skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I wonder if there's a disparity between Duolingo's en->french versus en->spanish. Both my mother and I are on the Spanish track. I don't know how far along my mother is, but I'm only about 25-30% of the way through the lessons (still on present tense). And I'm nowhere near dedicated to practicing everyday. Maybe once every few days for 2-3 hours.

However, I can atest that Duolingo provided me with a quantum leap in understanding, writing, and speaking, that all my years in grade 1-12 Spanish classes never did.

I'll definitely agree that Duolingo isn't the end-all-be-all, you'd do best to supplement.

But my girlfriend is a native bilingual speaker (Spanish and English); my barber only speaks Spanish; and I'm able to converse with them to the point where they understand what I'm saying, and sometimes provide feedback on how I can improve.

I'll give a quick example, when saying "cada" (every) my girlfriend wasn't able to completely understand what I was saying because I wasn't putting enough emphasis on the 'd' so to her native ear it was too close to sounding like "cara" (face). I've since improved that.

Nonetheless I understand far more than I speak. I can listen to Spanish speakers and intuit the gist of what they're saying even when they use tenses I'm not familiar with yet. Mainly because I have a grasp on pronouns, determiners, adjectives, etc. A lot of the things Duolingo helped me with.

Back to the supplementation. You need to supplement.

My mother and I have started reading middle-school level books in Spanish, we always keep a Spanish-to-English dictionary close by (eventually we'll move to a full Spanish dictionary), we watch children shows in Spanish, and we've signed up for a class at our local library where you spend half your time helping a Spanish speaker that's learning English and vice versa.

What we've found, especially with the books, is that you begin to grasp things more contextually. It's hard to explain. But you rely less on direct translation back to English, and finally are able to just say "this makes sense in Spanish, I get it." You also run into how words and grammar are used in the real-world. Same with texting a native Spanish speaker, you'll pickup slang/informal speaking that much quicker.

Like you, I can't watch a news channel with full understanding right now. My brain is able to pick apart the words and understand the gist, but it gets lost in the details, and then by then the anchor has moved on. It's frustrating, yes, but you just have to keep doing it. You may have to rewind... you may have to pronounce what they're saying over and over again until it feels natural... you may have to look some things up, and that's all apart of learning.

The more you deliberately exercise at your limits, the quicker you'll develop your capacity.
Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLHRjaUBb3o
1 Key Software that can help you hack every one – Video Explanation:
Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept
I'm not talking about effectiveness. I also think it's more effective to attack PoW than PoS, but my point is there may be cases where the attacker's top priority is not effectiveness.

Traceability is one such example, but there can be many other cases. Proof of work is pretty straight forward because the vulnerabilities are mostly technical issues, whereas proof of stake I think can have a lot of social vulnerabilities.

I bring this up because I feel like every discussion about blockchain security seems to mention "effectiveness" but the world is not perfect and there are plenty of cases where certain parties act in unintuitive manners.
I used a iPhone 5 for 3+ years and I found that every OS update performed worse and worse. I found that frustrating. So I'm not sure it checks the box of "lighter, snappier".

I now upgraded to a refurbished SE and it's really nice so far.
I don't feel much while in the zone but I sure get irritable when someone disrupts it.
If you're in the EU, it's worth checking consumer laws. Valve and Sony and others have been allowed to ignore local laws too much until now.
Zidisha (YC NP) is looking for a Volunteer Coordinator (remote, volunteer)
I probably shouldn't have worded it that loosely. What I meant was "with Javascript as a host language".

https://github.com/qmlweb/qmlweb/releases lists the first release as 2016, and the first blog post that mentions an experimental version of it is from 2013. Unless this is ignoring any prior art, this is far more recent than 2008.
The idea of system wide "document database" is really intriguing. I think the author identified a real pattern that could be addressed by such a change:

> In fact, many common applications are just text editors combined with data queries. Consider iTunes, Address Book, Calendar, Alarms, Messaging, Evernote, Todo list, Bookmarks, Browser History, Password Database, and Photo manager. All of these are backed by their own unique datastore. Such wasted effort, and a block to interoperability.

The ability to operate on my browser history or emails as a table would be awesome! And this solves so many issues about losing weird files when trying to back up.

However, I would worry a lot about schema design. Surely most apps would want custom fields in addition to whatever the OS designer decided constitutes an "email". This would throw interoperability out the window, and keeping it fast becomes a non-trivial DB design problem.

Anyone have more insights on the BeOS database or other attempts since?

