skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lard tastes better too.

Toast a few slices of bread. Make sure the surface turns crunchy.

Grab a clove of garlic and rub it on the toasted bread until it disappears. Repeat until the surface has imbibed enough garlic paste.

Now spread some lard on it. Use a generous amount. Bonus points for using goose lard instead.

Sprinkle salt.

Enjoy.
Though I would say those are also not quite sentences.

It doesn't matter.

I in my book it is more productive to teach people something like "All sentences must have a verb. But that doesn't mean you always have to speak in sentences." than to teach something like "Any reasonable utterance is a sentence, but we can give you no clear guidance on what that means".
it's relevant because the people who write the billion dollar checks don't want to bother with the risk.
Sorry, I meant $900K per week. Still...
Right, I mean I've visited China half a dozen times now, for a total period of probably half a year or more, and half of my family is now Chinese. But I can't answer any of those questions, and neither can any of my family members (except for one rich uncle who won't talk about that sort of thing). I don't think visiting China is going to help answer these questions.

The total extent of economic policy discussion that I've been able to solicit from Chinese friends & family is thus:

1. Save lots of cash
2. Buy lots of apartments

And that's it.
At my local library the loudest people aren't those on their phones or laptops, but the chess players. It really surprised me considering chess can be played completely non-verbally other than calling "check". Every time I'm there, they constantly argue (most of the time it's because someone wants to take back a move), trash talk to get on each others nerves, yell across the table to other players in games, and talk loudly as if they were in a park. On one hand I think it's great that the library provides a community space and lets people use their chess sets, but on the other hand as someone who goes there for quiet, it's very irritating. (I wish they had a game room or something where they could go wild) Once upon a time libraries had mythical status as a place of silence, to the point where people would shush each other for the smallest noises... I actually stopped going to that library because of noise issues and in general because of its size and limited seating.
Your code is actually less portable if you use types like uint64_t -- if your system doesn't have exactly that type implemented the typedef won't exist. If all you need is a really big number 'unsigned long long' is required to exist and be able to store 0..2^64-1
This seems like a shill study because someone unhappy with cigarettes declining sales helped fund development of their neat-o 3D printed testing device. It is already a red-flag that they say "3D printed"... they didn't 3D print the (likely) massively expensive electro-optical sensing device, from what I can tell they 3D printed the little sample slides that go in, and that is what costs a dollar. I'm sure that will save some shekels but otherwise...

Saying "e-cigarettes" is nonsensical. There are 1000s of varieties of vaporizers and liquids. I'd wager if you take some bright, sketchy liquid from the corner vape shop and combine it with a $10 generic imported vaporizer there is going to be some significant deviation with impurities/toxins relative to e.g. JUUL or other products sold by a company that frankly has something to lose if they get sued.

As far as I understand, most of the unexpected chemicals are coming from vaporization or reactions based on the flavorings that were never designed for that. Or vaporizers that are poorly constructed and burn glue/adhesives/etc from the device as well as the liquid. So again you'd want to focus on those individual components or chemicals, and it makes no sense to generalize "e-cigarettes" by analysis of any one (for better or worse).

Also, not intuitively buying without far more evidence that vaporizing glycol/glycerine, nicotine, and water shares a rough equivalence in DNA damage potential to the raw combustion products of unfiltered cigarettes. There are some 7000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, and the list of the known carcinogens is over a page long on Wikipedia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cigarette_smoke_carcin...
Well, the United States is a living example of a country that tried that, and um ... hasn't failed because of it.

Until the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, there were no restrictions on immigration. And after that, the immigration of white people was still completely unrestricted, until the Immigration Act of 1921. And after which, it was still relatively easy for citizens from Western European countries to move to the US (thanks to the "National Origins formula", up until the Immigration Act of 1965 was passed.
Well, I think our difference is just semantic. You're right that it's just Apple's marketing decisions that make iPads "not general-purpose computers". But they still aren't, unless Apple reverses those decisions, which they won't.

Personally, I don't like this, either. I wish this wasn't the direction things are moving. But it is.

I'm not as pessimistic as you are about the future of computing, because I think there will always be a demand for general purpose computers — and therefore there will always be a bunch of companies selling them. So I doubt that we won't be able to get them, or that they will sell for crazy premiums — if they did, somebody would make them and sell them for less.

What I do think though is that the "general-purpose, arbitrarily capable" computer device segment is a small sliver of what it seemed like it was back in the old days when most computers were unrestricted.

I think 95% (or more) of the total "computing devices, including both general-purpose and locked-down appliances" market is happy with shitty locked-down devices, maybe even with ads and invidious tracking.

