skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What they are saying is that switching from "he" to "they" is simple and easy

I get that and if I remember to use it, I will, but when I instinctively do not use it, because well, "he" still comes more naturally to me than "they", it should not be assumed that I am sexist, bigoted etc. because I made a particular choice of words that can be reasonably interpreted as not meant to explicitly exclude people, unless they're looking for it.

> will make life better for many people

It's true that it may make them feel better, if they're looking at every use of a gendered pronoun from a "it's sexist" perspective, but I'd argue that's unproductive and not really making their life any better in a meaningful way

> It's correct English

That's good, but that doesn't mean that it's "intuitive" English for everyone and they shouldn't feel bad for it.
Also IE9, which is used by many people, especially at work, who's computers are stuck on Windows 7.
Just for the record:

- rape has largely been defined so that it is physically close to impossible for a woman to rape a man.

- The official numbers for IPV are very close and there is a strong reason to believe that female on male IPV is dramatically underreported (female on female IPV apparently has levels similar to male on female). The only statistic I could find for murder was murder-suicide.
I imagine it's similar to MacOS where you can edit the icon of any file type and its stored in a resource fork.
"Russian", is not a race. We should find another word for this kind of prejudice.
I've lived two careers -- one in semiconductors doing ASIC physical design (highly aided by writing software I might add), and another in startups doing backend database, systems, the gamut of server-side programming.

The hardware job seemed more like "real" engineering -- it was more rigorous, there was less room for error or experimenting. But, I got bored with it eventually -- it was the same thing, just a bigger chip, more people working on it, and a longer design cycle from one thing to the next. Also, it seemed like upward mobility was hard -- I didn't want to be a middle manager anyway, and it felt hard to have a large influence in a company with thousands of engineers. In the end, I felt I didn't want to die at that desk, so I switched into working for internet startups.

The software end of things has felt more creative and has definitely been more fun. It's more laid-back, people are generally a little more interesting and well-rounded, and you typically work at a place 2-4 years and then move onto something new -- which I like. You're generally working in smaller teams and you get to work on a variety of different pieces of the system if that's what you like to do.

All in all, they were both rewarding experiences with good compensation -- the software thing might end up being more lucrative in the end and I just sorta have more fun doing it. At the time I made the switch, I took a pretty large pay cut going from a mid-level hardware engineer to a junior software engineer, but it's one of the best decisions I ever made looking back.
I had been building http://wishcan.com, a drag-and-drop travel planner, and will hand it off to someone willing to continue the work. Trip planning is difficult to get right, and notoriously hard to find a business model for. I think it's simply because no one has gotten the UI/UX perfect. I am now working on an IoT platform called http://smartxlab.com
I'm now significantly less salty about the lack of comments in JSON.
A couple of points come to mind:

From the article:

"If there’s anything as frustrating as driving in LA, it’s parking there: The city issues more than 2.5 million parking citations each year, raking in $165 million."

So in a way the city relies on people owning cars and statistical probability that its residents will periodically lose in the "great parking game."

Parking tickets are a form of soft tax and not having to pay this tax is not insignificant. From the following article:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-parking-tick...

"The price of a ticket for overstaying a meter steadily rose from $40 in 2006 to $63 in 2012, and officials have repeatedly acknowledged that the purpose was to bring in cash. This year, the city expects parking tickets to generate about $161 million in revenue."

That was 4 years ago. I wasn't able to find a current figure but generally those number only increase over time.

And it's not just meters. There are also street cleaning violation tickets that are $75 each. For those not familiar with LA. Street cleaning happens in residential areas. Twice a week( day for each side of the street)the available parking capacity is effectively cut in half. Even though the cleaning only takes place during a two hour window. Many residents will park in the early evening and then won't use their car again so they don't lose their spot for the following day. Time spent trying to find a spot to park the night before street cleaning is a quality of life issue. Sadly anyone who has watched a street sweeping machine in LA could attest to their dubious effectivity for actual cleaning purposes.

So an addition to the soft taxes applied in the form of parking tickets, theres a cognitive load and stress I suppose you could add to the calculations outlined in the article.

