skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a rather long read about a specific topic. One could see it as a sign of respect of authority when the topic itself isn't discussed. At the very least the article isn't controversial.

I'll admit I haven't read the full article. I quit during P2. It is TMI, extremely well detailed. I'd like to address the following two quotes from P1:

> But today, with multiple zoom-levels, there’s plenty of room to show everything. Small businesses, apartment buildings, and even homes — no place is too small or too unimportant to be shown on today’s maps.

Less is more. You don't want to show as much information as you can. The user does not want as much information as you can provide. This leads to information overflow. A user wants relevant information. It is up the developers of the app to decide for the user what information they want. A way to do this, is to change it based on zoom. However, beyond that, the information could be drawn from a variety of factors, likely aided my ML/AI. For example, take method of transportation. Is the user in a car (as passenger, or driver), or is the user cycling, or is the user using the metro, or bus? Another variable could be is the user new to this environment? or yet another: who is the user? ASL? Student? Income? Coffee drinker? Interested in a coffee right now based on previous habits? Etc Google knows those details much more accurate. They're after all an advertising company specialised in data gathering company. They also may know what the user is not interested in based on profiling and behaviour. This gives Google a clear edge in this field. (But I believe Apple will follow Google's footsteps in becoming more oriented in user data -perhaps, even do a better job, too; we'll see-)

> The “POI” is dead — because today, every place is of interest.

For the developer perhaps, but certainly untrue for the user. If you take Google Maps, it appears to prioritise transit information. Apple Maps doesn't. That makes Google Maps a better use case if you're interested in public transport. Google Maps very recently (14 jan update) pushed a new version of Google Maps with native Uber support which gives them yet another use case functionality.
Just filter HN by posts about Rust and you'll only find optimism/fanboism.
That doesn't answer anything.
Developer, and long time BSD user who has dabbled in linux. I keep trying to get away from Windows, but it keeps being something I have to use for work. So many businesses use C# and Microsoft SQL Server for their back ends, and IE 11 support is the bane of my existence for web development. Maybe it's different in southern California, but everywhere else Windows is still king.
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I took the bait because the title seemed counterintuitive, or perhaps my eyes delighted over the caps.

Bait indeed.

The post is horrible because it lacks information, it's dated and at this point it's irrelevant.

Curation jobs will be highly automated, and soon. Machine learning and AI will make computers better at curation jobs. And they may already be better.

The long winded DJ example was pointless. Plenty of music streaming and other services for fashion, food, etc. use computers to curate.

Lame.
No, I am sure he understands this. But I question his decision to use this incident to make a point about a big issue of law, freedom, and libery. He obviously thought it was acceptable and effective to do so. I think it was wasteful and ineffective and attacks a simple tool which saves money and is effective.
The libraries you mentioned augment the stdlib rather than replacing it.
Can I get an invite?
I'm a beginner to Chinese so maybe I'm misled, but I find it quite silly that all books and tutorials describe the third tone as "falling-rising". This is something that left me scratching my head at the beginning of my learning because the descriptions in courses just didn't match what I was hearing.

From what I hear, it seems to just be a short low tone the majority of the time, as you describe in 我家. Then it becomes a second tone before a third tone, as books say. But I hardly ever hear it as a falling-rising tone. Practically only when it's pronounced in isolation (e.g. when one is counting). So I wonder why the least frequent case is presented as the rule and the most frequent case is often not presented at all... maybe tradition from old pronunciations of Chinese?
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See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... for an explanation by moxie.
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I guess I'm puzzled as to why somebody would find this great event saddening?
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It's interesting that the most commonly used enterprise languages seem to be missing ... does this mean that Java and .NET are just solidly plugging away? No one is raving about them (positively or negatively). Javascript and C/C++ don't make the list either. I think you need to take a look at a lot more than the top-ten and bottom-ten to know what's going on with this data-set (or if the method for deciding positive versus negative is working).
Yes we do. But 50 states, 50 different motor vehicle bureaus. Not to mention D.C. Plus Puerto Rico etc.

Some states have an excellent DMV. Others suck. It depends.
Now we have to wait if the Iridium people can also celebrate.
This is not acceptable HN material.
Who filled in for the position of Director of Security between 0 and ~32AD?
Reading through it. The gist is you can get 30 months of parole from USCIS if you are a startup entrepreneur that has raised investment. Seems like the threshold is $250k and it can support up to 3 founders. You must own at least 10% to be considered a founder.

Looks like you can also get an additional 30 months by raising a further $500k, or having at least $500k ARR with 20% annual growth, or employing 5 US persons full time. You need to maintain a 5% stake and continue to serve a central role in operations in order to qualify for the additional 30 months.

