skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fun part about eliminating the disease is that the cumulative benefit never starts going down - as long as there are people, they will benefit.
In that 口 article yesterday, several commenters seemed angry that the author referred to kanji as "Japanese characters".

So apparently this is some kind of thing, that some people take seriously. New one on me.
With all of the - I'd call them shenanigans, but I'm sure they're justifiable features [0] to someone - with homebrew, it may be time to take a closer look at macports as a replacement. Glad to see the project not only alive, but evolving with the community.

[0] Like automatically running `brew update` with every brew command run. I was literally wondering if my computer had frozen up again when I saw that it had done a full update (which involves not only patching the brew code, but updating its source repos) before installing a pre-compiled version of tmux.
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When I read articles like this, I like to imagine that we are already on a multi-generational ship (earth) and are on our way to see the wonders of the Andromeda Galaxy :)
MS Rewards
Security Fixes for Libgcrypt and GnuPG 1.4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12326562
I think that if Americans try, it's a lot easier to go to the Japanese phonemes; given that they are effectively a subset of English phonemes (with some variation). That said, it seems that Americans feel like they're making a disrespectful accent when they're getting closer to pronouncing things correctly. They would rather be authentically bad than sound like they're making fun of an accent. Here in Canada we have this problem even when kids are learning Québecois French in school; they think they sound like they're making fun of Francophones when they get close to good pronunciation.

An American English speaker can generally approximate る and similar sounds far more easily than a Japanese speaker will learn to pronounce l or figure out the th in the. That's assuming that the English word they're trying to say doesn't have consonant clusters, which (aside from nasal consonant pairs) simply do not exist in Japanese. It really is not equivalent.
Using autofs was hard? News to me as a career unix sysadmin who happens to manage 10s of thousands of nodes using autofs quite successfully (and systemd to boot!)
Ooh, that math reference.
Hmm, I wonder if this could be adapted to be a good VapourSynth filter.
"What evidence do you have to support your claim?"

A) The evidence is in the article. It's heading towards a small number very quickly.

B) Everyone is learning to speak English. Everyone in W. Europe under 30 speaks English fairly well. It's happening in M/E and Asia as well.

Once immigrants to W. Europe who speak English + some foreign language can get services in English - there's no point in learning the local language.

There are only 12 million Swedes. 10% of them barely speak Swedish - and the number is growing rapidly.

Once young people speak English fluently and services are in English - so much work will be in English ... Swedish loses all real utility. And utility is an important thing.

'Long term' I think a diaspora of languages is important, but people make short term decisions: 'what is important in my life'?

I fear in 20 years, in Sweden, young people will equate 'Swedish' with 'old, out of touch, nationalists and racists' - which is an unfair characterization but the perception is already developing: young urbanites speak English fluently, rural, less developed communities, less so.
DPLL algorithm
The results in the research article were obtained with a rat model of Parkinson's, where Parkinsonian symptoms are induced with rotenone. Most models of Parkinson's are based on neurotoxic drugs (e.g. MPTP, first discovered to induce Parkinsonian symptoms in heroin addicts) so they're kind of the best we can do. (there's also genetic models--e.g. mice that express chronically low levels of dopamine. But basically other animals don't get Parkinson's in the wild as far as we can tell.) There's a summary of the evidence for the rotenone model in the discussion of the paper itself, and the paper is in an open access journal so you can read it should you so desire: http://actaneurocomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40...

There is something of merit here if there's any reason to believe that actual Parkinson's patients show similar retinal degeneration far before they show any other symptoms. The authors don't mention any evidence for that...so I'm guessing there's not any. Either they are wildly scrambling to find some, or a cynic might suggest they looked already in humans and didn't find any, so they published this instead. A paper showing multiple lines of evidence supporting their theory in a rodent model and in a patient population would probably have been a home run that got them into a glam mag.
Yeah, that one surprised me too recently. But most of the junk can be disabled. My current settings:

$ env | grep HOMEBREW
HOMEBREW_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=1
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1
HOMEBREW_NO_EMOJI=1
My understanding is the stock options gets released overtime ("vests") following a fixed schedule.

