skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We really need to start asking ourselves why this dichotomy exists where some people can succeed without structure and some require it. Near as I can tell a lot of the reason many people require structure is because most primary education is geared towards making students subservient and dependent upon structure. We need to rethink primary education so more people grow up not requiring structure to learn. Near as I can tell, systems such as Montessori do a decent job achieving this educational goal, but I'm sure it's not the only approach out there that can achieve this.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Your suggestion about the statistics would naturally start giving one group less jailtime for the same crime than other groups, and at some point the policy themselves would start affecting the statistics.

It's the kind of thing that lends itself to groupthink and digs itself so deeply into people's minds that fixing the wrongs that would be created by this system becomes extremely difficult.
On the point about taxation, if you have a choice between dividends or share appreciation, I agree with you that share value appreciation gives more flexibility to better manage tax liabilities.

But you answered as a fact that a share buyback increases share price, and sorry but I don't agree with that point - as demonstrated, for an asset holding company it is not the case.

And for a company with cash generation capabilities there is still a subtle point about whether the company can create more value with the cash than the shareholders; if the company can create more value than shareholders, then removing cash from the company via a share buyback should reduce share price. If it cannot, then removing cash from the company should increase the share price.
Please don't sign your comments on Hacker News. It's against the site guidelines, and ultimately clutters the page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
British Empire's American colonies -> The United States of America
I always found that strange since Python has the same GIL and it hasn't stopped the massive adoption, same with MRI Ruby (though one could argue JRuby is more popular, but don't see any massively multicore applications in Ruby either), so that reason does not convince me.
Interesting how this varies by language. Dutch doesn't have it (I've never learned it with a definite article), German and French still use it mostly as far as I can tell, and in English it is gradually disappearing.
Because it is an extract of the original page. This is the correct link, including the apostrophes.. http://warpspire.com/posts/pixels-dont-care
Because you have no say in how tax monies are spent, that's how taxes work. Then there is the rule for rulers[1], then because that's how USA rolls (have a look at the history of the country and you'll see that this is not an isolated event), also amusing ourselves to death[2], politics as usual, business as usual, capitalism, unsustainable economy based on growth and a bunch of other reasons, but mostly the great USA land of free yay!

[1]: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers
[2]: http://citizenactionmonitor.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/amus...
Education Myth that startups need more college jobs is a public policy dead end
As an amateur programmer and a part-time freelancer, I didn't have a slightest clue about the value of my work. It was only 5-6 years back when I gladly did small gigs on Want-to-Hire forums for tens of dollars.

One particular gig was about scrapping data from a car sales website which I completed for $30 (should have cost at least 10x). The client discussed about the possibility of converting the phone numbers, which were obfuscated as plain images, to plain text. Without ado, I fired up my editor to explore the problem. It proved to atrociously difficult as I didn't have any background in anything similar but with the help from my brother, I was able to make a scrappy algorithm that worked.

I reported back my progress and asked for additional $25 for it but the client refused, saying that he hadn't given his final say. I was dejected but felt foolish more than anything else. Looking back, I can't help think how anyone would pain in giving something as meagre as $25 (at least, for someone in United States) for a someone's hard work.

If there is one thing I can glean from my story and author's is that businesses, at least most of them, are ruthless. It doesn't matter who runs them, it's just an unspoken rule that you don't give what you don't owe. You don't shower sympathy or, do things that aren't in business' best interest (long term / short term). The only thing you can—and should—do is be ruthless yourself. Negotiate for more confidently. Move on if you're undervalued. Never think of owing anything to any entity.
Now I'm confused. Emma Morano who was the oldest person alive, was born in 29 November 1899 according to the article. Is the article wrong?
This made me smile
As a non-American who has been subject to its machinations all my life in a western context, I can tell you with some certainty that its not really working as well as you think it is .. in fact, a lot of times when we non-Americans sit around discussing what is wrong with the world, American control over the western mind-set is on the top of the list, and Hollywood lies are definitely acting more as a liability for your nation than an asset. Its very clear that the CIA controls Hollywood, to anyone with even a cursory interest in the subject.
That does seem to be the case for me (at least on Safari 9.1); the real cursor disappears, but no fake cursor appears.
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It's a simple two-step process:

1. Have good genes.

2. Don't have bad genes.

If I can do it, everybody can!
Read the original: http://warpspire.com/posts/pixels-dont-care
It probably is 99% political, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a waste of money.

Cyrillic is/was a big part of Russia/USSR's identity from the west -- see things like "BORДT", faux Cyrillic [1], cheap exported Russian vodka, "СССР" on t-shirts, etc.

If Kazakhstan wants to appear less Russian, swapping the alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin will be very effective.

