skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could also be a great live demonstration how nearly impossible it is to live without a functioning Earth-ecosystem around us. Especially if it doesn't work out exactly as planned.
You're not being negative at all. I've no doubt I've only scratched the surface. I'll eventually put aside some time to do some of the config.
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Go and whisper in these people's ears. (-:

* http://www.nextbsd.org/
Ask HN: How would you define a new, modern, spoken language?
Imagine you had the opportunity to create a new spoken language, from the ground up. You are not subject to the evolution of any existing language, and can start from scratch.

How would you go about defining such a language? What considerations would be important? How could you ensure anyone, from any culture, could learn to read, speak, and write the language?
I enjoy /r/geopolitics.
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Can you make it so that updates run fast? On every other device that I own, an update is a download and then a very fast reboot.

On Windows, an update is a long download, then lots of reboots where the computer is busy doing who knows what.

What's even worse is that "update and shut down" can lead to a 10-20 minute wait the next time I turn on my computer.
Sounds like something I'll have to look at.
There is a perfect, old-school expression: "ladies and gentlemen".
Surprised by the tone of this. It's Slack declaring cultural war to Microsoft. All values subverted, what is praise is actually negative admiration (envy basically), probably based on fear. Kind of gramscian stuff what they did. Very unexpected and unnecessary. Unless they wanted to do some noise because of marketing? I guess they got scared but doesn't sound like Slack needs that. Wonder why they bought this battle this soon.
> Oh? Which ones are those? There used to be more women employed as computer programmers than men, for example. The shift happened because computer programming turned a corner and became prestigious, at which point it became "stereotypically male", and the pattern of "stereotypically male" = prestigious holds through a number of professions.

I think you meant 'computer'.

My grandmother was a computer. That is what they used to call the women who performed calculations in the old days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer

It's interesting history but this could not honestly be described as computer programming. Looking around online it appears there are a lot of articles that have conflated the jobs. There certainly were women in computer science back in the early days, Lovelace, Hopper come to mind.
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I'm not sure about that.

The choice is between getting a seed round and going and working at Google making 200k entry level in total comp.

I doubt many startup founders beat "just go and work for Google full time"
It sounds like you had a bad experience. I found Slack support to be pleasant and very helpful when we migrated from our previous solution to Slack (I haven't needed to interact with them since).
The GIFs are fine - although I get the impression that they weren't put through an optimizer.

Converting GIFs to autoplay=false videos is still a miserable experience with kinda awful results. Not to mention that it takes forever.
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Yes, I'm using it for C++ dev :) I'm mostly using the C/C++ extension from Microsoft, unfortunately it's still closed source.

I'm developing on Linux and Windows with MSYS2. Here are my config files: https://gist.github.com/jhasse/a3898302e4f8be682d053dd5e3b4b...
Depends on the spec of the servers :D

If they all have 16 cores 100GB RAM it's really unimpressive and we just found out why Uber is not profitable.
Road damage is proportional to axle weight raised to the 4th power.

In the US, you cannot drive on the highways with more than 10 short tons (9.1 Mg) per axle. If I cram my daily driver to the gills with heavy junk, I might have 0.75 short tons per axle. That heavily loaded cargo trailer is doing 30000 times more damage to the roads per mile than I am, specifically, and as much as 9600 average passenger cars. [0]

Axle weight is not taken into consideration when I am taxed for the roads. Thus tax-avoidance behaviors optimize for the wrong variables.

Drug dosages and adverse health effects are less easily modeled numerically. My concern is that if you tax something without understanding the potential consequences, you may end up doing more harm than good.

[0] http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf
They update quickly because they know every trivial update will be a front-page on Reddit as a bunch of Microsoft boosters try to shout "SEE WE'RE HERE TOO!"

It's pretty lame.
I like this enough to re-use it... Are you quoting something I can cite, or did that spawn from your own gray matter?
This is what I want to read:

"Microsoft finally realized that the point of a computer is to run the user's applications without interruption or long boot times. Therefore, we are rolling out an update system that is transparent to the user and has no forced reboots and long wait times."
Ruby on Rails or Django for the backend, some basic JS (JQuery and other libraries of similar complexity) for the front-end. Choice of JS tools mostly depends on how much front-end features you need.
Plotly for R
Just because of the name? Visual Studio is a humongous IDE, and VS Code is a little text editor.
Ask HN: What other fully open source efforts, like Pyra and Neo900, exist?
The recent discussions in the Plasma Mobile thread have me interested.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12858326
You are underestimating how much importance world politicians give to pieces of paper that mean shit for commonsense. Do you think it is hard for a country like India to send a small nuke to USA and blow it off ? They can send it via ship, commercial jets and what not.

