skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's one word that I expected to be in the list but it isn't, which is もったいない (mottai nai)

It describes the situation where something/someone that is still of some use is left unused and wasted, such as leaving food on the table or wasting somebody's talent.

I'm a Japanese who's been living in the US for more than a decade, and I always thought this one word represents what's missing in American culture the most.
Absolutely correct. Most employment agreements in the US have an indefinite probationary period. Consider today your last day every day (speaking mostly in the financial sense).
Nothing. A few of those are already on their way to being borrowed. I've read "kintsugi" (slightly different spelling than the article) in a very much in English legal brief and heard at least one other (wabi-sabi) in another context, again used as if it were part of English. If they're useful, they may just get assimilated.
It doesn't. That's the point: get rid of sexual harassment risks before they can create problems like this.
Thanks, this looks amazing!
Totally valid question:

How does malware get into ad's, the publishers didn't put it there:
http://www.extremetech.com/internet/220696-forbes-forces-rea...

Meanwhile the industry itself calls ad blocking "immoral": http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/iab-chief-blasts-adblo...

There is this gem linked from the article where some of them admit it might be their fault:
http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/iab-pivots-ad-blocking...
I literally grew up with web searches having started browsing the (very nascent) web in 1993 with a Mosaic beta. I have tried to disseminate my knowledge in this topic via articles, book chapters and speeches. But really, we are on hacker news. This is quintessential hacking: try, change what you did based on the results, try again, repeat rinse. It will eventually work. Given the speed of Google and scanning ten results, you can fire off a search every few seconds and get to the result real quick. (Or just never if the material is not well searchable. Did you know the best or perhaps the only travel VESA monitor stand is a microphone stand? )
There's some progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_lineups

The part that boggled me was how recent (and incomplete) was the introduction of blinding to police lineups. Apparently it really was (and is?) common for the witness to pick out a suspect, and for the cop to know the 'real' suspect and say things like "Are you sure? Take your time."

From another Feynman talk: "This is not yet a scientific age."
Or the marginally less snarky 'Gemütlichkeit':

A space or state of warmth, friendliness, and good cheer. Other qualities include coziness, peace of mind, belonging, well being, and social acceptance. The term is most commonly associated with the tenor of a German beer garden.

Now. Use it in a sentence.
> Uber on the other hand dispatches 100% of the work to their drivers

This is flatly false. Uber publishes available fares in real time, drivers choose to accept them or not. This is the entire premise of Uber. You might as well say that radio cabs "dispatch work to drivers", but it's exactly the same publish-subscribe model: central publishes an available fare, drivers compete to respond quickly accepting the fare based on their willingness and also their proximity, (the latter of which is judged by central).

The acceptance rates are a red herring: Uber says "if you're rarely going to accept a fare while you have the app in a state saying you're generally available, I'm not interested in listing you as potentially available to customers". I don't see how this creates a control-of-work-time, control-of-work-undertaken, control-of-hours-worked, or control-of-work-place relationship, which are the bases of the IRS classification.

Uber lets drivers choose when, where, how-much, and how-often they work... and they're totally fine with how-often being once-a-month. Uber is also fine with you working 3 other jobs that overlap in hours with the time you might allocate to Uber (i.e. no control-of-exclusivity).

The thing they won't let you do is: frequently list yourself as available, then repeatedly decline nearby available fares -- and yet still expect to be listed as generally available while you have the app open saying your'e generally available. Shut off the app when your'e not generally available within your geo proximity, and the acceptance rate problem goes away entirely.
embezzlement is a felony.

> Jobs are jobs, not training programs.

As a manager, I'd say this couldn't be more false. Learning and development is a critical part of any job and if your manager isn't actively concerned with helping your L&D, look for a new one.