So it's basically part of the compensation he hadn't yet earned...
Yes, that is an equivalent phrase, but much less commonly used than 加油 and "gi' det gas".
Wind Power Blowing More Reliably Than Ever
For anyone using homebrew or other package manager, and who has an afternoon free; I'd suggest checking Nix out. It's very nice to define an immutable manifest and have your system derived from it. If you love pure functions, you'll love Nix.
This is just an accident of how some file systems are implemented and isn't actually garunteed. If you did this on xfs you could still end up with the a 0 length symlink if you crashed at just the right time.
The obvious ecological impact of erradicating the guinea worm is decreased pressure on the population of Humans. However, most people would agree that it is not ethical to intentionally allow diseases to roam free as a way to control the size of human populations...
And Third World poverty is kept at bay in the First World only by ever-vigilant effort amongst government and civil society.
One nitpick: ですか is not pronounced "de ska" it's closer to "de s' ka"; They elide the full vowel, but they insert a stop instead of moving on to the consonant (in order to retain the prosody).
PR people probably had an ongoing relationship with the tech blog, and that relationship would've probably deteriorated. The author of the article wasn't in PR, though.
Whiskey, not beer. In the interviews, Herzog's lying is palpable. He protests too much.

You're just going to have to accept the terrible fact that sometimes people are in possession of the same facts as you but simply come to different conclusions.
When was the last time you saw a freeway sign in Times Roman or Garamond or their ilk? Or any other public signage related to transportation.

All modern console fonts for writing code are sans-serif.

(I'm using Microsoft's Consolas, even on GNU/Linux systems).

A number of times in the past I tried finding a serif font for editing code, just for shits and giggles. And, by golly, that's precisely all it was good for.

If you want squiggly high frequency noise in your code, you can just switch to that type of font; no need to foist that into the programming language.
Can you elaborate? What consequences are there for an employee who gave a same-day notice on Friday to start a new gig on Monday?

I can only think of company witholding the final check for longer than usual, but that's understandable with how payroll is cut at some large orgs.
Using Kubernetes API to Launch a Jupyter Notebook
> Of course it's easier if you are resident in a jurisdiction where you have to pay the Capital Gain Tax when you sell.

How does having to pay a tax make things easier?
No, it definitely isn't. But for most HN readers it is. I'm happy to help anyone who reads this. The last crash dumps for a BSOD are often in c:\windows\MiniDump for a short amount of time after the crash.
Applying Functional Programming Principles to Your Rails Codebase
One thing that is glossed over slightly in these discussions is the distinction between collections of sound-meaning compound characters where the rebus is the same but the words aren't cognate, and where the words are cognate.

I've read in some places that the scribes attempted to use the same rebus for cognate words but I everything I could find online was a re-hashing of wikipedia (or wherever the wikipedia article is sourced from) which states "However, the phonetic component is not always as meaningless as this example would suggest. Rebuses were sometimes chosen that were compatible semantically as well as phonetically."

I'm not sure how important this really is or how many characters that share a common rebus are cognate. But to my aesthetic senses I much prefer characters to contain etymological information than just the pronunciation when the character was first written.
I'm absolutely ok with eliminating most (or all, really) species of mosquitoes.

I'm optimistic that in the (very near) future the ability to do this rests with a few people who decide it is worth doing, and worth spending single digit millions of dollars to do it, vs. any organization with a deliberative, democratic process.

It would be hilarious to successfully wipe out mosquitoes and then have people try to sue (or governments attempt criminal charges).
You're not alone, I wrote wire-compatible version of Redis in perl:

https://github.com/skx/predis

Of course I simplified things by only implementing keys and sets, rather than all the operations such as hashes, etc. But allowing pluggable storage back-ends made it useful for my use-case(s).
> Not sure why you label generalisation essentialism?

