skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a couple things to add to this thread, not everything directly related to your comment.

1) Knowing the 26 letters is not remotely enough to be able to read the newspaper in English (earlier commenter made this assertion). Example: "She caught a cough. Such is life and death, dear!" How does knowing the letter "u" help you pronounce half those words? What about "g"? What about "h"? What about even if you put "gh" together? What about "e", "a", and if you shove "ea" together? In this single paragraph I've ballooned the number of letters and letter combinations needed into the 40's, and I've barely just begun. Don't get me started with borrowed words from French and Spanish (c'est la vie!).

2) Your comment: "You should see English speakers try to pronounce Chinese" - From direct first-hand experience, this is tough for a completely different reason than this comment thread is talking about. You've gone off on a tangent here. The reason Chinese is hard for English speakers is that tonality suggests overall sentence semantics, it does not directly affect any single word, whereas tonality affects every single word in Chinese. I thought we were talking about how syllable pronunciations were expressed by the writing system.
I used to be a customer of PIA but the speed wasn't good anymore and I got blocked.

I switched to ExpressVPN and they are very reliable. Especially if you travel in Asia.

In addition, they have dedicated router firmwares so you can secure your whole network.
This is good to see. I feel like self-hosting is no longer really a priority for a lot of people, even privacy advocates. As things get more cloudy, people end up trusting these third party services more and more. Even businesses and schools are using cloud services like crazy.

I think there should be more talk about federation, exporting and importing data. It also seems like serverless is the new hotness and getting a lot of former self-hosted advocates' eyeballs.

Self-hosting is a lot of work for the everyman, but distributed trust (family, work, neighborhood, school, etc) federation seems better than the status quo. This might not be a popular position since most startups depend on roping people into centralized clouds, but eh.

I wrote some about it and the Decentralized Web Summit here[0].

[0] https://www.alami.io/post/decentralized-web-summit-2016/
Nothing wrong with a 28 km array though, if we can put it in space.

Besides, what about dynamic aperture? I know very little about it, I only heard that a moving camera effectively expands it aperture by the distance traveled within the duration of the exposure.
MacPorts is useful on multi-user systems. It installs as root, so any user of the system can access installed packages, but only admins can modify them.

I'm sure Homebrew could probably be set up this way, but the defaults are a powerful thing.
Some more similar lists:

https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud
http://wiki.autonomo.us/Wish_list
https://prism-break.org
These are a terrible. The moz://a is creative, but mundane. The first one is pretty good but will get lawsuits from Pixar for copying monster inc.

The rest are garbage. Who designed these? An 8 year old?
Hmm. In your studies can you identify retinal tissue? Guessing not since it's such a relatively small amount and might not have a clear marker like adipose/liver tissue.

Accumulating mutations could cause Parkinson's--some sort of inflammatory syndrome from altered metabolic pathways, you can probably explain it better than me--but the study in OP seems to be suggesting retinal degeneration is a symptom, right? Maybe retinal tissue could be a "canary in the coal mine" because it's more sensitive to these changes in metabolism? I'd be interested to know what you think.
> Give them a pleasant life

Perhaps a farm surrounded by a giant concrete/steel wall would be better for everyone than prison is.
I still use macports, although it's mainly out of habit and I'll probably switch to brew on my next mac (I've also been trying out nix, and while I really like the idea, package availability and freshness hasn't been as good as macports or brew. Nix hasn't picked up go 1.7, for example).

My main concrete reason to prefer macports is that it has separate packages for every version of python so I can have them all installed at once for testing. I also like a lot of macports' technical decisions, like the fact that my regular user doesn't have write access to the installation directory. And macports has binary distributions now so the awful rebuild-the-world updates aren't as much of a problem anymore.
There's very little evidence of war (defined loosely as an organized conflict between two polities) before the development of agriculture and civilization. It's worth noting that, in ancient Sumer, whereas most advancements start from the south and go north, defensive walls originate at the north and go south. The best evidence for Paleolithic warfare--which is to say pretty much the only--is a single apparent cemetery (at the tail end of the Paleolithic) where about half the people died with signs of violent trauma.
Public Transit Unions
Japan certainly adapted kanji to fit the Japanese language, but I was not aware of a dispute about the origin of the characters.

