skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Azorean Portuguese is TOUGH to understand even for Portuguese speakers from mainland Portugal, although the accent varies from island to island.

This written expression is easy to parse, though. It's just spelling variation of an idiomatic expression that really means: "[Someone who's] always looking for trouble..."
FCC Is Undoing Rules That Make It Easier for Small ISPs to Compete
Code Review. 7 Mistakes You May Be Making
Ask HN: What's the meaning of genetics diseases like epilepsy in evolution?
Genetic disorders are common among human beings, like epilepsy, why these genes are not eliminated in the process of evolution? What's their meaning of existing in mankind? Besides the obvious disadvantage of inherited diseases, is there any advantage?
Mainstream media nudges the unfit to choose a child-free life by their own volition. It's a lifelong marshmallow test: do you want to have fun now, or do you want to have a legacy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
And now you need to maintain hundreds of variants of each SO answer.
It doesn't physically exist, so no.
It's an art for sure, but I don't really enjoy it anymore.
Ask HN: Career building suggestions for a self-taught dev?
Hey! So I've had an interesting couple of years professionally, and I've spent the bulk of my time teaching myself how to code. I recently released my first project – www.jamsontoast.com At first glance it's probably super easy to dismiss as 'just a music player' but if you spend some time with it, you might be able to tell that I put some serious effort into it.

I wanted to get some opinions on how I would go about beginning a career with my newly acquired skills. I am really interested on the product side of things, and have an eye for good design. More importantly I am open to (and quick at!) learning new things. I am extremely interested in mixed reality, because there is probably a lot of work to be done there in terms of interaction design. I think MR in particular would be a good fit for me because I think I'd do quite well at the intersection of design and engineering – I'm not the person to ask how to shave milliseconds off your DB reads/writes.

I think a pretty obvious move for me to make would be to get an actual job as a developer. I'm working on a freelance project at the moment. But I really want to go work at more interesting places – small to growing startups would be ideal, because that's a place where I can work on product today, while also contributing to strategy for tomorrow. And I'm working on trying to make that happen, but so far I'm mostly getting the silent treatment. I'm not sure how I'd go about presenting myself as an employable self-taught dev. I'd imagine that in India, with its massive supply of CompSci grads, I don't really stand out. I'm more than happy to move elsewhere, but I'd imagine that just adds an unnecessary layer of complexity. Also my professional network in this industry is somewhere between lacking to non-existent. It probably doesn't help that I don't use any personal social media accounts.

Looking forward to your suggestions!
Tampio: An object-oriented programming language made to resemble Finnish
This is a non-reputable, rail-thin analysis by a Koch-funded right-wing think tank (the Manhattan Institute) citing another Koch-funded right-wing think tank (the Heritage Foundation) for supporting data. It is peppered with weasel words ("Some observers blame leftist professors...") and worn-out ideological canards ("helicopter parents," "snowflakes", "illiberal activists who reject open debate and a marketplace of ideas").

I'm seeing a lot of comments pointing out that the thesis of this argument rests on a confusing conflation between "socialism" and "Scandinavian-style social democratic policies." I actually think the article gets this right. American news media and mainstream politicians have spent the entire lifespan of most millennials arguing that the US can't have basic first-world social programs because those programs are "socialist." Whatever one thinks of socialism proper, this is a deliberate rhetorical confusion meant to draw an equivocation between modern European social democratic states, South American socialist states, and communist states like the DPRK. The article reproduces this rhetorical device, then asks why "today's kids love" policies in the massive ideological grab-bag now encompassed by that term. No wonder!
The US government would love nothing more than you wasting its time. I would argue that mutual time wasting is what it perceives to be its primary function.
Where? We've been told it is possible, but I have yet to see a JavaScript exploit that wasn't basically a canned demo.
All in favor of being open about the ups and downs of parenthood. What I do resent is when parents try to make their struggles look like some sort of noble sacrifice they've performed for the greater good, when ultimately having children is just a personal choice they made. I can sympathize up to a point, but when parents complain that they hate their lifestyle (or lack of one) now that they have children, it's hard not to think "well, gee, maybe should've considered that before making such a momentous decision."
They must have changed the response code, because I'm getting HTTP 200 on all requests

$ curl -I https://permanent-redirect.xyz/pages/1515222320
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:07:09 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
I think it's partially a outcome of work getting more specialized. You need to move to find work that's a good fit and you need to move before that to acquire that skill set at a good University. If you don't get very skilled you likely will end up poor at some point which brings its own issues. It's true in any developed country I know of. Fingers crossed that this is temporary till remote work and education becomes the norm and we maybe even get guaranteed basic income.
The non-essential stuff (ex. people asking to "take a quick look" at something) yes, but for anything that still pertains to your task at hand you'll still need to respond. You get the benefit of being able to respond asynchronously, but so does everybody else, which can make a simple conversation (on which your task depends) take days.
This isn't complexity. There's a perfectly straightforward explanation, which is that lots of educated people accept leftism on the merits, and what we're seeing is grasping-at-straws attempts at explaining this politically-incorrect explanation away. Since the "liberal professors" story isn't working out, they need to make up a new one.

