skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related is an experiment I've been doing with my child, where the only media I've introduced to them (since birth) is in a language other than English (we live in the US). Usually this is Swedish or German, which are the languages I know best besides English, but sometimes Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean etc. etc.

What I've found is that they have a play/babble language of their own that sounds like a mix of mostly Swedish and German. We talk together in this language at times, too. Sometimes they even have asked me what the English word for an idea/thing they've learned or experienced in German or Swedish. Another time they asked me what "zum Beispiel and till Eksempel" mean! which amazed me because they obviously connected that they both mean the same thing ("for example").

In real life (i.e. not at home watching movies) they can hold conversations with Germans and Swedes, too.

At this point they're not truly bilingual, but it's been really fun and interesting to see how much they have learned, and makes available for them in the future, as with deeper study and practice they could be truly multilingual.
Assuming you're dualbooting Linux and a Windows version: Linux keeps the RTC in UTC by default while Windows expects localtime and can't handle the conversion from UTC transparently if required. Configure Linux to use localtime as well to avoid surprise as that's easier than the other way round.
I guess that's no suprise? Downtime with every single event som far, so why should this one be anything different?

WiFi is a thing and should he able to handle it just fine. Heck, they could even block anything but PGO and get away with low bandwidth too.

When voulenteers can manage to get WiFi working for thousands of nerds at indoor LANs... Let's just say that Niantic should be able to avoid this with a little bit of planning.

This is the company running one of the most unstable and buggy games I have ever played, so I would expect no less. At least the game is very fun for a lot of people... When it works.
To me, it's the ability to put my current "focus window" exactly center what makes the curved screens so attractive, with the 32-38" size range always feeling just about right to me. My neck starts aching if I have two screens, making me end up using one as the focus screen and the other as support. While three 27"s in a row seem slightly excessive "screen wall" to me, but some like that...
I was not aware of the tarsnap issue, but for anyone else wondering, I think it's this: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-...
Roll your own secure dropbox alternative
True. People from Switzerland or Luxembourg often speak 3 or more languages fluently. A lot of other people in Europe speak their native language and a bit of English as well.

I don't feel Americans appreciate the luxury of speaking a language that is basically the lingua franca of the Western world.

Also, sometimes I feel that many people don't realize that there is a wealth of information that is in Latin, Greek, Russian, or Mandarin. What's not English doesn't exist for them. In this way, the world is still divided in some sense.
Yep! Orthography is hugely political for Central Asian languages, so I am really disappointed that this article would make such a glaring mistake, among others. It does not seem very well researched.
I tracked RealBasic for a few years before the rebranding. It's nice, and if I were developing desktop apps professionally I'd probably buy it - but for my kids to try out, it's a little expensive :)

But yeah, it delivers.
>Require non-free or proprietary drivers?

You bet I do, and thanks. I might start using that version instead of official debian + arcane ritual of copying stuff to lib/firmware during installation.
Ask HN: What branch of study is most closely related to job creation?
So Macroeconomics has a field of study on job destruction, but not on job creation as far as I know.

There are a lot of things to think about job creation, for instance value creation, marginal efficiency, etc, etc - but these are usually in the purview of individual businesses.

So, what is the state of knowledge on job creation?
The second falls victim to fly-by-night contracting companies that are created for a specific project and then disappear in a puff of smoke once it is done and their check clears. The liability approach fails constantly because the vendor is able to easily shield themselves from the liability and then the public is left holding the bag. If the public is going to end up being the only available deep pockets for such torts then it has the responsibility to make sure that the project is built to a sufficient standard to not endanger the public and to meet the specified goals.
I found the following interesting.

Using a curtain capacitors combo might initiate a DoS attack on the reader which will prevent legitimate tags from being read correctly after placing it against a reader only once. A hard reset to the reader will be required to resume work. Just FYI.