Obviously they have diverged; Japan has made efforts to simplify kanji forms, although not to the extent of zh-cn, unless you count hiragana and katakana, which are derived from kanji:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Hiragana...

As a side note, I was taught that Japanese "Chinese" readings have more in common with the Chinese spoken at the time than modern Chinese.
xfs doesn't guarantee atomic renames in the same directory?

I thought that requirement was from POSIX.

Does xfs not conform to POSIX?
I've been using macports for years and am excited by the prospects a "social" coding experience will bring with a much lower barrier to entry for contributions.

They say they will stick with Trac for dealing with issues. I understand that for managing the ports collection, but are they planning on keeping "base" issues (i.e. the application code) off the github as well?

I don't know how well different repos and issue trackers interop, but it seems like an open-source solution like gitlab would offer the (potential for) customization/integration more readily than github.

I'm sure they just desire a turn-key solution and don't want to manage a whole new project, but maybe, one day, they'll want to unify the experience again.
On Startups and Employee Handbooks
I've never been to one where you couldn't.
Yes. Those nonexistent people who already spy on every cash transaction.

That's literally impossible.

I'm with the cypherpunks regarding nsa/etc passive collection though (which I assume you're referencing)

Passive collection of digital data has nothing to do with cash transactions though. Which is the entire premise of this comment chain.

So either you've misunderstood what we're talking about or you're schizophrenic and think all cash transactions can be tracked.

Care to elaborate?

Please explain; How is a dollar I found on the ground yesterday and placed in a random mailbox today tracked?
The rename is atomic, the data being in the file is the problem, there is no garuntee unless you fsync.
Previous discussion on fasttext: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12226988

This submission is apparently the official announcement.
Its satire :)
> It was the best deal around Kyoto by far, and I was blown away with the amenities. It felt more like a luxury hotel than seedy.

I agree. They're also great for traveling by car if you have two or three people, since they're always by the exits. Rather than paying per person, you pay the room fee, pick your length (4, 6, 8, 12, 16 hours being common ones) and sleep in/relax/plan as long as you want.

Some chains are particularly picking up on this trend and going modern-natural, with wood/leather furniture and classy designs, with hardly a hint of "love" in the hotel other than the requisite jet bath and slippery gel mat.
I.. yup. That comic never ceases to amaze me.
Decoding coding camps' job claims
News bureaus and networks setting up drone divisions
"it was easy to spell"

Yep. Russian speaker is always puzzled by North American obsession with "spelling". Spelling competitions etc. In Russian if you want to "spell" a word, just say it slowly. No big deal really.
who cares much about cross continent requests when you care about performance? if you're on that situation, ipv4 v 6 is moot.
Wow! In what areas? At the ones I have stayed in you get locked in until you check out.
This habbit of programmers to name things with puns instead of descriptively drives me batty. WiX is bad, but Homebrew is on a whole new level.

Each time I use a mac I have to relearn what a tap represents vs cask vs brew vs celler etc. But hey, aren't they clever with words!
You're right, I should amend this statement:

> Type checking (safety) is only one subcategory of proofs

Type checking as provided by Rust, Haskell, etc. only covers a subset of possible proofs. Liquid Haskell goes further to increase the range of possible proofs it covers through type checking by using automatic theorem provers.
A rebuttal, of sorts, by Louis Menard in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/01/27/honest-decent-w....