The investment has to be raised from investors with a track record of investing in high growth startups.

This will come into force from July 17 2017.
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> As a layman, I'm not clear on why we don't treat such sites like alien worlds and come prepared with environmental suits for the jungle, special habitats and vehicles, etc.

"Budget."

(or, at least, this is what I imagine the answer is.)

> It seems past time to treat Earth's inhospitable zones with an eye towards the difficulties and solutions of space exploration.

Apollo had some major issues with moon dust and such - maintaining a sterile environment is a different, if overlapping skillset with maintaining an environment within a vacuum.

That said, there's all the NBC preparedness of the military, and e.g. the medical response to outbreaks and quarantines - even if "don't enter the quarantined area" is rule 1.

But hey, maybe Robots could be an option at some point. Still - do you fund the expedition that requires expensive, custom, bespoke explorer-bots (because there hasn't been much of a market for those for mass production to drive down costs or standardize things) or do you fund the expedition where you can send a few students for school credit?
As a blind person I'm glad I have no need for your course since I already know how to program. Linux accessibility is a giant pain for most blind people. While the Mac is accessible your looking at a $1000 entry price compared to $500 for a Windows laptop with a free screen reader. Never assume you know best, people like me have good reasons for using Windows.
It varies from state to state. You typically have some type of title document. When you sell your car, you sign the back with the sale value. You have to do this very carefully because if you sign the wrong part or screw something up, you have to go to the county clerk, sign an affidavit and pay for a new title that you can then sign over properly.

Some states require that the title be notarized (signed and sealed in front of a notary public who verifies your identity) which can be done at a bank at transfer time.

In both cases, the buyer is responsible for registering the car (at which time they'll pay sales tax on it. The seller will usually print and fill out a bill of sale. It's best to get this notarized too along with the title).

Unless you fill out one of the forms mentioned in the comments, the car will still be listed as belonging to you until the buyer registers it.
I know very little Russian and can’t say for certain, but I think Russian is similar to English in these consonants.

I should make it clear I don’t think Pinyin is a bad system, only that it does not map sounds to European languages well. And that is fine, as least for its original purpose. Contrary to common belief, Pinyin was not developed to better educate illiterate people (this does not even make sense if you think carefully), but as the next step after letter simplification (what we know as Simplified Chinese today) towards Chinese Romanisation. The goal was not to represent sounds of Chinese characters, but to outright replace them. The actual reason behind using (for example) b and p instead of p and p' is exactly this—they are optimising for ease to write, not sound accuracy.

And in regard to making it easy for people not prolific with Chinese letters to read, be them foreigners or simply illiterate, a phonetic transcription system is indeed important. But although having a standard phonetic transcription is key to the jump in literacy in China, I would argue the same can be achieved with any decent system, and a few of them are already around by the time they started working on Pinyin.

All in all, while Pinyin is good for its original purpose, it achieved its current status not because of academical reasons, but political ones. The Chinese Communists government had always have a habit ignoring existing systems and inventing their own. :p
> "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly"

This is an approach that I like for most bad laws (though noting that its attribution to Lincoln is questionable). That said, this isn't a case of the law being good or bad, but about the enforcement being bad. Most people would agree that traffic lights are a net good, and that running a traffic light in a way that causes harm would be a bad act, ergo, laws against running traffic lights seem to be overall good on balance.

Moreover, it is logical to assume that if people were just running traffic lights whenever they wanted to, that the net result would be in mistakes that would ultimately result in harm.

But if you're at a 5 minute red light in the middle of the night with a wife who is in labor and nobody else is around, would you support enforcement of that law against the man who runs that light? Nobody was harmed, no damages were caused, and waiting for the light might potentially have caused a medical issue for which the driver could have sued.

The point of the article isn't that "red lights are bad" or that "running red lights is good", but the more nuanced take that "the enforcement of red light laws as both a civil and criminal act while adhering to the tenets and protections of neither is bad", which is (at least taking the article on faith) correct, as applied.

At its core, the author does themselves a mild disservice by closing with the standing argument. Yes, I can't sue you for harms you didn't cause, and nor can I sue you for harms you might have caused, but didn't. Moreover, it is true that the state similarly has no standing for suits in which no harms were caused, but that is not the core of the wrong he is fighting.
Maybe I missed this, but did you get a founders agreement put together? It's not a fun conversation, but it's worth nailing down at the very beginning.
I use hot peppers as an antibiotic substitute. When sicker, I go for hotter things, like habanero.

If by wreck you, you mean they will cause gastro distress, it is because they kill gut bacteria as well as other bacteria.

