skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's a great project, but to nail this they are going to need more involvement from the deaf community as they've missed some key points:

1)ASL isn't just about hand movements, there is a ton of grammar that comes from facial expression. It's not just like English tone, but can actually change a word. Like can become "don't like" from facial expression.

2) Context is very key, there are a lot of words with multiple meanings that matter based on the sentence. It could be figured out from a really smart system but wouldn't be easy.

3) Lastly, ASL isn't English. This is the biggest mistake people make. You aren't simply putting words into symbols. ASL has it's own grammar, syntax and even slang. I remember spending 15 minutes trying to figure out what my ASL teacher was saying when he said he "ate champ burger" and it turns out he meant it was the best burger he ever had. To 'translate' ASL you need to move from symbols to words and then add in the context.

Ultimately there is a reason that professionals in this industry are called "sign language interpreters" and not "sign language translators" ASL is really hard to put into spoken or written language.

It's also worth noting at really high level events an ASL interpreter will translate spoken word into sign and then a "Certified Deaf Interpreter" will re-sign it because the ASL of someone who is has communicated in sign their entire life has far more facial expression and meaning than even professional interpreters who are hearing.

I think it's great to see advancements in technology trying to assist the deaf community, but I think it's important to get early involvement rather than assume we know what people need.

I hope they keep up the great work - it's on the right path.
As I remember it, he did

telnet bk-server 5000

and typed "help".

https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/
Debian testing used to be recommended.
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Are my perceptions clouded from being inside the Hacker News echo chamber, or is Rust really picking up steam really fast?

It seems to have more libraries and the ones it has are more advanced than what would be expected from a language this young.
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I was wondering how it was built since equations aren't the nicest things to render with HTML. A quick 'view source' shows the site is using MathJax (not MathML) for displaying the equations.

I presume a lot of content is submitted or formatted using Tex/Latex. Can any HN'ers elaborate on the workflow for review/editing/publishing on the site?
I lifeguarded a beach with quite big waves for a few summers. It's really hard to see people swimming in the sea, especially when they go out past the waves. We used to call people back in if they looked like they weren't strong sea swimmers. It makes you feel bad stopping people having fun in the sea. But that job used to scare the shit out of me. So easy to lose sight of someone.

I don't know what happened to you, but I suspect a combination of the effort of swimming in moving water, it's much more effort than in a pool. Coupled with the constant slapping of chop in your face meaning you need to really lift your head up high to breathe... yeah... it's scary. Glad you got out ok.

Worst part of that job was when you count the kids, 4 in that group, 5 in that group ... now there's only 3 in that group. Where did that other person go?
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Obfuscation is different from homomorphic encryption, and in some sense much more powerful.

With homomorphic encryption, Alice can send some secret data to Bob in encrypted form, and let Bob carry out computation on that encrypted data. However, the result of the computation remains encrypted, and only Alice's private key can decrypt the result.

By contrast, obfuscation allows Alice to give Bob a program that contains some secret information (such as cryptographic keys) in such a way that Bob can run it (without any further interaction with Alice) on any inputs of his choice, and get the result in the clear. However, he cannot learn anything about the hidden secret information other than what is revealed by the input-output pairs he has obtained.

It's not hard to see that obfuscation gives you homomorphic encryption for free (you can probably get a rough idea of how to do it based on the somewhat imprecise descriptions above), but we don't know how to go in the other direction. (Current obfuscation candidates do use fully homomorphic encryption under the hood, but they need to rely on much more than that).
No BBM or text messages TO and from. Let's go with your scenario and say that she doesn't text. You're telling me that she didn't receive a single spam text message from her provider or a random text message from a friend? Come on.
No its not the same selling your labor to selling sex. Because sex is something intimate. But your analogy is not wrong. When we sell our time doing something we dont like we also become prostitutes. There are things that should not be for sale, because they are holy. Time and intimacy are in that group. On the other hand making it illegal creates many problems and does not resolve anything. I personally think the real reason prostitution is illegal is so men are more willing to marry and to be under control of their wifes, years ago it was normal to go to a cantina with prostitues on it, and every respectable person was there. Back then the respect a man got from his wife was much much better also.
I obviously wouldn't fire the employee immediately for that reason. I'd give the employee in question an impossible project, and a few months down the line when the project isn't done I'd fire citing poor performance.
Taking a bullet.
Pigskins, oranges, old shoes, dumb friends... :)

But they are talking about tattoos that fade because they are broken down by a biological process, which makes me giggle picturing Arnold The Pig with "Born 2 Trot" on his hock.
> I don't believe there's evidence to show that she did this for any other reason than wanting to stand out and look special by sending mail from hillary@clintonemail.com

Personally, I think secretary-of@state.gov would be a much better vanity email address than <myname>email.com.