(afterthought: like a lot of ideas in this post, this could be implemented in userspace on top of an existing OS)
Does sound interesting tho, just extrapolating but light/photons do contain energy and hence may just be able to initiate such an action. May depend on the type of display being used .
Why not get your exercising out of the way early in the day?
Type soundness is one of the main attraction points to using a language like Standard ML, so, for an MLer, if versioning support requires sacrificing type soundness, then it's a no-go.
You should look at Berkshire Hathaway and evaluate your post in the context of that company. Let me do it for you.

BRK pays Buffett a relatively tiny salary ($100k, another $400k in benefits, probably NetJet flights). It doesn't pay any dividends. Every dollar of after tax profit is reinvested in new businesses. Those businesses pay many people salaries and wages and those people pay many billions in taxes every year. Because of the faster compounding of Berkshires value this policy creates, when shareholders sell shares they are able to pay substantial taxes as well.

What does society gain from taking more of those profits and consuming them, instead of allowing them to be invested in supporting more jobs and creating more economic output?

Your reference to taxing assets is evidence of how completely lost you are on this topic. If a business owner invests to buy better production equipment (assets) that will increase the productivity of their workers so they can make more things with the same amount of work, it should be taxed for this decision?

Or in the case of cash on hand, which is usually retained earnings, i.e. after tax earnings that have been retained by the company for investment purposes. You really think it should be taxed again and again just because the company has it sitting in a bank account?

Our tax system is set up to tax profits and gains for very good reasons. Your tax system would be setup to make it expensive and dumb for anyone to invest or run businesses under it. If you don't like US corporations keeping overseas profits overseas, wait till tax codes changes you like force them to just become overseas corporations.

The best tax system, for conservatives, progressives, liberals, etc, is one that defers taxation of gains and profits until they are converted into individual income. It's why our retirement plans (401ks, IRAs) don't pay tax until withdrawals. It ensures their values compound far faster and gives far more incentive for people to save.

Allowing operating profits to be reinvested tax-free would also allow our GDP to grow much faster, and that will produce more available funds for social programs and spending (important if you are a progressive) and more wealth for citizens (important if you are a conservative).
>> and a concise bit a rules on what is considered news

Translation, anything that fits with our (NBC's political agenda).
Google, the universal evil company.

(That's where you realise emojis lack a pinky finger, that could become google's logo).
Recommended related reading: Zenclavier - Extreme Keyboarding by Tom Christiansen

http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/zenclavier_129...
>No amount of control of my environment will put me in the zone when I'm working on boring code.

adderall
Hmm...where is this "majority opinion"?

So far I haven't seen a single article opposing him that didn't (have to) resort to crass misrepresentation of what he actually wrote, when it even bothered at all.

If you have to lie about your opponent, you're probably not in the right.
> I do think it's stupid to be arguing at this point that PoW cryptocurrencies -- Bitcoin at the least -- are valueless and/or a pyramid scheme.

I completely agree that BitCoin is not a pyramid scheme, but we're not talking about BitCoin. We're talking about <AltCoinX> which is being used in a similar fashion to shares with an ICO (except the token isn't worth a portion of the company, it's "worth" a portion of some product that may exist some day). Bringing up BitCoin is muddying the waters.

Claiming that a token used as part of a product (that doesn't exist yet) is like Bitcoin (and is not a pyramid scheme or at least, not vaguely some form of confidence scheme) is a bit like claiming that you can use gift coupons or poker chips as a fiat currency. That just doesn't make sense to me.
PJON could fit as the message bus the author describes
The Americans didn't colonise India. Is history education there really that poor?
That 5% is critical though and part of the reason that Office is so hard to dislodge. For that 5% of users, that feature is critical. Stack up enough features and you can be unassailable.
What puts me in the zone is the problem I am working on. Just thinking about it for a couple of minutes and I'm in.
Sailboat: An async, streaming router for React apps
His claim was that biological factors "could" explain the gap, at least in part, in that you can't rule out that possibility categorically.

I don't recall him claiming that biological factors were the more important factors, never mind the only ones.
If you assume Immelt was a great CEO and was just victim to Welch leaving GE in a very over-valued state, you'd expect the stock's performance to start off lousy and be better as Immelt's 16 year tenure went on. But that's not what we see. If you only take the last 10 or 5 years, GE has greatly underperformed both the market and similar industrial stocks.

Total return for 5 and 10 years:

GE 6.6% -1.6%
S&P 500 13.7% 7.6%
Diversified Industrials 13.0% 6.4%
Google pays a small team to maintain the language, but developing the language is very likely not a business objective in remotely the same capacity as .Net is for Microsoft or even Swift for Apple. It's not even a major headliner for Google's I/O conference. I would like to know where you're getting your information about Google not investing in Dart, because last time I checked, Google appeared to be investing considerably in Dart (this was back before the Dart vs TypeScript battle was settled though, so perhaps Google pulled up its investment).