Because you generalize by deploying tired old tropes about Confucianism and a conformist, "harmonious" society, which were never really true.

> Your opinion appears biased in terms of: (a) 20th century; (b) Tokyo.

Well, considering that we are discussing Tokyo in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the context of the article posted here, that seems appropriate.

> Furthermore, while protest movements have of course existed I would argue that they are few and relatively late to develop (massive discontent precedes) relative to other societies.

Demonstrably untrue. During the late 19th century, and most of the 20th century, protests were a significant aspect of Japanese society -- more so than in many western countries.

> It is a fact that many of Japan's oldest buildings are direct derivations of Tang Dynasty architecture, and in some cases (Kyoto) city layouts (urban plans) were directly copied from China.

If you were talking about city street layouts instead of architecture, you should have written about city street layouts instead of writing about architecture. In any case, Kyoto is unique within Japan. Within Kyoto, the urban architecture is not really Chinese, even if the street layout used to be. The primary influence of Chinese architecture in Japan can be seen in temples, not in urban buildings.
How Juicero raised $120M
More importantly than implants, a better understanding of the immune response against worms would help the development of vaccines. There are other parasitic worms out there, such as schistossoma, that we are nowhere near from erradicating and for which a vaccine would help tremendously.

However, researchers unfortunately do not get much funding to study these neglected tropical diseases...
It depends on what you mean by a "website". You need to understand that a web application need to have a client-side (managing user interaction) and a server-side (mostly fetching data). Java is still more popular than any other technology for the server-side part. May be you should read more. And think more.
Perhaps you should have put "their population is declining" first in that list. Yes, Japan is struggling in many ways, but it is also ahead of the curve in coping with negative population growth, something we will all have to face sooner or later.

In any case, being able to live above your place of business on an urban street in Tokyo is a no-brainer improvement to quality of life for small entrepreneurs. It's a major reason why Tokyo remains such a livable city for so many people (30 million in the Tokyo-Yokohama megalopolis) despite the extended stagnancy in growth.
Had it been a tropical cyclone, Louisiana storm likely among 10 costliest
As much as the Win32 API is criticised for many of its functions containing often-unused parameters, symlink() having a flag parameter to control whether to overwrite the original link's contents if it exists would've made this much easier.
I like SMAP. They are good guys that bring a happy atmosphere to every event where they happen to show up.

My tribute to SMAP: a GIMP job of a picture I found on the net:

http://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/smap-2.png

Enjoy.
My understanding (as a speaker of neither language) is that Japanese usage has diverged a fair bit from Chinese roots.

The phonetic bits, for example, are based on how Japanese speakers of the time thought the equivalent Chinese sounded, with allowances for Japanese and Chinese having radically different phonics. And then you do that a few more times because the language both evolved in parallel, and you end up in a situation where each kanji can have more than one phonetic representation based on the original Chinese pronunciation. It can also have a phonetic representation based on the Japanese word that means the same thing, which will invariably be something radically different since Chinese and Japanese aren't terribly closely related languages.

So while they might be using the same writing system, the fact that it's a fairly elegant writing system for Chinese doesn't imply that it's elegant in Japanese. Not any more than the Roman alphabet being a very good writing system for Latin implies that English's writing system isn't a bit of a mess.
Buying something is the strongest marker of interest in a product. The fact that you bought it might be an invasion of privacy, but a strong indicator of interest in a product isn't, per se.
So we got to the perception now that anything not SaaS is "awesome sefhosted".
Kan Ji or Letters of the Han Dynasty
There is some evidence that the brain (and substantia nigra) is not the only region where risk for Parkinson's can accumulate. There may be some ties to developmental processes, lymphocytes, and the liver and fat cells[0].

