skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay. I can't spend so much time explaining the virtues of "freedom". I also can't spend time trying to reason with "rational" people who like all the post-modernists basically believe in narratives, and not truth (philosophically speaking).

- My contention is not about speaking English, "rational" people (I speak English!). It is about how economically dominant a language is; in East Asia/Europe getting a good job without knowing the local language is extraordinarily difficult. Speaking English (without other awesome skills) often lands one a position teaching high schoolers.

- This power/economic structure is inverted in formerly colonized African nations as noted by the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. He was kicked out for raising such questions (so much for Kenyan Independence).

- It's very apparent that this is the case in India too.

Why?

- It doesn't look like one can get a Tech job at ISRO (imaginably also Flipkart) having a Engineering degree in one of the native languages. What appears to be Hindi is barely to be found on the menus on its front page.

A "lingua franca" is one to which everyone makes a translation from the original, for the world to read. It appears that the original itself is in English, here!

- This being the case, I'm not even sure if you can get a degree in anything useful in any of the native languages.

- Punching in "India English" threw up the following in the first few results,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/how-english...

- There seems to be lots of chatter in the search results on an as yet unnamed invisible hand disenfranchising people linguistically (people are taught in English ??!).

- According to Wiki, only 10% of India speaks English.

This is the classic workings of a feudal - ironically a pre-enlightenment - state, if not one practicing outright apartheid.

It's almost as if India stepped into medieval Europe's shoes where the rich sent their kids to Latin grammar schools; or Tsarist Russia where French was the langue de l'élite (atleast Tolstoy wrote in Russian as noted by the NyT article!).

If you want to invalidate my understanding, either show one of the above to false, or show why it's alright by making statements about their benignity (vis a vis a linguistically diverse EU, for instance). Otherwise, please spare me the downvotes and the verbiage.

I don't think such political HN threads help anyone (although, they do reveal colors).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puK5CwThaq4
So when I stub my toe against a wall, can I call that an accident, or is that a toe crash?

An accident doesn't mean it was unpreventable. It just means it was not intended.
The prudent thing is to only do cash-positive transactions, but that's easier said than done when the majority of your net worth is tied to your company.

Good Technologies is a good example -- any employee who purchased NSOs while they were still private got shafted: http://www.businessinsider.com/long-weird-history-of-good-te...
Amazon has earned my trust in every serious interaction I've had with them (live in USA and have prime subscription). Package never arrived? Reimbursed. Next day shipping and it took 2 days? Reimbursed. "New" book from reseller is clearly marked up with underlines and notes? Free book, no need to ship it back.

The trust I have with this company is the reason why I order from them so consistently, even if they are more expensive. People in India are surely learning the same thing.
So you have an asset that is considered worth a price, but you cannot buy it or sell it at that price? Seems to me an unfortunate tax policy.
Bear in mind that Sprint is one of the options. Fi uses both T-Mobile and Sprint and intelligently selects between the two based on network reception and performance (the latter being the coolest feature -- my 4G speeds are consistently fast).

Sprint was probably cheaper than Verizon and AT&T, making them a more economical choice.

The second reason I have no solid data on and have been meaning to investigate further since the anecdotal experiences I have had with Fi support it (but have no idea how to get good data on this[0]). I think T-Mobile's and Sprint's networks are complimentary and Sprint has reach in places where nobody else provides good coverage. The concrete example of this is my parents' home in the thumb area of Michigan. Every other provider has a dead zone near Fort Gratiot going for about 2 miles on M-25...except Sprint. Every provider has service in the city the home is located in, but only AT&T and Sprint cover it well (4G in most parts of the city except for low lying areas where only Sprint and AT&T seem to get any service). My travels through the thumb with T-Mobile resulted in several areas where coverage dries up but the same travel with my Fi phone yields good service in most places[1].

[0] The provider maps are notoriously terrible, indicating theoretical service where it isn't from a real-world standpoint. There are crowd-sourced apps like OpenSignal that measure actual coverage, as well, but they had no good data for this area because it requires one to run the app, which is already a fringe "geek" thing, and the app has to be polling at the time you enter the area. I'd spent almost every day of an entire summer up there with my phone and there was no data on signal quality for T-Mobile. This is beyond the fact that some areas reported data that was plain wrong (likely outdated or resulted from a phone model having a different/significantly better radio than mine).