(I know the Latin alphabet but only a few letters of the Cyrillic one. It's far easier for me to read signs in Viet Nam than it is in Russia, even though I can probably pronounce Russian much better than Vietnamese. When I don't understand a word written in Cyrillic, it takes me 20 times longer to type it into my phone's dictionary.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faux_Cyrillic
Very interesting, indeed. I thought that patent issues were a roadblock. Kudos to Trekstor to stand up for a fight, and thanks for the link.

On the other hand, taken from the article: "overall quality of the screen wasn’t quite as good as E Ink, but it wasn’t very far off either".
Sure, but it is not like you couldn't get punched by some angry motorist in any country in the world. Except maybe Japan.
It's no more dangerous than clicking on any shortened URL.
I don't know who the "us" and "them" are here, but fact is the NSA is into global spying and mostly does industrial spying and "business intelligence" so the USA gets and maintains an edge over the rest of the world.

But it also spies on US citizen to be sure to control dissent and shut people down.
> Extreme concentration of wealth reduces competition which is bad for the economy.

There's no evidence of that. The canonical robber baron, Rockefeller, steadily drove down kerosene prices by 70%. They did not go back up. See "Titan" by Chernow.

> wealthy people tend to spend money on less economically scalable things.

This makes no sense to me.

> hurt the economy by driving up relistate prices etc without actually increasing output.

This is claiming that rich people spend more money than non-rich for the same item. There is no "rich premium" paid for things. Even so, the person who gets paid that money then goes and spends it - it doesn't disappear from the economy.

> They also tend to do vanity investing which is why VC firms for example average such terrible returns.

You're asserting that wealthy people are terrible at managing their money. It's like saying an Olympic athlete doesn't know how to train effectively.

Would you prefer to take financial advice from a rich person or a poor person?
> Yugoslavia

That would be the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia specifically. The much larger Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had already fallen apart by that time (1992).
Not really-really.

There is only one official language, Italian and 12 minorities which cultures and languages are officially "protected" or "safeguarded".
That is the essence of the Law 482/99 you cited.

In two border regions (namely Trentino Alto Adige for German and Val d'Aosta for French) the population speaking the "other" language is so vast that there are special provisions that make those regions "bilingual", but in Friuli Slovenian is spoken by a minority and has much less relevance.

Albanian, Catalan, Greek, etc. are spoken by very small commmunities (still coming from the original country where the language is spoken) that "immigrated" in Italy centuries ago, and often they diverge from the "original".

Sardinian is instead a "self-standing dialect", a local historical language of the island, that is "protected", but nothing more (you don't have official state documents written in Sardinian, nor official signs, etc.).

The "tower of babel" (that was a problem in the past) did not came however from those "foreign" languages, after all Italy has century old tradition of trading with France, Germany, etc., but rather from the dialects, and from the lack of schooling/education.

Dialects are local and independent from other European languages (though of course they may well have been influenced from them (take the dialects of Sicily as an example) you can find in it words that clearly come from Spanish or French (or even Arabic).

The people that immigrated to the US obviously largely came from the poorest (and most isolated) regions and the dialect they spoke had very little in common with Italian, a large number of those people couldn't read or write (at least not properly) in Italian and for tens of years, they had no or little contacts with Italy, it is only too normal that words changed in the meantime.
In production code we tend to use ocamlyacc or menhir. There is nothing about ocaml/ML that prohibits the use of the kind of parser generators one would expect in any other language.
I honestly do not think most of us could.

I hand out with three groups of people: geeks, hacks and lawyers. All of them often easily think they could easily do any other job. This includes the lawyers and journalists thinking that making software is easy. Based on that, I think we're as deluded as they are.
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> You also have a large percentage of uneducated people online

So do all the other countries and they make different kinds of "sins" regarding to proper writing.

> who use Latin without diacritics (secer, solja, casa instead of šećer, šolja, čaša).

This is mostly because we didn't have proper keyboard support in leading operating systems for a very long time and many people got used to typing like that. Also, a lot of hardware is still sold without proper keyboard layout (you can change it in software, but then you have to remember which of the curly brackets is used for what letter). On mobile devices, typing with diacritics is much slower.

These are all problems of Serbia being a small market and software solutions by big western companies for our use cases are often sub-par. It isn't a product of having digraphia.
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> What are examples of legitimate use-cases for supporting custom cursors?

Probably special cursors that indicate a different type of action that can be performed; like the hand-shaped pointer you get when hovering over a button or the various resize arrows, but custom. A tipped paint bucket for example on a website presenting a drawing application.
That actually makes sense - their service might allow you to download something in a special format that you want, and the website uses a video to preview it. For example a video editing or animation generation tool. You might want to save the definition so it can be edited again later. Then people are ended up with just the preview and have lost their work.
Why did it get removed?
I'll just leave [Control.Lens.Operators](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-4.15.1/docs/Control-...) here...

