skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language preservation community's answer to this is usually that multilingualism is extremely possible and even common -- although some speakers of extremely powerful languages like English and Chinese might not have as much experience with it. :-)

A huge number of people around the world speak at least a local or family language as well as a "language of wider communication"; depending on their situation, they may easily be fully fluent in both. So a preservation-oriented policy or culture would encourage this kind of bilingualism. This was also the traditional view of the Esperanto movement, which wanted Esperanto to be the unique world-wide language of communication while preserving all of the existing languages through bilingualism. [Edit: A commenter below says this approach is less traditional in Esperantism than I thought.] But a similar result could be achieved with, say, English as the main world language, or with people speaking just a handful of regional languages as well as their family languages.

One challenge to bilingualism is that a lot of governments don't like it (for many different reasons), while another challenge is economic. Bilingualism is very possible, but people in various circumstances could easily stop viewing it as desirable or important, because language A will get them a job in the city and language B won't, and each language takes at least some time and effort to use and keep up with. (Or if people habitually move far away from their families, they'll have fewer opportunities to practice speaking with their families.)

Anyway, there are significant tensions here, but these possibilities don't have to be mutually exclusive as long as people continue to care about their family and local languages and have access to social situations that give them opportunities to use them. And it can even be government policy to try to preserve minority languages while also promoting bilingualism in other more widely-spoken languages.
Ruby is not a great choice for a 'decentralized' app. Setup and config is harder, usually requires an entire build environment and can quickly throw you into dependency hell. Server requirements and maintenance are also a lot higher.
I've heard that many people who don't know any coding at all often apply to bootcamps and simply just flunk the first coding assessment they get. They probably help account for much of the low admissions rate at any half decent bootcamp (that have coding assessments).
That's the point. There's not enough money to be made catering to a niche market when add-ons can solve the problem.

Some of us would like a bulky rubber phone when we're hiking along a rocky stream and a svelte phone when it's in our pocket every day. I can add a protective case to a thin phone much more easily than I can disassemble a bulky phone.
How so? After fork() you are guaranteed to only have one remaining thread in the child process, and the parent process doesn't care if there was a fork() or not.
But what if we simply used 2 F clefs? We'd only need two ledger lines between them for C and E. Given how many ledger lines we put up with above the top staff, I think it would be pretty easy to work with. After 2 decades, I _still_ read treble clef better than bass clef.
KRACK proof-of-concept for FT-enabled hotspots
What is the redaction supposed to be used for?
The US is not a monolithic entity, and various states handle civil asset forfeiture differently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

Many places in the US don't have these problems, so there is nothing to solve.
>The fewer such barriers we have, the easier it becomes to understand others.

More like the easier it is to maintain the pretense of understanding others.
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Fun fact, the : of the bass clef and the spiral of the treble clef indicate the F and G, respectively, which the clefs are stylized versions of.
Left Truncatable Prime
That sounds like a receptor for spereading disease maybe even something like Kuru
Who's roya
But we're not talking about treating workers badly by any reasonable definition. These are workers that were paid more than the average Australian worker, they got far more Christmas holiday leave than the Australian worker. They weren't living on the minimum wage.

They weren't forced to take a reduction in Christmas leave. They company asked if they could, considering the local and international conditions in their industry. The workers weren't forced, it was their decision and they said no, presumably knowing that the consequence might be that this may be the straw that shuts the factory down permanently.

If the company had made a draconian decision that cut workers pay unreasonably, regardless of the current economic circumstances and pocketed this money, I'd agree strongly with you. But, this isn't what happened. The workers kept all of their conditions and the factory shut down.

There have to be some circumstances where you would see that it would be reasonable for workers to give up some conditions in the industry they are working in if it is under some economic pressure, either internally or externally? They may only agree to give them up temporarily until conditions improve, or make some other offer to help the company to increase output or reduce costs.

The reality is that Australia is an open, market economy. Its companies have to be competitive with the rest of the world in order for those companies to survive.

You say that companies only have an interest in shortening holiday breaks. But if this is the case, how did the holiday break end up as 21 days in the first place? Companies have to compete for workers too - there must have been a time when it was beneficial to the company to attract and retain workers with a longer Christmas break. You point out that some European countries have more workers rights, but this misses the point that the competitive pressure at the time wasn't for workers - it was on total cost of production.

Nobody wants to degrade good conditions and decent pay for workers. However, for many people that work in small business and haven't had a pay rise in several years can only look on with bemusement when highly unionized industries demand 4% pay rises plus extra Christmas holidays and then demand tax payer money when their industries falls over.