> “Big Brother” and “doublethink” and “thought police” are frequently cited as contributions to the language. They are, but they belong to the same category as “liar” and “pervert” and “madman.” They are conversation-stoppers. When a court allows videotape from a hidden camera to be used in a trial, people shout “Big Brother.” When a politician refers to his proposal to permit logging on national land as “environmentally friendly,” he is charged with “doublethink.” When a critic finds sexism in a poem, she is accused of being a member of the “thought police.” The terms can be used to discredit virtually any position, which is one of the reasons that Orwell became everyone's favorite political thinker. People learned to make any deviation from their own platform seem the first step on the slippery slope to “1984.”

[...]

> Orwell wrote many strong essays, but “Politics and the English Language,” published in 1946, is not one of them. Half of the essay is an attack on bad prose. Orwell is against abstractions, mixed metaphors, Latinate roots, polysyllabic words, clichés, and most of the other stylistic vices identified in Fowler's “Modern English Usage” (in its fourth printing in 1946). The other half is an attack on political dishonesty. Certain political terms, Orwell argues, are often used in a consciously dishonest way. ... Fowler would have found nothing to complain about, though, in the sentences Orwell objects to. They are as clear as can be. Somehow, Orwell has run together his distaste for flowery, stale prose with his distaste for fascism, Stalinism, and Roman Catholicism. He makes it seem that the problem with fascism (and the rest) is, at bottom, a problem of style. They're bad, we are encouraged to feel, because their language is bad, because they're ugly.

> This is not an isolated instance of this way of thinking in Orwell. From his earliest work, he was obsessed with body odor ... Smell has no relation to virtue, however. Ugliness has no relation to insincerity or evil, and short words with Anglo-Saxon roots have no relation to truth or goodness. Political speech, like etiquette, has its codes and its euphemisms, and Orwell is right to insist that it is important to be able to decipher them. He says that if what he calls political speech—by which he appears to mean political clichés—were translated into plain, everyday speech,
"This is your brain on nationalism"
I wonder if this is a result of the Q32 macro not containing the "u" suffix and defaulting to a signed int.

Of course the result of the calculation is the same, but that old level of gcc may prefer subtracting when adding negative constants.
Little Flocker: Ransomware and Spyware Protection via File Access Enforcement
I'd like to see pkgsrc take off as the big Homebrew alternative.
> DRY isn't about saving typing but rather encapsulating ideas into reusable constructs

I thought it was about making sure that, if you changed something, you changed it everywhere at once.
The Desktop Muon Detector: A project for university students
You may also want to consider

HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

to disable Google analytics being sent
People like you looking for less strokes in China mix both English and 中文 words in a passage, which is silly in my opinion.
How design thinking helped demobilize colombian guerrillas
Write-up about the project at Symmetry Magazine [1]

- "The $100 muon detector" [ http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-100-muon-detecto... ]
autonomo.us seems to point to a domain parker at the moment. That looks like a really recent development; the whois information says the last transfer occurred "Wed Aug 10 16:06:49 GMT 2016".
The second reminds me of the much maligned London Olympics logo.
Or yourself a few months down the road.
I recommend adding (2007) to the title.
That's a mighty good reason to use Macports! I'll have to keep that in mind.

You said you could probably configure Homebrew in a similar way, but... can you now-a-days configure macports to install without root for user local packages?*

* Pardon me for the potential ignorance of this question being unreasonable or lazy.
Send anyone anonymous Frank Ocean lyrics
The hardest thing about building payments, by far, is getting users. The technology & operations are not too hard. Regulatory can be difficult if you're conservative.
For me it's just habit since I've been using MacPorts for ages. I know of Homebrew, but since MacPorts has always worked perfectly for me I've never really been motivated to look into it.
It's a remarkable fact, I think, that spoken modern standard Chinese (Mandarin) has only about 400 distinct syllables ignoring tones. With the 4 tones plus neutral pronunciation, there are about 1300, maybe 1500 (including rare ones) distinct syllables. They're basically all of the form

consonant (optional) + vowel/diphthong + n/ng (optionally)

(typically called "initial + final" in this context).

