skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But latex and word are usually for printing a document. For something that will later be printed, you would want some sort of control over the actual look as the appearance is a large part of what is being communicated. Printing is also much more expensive than sending electrons so you would expect a much more developed medium for this.

I have never printed an email in my life. The appearance of the text is not essential to what is being communicated. Here a certain consistency is more important that variety - or rather the variety comes through the vocabulary and written expressions, not the font shape.

The same could be said for IM clients or IRC. Except for a few minor tweaks such as html links there is no real need for text formatting in these mediums, and very few clients even make the effort to do this.
Is the id there the billing id listed here[0]? AdWords does something similar but their account ids are sorter.

One hack that may work: use + in the name part of your email (ex: name+account@example.com). Gmail at least routes them all to the "name" account. Then you can filter or label as you would like.

[0] https://console.cloud.google.com/billing
> we currently know of no natural phenomena that would hint at the possibility of faster-than-light travel and in fact have good reasons to believe that it is impossible

Is this true? I thought that if my ship is capable, I can go as fast as I like. I just won't appear to be going faster than light to somebody else.
Am I the only one who found it sadly ironic to read this on a site that pops up the warning, "We use cookies to help us improve this site and your experience. Continue to use the site if you’re happy with this or click to find out more"?
It's the reason I stopped dual booting and went full Manjaro.
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Here are the 44 sounds that English generally uses: http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm

It does not include sounds which are borrowed from other languages, like the Hebrew 'ch' which happens at the top of your throat, or the Spanish trilled r, or the glottal stop which actually occurs in spoken English all the time in some dialects.
And indeed in older books and articles it is not unusual to see people writing "electronic brain" to refer to a computer.

A lot of non-English words for computer terms in various languages are translations of outdated English terms for the same that stuck around after the English terms changed.
I wasn't aware this reality check was needed, but it's worth noting that we haven't even left Earth yet (going to the Moon doesn't really count, and we've since lost that capability again). If we were a solar-system-wide civilization, I can see how it would make sense to talk about the feasibilities of interstellar travel, but today we are so far off it's not even an issue. We also don't have any ambitions to change that, so extrapolating from today's state of affairs, we'll probably remain thoroughly Earth-bound until we reach a tech level that enables individual people to have space programs (if we ever get there).

It's fun to think of probe-based exploration, but apart from acceleration/energy based problems we haven't even figured out how to make machines last that long. This is all very, very far off.
Will this finally be the year of the Linux desktop? Nope.
English tends to sneakily disguise its words with Latin or Greek. So you may not think about the literal meaning of a word like "predict", while in German "vorhersagen" (to say before) is the exact same thing, just more obvious.
Doing proper testing is hard.

That said, my household switched to a mix of Gentoo Linux, EdgeOS and iOS. We do not have things crash when USB devices are attached. :)
Yes Chinese characters (used in Japanese as kanji, which means Chinese character) often are composed of smaller elements or other characters. it common for a character to be composed of two common parts,one indicating meaning in some way,the other indicating pronunciation.
Does this new release include a sane concept of multiple accounts? Or are we still stuck with hook voodoo?
Yeah, I came here to suggest pandoc too.

You can easily script mutt to include a plaintext file and an html one generated by pandoc, so that people reading your emails can fall back to a plain text version of your mails in case they can't view html.
Not commenting on currency, but I enjoy visiting countries where taxes are calculated into the menu price, which also tend to be nice round numbers. No more estimations on what stuff costs (level of taxes can change with a 20 minute drive), you always know and making/having the right change is easy.
Kue, an efficient message queue for Node.js microservices
Yes, that's right. I take about 30 minutes to read or watch something, but I usually find it very easy to fall asleep.
My father's native New-Jerseyan uses "jeet jet" for "did you eat yet".

The one bit of that I consistently use is "agnishna", for "air conditioner".
Have you tried isync (mbsync), instead of offlineimap?

I found offlineimap slow and crashy, and switched to isync.
I never knew search existed. It's amazing how blind to things in unusual position I am.

I don't understand why we can't have larger buttons by default though!
Well, you just launch them on one Orion-drive space ship. A few dozen nukes to get it into orbit probably will only cause a few dozen cancer cases, if you do it right.
It's 2016 and we're still doing drivers in kernel mode :(

Andrew Tanenbaum's arguments for microkernels still ring just as true today as they always did.
I don't think rails is the most popular worldwide. Almost certainly that is PHP. Perhaps in your circles rails is popular. I know view few rails programmers myself.
Here is what I settled with for my website after trying a few things over the years. In the process I have discarded nodejs, JAX-RS, maven, Undertow, JQuery, bootstrap (partially) etc.

