skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to see the DRM (graphics) stuff more up-to-date in 11.0. FreeBSD is frustratingly close to natively-just-works on my 2014 Asus Haswell ultrabook (support for scrolling with the touchpad, of all things, is the main thing missing; also volume/screen hotkeys). I hope the laptop hardware support keeps improving!

Anyway, I really appreciate the simplicity of rc.conf and the well-curated config/boot infrastructure in general; pkg(ng) just works; ZFS is insanely cool; LLVM-as-system-compiler is nice... I sometimes wonder where we'd be if the BSD lawsuit hadn't held things back 20-ish years ago.
No more direct href links from SVG document? This is unwelcome change.
Introductions are cool. My difficulty is figuring out how to advance from 'vaguely conversant' to 'highly competent.' There should be more research into that.
This is a rather populist answer, but still pretty cool :)
Help I'm getting emails meant for someone who has the same name as me
Thanks! and if you spot anything that's questionable or weird, let me know through the issue tracker; there's always room for improvement.
That is one of the things I really appreciate about Node/npm. Drive space isn't a concern particularly, since packages aren't gigabytes in size, so having them installed locally is fine. The biggest gripe is you have to include `node_modules/` in your `.gitignore`.
Kanji isn't so bad - most of the more complex characters are built up out of smallers ones, and even the smaller ones, as the article breifly hints at, have a primary radical that roughly categorizes it - learn the radical for "water", and you can identify all the seafood on a menu, even if you can't read a single character. They're actually really helpful for both comprehension and reading speed, like learning latin root words would be for English, but a lot more consistently applicable, so it gives you a lot of leverage.

The stroke order seems annoying at first, but it's pretty consistent, and actually really helpful for memorizing. The different pronounciations also seem intimidating at first, but for the most part:

- One's for composing with other characters

- Others are mostly variations on that one for fluidity, where people will still understand you if you get it wrong

- There may be one for when it's used on its own, that gets used so often you quicly think of it as basic

- Anything else is probably an edge case that you'll never see

tl;dr: Don't let the Kanji intimidate you
Ha, I wrote that so cautiously, thinking "I'm sure this terminology's not right, I'll probably be called out on it"!

Thanks though, I learned something :)

Regardless of what we call it - the sender would get a copy back with a message not containing the word 'bounce' that says it failed to send, right?
Why not Congress simply grants them Letters of Marque as allowed by the Constitution instead of contracting them?
Lol, surely you're not serious?

In case you are, the energy problem comes from having to ship the cows, lighting, heating, water pumping and fodder shipping to house and feed them. Then further energy requirements for processing the meat, freezing or refrigerating it during shipping, packaging etc. Some of these costs (refrigeration, mostly) are shared with plant-based foods, but most others are extra.
Pair Programming Is Not a Panacea (2014)
If you're looking for a book, this is what I used in my college Japanese class: https://www.amazon.com/GENKI-Integrated-Elementary-Japanese-...

With the associated workbook: https://www.amazon.com/Genki-Integrated-Elementary-Japanese-...
If you aren't sending encrypted email, it makes no difference where your email is hosted.
The English parliament's use of Hessian contractors for security and skirmishes in their American colonies was one of the colonists' specific complaints.

Ironic that this has come full circle!
Glad you asked.

First, consider the difference between two people reading aloud: one is new to the material, concepts, and associated vocabulary, and the other is the author. They are reading the same text, but the author's rendition will carry an understanding of the material that is absent in the other one—and not found in the text, either. Doesn't that difference comprise relevant information?

Shakespearean actors do this for a living: they stick to the words on the page, but they add another layer of signals to help unlock them for people. Technical and expository writing can benefit from this effect as well. Don Norman argues, for example, that thinking requires emotion, and the voice is an easy way to add an emotional connection.[0]

So I believe that any document, explorable or otherwise, is amplified by a human reading, when that human really understands and cares about the material. And again, for subjects that warrant these specialized explanations—which tend to require some specialized language—the value added is particularly great, because it teaches people how to read something new.

Second, I strongly believe in an "all-in" approach for things that you care about. Clearly these authors care about reaching people, and I think there can be no doubt that the ability to click "play" brings in listeners who would never have been readers. And by giving a passive "flow" to the presentation, it helps sustain many readers who would have given up.

Adding a channel does not "take away" anything. Everything, including the interactivity and the opportunity for non-linear reading, is still there. (And note that the recording doesn't have to be linear, anyway.) The authors are not competing with themselves, they're competing with YouTube and notifications and other low-friction distractions.

So I'm excited about the OP. I would like this community—mature, passionate thinkers and teachers—to be the avant garde of future media.

