skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most servers tend to speak Spanish, and quite a big percentage are from South America. Spanish (as main language) speaking people in Catalonia tend not to have a Catalan accent in their Spanish, most Catalan (as main language) speaking have said accent.

So they went to a restaurant that had a server that not only was Catalan, but was an independentist, detected your friend by her accent, isolated her making she alone speak Catalan and the manager was OK with that?

Sorry, does not compute.
It seems I am one of those in the tarpit.

I think the problem for us engineering types is that there is so much bullshit around marketing, that it's offputting to us. That's the case for me at least. If I spend time/money on a feature, I know how long it will take, how much it will cost and when it will be ready. Compared to this, marketing seems like burning money with voodoo rituals.

It doesn't help that marketing efforts are only meaningfully measurable on a larger scale. If you're bootstrapping something yourself, you don't have 12k to spend on marketing this month. You have $300. It's easy to burn that $300 on adwords or facebook ads and get zero signups, with no meaningful data whatsoever.

The usual advice goes: hire a marketing expert. But how do I hire a marketing expert that a) isn't full of it, b) will even listen to me if my current budgets are in the hundreds of dollars?

I think the article is right on point, but I wish it pointed me to a way to deal with the marketing problem.
I’ve got a list of random resources here:

https://github.com/melling/ComputerGraphics/blob/master/ray_...
Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged
I disagree, human vision is pretty amazing with a huge field of view and while the amount of detail is only really high at the center of vision to match what an officer can make out you'd pretty much need a lot of detail everywhere. I don't think we'll see affordable 4k body cameras for a while but there's definitely benefits to recording in 4k.
Clearly she intends to dissect GP at her first opportunity. I say get out while you're still intact.
I sifted. It looks like somebody exploring concepts, sort of a "Hello, world!" for client/server applications using a well-known/popular meme ("REST").

The code seems reasonable enough for that, but would need significant additional work for something that isn't a toy or used in very restricted environments.
> Don't mean to be rude, but being a billionaire is a boring goal with no value in and of itself.

Are you a billionaire?
Absolutely. This is very common in consumer products where the burden of moving over to the competition is minimal (think food delivery, ridesharing, home maintenance etc.).

Additional symptoms are relatively low retention or no retention at all, and aggressive marketing tactics to the point where as a customer you're not sure how can they be possibly making money.
"Hassel" is German slang and translates to "hassle".
While we are on the topic I'd like to remind everyone that the absolute best thing that you can do for your family, friends, and loved ones in the event of your death is plan for it ahead of time. If you're sick or elderly consider prepaying for whatever services you'd like. The death industry is shady as fuck and it's easy to take advantage of the bereaved, who are in a fragile emotional state, just to make a quick buck. You have the ability to properly do your research, comparison shop, and plan rationally beforehand so use it.

When she reached 90 my great grandma prepaid for all her funeral services and had everything all set, including the dress she wanted to be buried in. Nobody had to worry about a thing. Of course, you risk some places going out of business, so this should be done only if your life expectancy is around, say, 5 years or so.
How much would you bet on that?
Courtesy of slashdot:

https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/10/21/1744218/data-sci...
After I ran into Dr Lustig's stuff which I found was also backed up by other pediatric endocrinologist, I cut out as much sugar and processed carbs as possible. Not as hard for me as I'm a meat and vegi kinda guy anyways. My thought was worst case avoiding sugar, processed carbs, and beer isn't going to be bad for you. Best case, avoid Type II diabetes.

Also following Lustig's advice on sugar and alcohol, make it count.
I'm controlling zigbee devices with hass via a lightify hub, and I know there are other supported methods as well.

EDIT: clarified that I am using homeassistant to talk to the lightify hub.
In bold: UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT

I think this was posted too early to HN. It's not ready for prime time yet.
> ... Medical Advertising Hall of Fame...

Same thing for political candidates. Apparently Obama won advertiser of the year in 2008:

http://adage.com/article/moy-2008/obama-wins-ad-age-s-market...

Beating Nike, Apple, and Coors
I've posted this already but it seems you didn't read it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/10/19...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/08/catalonia-demo...

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/02/inenglish/1506943013_99...
That's not really a fair comparison. The languages that are dying out do not have even remotely as much existing cultural material as English.

Even Latin, which has no native speakers and dramatically less published material than English is in no danger of dying out. People learn it just to access the existing material.
> (we will also open-source over time)

What portion of it is currently open source?
There's at least one thing that really fascinate me about death.

That is that there's no way (as far as I can tell) for natural selection to "improve" how we die. My guess is death is the most diverse experience amongst all living things.