Even if the only reason was to have a custom domain, I'm sure the State Department's IT team could point the MX records to a government-managed mail server.
Solar power is very democratizing in this respect, nobody is going to have a real lock in. Sure it's sunny in Saudi, but there's nobody anywhere near them that needs large amounts of electricity and couldn't just lay out panels themselves.

Their GDP is based on oil. In the long term that's going to dry up, and unless they institute major reforms starting right now they'll be in serious trouble.
The fact that you can immediately imagine how it works and think that it is a very simple comncept, makes the changes in 0.17 even more awesome.

It turned something that is in real life difficult to manage, compose and scale, into something not just easy to grasp, but also simple to read and safe to execute.

Congrats on everyone involved in making this release happen.
Yup. Politeness counts. It may turn someone's opinion around and result in them being more helpful; and if they're set from the start to deny you, being rude won't help anyway.
"SSA-based Compiler Design" [1] is awesome, heaps of interesting algorithms.

[1] http://ssabook.gforge.inria.fr/latest/book.pdf
It wasn't. He gave conclusive reply which established that it's ethical (just telneting and help). Unless you believe samba and everything else is unethical and you club every reverse engineering under one umbrella, your comment is wrong. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tri...
It behooves the world to have a lasting peace with Iran but the last thing the world needs is a consolidated regional religious power of any kind. It'd be better to focus on giving the Kurds a Kurdistan in the Northern part of Iraq to call home. I'd bet they'd be great allies to the West.
Facinating:

"Some of it is certainly genetic – estimates of the genetic contribution to political association range from 0.4 to 0.6. Heritability of one’s attitudes toward gay rights range from 0.3 to 0.5, which hilariously is a little more heritable than homosexuality itself. (for an interesting attempt to break these down into more rigorous concepts like “traditionalism”, “authoritarianism”, and “in-group favoritism” and find the genetic loading for each see here. For an attempt to trace the specific genes involved, which mostly turn out to be NMDA receptors, see here)"

links to studies on the matter too
I wish it would support tag hierarchies.
There was another that came to mind that I couldn't find which was a full screen drowning simulator. That was incredibly stressful.

Edit: I think this was it (can't verify) : http://sortieenmer.com/?lang=en
letterbug.co.uk is somewhat of the UK equivalent.
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That's why I don't put stock in any of it and just eat what I like.
Very huge, that means unlike the others she had NO WAY to access the .gov through an official account unlike Powell etc, And private emails by law must have been kept at the time of her tenure.

"Mrs. Clinton is not the first government official — or first secretary of state — to use a personal email account on which to conduct official business. But her exclusive use of her private email, for all of her work, appears unusual, Mr. Baron said. The use of private email accounts is supposed to be limited to emergencies, experts said, such as when an agency’s computer server is not working.

“I can recall no instance in my time at the National Archives when a high-ranking official at an executive branch agency solely used a personal email account for the transaction of government business,” said Mr. Baron, who worked at the agency from 2000 to 2013.

Regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration at the time required that any emails sent or received from personal accounts be preserved as part of the agency’s records.

But Mrs. Clinton and her aides failed to do so."
In general, what is a mathematical object? Is the natural numbers one?
I wish people would not link HuffPo "news" to HN. I come here to avoid UFOs, Deepak Chopra, and other mindlessness.
You think that's bad? Interest rates on credit cards here in Uruguay are insane if you don't pay them in full, from 42% to 99%. Inflation is about 10%, so they're ridiculously profitable.

Of course, like a good 3rd world country, we have massive defaults about once a decade, so that wipes out most of the profits for the CC companies.

A startup called TuTasa is trying to build a South American LendingClub, but I don't think they're taking off yet:

http://tutasa.com.uy/

One big difference is there's usually only one credit agency (it's Equifax here in Uruguay), and there's a lot more fraud going on than in the USA.

http://www.eltelegrafo.com/index.php?id=102900&seccion=local...
If you fire someone for reporting sexual harassment, they have an open-and-shut retaliation case against you. You've just vastly magnified your legal problems if you do this.