(Note that older Chinese "dialects" such as Cantonese or Teochew retain many more distinct syllables. For example, the infamous "shi shi shi shi" "poem", consisting only of "shi" sounds in Mandarin (neglecting tones), contains 11 distinct syllables (neglecting tones) in Teochew.)

English or German, on the other hand, have somewhere around 8000 distinct syllables. (Think of "strict", "fractal", "Angstschweiß", "Hampsthwaite", "strengths", etc.)
Steepster – Chinatown54
"I fear in 20 years, in Sweden, young people will equate 'Swedish' with 'old, out of touch, nationalists and racists'".

interesting angle. I doubt that Swedish will ever lose its utility, but dividing the society along language lines and typecasting native speakers as racists sounds like a natural development of current trend.
From a Melted Mac to Vintage Robots, Relics from Tekserve Go to Auction
I have lived in Japan since I was a teenager and I had a much better time reading in China (was there for a few weeks as a tourist) than speaking.

It was quite funny because staff at restaurants thought I was some kind of weirdo who could point at exactly what he wanted on the menu but couldn't answer basic questions.

They appear to have simplified them predictably in a way that is not impossible to understand if you have a senior HS-level of kanji knowledge.
This is a pretty surreal move:

>The law says the money will help taxi businesses to adopt "new technologies and advanced service, safety and operational capabilities" and to support workforce development... [Larry Meister, manager of the Boston area's Independent Taxi Operator's Association] said the money could go toward improving a smartphone app his association has started using, or to other big needs.

I'm not an anti-regulation guy most of the time, but this doesn't even seem like regulation -- they're literally giving money to a fading industry because they are incapable of keeping up. I don't want to see cab drivers turn into homeless drifters, but this just seems wrong.

Making a more efficient competitor pay to help taxi companies make their service better? The whole reason these companies exist is because taxi companies have been utter garbage for years and got the government to elbow out competitors. Am I missing something? Surely the burden for "do things better and buy nicer equipment" falls on the taxi companies, not the other organizations that are embarrassing them.
By the way, you may not have encountered "Hampsthwaite" before, but you probably know how to pronounce it.
This doesn't work in Chinese.
for those who don't know, this is called 略字 (ryakuji) eg 門 > 门
The purpose of Rust is not to fix memory leaks.
How so? We know that communicable diseases mutate all the time, even when they don't have a single human host, so destroying any samples that could provide a baseline for any future pathogen is nothing short of morally reprehensible. Variola major is one of the deadliest diseases in human history, killing 20+% of those infected, estimated to be in the hundreds of millions in the 20th century alone. If these samples were destroyed and a mutated smallpox reappears globally, it would be an unmitigated public health disaster and we'd be crippled without being able to experimentally compare the new version to the old. Given the stakes and nature's contempt for geopolitics, it's an unavoidable tradeoff.
Sorry, would you mind clarifying? "The data being in the file"?

The way I understand the article's proposal is this:

1. Create new symlink pointing to desired file (assumed to already exist in a stable state).

2. Move new symlink over old symlink.
Well, things should be equal. Why should a taxi service have to perform a regular vehicle inspection and a an uber driver be exempt from it?

Either make the Uber driver go through regular inspections or cancel the regulation for the cabbies.
I know Charlie is a writer, not a radiation physicist, nevertheless... major 'units' fail in his radiation calculation. 6 Trillion alpha particles per sq meter per second is 6 TBq per m^2; not 6 Tbq per m^2 per second. TBq as a unit already includes the "per second". In other words, you wouldn't get a Fukushima release every eight days - you'd just get about 1 millionth of a Fukushima... and that's it (per m^2, of course), as long as you are moving through an interstellar medium as thick as he posits at that speed.

160 Curies is a dangerous amount of radioactivity, but nothing outrageous. I often work with gamma sources much larger than that. I use a 1000 Curie source that easily fits in a sq meter, and it's used the same shielding for over 20 years.
As far as I know this has always been possible.

