skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back then, it was like Spanish is in California. You see it everywhere, a huge number of people speak it, and there are a lot of Spanish-language media. However, English is still the dominant language.

German used to be everywhere, being heard in the streets, with large numbers of German-language newspapers and cultural clubs. The Germans, being Germans, liked to organize themselves into clubs.

It gradually died out, as immigrants stopped teaching it to their children. Usually the children of immigrants learned the language at home, but they didn't usually pass it on to their children. World Wars I and II did a huge amount to suppress German culture and language, but it would have eventually died out anyways.

By World War II, German was still common enough that the Army was able to find large numbers of German interpreters among the young men who had spoken it with their parents.

My grandmother knew German as a child, but the language in the family had switched to English by the time she was about 10 years old. Once she was grown, she wasn't married to a German speaker, and hadn't spoken it in years anyway, so none of her descendants learned it. By the time I talked to her about it in her 80s, the only German she could remember were a few lines of some children's poem she recited when she was a child.

I suspect that this will eventually happen to Spanish, although the continued migration of Spanish-speaking immigrants will slow down the process. Eventually, the non-Spanish-speaking descendants will greatly outnumber those who speak Spanish, and the language will slowly decline.
> How about being made available under the same price people in other countries pay and not being treated like a second class human?

To be clear, are you saying there is some kind of fundamental human principle that if some product or service is made available to N members of the public, it MUST be made available to ALL people worldwide at the same price (with perhaps adjustment for local differences in tax, etc.)?

Do you not feel the vendor also has every right and privilege to NOT bother doing such a thing for your convenience? And does it really seem 100% fair to the vendor that you're forcing them to choose between either (1) letting you steal their product, or (2) going through the trouble of making it available to you? Do people not have a right to produce things for less than 100% of the world population without allowing them to get stolen by the rest?
Show HN: Slack bot that replaces LMS/elearning software
I've been using ZenHub. Ditto. (along with many other similar tools)
> The city created a three-way stop before the curve that has slowed traffic on the street and seems to have reduced non-local traffic.

How is this not the same NIMBY entitlement? "There are too many people using this public road, let's make it more arduous to use and let someone else suffer the traffic." That doesn't actually reduce traffic, it only redirects it. And if the people now receiving the traffic respond in kind to restore the original balance all you've done is put up more stop signs, which cause vehicles to stop and then have to accelerate again, increasing air pollution and climate change and redirecting more money to terrorism-supporting countries.
The proposed changes exactly address this cause - any the geoblocking provisions in contracts (including previous contracts) would be null and void, so the producer would be legally able to distribute the content across the whole EU under the same conditions as for the EU part (e.g. UK) they originally had, while ignoring any geographical restrictions.

It's just as in other industries where you can't legally limit your wholesalers/distributors to sell within a particular area only, that's a violation of anti-trust laws.
Except that it's the opposite of a congestion incentive... it's unmetering so people can use high-bandwidth using services. And if you're offering that any service can sign up to not be metered, then why even meter bandwidth at all?
Their earlier post about rebuilding their data infrastructure is more interesting imho: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11474284
Guilt by association?

So if anyone attacks his friends or family, alls fair, because they chose to associate with the kind of person that would illegally invade someones house with a mob...
I guess you mean they're treated badly?

The legal system in western countries is very biased in favour of rape accusers. Shield laws are a concrete manifestation of that. Often police are told to automatically believe any rape accusation even if their common sense is telling them it's likely to be false. And so on.

Yes, if you make a serious accusation against someone, their defence lawyer is going to ask difficult questions. You're attempting to make their life literally hell, by jailing them for a long time. Being asked a few questions is in no way comparable.
Judgment of Solomon
It's more about looking over the source code of the KeepassX app and just that (not all applications you use, of course we have to trust some of them), the code changes are (when there are changes) ~10 lines a month, not a huge amount to check.
Given how the average car made today can do 200,000+ miles with minimal problems (especially if they're mostly highway miles), I don't think "putting too many miles on the car" would be a limiting factor.
Meanwhile maybe two children die in drowning incidents because fire engines and ambulances aren't able to effectively navigate your makeshift 'traffic abatement' program. How's your compromise now?
Thanks. Web API access to jobs is provided for free, job output storage schema is defined and handled with s3, and logging persisted to s3. Luigi provides nothing but the skeleton for writing data processing applications. This is a data processing application skeleton that can be forked and expanded upon.
Did anybody else get the certificate error for blogs.microsoft.com?
>they do not store any data that could infringe upon copyrights, they only store links to that data

This argument has largely not held up in court. See Isohunt.

I've asked elsewhere in this thread for a single example of this argument (for a torrent site) working in US courts, and nobody had one. Do you know of any?
Count me as upset.

It says "get access to the beta", and then not only it doesn't give that after I gave my name and email, but it additionally asks to send a link (spam) to your friends to get the "priority invitation" whenever that's due.

So, that would be one less potential customer -- and I have bought both Quiver and Dash in that category...
Well, that's not true. The two key advances of indoor farming are preventing water waste and being able exponentially increase farmable area, by stacking levels. Those two advances will get cheaper and easier for the forseeable future - meanwhile fresh water and farmable land gets scarcer and thus more expensive. The cost of each option will definitely approach parity long before "always" is over.
If you're looking for something similar, look at Troop[1] (Slack + Trello). Seriously good workflow and execution.

[1] https://troop.space
Well, to be fair, you can adopt some of their component strategies and still be successful, which I'm sort of surprised isn't more common. Traditional data center management is still ubiquitous, it's been like a decade and a half now, I'm surprised that the "google-way" isn't more common. Though partly that is somewhat dependent on vertical integration in system manufacturing.

The interesting thing about a lot of the big successful tech companies is that they blend things that are often difficult to find together naturally, which makes their success difficult to replicate. Google basically runs on alien technology, they're sort of the ... I guess Tesla or SpaceX of web-apps. It's possible to do what they do, but it's so outside the range of the traditional way of doing things that it would take a tremendous amount of talent, vision, and determination to pull it off. Though google is also very dysfunctional in places so from a business sense it's not actually as hard to compete against them as it may seem. Apple is built on a weird marriage of solid aesthetic sensibilities and solid engineering fundamentals. And then Amazon which marries cutting edge fulfillment to a solid web store front-end.

For a lot of these things it'd be straightforward to try to build one aspect, but getting all of them together is a huge challenge.
English is not my native language so I apologize for the misunderstanding, I didn't mean any sarcasm here.

There is a big difference between releasing software "as-is", and saying - or making it look like - it will be supported for a long time:

> "it was previously stated that Angular 1 will be supported for a long time to come" - Zach Bjornson

Arguably, one of the main goals of Open Source is to be used. If companies that set expectations of support don't support it, then I think the future of Open Source is really doomed.
It's weird to me that noting which names are likely jewish is taboo

It's weird to me that people ever made a note of it at all. But that's my POV having grown up in a...less than enlightened area of the U. S. IOW, if anyone ever made a note about the origins of a particular name, it was usually in the context of, "Levi SomethingStein? Sounds like a Jew name!" and not meant as a compliment. I always thought it was silly, but your post gives me a new perspective on a possible good reason to do this.

But given how I always thought it was silly (or rather where I grew up, bigoted and mean-spirited), I sometimes missed the obvious. A co-worker once took the day off for $JEWISH_HOLIDAY. I commented, "oh, didn't know John was Jewish." "Dude, his last name is GOLDHAMMER." Oh. Duh. Seems kind of obvious now.
Only got in the Ubuntu repos lately and not everybody uses Debian and derivatives.
I met Allan at a conference a couple of years ago, and after meeting him, I recall skipping most of the sessions just to pick his brain about all things business — marketing, structure, etc. He's still one of the nicest folks I've ever met.

Months later, was connected with him again on Skype, and he remembered just about everything about our interaction, and once again, was super nice and helpful with all of my questions.

I also met Steven quite briefly at the same conference this year. Although we didn't talk for hours on end, he was also very kind, and very approachable.

Anyway, really happy for both of them. It's great to read that nice guys don't always have to finish last.
Both usernames end in 2
>If I show up in court with a bill that shows you owe me a million dollars, I attest that we agreed to it, and you don't challenge that fact? That's the truth as far as the court is concerned. //

Absolutely not. A court shouldn't sit on "anything said that isn't challenged is 100% true", it should look in a tort case on the balance of probabilities. IMO courts should attempt to discover what is true and rule on that, not attempt to find who can afford to pay for the best lawyer.
Built-in syntax highlight support, viewer, file management, tags, etc... Isn't it obvious?
Enforcement is the entire point. A failed return from a recv() may be an application problem. It doesn't compress.

> ..software is a purely logical artifact

No. No, sir , it is not. There is no magical unicorn version of communications in which you can simply assume it all always gets there instantly and in order. We can get close - severely underutilized Ethernet & 802.11 spoil us - but nuh uh.

> Make no mistake, it is expensive.

And you wonder why they are like they are :) "you can't afford it, honey." :)

> It doesn't work if it breaks.

Indeed.
That implies a rational business. Rationally, new content ends up on the internet, unencrypted, within minutes of air, and all the whackamole in the world doesn't change that.