In defense of Haskell, the situation is similar in Scala. I think some people just prefer inventing their own operators instead of using descriptive names.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14121875
You would risk messing up the use of assistive technologies like high contrast and oversized cursors. That is the opposite of helpful.
I assume you were just not interested in passing the state around to the functions that needed it, and preferred the fact that the state monad hides that plumbing for you via bind and return. It's worth noting that there exist Ocaml libraries that provide the same operators and even similar do notation syntax that desugars to bind/return operators (via PPX).

Ocaml does tend to be more verbose than Haskell - it's just the nature of the language syntax. E.g., in Ocaml, one says (fun x -> x+1) vs (\x -> x+1). Similarly, ocaml is cursed by the excessive "in"'s that accompany let bindings. "Let .. in let .. in let ...". That can get annoying.

Interestingly, I had the opposite experience with a commercial compiler project. Haskell's syntactic cleverness (monadic syntax, combinator libraries, etc..) eventually got in the way - it became very difficult to understand what a single line of code actually meant since one had to mentally unpack layers of type abstractions. Migrating to ocaml, the verbosity eventually was more tolerable than the opacity of the equivalent Haskell code once the compiler got sufficiently complex.

My experience may vary from yours. I've been doing Haskell/Ocaml in production for many years, so the pain points I've adapted to are likely different than one working on toy compilers or weekend projects. And no, category theory exposure is not and never has been necessary for understanding Haskell or FP unless one is a PL researcher (and even then, only a subset of PL researchers are concerned with those areas). And one can be quite productive and prolific in Haskell without a deep understanding of monads and monad transformers - the blogosphere has given you the wrong impression if you believe otherwise.
> Italian cuisine is vastly superior to French cuisine (really overrated!);

This is a big call. From someone who has lived in both countries, French cuisine is so much more varied.
These qualities aren't Flash's achievement. The plugin model allowed people to experiment and try out a lot of different approaches.
Hey you just gave me an idea. An exclusive photo sharing app for people who are worth a billion dollars or more. I mean, how will those poor people show off their private mansions without attracting unnecessary scrutiny? Since the service has no need to scale, I will personally visit every billionaire to verify their identity when they join. And then I will start a bidding war amongst all the luxury goods makers to advertise on my network.

All I need to do now is to befriend a few billionaires.
There are lots of material UI libraries for other frameworks. I like Materialize which is just HTML, CSS and a little JS. Totally framework agnostic.
I presume that they meant "do whatever you want with it" as in "consume it however they see fit, as many times and when and wherever they like", not including re-broadcasting publically etc.

And that idea was solidly cemented back in the days when VCRs were common - you had a right to record anything and watch it again whenever, wherever you liked.
I find it annoying when people do this, so I'll save others the frustration. "The one that doesn't exist" is probably referring to LUElinks (that's their little in-joke). It's a pay-to-join + invite-only forum/link sharing site. Its userbase significantly declined when MegaUpload shut down, as many of the links were broken.
One of the threads from that era that really stood out for me was when they went on to a predominantly-gay niche dating site, posted pictures from it, and mocked the members for their height, weight and general appearance. It eventually got gassed after a newer member who didn't share the traditional SA belief that it's not homophobic to call men from groups SA has dehumanized who are in relationships with men "faggots" - because obviously they're not really gay, just too much of a loser to get women to sleep with them - objected to the people using this term, someone bought him a custom title calling him a faggot, and the mods finally decided this was too far.

The thing that contributed most to SA's reputation, in my opinion, was the fact that it became an internet cultural norm that their choice of who to dehumanize, their morally grey tactics, and their edgy humour were beyond criticism even by sites and people who campaign against the exact same things elsewhere on the web. Imagine what Vice would say about a subreddit that did this, or harassed someone until they killed themself, or permabanned a woman because her boyfriend said she'd been raped at a community-related meet up by someone from the site, or...
Using the video analogy, your VHS player still has a record button. Video rentals discourage copying by showing anti-piracy notices. So perhaps websites should show notices like that too "Don't press download. You might break the law".
This would be great in voting terminals. Everything seems normal until you try to vote for someone hackers don't like.
Shouldn't it be the opposite if there is a good dictionary for autocorrect? Or is there just no good dictionary?
seems like its similar to NFC-WISP from Alanson Sample http://www.alansonsample.com/research/NFC-WISP.html
I guess it is, but it feels more like defense so I'm ok with it.
>In ruby you could just globally install the gem and require it right into your script.