A random Google finds this. https://coderwall.com/p/njpsxg/building-macports-without-roo...
Imagine outfitting a datacenter with these, and using them to understand the rate of bit flips in your processors. Maybe we'll find some parts of the Earth have fewer cosmic rays hitting there, and are thus are more naturally suited to being datacenters.
Weirder still - why do I follow him from job to job?
your last sentence would definitely look better if expressed in German:)
None of which has anything to do with this tax. This is directly using taxation to hand one business a market advantage over another business.
> And macports has binary distributions now so the awful rebuild-the-world updates aren't as much of a problem anymore

That's really awesome.

> ... has separate packages for every version of python so I can have them all installed at once for testing

Are the package versions themselves configured to be installed side by side? Or are you using multiple copies of macports[1]?

[1] https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.source.multi...
I still use MacPorts and I am quite happy with it -- although I've tried to switch away a couple of times, I can't bring myself to uninstall a piece of software that's worked so reliably and faithfully for me over the years.

Maybe it's just that Homebrew turned me off right away. Back in the bad old days, when the Python 2/3 split was more serious than it is now, I had a heck of a time trying to get pandas and scipy running with Homebrew. I haven't given it a try lately so perhaps things are better now.

(I am probably also the kind of person where all the hectoring the Homebrew docs would do about installing to /usr/local eventually got on my nerves ... )

That being said, I don't use MacPorts versions of things like TeX or Ruby (I prefer MacTeX and plain old rvm).
Making Uber drivers abide by the same standards would make sense.

This is using government authority to take money from one business and give it to another.
Yea, I can only work with tissues that I have chromatin marks for, and retinal tissue is not one that is easily available. But it's possible that the retinal features are an early detector of disregulation (in some pathway to Parkinson’s), and it would be interesting to see precisely what it’s detecting, perhaps shedding more light on inherited risk.
Cab drivers don't become homeless drifters, they become your next lyft pick up.

And the quality of service of Lyft and Uber have gone down the more and more cab drivers become drivers.

It's starting to not feel like much of differentiation.
As a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, color me unsurprised. This is a tangent but I've also spent some time in India, and a $1.50 Uber ride there would be about $10 in Massachusetts. That has to do with other factors though such as PPP, birth rates and age demographics, immigration policies, number of skilled vs unskilled workers, etc.
Analysis of Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights
> Japanese "Chinese" readings have more in common with the Chinese spoken at the time than modern Chinese.

Yup. There are even names for the various readings based on which era/dynasty they were borrowed during. E.g. for the readings of 明, "myo" was borrowed first, then "mei" a few centuries later, then "min" most recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#On.27yomi_.28Sino-Japane...
Yes, offlineimap crashes every few hours. Not a big deal for me (I don't get a lot of emails), but it is annoying. I'll give mbsync a shot.
And by the big mac index, the cost of living in India is 50% less (at a minimum) than in the US. Direct price comparisons between countries are useless
Well, it's similar to math and that was there long before lisp or C
It is sort of orthogonal to an MDP.

MDPs can be represented in the event calculus.

A programming language analogy: An MDP can be thought of as a class of programs that satisfy certain conditions. They can be written in any language. Event Calculus happens to be a Turing complete programming language.

(Note: First-order logic, which Event Calculus is based upon, can simulate a universal Turing machine.)
Interesting, I was just looking at the SiPM (its $132 qty 1 (http://sensl.com/estore/microfc-60035-smt/)), nice to see it in use.
I use it because I like it. It's organised in a way that makes sense to me and I prefer it to homebrew
I think that this makes sense in concept if not in implementation. Taxi medallions were sold and traded under a certain set of laws which defined their value. The government decided to change those laws, so "buying out" the medallions at some fair price, paid for by the beneficiaries of the change in law, makes sense.
It's not useless. If something is too expensive in one place (5x-10x in Massachusetts compared to India) then it's evidence of some serious problems. My own theory is that the immigration policies of the US prevent enough unskilled workers from filling the roads with lots of Uber drivers.