Also, if it were an "hour a week" he wouldn't last more than a very few weeks.
very well said--"no wall clock time" as you put it. I've done the Euston/Kings Cross -> Inverness and E/KC -> Ft William many times and i loved it. Inverness has an airport and it's only an up-and-down flight, but what an ass ache to travel to gatwick to catch this flight rather than a 15-minute tube ride to the train station.
The thing with "untranslatable" words is that their perfectly translatable, but the connotations surrounding them are completely different. What untranslatable then means in this context is that the listener of the translated version will /not/ understand the same meaning as someone listening to the non-translated version.

For instance, while the literal translation of shouganai is "it can't be helped," I'll translate it as "shit happens" in one situation, or "that's bureaucracy for you" (among other things) in another, depending on context. There simply isn't a reliable equivalent.

Also, imagine a scene (one that occurs every day at the end of my restaurant shift) where everyone is saying "otsukare" to each other. How should I translate that? Should I just have people yelling "TIRED" to the room? I'd have translated the word 'correctly' but not actually reflected the general feeling of "wow, we did it bro. Good job"

I'm currently learning Japanese. As I've learned these 'untranslatable words' of course I learned them through dictionaries and English explanations. As I saw them used and used them myself, though, they came to mean something different. I had to develop a new concept to compile them to, as it were. Now I find them difficult to translate back to English, and instead they have become new words in my vocabulary. It's why pigeon languages happen. (you should see the English spoken in the English-speaking office I worked at. It's stolen many Japanese words)
I'm just curious --- why stay on Tumblr when you could be using Wordpress, which has tons of plugins and a lot of big users?
> Overall, we produce more with less labor and robotic automation only accelerates that.

I recently visited a reconstruction medieval village museum on the outskirts of Berlin. It's almost unimaginable how labor-intensive simple subsistence was for our ancestors. Try running a scratch-plow behind a team of oxen, reaping wheat with a sickle, grinding flour with a quern, spinning wool into yarn by hand with a spindle, weaving that yarn into cloth on a hand-loom, chopping hazel whips with a hatchet, splitting them into withs, and weaving a basket.

Now I can walk into Walmart, and grab a loaf of bread, a five-pack of t-shirts, and a Rubbermaid storage tub for less than an hour's worth of labor.
Including 2MB images in the conversation? Has someone verified this by looking at the traffic?
What a cool service! Who are the instructors? Can anyone sign up or do you interview them?
Kannst du meine Gemütlichkeit nicht stören, bitte.

(or something... ;) )
The Zen of Gradient Descent
http://www.heychinaski.com/blog/2013/10/14/a-look-at-the-red...

https://pauladamsmith.com/articles/redis-under-the-hood.html

https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2011/03/redis_get_set.html

http://redis.io/topics/internals
I've had it working perfectly well with my google voice number for years now. When did they start blocking it?

The only problem I recall is that the initial text verification doesn't work - I had to do the phone call option - but this is a problem with gvoice, not WhatsApp: google blocks pretty much all server-triggered texts.
All of our instructors undergo a thorough interview process before we bring them on board :)
Congratulations, guys! Really glad to see this finally shipped. It will ALWAYS be Ideatown to me;)
japanese and german share a lexical pattern

the more syllables in a word then the fewer definitions it has

it is interesting to me that the author chose these 'types' of words to highlight

their highly specialised nature makes them far more translatable than the Japanese words i find most beautiful

my favourite japanese word is 間,ma (o)

it is difficult to translate because it simultaneously carries multiple meanings: "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts"(i); it can refer to any existence of negatives space, be it temporal, physical or metaphysical

the kanji is a combination of the characters for: gate(ii) and sun(iii); two of the most important symbols in japanese iconography, and the question of whether the sun is setting or rising between the gate is up to interpretation as well

(o) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%96%93

(i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space)

(ii) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%96%80

(iii) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5
Wow, jackpot -- thank you! That 2000th resync is a who's who of Sun's old guard; many great technologies have been invented and many terrific companies built by the folks on that list! I would love to see the nselite man pages that the README refers to (i.e., resync(1) and resolve(1)); do you happen to still have those?

