skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the problem I always had with tandems and some tutors as well. One of the things I like about using our system is that all the exercises are guided.

They have instructions, you can advance at any time, there is always an explicit task or situation or game to play. Sometimes the tutors read a story and then ask you questions about it, sometimes there are word games, sometimes there are situations where you're told what you need to do and you just try to role play. Always after you've at least minimally learned the vocab and grammar needed to do it.

Nowadays I will sometimes wander and just have a random conversation with a tutor, but when it's finished, I just click 'Next' and get a new thing to try. It can be a little scary at first, as any in-person meeting or class environment often is the first time, but it becomes fun and comfortable pretty fast. You really aren't expected to be interesting (as many of my tutors can attest, I rarely am :) )

The compilation video (is just from the video feeds, but I removed the actual exercises we were doing. It's entirely guided. These were just sort of random conversations that I happened to venture into as an aside from the main curriculum as I got more familiar with the tutors as a way to illustrate how my spontaneous conversational skills improved over time.
They can name the area "Panopticon Village".
I don't see it in that comment. Where? I only see "Cuddy lost her reputation rather than her head.", which is not at all similar. (I don't see it in NYT either.)
@schacon Interesting post. I agree that language-learning is more of a marathon than a sprint. As someone who speaks several languages[1], it was interesting to read about your perception of how polyglots learn languages. You picked up on some good things (flashcards and these days spaced repetition learning programs since vocab is critical, multiple different tools and books, online tutors) but you didn't mention a characteristic that most polyglots I know share[2]: an excellent foundation in the grammar of their own language, and the inclination to spend the time necessary to build a good foundation in the grammar of whatever language they are learning. I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule, but it seems to be enough of a trend that it's worth mentioning.

Some people promote the idea of learning a language "naturally" through an immersive environment. Although immersing yourself in the language is critical once you've picked up a strong foundation, I've personally known very few people who have learned a language to near-native fluency as an adult by simply jumping into a new language environment. Kids do this all the time, but the way most adults successfully learn a new language is different from the way children do it. I've watched some people waste a lot of time trying to speak to native speakers of a language they're learning without having any kind of foundation in vocabulary and grammar. They would have done well to spend at least a portion of that time picking up a basic vocab through flashcards and learning grammar fundamentals of the foreign language in question.

And although I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule, most polyglots I know are fascinated by grammar, in addition to having a strong interest in phonology and speech/accents.

So to anyone who has tried and failed to learn a foreign language as an adult and is thinking of giving it another try, I recommend picking up both a review book on the grammar of their native language, as well as a basic but complete grammar of the language they are targeting. Spend some time with these books along with Anki and the language-learning apps, and then go out and immerse yourself in another language environment, either through online language communities, or living/traveling abroad.

And one last type for new language learners: be sure to study idioms and phrases when you use Anki or whatever flashcard program, and not just simple words. Having a good stock of idioms is critical to fluent conversation.

1. At one time, fully fluent in 4 languages, now 2 are rusty but I'm picking them and another back up. I've also enjoyed an intermediate level of fluency in an additional 5-6 languages at one time or another. (I've also worked as a professional interpreter (2 years) and translator (10 years))

2. The only exceptions to this rule have been people who have learned 3-4 languages as children, but even they have a much better knowledge of grammar than most Americans I know.
Yes, I referenced the Novena multiple times in the article. I also read bunnie's book, The Hardware Hacker. While Novena is a brilliant pioneering effort, you have to spend 550$ only on the board, though. Our board is less ambitious and cheaper, though, and we target a complete DIY package including a "chassis" in the 500-600 EUR range.
Author here. A few have mentioned already, but this is to practice, to force you to understand what FP brings to the table, and lead you in path of discovery. When it comes to production code, you apply what you have learned, and make the decisions that you think more convenient. As an example, if you want certain performance gains on F# you do go to mutable state (Phil Trelford did a talk about it). Doesn't matter how pretty/OO/pure is the code if your application doesn't do what is supposed to ;-)
Liquid is just a template engine, I don't think this is what the OP meant.
It may have changed very recently I suppose, but with that caveat aside I believe you are, in fact, mistaken. The business model for the company has always been lease arbitrage. There was discussion at one point[0] of them having a related entity to purchase real estate, but I'm not sure what came from that, and even in that plan it was to be a separate investment vehicle, not the VC backed company being discussed here.

