skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The distinction between dialects and languages is always rather dodgy and politically loaded (as anyone who uses the words "Chinese Language" soon finds out). One of the better working definitions I've seen is that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy" -- which would explain why Hindi and Urdu get to be separate languages, but Bhojpuri is sometimes counted as a dialect. Anyhow, I personally am happy to respect both political and practical labelling of things as "language", so if its community of speakers think of something as a separate language then I'll respect that. A dialect may have different inflections and word-usages, but remains mutually comprehensible and is thought of as the same language by its community of speakers. By these definitions, there are roughly 1,600 languages in India[1], and perhaps twice as many dialects.

Anyhow, for Saurashtra, I really did mean "language" and not "dialect". Honestly it's not a typical example of India, but is fun to use for dramatic effect. You know those 500 princely states that existed before unification? 200 of them were in Saurashtra (which is tiny). Politically, it was basically the India of India.

The linguistics seem to reflect that. At one point I recall finding myself in a tiny village somewhere near Dwarka where the residents spoke something completely baffling to me, with not a shred of English or Hindi or Gujarati in the mix. I was completely out of luck communicating with the locals, and had to rely on passing bus drivers for orientation. Later I read a book which said that there were a handful of tiny little Dravidian isolate languages scattered around Saurashtra; I must have stumbled across one of those. The claim of "50 languages" comes from that book, whatever it was. Feels about right, based on personal experience, but I can't really defend the claim beyond that.

(Also I should re-iterate that this was almost 20 years ago, and I very much doubt that there are any places so isolated today.)

1: Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India: 122 major languages and 1599 minor languages counted in the 2001 census.
Ask HN: Is it ok to use investopedia as source of your financial know how?
I think the description above the fold should be more detailed about the purpose than just making things "smart".

I also doubt that whoever randomly comes across a tagged object will want to install your app to contact the owner, so I hope you're making sure that the QR code points to a website that can be used without the app.

But I'm not a potential customer, so if you have actual user studies then ignore what I said.
Vacation: Paid time off that is separate from sick time or holidays. If you get sick, you get “extra” paid days off.

PTO: Paid time off, including vacation+sick time.

In the US, a lot a jobs don’t offer “sick days”. Instead you just get N days to be absent from work with pay (PTO).
In Pursuit of Open Source
If you're by yourself, using spreadsheets and nmap is usually fine. If you're working in a team of 5 or 10 or 50 sysadmins, spreadsheets turn into a huge mess. You either have to distribute them via mail etc. after every change, but then you will have concurrent edits that need to be merged manually. Or you put the spreadsheets on a network share with file locking, but then it will always be locked when you want to edit it because someone is working on an entirely unrelated part of the infrastructure.

So you have exactly those sorts of problems that RDBMS are designed to solve. Therefore it makes sense to move to a DCIM system using an RDBMS under the hood, that allows for concurrent edits, and also can be accessed by automation (cronjobs, CI, etc.) via some sort of API (or direct DB read access).
As a user Paypal is much more convenient than entering credit card info. With Paypal One Touch it's usually as little as 2 clicks (one to say pay with Paypal, one to approve).
I don’t really care about ads, I care about the tracking that comes with ads. This only makes that much worse because it only works while logged in.

I’ll accept reasonable ads hosted by the site I’m visiting but ad networks that want to follow me around the web get blocked.
It's something I butted up against several times in my previous role (hence now why I'm a "former" CMO...).

I worked at a group fitness company, really great concept which blends play and HIIT to create an inclusive, fun workout (essentially running around like children in sharp bursts, which is ultra effective). I kept trying to push the notion that we shouldn't be trying to convince people that they hate the gym, or that they should embrace group exercise when it's not right for them.

However, it's worth noting that broadly, the numbers back it up that the majority of people just don't like the gym regime. Churn, vacancy rates, MRR... all point to people trying to force themselves to do it, and then give up because they don't like it (50% will quit before 6 months - sure, it might be they achieve their goals in that time, but attendance rates would probably indicate otherwise).

My main critique of the piece is the lack of awareness that things like Zumba are specifically group exercises, randomly dancing in a normal gym is like body-popping in a morgue - if that's what you want to do, do it in a different place.

As ever with opinion pieces like the article, one person bemoaning other people's workouts isn't helpful. It's almost as if we are an amazingly diverse species with different drivers and motivations, isn't it?
What of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_time_off is not clear? It points out that there is no federal requirement for vacation time (which your country may have), and gives a set of both pros and cons.
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Snips open sources their Natural Language Understanding service, built in Rust
Re. frozen funds. As a merchant it is important to sweep the account regularly (daily/weekly) and avoid building up large balances.
Assuming the species is worth saving.
Dayton Miller's experiment to “prove” the theory of relativity incorrect
> I don't know that I have a better design in mind

Simple: usernames. Humans are not phone numbers. Phone numbers are the IP addresses of legacy phone networks.
Web APIs explained by selling goods from your farm
Telegram's E2E is also crap and shouldn't be used[0]

0: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/49802
They said they compared EXIF metadata, so they should know when each of the shots were taken. I'm not a photographer and don't know what level of detail is recorded there, though.
Proseline is the collaborating parts of Docs without the complex, Word-like parts of Docs.