[0] Emotional Design, Don Norman
It's just observational bias, really. Though Japan gets more exposure in tech media than, say, the Philippines.
There is, and it's literally "use Japanese daily". How you do that is entirely up to you, but start speaking Japanese every day to people around you. Easy to do in a university or school setting, because everyone else is doing that too, harder to do from home, but that's where the internet and local classes come in. Use something like italkie, pay someone for home-tutor style conversation classes, find a Japanese cultural center near where you live and get chatting, hang out in Japanese chatrooms, just get yourself in there.

The simple truth is that you don't get to "highly competent" without "high frequency use".
Is anyone working on an actual implementation of this, beyond the golang reference implementation by one of the authors that can't be forked because it lacks a license?
Propellant tanks are full at liftoff, so no, there's no way of adding more. And there's also no room to save weight either, considering that every bit of saved mass is more payload capacity to orbit. Two features of the Falcon 9 Full-Thrust upgrade increased propellant limits, though: One was bigger tanks, but I think they said they're now at a height limit for various reasons (structural integrity of an empty rocket stage is usually abysmal, for example, and you want to land it upright and empty). The other was superchilling the propellants, which made them a bit denser, thereby fitting more.
ANTI US FIRE AT NATO BASE TURKEY,Not IN MEDIA
I know about this https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/issues/1090
I never said anything about not eating meat at all. If everyone had a paleo diet we would still be eating A LOT less meat.
USA is a strange place.
We should probably look at dominant human type and dominant diseases in populations skewed to a particular diet to see what the effects are. I would be interested in looking at strength/muscle/fat ratios, how does their tooth decay, % of population affected by frequent vegetable/fruit toxins and % of population affected by gout and similar illnesses caused by excessive meat consumption.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073942
That diff must look hilarious..

- we do not collect your information
+ we collect your information
I imagine that the reason for adding narrative is to add another dimension that's proven to be engaging in other mediums; one akin to explanation videos like those found on Khan Academy or the educational sections of YouTube. Sometimes jumping into an explorable explanation without some guide to begin with (outside of text) may be overwhelming.

That being said, I don't know how a spoken narrative would integrate into a piece of text. You would likely not want someone to read through the text as written because a spoken explanation will generally differ in phrase structure (shorter, less verbose) than written text.
seems quite plausible, also in the light of (disclaimer: this is not coming from an anthropologist) a notion that the performance of 300 000 year old spares were to rival that of today's high-performance carbon spears (translated in meaning). The latter appears to be quite irritating and would fit the argument of the bipedal suggestion from the linked Nautilus article.

The 300k years coming from the newspaper article below:

Filser, Hubert, 300 000 Jahre alte Speere können mit modernem Olympia-Gerät mithalten (newspaper article)
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/archaeologie-jahre-alte-sp...

which in turn seems to refer to:

Conard et al., Excavations at Schöningen and paradigm shifts in human evolution and
Schoch et al., New insights on the wooden weapons from the Paleolithic site of Schoeningen
NAACP members call for ban on privately managed charter schools
World's largest vertical farm grows without soil, sunlight or water
I want to have around 30 to 40 students and give classes to them en-masse.
Was just about to link that.
Forgive my ignorance, but is the presence of a nervous system really the defining factor? What about mycelium in mushrooms, which operates as a signalling network?

I know a guy who will only eat windfall foods - plants that have died a natural death or fruit that have fallen from the tree (super hardcore fruitarian), and won't eat germplasm (I.e. Seeds - wheat, nuts, etc.) which seems to me, if the reason is ethical, to probably be the right place to draw the line.

Personally I'm an omnivore, but try to keep my meat consumption generally very low.
Interesting, why this main stakeholder in this "desert issue" removed their financial reports from their website?
http://vpfinance.ubc.ca/reporting/
So the link about budget of this respected institution from http://www.ubc.ca/about/ is dead! Very suspicious.
So who this Lael Parrott is? https://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/author/lael-parrott-2/
Famous in modelling ancient Maya ecological footprint. Professor of Sustainability.
Are you god damn serious about giving any credit to this kind of 'research'?
There certainly are, according to the definition of the Boston CSA.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Boston#Combined_statis...
> Is it solely an anime thing?

Maybe also a bit due to interest in Zen, is my guess. E.g. See ESR writings, etc.
Got me there
Deflektor?
> Yet, Palantir's leadership and employees have repeatedly emphasized that they don't do sales or marketing.

That was definitely a matra a few years ago, but then they started plastering adverts all over D.C.'s metro stations [1] and started hiring sales, BD, marketing and advertising people in huge numbers [2]. In addition, they've clearly hired some great PR firms to get "news" articles written about them in high profile newspapers.

At this point, looking at their venture raises and the lack of major technology investment (outside of integration and customization), I'd say they're probably one of the best funded traditional sales & marketing organization in this space.