That's just the way it is. And it would be very hard to change that, because you'd have to change the people who are the market for these devices, and make them care that Apple doesn't allow software lets you see porn, or compile code, or learn about civilian casualties of US drone strikes, or any other thing that they don't want to let you do.

I don't see that happening.

So I think we are indeed headed for a world where the vast majority of computing devices are arbitrarily restricted, less-capable appliance-type devices like Apple's iPad.

That sucks for those of us who want unrestricted devices, because it means we become part of a niche market, one that isn't so interesting to the big multinational corporations like Apple with their huge budgets and economies of scale. So we can get an unrestricted, general purpose table computer, for example — but the hardware probably won't be as nice as an iPad, and the OS might have more rough edges.

It would be way better, for us, if computers really were inherently open by default, or if a most people cared about this stuff. But that's just my fantasy scenario (and apparently yours), not the world as it actually is.
Ahem, late Berliner checking in...

While I am not a freelancer, I happen to work with one (he's mostly doing Django for my startup). He's originally from London, happy to connect you if you'd like to get first hand experience.

You can find contact details on my profile page.
I mean people on here, who are supposed to be technically minded. I'm not really sure what hassle you're talking about, but I was very specific in talking about people who proudly claim to have failed, here.

My mother? Like most people, she might have trouble, but she probably doesn't even know what an OS is. A hacker news poster in 2017 should know better.
Many European cultures consider the inauthentic cheerfulness that is expected as part of emotional labor in Anglophone societies distasteful (I have been living in North America for many years, and still find it distasteful), and workers in those cultures rightly recognize these demands for emotional labor as being harmful to their mental health (see for example Hochschild's seminal The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling).
I'm not sure how this holds up to the promise of "Sell outside the app store and pocket that extra 30%."

If you're selling iOS apps, you have no choice but the app store. You could try giving the app away for free on the iOS App Store and shunting people to a website to purchase the license after a certain amount of time, but I'm certain that breaks Apple's rules. Same goes for the Mac App Store.

You'd get shut down pretty quickly if you ever managed to squeak through the approval process.

Based on the code examples provided on the website, I don't see any of the most popular languages use for apps that go in an "app store" of any kind (Obj-C, Swift, Java)

I'm sure intent is not to be misleading, but I don't see how this can recoup a 30% app store take. Could you explain that in more detail, since you are replying in this thread?
The tl;dr of it is that large amounts of saturated fat may not be exactly good for you, but the dangers were grossly over exaggerated. You should probably still eat mostly vegetables, but you can put some butter and lard on things and not feel guilty.
I don't see how blaming refugees is helpful.
I agree. I have an allergy to highly edited podcasts. I got into podcasts to here unfiltered conversations that you wouldn't see on TV or here on radio.
I'm a dane and I never owned a car while I lived in Denmark. HOWEVER, there is a tendency to forget that not everyone lives in high density cities (where public transport is decent). In more suburban area, public transport is hopeless. You _have_ to have a car. Thus people drive, but they drive old cars. The 180% tax doesn't hurt people equally.
My hypothesis is that fashion has taken a backseat to the numerous other (mainly digital) ways people use to express their individuality. If you're interested in fashion or trends, I always recommend looking at middle and high schoolers--they seem to care more than just about anyone else.

As a child of the 90s, I remember 8th grade being all about fashion: baggy pants/shorts, high white socks, "stuffed" skate shoes, low hanging backpacks with band patches, etc. Our appearance was the primary means by which we performed identity and grouped ourselves and each other into cliques.

However, as the popularity of the internet rose, we were given a new means by which to express ourselves: AIM screen names and profile content, Xanga and LiveJournal custom styles and angsty post, etc. But, even in the 90s, our digital avatars were still small, manageable, and mostly disconnected from our REAL, in-the-flesh, identities--there was a degree of anonymity, particularly for those who wanted it.

At some point, with the rise of MySpace, Gmail, Facebook, Tumblr, and (more recently) Instagram and Snapchat, and the proliferation of smart phones, the barrier between people's real identity and digital identity disappeared. With less anonymity comes MUCH more anxiety. Ridicule for faux pas now are infinitely reproducible, potentially permanent, and move at the speed of light. I imagine if you talked to middle school students today, they'd be much less concerned with the fashion of their peers than the contents of their social media profiles--this seems to be semi-supported by this article[1]:

"In my dozens of conversations with teens, parents, clinicians and school counselors across the country, there was a pervasive sense that being a teenager today is a draining full-time job that includes doing schoolwork, managing a social-media identity and fretting about career, climate change, sexism, racism–you name it. Every fight or slight is documented online for hours or days after the incident. It’s exhausting.