[0]http://www.nature.com/articles/srep30509
[0]http://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/2016/08/11/parkinsons-risk-mu...
Nature rebalances extremely fast but its does so by catastrophically changing into a different state instead of having old niches be refilled. One of the famous examples is how experimentally removing starfish (a sea urchin predator) from a kelp forest resulted in an explosion of the sea urchin population and a transformation of the kelp forest into a "sea urchin desert".

There was a nice article linked in HN about this recently:

http://nautil.us/issue/37/currents/the-ecologist-who-threw-s...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11824375
For not knowing either language, your knowledge is impressive. There are actually Japanese-originated Kanji, some that have no analogue in Chinese.
Jupyter notebook with some numbers on performance and accuracy of fastText:

https://github.com/jayantj/gensim/blob/fast_text_notebook/do...

This compares fastText against the word2vec implementation in gensim, on the syntactic/semantic word analogy task.

(raw pull request with comments: https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim/pull/815)
I don't know why this was downvoted so much. This is actually a pretty clever summary of the article. Have an upvote.
> It's because each syllable has to have its own ideograph (usually there are multiple ideographs) and you can't easily learn 10000 of them

As an aside, one side-benefit of a language that doesn't have so many phenomes is that automatic speech creation is much easier.

That's speech creation, not speech recognition.

Using software to speak Japanese fluently, at a given pitch, with a given emotional context is a solved problem. There's even software that can be used to create singing voices.

It only takes about 1000 recorded sounds to do so. In english, it'd take 10,000 multiplied by the number of emotional contexts and speech patterns you'd like to mimic.
http://mat.boum.org/
It's probably been stated a million times before but it's hard to remember what coding was like before github. CVS and subversion - what's that? Github is so pervasive that when a project uses another git code sharing site you just get annoyed. Github Issues may suck, but it's so darn convenient and so well integrated. It's far worse when a project uses another ticket tracking system and just uses github for pull requests. Just give in to our new code overlords and go with the flow.
Erradicating a parasite like the the guinea worm is a bit like erradicating Smallpox or Polio. The ecossystem impact that you would expect is a change in human population due to the improved health.

However, we consider it more ethical to control the size of the human population with voluntary birth control instead of terrible diseases :)
Considering they wrote an entire language to help with just that, I'd say they're working on it.
I hear pkgsrc[1] is pretty decent for osx as well. I keep wanting to try it out, but haven't yet.

[1]: https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/
I am sincerely curious when I ask this, please don't see it as flame bait-- what/who uses Macports still instead of Homebrew (or Nix)?

Is it for legacy systems? Or unusual requirements? Habit?

Edit for reasoning: I'm curious because who knows-- maybe I'm missing something really cool or jumped ship to Homebrew years ago too hastily?

Edit #2: Just wanted to say thanks to the folks who have replied below! I'm definitely a bit more curious about macports again.
I have found rm -f to work great for that! /s

Wouldn't such a tool have to be based on easily outdated or broken blacklists of parts of the file? Complex file formats like DOC can leak data in an immense number of ways.
Can you disable all of its cutesy names? Bottles for binaries, cellar for package path, taps for 3rd party repos, recipe (or formula? I forget) for build scripts, cask for a REPL... I honestly got a bit confused at first by what all of these things meant.
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Most publishers throw little or no marketing budget at books, which is one reason most books do so badly.

Promoting book sales via a specialist niche community site isn't a bad idea.

In fact niche marketing was more or less how 50 Shades got started. It was a crappy novel marketed brilliantly by a professional marketer, who went from persuading a small community to praise the book, to leveraging that praise to get interest from other online communities, to leveraging that interest into a mainstream publishing contract with formal marketing support.

Of course, for that to work you need a marketable demo.