It seems like every time a unionized industry is asked to make a small concession that it's seen as a zero sum game, the thin end of the wedge, a race to the bottom and the apocalypse. It's blown completely out of proportion. Most industries go through ups and downs. The inflexible ones go broke.
Language is also about culture and identity. When you give up a language you also give up some of your identity and things you value.

For instance I write and use english more than my native Norwegian, however I am highly ambivalent towards making english the national language of Norway. With english comes many ways of looking at the world.

For instance for nordic people gender equality is important. I don’t like how the english language is used with respect to women. You got words such as “slut”, “slut shaming” which there are no equivalent to in Norwegian. There isn’t really any good way of describing a women as a slut. Just as there are no good words in english to describe a man as a slut.

There are many Norwegian words I am fond of related to our shared values like “dugnad” which is about working togheter doing maintenance, repair, upgrades in your local community. There is no word for it in english because the tradition does not exist in the US or UK.

It is something that genuinly worries me as I see shared scandinavian values gradually year after year getting erased and replaced with anglo-saxon values.
Great article, highlighting some great design history.

Google's new design also kinda reminds me of trends in the outdoor/sports apparel & footwear industry from about 2-3 years ago. Contrast stitching and zippers, muted tones with bright pastels, resurgence of 1970's bright colors and mountaineering styles. Patagonia's catalog from 2014 would be representative, as would lululemon around that time, and Nike and UnderArmour shoes and casual sport.

Tech is putting a new spin on it, but many of the themes are similar. I like it! The diversity and experimentation, with respectful nods to the past and adaptation for current trends is a great thing.
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Google Asked to Remove 3B “Pirate” Search Results
English translations on cheaper end, especially manuals for electronic appliances tend to be awesome and Heavy Metal.

ONE MUST TAKE THESE STEPS TO ENSURE PLEASANT EXPERIENCE TO FOLLOW WHILE HOLDING THIS PART INSTEAD OF DEATH BY PAIN OF ELECTROCUTION.

Hell yeah, it is just a 9v adaptor!
They put one of their typewriters outside for anyone to walk up and try (or just plain use). Pretty audacious.
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This something that the speaker in the famous "steal everything, kill everyone..." [1] defcon talk refers to as the "jedi wave" and makes similar remarks about. I think it's a great name.

[1] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE
My conjecture is that through studying the linked algorithms (as you would a math proof), one can learn a decent amount of linear algebra.
Well, first I'm trying to validate this idea and see if enough people find it interesting. Any future direction depends quite a lot on the feedback that I receive.
Most design in tech hardware prioritizes functionality over look.

Just because some colors pop doesn't mean the opposite.

The simpler explanation is just that we aren't very good (as an industry) at hardware design look or functionality design right now. We need to get better at both.

But making an all-gray phone with no stylistic touches isn't going to re-prioritize functionality, promise you that. Different problem entirely.
Or, put it on a case and have it not break when it falls to the ground
> Decentralisation, as a general concept, has a lot of benefits. Ease of use for new users is generally not one of them.

Why do you think that ease of use for new users is a benefit of centralized systems such as github? And not, say, of standardization?

Is electricity, say, easy to use because it is all supplied by one centralized world-wide supplier, or is it easy to use because voltage, frequency and so on are standardized, so you can plug in your appliances no matter who the supplier is?

But also: Do you think that ease of use for new users is a worthwhile optimization target? I mean, at what cost for non-new users does this optimization come, and is that cost worth it?

> but I can certainly say that the existing kernel process is a right PITA for new contributors.

Why do you think that? My experience would say the exact opposite: You read the readme that comes in the source tree, you run that script that figures out who is responsible for the respective component and you send an email ... you don't even need to create an account with some third party with lengthy TOS to study and stuff. Seriously, submitting patches to the linux kernel so far has been one of the smoothest experiences contributing to free software, with an absolutely minimal barrier to entry.
For this task, the low throughput harms performance. There are genotyping methods which will measure tens of thousands of common variants for a couple of bucks. And the more genotypes you have, the surer you can be of a match, even given a slightly higher genotyping error rate.
> Who's roya

Roya Pakzad, the article's author. Her name is right at the top of the article we are discussing.
China is probably unique in that you can allude to ancient literature in marketing materials and expect large portions of the educated population to get it. Kids all over the country learn to recite old poetry from a very early age.
The index is on GitHub, but only the index. You can mirror it and Cargo knows how to work with the mirror. http://www.integer32.com/2016/10/08/bare-minimum-crates-io-m...
They use a static thumbnail image that is changed to a gif/webm when it loads.
Why do you think HN has horrible graphic design? Just curious.
What on earth does this have to do with capitalism? The reason the Lada Niva is still in manufacture is that there's still motivation/demand and the manufacturer hasn't given up on making them. The reason Olivetti doesn't make Olivetti anymore is that there's near zero motivation/demand, and nobody wants to make the products just out of passion.
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> You could fix this with some kind of module system but this would mean that you'd always need the whole module which may be multiple megabytes (...)