The point of MCTR is to prevent a nation from openly admitting they have such a weapon and hence it can not be used as an argument in any future negotiations.
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Maybe it's the decades of arms reductions, the diplomatic relations, and the lack of a highly disputed border area which periodically erupts into violence?

But no... it must just be a double standard... if you squint hard enough.
You're right, it's a difference in philosophy (and was emphasized in today's Job's email post[0]). Everyone brings a different set of needs to a laptop, and for you, it's worked out alright.

However, I do feel they've left a lot of professional users out in the cold as they try to capture more of the consumer market. How this affects their brand and goodwill remains to be seen; especially when people are already paying top dollar.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12864727
They also provided office/IE for Mac at a time when that was really important.
There is already one(i.e. HTML5 input types) but it's quite incomplete and poorly supported so we have to reinvent the wheel with CSS and JS which makes the web apps inconsistent and slow. The main issue is that the internet must be backwards compatible and browser vendors are reluctant to provide shiny features due the maintenance costs.

Hopefully WASM will fix the performance issue and the internet speed will get fast enough to compile and serve mature frameworks such Cocoa.
It depends on if your state machine scheme is concise and makes human sense. Too many flags and state machines can become difficult to debug or work with.
I don't know if I agree that automatating the process makes development easier. If I could punch someone in the face everytime I spent an entire night tracking down some obscure webpack error caused by some shitty library I imported, I'd need prosthetic arms by this. I am a part of the problem for using this crap :(
Strugatsky are hardly a sci-fi. Soviet (and post-Soviet) fiction writers are surprisingly bad at sci-fi.

For a decent sci-fi I'd recommend to check Stanislaw Lem, especially 'The Invincible' and 'The Futurological Congress'.
> Would love an attribute on script and link tags that could be conditional based on connection speeds.

I can't help but think of Android's "battery saver" toggle, which leaves me wondering why there's a battery waster feature and why it's on by default.
Yeah, when I want kernel or firmware code written, I want it done by someone experienced, or someone trained by someone experienced. I've had the very fortunate experience of being the latter person (up until only a little while ago), so looking back, I can damn well see the difference.
Sorry about that! I've changed them to just links!
Copyright governs distribution. Once you have something in your possession, you may do whatever you want with it as long as you don't distribute the result.

The DMCA and similar laws attempt to get around that allowance by making it a crime to distribute tools for circumventing copyright protections. It's telling that no one has succeeded in a DMCA complaint against ad blocking software.
You can assign different interrupts to different cores. That's another advanced optimization.

e.g. One core per network card.
As a native of Goa, my forefathers fought very hard against the colonizing Portuguese. I have lost countless relatives to the oppressive Portuguese rules. Goa was part of India always.
Wait until mobile OSes start building a native presentation layer built on WebAssembly.

Apple already tried that approach with the iPhone one. It failed because the technology wasn't mature, but there have been nothing but advances since then.

The web is a more flexible and portable platform, so the economic incentives will always be there. And while native toolkits are still based on 1970's lab research, the web as a platform benefits from mainstream usage by the whole world. At some point, the new tech will overcome and replace the old approach. The gap is getting smaller every day even if the old approach has decades of advantage, and all major tech providers are pushing for it.
Does that really matter, since those companies by definition would never be Slack customers? It's not like Slack could ever become a Microsoft product -- barring the obvious buyout, which is not likely to ever happen since Microsoft rolled their own.

So if they aren't buying now because it's not Microsoft, I don't see how Slack hubris changes anything in that equation.
I think you are interpreting the rhetoric as "Slack is not innovative, therefore it is not praiseworthy."

The claim is something else entirely: "Slack is not innovative, therefore it is not immune to competition."

There isn't any value judgment with the second claim. "didn't do anything amazing" is a statement of fact, not a put down. It's not somehow morally bad to do nothing amazing! If anything, it's morally good. There's no sense wasting time building amazing technological breakthroughs when the problem space doesn't need it, and just needs someone to execute well on boring problems. (Slack is particularly good at recognizing this and just getting the job done; see also their tech stack running on PHP.)
Not yet. Issues:

deb: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/2973
rpm: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/229
Sorry folks. I've changed them to just links
Yes, sure, I am going to search something on the off chance of it being an open source project, because someone on the internet said it, who doesn't even go with the good practice of including a link. Or, you know, I could express myself, inform you of the impression you've left on me, and provoke the answer to read for anyone, instead of finding it for myself. I'll admit in hindsight, either approach seems somewhat improvable.
Maybe the end game is the same as it always was: find the next profitable thing and leap on it? Microsoft is opportunistic. They were a major UNIX vendor in the '80s (Xenix); then they were married to IBM with OS/2; until one day they weren't.