Explaining the common cold as the work of Asmodeus instead of the work of Belial isn't a new perspective on the debate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
It's remarkable that anyone could with a straight face say that the drive and desire for children is a "cultural dogma". In the nature vs. nurture debate, not everything is a tie.
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Ethereum's Kodak Moment
We choose to to have a child not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
This is kind of a weird comment. The author wasn't really complaining so much about the physical process of creating a child as much as the burdens and difficulties of raising a child, which would be the same or worse with an adopted child.
Good hint.

I will say, that the "art" is not worth the effort to find the page, but the intrinsic reward of successful sleuthing may be worthwhile.
This will probably get downvoted, but in case anybody is interested here is more information on the source for this article:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute_fo...

It ought to give you an idea about why they're pushing some of these ideas.
Rodenticide is probably cheaper. Dogs have to be fed, watered and cared for.
> Kids today love socialism not because of their radical professors, but because of their radical politicians - namely, those devoting their political careers to destroying what little safety net remains.

That's true, both in part for the reason you describe and also in part because those same politicians have driven a linguistic drift where what would previously be described as “preserving the modern mixed economy against a regress to 19th Century capitalism” is now often , in American political vernacular, “socialism”.

While, sure, that scares some people into conformance with the right-wing program, it also reduces the cognitive distance between preserving the status quo, social democracy, democratic socialism, and even harder-left forms of socialism. When everything they isn't right-wing extremism is “socialism”, the term becomes less scary.
"Social democracy" doesn't mean anything though. The most precise definition I can guess at is something like, ordinary capitalism with a more generous welfare programme than America.

Socialism has a fairly clear definition though. It's only tangentially related to social safety nets and other related things. Socialist countries often have huge wealth disparities and being poor in them is much worse than being poor in America.
The attack relies on side channel attacks, specifically Flush+Reload, which uses timing to find accessed memory locations in another program, as stated in both the paper and this summary. It is definitely relevant.
(Being slightly facetious) This confirms my suspicion that the Telegraph caters to a very small minority:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Christmas+lunc...

Also this:

https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=Christmas%20lun...
I think part of the issue with the self-help approach is that it's trying to solve a problem that results from changes that are systematic and fundamental to the way humans live, and thus which need to be solved at the level of civilization, not the level of the individual.

In other words, individuals can mitigate the effects of these structural changes for themselves, but probably not ultimately resolve them.

While our shift to more or less utilitarian principles and capitalism has yielded large gains in increased production and higher quality of life, we've lost a great majority of the social structures, practices, and institutions that used to infuse life with meaning.

I've been reading a great deal about this recently in the work of Georges Bataille--when you contrast archaic forms of civilization with our own, some of the differences are striking--while we have much better living conditions, our ancestor's lives were generally much richer in structures that produce meaning (ritual, religion, monarchy, family, village...), and I think humanity is still struggling with their loss. Batialle points out how the biblical phrase "man does not live by bread alone" is really a truism about humanity, whether or not you're religious.

Replace "bread" with "material" and you largely have uncovered the problems of modern society--if you examine your familial and personal relationships you'll recognize that, subversively, so many of them are still attached to the acquisition and expenditure of material and are necessarily subordinate to economic mechanisms, and that pretty much all of man's meaning today is reducible to some form of accumulation, quantity, and possession (i.e. getting 'likes' on facebook--even in the digital world, the metaphor is material and centers around accumulation of a phony resource). Man desires sovereignty, but when he reduces himself to nothing more than a means (i.e. a thing that produces and acquires) and builds all his relationships around this principle, he doesn't actually share in any sovereignty--he makes a mechanism of himself.

I think this sort of dynamic is at the root of a lot of contemporary individual unhappiness.