You don't need the whole module. You need the module's interface to compile anything that depends on the module. Of course, type sizes and alignments must be a part of the interface in a C-like language. But “exporting sizes and alignments” doesn't necessitate “exporting the entire internal representation of the type”, cf. Rust.

> (...) vs a .hpp which is generally small (or a forward-declaration which is negligible).

You can't forward-declare type sizes and alignments. This is precisely why you must pay the aforementioned indirection tax.

> Regarding (2), C11 has some generics nowadays

Which is just a compile-time switch statement on types. You still have to write separate implementations of generic algorithms for every concrete type on which you want to use them.

> (and for more complex stuff you'd be much better served by c++ templates)

The pain associated to using C++ templates is exactly what happens when you try to do generic programming in a language with no support for abstract type specifications.
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Both can be true. The cheetah acts out of instinct, not intelligence. His stupidity and ignorance shaped his personality but it also gets a result that works for him.
Microsoft Has Figured Out How to Double Field of View on HoloLens
Slightly ironic since slut is thought to be derived from the Norwegian words sludd or slutr
Half of this article could be summed up as "Validate your idea/product. Do not assume what people want."

The other half is "Marketing is not stupid". Marketing, sadly, is something that many of us are not good at. People still believe that if you build it, they will come. Myself, I have a several dead side projects that nobody came for, as do many here.

Also, maybe I've been out of the adword world for too long, so question for you folks that are living it now. Is a $70 CAC about average? I find that a bit high but I suppose if it only takes 2 months to recoup then their CLV must be good.
its harder to create email accounts than it is facebook accounts, lately
The End of Freeways
True story, but I don't know if the goal of everyone being able to communicate is more important than culture.

On the other hand, many europeans have no problem in speaking two to three languages, so making English the second language would preserve that culture?
I see what you mean and that's a good and interesting idea.

However, I think while it would be revealing in some areas, it would mask other problems.

For instance, if you look purely at the FTE, you wouldn't see that George had worked 60 hours. That's a problem. Why did George work 60 hours? Was he really productive for all of that time or is he gaming the overtime system by deliberately doing less work within normal hours so that he has to do overtime to complete his scheduled work.
* A recruiter from and based out of Boston who's totally unbiased
Was fighting with the idea that I'll have to constantly keep an eye on TechCrunch's Twitter account, waiting for "The Tweet", where tickets are being made available. But, in the tradition of a hackathon, why not hack it ?! So I made myself a bot that streams in all TC Twitter activity and emails/texts me when tickets are available. That went out pretty smoothly, so why not make it public, for other to use too. The final result it's what you now see at https://getmetothehackathon.co/ Feel free to use it and join me at the Disrupt Berlin Hackathon.
This cultural conflict is occurring in the United States as well. For various reasons, Spanish is becoming much more prevalent in certain parts of the country. While large chunks of the country try to take a multiculturalist approach and embrace the lingual and cultural change, other parts want to maintain their cultural and communal identity and have them integrate. It's actually causing quite a bit of conflict between areas with different approaches.
I Googled it and from what I saw as long as the temperature and pressure is high enough the prions would be destroyed.

Also, prions are a concern without fringe conspiracy theories.
Ferndale is an inner ring suburb not a neighborhood
As fluent speaker in several languages, and given that European travellers speak on average three languages (native, resident country and English) I completely disagree.

Languages are a way to express culture of a country and there are many words that never translate well between languages, because they express ideas or points of view not present in the target languages.

Usually this idea of one language to rule them all, seems to keep coming up from cultures not able to bother to learn anything else other than English.
Containing an infinite amount of data and giving accurate answers are saying different things though. It can have finite memory and still give 100% accurate answers by batching from disk.

Chunking / iterative processing like this is an approach people commonly use with pandas which otherwise isn't great for data sets too big for RAM.

http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/io.html#iter...
If you were going to "make" a language a second language, you'd probably want to go with a language less insane than English.
> I remember SourceForge. It was the best we had, but it sucked! There was a days-to-weeks long approval process for new projects, advertising everywhere, and a ridiculously unintuitive UI. And SourceForge was basically the best option as far as finding free hosting for generic open source projects.