EDIT: Even without factoring in the idea that there are so many experiences that cause death.
That's the argument that the Spanish govt. gives all the time, so it's only normal for them to use this argument when trying to defend the govt. position to attack the Catalan people when trying to vote or when trying to justify taking control of the Catalan administration, some Catalan public TV channels, etc.
FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot
No, the article is saying that people are getting obese and diabetic because of sugar.

Its further pointing out that there are calories ("sugars") which make it much easier to gain weight. I didn't disagree there either.

The article never claims that you can eat any amount of calories as long as you leave carbs from the table. And thats the only thing i pointed out. Because thats just plain wrong. If you eat too many calories, you will gain weight. And if you're predisposed to obesity, you will eat more calories when you're flavouring stuff with sugar.
This will, as the author pointed out, cause you to get even more obese and eventually get diabetes.
Probably Optiplex given its use in high-security defense sector which, combined with Separation Kernel Protection Profile, would have all kinds of security/hardening requirements:

https://gdmissionsystems.com/cyber/products/trusted-computin...

http://www.integrityglobalsecurity.com/pages/solutions.html

https://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-17...

Warning: These companies' marketing folks like to go overboard. Sharing for the technical data and Dell references but not endorsing every claim you see. ;)
Then stop pulling numbers from your ass. Thank you.
Do you think it would matter? I don't think most of the country supports the Catalonian independence, so it would probably remain as-is on that issue.
You are partly right.

Barcelona's major wants to make tourism more manageable because it is considered that too many tourists kill the spirit of the city, increase rent for the citizens too much and, depending on their upbringing, bring fights and low quality tourism to the city.

There's also a civil movement against tourism, specially AirBnB, that has made some actions.

But that movement is separate from the independence movement. There are people of all factions in that movement, and it's quite smaller than the independence one.

The partly is that, at least on the other times this topic has come to hacker news, the brigading was from unionists.
Yes, and I think Congress would vote to let California secede.
"In high school" was over 14 years ago, for me ;-) The start of "in college" was about 14 years and one month ago.

And Rust is "only" 7 years old. Time slips by.
PlaidML: Open Source Deep Learning for Every Platform
I mean voting for independence, not having an opinion, obviously.
Because clearly George Steinbrenner is a better moral teacher than Jesus.
Curious how insecure non-vegetarians are about their carnistic tendencies, that they must make jokes about enslaving and brutalizing sentient creatures.

There mustn't be even a momentary lapse in hatred and cognitive dissonance to maintain the facade of carnist ideology.
Ask HN: Missed Connection – HN Story that got away
I'm a long time HN reader. You are a story about a new? college - in california? We met about 3 years ago.

You're kinda liberal-artsy: critical thinking and writing, but geeky, too, with skills in stats and systems theory. You're petite and selective. And of course you're well-travelled - everyone does a year abroad, I think.

Hit me back if you remember me. Or if you remember the story, Or recognize the college.
You must mean "stop having anything with added sugar" because humans need sugars to survive, nearly all food has natural sugars in it, and if you ate 0 grams of sugar for more than a couple of weeks you would die.

I'm being a bit pedantic because it's important to understand that moderation is the key, not trying to completely eliminate one family of molecules from your diet.
You want your client to be standalone, you can't expect users to install and configure postgresql and sqlite probably isn't gonna cut it.

If you want blockchain stats, postgres is great, but for a node you just need to be able to look stuff up by its keys. Leveldb was made for that and it's good at doing it.

I don't know these attacks, but it seems you don't really need ACID that badly, most stuff is append only and once appended it never gets deleted.
Wow, and this has been known for years...and yet OxyContin is still legal in the U.S. and being sold every day.
How governments can be smart about AI
I don't know of any instances where turtles/tortoises were introduced and became an invasive species that pressured out native fauna.
I have been through countless dirt-street towns from Guatemala to Mali where the local store has a few moldy potatoes, coke and Doritos.

All the kids are eating the coke and Doritos as a meal, and of course there is nobody telling them not to, or that they should be brushing their teeth or anything like that. It's a massive, massive disaster.
Certainly? I think the point the parent was trying to make is that the evidence damning Oxy is not nearly as compelling as people claim & the way this article is worded lends credence to his claim.

I’m no expert on this & have seen enough oxy abuse to be skeptical but saying it’s a certainty seems unfounded in the face of the argument.
Does nobody eat rabbit down under? Rabbit stew is a pretty common dish throughout Europe and the Americas.
Gary Taubes is a well known meat and dairy industry propagandist who stands to gain everything through the sale of his carbophobic books and lectures. His villification of an oversimplified sugar Boogeyman just detracts from the animal fat and protein which has and continues to wreck the health of hundreds of millions of people.
> Pull request is an anti-pattern anyway.