Currently, pure java servlets serve json over REST-like API. The jar dependencies are servlet-api.jar, a couple of json-related jars and an sqlite jar. Multiple fine-grained sqlite files for data. Tomcat as the servlet container with no static content.

A nodejs reverse proxy forks the API and static web requests between tomcat and another nodejs static webserver. The static content is angualrjs + html + css with minimal and reusable js files mostly fetching json data. I also have a little bootstrap dependency for forms.

I have an apache ant build file that copies the ~60kb war file and static content directly to the production from my dev system. Tried maven before but Ant seemed much simpler and more than enough for my needs. The ant build does a lot other things also.

I use Eclipse for the easy navigability across the code and other nice refactoring features. Ant does all the build work.

Earlier I tried pure nodejs (no java), then JAX-RS and then Undertow container etc. Nothing seemed simpler than the current setup. By the way, the site is https://worktheme.com
Which to me is DJango or Rails, with my vote for DJango.
So, in regards to the Kindle, this just cropped up on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12326201

Apparently, you're not the only one with that problem...
With an install-base the size of Windows 10 you can expect problems to come up but what is worrying is that they shouldn't have existed considering the "open-beta" / windows insiders. At least someone must have tried to plug in a Kindle and reported it / or the telemetry should have picked on it.
SEC fines go to the US Treasury. DOJ fines may go to Treasury, into a general victims fund, or gets offset against DOJ's budget.
As mentioned below, 食in Cantonese or ancient Chinese means eat as a verb
For those who haven't read "Flash Boys", this a synopsis of the book:

Canadian banker Brad Katsuyama notices prices for stocks he is buying change price almost the instant he places his order to purchase them.

Turns out that this happens when he places a larger order than can be filled at a single exchange. After some investigation he determines that HFT traders "see" his trade on the local NJ exchange and buy up stock at other (further away) exchanges before said banker can fill his order at the original (lower) price.

His solution: Send orders to multiple exchanges but delay the orders to the closest ones so orders arrive at exchanges more or less simultaneously thus defeating that particular HFT strategy. The coil of fiber is the method used to achieve that delay.
Some sort of light sail powered by a giant laser which we keep here.
Driven by rage and anxiety
The whole schtick about DRM is that you don't own the content. When you subscribe to Netflix, it is explicit that you are paying for access not ownership. I have no problem paying for a DRMd Apple Music subscription as a rental model and DRM free music from iTunes music that I own.
I think "hugely inefficient" was meant not so much in terms of space requirement or number of strokes, but rather in terms of cognitive load and time required to master it.

While English might be among the worst alphabetic writing systems (compared to, say, Spanish, which has a wonderful correspondence between what is written and what is spoken), it is certainly a more efficient writing system than Chinese, in that fewer years of school have to be dedicated to just learning to read and write.

Furthermore, as highlighted by someone else, it is not uncommon for writers of Chinese to just completely forget how to write a word.

In English, you might misspell it, but it'll be rare that you can't render it at all.

Great book on the topic of Chinese, debunking several misconceptions, is "The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy" by John DeFrancis.
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-819-9780824810689.aspx
Someone made a video showing how this is the case for some characters:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FNvW19GbA

The entire character set is not that simple though.
The year of Linux on the desktop was around 2010. The trouble is, I'm still waiting for the year of Linux on the laptop.
Or just tell the government there's oil on Titan. ;)
Wow that's a great car, the next big thing for Lamborghini
Nice! Also you don't live too far from me :)
Haha, I'm not sure how I missed it. I've probably ridden in one. I just mostly use Lyft.
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> If they want to promote tech boot camps they should have community colleges open free to the public ones.

Some of these even already exist, but seem not to have as good PR behind them. For example, De Anza College, a community college in Cupertino, offers a variety of intro programming courses for a $140 enrollment fee, with fee waivers available for low-income students.
Of course, since physics is still a thing, the above is unsustainable.

Graph electricity usage increase on the planet, and in 20-100 years we will need to convert the output of the sun, to sustain they present slope.

Hence why it will change to be in equilibrium with that you were replying to.

Just don't mistake the current spur with some kind of everlasting trend.
> going to the Moon doesn't really count, and we've since lost that capability again

What we've lost is will. The capability is definitely better today, even though still not affordable enough to fit today's budgets.
You might enjoy (and probably have already seen) "Why Japanese People": https://youtu.be/AqragQq63Js
1) Here's an example from Quora which I just came across (from Michael O. Church):

'“Why are you banned on Quora?”

Quora has received funding from, and is at this point largely controlled by, Y Combinator. “An investor” (probably from Y Combinator, but this has not been confirmed) threatened Quora’s management that, unless I was banned in a public way, they would be rendered unable to raise future funding. Vendetta-driven, intentional product failures are more common in Silicon Valley than most people would like to believe, and they come as often from a company’s investors as from its management.

