skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who's to say you'll crack the interview? They're a tough cookie to crack, regardless of your views on them, so this whole "I won't apply" doesn't really matter.

And, for how much they pay, they'll easily find a good/better coder anyways. Everything has a price, and if bad culture can be compensated with a big(ger) paycheck, people will continue to work and apply there.
Definitely on my all-caps WANT list of practical purchases as soon as I can. Occasionally get to borrow a SP3 top spec and it's so impressive to me. The fit and finish are up there with my expectations of Akai type foresight.

Provided Microsoft pays close attention to 'just enough' ports to keep it ahead of the Apple trajectory, I think they'll continue to bite market share in areas that typically were Macbook Pro favored. Win10 seems to "just work" for enough Users while still being a functional Enterprise deployment that I'm frankly still impressed how they've won back customers.
Everything comes and goes. It's just the nature of things. When it's your time to lead the pack, you will, regardless of the cultural environment. Most of us (in the West) don't know it yet, but we're already in the Chinese Age.

How long will their time last?

The funny thing about the influence of culture on innovation is that when this country (USA) was rewriting the rules and breaking down boundaries this way and that way, we were sending minorities to jail like "AI WW" and generally compelling them to behave and know their place.
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thanks! But was thinking something more along the lines of Silicon Valley (the TV show) but in writing?
For context, to forestall some knee jerk reactions I'm seeing:

1. This essay is part of a series, where guest authors are explicitly asked to "uninvent" something. So there's a level of built-in hot take to this.

2. The author is Ted Chiang, writer of Story of Your Life (and the work that the movie Arrival was based on). He's explored how language affects how we think before (Story of Your Life/Arrival is explicitly about this). So this kind of falls in line with that.

Anyway, I think this is a fascinating thought experiment to work through. What would China be like with a phonetic system? What would change? How much of the culture is derived from the method of language and how much from other factors?
I listen to probably 4-5 audio books a month from Audible, mostly fantasy. There's no way I could listen to that many books a month if I didn't do it by multi-tasking. (I also listen to just about every book at 1.5x speed; usually 1x speed is too slow for some narrators)

Here's things I can do while easily following my audio books: cleaning (house, car, dishes, etc.), cooking, brushing teeth, running, driving, cycling (Using a Aftershokz Bluez bone conduction headphones so I can still hear what's around me). The majority of my daily listening time is from cooking and commuting by bicycle (I spend about 45-60 minutes every day cycling).

Things I can't do while listening to audio books: programming, watching multimedia, playing a video game. In other words, things that require high mental concentration. If I try to listen to an audio book while programming, I'll either not follow what's happening in the audio book, or I'll not be able to concentrate on programming.
The number of people reading a daily print newspaper has declined from 55% to 5% in the last twenty five years. Granted a higher percentage are reading the news on their phones but you don't need as many people to put out a digital paper.

Sure the boomers retiring will need to be replaced but it's a declining market and even if you manage to get hired it's doubtful you will have as long a career as Walt managed.

You will have to compete with a computer. Experts are predicting that up to 90% of newspaper stories will be written by computers by 2030. It's akin to entering the buggy whip manufacturing business right after the introduction of the Model T.

http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/newspapers-fact-sheet/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/28/computer-...
So you're saying the law should never, ever change despite that technology changes and improves? That what was good enough for the 1970s is good enough for today? Because that's a pound of bullshit that I find hard to swallow.

I still can't understand why you desire zero privacy at the border. Why would any citizen applaud the government for invading their privacy just to entertain security theater? The contents of my phone have zero bearing on whether I'm bringing a gun on a plane. You don't foil a terror plot at the TSA checkpoint by browsing someone's phone contents.
Thanks for your helpful answer.

...and I don't understand why some people have downvoted my question. Anyway, I'll continue reading the docs :)
Dolphins not systematically destroying the planet might be more of a lack of ability to instead of desire. Hard to say, really, they're woefully limited in their ability to affect their environment.
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Historically, there have been repeated attempts in both China and Japan to replace Chinese characters with a phonetic system (and Korea and Vietnam actually went through with it). These efforts haven't panned out, but it's demonstrably not the case that only ignorant émigrés think a phonetic system would be better.
Very nice presentation. Another extensive list of examples: http://www.hakank.org/minizinc/
This may surprise you, but people defined as "living in extreme poverty" weren't always unhappy to be there. Western standards of affluence are the economic default, but they don't include any measure of happiness, fulfilment, or contentment.

The factors that generate the last three are largely unrelated to median income. In fact they reliably go down when neoliberal "efficient allocation of capital" becomes the dominant ideology.