Would you consider elaborating on this? I'm curious to hear what some negatives of the PR model might be, as I've recently taken a personal interest in dev workflows.
Key word here is retention. The author was in a pretty good position to be in, where the paid users were happy enough not to churn and move to the competition. Once you're there - you have product market fit, and you should presumably move into growth mode. That means more expenses on sales and marketing, and diverting r&d resources to scale (if needed) and building features that will reduce churn or help marketing.

Another way to describe the situation here is - moving to growth mode too late, when you already have a good enough product to attack with but you're also almost out of runway.
Oh I know you're not allowed a referendum, you should be though.

What I was referring to was public opinion polls, I've never seen one conducted that resulted in 50% or higher in favour of full independence.
I'd bet you London will keep being the financial hub of Europe long after Brexit.
I'm curious, why wouldn't sqlite cut it? Granted, I'm not a blockchain afficiando, but I have several sqlite DBs that run a couple hundred gigabytes a piece that work quite well.
My point in this line of questioning is purely dialectic; in essense, I am indirectly targeting the question, “Why is something undesirable, if it is not bad?”

So we have a few possibilities:

- Is demanding attribution in philanthropy bad? If it’s bad, how does it decrease the concrete “goodness” of the philanthropy?

- Is it not bad? Then why is it undesirable?

- Is it neither bad nor undesirable? Then why is it relevant?

People have (normative) reasons for personal admiration, and they can’t really be right or wrong. I’m interested in digging at the normatives.

Generalizing this further, we can say that people are easily offended by grandiosity and vanity, or at the very least find it distasteful. As a philosophical question I consider it interesting to wonder why that is the case, in a scenario where that person is not doing anything “bad” from a consequentialist perspective. As it turns out, anonymity and attribution in philanthopy seem to be a good real-world setting for this question, because narcissism appears to become invalid as a signalling heuristic.
So you’re admitting that older people are disadvantaged by these types of assignments that are not actually selective for coding capability, but throwing up your hands and saying that’s just the way life is?
These articles simply don't seem that relevant. Of course there's been a bunch of fake news on both sides.

There was obviously a plenty of very real violence by GC, anyone watching the live streams saw this for themselves.

And a few days ago el pais fired a bunch of folks for having the wrong opinions on Catalonia, so I'm not sure if they're the best source.
This would be a good focal point for activist work.
Years ago, once in a blue moon having a Facebook account meant you also had a @facebook.com e-mail address [1]

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/facebook-email_n_4...
Personally, a bigger issue is the level of control the donor requires over the activities of the donation.

Cf. the Peter O'Donnell building at UT Austin. (https://research.utexas.edu/acesit/aces-building/)
> Redux's core fits in under 100 LOC [0], and I've seen miniature versions of React-Redux that aren't much bigger

A minimal version can fit in a tweet: https://twitter.com/ricardobeat/status/730761317309644801
If they’re suggesting better or even equivalent ways, I just do it. If you are not sure, also just do it? Life’s too short to be arguing about every code review comment.

The only time I argue about review comments is if i think it wont work, or if I think it should be addressed in a future bug (maybe also if I think its much more complexity).

In general I don’t think you should treat it as saying really anything about you. They’re comments about the code, not about you or even your skill as a programmer.
Catalonia'president has not dissolved the parliament, neither has he disbanded it.

There will be a parlamentari meeting next week to debate what to do with the application of the 155 and how to respond. Has just said so in a televised speech.

Just with the inaccuracy you started marks all the rest you wrote as "things to doubt".
As jayniz says, please find the part of the constitution that outlaws voting for independence. (As opposed to organizing such a vote.)
Hilariously enough...

In Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eared_slider#An_invasive_s...
This should do:

> In the first demo, I just select the PDF document with one click. This is enough to exploit the vulnerability, because the PDF document is implicitly read to gather extra information.

> In the second demo, I change the view to Thumbnails view. In a thumbnail view, the first page of a PDF document is rendered to be displayed in a thumbnail. Rendering the first page implies reading the PDF document, and hence triggering the vulnerability.

