skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In the US, the average student could benefit from learning Spanish.

There are some secondary benefits from learning a second language [1]. But learning Spanish outside of a few areas in the US brings little direct benefit. There just aren't enough Spanish speakers who don't also speak English in the vast majority of the US.

Furthermore, Immigration from Mexico is falling off, and the percent of Hispanic households who speak English at home is rapidly rising. This means that any direct benefit to learning Spanish will diminish over time.

>If anything, they'd be able to use spanish language programming to help them learn. Which is ironically the same sorts of things that younger kids from other countries learning english have to learn from.

Not even remotely comparable. The amount of material available only in English dwarfs the material available only in Spanish.

To sum up, sure kids in American can learn Spanish, and many do. But there are real tangible and financial benefits to learning English as a second language that dwarf any of the benefits American kids get from learning Spanish. Once you recognize that, it makes perfect sense that Americans are more likely to be monolingual.

[1] Studies show, there are cognitive benefits to bilingualism, but they also show there are benefits to monolingualism. Usually you'll find more benefits to bilingualism over all, but larger single-language vocabulary and faster retrieval time are definitely advantageous. Studies also don't show that the cognitive benefits of learning a second language outweigh the cognitive opportunity costs of studying something else instead.

Additionally, the majority of these cognitive benefits are recorded in children and adults who spent a fair amount of time speaking in both languages. It's unlikely that learning a language in school and then forgetting it later will have the same beneficial effects.
State police saves 100th life by administering Narcan
I didn't expect this article to be so long or to have such great examples. The idea that GMO providers should try to convince 100% of the population, not just the majority, was particularly insightful and unexpected.

It makes sense, though: if, say 10%, of folks will ONLY eat Organic and the remaining, say 90%, will eat Organic or GMO with equal preference, it makes your supply chain much easier to supply ONLY Organic food while still accessing 100% of the market. If you supply both types, you have a more complex supply chain, and if you supply ONLY GMO, you give up on 10% of the market.
I agree with your points about typical database usage. Could it be that some of the people who reach for a database don't in fact know what a particular database implementation (like Mongo, or MySQL, or Redis) actually does, and they're just looking for a black-box that holds data at rest and occasionally gives it back out?
Higher, faster, farther: doping at the Summer Olympics
According to Christian Hernandez, it makes smart people think they can't loose.
I hadn't heard of hipku before, it's quite clever. And my current IP produces a nice one.

The clever dark lamb
prowls in the ancient jungle.
Tiger lillies dance.
More news sources, filtered separately by different biases, weighted by S/N ratio.
>The GTX 1060 is significantly faster than the RX480 at a similar retail price

Not from what I saw. Slightly faster or equal in DX11, slightly slower or equal in DX12/Vulkan.

And not price-comparable either, there is a $50 difference. If you are pointing to the EVGA etc, note that they have a single fan and as such are going to throttle quickly.
For a good price comparison I suspect we will need to wait for the rumoured 1050Ti, which should be actually price comparable to a 4GB RX-480.

Personally, if I was building a upper-midrange gaming PC right now, that marginal $50 would go to a bigger SSD, not to buy a 1060 over a 480.
Anybody know when/if this type of treatment could be used? Any idea of the increase in the effectiveness of cancer treatments using this technology? I read the article and skimmed the paper but didn't get an idea of whether or not this technology is on a clear path to being a medical option for cancer patients.
I'm a Dropbox paying user and have used Google Drive in the past, gave OneDrive a trial and interact with Box.com from time to time.

I'm still on Dropbox because:

- Dropbox has a Linux client; meaning they actually give
a shit about me as their customer; yes, you can find
either half-baked / broken projects for Google Drive
or have to trust yet another third party with all your data
(e.g. Insync), but none of that works for me. Of course,
Dropbox might choose to stop supporting Linux, but
that day will be the day when I'm dropping them.

- Dropbox has a 1 year versioning add-on, that works
for all your files. My data is very important to me
and Google Drive only does 1 month, whereas OneDrive
only does versioning for Office documents. Basically
OneDrive is completely useless as a backup solution -
get a ransom virus on your computer and watch in horror
how your data is gone

- the desktop client is probably the best and has nice
touches to it. It can sync from your local LAN and on
OS X at least it offers to import your photos and it
automatically saves your screenshots and generates
links ready to copy/paste. I mean, the clients of
of both Google Drive and Onedrive are slow,
featureless and unreliable. Not sure what you mean
by "uninspiring" there

- in general it has better integration with third-parties
than the others, because Dropbox is considered the
"neutral" solution. MS Office has integration
with Dropbox for example ;-)

- the web UI could need improvement, they keep nagging
me to try their Business plan, but I'm really not
using the web UI much, I really don't have much need
for it

The price is fair IMHO, because that's all of my data. Sure, I'm not paying $5/month for a password manager or other unjustifiable crap, but 13 EUR/month (includes VAT and the versioning add-on) keeps my 100 GB of family photos and my books and my work documents safe and available everywhere.

Also, Google killed Google Talk, Google Reader, Picasa (partially) and Wave. And in the case of Microsoft, OneDrive is just a useless freebie they toss along with that expensive Office 365 subscription in order to justify its value.
Sadly you're probably right. But you can always hope to have planted a seed.
Oh, so perhaps you have been to Boulder, Colorado?

http://stayoutofmynamastespace.com/
Pendulum is a new library for Python to ease datetimes, timedeltas and timezones manipulation.

It is heavily inspired by [Carbon](http://carbon.nesbot.com) for PHP.

Basically, the Pendulum class is a replacement for the native datetime one with some useful and intuitive methods, the Interval class is intended to be a better time delta class and, finally, the Period class is a datetime-aware timedelta.

Timezones are also easier to deal with: Pendulum will automatically normalize your datetime to handle DST transitions for you.

import pendulum

pendulum.create(2013, 3, 31, 2, 30, 0, 0, 'Europe/Paris’)
# 2:30 for the 31th of March 2013 does not exist
# so pendulum will return the actual time which is 3:30+02:00
'2013-03-31T03:30:00+02:00’

dt = pendulum.create(2013, 3, 31, 1, 59, 59, 999999, 'Europe/Paris’)
'2013-03-31T01:59:59.999999+01:00’
dt = dt.add(microseconds=1)
'2013-03-31T03:00:00+02:00’
dt.subtract(microseconds=1)
'2013-03-31T01:59:59.999998+01:00’

To those wondering: yes I know [Arrow](http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/) exists but its flaws and strange API (you can throw almost anything at get() and it will do its best to determine what you wanted, for instance) motivated me to start this project. You can check why I think Arrow is flawed here: https://pendulum.eustace.io/faq/#why-not-arrow

Link to the official documentation: https://pendulum.eustace.io/docs/

Link to the github project: https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum
I didn't either, but it's not a poor argument just because you're an exception to it. Socialization is a very important part of human development.
Hangouts is so clunky, I avoid using it. I'm excited about Duo because it's so minimalistic and just works. Great for quick video chats with parents.
tl;dr:

Ex. micro-softie laments all the ways ms failed in the mobile space, while completely overlooking the elephant in the room:

MS, in the mobile space, did not have an already entrenched monopoly upon which to leverage other market share.
Exactly, and I'm saying if their focus would shift a little and, if absolutely necessary, take wars into the cyber realm, then more progress would come out of that which is applicable in civilian life. We just need the right goals for the desired side products to emerge. The race to get someone on the moon and back was one such overarching goal.
> Friend - 'Engineering' is not 'the facts', or not usually.

Not sure why you're referencing engineering? I didn't say anything about that. Not all startup employees are engineers.

> Customers, business opportunities, markets, investors

Customer support is going to have more facts about customers, investors are going to have more facts about investment terms and opportunities, marketing team is going to have more facts about markets, biz dev is going to have more facts about business relationships.

