skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not fluent yet but after using duolingo for a few years (with varying degrees of commitment) I've had a tremendous improvement on my german after switching to lingq in the last few months. It allows you to import texts and you can very quickly look up the meaning of the word. While you do this it creates a database of words you've seen/ learned in context. It also automatically creates flashcards of those you've been exposed to and progressively moves them to a known state. What's cool is that you get a real sense of progress and where you're at. You can attach audio to texts as well and it also keeps tracks of words you've listened to. Anyway that's kept me much more motivated!. But still the gist of it is, read stuff you like in target language, children's books, newstories and hear the same content read out loud. Tv shows with subtitles in the target language are also great.
Xiaomi trackers and backdoors (Update)
Weird choice for the uri: http://localhost:8000::dbname

Why not http://localhost:8000/dbname ?
> "You don't pay other company to just do just give support to you: you license to them so they can tweak it"

Open-source support companies can still tweak the software for you, and are free to do so because of the permissive licences.

Take a look at the business model section of Red Hat's Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
> He is a libertarian

I just find this impossible to reconcile with his support for Trump, the most authoritarian presidential candidate in a very long time and possibly ever.

I think many of his supporters would actually agree with that description, they like that about him, and they absolutely do not describe themselves as libertarian.

They describe themselves as "conservatives" who want a "strong" president to "take their country back". They talk about "getting tough".

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I've lived in America my whole life, but I was born in Austria, and German is my first language. It pains me to see a fellow German-speaking immigrant support a right-wing populist who appeals pretty explicitly to white identity politics. We of all people should know better.
Why does a browser developer need to invest time in a screenshot tool?

How are the two at all related?
Like in most countries, changing the constitution in Finland takes time. The Finnish constitution can be changed in one of two ways:

A) The parliament accepts the change by a simple majority vote, and the change will "rest" until the next election. After the election, the change will pass with a 2/3 majority vote by the new parliament.

B) The parliament deems that the change is urgent by at least a 5/6 majority vote. Then the change will be voted upon and will pass with a 2/3 majority vote.

Finland is not “changing the constitution“. Not yet, at least. Such a change has been _proposed_ by a group appointed by the ministry of justice, and is now being _discussed_ in public. None of the above steps to actually change the constitution has taken place yet. I find it unlikely that a 2/3 majority vote for a change like this can be achieved with the currently elected parliament.

The annoying thing I find about the news coverage about this is that they make it sound like it's already decided. We're seeing headlines to the tune of ”here are the new wiretap rights for Finnish Security Service”. It is not decided yet.
Either that or he's shorting USD and looking to make a killing come November.

Also, trump is no libertarian, he's an extreme authoritarian.
Well, each and every page/widget/JS script belonging to Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Twitter/etc. are known to be used for tracking.
So explain me why Lisp, Prolog or any ML derivative aren't as capable as Haskell for TOY interpreters.

Unless s/he was being sarcastic, but if so I don't get the joke.
Make sense to me for YC. Whatever who wins, they ensure a connection.
That isn't what I understand, maybe it lies on my lack of English skills.
The Python3 compiler bomb is even more impressive, if that's possible.

(1<<19**8,)*4**7

The above produces a *.pyc in the terabytes.

Without Python warning. That's a little... Scary.
also, class + studying while immersed. it's helpful to do both. and watching tv or listening to the radio ..

.. so essentially i'm saying "do everything you can think of, especially living in an immersive environment" b/c that's what i did for a couple years .. and i'm still not exactly fluent.

of course the experience of living in a different social mileu is awesome for reasons connected but not equivalent to language fluency, like broadening cultural perspectives.
Up to date article (5 days ago) on this from the national public-broadcasting company: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/working_group_tables_const...
Looks really interesting! This may sound like a stupid question, but do you have any publication I can cite by any chance?
CppCon 2016: uftrace: A function graph tracer for C/C++ userspace programs
Ask HN: Are there and will there be a lot of JavaScript backend developer jobs?
How is it going to compare to Ruby and PHP?

PHP is pretty old and popular. Around 82% of websites are using PHP. How long is it going to stick around for?
I am fluent in English, French, Arabic and Spanish, the first is my native tongue and what helped with the following two was the fact I started learning them as a child. As for Spanish, it was mostly motivation to keep using it. Learn to think in that language.
I stand corrected - I only did Japanese in high school, and that's how we were taught. My mistake.
I agree with Thiel about Trump.

On the surface, individually, I think that Trump probably looks like a worse person than Hillary, but if you look at each candidate as the sum of their social connections - I think Hillary turns out to be much, much worse.

