skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You obviously know a lot more about this than I do. I don't think we are arguing about anything. The Langfocus video mentions the 2 saints and Church Slavonic.

There are many debates on youtube about how much of 1 slavic language a speaker of a different slavic language can understand.

I was recently listening to an episode of Sean's Russia blog that briefly discussed how much Russian is spoken in Ukraine.
http://seansrussiablog.org/2015/04/09/post-maidan-ukraine-an...

I was listening to an episode of This American Life recently, the interview subject, who sounded Greek to me, was repeating the Old Slavonic liturgies he sang in his youth during Byzantine Orthodox services.

I'll have to read and find out if Old Slavonic and Church Slavonic are different or the same thing.
It's a hedge. In the ancestral environment, times may get tough and you might not get laid. A wildebeest could gore you when you are out on the hunt, or a disease or famine break out and greatly reduce the pool of reproductive-age women. By helping a sibling make it to the reproductive stage of their lives, you ensure that at least some of your genes get passed on.
Isn't the Dev version essentially an alpha build?
Isn't the main issue of Paris the lack of wind to blow the pollution away? Combined maybe with the high number of diesel cars? I don't think you'd see this level of pollution in a city like NYC, or really any city near the coast, simply because of the wind.
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After all, right now the perceived norm is to send all your 100Mb/day of data through a kafkaesk array of message queues, stream processors and map-reduce jobs.
Arcade style games will not work. As soon as there is value to be gained, someone will quickly write a bot to simulate player inputs and play a perfect game.
I had to note I also enjoy TLDRLegal... I wish they'd open an API.
That's not entirely fair as an example, as most ants will not breed and only a select few do.
If you had a queen ant risking herself or the drones to save the colony, that's a different story.
Terraform Dependencies, Graph Theory and Lists
> Still running 10.11 on my laptop, but I noticed that the pdfs are super blurry on cinema displays. If you use the mouse to drag the image, it renders nicely with proper subpixel hinting. When you release the mouse button, it does a second antialiasing pass or something, blurring the edges of the fonts. This doesn't seem to matter much one way or another on retina displays, fwiw.

Sierra's Preview.app appears to at least mostly fix that regression... apparently at the cost of breaking everything else, but at least PDFs are legible for viewing now.
Thanks I really appreciate you taking the time to answer. It helps.
Zoning is the issue in some cities, but sometimes it isn't the root problem.

Robert Caro gets into this a little bit in his book "The Power Broker" describing Robert Moses' development of highways in NYC: basically, if you build a highway before you build a subway line, the resulting area will be developed in a low-density pattern (regardless of zoning), as the "last mile" of driving is much less difficult than the "last mile" on foot, coming off a train.

If you look at NYC in particular, this happened in eastern Queens -- the highways were built (with poor public transit coverage) and the properties were developed in a low density pattern.

This cannot be fixed by simply building more high-density housing (despite the massive city-wide demand for housing), because no transit exists. But you cannot build new transit because it's a political nightmare: current residents will complain that you're disrupting their neighborhood, and city residents elsewhere will complain that your new transit development doesn't "go anywhere useful."

From what I saw in LA when I visited a few weeks ago, much of the new systems of transit serve (a) large office campuses (I was regularly taking the metro at Universal City) and (b) non-commuter destinations such as Hollywood (for tourism) and the airport. The result, as pointed out to me by an Uber driver, was a huge explosion of development in Downtown LA. The newest line in LA, the Expo Line to Santa Monica, seems more commuter focused -- perhaps it is serving the new residential population moving into DTLA?

Eastern Queens, unfortunately, doesn't have the luxury of important destinations or office campuses. It's overshadowed by Manhattan in terms of tourism, and Moses built the Long Island-bound highways specifically to prevent the sorts of development that would lead to Long Island becoming a commuter destination rather than a residential community. Thus, Queens is trapped in this residential catch 22, and not even rezoning can fix it. The only solutions I can see involve closing down lanes of highway to obtain right-of-way for transit (the overpasses were intentionally built too low to support bus service, so it'd be a permanent closure), a sure path to political suicide in an area utterly dependent on its highways.
> To me the emails and the resignations are both evidence and an admission of guilt.