[0]https://therealdeal.com/2016/10/14/wework-wants-to-become-a-...
Decide if you wanna buy something or not. i think this can help
Yeah, of course, haha :)
The reason the government doesn't do that is talented people don't want to work for them. Virtually all the government jobs are union and pay is primarily based on time served. You'd be getting third rate talent at best.
And if a company (or set of companies) of a given industry is operating in a single industry city, they hold all the cards in that city. That is advantageous for these companies. It was in the past and it is now, even considering the push of big companies back into cities.

A lot of corporations moved out of cities and into small municipalities / smaller states in the second half of the 20th century. They were given the gold-star treatment with tax breaks, infrastructure projects to support their corporate campuses, etc. I know a town in New Jersey where Lokheed Martin employs probably more than half of the home owners in the town. Who do you think runs that town?
Hosting is a minor expense (about 3% of overall expenses) [0]. They spend nearly twice as much on "donations processing" expenses as they do on internet hosting.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/43/Wikim...
I just don't know where all this demand is for single-serving meals you cook yourself but that are priced like restaurant meals.
Well we do know they successfully hacked the Brazilian government in the interests of private oil companies? That's something isn't it?

> CSEC had been meeting with the heads of our country’s largest energy companies and debriefing them on all the secrets they’ve stolen from Brazil’s mining and energy ministries.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/5gqkwq/the-canadian-gover...
Fucking Go Slices
The article is talking about flight-speed records in the context of powered flight entirely within Earth's atmosphere. The Space Shuttle of course get's credit for being one of the fastest-ever moving objects with people on board. It was also an unpowered glider during those speed records. It's simply in a different category. And technically the Apollo 10 crew did even faster at 39,897 km/h in 1969; which is over 10K km/h faster than the Space Shuttle controlled flight record.
Any opinions or predictions for the alternative meal prep box services, like Hello Fresh etc. ?
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This article is not complete without talking about the Space Shuttle. On reentry, "speeds are near 17,500 mph and the Mach number M is nearly twenty five, M < 25."[1]

Evidently the design of aircraft that can fly above the piloted flight speed record is available, and it can be made safe enough (ok, 2 space shuttles exploded but with further development can be made safer)

I agree that it's a matter of political and economic will, and the introduction of the unpiloted drone changes the picture, but at least for the time that the space shuttle was in operation, humans piloted aircraft for much faster than the official speed record.

[1] https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/BGH/hihyper.html
The first prototype doesn't have speakers, but I want to include some in the second prototype. This is something that I missed putting in the article. For sound/headphone jack, I am currently using a tiny Renkforce USB audio adapter.
You could try jiu-jitsu. I've yet to meet a person who could honestly say that getting choked out is "boring".
Cuddy deserved neither the spoils of her research - fame and fortune, nor the indignity of having her work toppled in a public forum. She certainly did her self no favors by digging in, but at the same time, the despoilers would use her as the poster child for bad science itself.

This is a story in which a few people look to be "right", but no one looks particularly flattering, which is also why its a good read. Your comment adds very little.
It was the New York Time's metaphor, not mine. But your substance does hold. Cuddy may have lessened her punishment, though, had she denounced the bourgeoisie with more fervor.
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Just keep a boilerplate handy

I've helped a friend to publish a one-page website over the weekend, and I believe it follows most of this checklist
While the now $2 millionaire would not be likely to spend that extra million on food and clothing they would be extremely likely to invest that money in a variety of financial instruments, making that capital available in the market so it can be put to good use. Investing does help inject value into the economy and drive growth - "sitting on it" would require literally keeping it in cash in a bank, which no sane person would do due to inflation.
I don't think that's the real reason, to be honest. More like some combination of anti-hiring ideology and a handful of people getting rich off the process. The British government did it with, apparently, real success. And are government contractors really much better places to work?
You have standing offers from both? Kind of doesn't matter until you do. There are a number of differences between them--being big doesn't make them the same.

What kind of problems do you want to solve? Where are you willing to relocate to? What language(s) do you want to work in? Etc.
I studied English at school from 8yrs old to 18, and I was really bad at it.
After graduating high-school I decided to work on it (I wanted to work in IT, and english was a must-have). That was around the time when DVDs were really taking over, and it was now really easy to watch movies in original version (as opposed to the dubbed versions). So I started watching movies in English. Like a lot. I'm talking 3 to 5 movies a day every day for months. I took a year off between high school and college.