Hillary Clinton is heavily influenced by big finance. That's where the bulk of her friends and her connections come from. Even her son in law is an investment banker (not a very good one - He lost his clients 90% of their investment - But he still lives in a $10m apartment). At least Trump built houses and apartments for people. He didn't build his wealth by leveraging political power, insider information or asymmetrical reward structures.

I agree with Thiel that big finance is responsible for increasing costs of living. Big finance captures a lot of value from the economy but it doesn't create any real value on its own. Whenever I've spoken to someone who works/worked in finance, it's clear that a large portion of their profits come from 'grey area' insider trading.

I think that the main reason why most people aren't aware of this is because people like Hillary have been running the show and legitimizing the whole industry (and allowing them to get away with more and more stuff).

If Hillary gets elected, I'm going to quit software engineering and work in finance instead. If the world is getting worse, I'm going to have to adapt and become worse myself - I refuse to let myself become a loser. If you can't beat them, join them.
This refers to a category of person protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964[1], Title VII, as extended by other laws over time. It "prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin". Those of age 40+ years are covered specifically by the "Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967". In other words, "age of 40 or more years" is a "protected class".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employme...
The government defines certain classes of people and if you are not in that class the law will do nothing to stop discrimination against you. Many types of discrimination are legal. For instance movie studios can refuse to hire a black or Hispanic person to play a real life white person. People under 40 are not in a protected class for jobs.
Except, coins are not humans with emotions, and neither can they dupe probability to improve their outcome. The 50 heads(success) that you left are not going to do any better than the 50 tails you scolded. You are just changing the sample space in a biased fashion to prove your point.
So the other thing with the Tracking Protection experiment is that we're soliciting feedback about how this feature breaks the web. We use a block list from Disconnect for Tracking Protection in Private Browsing and for Focus on iOS, but until now had very little understanding of how enabling this feature might affect browsing.

For the Test Pilot experiment we're asking users to tell us where and how the feature messes up websites so we can refine our Block list and improve the experience for everyone. We're already getting a lot of significant data and intend to share it soon.
The Princeton Election Consortium currently has Clinton's win probability as: random drift 95%, Bayesian 98%. [1]

[1] http://election.princeton.edu/
No. Of course I bought a cheap laser for printing.
But I need the cheap inkjet for scanning and faxing.
Conversely, he could from a family like mine - my Omi is Austrian, along with a slew of cousins. Dinner table conversation still turns to how things would have been better had herr Hitler won. My uncle has to leave the room he so vociferously objects to his mother and his children.

So, that collective memory swings both ways. Maybe Thiel lacks education in history and pines for a glorious fictitious past, which is a core tenet of the trump campaign. And fascism.

He may be a decent technologist and business person, but that doesn't make him wise.
Deliberate Constraints
What is meant by ranking individuals, how and why are people being ranked? By race or financial status or similar ?
I don't believe you.

There is no way you're incapable of making the distinction between Trump and HC. I can get why people would vote for Trump. He's obviously a dangerous idiot, put we all knew there's a market for that (though the size is somewhat scary).

It's simply not possible to be undecided between these two for anyone who has spent more than five minutes on it.

Regarding your question why people hate Trump: he's openly stigmatizing minorities including calls for violence against African-Americans at his rally. He's threatening to use his power as president for criminal persecutions of his opponents. He advocates for laws making it illegal to criticize him in the media. He has a history of ventures peddling get-rich-quick-schemes to barely literate people for tens of thousands of dollars. There are now more women accusing him of sexual assault than Bill Cosby. He has recently spend a week calling some woman nobody knows fat on Twitter. Reading any of his interview transcripts makes me doubt he'd pass a Turing test.
Probably because even though Lua is super a nice language, writing code in a config file is not that much fun? App servers spitting out HTML written in the language of your choice are so much more flexible than developing on a single platform/stack such as Apache + mod_php|mod_perl, or OpenResty. Of course nothing stops you to proxy them through Nginx and serve the static content directly with Nginx in production.
Trump now wants a drug test for him and HC before the next debate.

I wonder if there's a way to get him to take a Turing test.
In the past I've acted very deliberately to hire older and more experienced developers; an act specifically designed as a counter to a streak of egregious and dangerous naivete which was running a very real risk of killing our product.
Simply, our user testing (with Windows users in particular) suggests it's a feature people find useful. We're using Test Pilot to learn a bit more, that's all.

I only mentioned screen sharing because of the comment about Chrome's sharing feature (of which I was unaware, but will check out).
Rock paper scissors? Since you are both trying to win, and being predictable means losing you'll be as random as you can be.
I used to work at a bank, which regularly required pre-clearance for employee donations to political parties and candidates to avoid conflict of interest issues.