The question is what happens if(when?) ride sharing and car services are so successful that they begin to erode hundreds of millions of dollars the city obviously depends on. Then what?
Crypto signatures let you prove things without disclosing anything to a third party. Payment X was (singed by XYZ). Yo IRS I paid for it (signed by XYZ).
Like writing? This is an over-generalisation. Social media in some form is here to stay, though its exact form will change.
that's a great story it just reaffirms the "Know no Risks" personality.
Read and Write Other Process Memory
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What do people think about this app?
Funny that you should mention racecars. I learned all of this in a drag racing class. I won the class from NHRA and was expecting it to be all about driving the 8 second, 160+ MPH dragster. That was some part of it, but more time was spent on how your eyes and brain work. I was the guinea pig to show the class that there is no such thing as peripheral vision. All you have is peripheral "awareness" at your disposal. "Vision" requires looking directly at something.

Those of us who ride motorcycles, learn to watch people's heads and eyes ( sometimes in their mirrors ) and know that if you do not make eye contact, you are invisible to the others on the road.

Your last sentence sums it all up. Unfortunately it describes the majority of drivers I encounter on the road. At least in New Orleans, it seems that driving is about the 4th thing people do at the wheel of a car. Texting, eating, and dancing all rank higher on an average day. And all those people assume they will "see" things off to the side in time...

Meanwhile, I'm looking for pupils.
This is targeting mobile specifically
> If it's not clean room, then there's probably copyright violations.

This is the law in the United States. From the links given in the readme file the authors are probably from Russia.
Since when people don't want to solve the same boring problem repeatedly.
No, not sbin, your shared libraries, and/or termcap. Those are easily loseable, especially if /usr, /share, or /lib are on a separate partition.

Although yes, it's not the problem it used to be.
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Ask HN: How an experienced welder can be useful for the Internet 2.0 companies?
My father is an experienced welder and I was wondering how he benefits from his skills he learnt in order to build an Internet company. Anyone has an idea? Thanks.
This article is based on the assumption that those two statements from Rockford were the actual reason for his disinvitation - because that's "everything [the author's] been able to find". Which is not the case according to nodevember's statement[1].

Besides, the fact that the author is criticising people for calling for a disinvite of a white supremacist speaker from LamdaConf[2] doesn't quite increase my trust in his opinions.

[1] http://nodevember.org/statement.html
[2] https://modelviewculture.com/news/lambda-conf-fuckery-white-...
There's the old and not as often used "stereotype". But it doesn't have the emotional impact like racist does, so... Anything that doesn't hit squarely at the pathos is right out.
I imagine now a music store can sell FLAC-only music tracks, and provide FLAC-only stream previews. No need to re-encode anything.
Yeah. Sorry...

I do think, though, that it's possible for an organization to structure it's meetings so that they're a useful and productive part of the job, and not a thing to be dreaded in the least.

I've seen this done with varying degrees of success/failure.
Working long hours is counterproductive
...do you really need syntax highlighting for fstab?
Nope. Never heard of it. Though quite cool.

The reference came from being about to write 'people keeping up appearances', then remembering the show.
It seems like you are assuming a lot about how GNU Taler works. I don't know that you're wrong, but I'd be pretty confident that Stallman knows what he's doing and is not one to take the word "anonymous" lightly.

I don't much about Taler, but here is the site so you can see for yourself if you believe it: https://taler.net/
Cannot agree more with wishcan. I sketched up a few different ideas for something like this, but never pushed on because I thought integrating with hotels, airlines, etc. Would painful. Also figured I'd need to automatically parse email confirmations, which would be a PITA.

What is it written in and how much work is left to do?
Looks sketchy in what way?
Everyone starts out that way. Some stop, some turn into stereotypical bad people. It's a real shame when anyone at the first stage overdoses and dies. Still a shame for the latter group, but they have more culpability for their own death by continuing to do something they know could/will eventually kill them.
Coincidentally enough, given TFA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian_Weekly
Mine too I think, back in Mandrake (later Mandriva) days. I would never use anything but KDE until Ubuntu arrived a few years later and I still have a soft spot for KDE.
None of this is responsive to my point, namely that current inequality is mostly self-made wealth rather than inheritance (contra Picketty).
I have built a platform for Networking - specifically for conferences, meetups & business gatherings.

We hosted one conference i.e Apple's WWDC.

[1] http://wwdcconnect.com
The introduction section of Ming Kwai typewriter patent is interesting reading (in addition to the classic beautiful drawings): https://www.google.com/patents/US2613795

The concept looks like it should be applicable to computer keyboards, and especially virtual touchscreen ones. Heck, I'm half-curious to prototype such myself just to see how it works.
SVG is a strange combination of really bloated and not easily human readable. Try to make sense of shape data sometime. I'd expected a XML list of points but it's nothing that clear, it's a string of letters and numbers as an attribute of a tag. It may very well be readable if you learn the language but it's certainly not self describing as I would have expected from an XML format.
Yeah. I guess I was saying that we, the Anglophone world, need to pick an equally effective word for this meaning. I think probably “xenophobic” is more accurate than “racist” in this case, but still not quite right.
the number of people actually abducted by UFOs is 0

How can you possibly be certain of that?
Looking at https://taler.net/citizens I see that Taler exchange accounts are funded by bank transfers. I see no indication that wallets are anonymized from deposit accounts. So do you argue that payments are fully anonymous?