Capsaicin causes sweating and feels hot by forcing a cell channel open at abnormally low temperatures. This channel normally only opens when you genuinely are too hot.

So, the other reason I eat hot peppers is as a biohack to force my body to dump fluids. I have a genetic disorder that impairs the function of a different cell channel. People with my condition are prone to belly bloat, which I have pretty badly -- but not nearly as badly as I did before I began consuming hot peppers a few years ago.

My belly continues to shrink. The shrinkage correlates to overall improved functionality. I don't care if the belly bloat is merely a symptom of illness or a cause of illness or a little bit of each, I want it gone. I feel strongly that when it is gone, I will function much closer to normal. I don't give a rat's ass if that is because I need to fix things to get rid of it or if I need to get rid of it to fix things. Ongoing progress in reducing the belly bloat serves as an excellent benchmark for general progress.

I did discuss this with a guy with a phd in chemistry and some past a guy with a phd in biology to understand what was going on with my defective body when I accidentally discovered that hot peppers helped me a surprising amount and googling was failing to get me meaningful, useful information. So contrary to popular opinion, this is not just some former homemaker talking out her ass. I also read medical records as part of my job for over five years, etc.
I believe UPower reactors (no renamed to Oklo after the spontaneous chain reactions that occurred in Africa 2 billion years ago) are even smaller. My guess from the rename is that they want to make shippable modules that are entirely self-contained, i.e. you just set it down and plug stuff in. Could be useful in very distributed markets. NuScale can ship lots of parts but you still have to build out a big site.
I don't think Rust has a problem of having too many crates yet, and hopefully crates.io will improve discovery before it becomes a problem. They're making first steps to improve it already, e.g.: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1824
Microsoft had a monopoly on operating systems and were leveraging that to win the browser wars. Apple does not have a monopoly on smartphones and consequently cannot be using that monopoly as leverage. Monopolies aren’t even a problem in and of themselves, it’s leveraging them that’s generally illegal.
Simple example using Pinyin: 你好吗 is "Hello, how are you?". In Pinyin you'd type: "ni hao ma?".

It sounds like this: https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/你好吗？
Doubtful : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13385530
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me as well, please
can I take a moment to call out
WHATWG for deciding to specify
that all networking errors in
XmlHttpRequest get status: 0

I think this is one of those times where people should be ignoring the spec.

Do the w3c specs have anything to say on the matter?
I don't think the job markets are smaller nor does it take longer to take someone and teach them how to be a deveoper on low-level systems. These fields are more about knowladge and tricks to learn to make your software efficent and an understanding of existing systems. This is very easily codifiable in a code-camp like course.

You can take students and build real products (embeded systems like example medical gear and such) and teach them all of the same programming-specific information they already learn.

Now granted this wont happen any time soon. I don't think it's impossible I just think the kind of people who go to code boot camps aren't the kind of people who are interested in low level systems development. Maybe that's just a stereotype but as long as it persists people probably won't attempt to build things like schools like that.
For a language I find as reasonably designed as Java, this is stupid.

Add a new key"word", don't deprecate a whole fucking character in a language that's been around for twenty years.

It pains me to consider the horrific amount of code this will break. The lifetimes of hours spent deleting _ that would have been writing whimsical poetry in a moonlit garden or curing cancer.

I'm not surprised I guess given that Java is "owned" by Oracle now. Hopefully they kill it off quickly so we can get the migrations to openjdk overwith.
I can't speak to gender bias in hairdressing because I know nothing about the hairdressing industry. I think it's reasonable for articles about the gender bias in hairdressing (if one exists) not to be posted in Hacker News, and for commenters not to be familiar with it.

If there is a gender bias there, and there's something I can do about it that won't be sticking my nose where I don't belong (I don't really want hairdressers telling me how to do tech recruiting), let me know, I'm glad to support it. But until then, I'm in tech: this is my field, and the one I care about improving. This is a tech forum. And the people running Lever are in tech.

Simple as that, it has nothing to do with the job perks or pay. If there were outsiders putting pressure on the tech industry and not the dockworking or hairdressing industry, you'd have an argument--but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
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I started learning mandarin only a few months ago, but from what i learned so far, there is no easy way to switch from 汉字 to pinyin. Pinyin is an essential learning tool, but loses to much context and meaning encoded in the chinese characters. Even texts in the textbook somewhere after the 10th lesson start making much more sense when written in chinese characters than in pinyin.
I'm a little skeptical of both the claimed literacy rate and of simplified characters' part in the increase of literacy.