After that, I was fluent in listening, I moved to an english speaking country and started working on the speaking part. I was less intimidated since I could understand perfectly so I wasn't shy about speaking and exercising my pronunciation. I'm now fluent in English and live in the US. Most natives I talk to have no idea I'm a foreigner. Usually after an hour of conversation they start wondering which part of America I'm from and they're always surprised to hear I'm from Europe.
You could have those feelings for any number of reasons so I won't make any assumptions about the cause of your problem, but maybe hearing out some others and finding a cause and solution you might relate to would help.

Personally, I found that I had the "burnout" feeling throughout my career in instances where I didn't see a path between what I was doing and where I wanted to be. So all the work I was doing felt extra draining because the output didn't seem to be helping me make steps towards where I wanted to be. The other times I felt defeated/drained are when I didn't have a clear goal of what I wanted in the future, so any efforts at work seemed pointless. Yes, I was working for a paycheck, but you can do anything for a paycheck, it was important for me that my efforts contributed towards a bigger picture. So in that case, I had to sit down and really find/set a goal. Doing anything without a real goal in mind results in just a mindless/lazy churn that feels pointless.
I might be an outlier, but if they are using this authentication, it's actually somewhat clever. And likely a net positive for the user.

I obviously don't for sure if this is happening, but if your social media footprint helps determine if you see a captcha or not, or if you're forced to enter your credential again, it seems a reasonable signal to add to the mix of things like IP, browser, etc.
Do you have a source? The bug report about it is still open AFAIK.
"Teach a man to fish." I've learned a lot of good recipes from services like Blue Apron. Having the ingredients prepped the first time you embark on a new recipe makes it way more approachable.
No Scala docs?
Why don't the generic companies spend money on paying pharmacists (and the public) to call their doctor and ask for a generic prescription?
Happy to see the love for trackballs here. I was using a trackball as a relief from hand joint pain and found it kind of nice and more exciting than a mediocre trackpad. (But: the idea is to have the input/pointing device of your choice!)
Yeah, I was going for worst case assumptions, where all of the energy turned into infrared, which is definitely not going to be the case.

Here's the math, if you want to double check:
(10 x 4.184 x (10^9 joules))/(4 x pi x (24000 meters)^2)
coin toss?
Fred Wilson's post is informative http://avc.com/2013/02/venture-capital-returns/
I don’t know about that.

I loathe endurance exercises - I regularly combine a book -and- music to get me through the treadmill.

However, I love meditating and archery (which I do traditional style, which is honestly a form of meditation itself.)
My point is that:

1. failing to have read Meehl's critique doesn't amount to "corruption",

2. that calling people "corrupt" for having failed to read Meehl is not likely to be the most effective or the most civil path toward changing things, and

3. To the extent that discussion of scientific methodology on public forums causes or contributes to (2), that's a bad thing and perhaps suggests a fundamental cost of doing science in this manner.
Looks like a slacky sort of messaging platform... with a couple of emogis.. no idea :)
https://virwire.com

Because I made it :)
Few years back when I was working with Wayland on a particular automotive project I came up with an explanation we could use with those outside the project.

Wayland is a protocol, which isn't really instructive. But the reference implementation, libwayland, is easier to comprehend. You can think of libwayland as a library for writing window managers directly on the framebuffer. Sure - that's a lie, but it's a helpful lie.
> The best start-ups keep being scooped up by the big guys (see Instagram and WhatsApp, owned by Facebook).

I was under the impression that that was the point. From the investors' perspective, you're playing volunteer R&D/HR for Amazon or Google or Facebook in hopes that they'll take notice and buy your devs and users off you. That's what an "exit strategy" is, and we all know that every startup needs one. The bit about changing the world and revolutionizing the way we communicate is a sop to keep the engineers happy and productive.
Thanks, good to know. I was going for worst case calculations, assuming complete transparency. Even that doesn't seem bad.
Sure, I am used to them being doubled up on laptops, nice to have dedicated keys for a change.
On the way up - https://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/webcasts/shuttle/st... - escape velocity is around 17,000 mph - or about Mach 22.

You can't dispute that the Shuttle is "Powered" on the way up. It's piloted by computers, ok - but near the end of the way up I'm sure the flight commander has control over his own aircraft.