Also, even if privately... you need to name that VP. ;)
Because Tumblr is blindingly fast and totally free
Ask why and understand the reasons for a feature so well that when you explain it back to the business user requesting it, they nod, say "exactly" and their eyes sparkle.

Then change how the feature works, or eliminate it, or address the business reasons using a completely different implementation and sell it to the same person in a way that has them enthusiastically agree and sign off on it.
CORRECTION: "Medical error homicide" refers to a medical error (i.e., an avoidable iatrogenic event, such as mis-calculating a dosage by making a math error, as in the famous case of the Boston Globe medical journalist, Betsy Lehman), which is negligent as a matter of law, and which causes or substantially contributes to the death of the patient or any other person. This definition reflects the fact that intent to kill is not a required element of a homicide.
Makes sense, as it's clearly an abbreviation for "character."
Teen Makes Stellar Discovery of Previously Unknown Maya City
You could build 17.2 WhatsApps for $1 billion, assuming that it took nothing more and nothing less than the $58 million in funding they raised: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whatsapp#/entity.
Why do you need desktop app support for Hangouts? You can install the extension.
People's political views are not cookie-cutter copies. Maybe you think public policy should be guided primarily by what is just, and consequently your hope is that the censors' idea of justice is the same as yours. Or maybe you subscribe to the notion that politics ultimately is the competition of divergent private interests and shifting alliances, and in that case you should hope is that the censors have your best interest at heart (perhaps by virtue of being your employees). Even the former is exceedingly improbable if you go into the minute details of your personal politics. You are much more likely to be manipulated away from than reinforced in your current views.
Are you really comfortable citing them?

Here's a discussion of the author of that post's prior work: https://tamino.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/making-up-stuff/

edit: fascinating how easy it is to be downvoted simply by pointing out the lack of credibility of AGW skeptics. On one hand, you have the overwhelming majority (97-74%) of professional scientist saying (respectively) that global warming is occuring or that it's man-made and provable with existing science. On the other hand, you have people with dubious credentials, poor ethics, and/or extraordinary conflicts of interest as paid fellow at Cato, Heartland, AEI, et al.

All of this is easily verified by simple use of a search engine. Since... just about nobody here is a professional climate researcher, I think all we can go on is the credibility of sources of information. It is not ad hominem to bring someone's motivation and prior record into consideration.
On some microcontrollers I know a pointer to address 0 really is just that. I tested compiling the following

unsigned short *a = 0;
((void (*)(void))a)();

which may cause a jump to address 0 (usually the reset vector).

On R8C with the NC30 compiler there are no warnings and the output is:

MOV.W:Q #0H, -2H[FB]
MOV.W:G -2H[FB], R0
MOV.W:Q #0H, R2
JSRI.A R2R0

It jumps to 0. But on PIC 16 with the XC compiler a warning is emitted warning: (1471) indirect function call via a NULL pointer ignored and the statement is not compiled at all.
SSL Validation Process for Domain Validated Certificates
> I think you're dangerously into all women are always resonable logic there.

Uhh... seriously? I hope I'm misreading what you wrote here.
I remember the first time I saw a group of young VCs (in Palo Alto no less) in public. Walking down the street together. They looked like male supermodels. All of them perfectly dressed, tall, good looking, triathlon physiques...

As soon as I saw this, I could sense that this business is driven by "Confirmation Bias" and "Representativeness Bias", the Halo Effect.

These guys are hiring people who look like themselves, who do the same (extreme) sports like themselves, etc. It's a case of Steve Jobs looking for someone who looks like Steve Jobs, instead of the plump, dowdy, disheveled, and genius Steve Wozniak.
Don't you know that correlation = causation? CO2 is going up. Temperature is going up. Ocean is going up.

Conclusion? All caused by CO2.

Oh, and temperature going down is also caused by CO2 going up. I haven't seen it yet but I'm sure Ocean going down is CO2-related also.
A nice article, but David only posted the first half with a teaser at the end. evonomics looks like a nice site, browsing the table of contents.