People are starving in the US and UK too. Did you know that around 15% of US households cannot consistently afford food, while more than 5% have "very low food security" which includes persistent periods of hunger or malnourishment?
This is incomplete: they need to also include the political affiliations of owners of "fact check" sites, and perhaps also FEC disclosure for donations above threshold, and sources of financial support. I.e. this site comes from PolitiFact, but its owner is a liberal and he took a bunch of money from Pierre Omidyar who also donated heavily to the Clinton Global Initiative. Puts the fact checks in a more "factual" light, IMO. Fact check on the fact check: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jan/14/...

Things have gotten hyper-partisan to the extreme in the past year or so, so you sometimes see things that are factually true rated as "mostly false" if they do not align with the narrative of the (typically liberal) owners.
i'm curious - how would you invest in order to take advantage of daily or presumably, hourly trends? what can actually close the loop that quickly on human activity -> financial securities performance?
Why do you care so much what Twitter does?
Yeah, this Dolphin-worship reeks of "noble savage".
so, would you say that you have "one aim", and that's to open doors?
Sort of a side note, but I've noticed that there are some activities I can do while listening to audiobooks and others I can't.

For instance, during my day job as a software engineer, when I am doing any kind of visual work, audio is easy to listen to. Things like building UIs with web tech like HTML and CSS.

When I am doing anything more traditionally related to software it is a 100% shift, I can't follow a thing.
Would something reflective on the Earth's surface even help cool the planet when the reflected energy just gets trapped anyways by CO2 in the atmosphere? I can understand localized albedo effects, but not their overall effect on climate.
Maybe, but until it is solved, we can and should encrypt all our devices against any intruder, whether it's our own government or criminals.
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14061654
When you want to debunk a shyster claiming he has supernatural abilities (pyschics, etc), who is the first person you should turn to? A magician. By that same logic, perhaps former spin doctors make the best fact checkers.
Then what are you trying to discuss?
>The Quran is a revelatory text from a single generation, revealed by God to Muhammad, primarily providing divine justification for Muhammad's conquests and further expansion.

Quite a bit of the OT involves God instructing, encouraging, or justifying the Hebrews' conquests around the Levant.
No, he has opinions on language, not knowledge of linguistics. He is a science fiction writer. It's an actual academic discipline, you know, not just people harumphing in armchairs.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which underlies Arrival, has been debunked for years in academia, and the movie, if detached from that hypothesis, is more of a thought experiment on the effect of the linearity of time on human thought than a thought experiment on anything related to language itself.
Any hostility you're "feeling" is a result of your own projection. Only a child keeps whining about his feelings on the internet. Grow up.

I know you're not new to HN. You have a decent amount of karma. You can't downvote replies to your own comments. Suggesting I use the downvote in a situation where it isn't an option is the definition of a useless comment.
i am talking x >= 1.
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I like the idea of a desktop app. Or even a self-hosted server-side app.

I wish you all the best in this endeavor and thanks for sharing.
> # How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet?

> There's a joke in here somewhere.

This line always cracks me up.
>assuming other indicators of economic health are holding steady/increasing steadily?

They aren't. Which is a problem.
> "There is 'no system to vet' refugees from the Middle East."[1] To me that's not a "fact" that can be "checked." That's an assertion which could mean many different things. What qualifies as a "system" or "vet[ing]?" Is there an implicit assumption about who's system we're talking about? What is the definition of "refugee?"

Come on, under literally any reasonable interpretation of those words Trump's claim is simply false. That's a perfectly valid fact check, which you could only dispute if you aim to change the English language.
Go for big data
Wait, if they can "see" the wavelengths - which presumably means they can differentiate between them - how is that not color vision?

Are you saying that despite the fact that their retinas are sensitive to multiple wavelengths of light, their brains throw this information away?
Did you find other things that Director did made the company less effective or unpleasant to work at? In other words, if that's the company's policy, is it possibly a sign the company is not the best place to go?
The problem is that most companies won't provide an offer until you've gone through interviews which are expensive for both parties.

So this reasoning holds if you have an abundance of time, but you can generally figure out what their likely range is going to be. Do research, ask colleagues, etc. Anchor at the high end of that - you can also leave it vague by talking about 'total comp' which can includes subjective things like equity, location, vacation, etc. You may loose some value by doing this but it'll also mean you won't waste time and so you'll only be interviewing in places that are in your ballpark.
Or possibly "Take the Profit out of Selfishness".
A guy fired three shots in the pizzagate restaurant because he thought it was true and wanted to "investigate." Fortunately no one was hurt.
edit: I just noticed the author has a link to order prints from him/her, that's definitely the more polite option: http://www.redbubble.com/people/ange4771

It also seems to be less expensive than options like Office Depot, too.