I'm sorry you have had personal issues in your life stemming from your wife dealing with sexual harassment issues from the HR side, but your emotional reaction based on that experience isn't likely to be the basis for sound advice.
A free version online would inhibit sales of any future releases if they choose to do so. Just because you can't legally purchase it today doesn't allow you to harm the future sales of tomorrow.
A critical but oft overlooked piece of Saudi history is the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and its consequences:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure#Policies

The Royal family essentially entered into a Faustian pact with the religious fundamentalists who've held massive sway over the country ever since. (Not unlike The Sparrows in GOT).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
Kristian from Realm here. We don't have a specific timeline for it, but it's being planned. See https://github.com/realm/realm-dotnet/issues/509
The idea behind Pandora is neat, but I've unfortunately found its actual dimensions insufficient. It always ends up drifting towards mediocre generic pop crap, no matter how far away I start or how carefully I curate. And it doesn't account well for complexity or mood.
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There are almost certainly multiple "UFO" cover ups by the US government - to prevent classified aircraft from being identified when they're being tested.
I don't think it's fair to call people douches because they are committed to their moral principals. Especially so here, where the benefit to humanity over the alternative is so clearly obvious.
These are all HN users. If the accounts were new, the usernames would be green. It's just that certain types of content and titles bring out a certain class of responses.
"omg really screwed up on benghazi today lol"
Creative (yup, that Creative) is suing every Android phone maker
It's strange to me that the job of a lifeguard is entrusted to teenagers across USA, where I'm sure most of them do not receive any rigorous training in matters like these and the majority of them do not look like they'd be strong enough to save a person anyway.

At no point have they made me feel safer for being there, unless they're doing it as their full time job.
How does this compare to Kafka?
This could be an interesting competitor to Apache Kafka, which is singularly unique in this space as far as I'm aware.

On another note, I find it somewhat funny that these are called "log" services, logging is probably the least interesting use case for these things I can think of. A better description in my mind would be as a distributed event processing framework, since what they are really doing is distributing discrete events in a reliable manner.
It doesn't, not without lots of labor, and that's sort of the crux of the issue...

A YouTube replacement will be better in this respect only as long as they remain small and under the radar of the movie/record industry. :/
> Islam is not just a religion. It is a very deliberately structured guide for the entirety of society. "Full-stack" social control as we on HN might call it. The Quran is a complete manual that details everything expected and required of a good Muslim, from the food that can be eaten to the appearance of your body.

Christianity is not any different.

"You shall not cut your hair round or trim your beard". 3rd book Mose, 19:27

Read the Bible, and you’ll find definitions for when to eat what, how long to preserve what, how to punish crimes, etc.
elm-html gives you a very nice interface to virtual-dom, which combined with the Elm Architecture is all you need.
They are in fact teenagers by the modern definitions. You were a full responsible adult shortly after puberty. Many of the greats did their best work before 20.
If the OP meant that Hillary being a democrat is somehow uniquely protected from any prosecution then I agree that it is the other side of the coin of polarization of political opinion that divides the ordinary citizens and makes them weaker.

But Powell and Rice, occupying the same level of power as Clinton during her term, I understood it as a condemnation of the privileges of political power in general and not a privilege of a particular political party.
> two birds duct-taped together
That's an oddly specific case - is this just a humorous idea, or an actual UFO explanation from real life?
Cool, I'll wait it out as it isn't really an issue for me, thanks for helping out though, it's really appreciated!
Looks like the only reason this interview was given/article was written was to try to get a few page views in the wake of Clinton saying some dumb off-the-cuff stuff about UFOs.
Some style guides recommend that word-like acronyms (i.e., pronounced as a word, rather than its individual letters) be capitalised as though they were normal words (cf. BBC vs. laser).
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It isn't a "fight" or a "Linux vs OpenBSD" thing. It is just how they approach development. One could argue if it is "good" or "bad", but what matters is knowing it exists.

Many projects have different approaches to development. Sure, many people work on bugs most of the time, but there are big decisions about where the limited resources are going to be spent on new features. Those are the ones that truly matter.

There are examples of amazing things people have just done on a whim, but that isn't truly a standard and much of those things are generally huge.
Ideally, Islam should be banned, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam#Punishment + the fact, that children of muslims are considered muslims is quite incompatible with modern humanity.
IIRC there's a jail-break plot twist involving them in Oath of Fealty by Niven and Pournelle…
Anyone know how this similar and different from Kafka? Or why Twittered decide to build their own instead of using and contributing to Kafka?
Just out of curiosity. I'm trying to decide which client-side framework/language to dive into, and it seems that many people consider Om Next a really nice step forward, away from "giant blob of state". My (uninformed) observation is that Elm does things the way Om (previous) did it: is that correct? Is Elm aiming to incorporate Om Next's advantages?
> but the last thing the world needs is a consolidated regional religious power of any kind.

As if that's not happened in Western societies?
That's the "how" not the "why".
> As a result, Linus wrote git.

And mpm wrote hg, never forget:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.2/0670.html

http://lwn.net/Articles/151624/
Presumably I won't be able to watch the videos using my Chromecast.
The royal family has an alliance with the clergy and basically the clergy helps the royal family maintain the support of the people while the royal family allows the clergy to spread Salafi (the nice way to say someone is a follower of Wahhabism) beliefs without much hinderance.
In general, you're unlikely to need them.