Seems like a cute way to create a diversionary scene or frustrate physical security personnel in physical pen testing.
I specifically said "fatal flaws going forward". Nobody cares if your magic cards trading platform is not very economically sound.
"just encrypt the sdcard" is what it does, not how it gets on the device. The github repo only contains the payload, not the delivery method.

Anyway, the article answers my question - "This ransomware disguises itself as game guides, video players, and so on in order to lure users into installing it.".
Umm, I know how compilers work.

C is compiled to still compiles to assembly, but usually (GCC) your compiler driver handles assembling, linking etc.

Haskell is translated to core (basically a simplification of a small subset of Haskell), then the STG(The abstract machine, spinless-tagless-Gmachine) then Cmm (Basically unsafe C) then LLVM.
Mmmm... geometry. Resonance.

So you take this known and documented knowledge of lipid mechanics[0], and apply that to geometry of pathogens.

Very much like electroporation[1] but, with magnetic fields and RF instead of direct application of voltage. but try and research: "Mortal Oscillatory Rate" or "Raymond Rife" and be inundated with disinformation and BS.

Resonance is not a new or strange concept, by any means, we have no shortage of study around these ideas, take nuclear magnetic resonance[2] for example. That's an example on a very low level, then we can see this with electroporation and ultrasonification techniques at a much higher level.

It's very frustrating, however, as soon as it's applied in a field that is deemed derogatory to the pharmaceutical industry, suddenly it's woo and nonsense, apparently. We have documented evidence of these phenomenon at many levels, and the high and low level effects are pretty well understood, but as soon as it's applied in the middle somewhere, to actual pathogens, then, it's suddenly quackery, apparently.

Meanwhile, at least we do have some research being done on these things and it's VERY promising:

Targeted treatment of cancer with radiofrequency electromagnetic fields amplitude-modulated at tumor-specific frequencies[3]

Destruction of bacterial spores by phenomenally high efficiency non-contact ultrasonic transducers[4]

System for Cleansing Organisms from Water[5]

I think most of the claims of quackery are just a knee-jerk reaction and it leads to throwing the baby out with the bath water; just because some asshats have made fake devices to exploit vulnerable people doesn't mean the technology they claimed to use is fake or nonsense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid_bilayer_mechanics

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreversible_electroporation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Magnetic_Resonance

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3845545/

[4] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10019-002-0214-2

[5] https://www.google.com/patents/US20140202961
They have this figured out in Austin for huge events such as ACL. Temporary towers erected in the correct locations can easily handle the extra load with proper planning. I went two years ago and had absolutely no issue with LTE or service
Thanks, but I was more interested in drag and drop GUI programming.
What you describe is the moment someone would usually go from PITA to Ninja! From programming sequential to async using functions. The WTF code:

for(var i=0; i < textures.length; i++) {
textures[i].onload = function (i) {
pattern[i] = ctx.createPattern(textures[i], 'repeat');
}
}

The enlightenment:

for(var i=0; i < textures.length; i++) {
createPattern(i);
}

function createPattern(i) {
textures[i].onload = function() {
pattern[i] = ctx.createPattern(textures[i], 'repeat');
}
}

In JavaScript you can now however replace var with let and it will be block scoped and the WTF code will work. It's sad though as people learning JavaScript now will not get the beauty of it and will be stuck in callback hell. Function scope in JavaScript pushes you in the right direction. It's like instead of teaching people how to fly, we give them roads so they can walk, like they are used to.
Have you been extremely annoyed by software that detects a 4k resolution and scales everything to HUGE? I had trouble with this when I got my 40"/4k, and in the end did unspeakable things to the registry to force Windows to always scale 1:1.
The area is cracked enough you would never be able to fill the whole seam.
One thing I would advise to those starting out from a completely untrained state, is take it slow, your muscles get stronger much faster than your tendons. And tendons also heal much slower than muscles, and if you screw them up bad, they may not actually recover at all on their own. Be aware that the quick initial progress will slow down. Take it slow and steady from there on out. Let your body deal with the load on its own timeline.
> George W. Bush even called the War on Terror a "new Crusade,"

perhaps ironically for your argument, he's also the guy who started the 'religion of peace' comedy (iirc anyways).

