skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always surprised that Ruby in particular, given its purely Japanese roots, resembles SVO a lot more than SOV.

Though, on the other hand, for object-oriented languages in general, I often wish people new to them knew Japanese, because the "." operator (field-access, method lookup/calling) is kind of hard to explain in terms of English grammar, but in Japanese, you can just tell students to pronounce it as a の and they immediately get it.
This has nothing to do with complexity or tooling.

Many people, including you, forget that TLS protects content from tampering. ISPs, captive portals, and other network entities are known for injecting ads or intercepting transmissions. Imagine your liability if a bad actor is injecting child porn on your site to a large portion of your audience. This isn't unheard of, by the way. Arguably less criminal, even Comcast is known for injecting content into pages.[1]

[1]: https://gist.github.com/ryankearney/4146814
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Mother Kali is very cool :-)

I think my favorite, though, is Akhilandeshvari. Just thinking about her brings tears to my eyes.

(I know only what little I've read about them. I'm not a practicing Hindu. Maybe I was in a past life :-)
> A dog emoji is not necessary or desirable for discussing dogs in text, and a 福倒 emoji is not necessary or desirable for discussing 福倒s in text.

"Necessary" is an ill-defined and reductive way of looking at communication. History has shown us that you can't draw bright lines between things you, in the abstract, have decided are the "necessary" subset, and expect the world to follow along.

Linguists have come to understand that you can only describe and follow human, behaviour, not prescribe it.

Anyways, humans plainly found it necessary to annotate their text messages with pictoral indicators of their mood, to the point where it became so widely spread and such a mess that we felt it desirable to standardize the code-point representations. That it isn't desirable in all circumstances or appropriate in all registers of formality does not mean that it isn't an emergent behaviour which will continue to arise whether or not it is "necessary".

tl;dr I don't really give a shit that "dog emoji" isn't appropriate for an academic text on canine surgery. It's more than sufficient to me that it is used millions of times in text messages between regular human beings. Text needn't be formal text to deserve respect in encoding.
The ‘Wolf Spirit’ and Chinese Corporate Culture
“They're lightweight userspace threads and you can have thousands of them.” — can I use 1000 lightweight userspace threads to run 1000 concurrent kernel-space IO operations on files or sockets, one thread each?
There may be an effect there, but IMHO it would be a lot smaller than what we're seeing. As of 1:49, about 14.5 million shares have traded on the open market with an average price of about 25. Seems like there's healthy appetite for the shares far above the IPO price.

It's troubling to think of the conflicts of interest that go into the pricing of an IPO. The company would like it to be as high as possble, holding the number of shares sold constant. Investment bankers would like to preserve their good relationship with the hoardes of potential IPO investors, and therefore would like the IPO price to be below the "true value" of the stock, to provide their clients with a nice short term return. Another interesting bit, is that most of the employees of the company going public actually care about the price of the stock six months from now when their lockup ends, so their incentives are not exactly aligned either.

In short, the whole "big price pop on day 1 == good" idea needs to go away.
That's so true. Culture has such a tremendous impact, that it feels like a no-brainer to put an effort to cherishing it.
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Roach Motel Testing
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/05/25/insanely-huge-japanese-roach-trap-is-strong-enough-to-catch-a-sumo-wrestler-%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91/

Inspired by the video, I had a tongue-in-cheek idea: an IOT app that tells you when a cockroach has been trapped.
If it really is using all electric actuators that's pretty big. This would be one of the first of Boston Dynamics' all electric robots.

What exactly does using electric actuators over hydraulics buy us? Less noise, greater efficiency, and reliability. Reliability is very important for both house hold and industrial robots. We typically measure reliability in terms of Mean Time Between Failures, aka, how long it typically last before breaking. For industrial robots this is important as the higher the reliability is the more money it makes. Industrial robots tend to have MTBFs of 100,000 hours or about 10 years.

Reliability is also important for household robots too, a big expensive robot that breaks down all the time appeals to few people.
Do they leave work at that time, or do they just go to work at home?
I'll read the article later, but this sounds like a replay of about twenty years ago. Articles in the WSJ, NYT, et. al., about how CA's high housing prices and taxation are causing an exodus to such places as Las Vegas (and we see how that turned out). I was too young to have paid attention at the time, but I wouldn't be surprised to go back to the archives to the 70s, where one might find the same articles.

I know, this time it's different $BECAUSE_REASONS. No, it's not. Some individuals and companies will leave, but CA will continue to be crowded in some areas, heavily taxed, and costly, just like it's always been.
How is that the user's problem?
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Since that question is related to Ecto, I will take it. :) Right now it is not possible to use the new Calendar types in Ecto. The plan is for Ecto v2.1 to come in about a month, when v1.3 is a bit more stable, and it will introduce the `:datetime`, `:time` and `:date` types that will map to Elixir's v1.3 new Calendar types.