Google Docs has 'Full Screen Mode' in the View menu that hides all the Word-like menus and functions as a very useful distraction-free UI.
You don't even need any fancy image optimizer, just loading and resaving it in a basic paint program is enough to reduce it to <400K.

I'm guessing the image file on the site has been saved without compression enabled. It's noticeably slow to load. Not only that, but it reloads every time I visit the page, so they might want to sort out their caching policy too.
Axl Rose Called Apple CEO Tim Cook 'the Donald Trump of the Music Industry'
Yes, but they don't necessarily know how you specifically will act. It's better to just assume that having a positive and happy discussion is better.
Gocardless has an API to make direct debit fairly easy for most of europe.

It's only really good for subscriptions rather than one off payments though. Not knowing if the payment was successful for 5 days is probably the biggest downside. Very low fees and low churn is the upside.
I keep SharkBite ball valves on hand in every pipe diameter in my house. Twice now I've had some sort of minor plumbing "emergency" (leaking appliances) that would have required shutting the water off for a day or more until I could get it repaired. Having the SharkBites on hand meant I could just stick one in-line on that branch and leave the rest of the water on while I sorted out the issue.
Thank you for your feedback. I'll try to clarify that description. It works fully on mobile browser. The app is an addition, since it allows to use the phone's flashlight in the dark.

Also any qr code reader will work as well.
Personal itch scratching is one strategy but scratching other people's itches is rather a good one too.
Microsoft ships also desktop and mobile OSes that ignore Vulkan.

Vulkan works only on desktop thanks to the same ICD model as OpenGL, which isn't currently supported on UWP.
I don't think Direct Debit is a thing in the US.
Trustico Update: 19K Compromised Private Keys Still Exposed – Venafi
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> Nearly 50 languages are indigenous to that one region alone. Not dialects.

Just nitpicking, but the distinction is entirely political. In China, people speak Chinese dialects, that are much more diverse than the difference between the Danish language and the Swedish language.

Since China wants to look united, these are "dialects", while Denmark and Sweden wants to be separate sovereign nations they want to have distinct languages, so Danish and Swedish are not some Scandinavian dialects.
I know the slightest glimse of death later last year when my parents came to visit me in the US. We had a great time, but I know they're living on borrowed time. I just hope I could do more for them. I am 30 now and my mind still can't make peace with that.

You're a strong person.
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So a friend and I recently launched a crypto newsletter: we curate the top stories of the day, summarize them in 400 characters news bites and email them to you once per day. No bias, trading or price action talk. fundamentals only.

Here's today’s newsletter so you can see the style and type of content we're curating:
https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=6fd84371154acc769ed5664...

Would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, thoughts & questions. Hope you all find it valuable <3
I'm hoping humans colonize space with entire ecosystems, not just ourselves.
Now you're asking something else than what was originally asked.

They might say good things about their job because of the incentives to be positive and fear or losing the job. That's one argument that can be made, which I think is probably at least somewhat true: they might not like their job, but they won't admit it.

What you're saying now is something else (if I understood correctly) - you're saying they only think good things about their job, because they can't get another job. That's a totally different thing! That argument is: they like their job, but for specific reasons. An argument I find a lot less compelling (because it's always true!).
I was thinking a Raspberry Pi W is practically a similar enough form factor for this as well. Some HN'ers might even have one or two of these laying around doing nothing better, so it may work out for them :)
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Isn't this just Cramer's transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation
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Off topic, but I am trying to get my head around the photo #14, it's almost like an optical illusion but not quite!
Looks almost like a photo that has been mirrored vertically but since the men are in different position, the halves must be different photos (one mirrored). How did you get the hoses line up at the middle position?
I'd like to hear how this photo was created!
Google has funded Tiltbrush and Blocks and released it for every VR platform. We need to grow the industry. But this isn't their biggest problem - that would be their extremely walled-off app store. Oculus must still see their platform as a kind of gaming console and not the future of computing? What a shame.
I wasn't describing that with the intent of laundering money, I mean simply having money in a different jurisdiction and using it locally. I can use my cards from different countries (I've lived in a bunch of different places) pretty much anywhere around the world, the money I have there in those currencies is subject first and foremost to local laws.
So in the end including your taxes, you have 29k to live with (19k if you remove the rent) while costing 75k to your employer.