Be specific. Which emails are evidence of guilt? None of the emails I've seen have shown any evidence of the DNC rigging the primaries. Why would the resignations be evidence of guilt if the stated reasons for resignation are just as plausible?

Do you realize how much you sound like a conspiracy theorist?
I think it has more to do with how close the intersections are. Even in no traffic, you have to stop at a light every minute or so.
Actually it would make working more beneficial by getting rid of the terrible, exploitative jobs that exists only because many people are desperate enough to take while removing the welfare trap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap
>Seeing his page there are serious problems or misunderstandings with some of the sources he uses

Such as?
Open Source Routing Machine
Why use firefox at all? why not something based on libcurl that absolutely does not talk back to the server after reciving the document unless the user clicks on a link or submits a form?
> Realtime ingestion speed - maximum over 30K events / second / node / table. e.g. 10 nodes each serving 10 realtime tables can consumes 3M events within one second. We believe this is the best score ever around all similar systems.

> Scan speed - You may find much better performence in real production environment because IndexR can process multiple values at the same time with the help of modern CPU and processing platform(like Drill).

> * cold data: over 30 millions values / second / node.

> * hot data: over 100 millions values / second / node.

> * ~2.5 times as Parquet.

> OLAP query - In our production, we see 95% < 3s query latency on tables with 100 billions+ rows with 20 nodes.

> * 3~8 times as Parquet under the same Drill environment.

> Compression - In our production, we see average 10:1 compress rate comparing to raw csv format.

> * ~75% size of ORC file format.

These looks great
I used to host SquirrelMail on my little $10/month personal server. My users (OK, friends and relatives) were quite happy with it!

There's a lot broken with the recent model of browsing, essentially, applications rather than content.
I suspect that is precisely the line that WaPo will adopt should they bother to address what Assange has said. They'll scrutinize his ability to know and verify what he is saying and they'll point out all the opposing arguments.

If only WaPo had applied this sort of scrutiny and skepticism to their 'Russians hacked the power system' story; millions of people wouldn't be misled today and perhaps the White House wouldn't be harassing Russian diplomats.
Ask HN: How much traffic does your tech related blog get?
For those who have a personal blog related to tech, how much traffic does it receive per month?

If you have any stats related to your to the traffic patterns of your blog, feel free to share.

How much traffic does your blog receive when it makes the front page of HN?

How much traffic does your blog receive when it receives substantial attention on one the tech/programming related subreddits?

How many users as a percentage have adblockers enabled?

Would tech related blogging and including ads from google adsense make money considering tech/programming related content is a sort of niche and also presumably a lot of users have adblockers?

Previous discussions(did not receive much atention)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130868

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12863513
"Primarily: checked baggage exists as a system to get baggage out of the cramped main cabin and into simpler, dedicated storage with marginal and reasonably efficient load/unload times. By charging fees for any checked baggage (as opposed to excessive checked baggage as used to be the regime), the airlines incentivize a lot more people to try to cram every thing they can carry on into the main cabin."

So Frontier, Spirit, and now the "Basic Economy" fares charge even more for cabin bags than for checked bags. Problem solved.

One theory I heard about the checked bag fees (back when carry-on bags were no extra charge) was that the fee freed up cargo space so the airline could carry more paid air cargo, purposefully pushing baggage into the main cabin.
And tighten zoning on the periphery to encourage density in the core.

I live on the periphery of a major urban area and regularly see farmland/woods being turned into senior housing/single family homes/strip malls/banks etc. Some of it is needed but some of it just seems unnecessary. Why not build senior housing closer in where there are better public transportation options and amenities?
Subways are also an unpleasant ride at the moment. But if it is cheap enough, why not?
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Does it pack a tractor in? Who's gonna till the soil? Very click-baity.

I can pack in all the required farming equipment needed for a 2 acre land in under $20,000 in India (including a good tractor!). And I get to chose what I want.

$50,000-$60,000 is a STEEP price tag to suggest to African farmers I assume! And then there would be a maintenance costs.