All the anti-piracy methods practiced by major content providers is inherently irrational.
At a first approximation, it sounds like the problem is perverse incentives, not buggy code. The code does what it's supposed to, but it has consequences that were either not noticed or not publicised.
Shipping is a different issue, but yes, every european company has to serve all european customers. If you have a shoe shop, you're not mandated to open a branch everywhere but if a foreigner from different EU country comes to buy then it would be illegal to decline them based on their citizenship, country of residence or country of their creditcard - in the exact same manner as currently online services are currently declining to serve customers based on their estimated location or nationality.

In a similar manner, if you're a manufacturer and want to sell shoes a wholesaler in e.g. Germany, then you're not obligated to sell them in other countries but you are prohibited from mandating that they must be sold only in Germany - the wholesaler and their customers are free to re-distribute them in neighbouring Austria even if you don't want them to.
Yes, they are useful. I like the ability to use TaskJuggler, a Ruby program, where you can edit the project info via your favorite text editor, then run TJ against it to produce various reports.

The nice thing about Gantt is that it can show up your expectations as being too optimistic, very quickly.
How does your average driver know that the traffic control signage is official when the residents are putting up their own privately owned signs for traffic control?

If they have to 'err on the side of caution', then the residents win, despite having no legal right.
Did any of them produce a killer app though
What a cop out. Actually, the legal system does help many rape victims when they have plenty of eyewitnesses backing up multiple accounts plus testimony from people like Nick Farr about character in general.

Tweets, a smear site... these dont stop rapists. Cops and courts regularly do. Not always but many times. This is a police matter but treated as an internet game.
I don't think it's really a PR move. Certainly it could be a PR move, but whether or not GreaseMonkey exists, banning this plugin is perfectly justified on moral grounds.

I don't disagree with you about software freedom, but this plugin sounds like it was specifically intended to direct hate speech. Another commenter in the tree included a link to a different posting about how the ((())) is used as a marker to target people online. This app injects the ((()))'s.

If the plugin had used a less loaded indicator, I might see this situation differently. However, since the plugin is using an indicator specifically intended to mark people for abuse online, I have no doubt about its intentions.

Edit: Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826647
Silicon Valley Values
Not according to Demis Hassabis: https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/739832323160563712
Contemporary architecture is more interested in mega projects for elites
ScriptSafe for Chrome. DisConnect or Ghostery maybe? Not quite the same, but they do break web pages just as well as NoScript. :)

I'm hoping someone else posts some reasonably user-friendly alternatives. Adblockers can be manageable for technically less-savvy users, but I'd never have considered putting NoScript or even Disconnect on my parents' computers for fear of how often I'd get help desk calls from them.
That escalation from stop signs to funding terrorists was entertaining to say the least
> No. No, sir , it is not. There is no magical unicorn version of communications in which you can simply assume it all always gets there instantly and in order. We can get close - severely underutilized Ethernet & 802.11 spoil us - but nuh uh.

That simply means you want an unimplementable abstraction. (Perfectly reliable sequential communication over a computer network.) Of course it doesn't make sense to want impossible things.

> And you wonder why they are like they are :) "you can't afford it, honey." :)

This brokenness can't be fixed at the level of business applications. Languages and standard libraries need to be fixed first.
Markdown (.md) is the format and outputs what is essentially a text file. The translation to nice and proper formatting that you see on the right hand side is what the apps are for. Granted there are in-line symbols throughout if you just look at the raw file, but I don't think markdown converters will die out anytime soon.
Why yes, laws can be changed by man, and that's why they have made these customer protection laws and will likely change them to be even stricter in future. At least in the EU, there is strong support for that.
Microsoft is trying to deliver the entire white collar productivity experience and I have to say I appreciate the vision but I hope a closed platform and single value chain doesn't win this battle.

There's little bits of Trello (the main Planner functionality), Google Drive (MSFT competitor Office365), and Slack (auto notifications).

I want the diverse value chain to thrive to increase innovation and extensibility on each link in the space.
By that argument, would you have an objection to me operating a horse carriage on a freeway?
Prove that function has only one maximum
The problem in your case is that the sidewalks were inadequate or nonexistent; the solution then would be to widen them at the expense of the streets, perhaps install more crosswalks, not preventing nonresident drivers from coming through.
We're gonna build a dome around the continental US and make the united nations pay for it!!
Because the .ORG registry is an American company. As disgusting as I feel agreeing with a AA on anything, they're probably within their legal rights here.