> How does it legitimize religiosity and violence to point out that both Christianity and Islam have a violent fringe

it's not about 'have a violent fringe'. your words convey 'there are no functional differences'. islam has a 'violent fringe' in the way the revolutionary proletariats or nazi brownshirts had a 'violent fringe'. the violence is rationalized through ideological structures.

when your dialectic is unable to articulate or recognize the extant ideological structures that rationalize, justify and endorse violence, the discussion must then pursue things outside of religion if it pretends to explain anything.

this supports the postmodernist and terrorist sympathizer claims that every dead westerner brought it upon themselves for being evil westerners.

this dialetic is further endorsed and mirrored by islamists (and other religionists) who fold this into a dialectic where religion is good by definitional fiat.

their religion doesn't influence violence because religion is good by definition. any suggestion otherwise becomes a category error.

but hey. maybe you're right. perhaps western civilization is functionally the same as isis, and we shouldn't judge misunderstood islamists.

their violence has no religious basis (religion is good!), it's just them defending themselves from our evil ways by decapitating children while screaming (purely coincidentally, no correlation) 'allahu akhbar'.
IIRC OpenBazaar still has paid escrow- it's just cheaper than eBay's fees.
I've read the article and that's one more argument for me that IPO is a very toxic thing sometimes.
mass marketing strategy/creating a commodity is a very hard longplay game. the prize is a huge stake of the market, but it's very challenging to get there.

now assume you have your revenue and then you get two customers that are going to pay you 25% of your current revenue (20% of the revenue after they start working with you). if you're private you just stick to your strategy and count these two clients as some random money (as they don't fit your main strategy). being public, now, if you lose these customers - you're at risk, the market forces you to make decisions, to keep these customers, to go to the enterprise market, hire sales people etc.

"In Twilio’s earliest days, multiple angel investors and VCs told Twilio’s founders that focusing on software developers would never lead to a venture-scale business. To make their case, Twilio’s skeptics pointed out that software developers have no control over budgets in the enterprise.

But Lawson, Cooke, and Wolthius were undeterred. They believed deeply that software developers held the keys to the future…and not just of telecom, but perhaps the whole world."

well now, being public you can't just do this.

imagine Amazon listening to advise to use retail-chains (system integrators in Twilio case), or should Amazon do really care about revenue coming from one specific customer (even if it's huge)?

it's really hard to keep doing what you believe you need to do when you're under pressure of the public market. I absolutely understand why do such companies go public, but that makes me sad.
How do networks manage to have sufficient backbone for those mobile towers?

What good are those towers if thousand people can connect but cannot use any internet because their backbone cable is so slow. I once was at a festival in Germany where they had such measures but lacked backbones (I had full signal strength in a remote array but the internet was unusable slow).

Not every town has fiber optic to support such a surge of people.
Right now it's with ShapeShift, but down the road you could use cross-chain swaps to accomplish something similar
Air squats and kettle bells won't really prepare you for low back squat, as they do not develop tight upper back. Squat with an empty bar instead.
did you know the 'allies' hyped up nazi criminals as a way of demonizing all of them based on the actions of a few?
Yes. It's a parent's responsibility to teach their kids about the risks of drugs.

It's not everyone-else-in-the-world's responsibility to avoid building marketplaces where anyone can transact freely with anyone else.
Or use Nextcloud.

HTTPS://Nextcloud.com
There's no welfare program like that. You cant work a seasonal job and live off welfare the rest of the year.. you're going to be homeless.
I have a completely different way of mitigating schedule risk: find the most difficult, unpredictable subproblem and do that first. I guess it's not quite fair to say that I've never seen a manager pick up on this idea, but it still doesn't seem to have become their first-choice strategy.
Chris Lamb, the current Debian Project Leader, has said that it will not be in stretch but could potentially be available in stretch-backports:

> If someone puts in the work, sure :) There isn't a "they" in Debian... it's, well, volunteers doing the actual grunt work if they feel it's needed..