> In the third demo, I use my special PDF document with the malformed stream object in the metadata. When I hover with the mouse cursor over the document (I don’t click), a tooltip will appear with the file properties and metadata. But with my specially crafted PDF document, the vulnerability is triggered because the metadata is read to display the tooltip…

https://blog.didierstevens.com/2009/03/04/quickpost-jbig2dec...
Why imposter syndrome can be a good thing
Plato's cave comes to my mind... Also, whomever I talk to, from the most techy to least (and I'm a humanities student so nearly all my usual contacts are non-techies), I hear they want sturdier phones. Most people use protective side products like cases and films, even though the latter reduces the touch sensitivity. About half of the phones I see people use have cracks here and there. The industry thinks that people prefer thinner and cuter over sturdier and functional because most people just try to make the best use of what's available and don't bother providing feedback, public or otherwise; and those who are vocal about these new innovations are the tech-geeks and the like. (edited to add:) The market researchers probably confound the people trying to extract value from what's available on the market with their actual preferences. People can't buy what's not available, so, certainly, if all you see is sales data, you will never know that there's a public that wants a decently sized, sturdy, yet nice looking phone with decent hardware, that does not break when somebody farts close by and runs their favourite apps.
It's useful to identify such things as luck because we really can't orchestrate those moments by sheer will. To identify a reason is the first step towards controlling the circumstance but for the average situation I'd wager it's hard to do so.
Source for that?
Thanks for the nice overview. Option #2 seems like the way I would want go.
Looks like somebody wants to obtain SEO links.
Astroturfing?
Haas is rabbit
if you ate 0 grams of sugar for more than a couple of weeks you would die

No you absolutely would not. Your body can synthesize glucose from protein and fat, you can survive indefinitely on zero sugar. This is called ketogenic diet.
As it is in many if not most G7 countries.
So every generation has to vote a new constitution?
https://www.ncbi.nqlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10435117

For most people high fiber foods are better.
MENACE
Gambling Industry Growing Steadily in South Africa
Just know that many times a family has done it on behalf of someone deceased. A name on a plaque doesn’t mean that person said, “put my name on it!” Although it can mean that, and when it does I agree with your assessment.
"their success doesn’t rest on the creation of wealth, only its extraction from magpie-type customers"

To make such an assertion, you're going to have to provide evidence that the people using Mongo and it's services, are, in fact too stupid to know what's good for them, and that they are absolutely better off using something else.
I don't know if it's an "option", but my preference is hovering around the idea that I just want my body (as is) to be buried in the ground.

Does this exist?
It sounds like they learned to enjoy the plain bagel.
I don't bet but if you're interested in betting, I saw a thread in Reddit where people are betting 'reddit gold'.
Hiring for marketing is incredibly tough. I’ve yet to work with a marketer I would recommend.

Re your situation I’m not sure there is much you can or should do with $300. It’s too small an amount to make a dent in any paid channels for sure.

Hire a marketing/growth coach is probably the most cost effective way to spend a budget like that imho
https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921 - Here is the original issue. And yes, it's about sexism, even though the name was a reference to a factory pattern and a song.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921#issueco... - here is a comment I would like to highlight.

>There is real, honest, awful sexism in tech, but this is not it.
Please don't post unsubstantively on Hacker News. We'd like to skip right to gratifying our intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Olin[1] or Harvey Mudd[2]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_W._Olin_College_of_En...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College
What about Renton?
How is it exploitative to give something away for free?

Imagine if everyone using MongoDB had to pay for it, you know, like most things in the world?

I suggest they are giving away their cake and picking up a few crumbs after the fact.

Builders don't typically give away homes to sell a few cabinets.
Amazon cracking down on newsletter recommendation services?
damn, you short niqqa.
Wow a democracy defending the rule of law! /s
Really? Since when?

It's been a long-o time since I did any 3d physics or rendering code (in C), maybe even since before the WWW, but I don't remember this convention... (I mean - sure - it makes sense, but I don't recall the two 3-space triples being necessarily called that even in things like GL)
Yeah, I’m trying to switch to an arduino-based solution, but I just really want to avoid WiFi. And building custom protocols isn’t that optimal either.
I run umatrix, and I block everything. Cookies, CSS, images, scripts, media, XHR, etc. Everything, except for CSS and images from the thirst-party domain (e.g. *.ycombinator.com).

Most sites actually work better with this. They're faster, there's less clutter, no ads, less risk. Some need a little convincing by unblocking some CSS or images. Umatrix makes this super easy. If a site requires javascript to run, I just skip that content. It's different for web apps like trello or github of course. Those get much more permissions.

> How on earth do you navigate what to let through and what to block?

umatrix gives a nice matrix (duh) that shows exactly what's trying to load. I dont often need to unblock things, but when I do, it's usually obvious right away. Takes maybe two clicks. Worth the effort IMHO
.. but that is new slang, and originates in "hassle" afaik.
And I would rather say, it is just used (and written) as the original english word.