[1] I checked the same month I switched since I had been used to having no data for about half of the drive, causing Pandora to quit. To my surprise it worked for all but a couple of miles and in those spots, I still had 3G. We also have friends up there who run AT&T (which gets 4G almost everywhere except our property) and my family is on Verizon (which has reasonably good service when it's confused about being a Canadian -- a problem Fi has as well).
I had the same reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puK5CwThaq4
Looks like 8 years of "hope and change" really helped those who voted so heavily for him. Article might be about the UK but it's true here as well.
I'm still waiting for Chromium builds to work on Android, personally.

I trust the security acumen of the 'many eyes' who work on that project much more than Opera or Firefox. And Google doesn't vacuum up any data unless you volunteer it in Chrome. That's been proven.
Surely this is nothing that Flipkart cannot fixed without some lobbying?

I am not trying to be facetious, India is very protectionist. Amazon can only operate as a marketplace, not a seller, yet they have one seller accounting for as much as 50% of sales ... a little suspicious.

The Indian govt. has introduced regulations, no doubt from Flipkart lobbying, to remedy the situation [0].

Amazon must be dumping money into Indian operations in order to kill competitors and hope once they have a monopoly, they can raise prices and lobby the government themselves.

[0] http://fortune.com/2016/04/08/amazon-regulatory-hurdles-indi...
And people wonder why we want a socialist for president
> But if you insert a random branch instruction into the object code of a working program, the results are somewhat different.

Maybe, maybe not. I've observed lots of dead code in my time developing, where inserting random instructions would have no impact whatsoever. Inserting random instructions into a give program may have negative side effects, it may not. But (without having read your reference, though I might, or the linked article here), most of the source and object code that exists is highly specified and functionally dense. These are the ways we code when we want something very optimized and not broadly adaptive. Essentially you could say that almost all of the code we are writing is rain man style code. Good at some few sets of things in specific conditions. I think it is possible that there will exist (although perhaps not written in the same way) code where less of the genome is lethal, and there is more "wiggle room" for code to expand and change as a system. The stillborn offspring we might encounter if todays systems were "genetically evolved" are the equivalent of disseminated haploid genetic material. I think the conditions for conception (if you'll ride with me on my beaten metaphor) are not so far off as you may think, even if they are very different in terms of compilation/process execution/parallelism. While much of the code we write still mirrors the serial logic we often apply in the sciences, it is neither a foregone conclusion that software will continue exclusively in that way, nor a lack of capabilities of modern infrastructure to achieve parallelism comparable to some biological systems.
I think for many millennials, the conclusion of this article doesn't come as a surprise. As a member between the Gen X and the millennial crowd, I've certainly seen how much harder people just a few years younger than me have it as well as how much easier for those slightly older.

Older generations don't realize that their wealth is primarily built up in what is really an elaborate ponzi scheme of sorts, money which is really borrowed from future generations.
Whoever downvoted this comment has no sense of humor.
China's e-commerce sites don't have such a worry. They have Great Firewall. Trade barrier works! /s
>When the simple things become unnecessarily complex

that's when the recipe shows up on Pinterest...
Accident tends to imply that the cause was beyond expectation, that the event was exceptional. If you are at a construction site and a chain breaks and a beam falls on you, despite the best efforts of engineers to design the chain to hoist that load and the best practices of the foundry to forge the chain, that is an accident. If you mow down a toddler in Manhattan because you were drunk and driving 60MPH through a neighborhood that is not an accident.
In my experience, insurance people & cops have used "collision". "Crash" sounds too hyperbolic to me and "accident" implies (to insurance people anyway, I suppose) that no one was at fault, which is not always true.
Traffic safety is no accident.
Please stop trying to police language.
"You can't just plot a single predictor against the sample outcome and expect the plot to be particularly revealing in multiple regression"

Isn't this, effectively, what they are doing when they say they have found an optimum number of "working hours" for one to work to maximize cognitive indicators?

I'm not even quibbling whether they're demonstrating causality versus correlation. The problem is that their result and the number that they found are likely artifacts of the method of the analysis, and the choice to include only linear and quadratic terms.
Thank you for playing along and justifying everything I said.
I'd encourage you to try it out:

http://jsfiddle.net/rniemeyer/LkqTU/
At risk of being pedantic, aren't crashes just a subset of all possible vehicular accidents? So why don't we call a crash a crash, as crash is a word that is not necessarily intertwined with intentionality. And phonetically, "crash" IMO more clearly conveys the violence of the accident.

(Debates like this remind me that the aphorism about the only two hard things in computer science is no joke)
The problem is that our language has evolved in a direction that “accident” implies both “no intention” and “no fault”.

An idiot behind a wheel could be snapchatting their face into a piece of toast, slam into someone, kill them, and have it not be intentional. When the authorities or the media call it an accident — which is true — their voice lets the driver off the hook.