TL;DR - not yet, soon.
The article says it was technical issues. That has nothing to do with the discussion.
What other method would you suggest they become a sustainable business?
BD is only focusing on the platform.

Google is working on the deep learning aspect of finding out what to do / action and how to do it.

The control theory remark above is true, however even with deep learning, you can start your estimate of the parameters with the current control state, which reduces training time significantly.
After working with a non-profit who had transactions frozen because they mentioned Cuba in a comment field I have stopped using Paypal on all future projects. It's easy to implement for non profits but it's just not worth it to these people to have to worry about the hassle of actually getting their money.
Or at least not actively hiring in the place you're going to relocate from
Microsoft is welcome to include a native content blocker in their rendering engine
I'm a Canadian who recently relocated to SV from London, UK. Before that I was at RIM/BBRY in Waterloo. After receiving my job offer and an invitation letter from the company I flew to the US and, at the border, applied for a "TN Status". Cost me $50 and about an hour and a half. It gives me a 3 year work permit at my employer, which is renewable.
Open world is a mixed bag. Some of my favourite games are open world and I love exploring game worlds. But the current trend of making every single game open-world usually backfires.

I'd reather have a carefully designed closed spaced with backtracking (Metal Gear Solid, Metroidvanias) that an open world with a dozen of hand-designed places.

The biggest contrast I found was between Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. In the former you are contantly traversing the old places and trying out stuff with your new abilities. On the latter, you just fly in a straight line to your objective. AA is better at gauging your curiosity while in AC, you must actively explore stuff.
Interesting ideas but I have some big doubts about the last statement.

> In the long run social conservatives will win though, because they have way more children than feminists (male and female). Feminist attitudes will simply die out.

You know the film Idiocracy? It's a hilariously satirical scifi story based on the premise of "intelligent people reproduce way less than stupid people, therefore intelligence will die out".

Which is a very funny idea, but it's just not how selection works.

Your example is doubtful for slightly different reasons. Historically, the selection pressure on pieces of information (Feminist attitudes) has always been strongly tied to the reproductive ability of the medium it is embedded in (people). However, that is changing, information is getting loose, first as artifacts, writing, but today it even has forms of agency (computing). The world population will stagnate, which also factors into it. Spreading your genes used to be, but really is no longer a guarantee to also spread your ideas.

Or maybe look at it the other way, if things work the way you describe, where did Feminism come from in the first place? How could it ever gain mainstream traction in an environment filled with reproducing conservatives? It's a bit absurd. Also, if the process you describe only affects "the long run", what's stopping Feminism from popping up over and over again in the short term?
Easily the most impressive household robot ever built.
and that is why the 2nd amendment exists. justice finds a way.
> even though it's based on WordPress

I consider this to be an advantage actually. At least if you do not only want a standalone shop, but an integrative website with a news/blog area, static pages like faq to draw in customers.
Twitter's Fabric launches new updates for its Unity plugin
Nexmo or Plivo, but neither appear to be doing too well comparatively...... [0] although Plivo appears cheaper from other comments posted here.

[0] (paywall warning: "display:none;" the interstitial modal window) http://stackshare.io/stackups/twilio-vs-nexmo-vs-plivo
It's weird to dismiss this as marketing is somehow not a valid reason to do something! The entire IPO process is heavily about marketing yourself - to bankers, to asset management companies, to other investors, to future employees, to analysts, etc. Twilio is an API company, do you know how boring that is to most people? Most people can barely grip the idea of what an API even is, never mind what it does or why on earth you'd want to invest in it. This is an excellent demonstration of what the product does - it's giving physical form and a real world demo to an API company, and that's incredibly meaningful! Not to mention they are all over the news media today - this is their day, and this provides a great TV shot and provides good info to viewers. When Square IPO'd, they brought the readers to show off to viewers. When you have an API company, you have to be a little more creative. It's just a really great idea, don't be so hard on them :)
Perhaps the fairest approach would be to compare results across the different browsers with the presence or absence of various adblockers:

* Edge (no adblocker)
* Opera (default adblocker)
* Opera (adblocker disabled)
* Chrome (no adblocker)
* Chrome (uBlock Origin)

Otherwise you're just lying through omission to make your product seem better.
You mean Rat Things, right?