1 - https://www.quora.com/How-much-is-Palantir-Technologies-spen...

2 - https://www.palantir.com/careers/
The "Microsoft's stack" is quite large.

What problems do you want to solve?
I Hire Engineers at Google--Here's What I Look for (And Why)
Most businesses would have no clue what to do with an expert statistician, though.

An analyst with a balanced combination of programming and stats skills and business domain knowledge will always, always be able to find work, regardless of whatever the latest fad is.
Mair's argument is that it is a waste of effort to spend time on learning the characters, in the first stages of learning the language. They are more easily learnt systematically somewhat later on, when you know the corresponding words to which you can anchor them. Note that the people advocating for this are university language professors and teachers, who are claiming they have data backing up the claim.
So then, there won't be Haswell graphics support out of the box on FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE? :(
I was wrong. I admit that. Saskatchewan does not have Lael Parrott - Professor of Sustainability.
What's a reasonable timeframe one can expect to see browser support?
This is the wrong attitude - there is no "waste" of braintrust. Innovation doesnt work like that, it comes from all over by people working on what they want to work on.

What's wrong with advertising startups? Some of the most valuable companies on this planet are advertising companies because it's an essential part of success for any business.
Those package managers would then have to know a lot about the specific needs of each language runtime they support. They don't and shouldn't. The alternative - each runtime has its own canonical package manager means you get parallel package systems and duplicated effort which is unfortunate. On the other hand, they actually work unlike, say, 'apt for python packages'.
Python is Better than Ruby
Although I should point out those are a different kind of book: these books, with associated workbooks, are for guiding you through learning Japanese at a slow and steady pace. That's super useful, but not what a grammar is about.

my book is more an encyclopeadia of the grammatical constructions used in Japan, organized by broad category, which you can cherry pick parts of to supplement whatever topics you're covering in your regular course work, or leaf through when you want to refresh your understanding of the grammar.

Books like Nakama, Genki, Japanese: the spoken language, etc. are great (although I don't like how many of these books don't use hiragana after the first few weeks), and then having a cheap grammar (this one's free, or $30 at most if you want a copy you can leaf through) alongside it only helps you get a deeper insight into the learning you're doing in your school or university course, or even your spare time.
> Is that a paradox?

No, that's also marketing[0], and by the way, the bottled water industry is incredibly destructive for the environment[1]. Also, I don't see how my argument involved any paradoxes.

You know what "convenience" really means in this context? Taking whatever is available at the very limited selection at the supermarket[2], without putting any more thought or effort into it. But when you think about that, that's creating a demand by simply not offering or mentioning the cheaper, less profitable options (because obviously, supermarkets make more money selling the expensive stuff too).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHsy1OZVUzc

[1] https://thewaterproject.org/bottled-water/bottled_water_wast...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/XPcDm2A.jpg
It is only a matter of time before someone attempts this without using too much leverage and credit to make the purchases.

The regulators and industries only tool is raising margin requirements (how big your down payment is), as well as position size limits per account
Generally living organisms become bipedal when they have another use for their legs other than walking. See birds. In our case it was the usage of tools.
The desert growing? Move your family off there. You cannot stop desert growing. You need a degree of social cohesion and education of the adult population they have in Israel to manage consequences of long heavy drought.
How does this differ from bootcamps?
> It might be quite trivial to modify parameters, but verifying that the software still works reliably might require a whole testing department.

That responsibility (for running full tests, or being responsible for damages caused by not running full tests) lies squarely on the modifier/owner. We don't need to erect a whole new set of laws because somebody could make his engine run poorly.

> Yes, software can be checked for modifications via hash codes, but how do you expect a cop to run a hash sum on the vehicle software?

I don't. Why should a cop care what software I'm running, any more than he cares what brand of brake light I buy?

It's the owner's car. If he modifies it to be unsafe, then he's responsible for the damages he causes. If he doesn't, he's not. Checksumming may be useful in a court case to prove modifications (although diffing would work just as well).
>When trying to understand a new thing, you automatically focus on very simple examples that are easy to think about, and then you leverage intuition about the examples into more impressive insights.

Sounds like something Feynman would say.
Some good conversations on pair programming and other related issues in this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12285541 The author posted the link in that discussion as an illistration, which is why this was probably posted as salient.
"a wall of forest is being planned to stop the desertification of southern Africa". Very interesting, no kidding. Who is planning that?
The last successful country in such endeavour is Kazakhstan. And to certain extent - China. Making 'wall of forest' is a programme with planning horizon of more than 50 years. I'd like to know the name of stakeholders.
I cannot say enough bad things about Palantir. Their technology is worse than the free alternatives and their consultants are not worth the money. They are losing their big commercial customers because of this and now need 'Hail Mary' contracts from the US govt to remain in business.