...

It’s hard for many adults to understand how much of teenagers’ emotional life is lived within the small screens on their phones, but a CNN special report in 2015 conducted with researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Texas at Dallas examined the social-media use of more than 200 13-year-olds. Their analysis found that 'there is no firm line between their real and online worlds,' according to the researchers."

[1] http://time.com/magazine/us/4547305/november-7th-2016-vol-18...
I didn't know about draw.io's license - that is great. I have been enjoying yEd but also looking for other diagramming software since rotating text is difficult in yEd, and it's not free software [2].

[1] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

[2] http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/515/why-not-an-open-source-...
Tech slump may be the result of market structure
I've always heard the queue joke about the Germans.
This seems to be the way to go for testing.

I've wanted to use it for my current React-Native project. I found a JS implementation AND a babel plugin that creates the tests from flow-types.

The question for me here is, how long does this take compared to regular testing? I read people complained about AVA because of bad test performance (it does many parallel tests).

Also, where to put it in the chain?

Should I put it pre-push, pre-build, somewhere in the CI?
I think this sort of abstraction risks making some things awkward and will cater to the lowest common denominator. Better to just be explicit and have a config for each provider.
And you absolutely don't have the right to threaten me with violence and harm with the aim of blocking me from inviting my non-citizen friend from staying at my house, in my property -- which is the despicable (and immoral) unquestioned status quo of today. Simply because you belong to a majority (or minority) of the citizens of my country, does not give you the right to dictate who I can hire, who I can invite into my home, etc.

For libertarian arguments underpinning this fundamentally moral and human rights issue, see https://openborders.info/
The only concern here is that they likely have a partnership, legally, and each partner owes a fiduciary duty to the other. He can walk, for sure, but my guess is the co-founder will claim he was frozen out and, if OP is successful, will sue for breach of fiduciary duty (and other things).
There was enough said about taxes.

The procedures to open a startup in Germany are complex. This is the cheapest way:
Go to the notary and create a "UG" after "Musterprotokoll". Create a company bank account, transfer the minimum amount of 1€ (plus the costs for founding, so you better transfer ~500€). This the fastest way and costs you together with an entry the commercial register (150€) around 500€ (300€ for the notary, depending on how many founders). This is followed up by stuff like "Körperschafts Anmeldung @Finanzamt", "Gewerbeamtanmeldung" (25€) and "IHK Gebühren" (80€/yr) and "VBG Anmeldung" (costs vary by the amount of employed persons). Don't forget the contract for the CEO as employed person.

As already told by others: You need to have a native speaker on your side to deal with the bureaucracy. Is this a startup friendly environment? Does it sound like? Hell no.

On the other hand: You can live in Berlin really cheap if you want to. Infrastructure is great and you don't need a car. There are a lot of meetups and startup events to get around people like yourself. Programmers aren't payed that well. Fundraising is a matter of network and traction like, i'd say, everywhere else.
To me these terms simply sound like how a biologist would talk about animals. But it seems they are indeed gaining traction among feminists for reasons I haven't cracked yet.
Can Selling Saved Seats Save Movie Theaters?
Maybe ETH can hard-fork again to invalidate those transactions.

But more seriously, clearly too early to tell what's happening here. Regardless, if people had their ETH in a closed-source wallet application at all, it's unsurprising that this would happen to it.
If you like this topic, check out this mini-series 'The Time in Between', where a seamstress uses sewing for espionage purposes during WWII
Ask HN: Are Quip documents encrypted on the servers where they are stored?
Do they use the equivalent of end-to-end encryption?
The other one to watch out for is the 53-bit javascript integer limit. That caused the twitpocalypse when Twitter tweet IDs hit it. They had to switch to strings in the JSON representation.
I'm actually considering to move to Brisbane to bootstrap my startup. Which area you live in and who's your provider?
Clearly you need to create an entity and assign your IP to it. But the question is what his role will be, if any, or if he will get an equity in this new entity.

Is there ANYTHING of value he contributed? If so, would you be willing to give him a small equity stake in the new entity for him to walk away? That's the cleanest thing to do.
I've been writing CSS for years, everyday, don't remember the last problem I've had with Safari or any other modern browser, as a matter of fact.

I do get an ocasional glitch with Firefox, but it's very rare.

Perhaps if you described the problems you experienced instead of the hacks you are using to identify Safari this could be a more fruitful conversation.

Safari is a freaking amazing browser, lots of people use it by choice.