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Rat_Things_(Snow_Crash)
Now I am waiting for a web server Guildenstern in Nim.
I wouldn't hold my breath because I think you will be pretty disappointed.
Comodo's behavior is shameful. How can we punish them? Is there a way to move away from using their services?
Oh, for sure. And it's better to "leave money on the table" than come out with a whimper. The pop will almost certainly help them do a secondary in the next 4-18 months.
Elastic Beanstalk seems to be a really convenient service. I tried it with the free tiers for a random side project a while back. Unfortunately I accidentally ran two applications which placed me outside of the free tier. Didn't notice until about a month later when the cost had added up. Quite disappointed by the confusing interface and complex billing, which I hope they'll improve.
As someone working in tech in San Francisco I was thinking the same thing. Sounds like they left a lot of engineering talent twisting in the wind. Good luck replacing them in the Bay Area. Especially after this news gets out. In other news the phrase: "Canadian Peso" deserves a golf clap.
That was a fantastic presentation. Thanks a bunch for all your work.
How about in a case of a robot raping someone? Should I just let it rape me or someone near me until the batteries die?

Sorry, I was lucky enough to be born in a country where I'm allowed to defend myself. And if a robot or a person starts raping me, I'm not going to let them finish until they wear out.
Because it's easier to throw in random icons than to actually accomplish the goal of "every letter in every language in common use for the past 200 years", or even "past 20 years".

Or, put another way:

'We have an unambiguous, cross-platform way to represent “PILE OF POO” (), while we’re still debating which of the 1.2 billion native Chinese speakers deserve to spell their own names correctly.'

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...
I imagine this robot is only a few weeks/months away from being able to plug itself in to recharge from any household socket.
"hacker" news... don't do it the "right" way... just hack away and claim you're done.

a bunch of idiots.
The overlooked competitive advantage
It's not on by default though.
Microsoft didn't just do a battery test, they also release statistics based on Windows 10 telemetry showing that Edge has better battery life than Chrome, Firefox:

"In addition to testing battery life internally, Microsoft also looks at tens of millions of PCs that send telemetry data to the firm, Weber said. And what it sees there is simple: A small advantage over Firefox, but massive gains of about 50 percent additional battery life when compared to Chrome."

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/68176/microsoft-...
You'll probably find Phoenix a much easier to get started in. The database layer will feel weird and foreign to you, but you'll feel right at home with everything else. And after awhile you'll probably start to appreciate the decisions that went into the database layer, even though they still involve you typing a little more than you do for ActiveRecord.
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That seems like splitting hairs to me. Would you want people to reject your software just because of your nationality or that of your company? Probably not. So it seems to me that an implication of the golden rule is that we shouldn't do that.
The danger I was referring to is in shaping your own worldview to be too widely divergent from reality. If you don't care about that, I suppose that's your choice.
See also "Coq: The world's best macro assembler?": http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
One of the reasons why Minecraft is so revolutionary is that because it was an indy game, it could peg its graphical fidelity to same crude level as the simulation. The whole world is WYSIWYG in a way that high graphical fidelity FPS games aren't. High res games are showing you all sorts of details that can't be simulated in any detail.

A commercial game would never have been made with such blocky graphics and low resolution textures, because they would be scared to market such a clunky looking game. But the clunky-ness of the graphics enables the fidelity between the look and the simulation. The irony is it is so successful it made low res graphics a style.
While a worthy cause, Firefox would be utterly broken if Comodo was no longer a trusted CA.
Oh well. I'm about to finish up a tiny game that I've been working on, and it will be fun to see what happens. At the very least, I've enjoyed learning SceneKit and practicing Swift.
Out of all of the asinine startup job postings looking for "rock stars", this guy is truly one. Awesome.
The point is that referring to Visa and MC as a duopoly is inaccurate. There are other ways to process payments besides through the credit card system.
Tom Scott has a great video about the history of emoji. Basically, some companies in far east countries were encoding these icons in various proprietary codes for their messaging systems. The ecosystem became widespread and consistent enough that the unicode consortium saw it fit to include these emoji in the standard.

The snowman, on the other hand, is a weather symbol for snow, I assume. It appears alongside other symbols for meteorological phenomena, so I imagine was added around the same time and with similar reasoning: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/miscellaneous_...
Wouldn't have to worry about firing me, I'd quit.
> So yes, moving to standardized logic is a win against bias, because standardized logic can be opened and analyzed and modified.

The algorithm in the original article is not open and generally, that is the problem.
I don't see the point in comparing the two but if you want to, Twitter had much better near-term post-IPO performance than Facebook did. We all know what happened after that. It's almost as if during a period where little fundamental information is available (post-IPO), something else must be driving trading (sentiment), while when more fundamental information is available (first earnings report), fundamental information plays more of a role.
Well a license is just a form of contract. In particular, a license is only valid for the term of the licensing contract--once the term expires, so does the license. This permits the licensor to compel the licensee to comply with conditions during the term of the contract. If they don't, the contract is violated and the license is withdrawn.

Copyright assignment is more like a sales contract (at least in the U.S.). It doesn't have a term, but rather is complete once executed. Once it's executed, the new property owner can do what they want with the property. This makes it hard for the seller to compel the buyer to comply with conditions once the sale is done. Like selling a car to someone and saying "if you buy this car you can't drive it to to Texas." Once it's titled in their name, they can drive it wherever they want.
I posted this in the Elixir 1.3 thread but also relevant here. If you're looking to understand why you/your company may want to consider migrating from Rails to Phoenix you can check out my RailsConf talk on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhTQdcieQE
Sounds good! I am actually waiting for this exact feature before starting my next project, since I have to deal with a lot of time range queries (all items from the Last 48h, ...)

I really appreciate the work of you all!
I think AMEX makes about 65% of its revenue on interchange fees?
That's OK.

I will say that the GOP blocking these proposals is one of the very few times I've felt like anyone in the legislature is actually representing my beliefs.
New Data Security Model for Azure
Depends really. I prefer using ubuntu but win 10 + edge gives nearly double the battery life, so when I'm out and about I have to use win 10.
Uuid makes a great token.
I stuck it out until he confiscated the personal laptop of an engineer who had permission to use it on network.

After that I got permission to work from home for a month and used the opportunity to find a new job.
There's calls right here in this discussion to alter the constitution. It's not sacrosanct. So it's not impossible to regulate guns in a way that would not be allowed under today's constitution, just difficult.

edit: I see you've discussed this below. Interesting though that gun owners rising up to protect themselves from the government wouldn't be constitutional (it would be done under the authority of the gun, not under the authority of the Constitution).
Of course it is. But if you care a lot about battery life, you might wonder if you should use Edge with an ad blocker or Opera, and the provided benchmarks are not very useful for determining which of those options is superior.
That's why people need to work up from karts to more and more powerful cars. By the time you're ready for a 911 you shouldn't be wondering, you should know.
What future do you imagine where lack of offspring will be extremely apparent?

If the world population growth doesn't stop one way, it will stop the hard way. You can only fit so many humans on this planet.
IIRC HN might have a character whitelist to prevent overloads of combining or layout-altering characters, and not have to worry about the behavior of newly added characters. There were some comment threads a few years ago that were just stacks of hundreds of combining diacritics that would crash some rendering engines and create odd decorated text on others.
Building Cross Platform Native Mobile Applications with NativeScript
They should also release control videos which show both machines with battery saver on or both off.
I used to work for a company that vaguely competed with them. It was frustrating to have people ask "why does your service cost so much compared to Twilio" and to bite my tongue and say something diplomatic rather than "because we're running an actual business that makes money rather than a VC-funded playpen". Apparently they're not even cash-flow positive at this point?
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Reliability is not an issue for industrial hydraulics (they rarely break down) however they do require a lot of maintenance, are filled with hot (dirty) hydraulic fluid and are noisy (pumps). Electric solves all those issues.
They could have turned on an ad blocker for Edge as well.
I wonder how many good people just had enough of it and left. In environments like these you either go mad or get so detatched from your company, that you don't give a shit about anything anymore... or you just leave...
>It is amazing how Mir courted disaster[1] but ended its mission without fatalities or serious injuries.

Mir is a space station with a crew size of two. Its not a vehicle that regularly does re-entry. Comparing it to the STS makes no sense and reveals a certain amount of bias on your part. Often when something foreign is criticized on HN, there's always some poster making a half-assed "but, but the US is worse" argument for whatever reason. Its standard Whataboutism. A propaganda technique from the Soviets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Not everything has to have this cold war us vs them mentality. Space station docking systems is an interesting topic, its a shame you had to drag mindless whataboutism into it.

No, its not amazing no one died on it. Space stations are historically very safe with zero deaths in all of humanity's space history. This collsion with the Progress supply ship is interesting from a historical perspective and may answer questions on why the US never got into unmanned remote control solutions like the Soviets did.

> in a test intended to establish whether Russia could reduce the cost of Progress missions by eliminating the Kurs automated docking system. At 09:18 UTC, whilst under the control of Vasily Tsibliyev, the Progress spacecraft collided with the space station's Spektr module, damaging both the module itself, and a solar panel.

Source: wikipedia.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they have plans to use ACME. They do have a public API (StartAPI) for issuance, which is better than nothing, but they definitely missed an opportunity with ACME, IMO. Mainly, being the first CA with OV/EV support that would also benefit from the existing ACME ecosystem (i.e. server auto-configuration).

StartEncrypt, the equivalent of an ACME client for their API, appears to be a closed-source binary blob with no documentation whatsoever (based on what's visible on their product landing page and what's inside the downloaded files).