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get these printed as full-sized posters?
> ... something that is the result of being one of the oldest language families in the world.

That makes no sense. If we had a time machine, we'll be able to trace every modern language back to some African tribe that became the ancestor of all modern humans.

Perhaps you meant having a literary tradition that's among the oldest in the world, but even that doesn't necessarily explain why there would be so many homophones. Languages lose words all the time, even one with great literary traditions.
Yep! His native language is English I believe.

I read this article as promoting phonetic languages. The entire premise of the article series is things that should never have been invented, so I don't think that's a leap here, even if he does hedge at the end with the "he has no idea if he would be better off in a world" thing.
In the grand scheme of things though - I don't think most entrepreneurs are doing anything new. Anecdotally I failed on 2 new-idea companies and had 2 successful ones with very little new and I have a third on the way. Most businesses grow by stealing market share; not creating new categories. I agree that some need to be steadfast with their idea and vision but that seems to be an exception.

I will say that doubters are everywhere and you do have to be able to persevere. My own wife was one of them with one of my companies. She'd say why are you spending so much time on that business when it doesn't make any money? I also met with an industry expert at the beginning and they told me not to bother; that there's already an 800 lb gorilla in the space and the market doesn't really need another entrant. Needless to say I bootstrapped it to 40k MRR and that gorilla offered to buy my company and I told them no.

Many times the doubt is not about your idea; people are just scared of any existing competition. They think - oh there are other companies doing that. Non-entrepreneurs seem to get more jazzed about new ideas that aren't being done and they get completely disappointed and paralyzed when they find out their idea isn't new and someone is already doing it. To the point they won't even see how they are doing it and see if they can do it better. I get jazzed when I see companies making a lot of money in a niche but not doing it well.

For many people, maintaining the ego on your idea/vision results in second mortgages on their house, high credit card debt, a lot of time away from family, and not knowing when to hang it up or change course.

Separately - taking the ego out of ideas is definitely a good thing when building a company with one or more partners.
Glad I'm not the only one that'd be happy to have a proper api for their bank.

In Europe to upcoming PSD2 directive basically requires banks to expose the api. In the mean time I'm abusing JSON/HTTP api my bank has built for their own RWD app...
that's nuts and an enlightening story. i had no idea this was going on.

i think his photos are genuinely really good.

it'd be funny to see this experiment done with crappy photos.
The second part of their message wasn't there when I responded or I somehow had missed it - which changes the context of my reply. I thought they were making a sarcastic quip.

I totally agree with using the fact you signed away your right to share your salary as a negotiation tool, regardless if it is even legally binding. Hell - I'd argue to say that even if you never actually signed a paper at all.
Working more isn't progress.
Aside from the spelling, Chaucer really is not too bad. I must have had to read a really, really abysmal treatment in school, because I did not remember the Canterbury Tales rhyming at all...

http://www.librarius.com/canttran/gptrfs.htm
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I read a short essay by David Brin, wherein he laments that despite all the years spent on studying dolphin language and intelligence, it's likely that we've been fooling ourselves all along.

Can't find it now, though :/
Their stock started climbing about 8 months before they got rid of stack ranking. I wouldn't chalk up Microsoft's stock growth to "they suddenly figured out how to treat people better."
They did put a BBC Micro in every school though.
>Occasionally get to borrow a SP3 top spec

As an owner of an SP3 top spec, the regular experience isn't always as great as the occasional one. Microsoft chose to use a cheap Marvell wifi unit and mine STILL has consistent problems connecting/disconnecting. I've had to reinstall windows entirely in an attempt to get the drivers functional in the past. It still feels crazy to be able to run VMs and CC on a tablet but you will pay for that i7 in heat and battery life.

That said, those flaws are pretty rare and largely worth it in the day to day. Most of the time, it's as you describe - and I haven't heard of the newer devices having nearly the same gamut of problems. Don't buy it expecting to do any serious art design on the touchscreen though, the pen is only "okay."
"I'm in love with the BBC"
> "It is legal for a licensed gun owner to open-carry in California." Falsehood.

Except that it is true. Well, "licensed gun owner" isn't actually a thing at all (licenses aren't needed to own guns), but the natural interpretation of it as "gun owner who also has an appropriate license" makes the statement true, it's just that there are only limited places in California where you can be appropriately licensed for open carry of handguns (counties with a population under 200,000.)
> - Can't add third party songs to the cloud library

You can, actually. Although I'll admit it's not the easiest process. You simply need to manually add your songs into your library on the desktop, create a playlist with those songs, and all your other devices will now be able to download these third party songs via the playlist as well.
It was fine on either end; I guess I didn't think too much about it. It wasn't unusual for me since I use it in other times as well.
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This is too cynical. Citing your source is good practice and people should do it more (see Wikipedia for example). If you learned something by reading it on the Internet and post a link, at least then I know where you got it from, and there's less chance the message got garbled due to paraphrasing.