These are just two of the field tested equipments that work (with spare parts available throught the Indian market at least) and are available with many options -
https://www.mahindratractor.com/
http://www.jains.com/irrigation/drip%20irrigation%20system.h...
>"did you ever had guests in your home? did you ever have them full day inside, and didn't give them a single thing to eat the whole time? (ie those magical 14 hours). well of course no, you're not an a__hole, right?"

An airline is a paid service. I'm not their friend, I'm their customer.

>"alternative - food stalls in airports serving specific food/packaging for flights. haven't seen a single one in those 30+ airports i ever visited."
>"why do I need to wade through countless restaurants and boutiques just to get from checkin to gate? that's cheap. they could be in some designated accessible 'shopping area' for example."

Okay, I get it, you don't like the way airports currently are, nor all of their offerings. I still don't see why this requires that A Law Be Made governing what they are and are not allowed to offer.
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Interesting, I've not noticed that problem, but just realized in my typical usage of a watch in Node I don't usually add new files.
Depends on what you mean by "using". Writing it, probably not so much. But a lot of the numerical things I use are written in Fortran (e.g. BLAS, Atlas). A lot of games I play probably have some hand optimized Assembly. And pretty much everything I touch is in some way backed by C. For natural language processing I've recently (re)discovered how useful PROLOG can be in some cases, and I may touch on that this year.
I had no idea, thanks for sharing this.
No, they basically don't exist. I'm United Mileage Plus Silver and have never seen an upgrade (although now I get 'free' Economy Plus which just adds a few inches of legroom to the terrible experience). I've had friends put in for first class upgrades for me a number of times and never once seen one.

A "normal" person who doesn't rack up tens of thousands of miles a year will absolutely never see an upgrade.
> and that the Mac Mini had not been refreshed in a long time

Worth keeping in mind the last refresh of the Mini performed way worse than the model that existed before it and had all upgradability locked down when the previous model actually championed the fact it could be opened and upgraded.

These Mac updates are not only slow but it's a recurring theme they're performing worse than what came before.
It's unfortunate that a user needs to find such an option. It's likely that the location and UI of the option will be changed yet again each release.

MS "needs" (?) to prioritize "don't torment your users". Of course, for corporate captives, they can torment away with impunity since The Management has already decided You Must Endure... (and probably locked out the setting in question, as well)
Python Tricks #1: “is” vs. “==” in Python
The immediate redirection as a result of the HN referral on this page is frustratingly childish
well it's no use speculating on what someone else meant, but the expirations are part of the incentive: it's not that if you figure out a new configuration, you get it FOREVER. You get it for twenty years. So it's a limited reward - just enough to motivate you. It goes right along with Congress's constitutional mandate:

>To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Although this perhaps confuses things by mixing copyright into it.

By the way I think in this day and age, patents should be for 5-7 years. Not twenty and certainly not longer. innovation has sped up.

but anyway the whole idea is that to promote the progress of useful arts - so the incentive has to be just big enough to cause that promotion...
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This is the most unfortunate part. You think that I've picked some side in this; that I'm defending the concept of being American or the things these people are saying.

I'm saying you're generalizing. This behavior is toxic. Instead of saying, 'You know what, you're right, that's really not a representative sample size and I shouldn't have made the generalization.', you doubled down on making it about generalizations.

But at the end of the day, the only person that behavior hurts is you. So, sorry man.
My job is almost entirely Erlang, which is now 30 years old.
And the paper does appear in the program of NOOL 2015(!), so it has been accepted.

http://2015.splashcon.org/track/nool2015#program
The US air system also used to be much more expensive and served far fewer routes, pricing out a significant portion of consumers: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-airl...
>Shopping for tickets. Checking in. Security. Waiting. Boarding the plane and fighting for overhead bin space. Seat dimensions. Lavatories. Literally everything is terrible.

I've been flying for over 30 years.

Shopping for tickets is easier. Before you had to go to a travel agency or wait in line at the airport. Now you just buy online.

Checking in has gotten a lot better. The last so many times I flew, I did not even have a wait. Go to the kiosk, get your tickets, and not even a wait to go to a person and have them checked in.