I was a top contributor to Quora. I had more than 8500 followers (and, now, over 9000) and was a Top Writer in each year. My answers were published to many of Quora’s media partners, including Time, Fortune, the BBC, and the Huffington Post.

Because I was a model contributor, my ban caused a substantial loss of faith, among Quora’s community, in its moderation. User engagement, especially among users deemed to be high-value content creators, began to decline. In reaction to this, Quora asked me to rejoin its community in February 2016, and offered a cash settlement. I turned their offer down.'[0]

2) And of course there's the recent banning of the alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos on Twitter.

We don't have free speech in the UK (people get arrested for trolling on social networks). It's not as ingrained in our culture. I think it's therefore important for the US to keep their free speech to at least set an example for the rest of the world (a benchmark).

[0] https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/what-i-fough...
$25 per month according to the top of the page. But yeah, that's not visible anywhere in the narrower of the responsive views; it's not just mobile, but if you narrow the window on desktop, you get the same result. I'll email bemmu and point that out.
Same here. Bought one last week and downloaded one that I bought years ago and apparently never downloaded for some reason.
I spent nearly 15 minutes on the parse website but still can't figure out what it does. All I see is that it's an open source version of the Parse API. But what is the Parse API?

Since you've used it before, would you care to elaborate on what the Parse API does?
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The 'master' has already been mastered. If it didn't it would sound awful. The conversion to redbook format is just one small step at the end of the process that has nothing to do with clipping.
I use search about 10 times a week. I often remember the title of an article that I didn't have time to read and search for that. I still remember fondly searchyc.com

I used to look at new more often and upvote interesting articles but haven't had time to in a while (or rather I've been procrastinating slightly less).

I guess the only features I never use is the jobs section and the new hide link.
I see what yOU did there.
I didn't update yet because something like that would happen.
The out-of-context thought stream at https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments ("comments" in the top bar)
Academics Are Suckers for Clickbait, Too
likewise, non-Linux gaming was always the problem for me, however now that VT-d works really very well, you can now virtualise games inside Windows at around 97% native speed.

it was initially a pain to get working, however over the past 12 months the tooling has improved a great deal, in virt-manager you can now assign your graphics cards/sound card/... with 1 or 2 clicks, and it simply works!

MS are free to spy on me playing Starcraft II in a VM, and I try to support Linux with my new purchases wherever possible.
I don't use any of the feeds other than /news

I don't use Search, but only because I find the results to be awful. I always end up searching (and succeeding) on Google instead.
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A founder population of 1,000 wouldn't be unprecendented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans

The real problem is that an individual can only learn so much and 1,000 can't support the skills needed to run something like a modern civilization.
See his writings on his site about his visits to Japan, Zen temples, etc.
My understanding was that they had a software called Thor to generate the artificial delay in sending their trades to the different exchanges.

This new exchange uses the long coil of fiber to enable all traders from around the world to benefit from that protection. I'm wondering if they really had to go to that extent to get the speed bump. But hey since shame has yet to force formally verified software on anyone's radar, the long coil will certainly do.
I don't know much, but I do know that if somebody were to tell me What's Next for AI, it's definitely not the WSJ.
I have a cheap chromebook with Crouton and I'm very happy for the price. Cheap, light and I get about 10 hours of battery life.
Since you've already brought the meta topic up.. I don't think this belongs on HN.

I clicked into it thinking it would be something interesting instead it's about spending a day being lazy.
Sorry, what's ignorant about that?
Thanks, good to have it confirmed.
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For USB devices it would be theoretically possible: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/wd...

A kindle is just a USB drive, though. And that driver is probably kernel mode for performance reasons.
That is one of the awesome features in Firefox, its too simple for power users but for the regular user its great. I only wish there was some better interface around it, even if something html based or what not, like Bamboo Feed Reader maybe.
Yeah, I'm not sure what world you have to live in for "three-mouthed monster" to be a more obvious meaning for that glyph than "stacked crates".

But I think I might like to visit.
Bitcoin can be used anonymously with a little understanding. The ledger is immutable and permanent, however a party is only identified by their public key, and the chain of transactions that carried money to that key. If you can't associate that key with an actual person, we consider that pseudo-anonymity.
You have a lot of karma for being banned often. ha.
What exactly is this "Anniversary Update" anyway?
If you use vagrant heavily, you are almost forced to use packer at one point. There are certain things you simply have to put into a base image and packer is the best way to do that. However, I will say the support for vagrant seems fairly responsive, while packer seems basically unsupported.
Liferea is quite buggy on many systems, if you use GNOME and/or it's stable on your system then good for you. QuiteRSS is good, the only problem is that it comes with built in browser and I'm not sure if the browser code is updated properly.
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Show HN: Procedural drum n' bass for Bitcoin
If you are on a Mac, try https://freron.com/. I moved to it from Mutt. It uses Markdown to write emails, has fantastic search capabilities, etc.
Similarly in Spanish, which has great consistency, in that if you see a word written, you pretty much know how to pronounce it, and vice versa. English is pretty bad in that department, but still much better than Chinese.