Edit: IRS? Where does IRS come in for something anonymous?
hey it looks polished! my wife and i are planning for a trip to Taipei mid-Sep, so i'm wondering if your app is usable (at least until end of this month).
By the way, I can't edit my comment any longer, but when I said:

> In Spain, we say "Jesus!" when you sneeze, instead of "Bless you!" (and, in general, we are outrageously foul-mouthed compared to the US).

..it may sound as if "¡Jesús!" ("Bless you!") is foulmouthed - when in fact is something a four-year-old would typically say.
Actually, I do use ed(1) quite regularly. Sometimes I invoke it in conjunction with rlwrap(1), but plain 'ed' or even 'restricted ed' is just fine. :)

Ever had display problems using ncurses-based programs over a serial connection? I did and I was happy to have a line editor at my disposal…
When I first read this, I thought it was satire - who in the world is still using ed? At the second reading, I realized you were serious and decided to check out ed (which I only knew by reputation). Having worked through the info manual, it doesn't seem half as bad as I thought it would be ;-) Not that it's going to replace Emacs, but who knows, I might just end up using it occasionally...
Pinepain/php-ref: extension that adds Soft and Weak references support to PHP 7
You do realise that alcohol unlike cannabis or cocaine causes physical dependence?
In a WHO survey they had that 42% of the US population had tried marijuana and 16% cocaine. And that's just people who admitted it in a survey. So it's pretty widespread.
I got intrigued by your claims, so I dug up that old e-mail exchange. And I failed to find anything that would substatiate (2). So you misremember at best; at worst you're outright lying to make TDF the bad guys.

Btw, the claim that Red Hat's CTO (or anyone else at RH) "thought it was a great idea" seems to be a bit exaggerated as well. The words you yourself used at that time were "... saw the logic of it".
Seriously, I love KiCAD. So much better than eagle, and open source.
It was so painful to read. It's like they are marching toward the "Safe place" South Park episode with full thrust.
Even at the time of donation, LibreOffice had already gained a substantial set of the former Sun/Oracle developers: Stephan Bergmann (to Red Hat), Bjoern Michaelsen (to Canonical), Eike Rathke (to RedHat), Michael Stahl (to Red Hat).
Together with other former Sun developers like e.g. Thorsten Behrens and Caolán McNamara, LibreOffice had more of the old Sun developers than Apache OpenOffice had at any point in time. Incidentally, they also made a lot of contributions that allowed LibreOffice to strife past other derivatives: like build system cleanup, static code analysis and fuzzing, bibisecting.
If facebook hopes the new compression algorithm to be a standard, why doesn't it publish an IETF RFC draft? Will it follow OpenDNS way of dnscrypt by open-sourcing the reference implementation without publishing any IETF RFC draft?
The analysis notes that full-time users of Nim are tend to be working on very large projects. Any chance you were able to get examples of such projects? Even if they're closed source it would be interesting to know who is using Nim for serious business and in what specific ways.
Surprisingly fluid on Windows Phone 8.1!
> Also, solder fumes aren't toxic!

If the solder has lead the fumes are toxic. If the solder has a rosin flux the fumes are toxic, and the operator needs ventilation to keep exposure below recommended levels.

It's a bad idea to be breathing in the fumes, but obviously this depends on how much you're breathing. At most risk are people who solder all day everyday.
As much as I like FLAC, I do start to wonder about the necessity of native support for the more minority file formats in browsers when decoders can be written in js/asm.js/webassembly.

Every natively supported file format adds to the attack surface of the browser - another piece of decoding code running outside the sandbox/vm that js decoders would be forced to.
about what every motorcyclist learns in a safety course and we practice daily. hell i do it in my car but one thing I would add is you can pretty much tell if another driver near you is driving to paying attention to something else.

the lights being on is what the driving lights on cars were for, which now are getting artful in that you can easily identify makes by them.
> As an introverted white guy who lives in a foreign country, I feel that I am being discriminated against all the time.