>I'd rather support IE8 for eternity…

I don't think you know what you're saying.
Do you have to pay someone to regularly come check on it or is it a one time thing?
Would this be a good target for deep learning? It's low level in some sense, but still nicely parametric. It strikes me that this could be a good synth for some neural nets to learn how to play.
And I wanna hoverboard.
Could Phubbing Be Secretly Ruining Your Relationship?
The Arch wiki is fantastic. I've not heard an explanation as to why it is so much better than Ubuntu/Redhat. A community of tinkerers? Lack of hegemonic domination from Redhat/Canonical?
Yep, it would just point to the wrong tweet. Fun stuff. So many of these time bombs.
The easiest way to find the right person is to call and ask. Even better if you can find out who his/her boss is and then mention to your target that so-and-so told me I should contact you about a position.....see what I did there :-)
Isn't Cloudformation limited to 100 items?

That's not even enough for our Network ACLs.

How do you work around that?
Definitely 100. And every little thing is a resource.
> I feel like there should be a standardised way to ensure users are students/affiliated with an educational institution

There's ISIC (International Student Identity Card) [1], but I don't imagine it's used widely.

[1] https://www.myisic.com/isic-card/
cosmicdigest@gmail.com

thanks a lot!
This comment is a bit concerning considering what's going on in the housing markets of Vancouver, Seattle, Toronto, and the Bay Area.

Not sure what to tell you, other than I look forward to reflecting on these comments sometime in the next 2-3 years.
On a 32-bit system, a "long" is usually also 32 bits. On a non-Microsoft 64-bit system, a "long" is usually 64 bits. On both 32-bit and 64-bit systems (Microsoft or not), an "int" is usually 32 bits.

If the issue happened only on 32-bit iPads, but not on 64-bit iPads, the programmer probably picked a "long", not an "int". Had the programmer picked an "int", the problem would also happen on 64-bit iPads.
The Drunkard’s Walk Explained
Putting in my two cents as a German living in Berlin: it's a cultural thing.

There is even a German word for it (of course, right?): Servicewüste (= service desert, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servicew%C3%BCste)

There is no cultural norm to strive to appear happy and friendly at all times and there are simply people who don't care to hide their grumpiness. Whether that would classify as a "bad" experience is in the eye of the beholder I guess. I mostly have a chuckle over a grumpy counterpart.

When language barriers come into play I've seen examples of both sides: people getting colleagues to help out, being supportive and friendly to solve the issues at hand and others who didn't try to hide their frustration or make an effort.

Given the amount of English speaking people in the city won't decrease for the foreseeable future, there isn't much of a problem you can't solve even as a non-German speaker I'd say.
"Kosher" is no longer a set of objective standards. That ended when two Jewish groups fought it out in court over New York State's kosher inspection law in 1991. They were arguing over which rabbi got to declare that something was kosher.[1] A Federal judge ruled that government can't take a position on that issue, because it's an establishment of religion to do so. So New York State got out of the kosher-inspection business.

There are many kosher inspection groups in the US, especially in Brooklyn, NY, which has at least sixteen.[2]. There's a whole "more kosher than you" thing going there. In Israel, where the government is heavily involved, it's used as a competitive weapon to stop some imports.[3]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/04/nyregion/judge-voids-law-c...
[2] http://www.crcweb.org/agency_list.php
[3] http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-how-food-importers-use-ra...
You're planning on studying German for half a year for 15-30 mins a day and becoming fluent? That sounds really ambitious.

If you've pulled off a similar feat in the past, do you have any language learning tips?
It's interesting that some cultures equate low GINI with fairness, while others equate fewer barriers to success with fairness. In this case, yes, per capita the countries you mentioned take better care of their poor.

On the other hand, what is the link between a high salary and an immigrant being deported? Between higher rates of homelessness? Between higher rates of incarceration?

The reason why I ask is because the tax burden of a software engineer in California is equivalent to one in Vancouver. Deportations and incarceration are contrary to tax savings. Fewer community and welfare services, leading to homelessness, are linked to tax expenditures, but the U.S. historically has large population groups that have practically always suffered poverty.

Anyway, I agree that the U.S. can do better, but see almost no causal link between high salaries for one profession and the problems you mentioned (except maybe a higher corporate tax to eat the delta of the higher added value per employee). Hmm. Canada has a 15% corporate tax rate, lower than the U.S.
SLES was great until their parent company (Novell) went bankrupt, so much smoother than RH. Great driver support and high end system integration (HA, big NFS). But there were always packaging difficulties because there was a huge delay between releases. Just never had enough engineers to keep up with other systems.