Management is not going to have more facts in any area than anyone really. Their job isn't to understand what's happening in detail, it's to maintain the structure of communication which allows different parts of the company to make good decisions.

If management starts thinking they know more than their employee on a topic, something has gone terribly wrong. They hired someone who doesn't know what they are doing, or they are preventing information from flowing to where it is needed, or they are just being hubristic.
Around the turn of the century cough I became aware of the concept of "affluenza" (a portmanteau of affluence and influenza), watched a PBS show on the topic, and read the book "Your Money or Your Life," which changed my life. Before that time I was a materialistic kid, gathering as much stuff as I could.

The TL;DR to these is that once you get enough anything more produces rapidly diminishing returns in the happiness department:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluenza

- http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/show/joe.html

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

The movie Fight Club also came out around this time with a similar message and was the "knockout punch" to my consumerism, haha. Not long after this I'd sold most of what I owned, quit my job, and took a trip around the world. Have been much happier ever since, with new expectations and goals.

Another thing I learned on that trip, I did not miss TV one minute while I was gone, and found a lot of the garbage (consumerism, superstition, Britney news, and petty politics) in my mind had cleared.
The main purpose of TV news and advertising is to drive fear and desire, which I now liken to a cancer, but one that can be beat.

Yes, we have netflix and itunes because there are some great shows, right? But commercials and mainstream news sources---fuck no---life is much better without them.
They had an old backup that contained the private keys. See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298230
Learn to front-load your pain
Maybe try Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) then. It has many of the benefits of Go and a Ruby-like syntax. It feels even more like a scripting language than Go because of awesome type inference, uses a similar model as Go for concurrency, and even has proper generics ;-)
Hi. Thanks. Don't know how to address that. Must be something to do with the XHR for the timezone info.
The Success of Abenomics
Corporate smart phones, sure.

Consumer smart phones are a very different prospect.
Still crossing my fingers that the EU charges Google of antitrust over blocking apps like adblockers in its store.
There is no signing up or passwords. Just SMS verification code, like WhatsApp.
It depends how much it's used for sharing files.
I migrated from Dropbox to Google Drive.

- Better integration with Google Apps.
- Better integration with various Android apps.
- More free space.
Maybe you need a certain minimum karma level to have access to vouch?
Would not call 73's chile stable, unless you consider current venezuela a stable country which i do not.
It's easy to be happy. Read a book about life in a WWI trench, read a book about a former slave, read a book about the plague. Go visit an old folks home. Read about parents who lost their kids in a tragic accident. Just remembering those things make me realize that I should be happy with what I have.
Most likely you wouldn't but many seems to prefer it over Rust/D/Haskell.
It sounds like they have issued revocation certs for the keys associated with the fake accounts to stop people from sending any more messages to the fake accounts. They are also promising not to decrypt any of the messages that were meant for the attack victims, but encrypted for the fake accounts' public keys and sent to the attacker during the attack.
By portion of the time, I meant a full-time nanny working for many months or years, and eventually sending the child to daycare or school.
Creator of Thyme here. I made it track my own application usage and find possible interventions to boost my productivity. Happy to answer any questions and hope you find it useful!
Sikhs can't eat Kosher, Halal, etc.
Ask HN: Invite me to lobste.rs
Let's invite each other to https://lobste.rs
Nine steps road to privacy and freedom from Google and everyone else:

Step 1: Switch to DuckDuckGo.

Step 2: Create a openmailbox.org account. (Gives you a mailbox with IMAP and POP3 access, but also an ownCloud account which replaces many of Google's services. All free software, no tracking, and it's reliable.)

Step 3: Switch to a good GNU/Linux distribution that cares about your freedom and privacy, like Fedora or Debian, and not Ubuntu.

Step 4: Use Mozilla Firefox if you are using another browser. All the other major browsers are proprietary, browsers that aren't among the major ones almost never support extensions.

Step 5: Install uBlock Origin and configure it to your liking.