Not that they should be, mind. Domain registry needs to be a neutral ground and absolutely should not be subject to any kind of takedowns. A domain name points to an IP address - go after that. If it points to another country, your job just got harder, but that doesn't make it my job.
That's interesting because I completely disagree with the premise of the essay. The simple fact is, we've tried repeatedly to make programming environments that were accessible to non-programmers. Cobol. SQL. LabView. Visual Basic. The end result of every single one of those efforts has been exactly the same: a tool that the intended users do not use, and one that the programmers they hire hate to use.

There is a fair amount of accidental complexity with programming, but there is even more inherent complexity. Thinking about problems using strict formal logic is hard. It's not something that everyone has the time, patience or inclination to do. I am 100% in Bob's camp in that argument; I think it's utterly and completely unrealistic to expect the average person to know how to patch together APIs in order to deliver functionality. Moreover, I don't even think it's a bad thing. Most people call a plumber when their pipe springs a leak. Most people call a mechanic when their car starts spewing smoke. I think it's fair that most people would call a programmer when they need an application made.
Looking for something like this with asciidoc(tor) support and simple, local file storage. Still using Notational Velocity in the meantime - it's wicked-fast:

http://notational.net

nvALT is a newer fork with Markdown support:

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
No. The point doesn't still stand. It never stood.

All else held constant, increased labor supply means lower wages for all. So, the prevailing wage goes down for everyone. Sure, companies have to pay everyone equally, so everyone just gets paid less.

It's simple supply and demand. I think some are taking these simple statements of fact as some sort of anti-immigrant rant or advocacy of the current H1-B policy. It's not. But, if you want to fix it, you first have to understand it.
I can think of a few reasons. Drivers should be protected from a mishmash of locality-specific traffic configurations and rules, so it's beneficial to have the state enforce some uniformity and best practices (and obviously a good bit of that is derived from the Feds).

Also, the state (and thus the state's taxpayers) ends up paying for a good chunk of local roads. Cambridge or any other locality shouldn't have free reign to let NIMBYism make life difficult for out-of-town commuters.
I absolutely love dailydrip.com too on top of Elixir and Elm...those languages paired with such a great learning source is simply phenomenal.
According to this essay, about 3% of men will get falsely accused of rape in their lifetime: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/17/lies-damned-lies-and-so...

The real number is impossible to determine, but is uncomfortably high.
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked
It's a dumb article. Applebaum's statement says quite clearly "the claims are false" but this so-called analysis tries to argue it's the opposite.
But it does compete with free. It's included in all of the office 365 business and enterprise subscriptions. So this is effectively free to a large set of business customers.
Right... and the advertised TOC of their folders is mostly what? 99.999% linux distros I presume?
Plus.. I actually enjoy coding. I wouldn't even want to automate my job. I know that in the past I've wanted ways to escape working, but now that I'm a developer I couldn't imagine finding ways not to work (I guess except for browsing HN)
Cool! It was really helpful!
Imo yc is not only about creating billions. They fund nonprofits etc. That would be cool and a tremendous spread o f knowledge for startupers
The case of the Amistad in 1839 (fictionalised in a famous Spielberg movie) shows that this was not at all the case in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Amistad

I'm sure many slaves were slave-born in that period, but it seems they were still importing people from Africa en masse.
If someone attacked his friends or family, God help them, because nobody else will.

Fairness is not a universal concept. What is fair is determined by who has the bigger clan and the most guns. Some places, that's the state. In far more places than you would believe, the state is too weak to enforce its version of justice, so it's left up to men like Buck and his brother. Are they going to do it to your standards? Probably not. So it's on you to not piss them off.
Actually, with enough female witnesses it's usually easy to get a conviction out of a jury. Matter of fact, it's easy enough that men are regularly released when DNA evidence shows they were wrongly convicted based on one woman's word.

This shouldve been sent to the police either with first event or once it became a trend. Instead, we have tweets, stylistic websites, and otherwise a full smear campaign going on pretending to protect people. If it's real, they need to take legal action to prove it. If proven, the guy is locked up. Only then is anyone protected. Suspicious they'll do anything but testify under oath.
Gantt charts are great for showing task dependencies, but I agree that they rarely predict task length correctly.
Bitcoin now computes more hashes in 6secs than there are grains of sand on Earth
What about all its dependencies? What if someone made some unsuspicious changes in a UI library that it uses that have a side effect on the security of KeepassX?
Is there a way to get reliable data on that?
Of course it also makes collisions more likely at a given speed because there is less margin for error in estimating how much space you need on either side of your vehicle.

I still can't understand this logic of "let's make the roads safer by making them more dangerous" as if the only factor is how fast people are going. Wouldn't it be better to make roads that are safe at the speeds people want to drive? Build sidewalks so pedestrians don't have to be walking in the street etc., and let bicycles use them because a bicyclist is clearly more like a pedestrian than a car?