The only reason the Shuttle is not counted is technicalities of space flight vs "flight" vs aircraft vs spacecraft, even though the shuttle operates in both air and space.
How did MongoDB go to market differently than the other enterprise NoSQL DBs (MarkLogic, DataStax)?
On the contrary, lifting weights has been one of the most fruitful additions to my life. I started around 5 years ago and it visibly changed my body in a year; something which I've wanted for a long time. Every time, its a thrill to be able to lift more weights, to complete the reps and know that I'm stronger than I was a month ago.

I'm guessing what bothers you the most is the idea of doing the same thing over and over again, which is a fair criticism. Generally I listen to a podcast. In the beginning, I used to go with a friend so it didn't become too boring.
I believe they're using a definition of flight that includes "powered". If you're gliding, you're always either losing speed, losing altitude, or both. In flight, you can increase those.
All true, but the point I'm trying to make (poorly) is that there's more to life than truth-seeking. That's the function of science, but even if science hands you a definitive answer you still need to create the political will to implement it. And it's a fact that there are people who have economic interests in not fixing problems.

I don't care about insect biomass in particular. I care about it as a possibly-wrong indicator of general environmental degradation, of which we have numerous indicators. I also have a possibly-wrong model of the root causes of this and other problems.

You can't skip steps. It sucks that it takes time and effort, it sucks that you can't just solve everything overnight, but it is the only way to be an agent of effective positive change rather than an agent of chaos.

You can't solve everything overnight, but you can lose everything overnight while you're fretting over whether a problem exists or vacillating over its severity or dithering between a multiplicity of unpleasant solutions. An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory, and my exhortations to act, which will sometimes lead to unproductive or ineffective results, are the product of decades of observation and thought.

I'm sorry that this doesn't lead to a neatly wrapped General Unified Theory of Sustainable Sociopolitical Development - because I too would love to have a verifiable roadmap to a brighter future - but chaos is preferable to predictably circling down into a drain. Overall, I have concluded that the world is getting shittier, that this trend is accelerating, and that the costs of your gradualist approach exceed the benefits.
> having the misfortune of the one-in-twenty chance of getting a really interesting false positive at p = 0.05 means you either have to double down on the study

Or you could get a large sample size to bring the p down to 0.01 or whatever. You know, do science.
A lot of businesses now don't care about their bus factor, I don't see why that would change.
Nice one. Have been looking everywhere for a block explorer that could be used on local instances.

Still pretty dissapointed that etherscan isn't open source, would make local development a hell of a lot easier.
Hosting providers have to put up with all kind of people..
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If you would email us links to those comments at hn@ycombinator.com we can take a look. That's not a moderation practice.
You're not weird, but you're not a vim user, or the target of this post.
> And to adress the calls for “outside experts”:

You completely misinterpreted (and misquoted) me on that one. I wasn't implying that they should hire a consultant for this kind of thing, but they should at least have bothered to read anything about the methodology used by SSD reviewers or the industry standard storage testing methodology freely published by organizations like SNIA. It's clear the BBC guys didn't even spend an afternoon trying to read up on how to evaluate SSD performance; they just jumped in and started re-inventing the wheel, hitting all the foreseeable problems along the way. It looks like they now have a clue and have learned a lot from the process, but this is not how you should handle this kind of upgrade.
Thanks! The front-end doesn't use any JavaScript framework. See the code here: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs.

All of the code is licensed under MPL 2.0 [1], so you're welcome to reuse/modify it in your own projects.

[1]: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/blob/master/LICENSE
I'm surprised there isn't a separate copy of all the code in French, or at least the code comments
shouldn't you suggest a replacement?
> The kernel drivers are open source.

Why does Replicant have so many problems getting Wifi, 3D acceleration, etc. running then?
Honestly not entirely sure what the purpose is, also it seems to have a few bugs: https://i.imgur.com/ciqnlbg.png
Using CouchDB on our team has been a pretty good experience; nothing like a nightmare.

We used replication on the native apps for offline mode, kept things simpler with online-only for our web app, and have had a very good time overall.

We are also using JSON schema for our CouchDB documents so we ensure we don't have all kinds of wild / wrong data showing up; if you had really hairy, unstructured data, I can see why a dynamic language might help with that bad situation, but for our use case, we were able to take advantage of the powerful replication built into CouchDB and get solid offline syncing for all of our native apps that also plays nicely with live updates in a web browser.