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/5a0gcf/will_python_...

With that said, I've personally packaged a simple backport of Python 3.6 (currently 3.6.2) for Debian stretch. There are pre-built Debian packages available in the releases tab, and a one-liner in the README for how to build them yourself: https://github.com/chriskuehl/python3.6-debian-stretch

You can install these alongside the regular python3.5 installation (it doesn't replace it).
Why even ask such question? Debian stable has been extremely predictable in this regard. No, the major version in stable is not going to change.

You do have other options, though - run testing (python3.6 is there right now) or a mixed stable/testing system.
Note: I should mention that, like it happens on many sites, the links sometimes do not work, or are broken. Caveat lector.
How would you go about doing that? I get the feeling that it's just one change in an obscure config file
Honest answer:

> How do you guys manage large backlogs?

Try not to.

If PMs insist on logging ideas or keeping rejected projects i have a backlog board where ideas can have several stages. They can go from "spark of an idea" to "concrete details" there. In reality they go there to die

> Tiny bugs or nuances with low priority.

If they come from customers have a customer care person aggregate them and present a summary weekly or two weekly. Don't look at single events unless they seem important.

> …that just accumulate and are a pain to review again because you are not even sure they are still reproducable.

If they can't be reproduce remove it.

Important stuff will pop up by itself.
Agreed. I bought a Samsung (UN40JU6700) 4k60p curved monitor for ~$800 and it works reasonably well. There are some quirks using a TV as a monitor and I was a little nervous about the screen quality, but it's worked well so far. Also, it's a TV.

edit: I especially like that the DPI is the same as a 27" 2560x1440 monitor.
Your comment is silly. Accusing someone of being a "nutcase" is not constructive, nor is a comment about becoming a Borg.

Yes, at the moment it's not plausible to upgrade one's arm. In the future it will become plausible, though, and the upgrade will at some point be much better than what you can do at a gym. In fact, you can only get a stronger arm at the gym (or an arm with more endurance), but a bionic arm can be much better.
There are plenty of people behind the figureheads who just have an MBA and somehow got a job there.
Both of those things will be so helpful to me! I can't get a cable up to my office so I always have to try and dance around finding the firmware for my wireless card. It's kind of enraging and I can't never quite remember what I did the last time
Running MongoDB on Kubernetes with StatefulSets
Glad to see this comment here. There seems to be a lot of other people on HN who really like to make fun of economics.
That's a wispy rhetorical straw you're grasping now, but I won't deny it is a real straw. Fair enough.

The phrase "limiting flaw" would be less confusing.
CityMapper launches CM2- Night Rider, our first ££ commercial bus route
A Reddit user claims he has downloaded all 900TB of SoundCloud's public music
(Replying here for visibility.) In a different comment branch you mentioned counterfactuals. I've watched a video lecture about counterfactuals in graphical models by Pearl, but I'm not exactly seeing the significance as a "missing piece" in AI. Would you mind explaining a bit what you exactly mean?

Do counterfactuals have something to do with learning from negative examples and simulations? For example, if one shoots a ball and misses the goal to the right, one does not 'mindlessly' penalize the circuits that led to the exact motor decisions that were involved, but instead, one simulates alternative actions and uses e.g. (in this case linear) relationships between e.g. the angle of the foot or the wind speed and the shooting direction. The next time, one hence tries to aim slightly to the left.

Or are you referring to a much more fundamental level and my example might rather be a learning strategy that is more likely acquired by trial & error, reinforcement learning, meta learning ("learning how to learn") and/or via the shared concept space of language and culture?

Is it maybe related to e.g. prototype-based associative recall and a counterfactual is basically an alternative way of interpreting the data? "What error signal would I get, if I had interpreted X as Y?"