Instead of cobbling together disparate libraries for a virtual dom (React), state (Redux), immutability (Immutable.js), and types (Flow / TypeScript), the entire language and its core libraries are developed as a holistic (but still modular) unit. In this way, Elm is the BSD to JavaScript's GNU/Linux.

Strong typing and immutability are baked directly into the core language, elm-lang/html includes an efficient Virtual DOM, and Redux-style action / reducer cycles tend to naturally arise from "The Elm Architecture," and don't need significant support beyond what's already in the core language.

If you've bought into the React/Redux paradigm, it's worth giving Elm a shot: the entire language and core libraries are intentionally designed to more cleanly, reliably, and maintainably implement the same structure.
Don't worry, once those other services become popular enough they'll also be subject to a "bonkers copyright complaints system".
Why is it so inevitable that someone must come in and remind us that UFO != alien craft whenever there is a thread about UFOs? A UFO (in the common use of the term) is almost certainly not a foreign airplane, satellite, weird meteor, etc, because the cases that continue to be called UFOs generally are of objects that portray aerodynamics that are beyond any known sources. So yes, UFO does not mean alien craft, UFO means "some crazy ass shit that is almost definitely not something we understand" -- pointing out the distinction does not somehow neutralize the mystery of the cases that persist to this day (like the Belgian one in this article.) The 'extraterrestrial hypothesis' is certainly an attractive one to try to rule out for these cases, but nobody presumes to think it's the only one worth considering.
Why not Boost? / Why not libuv?

Why not EventMachine? / Why not Celluloid?

Why not Twisted? / Why not gevent?

This is a really sad situation unfortunately. I was hoping Rust wouldn't head down this road.

To preempt: a systems language shouldn't dictate these high-level matters, but there certainly should be one "blessed solution" vs. a sea of incompatible libraries.

Go doesn't have this problem, Node.js doesn't have this problem, Elixir doesn't have this problem. Sad deal.
So, in summary, this is a person who had very high levels of access to exactly the sort of documents that might indicate this sort of thing, he's a person searching for UFOs and UFO information so he might also tease out a pattern in suppressed information in these very high-level documents, and he's got literally nothing the rest of us haven't got.

The eternal-conspiracy answer is that there's an enormous coverup that knew he was interested and planned in advance that despite or because of this interest they would engage in a complicated dance in which they merely appeared to give him very high level access to government documents, but somehow completely sealed away all the evidence that would have led him to the putative truth (presumably dedicating untold thousands of man hours to this task, using their presumed army of informed people who still not a one of them ever leak the secret in any way), and then deliberately allowed him out into the public to say that despite his hopes he could find no evidence of aliens, to continue the coverup of the existence of aliens that still doesn't seem to be of particular benefit to anyone.

Alternatively, there really aren't any UFOs, because UFOs are uniquely a product of a 20th-century media portrayals, and if there really were aliens among us, they wouldn't be flying around in large primitive aircraft and occasionally crashing, they'd be a dusting of nanotechnology so sophisticated that it could quite likely edit out our own perceptions of the technology in real time. Because even though the latter may sound more fantastical at first, it's actually a plausible possibility of a high-level Kardashev 1+ civilization, whereas flying around in huge physical aircraft is just an unbelievably silly thing for a sophisticated alien race to do, now that we know much more about the limits of technology.

(Even we humans, with 21st century technology, do not have a purpose in flying around in low-flying craft that occasionally crash. We use satellites, or tap oceanic fiber cables, or fly in very high craft and use optics, or do any of dozens of far more sensible things, and we aren't a Kardeshev 1+ civilization.)
Retail/grocery pricing information. This barely exists in any capacity and is a literal goldmine once your database reaches critical mass.

On the other hand, it is fairly difficult data to gather - and even harder to keep up to date... it certainly falls into the class of "doing things that don't scale"
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a Linux Foundation Workgroup dedicated to creating open source software solutions for automotive applications. Although the initial target for AGL is In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) systems, additional use cases such as instrument clusters and telematics systems will eventually be supported. AGL has participants from the Automotive, Communications, and Semiconductor Industries and welcomes contributions from individual developers.
A startup company is a different beast from a well established organization that has time to kill on moderating interpersonal matters that really should be left to the two private individuals to work out on their own.

If I have an employee whose skin is so graphene thin that being called a MILF is something worthy of getting management involved, forcing the startup company to engage a lawyer in an expensive legal dilemma, well that is a huge waste of company time and resources and is an indication of misplaced priorities. Perhaps this person should find employment at a large established company with an HR department who can be the referee.