If YC is saying Thiel can't be managed on that basis, he is a partner. And if he is a partner, YC can choose not to partner with him.
Will it 'explode' onto the market?

[D'you see what I did there?!]
I too, am from Cleveland, and I can't say I've ever heard Thiel mention Ohio or the heartland/rust belt specifically.
Given the direction things are going with Linux GUIs, they may well need it soon enough.
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I speak 2 foreign languages fluently, one of them is English, in which I got fluent by watching shows over the years (mainly Star Trek series and The Simpsons) with and without subtitles (first translated, then original English), and by reading a lot.
Hard to say how many years it took, since I was a kid back then, but I got fluent enough to move to and study at the University level in the UK.

The other story is I got a girlfriend speaking the other foreign language (Slovak). We speak English and her language (foreign for me) interchangeably. We also lived in her country for some time. Time we spent speaking, listening and reading her language made me fluent. No special tricks, courses, apps...

Just practice, asking questions and learning.
I got fluent in about a year, but bare in mind, Slovak and Polish (my native) share a common root, so it wouldn't have been as easy with something like Chinese or even French.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage (chemistry Nobel price 2016) said exactly the same thing recently. Working without pressure for 30 years in a state funded facility was central to his achievements.
He is probably right. The current academic environment is terrible and drives talented young researchers out of basic research. But still, it delivers. The question for me is, does it deliver more, less or the same amount of knowledge than during Higgs's time?
Has it occurred to you that Indians being good hasn't stopped the police from treating them like the bad kids, to expose one limit of your horrible creaking analogy?
How can he know whether that's actually true? Everyone is troubled by the current state of science. How can we know whether that's not the standard old man's wish for the good old days?
That's not the point though.

Even just driving is "just doing it". Most driving is autopilot. Awareness is not necessarily "thinking". We don't deliberate/contemplate/philosophize while driving unless we're incompetent. And we can very much decide/simulate/execute/do without much thought. Thought helps, but those things themselves are not thinking. We have our gut, our instincts, our imagination, our intuitions, and our spurs of the moments, all which are used as opposites to "deliberate thought". Considering all computing the brain does as "thinking" undermines all of these differences.

It'd be easier if my use of the word was just wrong, but reviewing the definition of "computational thinking", they only refer to the deliberate kind also. If there was a better word than "thinking" for what I'm referring to, I'm sure "computational thinking" would adopt that expression also.

At the end of the day we're just nitpicking semantics, and there are better uses of our time.
Don't carry it around, though! Put the thing in a Faraday's cage, and use a cable through the mesh to get your Internet connection.
Wow, congrats - this looks really interesting!
Thiel has bachelor and JD degrees in Philosophy and Law from Stanford. I think it is a little bit preposterous to assume he holds his current views about Trump simply because he is too uneducated to think otherwise.

>Maybe Thiel lacks education in history and pines for a glorious fictitious past, which is a core tenet of the trump campaign. And fascism.

Maybe you are the one confusing narratives built around each candidate by one camp or another with actual ideological separation between those two candidates. Trump is not an authoritarian and Clinton is not a progressive.

This election is about solving the great stagnation problem the world and the US are facing. Thiel understands that should Clinton win, there will be war and an ever increasing flow of immigration that will slowly grow to become impossible to assimilate into what is current mainstream American culture.

> And fascism.

Besides, this is not even the case. You understand concepts have definitions and you can manipulate those to fit whatever pisses you off in a candidate campaigning rhetoric.
I had a Danish girlfriend for a couple of years who spoke perfect English, so we didn't practice very much unless we wanted to talk about something without other people knowing (that's to expensive, let's go, etc). I got pretty far in Danish with the "Teach Yourself" course. The problem is that some of the lectures are quite dated, but the phrases will be in your head forever after listening to the courses on repeat. Hope that helps.
There's simply no proof for any of that. Specifically, there might be a pro but the quid's missing.

Considering US relations with Qatar and Saudi Arabia have always been good (in the 'he's a monster, but he's our monster' sense), there's just no reason to suspect any influence. Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9/11 was known early on by the Bush administration as well.
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BTW Very nice platform, I might try it this weekend. Good luck!
When I was first exposed to the research "environment" during my Diplom studies (undergraduate - graduate, early to mid 90ies), I immediately recognised that if you actually love research and knowledge, academia was the last thing you ever want to get into. No surer way to kill the spark.

Now that I've gone back to do my PhD, the only reason I can do something I consider meaningful is because I am not a regular PhD student. Interestingly, that's also the feedback I get, though as "helpful" advice that while what I am doing may be both good and important, it is unlikely to lead to success in academia. With the implication that I should stop doing it and concentrate on something more reasonable. Fortunately, I am not particularly interested in success in modern academia, so I get to do something I consider both good and important.