But then again, so was CVS for version control even further in the past.

The question is: How much of that is simply technological progress that would have happened anyway, but possibly without the centralization, and how much of this is actually genuine contribution on the part of github?

Simply comparing what github is now to what the alternatives were like a decade ago is not really a useful comparison. Of course (pretty much), what is now is technologically better than what was ten years ago. The question is: Is it better than what the alternatives would have been now?
The next Facebook or YouTube?
There hasn't been a new social media platform on the same level as Facebook and YouTube for years. Do you think this website that was launched last week will be a contender: https://www.doityourselfnation.org/about-us/
VoiceOps is hiring engineers and salespeople in SF to build AI for b2b voice data
Nice read but nothing particularly special here and it happened months ago. The title is alarmist.

TL;DR: The user ran firefox as root and the attack happened through adobe-flash. Hardly a sophisticated attack.
Sugar alters hormones and metabolism, sets stage for obesity and diabetes
Malware hidden in vid app is so nasty, victims should wipe their Macs
That article's crap. You want http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
Holden (GM) killed themself by building cars no one wanted anymore as the Australian iconic car has 6-cylinder engines and some maybe 8 cylinder.

Australian government couldn't subsidise cars that where losing sales year on year to smaller cheaper to run cars.

GM just wanted the handouts to keep it running when that dry up they pull the pin

John Cadogan is a bloke that called the end of the Australian Car Manufacturing many years ago and has a great video on why it died here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uFYW5tMoeg
TLDR: Simplified and community-driven man pages with practical examples
English is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world, and it's the language of the country with the largest economy. It's also a germanic language, so even though it's probably tougher to learn than other languages, it wouldn't be as difficult as Mandarin.
Cool. Is there any Android app?
To start thinking about debugging
>there are many words that never translate well between languages

Then it becomes a new word in that language. I think this is why english gains ground, because it eats new words constantly.
Nonsense. Cameras will be always used to benefit only the police as long as they control them: it's easy to cherry-pick what to record and, later on, what to release. It's easy to take off a camera altogether. You need 3rd parties (e.g. bystanders) to be able to record what's happening and stream it it safe storage in real time.

It's sad that you're being downvoted for saying this, because it's true. As long as police are the only ones legally or practically empowered to film these encounters, they will be the ones empowered to control the narrative.

The right of citizens to film police encounters without harassment or threats is imperative.
There are people in Detroit mourning gentrification too
The New York Times had a fascinating article trying to track down the people who ended up being buried in "Potter's Field". One story that stuck with me was of a wealthy, accomplished woman who donated her body to science. Once the New York University School of Medicine was done with her, her remains "now lies with 144 strangers in Trench 359."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/15/nyregion/new-...
First time I've seen ransomware on Linux though ... maybe I'm not paying attention...
In the vein of Michael Pollan ..

Say No. A lot. Mostly to your self.
The person in the apartment above me has a kid, is that you? Are you on 12th?

It's been a dream of mine, since attending UW, to live and work in Seattle. It was amazing to do as a student, but since graduation I can only find work across the lake. I finally gave in and moved across last year.

Bellevue is boring, which makes for a great base of operations - I can hang out at home while traffic dies down (instead of networking at a bar), then goto other cities when highway demand is low. But yeah, people don't really live in this city, women don't really goto the expensive dive bars, and there's so much construction.

It feels like there are a lot more people over here than last year. How many other people are also moving across the lake?
I don't see much Italinanness in their designs a all
Hmm what kind of signal are they sending out? LTE/wifi?
Is English insane?

I'm a native German speaker so germanic languages feel rather "regular" to me, while I find romanic languages grammatically simpler but they still feel more exotic to me.
I really like your expression, although maybe not everybody would appreciate the distinction.
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Once or millions of times depending how you count.
Yup. So awful. :)
> English is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world

For now.

> and it's the language of the country with the largest economy.

Also for now.

> It's also a germanic language, so even though it's probably tougher to learn than other languages, it wouldn't be as difficult as Mandarin.

I'm trying to avoid being snarky at the false dichotomy.
Isn't that how most ransomware spreads?

Here's a detailed view on Angler exploit kit which spreads through ad networks[1].

What's a good way to browse safely without using something like tails? There's firejail[2] and obviously I can run it as a different user

[1]: https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2015/07/21/a-closer-look-at-th...

[2]: https://firejail.wordpress.com/