Microsoft has traditionally been the one to get the hate for this because their moves were so brash in the '90s... But the other big tech companies aren't any better. Apple is a friend of open source and standards only when it happens to suit them. Google does lots of open source but they want to be the ones holding the reins at all tiems (Blink, Android, etc.) Facebook spends a lot of money on looking smart and friendly to developers so that we'd ignore the Orwellian pile of information they hold on most people. Etc.
More likely because it's not available on-premise. Check into how many use HipChat instead, because it is.

Either way, this is a HUGE market Slack hasn't even begun to touch. (Although I see they now have a "coming soon!" banner on their homepage.)
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html

That's a mostly up-to-date list of supported languages, with links to example usage.

Technically, org-babel will support any language, but some have more interoperability with the overall system than others. At the simplest, you'll get syntax highlighting, tangle, and noweb support. At the most complex, you can execute them inside emacs/org and get the results, feed those into more blocks, etc. (making it very much like a python notebook or similar concept, but for any supported language).

You can even see the org file generating each of those pages.
This should never happen until the web radically changes. I'm fine with the "web" being the future if it can provide truly native experiences. It simply can't do that now.

1. People aren't downloading apps because they have most of the core apps they want/need currently, not because they're browsing the web instead. Look around on any college or high school campus. Barely anyone has mobile safari open. They have instagram, snapchat, a messaging app, and maybe Facebook open.

2. Bots are the future? We'll see. Nobody besides tech people seem to care about bots. I'm in tech and I don't even care about bots - yet. And again, look at today's high schoolers and college students - they don't care about bots.
What are the chances? Probably not that slim considering how many people are trying to make predictions using methods like this.
The idea that some astronauts would survive doesn't make me feel like condemning myself and billions of other people to death. But, I can't speak for everyone.
You can buy a BEV (full electric with no generator) version if you want. Since you already owned a Leaf, you probably wouldn't have range anxiety in the i3 BEV because it gives you about 110-120 miles range.
I wonder how it would cope with Scunthorpe
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That is true -- the admin folks were awful. But the geeks , scientists and engineers , were dedicated and professional. Of course I was there in '89-90-91. That may be a different era but the Nag missile is still performing. I wrote some doppler effect processing libraries in assembly; my supervisor to knew how to squeeze the maximum performance out of assembly code. It was a fun and educational experience.
I am from Europe, and my idea of a kid-friendly neighborhood has proper sidewalks. Here is an example: https://goo.gl/maps/Ng3BUjBcPq12

The American model seems to have such narrow and badly paved sidewalks that no one uses them, so then you need wider streets to cater for the combined use by pedestrians, cyclists and cars.
You know you can "star" stuff in slack, right?
I like this project. And while I'm an avid user of digitized books myself, it reminds me of the importance that physical books (like, printed on paper) have for the freedom of thought. There is no DRM for ink on paper and nobody can ever really control who reads what.
In 2012ish as a freshman intern at Microsoft, I asked Will Kennedy (then CVP in Office) how did he feel about people pirating Office apps. He said that they would rather permit people to use illegal versions of Office than have them use their competitor's tools. Essentially he was saying Microsoft would rather people use their products free of charge rather than using other products as it promotes Microsoft image and helps Microsoft dominate the workspace. Promoting VSCode vs Visual studio are not competing efforts - the two tools are solving different problems in different work environments / tech stacks. They're simply trying to branch out to permeate more of the workplace, and it's working. Now that I'm in a startup in SF, I look around and I see some people switching from Sublime to VSCode for our web/backend stack, who would never ever use Visual Studio (100% macs here).
Artirua's been doing this for a few years, including their Brute lineup; the MiniBrute and the MatrixBrute would be the closest comparison. https://www.arturia.com/products
PG has an good list in their website: https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hosting/
As a synth guy I'll say what I said on SonicState again here - nifty but at 299.99 I don't know why I would choose this over the more capable Korg Minilogue. Where this is mono and therefor can only play one note at a time the Minilogue is a ploy 4 synth so you can actually play cords on it. Of course there are more distinctions between the two but that's the most obvious comparison point for me.