At any rate, Go's tools don't require significant investment because they are designed for simplicity (there is no package repository, no language-agnostic/fully-imperative build scripting language or project metadata files, no bring-your-own-unit-test-framework, no docstring syntax, etc). Go tools err on the side of supporting too few use-cases, where Java, Python, .Net, C++, etc build tooling typically emphasize explicit configuration over sane defaults.
"A solution in search of a problem".

What problem of mine "piping my Skype stream to video analysis service" is supposed to solve? Why would I want to dock and undock different application parts to all places they don't belong? Etc.
Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Proud: GitHub
This is 100% real and everyone experiences it. Academics talk about it as mood congruence; it's a well studied phenomenon in psychology and some work I've done in the past has touched on it. Basically you're more likely to recall past events that match your current mood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_congruence
Yes, here's the source:

- source of that specific post in raw org [1]
- site source [2]

[1]: https://gitlab.com/kaushalmodi/kaushalmodi.gitlab.io/raw/mas...

[2]: https://gitlab.com/kaushalmodi/kaushalmodi.gitlab.io

(I wish HN supported some markup :P)
You and your "facts". ;-)
It's all about the narrative in your head, the running thoughts as you say. Thinking back to my first years progressing in system design and architecture, I would lose myself for hours in these day dreams of code and relations and practical uses; being in this interconnected mental place so often creates familiarity, this mental castle product. But yes you get lost there and face a lot of your own fears too.
They are valid points, but in his case, after a PhD and 3 decades working with people, the phrase ' basic humanity' is a lot more memorable than, '12 things that will define you: here they are'.

At some point, the knowledge is too dry unless transferred and having impact. People that want to change will look into what basic human virtues are, and more.

The rest will remain adamant no matter how appealing the approach is.

Sometimes professionals sum up things for the audience.

The more professional they are, and the less time they have, the more one hears : maybe, most likely, etc.

It's not that they don't evaluate the cases, it's the realization that a complete educative list will bore out the audience, and they will miss other, more basic, points.
I think electron is a step into the right direction.

Let's assume for a moment there weren't the problem with JavaScript performance (because, for example, web assembly can replace it).

Then electron is a platform everyone can build his applications on. And once that happens, operating systems are free to shed the library cruft.

This is just one possible migration path, and I am not saying it's going to happen or that it is even a good idea.

But if you have to write cross platform apps it seems, that this has clear advantages.
Am I reading that page right in that it (currently) contains three comments, where only one of them is somewhat substantive? I feel like I’m missing something.
Kinda.

I ran into a company selling floppy drive emulators some years ago.

Their main market were computerized looms and such. Basically an automatic loom with a desktop PC bolted to it.

We are talking 286 or even older generation CPUs and such.

What these emulators did was take some sort of input in the front (be it from floppy images stored on USB, a serial cable, or even wired or wireless networks on their newest models), and pretend to be a floppy in the back. Basically they were embedded computers that could fit in a 5.25 bay.

Similarly you will find old DOS installs running experiments in university labs the world over, because the sensors software etc only properly work when it has direct access to the serial port hardware or some such.

It is a crazy world out there once you get out of the valley.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesyste...
I got a PSTV a few years ago and was itching to play some old Metal Gear games one morning. The PSTV is advertised as being able to play Vita games, so I purchased them through the PS Store on my PSTV. The game downloaded and was ready to install and I got an error that said the game was unplayable in my region on that device. I was annoyed, but figured I would get my money back. I contacted customer service and they said games were not refundable. They allowed me to purchase and download a game on a device it was unplayable on and then refused to give me money back. I was never able to play the games I bought.

A few months ago, my account was hacked and someone charged $50 to my card. I contacted support and they told me "normally all sales are final, but they would do me a one time courtesy and refund the money since my account was indeed hacked." WOW THANKS FOR BEING SO KIND SINCE THIS WAS CLEARLY MY FAULT.

Sony no longer receives money from me.
So was it hosted on Namecheap or were they just the domain registrar?

If they were just the domain registrar I think this is a dangerous precedent. If anything, it is just going to cause people to sympathise with the Daily Stormer, which is presumably the opposite of the intended effect.