Google aggregates small $1 charity donations in One a Day, and then periodically bills you for a few weeks worth of donations. I don't see why individual companys couldn't provide the same with micro-payments if they were federated so one service would allow people to micro pay on any site supported by a federated partner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXI1GHtqDEU
> [letting women] verbally feel him up

Could you explain what you mean by this phrase?
She may say it's not a big deal, but it is. An employee who doesn't understand "no" is a liability, now and in the future.
That being said, details matter, and you should deal with this using your HR and legal counsel. HN is not the right place for this kind of advice.
>>> If anything the taxi model is more exploitative, reminiscent of the 'company town' era when the employee rented their living space and tools from the company.

> I have stopped driving as of July...

... because you got tired of being exploited by the venture capitalists?
Access to cod-rich waters was something the US insisted on in the treaty of Paris that ended the revolutionary war. By "the US insisted", I mean "John Adams insisted", because he was from Massachusetts, which has an eleven-inch carved-wood cod sculpture hanging in the legislature.
> It's not hard to keep accelerating and decelerating for 1m/s for 15 years with current tech.

Just to put some numbers to this, I went to my go-to quick reference for these types of problems is the Usenet Physics FAQ article on the equations for relativistic rockets:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/Rocket/r...

The key numbers are the trip time T according to the ship's clocks, the trip time t according to clocks on Earth or Alpha Centauri, the maximum velocity v achieved by the ship, and the mass ratio M, or kg of fuel needed per kg of payload. Assuming that we accelerate for half the distance and then turn around and decelerate for the other half, and that we use an ideal rocket that converts fuel to energy at 100% efficiency and exhausts all that energy out the back with perfect collimation (so it all goes into changing the rocket's momentum and not into heat or some other waste product), the formulas for these are:

T = 2 (c/a) arccosh (ad/2c^2 + 1),

t = sqrt((d/c)^2 + 2d/a),

v = at/2 sqrt(1 + (at/2c)^2)

MR = exp(aT/c) - 1,

where a is the acceleration, d is the total distance traveled, and c is the speed of light. The equation for T, assuming that we accelerate halfway, then turn around and decelerate to arrive at the destination at rest, is

Plugging in a = 1m/s^2, d = the distance to Alpha Centauri, or about 4 x 10^16 meters, and c = 3 x 10^8 m/s, we get

T = 3.9 x 10^8 s, or about 12.7 years,

t = 4.2 x 10^8 s, or about 13.6 years,

v = 1.7 x 10^8 m/s, or about 0.57 c,

MR = 2.7

This is a pretty small mass ratio, but of course it was derived using highly idealized assumptions. More realistic assumptions would result in a much larger mass ratio. Also, a maximum speed of more than half the speed of light would create huge radiation issues requiring heavy shielding, so the payload mass would be very large.
There is plenty of (pop-)culture produced in other languages. It's just people not speaking those languages not noticing most.
That is some amazing journalism. I learned a ton of things I never knew about Iceland, and a fair bit about what happens when Justin Beiber is filmed in your plane. Dude has to rescue tourists every single day? That's not a very sustainable solution. Hopefully a locked gate and a tourism company selling ATV tours outta help.
None. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_islands
I'm not convinced Von Neumann debiasing is vulnerable like you think. You're dropping runs (00's and 11's) so you don't care if it's 90% 0 or 90% 1, you care if there's an even number of a run or an odd number of a run.

In other words:

0000000000000001
000000001
001

...are all interchangeable. So biases can change all day.

There are _other_ issues I've seen in real world data, but not this one.
sure will keep that in mind!! ;)
What's more, HTTP's recent movement is arguably only because the web experience has centralized so much around Google.

Google already had the top two most popular websites in the world, so once Google Chrome also became the most popular web client, it was easy for them to develop a new communication protocol of their own, which everyone else has more or less begrudgingly agreed to call HTTP/2 and start deploying as well.
I agree. The actual usage with what they have captured the market is free texting and moving forward now they have voice messages too. So they don't really need a desktop app. Simply if one has to use it on PC, WhatsApp Web is a great feature and it does exist for the single session only.
I'm not related to redis devel, but I happened to be at the conference where antirez announced the modules.