(Of course the source might not be reliable.)
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I fully agree. At the time my assumption was that candidates had a pretty good idea what a 'normal' salary range is for a position. I was wrong.
You don't need to be a shit person to get a good deal (and yes, lying to someone in hopes of getting money generally makes you a shit person, even if that person happens to be a recruiter). If someone asks what your salary is, just say you don't disclose it. Tell them what you want your salary at this job to be. That's all they're trying to figure out, anyway.

That question (usually) isn't asked because they actually want to know what you used to make. It's asked because they want to know what number they can offer you that will make it likely you take the job. If you make $80k and are applying for a job where their range is $120-140, saying "I don't disclose previous salary but for this position I won't take anything less than $135" you will very likely get it provided you merit being in the top portion of their range.
I can't speak to that series because I haven't read that one (I've put it on my list though).

Good ones I have read:

The Kingkiller Chronicle - Patrick Rothfuss

Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson

Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn (Sadly this trilogy is no longer canon, if that matters to you)
Yep. "How much are you looking to pay?" No, stop it.

"You can probably discern by the cars that I'm looking at or asking about a good ballpark of my range and desires."
Ah, glad your cognitive biases turned out to be right in the end!
Good news indeed.

Switched to D 4 years ago, and have never looked back. I wager that you can sit down a C++/Java/C# veteran, and say write some D code. Here's the manual, have fun. They will with in a few hours be comfortable with the language, and be fairly competent D programmer. Very little FUD surrounding the switching to yet another language with D.

D's only issue is that it does not have general adoption, which I'm willing to assert is only because it's not on the forefront of the cool kids language of the week. Which is a good thing. New does not always Mean, improved. D has a historical nod to languages of the past, and is trying to improve the on strengths of C/C++ and smooth out the rough edges, and adopt more modern programming concepts. Especially with trying to be ABI compatible, it's a passing of the torch from the old guard to the new.

Regardless of your thoughts on D; My opinion is I'm sold on D, It's here to stay. In 10 years D will still be in use, where as the fad languages will just be foot notes in Computer Science history as nice experiments that brought in new idea's but were just too out there in the fringes limiting themselves to the "thing/fad" of that language.
I'd caution against using broad strokes such as "The Chinese", which is a blanket identification that covers 1.2 or 1.3 billion people. Are you talking about the Chinese government that only cares about money and has 'no love' and promotes cheap shallow copies, or that every Chinese person is otherwise locked down to live a mediocre life while in China thanks to their government or their (implied to be) anti-disruption culture?

That said, kaizen as a Japanese industrial concept a la Toyota is continuous (small!) improvements, not broad ground-breaking change. With Japanese manufacturing, it was quite compatible with keeping with social norms on the surface and deeper, while optimizing to whatever goals. Kaizen as a broader life-philosophy term is known as gaishan in Chinese, where the word originated and is still used with some frequency, and is known as many other words in Buddhism, where the concept originated. Surely the inventors and practitioners of kaizen in South Asia and China haven't completely lost their love for improving things to the beckoning of material comforts and money?
Reading the article, it looks like what is going on is that news publishers now can claim that their articles were fact checked, or certain article is a fact check article on another one, using special markup. They also say the fact checks should adhere to certain guidelines, but I don't see how it would be possible for them to enforce any of these guidelines. It looks like just self-labelling feature, with all abuse potential inherent in this.
All that heat wouldn't be trapped by CO2. You'd also experience reduced energy load in the developed world, as buildings with black roofs are objectively harder to keep cool than those with white roofs. Which would have a positive impact on CO2 levels (positive from our perspective, meaning reduced).
The 3.6 CPython dict item storage algorithm was implemented in PyPy first.
Google didn't do this to me, and I've never heard of them demanding past salary from anyone I knew.
I don't understand the downvotes either.

Anyway, the docs are not that great, so Mike Parker has started a blog post series about the GC.[1] If you have questions, drop them in the d.learn forum.[2] They're pretty friendly (most of the time).

[1] http://dlang.org/blog/2017/03/20/dont-fear-the-reaper/
[2] https://forum.dlang.org/group/learn
We didn't know what 90 percent of the switches did (2012)
So many hours playing VII and UO :) Good times.