Or does it come from the Bayesian approach where you marginalize out all hypotheses, including the factual one that corresponds to the state of the world, but also all counterfactual hypotheses. So, including counterfactuals means going beyond the maximum likelihood point estimate e.g. by communicating confidence intervals or even entire distributions from neurons to neurons or neuron populations to other neuron populations?
As opposed to forcing citizens to pay for social security(old folks insurance), Medicare, etc.?

If you don't believe that you should be forced to pay for insurance, do you believe that the government should force hospital emergency rooms to care for anyone who comes in regardless of ability to pay?
Starting at 50 users for 1900€/year...
>20k is actually not that many people as far as these things go

20k people in close proximity uploading and downloading constantly without breaks? What specific event is that comparable to? Music festivals don't have all attendees constantly using their data network.
We are using Kanban with the help of JIRA. Took it a while to set it up, but the switch from OpenProject & Sprints was totally worth it.

1. How do we know what each other is working on?

All of us (~15 people, 5 of which remote) participate in the daily at 10 o'clock. The daily takes around 15 min and it is focused on the stories and every one has a good overview on what is everyone doing. Other meetings are usually organized in the daily. Typically like

A) "I have this and that problem with X, I would like to talk with B)"

B) "Okay, let's talk after the daily."

C) "I have also interest in this"

Every day the daily is lead by another person. At the end of daily we ask questions regarding if everyone has enough/to much to do, knows what to do and so on.

2. How do we know what is currently deployed to production and staging?

Version numbers ;) And Bamboo deployments.

3. Larger Goals

Big releases every few months with planning directly after each release.
"Both" of these problems? The problem is dealing in human beings, right? What's the other problem?

Am I proposing that the tools to solve human trafficking go away? I wouldn't put it that way. Lots of societal progress comes with trade-offs. There will certainly be challenges for law enforcement but I'm confident they'll solve them.

The world isn't going to descend into a chaotic state of everyone buying and selling everyone else just because free-trade becomes ubiquitous.
I chuckled a bit!

It is probable that the Odyssey is some kind of navigational diary. In ancient times, ships could only sail the Mediterranean clockwise, alas westward. So it might've made sense he traveled westward.
Don't large lans use.. LAN ? (Ethernet). I could be wrong, but as many desktops still don't have wifi and you know where people are and it's so much more stable large scale.. it would make sense
HP Elite Slice
1. JIRA <------ This is what you are looking for..
2. Testrail <3 QA + JIRA
3. Confluence <3 JIRA
4. OneNote [Mac's Desktop App > Window's :( ]
5. Slack + Git + JIRA + Screen Sharing + Emojis - Video Calls
6. SourceTree [Use when no one is looking]
7. MySQL Workbench Crashes When Mad | Hard to let go
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Write some damn scripts and automate it already!
> Your comment is silly. Accusing someone of being a "nutcase" is not constructive, nor is a comment about becoming a Borg.

Your comment is stronger without this.
Lightning's network topology is still up in the air. Saying "routing is well studied" is well and good, but from what I've read doing it with payment channels without devolving to hub and spoke isn't trivial.
Be well networked. With the understanding that your network isn't the list of people you know, but rather the list of people you've made at least $10M for.
how many people are live streaming a concert at a given moment? maybe 5-10 on periscope, in addition to maybe 2x that number on facebook. definitely not 15k.
Nice list.

BTW the current models often fail practically at #3 getting a repair would often be easier, instead of a long road to recovery ;)
11. Worldwide standardization, lots of repair shops available with the right tools available.

12. Comes in many different shades of skin color, individualized just right for your body.

13. Full compatibility with other body parts, e.g.immune system lung heart
Not quite. ISO 216 paper sizes are designed so that if you split them in half you get the same ratio (1:sqrt(2), or 1:1.414). The golden section is so that if you take a square out from one side, you get the same ratio (1:1.618).