While many Chinese characters have a phonetic component (in addition to a component related to the meaning), it rarely corresponds exactly to the current pronunciation (in Mandarin).

Furthermore, you can very rarely conjure the right character out of pronunciation and and some aspect of the meaning.
The articles about companies instead of ideas.
A week in to Xubuntu myself. It's such a pleasure being in control again.
+1. Bandcamp is the way to support artists, besides being imminently usable for the customer.

I find it perplexing when some artists' web sites make the iTunes and Spotify links more prominent and in some cases don't even include the Bandcamp link despite having the record listed there.
I don't know what Michael O. Church did on Quora, but when he was (hyper) active here he ruined this site for a while. His post volume was too high, and it was always the same open allocation/stack ranking rant, over and over and over and over.

Take a look into his ban from Wikipedia and what he did there.
The moon is extremely interesting because it is seismically dead. Its core has cooled and solidified. This means we can create with existing technology all sorts of useful industrial structures hidden away below 500 miles of basalt. From that perspective, the moon offers a relatively cheap insurance policy for humanity. The moon could house hundreds of billions of humans, immense defensive weapon systems, and in uninteresting enough resource wise to be passed over by anyone else out there
Hackers say leaked NSA tools came from contractor at RedSeal
Bandcamp is the best. I personally admire those guys.

Over last few years they have done for the music industry much more than anyone else in the business. Yet avoiding a huge buzz that the other players generate (like Spotify, Pandora, Apple, etc.).

* They seem to be the only profitable company in the online music business,

* They pay directly to the content owners (artists and labels) avoiding stupid useless institutions like RIAA and SoundExchange,

* They don't raise hundreds of millions just to squander them on advertisement,

* They are actually helping increase the income for indies,

* They provided tools to anyone to easily sell their music and merch,

* And it's still just a couple of dozen people working there.

This company is kind of the ideal example that every single startup should follow, I believe. Instead of infinite noise and funding rounds keeping unprofitable for years, they just did the job and continue to grow.

Kudos!
That is correct, but as you can see this account is not even two months old.
Japanese is little different from English on stuff like this - new words crop up, die out, get borrowed from abroad etc., as you'd expect. Of course this doesn't involve creating any new kanji, but slang and such is usually written phonetically (or sometimes takes the form of new readings applied to existing kanji).
Many people use Android Mail which cannot send mail in text/plain if i understand correctly https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8712
Any hope for a gitlab extension?
Ask HN: Besides Ads what are the other (efficient) revenue models?
Yes however to be truly lossless, each sample amplitude would need infinite precision, which is not physically possible to record. Also real world sounds are not bandlimited.
Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude here. Windows runs in Virtualbox. It just works.
Previous discussion from 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11876453
>They are actively seeking to erode 2nd amendment rights.

1. There are countries in the world that are better than USA on multiple metrics, and they don't have 2nd amendment rights at all. What say you?

2. Your gun will avail you absolutely nothing when the government comes to you with a Predator drone. You will not "prevent dictatorship" by your gun.
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Windows 10 SP1 with a fancy name.
There are some users at my company who do not filter their email into individual folders automatically.

Those tend to be the users who accumulate upwards of 100K messages. At some point, their mail client throws up and stops responding, and they call for help.

I use mutt to load their gigantic inboxes, tag everything in certain date ranges, save those messages to new folders, and leave them with inboxes merely holding messages received since January 1, or in the last 3 months, or whatever makes them happy. This takes about 30 keystrokes.

Then I suggest that they automatically filter messages, and sometimes they take me up on that.
The name given to the semesterly release of Windows that came out a couple of weeks ago. Previously code-named "Windows Redstone".
"Chances are that, centuries ago, people used to say "further you are from actual gold..."

I've never considered that angle, and you may be right, but centuries ago 9 out of 10 or more spent to survive rather than consumerism. We may become used to them, but I'm not sure how comparable the two eras can ever be.

I've also seen enough reports on the topic to see that paying via plastic (both debit and credit) leads to higher overall spending. There's countless gamasutra type articles explaining the income benefits of tiers of virtual currencies. Game monetisation seems to have been researched well enough that most freemium have ended up with a combination of soft and hard currrencies, with deliberately unusual prices, and a remarkably similar set of price points for a bucket of gems. They're not all ending up there as customers spend less.