The replacement of characters on a phonological basis is good, but you still have to memorize thousands of characters, simplified or not. Further, I've never seen how "literacy" is defined for those statistics.

IIUC, pinyin was originally proposed as a replacement for characters, and there was some interest when the communist government took over, but the choice was finally made in favor of simplification.
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Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7HYmvc9AlY
> It's like corporations focus on the quarter. Futurists focus on the century. What group of people focuses on the decade?

Corporations focus on the decade. But the focus on the quarter part is what is made public.

Disclaimers abound: Obviously not all corporations. Some are good, some suck. Some are very public with their long term plans/thoughts, some are very secretive about R&D and their thinking beyond the fiscal year. There are groups within corporations (some with billion dollar budgets) focused on the 5-15 years out period. There are many corporate consulting firms specializing in exactly this 5-15 years out period too.

Right or wrong, this ~10 year secular horizon is also sweet spot where secrecy about it does have value if you want a return on investing in it.
There are limitations (https://www.irs.gov/uac/charities-churches-and-politics), but only for actual candidates.

> [A 501(c)(3) organization] does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.

Naturally, it would be absurd to prohibit every opinion about drugs, prostitution, taxes, immigration, discrimination, marriage, abortion, or murder.

To quote Thomas Mann, "Everything is politics."
There was also one powering a US Army ice base in Greenland called Camp Century. The video of it is actually pretty awesome [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ujx_pND9wg
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Another easy way to play around with network conditions is included in Chrome dev tools: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/netw...
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You are not controlling for the programmer's age as a variable. An equally valid explanation could be that newer programmers have less experience to draw from, where older programmers have more experience and know what works and what doesn't. Or, alternatively, newer programmers might just be a much larger pool of people, and perhaps more people stop programming as they get older than start, so that the average skill of an older programmer is much higher than you might otherwise expect (since all the low-skill programmers quit when they were younger).
I really should have, as I can't remember the specifics now.

I'll try again in a VM and see if I can recreate the issue.
I have long thought that Pinyin is underestimated for its simplicity, conciseness, and its implicit description of regional phonetics in China. Its uses all 26 letters of English except for "v", but "v" on a keyboard is used to type "ü" instead, and so Pinyin input does not need a special keyboard layout. A basic QWERTY layout is all that's needed. This is an improvement over the Wade-Giles system which requires diacritics and curious apostrophes that the international community--which generally had no interest in learning Chinese or the peculiarities of the Wades-Giles system--learned to ignore when writing Chinese words with the Wade-Giles system (i.e. Taipei should be T'aipei. In Pinyin it's Taibei. Tai chi chuan should be T'ai chi ch'uan. In Pinyin it is Taiji quan).

When I was beginning to learn Mandarin while studying abroad in Chongqing, I was very frustrated with understanding the southern accent. Instead of pronouncing "zh", "ch", "sh" (retroflex consonants), the locals would pronounce "z", "c", "s" (dental/alveolar sibilant consonants). As you can see, Pinyin makes this pronunciation disparity easier to understand for learners and to anticipate the way that many southerners will (mis)pronounce Mandarin. Learning all of varieties of pronunciation in China is still a daunting task with or without Pinyin, but at least it describes this major one pretty well.
There are a number of tech execs I would fully support if they ran for office. Zuckerberg is not one of them.
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A funny thing about how the Chinese type on their phones is that not only they use Pinyin, but they use the old-school numeric input method (2="abc", 3="def", etc., like SMS in the pre-smartphone era) to type it. Or at least that's what I saw most people do when I went to Beijing, maybe in other regions/demographics it's different.

I find it rather amusing that while in the West we use 30 keys to type our around 30 characters, in China they use 10 keys to type their thousands of characters.

Also, it's probably not a bad idea for those of us with a tendency to fat-finger (like myself). I was quite faster writing messages on pre-smartphone keyboards than on smartphone ones (although probably a large part of that is physical key feedback vs. virtual keys). I'd definitely give a 10-key option a try on my smartphone, but it isn't offered.
The developer axiom #1: If it works on my computer then it works for everyone else.
I did a writeup of it here :-) https://rocknerd.co.uk/2016/11/30/lou-reed-metal-machine-mus... It's long been famed.
I agree though, should be nailed down immediately. Plus, I don't think it's ever a good situation when equity is given equally. Just asking for trouble.
Who pays for those who can't support themselves? Orphans, elderly, infirm/sick? Who pays for those things that everyone benefits from but no one sees? International trade agreements, armed forces, border controls, research, pest control, safety regulation, building regulation, civil defence etc etc.
Calm down fancy pants. I'm sorry I was responding to the information in the article rather than going out and doing more research.