“Crash” is both literally true _and_ leaves room for investigators to find fault.
And I was laughing. :-) Good one.
I'm right on the verge of going with the new YNAB (first serious attempt to organize finances and budget outside my wife's use of Mint), but maybe I'll give Ledger a shot first.
Most impressive, really, is that it's 100% perfect power uptime for almost 10 years. Great DC.
No doubt folks will want to start calling fatalities involving self driving cars as 'second degree robotic homicide' too.
That's "enameled wire", also known as "magnet wire".

You can sand the insulation off with an emery board, commonly found in nail care kits.
Except for the fact that installing apps is an unnecessarily annoying process, enough to mean that the majority of people very rarely install anything new on their devices.
Ever have a good conversation with a passenger and miss your turn? You were distracted.

Where I live, there are distracted driving laws and you can be fined for holding or looking at a cell-phone while driving, but having the hardware for taking hands-free phone-calls is perfectly fine. I don't have that kind of hardware in my car. I don't answer my phone while driving, although I do pull over and answer it if I'm expecting an important call.

I don't even listen to the wrong kind of music when driving. I love everything from classical to death metal, but I've observed I drive more aggressively when listening to certain genres, so I avoid them in the car. I find that the right kind of music allows me to avoid day-dreaming and keep my attention where it needs to be.

I've never been in an accident and I've avoided a fair few that would have been the fault of other drivers, but all of this is anecdotal evidence. However, I subscribe to the 1 in 10000 rule. Say you are camping and pitch your tent near a large but relatively short-lived species of tree. The odds of that tree falling on you while you sleep are, perhaps, as high as 1 in 10000. If you camp by such a tree once in your life, that's nothing to be concerned about. If you do it once a year, it's still pretty safe. If you happen to live out of your tent and are near such trees year-round, odds are you'll be crushed by a tree before anything else kills you. In that case, you might want to choose your campsites more carefully.

Examine what you do in your daily routine and look for the things that have a 1 in 10000 chance of killing you but don't really confer any benefits. If you're doing it daily, you really need better odds or a better payoff. I'll happily strap my feet to a board and huck myself off of icy cliffs, but that's because I (perhaps illogically) feel it's worth it, plus I don't do it every day.
That URL isn't even being converted into a link by my browser, it's so short ;)
There are many languages without blessed implementations that define ways to interoperate with other languages. For instance: C++[0], Haskell[1], Java[2], Common Lisp[3], and others[4]. The FFI needn't describe how Scheme structures should behave, it need only describe how to send and receive data that a foreign library can interpret; IE, C data structures.

0: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/language_linkage

1: https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch8....

2: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jni/

3: https://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface#Exa...
You might enjoy trying some embedded development. Memory management and object lifetimes are usually less complex, and security is not an issue unless the device talks to the internet. You rarely feel like you are "fighting" C; it feels like the right tool for the job.
Nice. Thanks for this. I should do that more.
I had my words at an Edge developer about this problem, and they seemed at least interested in my feedback. So here's hoping Edge fixes this too.
> Science should be well defined, but not limited to arbitrary confines.

> Well-defined science is frankly an insult to science.

Spoken like a true pseudoscientist.

Yes, it should be an insult, right? How dare they can expect a scientist to use scientific method for all their results? I mean, it sounds totally crazy, insulting! And more importantly, how are we gonna publish papers or get grants then?
iOS 7 onwards (AFAIK) doesn't allow a data connection by default: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202778
Not sure how this addresses changing requirements..
Show HN: Brightwork (a BaaS) launching 8/1, looking for early adopters
CIO Explainer – What Is Artificial Intelligence
If you seriously believe that the structure and way that language is expressed doesn't have real world implications, and you are a programmer, hacker, or in IT in an capacity, may I suggest that maybe you take a little time off and think about the world for a while?
What if they came with an Enhanced PROMIS Contract that guaranteed their reliability and lack of back doors and trojan horses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw
The replication crisis isn't only within the soft sciences, but nice try.

According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists, 70% of them failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments (50% failed to reproduce their own experiment). These numbers differ among disciplines:

chemistry: 90% (60%),
biology: 80% (60%),
physics and engineering: 70% (50%),
medicine: 70% (60%),
Earth and environment science: 60% (40%).

But it's just the social sciences right? Thank god we have the scientific method! Otherwise we'd be lost! Heaven forbid
Don't write a book for the royalties. Books are far more valuable as marketing for your expertise.

A single consulting gig (of a week or two) will likely pay more than the entire revenue of even a successful technical book.
On the bright side, if we can pinpoint at risk children with high accuracy, we can also help them make it.