Fighting for overhead bin space is the same. Seat dimensions are roughly the same. Lavatories are the same.

Only security lines has gotten worse.
I'm not particularly lit up by the creeping threat of American Communism and the word "socialist" doesn't scare me; I'm a centrist-liberal Democrat small firm owner. And I didn't vote for Bernie. In fact, I actively voted against him.

Why? Because I thought his policies were a combination of marginally impactful, dumb, and/or unrealistic. Eliminating free trade agreements isn't going to bring secure jobs back to the Rust Belt. Massive expenditures to get everyone to college is a terrible plan --- and one the people hit hardest by the decline of manufacturing do not want. Single-payer health care is unrealistic and nationalizes something close to 20% of our entire economy.

The problem with these policies isn't "socialism". It's that they won't work.

Switzerland isn't a socialist country (look how the Swiss health care system works). The issue here isn't a crazy problem Americans have with "Socialism" (although using that term to describe a policy isn't a great way to win support for it).
I wanted to try playing the game (EtherSpace), so I added the MetaMask extension to Chrome. I noticed the account is initiliazed with 1.000 ETH on the Ropsten Test Network. However, the game requires you to play on the Main Ethereum Network for a price of 0.01467 ETH. Sadly, I have no ETH on this network.
Map of Every Street Tree in NYC
Thought this was FreightFarms from the description. I haven't seen the important details on either side, but it seems a lot easier to guarantee yields and more automated / automate-able by FF than by DIY farm-in-a-box.
I have to say I like this; personally, it will probably just be entertainment for me (like I need more distractions), but I can easily see it being useful for others. Great job!

One suggestion - can you put the page selector at the top of the list as well (and maybe add an option to allow more than 10 items on the list)? That was just a small thing I noticed...
Yes that's the difference between early adopters and the mainstream market. The early adopters will take a risk but companies typically need to change strategies to go beyond that. For details see the classic business book "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey A. Moore.

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062292988/crossing-the-cha...
jargon like "homoporhism, rings, multiplicative identity" are just scary sounding words for simple concepts. Especially this day and age with wikipedia.

Now, not to say that proving things about groups and rings is simple. but just because the word has 5 syllables doesn't mean the concept is hard. Whereas certain concepts in calculus - I think - are quite difficult to solve for even simple looking integrals.
Recently made the same decision myself to use CUDA too. After months of considering hacked open thunderbolt enclosures that nearly cost the same as a PC anyway I just switched.

I now measure my 3D render times in seconds not double digit minutes.

There is no doubt in my mind that if the trashcan mac had Nvidia GPUs I would have just saved up and spent over double I spent on this PC even if it had worse performance. I've been a mac user for 17 years and didn't make this decision lightly.
‘Routine’ Jobs Are Disappearing
In terms of reducing traffic, these shared three-wheelers, to pick-up/drop-off more rides, stop just about anywhere. At-least, that was the case in Noida and Greater Noida (cities right next to Delhi). Around certain regions, they were primary reason for traffic-jams.
It's also in the physical world, and there it stems from companies wanting to sell disposable crap instead of long lasting products and form factors, so they have more repeat sales.
BHIM app in India crosses 3 mn downloads in 5 days
Meet the brains at Uber, Spotify and Microsoft changing the world
Cloudflare hit by leap second “software panic” snafu on New Year’s Day
- sh (I really don't use bash features in scripting)

- awk

- perl

- sed, if that counts as language.

It's funny that a course that I took in university almost 29 years ago, for learning the use of Unix scripting tools, is one of the most useful learning experiences in my daily work today - even if my job is not really a programmer. But very often I see colleagues (project managers, architects etc) struggle with processing information in ways that involve a lot of repetition and manularity. Scripting solves those things.

(For some things also Excel and VB perhaps counts as an "old" programming language; it is also often quite useful. And I probably will end up doing something in C again this year.)
This seems related to the concept of Software Monoculture that Bruce wrote about here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/12/software_mono...

It's a clear case for technological diversity. The hard problem is that economies of scale work against technological diversity. It's similar to what happens with monoculture in biology.
Writing a web browser is non-trivial.
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