If you take your time with it, reading philosophy will often yield many insights that I find help one not only grow as a person, but better understand one's being in the world. Actually, philosophy was really the original form of self-help for the ancients--only more effective, because it had attendant belief systems and thus was a set of practices suffuse with meaning (i.e. isms, stoicism, platonism, etc.--self-help books generally don't provide an 'ism' and ultimately don't provide a framework for maneuvering through the world, but rather provide ad hoc techniques which crumble quickly when not predicated on an underlying system for understanding phenomena). Old philosophical self-help wasn't merely a collection of tips on how to make your way through capitalist, isolating, hyper-technical systems without offing yourself--which is really what most (NOTE: NOT ALL) 'self-help' amounts to.
I don't have biological children - I was never in a position where I would have considered it a good idea to have them (for various reasons, internal and external), and I've always seen it as about the biggest responsibility that you can have. However, about 9 years ago I met my current girlfriend, who had 4 kids from her 16-year marriage, and I'm now considered by them to be their step-parent.

I remember I found it absolutely exhausting when I first started seeing her - it took a couple of years for that to not be the case - and they are -not- difficult children; quite the opposite, they are all really wonderful, and we generally get on very, VERY well. But it's an immense amount of work, and every time my girlfriend compares herself to where she would have been had she not had children and committed her time to be (what I consider to be) and excellent parent, I have to remind her that she's been a full time + (and then some) parent for about 12 years. Returning to the workplace for her has been difficult as she now works a full time job as well as being a mum - and one who cooks just about every night of the week, and has generally impossibly high standards for herself as a parent; despite her/our eldest now currently studying at Cambridge University.

I can totally understand why some would regret having children; it's presented as being a utopian existence that you get immense satisfaction from in many quarters, and anyone who dares question whether it's the right move for them (or indeed their prospective children) is given short shrift. It's not for everyone, but everyone is expected to have children. I have been given long-winded lectures in the past for not having my own, and I'm sure anyone who dared to question the experience with said inquisitors would have a very hard time!
Exactly right. Even those that think their life would have been better without children likely don't want to hurt the kids they do have.
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At risk of being politically incorrect, China has some of the highest quality human capital in the world per capita. Add in their huge population and they have roughly 20 times the number of people capable of high-level technical research. China, frankly, has little need of immigration. It's technical dominance is assured without it.

This comment from nopinsight goes through the scores:

Key competitive advantages of China are their strength in quantitative skills as well as huge population and the hard working and competitive culture of its populace. An objective measure is PISA results [1]. When comparing with even the best performing US state, Massachusetts, China has many more top performers in Math, as a proportion of population [2].

(In 2015 only four provinces of China participated, but their combined population was 230 million vs Massachusetts's 6.8 million. The math result of Shanghai (24 million pop.) alone would show an even larger gap.)

Since PISA results are scaled such that OECD country's mean is 500 and standard deviation is 100. China's 531 math score implies country mean at 0.3 SD above PISA mean, and US' math score at 470 implies 0.3 SD below mean. If people capable of doing AI research or proper AI implementation need to have math skills at, say, 2 SD above PISA mean, then there will be a tremendous difference in proportion between two populations with 0.6 SD difference. My back-of-the-envelope calculation, assuming above figures, is the difference in proportion will be about five times. But China has more than 4 times the population of the US, so the difference in potential numbers of AI-capable natives could be over 20 times. (Since other provinces may drag down China's mean, it could be a bit less. We'll see soon since China as a whole will participate in 2018.)
It's not so simple, because the concept of parenthood is cultural, so a person grows up under a sort of brainwashing.

Note that brainwashing is not an attribute of the people ("those who like children are brainwashed"), but of the culture, where opposition is rejected. As a matter of fact, people who openly don't like children are (at the very least) frowned upon.

I know at least a couple of fathers who clearly "are not children lovers" (to put it mildy), but they had them, and they even think about having more than one. There's no pressure on them, and they're not fools; they just think it's "the way" - in this perspective, it's no different than a religion.

Probably, a hypothetical world where the opposite would hold true - people would be brainwashed that children are a burden - would be better placed, since only (more) motivated people would be parents.
It's remarkable how closely the evolutions of the facebook "the product" track the evolutions of facebook "the founder". Zuckerberg starts his professional life as a college bro making tools for college bros, then a few steps later he's married and has kids and it's all about family and true connection, less about broadcasting to the world.
The outrage at saying you regret having children seems to me to be evidence that there's a nerve there to hit. It's a bit like accusing 10 supposedly straight people of being secretly gay, and one of them losses their mind screaming denials. 'Methinks he doth protest too much.'