Step 6: Install and configure the Evolution mail client with your openmailbox.org account.

Step 7: Use Pidgin for chat. It supports (with plugins) all the chat protocols, including the proprietary ones such as Skype, Facebook Chat, Hangouts.

Step 8: Use duplicity to have encrypted backups of your home directory made automatically to a portable hard drive or a USB drive.

Step 9: Use applications that run on your computer instead of web apps whenever you can.

You now control all of your data, have all the services you had before but running on your own computer and not on some third party's servers, use only free software that you can trust, and are much harder to track online. Congratulations!
> There is also the fact that no programming language lets you deal with relational data sanely in code, so you have the well known impedance mismatch heaeache.

The "Object-Relational impedance mismatch" is not a result of the supposed fact that "no programming language lets you deal with relational data sanely in code", its a result of the fact that industrially popular object-oriented languages, of the time when the term was coined, did not align well with the data model supported by then-existing relational databases, and vice versa.
> I don't think Postgres has any built-in support for JSON schematization.

Guess again. You can use JSON functions¹ in constraints:

create table foo (
bar jsonb,
constraint bar_count_is_positive check (bar->>'count' is not null and (bar->>'count')::integer >= 0)
);

etc

You could probably write a tool pretty easily to convert a JSON schema to Postgres constraints.

1. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-jso...
in the early nineties all this security stuff was about writing mostly harmless MS/DOS viruses. Who would have imaged that this business was going to get politicized to such a degree - that could only happen once all these machines got onto the net. Now its all as paranoid as 'Mother Night' by Vonnegut.
It's not about changing everything, it's about being able to make abstractions that aren't second class citizens. By giving this power, you also increase the consistency of the language.
True, but with Android's market share, it's pretty compelling to be able to do a "FaceTime" with anyone. That's the larger opportunity.

Many people have iPhones because of FaceTime. If Google can show that you can Duo anyone and it works as well, then they may switch, perhaps even to their very own Nexus devices.

I'm not sure I personally like this app because I'm on Android and I used to have an excuse to not FaceTime friends and family, haha. If they discover this Duo, I may get pressured.
I used tried most file sync app extensively (Dropbox, Onedrive, Google drive, Box, copy).
While Dropbox is not perfect (had a crashing bug for a month), it has the best client on all major systems that I use (Windows, Linux, IOS) and is constantly innovating. The automatically installed "sharing Icon" (round thing in word) was an intrusion I didn't like. Some people thought it's a virus.

My university has "unlimited" google drive space, but it is a sad joke. While it is fine for a few google sheets/doc, it can't handle a few GB reliably.
The client itself crashes on three different windows versions constantly and is a MAJOR resource hog. Google itself states it is not made to handle things like backups. Some of my folders are not synced correctly, don't know what is going on there. Once it followed a link to a network drive and started copying everything from there to the hard drive until it was full, that was fun.
It is also not possible to unsync subfolders (if the app ever loads all folers), which is ridiculous, because my hardrive is not "unlimited" and now I have to make different first level folder for everything that I don't want on my laptop. Talk about usability.

OneDrive is an okay user experience on windows. They tried to partially sync but show all files, which definitely causes confusion. At least they try to innovate here. When they cut down the free tier I moved, because it is not as good as the Dropbox client. It also does some things with synced word files, which I don't fully understand and to be honest my trust is just gone after the privacy turd of Windows 10 (which I use and find OK otherwise).
Copy.com was very promising but was shut down for small time users.

I used Box.com only shortly, wasn't even close to Dropbox at that time. Probably still doesn't have a Linux client.

TLDR: I started paying for Dropbox and am rather happy. Small innovations like the scanning features eliminate friction even more, so they are working on things that I actually use. Dropbox is miles ahead of its competition.
Political correctness has nothing to do with it. This isn't just idle paranoia, this may be an actual symptom of mental illness if any of this seems remotely, marginally plausible to you, on any level at all whatsoever.