I love the look of it and it's cool they are pushing more analog gear out the door at reasonable prices. But for me I still don't know why I would choose this over the Minilogue which can be had on the used market for close to $400. The only real practical use I can imagine for this is to use it as a bass synth compatible to the Roland TB-3 or TB-03 Boutique. Or to augment aTB-3 bass synth which is digital, to give it some nice bottom end; I do that with a moog slim phatty currently when needed,which is a pricier approach but I also use the Slim Phatty for some other synth duties, it's quite a versatile bit of kit.

http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/minilogue/

Edit: type-o on # of voices.
Did they just advertise features that were present in update.microsoft.com 16 years ago as new?

(Pardon me if I got the hostname or start of service date wrong! It's been a while...)
They can make sure that VS Code supports Windows and other MS products, while Atom - for example - cares more for Mac users.
The handling is truly impressive. Perfect 50/50 weight distribution, and the battery is in the floor so you have a very low center of gravity. It can also do a U-turn on a 2 lane road, as it has an extremely tight turning radius.

It's very fast off the line a well - it is BMW's fastest production vehicle from 0-42 mph, beating even the M class cars, so that tells you how "snappy" it is.

I would test drive one; you'll be impressed.
You just supported the typical anti-pattern of management where someone new gets hired and proceeds to re-orgs everyone after a couple months of meetings to superficially understand how an organization works. This thereby usually causes many, many more meetings all in the name of trying to reduce the meetings.

The programmer equivalent attitude is "this code is horrible, it's due for a total re-write." Re-factors and re-orgs are the same things, but there's few regression tests for business besides "oh crap, we lost a bunch of money all of a sudden" which is a lot closer to coding directly in production.
That is completely incorrect; copyright has nothing to do with payment.

Copyright is about distribution and nothing else. It allows a copyright holder to decide if, when, and how his/her work is distributed (which might be payment-free!). It does not govern what you do with the work once you've obtained it, as long as you do not try to redistribute.
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Sounds like the folks at 18F are a poster child for this sort of mis-behavior.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/02/...
From what I understand, you can use them already with AWS IoT but I'm not sure if this solution is ideal or secure enough. Haven't used it personally but it's there:

https://github.com/SuperHouse/esp-open-rtos/blob/master/exam...
When was the last time a hurricane or tornado hit Europe?

When's the last time you took the car to work rather than the bus because a hurricane hit your area? Last time you looked out the window, saw a tornado and said, "Looks like I'm driving to work today, honey, and not taking the bus."?

Ice storm? You better be a cardiologist needing to get to the hospital to do life-saving surgery if you're driving in that. Because the world doesn't need you in the office writing yet-another-javascript-framework that badly.

Heat wave? Okay, ya got me there. Take the air-conditioned car instead of the bicycle.
> Wait until mobile OSes start building a native presentation layer built on WebAssembly.

Is there any active project you can link to regarding this?
To be fair, Moxie appears to have been right at the time of writing the linked comment according to the commit timestamp. Thanks to you (and the comment or above for the link) for pointing this out though. TIL. The documentation does say it is unlikely and other documentation has not been updated to point to this feature, such as the developer FAQ: https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/FAQ_-_App_Developers#Can_APKs_...
Badly engineered, multi-purpose WordPress themes are my favorite on that matter. Not only they make you download the entire set of assets ( Think of ~2 icon fonts, half a megabyte stylesheets, megabytes of JS and on top of that 5$ DO box serving all the PHP `magic` ), but also include some entrance animations, which take additional time, before you focus on the content.

Actually this reminds me of the IoT DDoS attack. The low-tech users, making a blog by clicking around and installing 25$ theme are actually unaware that their website drains mobile-bandwidth.

So if you are developing one of these portfolio-with-landing-page-with-blog-section-woo-commerce-supported mega theme, please consider optimizing assets as your next priority.
When I used it at a previous job emojis/gifs were quite fun, but after awhile I stopped using them.

I feel like they get in the way more than anything - and other platforms can still implement those just as easily.
What about sites that use fonts for icons only?
This is a difficult question because there are multiple motivations for making a new constructed language. For instance, Esperanto is designed to be a universal second language. It emphasizes ease of learning through very regular grammar, deriving most of its words from pre-existing roots, and a simple-but-powerful word construction. A language like Lojban, on the other hand, tries to eliminate linguistic ambiguity by basing its grammar on predicate logic.

So to clarify, are you asking how we'd go about designing a language that's optimized for universality? Or some other metric?
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