This is, literally, what it feels like to be a minority in the US and most European countries. Everything about you is questionable, you get slighted all the time, and you're the representative of an entire ethnicity. So whatever you do or opinions you hold are representative of the entire group.
> In that case, verifying that a program conforms to spec in the general case is of as much computational complexity no matter when it's carried out.

Then, as Dijkstra said, don't focus on the general case: “So, instead of trying to devise methods for establishing the correctness of arbitrary, given programs, we are now looking for the subclass of "intellectually manageable programs", which can be understood and for which we can justify without excessive amounts of reasoning our belief in their proper operation under all circumstances.” https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/E...

> The knowledge that a certain program has a certain property has a price-tag, and there are no discounts.

So what? If you're designing programs out of reusable components and you don't throw away their proofs of correctness, then much of the cost has already been paid by someone else before you even start.

> You're wrong because, again, you're blind to computational complexity and to computational processes that aren't man-made programs. What you described is precisely how nature computes. That things that aren't fit enough to survive "just die" is a verification process by a genetic algorithm (that requires tremendous time and space complexity) to conform with the spec for genes -- i.e. life's "software" -- which is: reproduce.

This still doesn't make sense. No biological system is “correct” in any meaningful sense. Correctness is always relative to a specification, and, even if your specification is as vague as “survive”, what's happening in nature is that some life forms are lucky enough to be fit for their current circumstances, not all possible ones.
I went through the Titanic "Getting Started" competition. The stack to practice Data Science and submit results there, is really top notch, it's like Jupyter on steroids. I love it.
In, "they give me the shivers", they is singular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Japan's Unprecedented Warning to UK Over Brexit
The author of the paper responded to the harmlessness of alcohol claim: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/mar/07/safe-level-a... — so harmless alcohol use is also controversial.

I've taken a harmless dose of cocaine: I drank coca tea in the Andes. That this is harmless seems less controversial than either alcohol or cannabis.

It's in any case difficult to separate "responsible" and irresponsible use of drugs when deciding on policy. Either alcohol should be banned, or all the less-dangerous drugs should be legalized.
Can you summarize how he "[broke] desktops with PulseAudio"? From my perspective as an end user it didn't seem to go badly at all. Was I insulated by my distribution maintainers?
It has a great look and feel.

If OP is the creator or works on the app, I'd be curious to hear a little about the marketing / distribution strategy. Selling to "enterprise" companies, or really any B2B sales, can be tough. There are a lot of competitors in the business communication and collaboration space these days. How do you stand out and/or get people to use and pay for this app?
My master thesis[1] was about OCRing a multilingual dictionary (Vietnamese-French using Nôm characters) and I got the following results, using built-in language model:

- OCR for French is very good

- OCR for Vietnamese (latin characters) was dispointing

- OCR for Chinese indeed outout Chinese characters but not the good ones

- OCR for Chinese didn't handle letters in Chinese script

- no support for Vietnamese Nôm (not suprising)

The good news is:
- you can train new language model

- the software is built on a (clean?) API you can use yourself

- there is some usable documentaition to get started & also for training models

- headers files are well commented

So this enable one to build a solution on Tesseract, but this is by no way an out-of-the-box solution especially if you have very specific needs. All in one it is the best free (libre, 0$) OCR engine out there.

[1] http://crim.fr/sites/default/files/memoire_m2_Lecailliez_fin... [French]
I did this last year and don't remember much. What were the sizable discreet jumps?
That T.O.C. looks really good. Its still "not yet released" on Amazon it looks like, hopefully soon.

There is also this which is upcoming but available now to read:

https://www.manning.com/books/learn-haskell

Manning releases really quality titles in my opinion and this looks to be in keeping with their standard I think.
You may be thinking of when politicians say "I'm sorry if you found what I said offensive", or "sorry for an offence your feel", which is a classic anti-apology.

Normally without the nuance of speech it might be impossible to tell if it was meant in a genuine way. In this case however the context makes it clear he is being arrogant and egotistical in a manner quite consistent with techie internet forum behavior.

The idea of a javascript developer feeling intellectual superiority is of course absurd.*

* Joke
This video is an amazing time lapse of the creation of a Eurorack synth module. It shows you what you'll spend a lot of time doing in a smaller org (smaller, as in, you do everything...). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pawXfoTg1k
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Organized crime syndicates? Vigilante hacktivists?
No I haven't read any of it. Is it even finished yet? I would still try Graham's book first and see how you go.
Worst of all: Python 3 is slower than Python 2.7

It shouldn't be important in a language like Python and it isn't by a large margin. But it is bad PR having these numbers.
Who would poison our liquor without government?