My understanding from the talk was:

* already available: strings DMA, that you can use for new data types

* in progress but soon (like, a few weeks): commands pre-hooks, that you can use e.g. for auth

* I assume soon (but I don't recall, it could be already available): operations on new data types

* I don't think I've heard anything about alternate db format, but maybe you can think of creative ways of mixing pre-hooks and strings DMA

* I'm not sure what you have in mind about multi-tenant, but I guess you can implement some primitives in a way similar to auth
thanx man for the suggestion :-) will read that book ..for sure.
You are wrong about never getting to the 99th. I did not work on this service at Twitter, but many services at Twitter are built on the JVM, and if this service is like most there, then it probably has SLA targets that are sub-millisecond at the 99th and sub 10ms at four 9's. The only caveat to this is that it has to write to disk, which may keep it from achieving truly high performance, but this is not the fault of the JVM. I worked on one service at Twitter that had to use microseconds on its dashboards just to see any variation at all throughout the day.
English words that don't exist in Japanese:

* identity (the notion simply does not exist here)

* fairness (we don't care this either)

* racist (but it doesn't mean we don't have it, we're simply unaware of it)

And yes, there's an awkward translation for these words, but they all sound very foreign.

edit: added newlines

Another edit: I read that words like "liberty", "equality" or even "love" didn't exist in Japanese until 19c, when people were importing Western documents to Japan. That's probably why we're still so behind of these things.
Why would an accurate model have anything to do with causation? If humans are causing climate change it will happen if we have a good model or not and vice versa.
Why is it that some people get Git naturally and some experience a world of frustration trying to use it? I think the kind of problems you describe usually come up if you approach Git with a mindset formed by another SCM. They are typical for people who are proficient with, say, SVN and who try to use Git thinking that Git must work something like SVN. (I'm using SVN as just an example here; it could be any other SCM, but I most frequently see people coming from SVN to really struggle with Git.) Well, Git is nothing like SVN and you'll always be missing something if you try to understand Git through SVN concepts. It's best to forget what you used before and learn Git from a clean slate.
Maybe I was just really lucky to never having to learn SVN (or CSV or ClearCase), so Git concepts and workflows were clear and almost effortless to understand and use. Or maybe it's like the concept of pointers: some people get it right away and others never get it.
These are all problems with the model not actual observational evidence. What observations would change your mind?
Probier's mal mit Gemütlichkeit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EWWyJfgPc

No idea what the song is in English, though :)

Edit: got it, "Bare Necessities": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o
The "too late" comments are depressing since they totally lack insight (who hasn't noticed the dominations of gits?). Yet also here in HN specifically you would expect people to cheer for pivoting into something new. Thanks for open sourcing BK.
mmm. So what evidence would change your mind?
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I don't really treat cmd+tab and cmd+` very differently, sorry. On my OS, both work: I can alt-` to cycle through windows of same application and alt+tab to cycle through each individual window (grouped by application); maybe that's given me the habit of treating alt+` merely as a filter on alt+tab.

Oh! This is perhaps also why I get annoyed by cmd+tab on Macs!!
You calling Brian Kernighan a noob?
I'm writing from the perspective of Signal, which is not a business, so it's definitely not about monetizing users for us.
اجلاس بین المللی ایکائو در جزیره کیش
Borrowing words is pretty common. I went on an exchange to a small town in Québec when I was in high school. They borrowed English words to use in French. The only thing is that their use wasn't quite the same as English. For example, I was asked if a girl who was a good friend of mine was my "chum". I said yes, not knowing that they use it to mean girlfriend/boyfriend.

Good examples for English borrowing words are "nirvana" and "dharma". Both are hard to translate their meaning into English so we just go with the word itself.
thank you for this advice. will try to live with passion:)