But we've built a society in the west based around worshipping our children. Politicians can do anything if it's "for the children", no matter how draconian or insane. It's rude to ever comment on how someone else chooses to raise their children. It's considered horrible to not do everything you can to make your children happier, better, etc. Better go buy a house with a yard because your kid might want a yard, because everyone knows that kids need yards.

The really interesting question isn't whether it's okay to regret having children- it's what's going to change when society unshackles itself from this strange obsession.
I am 100% fully, completely remote. I love it so much. I don't mind the office but the distractions are brutal and I never get momentum going. Plus the commute. Oh god, the commute. No, I think working remote is much less stressful than the office. If someone calls me and I don't want to talk to them, I don't answer the call. Responding to every ping and call as if your job is on the line is going to stress you out no matter what the environment.
Do you think people shouldn't talk about it?
Is the 'why' explained anywhere in this?
Nothing can prepare you for what it's like to have kids. Since it's essentially a big jump into the unknown, some people will find out (too late) that they were not meant for this. Hence the regrets...
Yes, Canada, the UK, and Australia all have policies to ask travelers for their passwords for laptops/cell phones, and you'll be sent back home (if you're a foreigner) or arrested (if you're a citizen, at least in Canada [1]) if you refuse.

1: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/alain-philippon-to...
https://stellarchain.io/address/GDEQGZ7Y54XPRJOCGSMTTP2Y5WEW...
It's not "self help", but anything by Alan Watts will help you think of "self" in a very different way.

And again, not self-help, but I love recommending Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B Crawford, for reconsidering your relationship with work and finding joy in your career. The full book is worth reading, but this essay link gets the gist of it.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-so...
I think a minority of laptops have soldered-on HDs. More have them hard-attached now than a few years ago (when almost none did), and many recent laptops have "mSATA" connections, which is more like a RAM connection than a cable. You could achieve the same thing with an mSATA connection as you would with unplugging a cable by removing the mSATA drive/card, and applying a thin strip of something non-conductive over the pins, and plugging it back in. Just please don't use something adhesive; the residue after a few applications/removals can screw up connectivity when you want it to work.

That said, I'd imagine there's an economies-of-scale advantage to having soldered-on drives (to say nothing of the economic benefits of un-upgradability: sorry folks, but there aren't enough people to whom part-swap upgrades are important to sway the hardware industry at large on this issue, though a few small manufacturers/lines will probably target that market). As a result, I'd imagine that we'll see more and more of them in years to come, though I'd be happy to be wrong about that.

'course, I don't recommend bringing your data into a country you consider hostile regardless of whether you've set it up so a cursory search doesn't find it. If the country really is hostile to your interests, that won't stop them if they want your info.
The average score of American blacks on IQ tests such as the WISC and Stanford-Binet is about one standard deviation below that of whites, and the performance of blacks on standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT is consistent with that IQ difference. You can debate the origins of the IQ difference, but it does exist.
I'd be interested to see how the age of the children correlates with regret. That is, do parents regret having children when the child is 2? How about 12? How about 22? I don't have a hypothesis on how that would play out, but it is important to remember that people are (ever increasingly) programmed for short term reward and child rearing is the ultimate long term investment.
What is often lost in discussions is that if the individuals are conservative in thought, they more than likely feel a deep obligation to return home to take care of aging parents. Doesn't speak poorly about the US system per se.
Germany has socialistic governance? How so? Germany is famous for holding down wages for years in order to maintain highly competitive export industries. They very much compete on price in the world market and their history is one in which West Germany (capitalism) won out over East Germany (socialism).

How do you figure that the statement in the article is contradicted by Germany? It's quite clear what they mean by socialism - a society explicitly guided by Marxist thought. Germany is the opposite. It's explicitly guided away from Marxist thought.
I like the concept of that book and it does a good job of explaining a very different culture in an approachable way, but its important to point out there is nothing "french" about good child rearing, and nothing "American" about bad parenting. There are plenty of American parents who can make the bold claim that book makes, but there are plenty more who refuse to listen to advice and have very low expectation so of being a parent. There is nothing magical about having your kids sleep through the night, or play quietly, or be able to behave in a public place, or eat the food you give them. You just need to put in the work.
in perl 6 you can quote strings in quite a few ways!

https://docs.perl6.org/language/quoting

"Quoting" is all defined inside of a sub-language called "Q"
Sure these measures exist, but they sort of look arbitrary. They lack the self-adjusting nature of pay-per-view or subscription model.

I know that BBC is financed (partly?) by the TV tax in UK. But BBC is state-run; private companies have harder time.
That's a cool address!
This Photograph is not free (2012)