EDIT: For anyone who wants to read their site, I think this is it: (onion.casa is a Tor gateway) https://dstormer6em3i4km.onion.casa/

From having a browse around, the site appears to be basically a joke. It's pretty distasteful but I personally don't think it warrants being taken down.
I just got a craving for astronaut ice cream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-dried_ice_cream
I'm going to question the reasonably unbiased claim. In the U.S. we have PBS and NPR which are both well left of center and never call into question the size of federal government. If your fundamental political persuasion focuses on individual freedom, responsibility and limited government then state run media is considered very dangerous.
ARM Brings SoC ASIC Design to Embedded IoT Mainstream – EE Times
Huge riots: 40 guys running around knocking over trash cans. Firebombing cars: one limo got torched at one protest that one time. Antifa: some group of random protestors, or maybe those two dudes that punched Richard Spencer. IDGAF if the son of Israel's PM prefers Duke's mayonnaise, much less his opinion of the American protest landscape.
Could you post the research that implicates polyphenols in cancer? I could not find any in-vivo studies linking polyphenols to cancer in a quick search. A review article from 2017 states the opposite in fact:

"...polyphenols in particular have gained considerable attention as chemopreventive agents against different types of cancer."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28807562
You are mixing tax deferral with tax rates, there are few meaningful deductions in the US corporate tax code, it tries to match actual profits to your tax obligation. But the US tax code only taxes corporations doing business in the US.

Apple's international subsidiaries net tens of billions in profits every year, after paying substantial taxes in their home countries. Those aren't taxable in the US until they are returned to the US. Since Apple would owe over 42% in income taxes to the state of California and the US government if they moved them, they keep them in Ireland instead. Which means they can't be paid as dividends to Apple shareholders.

The day Apple repatriates those profits they'll pay the full US corporate tax rate, which is currently one of the highest corporate tax rates in the free world. Then they'll pay the remainder as dividends, which will be taxed again at the shareholder level, for a total effective tax rate on those profits of over 50%. And that tax rate is not progressive, the little old grandma with apple stock in her savings pays the same rate as a billionaire.

The fact that it's only 11% of US income tax receipts is a great argument for abolishing corporate income taxes entirely. We can replace some of it by taxing dividends and capital gains at personal income rates (as long as capital gains are indexed to inflation). But the trillions of dollars in capital trapped overseas that will return to the US will more than fill the gap. And making the US a far more attractive place to invest, increasing our productivity and GDP growth. All of that will generate even more tax revenue.

People who think the corporate tax rate is fine or that corporations should pay even more are like a medieval tax collector complaining to the king that a farmer hasn't paid enough taxes. The king says, didn't they give us a third of their corn crop this year? Yes, says the tax collector, but they've saved a huge amount of seed-corn in their barn for next years planting, we should take a third of that too!
Presumably you mean "user provided a string which was supposed to be decodable as an int, but was not"? If so, then yes, this should be handled as an input error and not as an exception (programmer error). I don't know if you meant this as a criticism of Go or not, but you should find that Go programs almost always return errors (as opposed to panicking) under such circumstances.
> Yes, at a glance, that's exactly what I had in mind.

Thrilled to hear it! If you do try it in more depth, please do drop me a line (email in my profile).

> why not support JS?

Two reasons:

1. Basically, the moment you use JS, any discipline or abstraction you were trying to introduce dissolves. People will reach in and use the DOM/combine it with other Web frameworks/what-have-you. And then you'll still need to know HTML and CSS and all these other pieces, as well as this new framework, and you've done the opposite of simplifying web development. This is the "Javascript Framework of the Week" failure mode.

2. Contrary to your assertion, "most devs" don't actually know JS. It's something people only learn because they're learning front-end web development, and it's difficult to learn it without the whole HTML/CSS/frameworks hairball. Python is much friendlier to, eg, data scientists or embedded programmers or back-end developers, who have every right to think they should be able to put together a web app without learning three new programming languages and two new frameworks.

(This is another way of putting what I said earlier about "prioritising usability for non-web devs".)
How does this new OS handle backwards compatibility?

I've always thought the next evolution of the OS was to be a hypervisor for application containers that can communicate via a common message bus.
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Yeah gnu tried and not to be too harsh failed with mach and hurd. They designed an OS according to their principles and nobody came to the party. Heck, mach uses Linux device drivers which tells you how much effort volunteers are willing to put into each project.

I don't think we'll see a change from Linux and Windows (edit: and IOS) until there's another compelling reason to switch; some feature that can't or won't be available in the other two operating systems and their surrounding ecosystems of software.

When was the last time we really had a "Visicalc sold more Apples than Apples sold Visicalc" moment? I can't think of one after Linux wafflestomped all the propietary hardware and os unix vendors, or to give Apple their due, when they released the iPhone.

Edit: duh, of course cloud taking over for bespoke hardware and software defined storage pushing out EMC and the like are two recent examples of industry game changers, but on the other hand both still rely primarily on Linux so my assertion about operating systems still stands.
The idea sounds like Matadors day job.

Everybody want to see the results, rarely who will want to actually be there.

How do you incentivise it?
>I'm having a hard time finding where it's suggested in their literature that salvation comes from sobriety?

The message is the opposite. It's sobriety comes through salvation.

1
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.

2
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
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