I've been using Elixir for one-off scripts lately and this is something I miss. In my book, it is a clear advantage that Ruby and other scripting languages have over Elixir. In the case of HTTP(S) my solution has been

{data, 0} = System.cmd("curl", ["-sf", url])

but as soon as you need a JSON library it is time to create a project. (The "-f" flag ensures you get a non-zero exit status from cURL if the HTTP status code isn't 2XX.)

I do not particularly like the usual global package installation model, though, because it means that you can only have a single version of a package available for your scripts to require. The best package management model for standalone scripts that I have seen is Groovy's [1]: a script can include a special directive that downloads a specific version of a package just for that script. Any versions can be stored in the global (per-user) package cache so that you don't have to redownload them every time a script runs, but your import statements always give you strictly the version you asked for. This is the model I'd adopt for Elixir.

[1] http://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/documentation/grape....
> This is mostly because we didn't have proper keyboard support in leading operating systems for a very long time and many people got used to typing like that.

There was proper support for Cyrillic and Latin basically from Windows XP. Also many other Linux distros supported our scripts from early on.

On the mobile front, there was also a support for both scripts relatively early on. I remmember using both Cyrillic and Latin keyboards on Android 2.1, in 2008.

> On mobile devices, typing with diacritics is much slower.

On the older devices which had physical buttons, sure. But on Android with QWERTZ/ЉЊЕРТЗ software keyboard that simply isn't the case anymore.

> These are all problems of Serbia being a small market and software solutions by big western companies for our use cases are often sub-par. It isn't a product of having digraphia.

Not directly but indirectly. If we had just one script, there would be more software solutions because it would be easier to develop them. Nowadays you mostly get some kind of support with/for Serbian Latin or no support at all, as you said.
You are also assuming that Italian cuisine didn't evolve in the past century. Even the most famous Italian dish: pizza margherita is not 150 years old. There are very common dishes nowadays, for example carpaccio, that pare post-ww2 inventions.

Did you know that Quebecois French is closer to old French than proper French French? Can you safely say it isn't us who have evolved and Italo-Americans who have stayed the same?
French does it for every country (as far as I know): la France, l'Angleterre, les Etats-Unis. It's not something specific to Ukraine.
I thought carbon credits were an old idea that was already implemented.
Thanks for sharing, I had not really considered that viewpoint. I have just looked at the complexity cost of a system distributed to 10s of millions that can't afford to fail at any point. From that biased, simple, and domain specific view a smaller system has made more sense to me personally.
Being as engineers or manager, we often over look this aspect. If quality is important, nothing is a small change.
Also, she was four.
alt.sysadmin.recovery was Slashdots precessor
Might as well start their own hedge fund with that much cash. They could build the best trading/hedge fund infrasin the world in house then make billions selling it to other players.
Sorry I may have missed something.

So how is "sentiment analysis" done? I assume that this will be personalised, rather than the binary good/bad news classification?

Congratulations though, I think the concept itself is good :) But, I think it may work better if it focuses solely on the "uplifting" type of good news. (As others have pointed out, a piece of news could be good for some people, bad to others.) Most of us get upsetting news everyday, so imagine if your app is the go-to place to rinse out all that $h!++y aftertaste with positive, inspiring stories :)

Edit: word
If Moore's law has reached its limits then what's the point of buying them?

Apple can do something on its own, the technology of these makers will won't be worth in the long term anyway.
Curl -k and disabling certificate checks on tooling that talks to TLS secured endpoints. If I'd get a cent each time I see this, I'd be billionaire.
The day my "job" as a programmer disappear I will take my stuff and expend my time fishing all day in Alaska...
Actuality, I'm looking very much forward to that.. :)
They're all just showing off. I understand your concern, but South Korea is technically still at war with the North even if everybody only fires warning shots and plays propaganda over the border to annoy their neighbours.
Not exactly all of them. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia retained Latin script for their languages, and I think Armenia (which is now using its own alphabet) used it during Soviet times too, though I am not 100% sure.
I am certain in my heart that the most reasonable use case is to replace the cursor with a detailed gauntlet cursor or severed hand as in Warcraft to let the user know whether they are The Alliance or Horde.

Kidding, of course. But damn I loved that sort of thing back when. Especially being able to do it with weird plugins as a fledgling "webmaster".
> Similar to the differences between Olde English and today's English.

I think that you're thinking of the Modern English of Shakespeare's era or Middle English (e.g. 'Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote'), not Old English (e.g. 'Hwæt we Gar-dena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon').

Middle English is very similar to Modern English, and can be read with relative ease. Old English has to be studied as a foreign language.