Outdoorsmen who read erotic fiction in between heroic fishing exploits are possibly not the world's biggest niche book market.
RIP.
'The Heroes of my field have slain one of the horsemen of the apaocalypse, while the heroes of your field have gathered in the desert to create a new one'
https://xkcd.com/1520/

Deserves a black bar, doesn't it?
How's the package parity? Have you run into any packages you can't find for nix for OS X?
The entomologist Justin Schmidt has become an expert in physical agony
Sure - Will publish to github and post here. For a brief note, the java servlets use Google's gson for interfacing wih web requests. Beyond that it is all plain old JDBC with sqlite. That is all to the "API" part of our service :-)
GNU Octave packages are still well maintained on Macports (and Fink!) and we have several enthusiastic users.

I wish we could get Octave to our users without any CLI shenanigans, but it's proven very difficult to build an app bundle. We finally have one, but it's not relocatable.

http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X#Installing_a_Mac_O...
Chinese investors plan $1B R&D project in South San Francisco
I think the real problem is that "knowing git that well" is even a thing. If git's interface were more predictable and if its abstractions were less leaky, learning the basic commands would be enough and noone would ever need to do a deep dive into the documentation.

I finally realized this after reading this xkcd comic[1]. Now I'm happily using mercurial (with hg-git) whenever I expect that I will need to do something nontrivial.

https://xkcd.com/1597/
> on the other hand, in these countries children in the 5th grade can't properly read a newspaper because they need to already know 2000 characters

A child exiting reception grade in China, i.e. entering Grade 1, is expected to know 1000-1500 characters. They certainly don't know all combinations of characters these words form, but the learning starts young.
This is the reason questioning sports is blasphemy: sport is religion. Stadiums are places of worship. Coaches are bishops.

Fortunately the mechanism of feeding pro sports (TV advertising) is fading somewhat, as people's attention is drawn to other activities. But I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook bought the rights to e.g. basketball.
Ad A) It's merely a list of extinct languages, an incomplete at that since we cannot possibly know all languages that were spoken 3000 years ago. So it does not even give you a rate at which languages go extinct. But, yes, as we see more mobility (geographically and socially), languages consolidate, but a consolidation to one single language seems extremely unlikely, as I explained before.

Just because Swedish might die (which I doubt, but that's beside the point), does not mean that all languages but one will die.

Ad B) While English is probably gaining importance (speculating, I don't have a source), it is number 2 in total speakers after Mandarin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num.... Even Everyone in W. Europe under 30 speaking English is an overestimation. If you look in less well educated groups, you will find more people not speaking English. Even Sweden shows ~5% of "Younger" not speaking English in http://languageknowledge.eu/countries/sweden. Austria even shows only 52.35% speaking English natively or learned: http://languageknowledge.eu/countries/austria
It's not silly, that's how people learn to speak in the childhood and how foreign languages were learned before books even existed. There's also a te

I'm now learning Spanish and I just can't stand books with grammar exercises or using Memrise for more than 10 days.

The problem is that compared to English there's not enough Spanish content I like (Reddit, HN, non-fiction books). So I'm going with news, doubled cartoons, and flashcards for tough words.
Congratulations on the new release. I have been waiting a long while for this. :)

Love the improved GUI.
This is why I use MacPorts.
Link to the python interface https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fasttext
Some gems reference Posix specific things. And your Gemfile.lock may include the platform upon which Bundler was run, be it Windows or Posix, and that can be a problem when trying to install gems on a different platform. And some nice utilities, such as Ruby version managers, don't work on Windows.
With a felony on your record, no sentence is a light sentence. He'll be haunted by his conviction until he dies, can get records sealed (depending on his state), or receives a presidential pardon.
Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
Obligatory to point out that Perl and Perl6 are quite different languages, and the latter is meant to supplement, not replace, the former.

That said, both Perls are nice languages. Personally I prefer Perl 5 slightly, but both are fun to use, if confusing at first. (Perl, especially Perl 5, seems extremely arbitrary and nonsensical until you “get it”.)
> it's a poor fit for commerce

And yet, it's becoming de facto.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
MagBeam

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagBeam