skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So with the 2 nice persons you hope they don't feel the same way? Interesting ;)
Thanks, fixed. :)
This seems worse in a couple different ways. First imagine a google chrome browser with 8 tabs loaded all the time (i dont know how it choses to load pages but it can't be super clever if you are able to swipe to it that quickly). Sites are not engineered to be friendly in this way, without the Great Suspender chrome would be nearly unusable.

Even if there were a clever way to mitigate the fact that you are loading many pages all the time (often needlessly), you lose the index page which allows you to scan a summary of the content and navigate directly to the page you want to go to. Now you have to swipe through other pages, make a judgement based upon their content alone whether or not its relevant and keep moving.

It does add back in an element of browsing that has not existed since before search engines, but I dont think that was completely the intention?
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Ops, I meant to ask how they were validating academic addresses. I'm actually a postdoc, but my university domain is @upv.es, and I've found that sometimes it doesn't get recognized in American websites which expect a .edu for claiming academic discounts or things like that.

@bringtheaction comment mentioning SWOT is an interesting solution. Although the name of my institution is outdated! I'll send a PR.
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As with my estimate of real-world influencers on HN ("a handful"), I'd suggest there's probably the same amount of "world best software engineers" on HN (and no, I'm definitely not including myself in that.)
One thing that I strongly dislike is the name, upvote.pub. Science is not a popularity contest where the candidate with the most upvotes wins. To me the name suggests that this site is trying too hard to force science into the categories of social media and that it may not be a place for serious discussion. I write this not because I want to be negative but because I know that many of my colleagues will immediately be put off by the name. ResearchGate is also trying to conceptualize academic exchange in terms of the categories of social media and most of my colleagues dislike it. The platform certainly looks like it could be useful but, yes, it's sending mixed signals about the audience and purpose.

Edit: Downvotes? Please explain how I violated the etiquette?
This is a eulogy for the 'headphone jack' and not 'analogue audio out'.

How many Sony Walkman tape players and their clones did I break and where did they break? The headphone jack.

How many headphones have I broken and where did they break? The headphone jack.

As a student playing around 'on the decks' I found that anything with a headphone jack was liable to be responsible for that mains hum.

I have fond memories of using the headphone jack of the 32x CD ROM that was in the front of that 'Compaq' PC that cost many thousands. But when was the last time I touched a CD? So that is another headphone jack we thought we needed but didn't.

Had we moved to a magnetic latch as per the Apple power arrangement then I think that I would have got burned a lot less with the soldering iron and the purchase of hi fi kit and caboodle. Maybe with some optional VGA style screws if you really want the connection locked down hard. This could have been a much more 'jogging friendly' solution, waterproof too.

I mourn the loss of analog audio but not the headphone jack. Maybe the latter is responsible for the demise of the former and maybe there was vested interest in the Walkman era in having the universal but breakable headphone jack.

Incidentally the headphone jack seems much better engineered in computers and phones than in 1980's era Walkman style tape players. Maybe there was some lightbulb style conspiracy to ensure that headphone jacks only lasted '1000 hours' before failing, therefore maintaining sales of new tape players.
I find it fascinating that the music-making market is constantly ignored in the rush to make better consumer devices out of the iPhones/iPads and whatnot of the day .. as a musician with tons of iDevices, and lots of cables, I rue the day I won't be able to get a low-latency, high-power, perfectly usable audio signal from one of my devices. It really seems stupid that this market is being under-represented by the manufacturers .. perhaps they just want to sell more external-audio interfaces?
True, but what are the other relevance factors? It's a black box, and basically ends up being "whatever Facebook deems to be the most profitable content to show you".
There are tons of alternatives to capitalism.

From anarcho-syndicalism and social democracy, to more obscure religious, environmental and so on approaches.
People know roads are dangerous, and they have crash barriers, speed limits etc.
At first glance I cant think of anything I'd want to use less than this. It seems like the result of a "what if the internet was Tinder" pitch deck to marketing-centric investors.

Maybe I'm missing the point as it seems to me like the only results from this design getting traction would be that mobile data use will sky-rocket and stuffing ads into the top of pages would become the norm.

It seems incredibly person hostile.
> he wishes he could change it but the a/b testing shows they get higher engagement with it the way it is

The upshot of this is that if Netflix or Facebook _do_ see a slow drift of users away from the platform, they are institutionally incapable of understanding why. Engagement is not the same thing as satisfaction, which is far harder to measure.

(I'm also now wondering how static the results of A/B testing really are - if an idea fails AB even once does the company abandon it forever?)
Good thing ISIS aren't known for having internet access...
"want" vs. "like", isn't it still just willen in het Nederlands?

I seem to recall hearing "wat kan ik voor u doen?" or "wat willen jullie drinken?" for example. I'm still learning Dutch, but neither of those carries more or less directness or softness to me.
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Not to forget that wireless connections are less reliable, esp with a lot of devices or other sources nearby. Switching headphones off with cable is much faster than with bluetooth (just unplug it) and quality is about as good as it gets.
We used to let people smoke indoors, but that changed in some places, and you aren't allowed to smoke if the area is v enclosed. Maybe those other things will change too. Are people w nut allergies sensitive to the presence of nuts nearby?
Ask HN: What is the term“secure quality delivery” means for updating Nokia oreo?
Taxis aren’t that expensive in Finland compared to other Nordic countries or countries with similar living costs as Finland.

Swedish taxis are unregulated and there fares have risen faster than in Finland.

And Uber as a ride hailing service was perfectly legal in Finland. The issue was they were hiring drivers that didn’t have taxi permits (and didn’t pay taxes).
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This isn't a new, licensable or patentable idea - there are tons of apps out there that allow you to swipe to view different web pages.
I don't think it is necessarily hypocrisy, there are several ways to tell the truth.

When one cannot be polite, soft spoken, considerate, or just lacks tact, one can always go the Dutch way. Why bother?
I would also like to understand the licensing and how to host the resulting files myself.
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In Rotterdam and The Hague they're probably more direct, but the people in Amsterdam are just better at PR and marketing themselves :-)
>they all speak bad English

I wouldn't say bad, but I would say it is often spoken without the nuance of a native speaker. In my experience Dutch peoples' English is strongly influenced by Dutch.
Maybe if we switch from headphone jacks to a comparable digital method. But headphone jack to Bluetooth tends to create more problems than it solves, in my opinion. The only situation where wireless has clear advantages is when cable creates additional noise (e.g. running).
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declare -a myArray=("foo" "bar" "baz")

echo "${myArray[2]}"

Bash is weird.
I was at eBay when they split up into eBay and Paypal, and everyone at Paypal was so happy to ditch the slow growing eBay.

I've said wait until eBay ditches Paypal, you will lose many users. Well noone cared and I guess all people involved got their bonus payed and left.
> P.S. Today, we're also introducing Telegram X for Android, a new official app.

What is wrong with the current app? Or was that not official? I find it better than the Facebook Messenger (light or not) and it's definitely much better than the Hangouts app from Google.
I'm a Yorkshireman. We have a reputation within the UK for being plain-spoken and direct as well. It goes without saying that I prefer it to "mealy-mouthed" speech that doesn't get to the point.
Having grown up with 1/4 Belgian and 3/4 Dutch culture I can very much confirm.

For me, the main thing is that the Dutch simply don't layer their speech whereas in most other cultures there is huge difference between what's being said and what is really meant by that.

In Dutch culture that basically doesn't exist except at levels where it's inevitable (politics, upper management) and even there it's much less subtle than it would be elsewhere and you need to carefully calibrate to see if your conversation partner picks up on it or not.

Given that there is no such double/hidden layer to use it's no surprise that we inevitably became more blunt and direct.

Perhaps it's a result from our long history as traders and the realization we can't possibly manage double/hidden layers for all the cultures we interacted with and thus ended up throwing out the concept altogether.
it would ultimately more fruitful to treat irony as a semantic phenomenon, as belonging to the spectrum of tropes such as metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche. how should treating it as a violation tell you more about how it works?
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It's not Dutch that are direct. It's Brits that are indirect.
As one lad from England told me: "If you cycle to work, forget to shower and stinks, no one would say anything to you, but they would report you to the manager :)"
The productivity drop I see is that machines spiking CPU and apps like sketch struggling to keep up with updates and refresh. When that starts then devs and designers start tweaking settings and googling answers and boom. 1 hour gone to IT issues. Swapping adapters. Swapping cables. Cycle continues...
> not sure why this something the NY times would care about?

They're just looking for any blame they can shift for their culpability in helping throw the 2016 POTUS election to Trump.
They called it Cake cause it's a lie, right? I bet they think they can eat their Cake and have it, too.
Since python3.6 it's just subprocess.run(). The SP module was refactored. I hope that eliminates the need for all these annoying (IMHO) wrappers.
I've used this on the Mac and it is good enough for me - putting titles on videos before uploading to YouTube (I sometimes do a video of playing an instrument).

It is better than iMovie in this regard because it doesn't require copying the giant file into some "project" directory like iMovie seems to.
Premiums are so high because the insurance companies can get away with charging that much, especially when they’re charging a large company and the individual doesn’t even realize how high the premium actually is.

Similarly, costs are high because pharma and healthcare companies can charge that much. An insured patient, past a certain point, is price insensitive, since their insurance pays the bill. So why wouldn’t healthcare providers charge as much as possible? Raising price does not lower demand. The worst that happens is the insurance company disputes it, but that process is post-facto and there is no mechanism to punish providers for overcharging, so they have an incentive to “shoot first, ask questions later” when setting prices.

As an anecdote, I knew a guy who ran a “compounding pharmacy” business. Basically he mixed together multiple prescriptions into one or a few pills, for e.g. elderly people who would rather take one pill than twenty. When the insurance companies asked him to price each pill, they had no reference for how much it cost — each compound drug he made was effectively a “new drug.” The insurance companies asked him how much it cost and he was literally able to name his price.
...And we're back! Hopefully it should stay up now.
Nice app, but why does it need $5M?
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See also a recent submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273170

I wonder what's the story behind it, is it real or fake, and is there an original (non-gif) video.
The iOS version of Telegram and Telegram X are currently not available in the Appstore.

It should be resolved soon: https://twitter.com/durov/status/958990254396059648
Data is the new lifeblood of capitalism – don't hand corporate America control
Please could you make the Linux version easier to consume? Either a deb/rpm package and perhaps a docker image? :)

At the moment, it is pretty unclear of the exact install process!
EBay to drop PayPal as its primary payment processor
Yeah, this is an NK cell triggering an apoptotic (self-destruct) response in a cancer cell. So it's basically sending a kill-signal to the cancer cell, which then kills itself. This doesn't work for all cancers, though. In fact, one hallmark of cancer is unresponsiveness to apoptotic triggers.
"Good life" compared to US allies Saudia Arabia, or a host of other states ignored by the Cato institute.
When I see job descriptions like this, I think one of two things: (1) either they don't know who they want, or (2) they don't know what they are making. Part of me wonders if they are trying to convey how smart and relevant they are. Of, perhaps, this is what happens when you write content with SEO in mind.

My personal red flag is the 'development certification'. Most of the certifications I have seen are more about the appearance of expertise than having actual expertise. This is something that you almost exclusively see in large bureaucracies, which leads me to believe that (1) -- they don't know who they want -- is the case and they are using a scatter-shot approach.
The literal translation of "What do you want?" is "Wat wil je?", and this is considered impolite. You're unlikely to hear this from a Dutch waiter. You might hear "Wat wilt u?", but even this is rather curtly. The words "je" and "u" both get translated to "you" in English. "U" signifies respect.
PowerShell on Windows is the only production system that I have used which passes "objects" through pipes.

It's a challenge for me to use well; not sure all that richness is composable. Better programmers than I am would know.
A slippery slope to a worse name? I thought it was pretty slick......

I jest.
> experiments such as showing short posts in large font sizes

While we're complaining, the Javascript associated with this is particularly slow. On clicking into the text entry box, I find that if I start typing immediately it can result in the letters coming out in the wrong order when it resets the caret.
Yes once a drug goes off patent and becomes generic then lots of drug companies will pick it up and start making it, but no new drugs are developed these days without patent protection.

Of course if you wanted to you could make this treatment yourself - it is not that complex.
>No-one uses white to mean "not black"

Well, in Europe (and hopefully modern US) white includes the peoples not considered black (or asian etc).

Arabs for example are still white, Egyptians too, etc. Outside of racist circles were only WASPs or northern europeans were considered white (which was historically the case for most of the 20th century where white was hijacked for "northern European ancestry").

Egyptians for example, are also white. As are Arabs, middle eastern people, etc. But e.g. Ethiopians, or Ghana people are not (the majority of course, not that all citizens are not).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancien...

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/07/arabs-white...
Title is misleading, I think. You can only build your own client.
Paypal's future will be cross-border and online shopping stuff.

For example, CC ownership in the EU is nowhere near as widespread as in the US, and SEPA direct debit (Lastschrift) is a bureaucracy/maintenance nightmare for merchants: basically, you have to archive the SEPA direct debit authorization for every customer and keep it on file, and you have to store the real name, address etc. of the user, even if you otherwise would not need it at all. And in the event that the debit process fails (it's not instantaneous, it takes a couple days to clear in addition) you have to hunt after the customer to get your money.

With Paypal, you essentially have your money a) guaranteed (because Paypal will deal with a debit failure, not you) b) instantaneously available c) without the need to securely store sensitive account data of your customers. Downside is buyer's protection stuff and Paypal's sometimes wildly inconsistent policy enforcement.
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I hope it's intentionally, but you've proven exactly the parent's point: it is all nice and good to be able to speak your mind and the ones who are offended are to blame (which you seem to underwrite with the hear hear comment), until someone is blunt and direct to "you". Then it gets personal and nasty real quick.

Thing is, being open / honest sometimes triggers emotion and does not stimulate discussion or progress.

My experience (source: being Dutch / Swiss-German) is that it really really matters not only what is being said or even how true it is, a very important aspect is what / how the receiver interprets the message. When I am with my Dutch (Amsterdammer) family and friends, we are direct in a very specific way about specific subjects. Being with my Swiss-German family and friends we are too: but on different subjects and in different wording.

Just like humor translates lousy, so do nuance and social etiquettes.
> Maybe there was some lightbulb style conspiracy to ensure that headphone jacks only lasted '1000 hours' before failing

Jogging damages them.
a direct translation of the Dutch "wat wilt u hebben?"

Although I'm not a Dutch speaker I'd suggest that would be "What will you have?".
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Depends on where in Sweden. Salaries in Stockholm are higher than the rest. I live in southern sweden, entry level is just over 30'SEK (USD4000), senior over 40' (USD5000). Varies from company to company and by industry etc. But around that ballpark generally
The target audience is anyone interested in discussing academic preprints/publications. Currently, it is restricted to only academic emails but I am hoping to open it up to anyone. Clearly, that will likely draw in scientists but I'd like anyone that wants to participate to be able to.
The problem with bit flips is that they accumulate in high uptime systems.

If you reboot your PC at least once every week it's not going to be a problem.
I also find the examples in this article a bit lacking in applicability to the subject. Not helping someone in the supermarket and being loud in the train have nothing to do with directness. However, I do believe they are Dutch traits as well (arrogance and unwillingness to serve).

We have some of the worst waiters; our (Dutch people) views of equality as being one of the most important things in society, render us unable to serve people, or to be served by others in fact. There always is some awkwardness with regards to the position of the server and the person being served. That is also why we have resolved into over automating everything in restaurants and why most waiting staff are students. Compare this to countries like France and Italy where waiting is a true profession.

In line with the 'people from Amsterdam are the most direct': I think "people from Amsterdam are the worst" is probably a more accurate statement. People who aren't from Amsterdam often state 'Amsterdam is a great city, too bad of all of those people who live there'.
I agree with this speaker, I would rather see an excerpt from the abstract then a thumbnail.
It's much better to the distinguish paywalled content in another way, as I user I didn't get that association at all, rather add some paywall icon (maybe a warning-sign or a cross) in a colour associated with warning or danger i.e. red or yellow (think traffic lights, paywall is a stop).
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There is a snap package, does that not work for you?
I was going for "Wat mag het zijn?" which is something I hear a lot when going out, but is hard to translate. I thought the distinction between want and like in English conveys a similar idea.
Can you make it easy to get payments from other companies (the other end of vendor payments) ?
> Professor Goldman may be an expert but on IP law but his understanding of invasion of privacy law leaves a bit to be desired...Invasion of privacy doesn't require an actual invasion into a person's private life. It includes publicizing a person in a false light and appropriating their name, both of which would apply to deep fakes.

It's not clear to me where Goldman says anything that disagrees with that. Are you sure it was something Goldman said that you are disagreeing with, or was it the quote "You can’t sue someone for exposing the intimate details of your life when it’s not your life they’re exposing"?

If the latter, that is not Goldman. That is quoting the Wired article that the submitted article cites.
The Apple dongle is just an external DAC(someone put the circuit in a phone) and costs $10US.
Libertarianism is fairly focused on property rights, otherwise it would just be anarchy. Hard to combine that with a communist economy.