A related issue is that there really is no such thing as a senior researcher. Instead, professors are turned into research managers, responsible for helping their charges' careers, who then also turn into research managers. Actual research appears to be mostly a still not entirely avoidable side-effect. (And this seems similar to the way the only real way to advancement in industry is to switch to management, all dual-track equivalence rhetoric aside).
It works quite well. If you have many tabs open they do get smaller. I never run into space problems with it, but okay, I'm not a tab hoarder.

People might still use an addon if they like the tree style tabs, to have them in a threaded view. I would find it useful, but I also understand why it is not there yet, it complicates tab management and not every user will need it. But it would be a nice advanced option.
Oracle set that up to fail when they wrote the contract with payment not tied to milestones and parachuted in liberal arts majors with no technical or healthcare background as project managers.
That's nice to hear. However, based on my personal experience, I'm not entirely convinced.

When I hired programmers for a startup, I'm pretty sure that I had a unconscious bias towards young candidates, which was at the time justified by the blanket word "attitude" (or "cultural fit").

Now, I'm not claiming that you (or anyone specifically) have the same bias, but I'm pretty sure that I wasn't the only one. You may be a nice exception :)
As lots of people have had to point out recently, there's political issues, which we can disagree on, and there's basic human decency.
100k machines doesn't sound right - cores possibly but not machines.

Even the big effects houses like MPC (with farms in London, Montreal, Vancouver and works on on average 18-20 films at once - some entire exclusives) don't need that many cores.

Atomic Fiction don't have that big a film/sequence/shot count - if they are using that much core time it doesn't sound like they're being that efficient.

Surely they must be using artists workstations at night to render some stuff - they can't be sending all their stuff to the cloud.
I wouldn't say that the vocal minority of reddit is representative of the player base in large but I see your point.

And yes, I've noticed the same thing. However, I don't think anyone thought it would continue like the crazy early days forever, where every other person you saw played. Just because that extreme hype died down doesn't mean no-one is playing.

I don't agree that it's due to the actions of Niantic though. I think it's just a natural fade of the hype. It would be completely insane if the player percentage had continued at that level until now. Even if they did all the right things I think the fade would have been inevitable.
Guess the movie from the emojis. 30 levels
There are more people in the world, so probably more schools, which means more teachers. So, there is probably more research volume.
Not parent, but one answer I can give you is IceWM. It's a classic WM with a complete feature set supporting all advanced features like these (everything that is not tiling).
I guess with Russia around the corner being old school Russia again, that was just a matter of time.
I wouldn't be so sure about that.

In the past, I have interviewed for management positions and some of the questions involved about diversity – when I answered with some anecdotes my experience working Indian or Singaporean colleagues and how we have different blindspots, this seemed to satisfy the recruiters.
That's some cartman-level trolling. It's of course not my job to distinguish true and false trans people ("no true Scotsman") but if you're a stereotypical male in all senses, it makes very little sense to use that label. (Disclosure, genderqueer trans woman here)
Software creation is a process in which humans constantly make decisions. Each decision has the potential to impact the scope. A lot of decisions have limited impact and may be estimated. Some decisions at the margin have the potential to significantly alter and blow up the scope. Not all critical decisions can be identified in time and there is a good chance of unforeseen consequences. Containing those is vital.

For large scale software projects management and governance are often the determining factors for quality, cost and timeliness.
When (as seems likely) Trump loses this election, a weird new space in the Republican party. The "establishment" (whatever that is) will still be the enemy, but the rejection of any one more serious than Trump will have to go.

This will be opportune world for all kinds of right-wingers whose ideas are too extreme or too kooky to have been taken seriously before, but who are more toughtful than Trump.

In very different ways, Paul Ryan and Peter Thiel are positioning themselves for that world. As are a lot of others.
Gawker deserved it. They were vehemently opposed publishing the Fappening leaks (i.e. nude photos of famous women), but more than happy to publish Hogan's video ("he's a man, he can take it"). Sexist of the finest degree.
The Clinton-is-dishonest narrative is a completely American fiction, created four of five years ago in some strategy meeting and popularized by repetition.

There's nothing there. Republicans spent thousands of hours in Benghazi and came up empty handed. Worst thing she apparently did was setting up a private mail server, as did her predecessors, Republicans included.

Europeans see Trump as an actual danger to peace and stability. He's assembling an angry mob spewing hate against minorities, women, people who think. He's peddling in conspiracy theories undermining democracy. He's treating the carefully adjusted balance of power in eastern Europe. In short: Europeans know his type quite well. He's no Hitler, no. He's Putin, Erdogan, Orban.