Like the attempts to deradicalize individuals at very high risk of flying of to syria, rather than arresting them.
Completely agree -- BUT -- that's why they need to take the counterfeit items problem that is invading their site very seriously. They've bought a lot of good will with putting the customer first. But humans are easy to forget the good when bad things happen to them. Amazon could easily lose its hard won good will from the fake goods problem it has on its hands now.
Depends what colour you are really.
OTOH, Gen X might earn more than their parents, but they have less wealth than their parents did at the same age: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-10/economic-...

(Link from 2015)
It almost appears as if there is a class of Indians who learn English first and then barely, if at all, learn any of the native languages. I wonder if the similar GDP per-capita of India, Africa are the result of such shared colonial baggage.

I've never seen this stuff never mentioned in the media; I had know about the colonial education/stifling wartime British bureaucracy etc. and assorted ideas from reading Naipaul's book. I didn't think it was this bad.

I find it ironic that such elites hold the values of enlightenment Europe to such high standard while implementing the policies of medieval Europe. Best of luck to you; considering the boisterous opposition here, I can only imagine what it'd take to bring political change in such a vast country.
Scientists Discover What Economists Haven’t Found: Humans
ah, good, no substantial reply. I thought you were just trolling and you were. Thank you for justifying everything I just said. Glad to know you agree that science does not = the scientific method
> Imagine if Google's last product was Docs. No Android, no Doubleclick, no Street View, no autocomplete in search, no Chrome.

Android, DoubleClick, Google Maps (Where 2, ZipDash), Google Earth (Keyhole), and Google Docs (Writely, 2Web, Tonic, DocVerse, Quickoffice) were built of acquisitions, not new Google products. Chrome, too, in a sense (WebKit).

Thought experiment: what if Yahoo!, not Google, had acquired all those companies instead?
This arguman thing is really cool! It's such a neat idea in fact, that I'm willing to overlook the horizontal scrolling. That's saying a lot!

With that out of the way... I'm firmly in the "but" camp here. I've been doing web programming for 17 years now. I remember the bad old days. Things were simple if all you wanted was HTML and images (CSS was still pretty iffy). But the moment you needed more than a static page? The complexity of getting up and running ballooned really quickly. And worst of all there were so few resources to really learn from. And it was expensive. Granted I was a teenager back then so anything more than a few dollars a month was pricey to me, but if you compare the kinds of hosting offerings of two decades ago to something like Digital Ocean or AWS today then the amount of possibilities is staggering (no more shared environment!) and for prices that are almost too cheap to believe.

My recollection of getting anything up and running that used a database back then was that it was not for the faint of heart. Compare that to today and the process of getting everything set up and connected with Rails, Djano, Express, etc. Yes there's more stuff you "just have to know" in terms of code you write and yes you have a box you have to stay within because of the framework but I'll take that any day over gluing together some Perl scripts and hoping you've got CGI configured correctly.

Maybe I'm conflating two separate things here: actual programming and operations. But I strongly contend that with web programming you can't disentangle those two things in any practical way. You will always be bound to the context of your environment. Anything that makes getting a sane environment easier leaves much more time to focus on the problem you actually care about. And it's not like you have to use all of the shiny new toys if you want to keep your code simple.
> If you are at a construction site and a chain breaks and a beam falls on you, despite the best efforts of engineers to design the chain to hoist that load and the best practices of the foundry to forge the chain, that is an accident.

I wouldn't count that as an accident. Walking under any suspended load is extremely dangerous and would be counted as a reportable incident on many work sites. Failing to prevent persons from walking under said load with appropriate barriers and warnings is a further issue.

(moving to the US and walking past a construction site on a daily basis scares the hell out of me. Truly the Wild West.)
Obama is not a socialist and there is very little that he could do with such strong opposition and control from the GOP in the house, and until recently, the senate.
Orbit – Virtual actor framework for building distributed systems
I hope your not pushing that to any meaningful production environment
The US president cannot do much without congress yet people never fail to blame the president for every problem.
I don't understand why it would be possible for a white or Asian male to have helped raise family members. Why not make the grant explicit about the upbringing hardships it's targeting instead of being racist?
http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=...

surprisingly more readable
Does Redhat count?
I am confident they will handle it based only on the history I have with them. Killing the golden goose to protect a bunch of thieves makes zero sense.

But companies have made worse mistakes, so who knows.
I'm in the same boat, born on a cusp year of the two generations, and I have long felt like a surfer who is struggling to ride the crest of a wave but who knows that the crash to shore is fast approaching.