executives are not living in Ireland or Panama but in the valley or some highly developed country in Europe. So while the enjoy the benefits of those countries, the want to avoid paying taxes.

No one has anything against people who want to enjoy Irish tax laws who move to Ireland. Or people who want to have a company in Panama to move to Panama.
This finally sounds like the user interface used in Jurassic Park, which I recall was actually a real thing. Which all in all is funny to me for unexplainable reasons.
Sorry ARIMA, but I’m Going Bayesian
This is my thought as well. Not all drones (I hate that term, but that ship has sailed) have return to home or even fail safe operations.

Imagine, for a moment, someone triggering this while there's a quad racing event going on. All of a sudden, you have between 3 and 5 unguided projectiles following unpredictable paths, usually with spectators present. All of them are also carrying a fairly nasty incendiary device (also known to laymen as a battery), which reacts poorly to being crashed.

Or a fly-in, where not only the quads, but all RC aircraft are affected. Some of those move at well over 100mph, and are filled with jet fuel.
This is one reasons why I love his books (esp. the first ones), I think you can tell he has a scientific mind from his writing.
When I took driving lessons my instructor asked if I had any difficulty with left vs. right, I thought it was a strange question at the time but I guess it's not that uncommon.