Like, the real deal mental illness, so unless you're 11 years old or something and just have absolutely no idea what you're going on about, perceptions like these justify at least talking to a therapist. When people are in their teens and 20s, these sorts of things can be symptoms of problems that won't fully manifest for several years, and are much more easily dealt with up front than after the real issues have fully settled in. Good luck.
If that is what it takes for you to demonstrate attractiveness to a prospective mate...maybe you should hit the gym more.

"I liked her because she liked me because of my car"

said no one ever?
Quick Guide: Startup Project Management and Product Development
Way to have a typo before the article even begins.
Self-Service Checkouts Can Turn Customers into Shoplifters, Study Says – NYT
From Austin, living in NYC, and I feel like Austin is boring and clean now.
> I suspect that if we didn't expire the gravity of this accumulated cognitive perspective – habits of thinking, tough patterns, overfitting – would become intellectual disability even for the best of us.

We are "designed" to exist only for a limited time. The patterns are everywhere, including in the way the brain works.
On OS X 10.11.6, Preview fails with "The PostScript file "open_afberandom.txt" could not be converted to a PDF file." :(
read somewhere that Debian is good for servers but not for personal use(something about broadcasting, messages not encrypted, etc), anyone with more knowledge on this care to chime in?
You don't even need a google account, just a phone number
I've been looking for something in between plain bootstrap and all the templates which are far to "thick". This doesn't look that lightweight.
> I'm doubtful anyone who refers to ritual body mutilation as preferable to playing Everquest has been mutilated.

"You might be surprised," he said, and was himself surprised when people took it as a joke.
Did you change anything? It works now, outside of incognito mode, with µblock running.
On the consumer side, Dropbox has better UX than Google Drive (I've never tried Box nor OneDrive).

When I tried out Google Drive, syncing was actually incredibly poor. As in, only one computer could synchronize files at a time (meaning, if computer B logs in while computer A is logged in, computer A gets logged out). Since I have multiple computers, this instantly killed Google Drive for me.

In addition, Google Drive (at least back when I tried it out) did not have "instant" file synchronization. Meaning, it took the Google Drive app a minute or two or recognize that files have changed and to upload/download them. Dropbox always recognized changes within a second or two.

Dropbox's web UI was also far better than Google Drive's. When you select multiple files to download on Dropbox's website, it starts instantly. Google Drive makes you wait and even offers to email you when the file are ready to download. Several times, I never actually got those emails.
I've already decided that my son won't have homework when he gets to elementary school. Studies have shown it to be a questionable practice, and I would rather him play and explore things he's interested in instead. If that means that he asks me about his school work, I'll be happy to talk with him about it, and maybe even do some of the homework together. But if he's interested in extracurricular things, then that's where we're going to spend his extracurricular time.
If people relate to it, yes, it would put things into perspective. Just because something is "made up" does not mean it cannot be influential or give someone perspective. A lot of the fiction I read is more insightful than a history book.
Yes, if you look at the source code I use unification to tell whether types match or not.
Building the whole Debian archive
ESR built his reputation that way for sure
I'm a paying Dropbox user (for personal stuff) and I use Google Drive and Box.com at work. Dropbox is far and away the easiest to use. Case in point, my very non-technical grandmother once called me because she was worried there was a virus on her computer, only to find out that she accidentally changed the homepage on her browser. But when it comes to using Dropbox, it's easy for her to navigate and look at her pictures.
Namecheap.com emergency maintenance
Am I being pedantic to think that is a weird way to label? Organic refers to the methods and compounds used to control pests, while GMO refers to the genetic heritage of the organisms being cultivated. They're cultivated because they have more desirable traits, but they're still carbon-based organisms.

Anyway, I'm probably making his point for him, but Taleb's anti-expert bias can drive me up the wall.
Mullvad emphasizes VPN security with server upgrades
A competent programmer knows that tomatoes are fruits. A proficient programmer doesn't put tomatoes in a fruit salad. :)
That would be meta/templating approach.