There is already a lot of information out how bad Palantir is. I hear from friends who work there that the BuzzFeed article on them is accurate. In short, like much in the valley, Palantir financially set up as an unmaintainable pyramid scheme.

One way for them to get out would be to pay Goldman Sachs to get Meg Wittman use HP shareholder money to buy Palantir at face value. This worked for Autonomy - a similar scam 'Big Data' company where the founders got away with it.
"standard 12pt font" is biased for latin characters, though - at the larger font size, the Chinese characters are still getting much better information compression than the latin characters, which need to expand horizontally by using several characters per unit of meaning, plus separators (spacing and hyphens) to even be readable. In practice, even adjusting for font size, paragraphs of Chinese and Japanese are almost always shorter than latin-language equivalents.

Of course, the real winner of this argument is probably Korean.
Re. "their culture of design",

this might of interest - a post by me about Muji:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2010/05/muji-simplicity-is-decepti...
> It will take decades to fix if ever, and the fixed state won't be recognizable.

It will fix itself. Software became popular with the rise of the Internet which didn't happen till the late 90's. If we assume people at that time were in their mid-late 20's, then they would be in their mid-late 40's now.

Basically, there just isn't that many 50+ developers out there. In another 10-20 years there will be a lot more and older programmers will be much more common and therefore won't be as out of place.
Even if research has shown advantages to waiting to teach the writing system, this approach has become extremely unpopular, to say the least. There are only one or two places still using the textbook "Japanese: The Spoken Language," and all other modern textbooks teach the writing system from the beginning.

Even textbooks that used to use romanized Japanese for fairly logical pragmatic reasons, like "Japanese for Busy People," which is aimed specifically at busy adults who are trying to learn the spoken language in the least amount of time/effort, have been rewritten to eliminate romanized Japanese! Many people studying Japanese go so far as to consider the presence of romanized Japanese, even in combination with normal written Japanese, a black mark against a book, a viewpoint which I think is a bit extreme.

Additionally, even if there is a benefit to early spoken fluency, it's going to really annoy students when after two years they suddenly have to start learning the writing system from the very beginning. With this approach, students wouldn't be able to use any modern instructional or reference materials for 2-3 years. Basically, they wouldn't be able to study on their own at all.

Also, from the standpoint of practical language instruction, since many students drop out of Japanese classes the second they're asked to learn hiragana (much less katakana and kanji), it is much more efficient for all parties involved to have this occur earlier in the process.

Many people studying Japanese as a foreign language actually also 1) find it very discouraging to discover that they can't read words they know because they haven't been taught the characters, and 2) find it very difficult to parse romanized Japanese since it is harder to tell where words end and distinguish particles/verb endings from nouns and verb stems.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11580

> The problem was that all of my language teachers insisted that I memorize hundreds of characters right from the very start.

For every person who is mad that that they were made to learn kanji from the beginning, there is another who thinks their Japanese ability was permanently impaired by not being taught kanji early enough (I have met plenty of the latter). Regardless of the method, there are people who are going to object to it.
I'm familiar with Japanese, but I had a question: do the phonetic building blocks have individual names?

In western alphabets, the letters each have a name that is separate and sometimes loosely related to their sounds.

In Japanese alphabets, I haven't noticed this yet, but I've never asked specifically

Do they?
Good news, this should help to decrease the physical size of some of the larger lines, maybe lower the cost to lay high speed fiber.
Right, my counter to that is that's great if you want to leisurely learn Japanese, but also not very relevant for the type of course this book supports. These typically start you on kanji pretty much in week 3, in conjunction with the word lists that support the kanji you're learning every week (and constantly use throughout that week and subsequent ones), specifically because of the argument raised: learning kanji without the words they're in, and even if that, without using those words, is ridiculous.
This thread is full of personal stories so I'll add mine. Writing software is fun but burned out on doing it professionally for 10 years. Frustrated I was just making my bosses rich and building their dreams not mine. Frustrated at programming's long-term career trajectory (Nobody will hire you after 40). Dreamed of doing my own thing but no capital to start a company. Went into debt for an MBA, goal of getting into finance or somewhere without tech's various career limitations and "ceilings." Graduated from highly ranked MBA school. A month later Lehman and Bear explode and suddenly nobody is hiring MBAs (oops!). Back to programming. Programming is still fun, but I continue to just making my bosses rich. Moved into product management thinking it will be different. Still no career trajectory. Moved into project management. Still no career trajectory. Made it to 40 and still have a job but no capital to start a company. Still figuring out what to do when I grow up.

Lesson learned I suppose is you can change your role, your industry, your company, but it doesn't change the fact that you'll be stuck on the burnout treadmill building someone else's dream.
Common derivation for Metropolis–Hastings and other MCMC algorithms