Ladies and gentlemen of the world, this is what is costs to have our (indeed very nice) social security/health insurance !
I'm reminded of that quote by Gordon Letwin talking about software bugs and rare events - "in our business one in a million is next Tuesday"

This was the next Tuesday of the photography world.
I see, I was unaware of that.
It's more general than that, and also Price and Wharton don't entirely agree with Cramer about what needs to be proved, but it's similar, yes. It's inferior to the Transactional theory in one way, which is that Cramer's exposition of his theory comes with pictures of elephants.
Disrupt, innovate, first-mover advantage, growth marketing, yadaa-yadaa.
Because Python 2 already has an end of life date. You should no longer use Python 2.
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If anyone is interested, I recommend the nearly 18-hr PBS documentary on New York City [1], especially the latter parts (6 & 7) which focus on the building boom and the obsessions of Robert Moses [2].

Part 7 in particular (57 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaLSRTNT5fw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York:_A_Documentary_Film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
I applaud the effort, however, I was expecting that you would have a business model, not 1-off revenue from a sponsor. You could argue sponsorship is a business model, but it is certainly not a scaleable one at the level of impressions or unique views your business has.

/rant

Nonetheless, great work and congrats on getting the idea off the ground. It's still impressive to get so much attention and I can empathize with the problem you are solving.
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Yes, when looking more thoroughly I could recognize the waves in the two images, indeed moved quite a bit.
> Programming tutorials for "Python" muddy the search-query waters and make it difficult for beginners to find specific information.

Yeah, very true. Finding latest programming courses and tutorials is a pain on Google Search. We are making Hackr.io as a better alternative for online programming tutorial search. For Python: https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-python
Who cares about "main API"? Switch supports Vulkan, even got a certification: https://www.khronos.org/conformance/adopters/conformant-prod...
>If it's about making it easy for uninitiated collaborators to add new source files, then the listed build description format is pretty self-explanatory to use.

If you write a generic makefile the uninitiated collaborator doesn't have to do anything to add new source files.
Yeah, roughly the same 1/100th of a second seems more likely.
In its first year social platform GirlCrew spent only $60 here how they did it
Windows 10 update will bring a dedicated AI platform for developers
Obligatory plug for Tox.

http://tox.chat

A lot of countries require require registering the phone number to your name.

Relying on phone numbers as uniqie identifiers especially in "crypto" hipster apps (Signal) is stupid bordering on malicious
NSA dump contains tools developed by Territorial Dispute to track hackers
I'm not blind, but I have a blind PhD. He seems most happy with just straight latex. I suspect this is because it strikes a good balance between requiring little work for him, or others, as it usually already exists.
Does Remote Work Promise to Destroy Misogyny in Tech?
I still think "how have you checked" is a fair question.
The nearest equivalent in the US is ACH - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Clearing_House
Of course. But that's an engineering problem worthy of the name (cache-invalidation and whatnot).
Basic Category Theory Terms
Hippocampal neurogenesis in children drops to undetectable levels in adults
When Boris Johnson, Britain’s Minister of Magical Thinking, Explained Brexit
My take - if you didn't test your app in nodr loss scenario, you are likely to lose data when that happens, even if your DB won't.
I consider censorship a much greater threat to people's lives than pornography.
> But many of these decisions-- dropping Google Reader, the trend to ditch the headphone jack, and now Slack killing IRC-- seem to be made for no apparent logic reason, and giving some bullshit excuse like "security reasons."

Google Reader didn't bring Google more money, even indirectly. Removing the headphone jack leads to less cables and less open holes in the device. Slack's IRC gateway wasn't very good, and nobody used it, plus its existence allows easy circumvention of some paid tier features, like logging.

Everything has a reason, even if you might not like the reasoning.
I don't understand. Isn't action at a distance this: you take red and green marble and randomly put them in two bags. You take one bag with you to Pluto. Then you open the bag and see the red one, now you instantly know what marble is in the bag that stayed on Earth. This doesn't break any law so what's the problem?
EU plans 2% turnover tax for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon
Cue the Republican jokes about this being manmade :)
Y'all didn't cite some extremely relevant work:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00572
(disclaimer - they're from my lab)
There's an exception to that: most European microstates adopted the Euro but aren't part of the Eurozone (nor the EU) and have no power in decisions made about it. Of course I concede that microstates have unique properties that break away from most considerations that are applicable to "typical" sovereign nations but it's not as clear-cut as you describe.
Minimum Viable Product in Software Development and MVP Estimating for Startups
Custom bicycle builds by people on a curated, growing list
How to make social auth less infuriating
This is a really weird, but really neat concept. Where hidden variable theories assert that the state of a particle is fixed at any given point in time (but that quantum descriptions don't fully capture this state), retrocausality seems to say that the state of a particle is under-determined at any given point in time, and when the undetermined fragment of state is needed to determine the outcome of some future experiment, the result of the experiment adds information to the past in a consistent manner. But this has the side-effect of correlating all experiments that depend on this state!

I think this also clarifies why retrocausality doesn't allow information to be transmitted back in time. Every observation on the under-determined state in the past by definition doesn't rely on the undetermined fragment, and hence is consistent with whatever choice occurs in the future. There's some flavor of monotonicity here, but it's pretty bizzare!
man, i'm actually a huge fan of barbara ehrenreich (especially nickel-and-dimed), but i feel like i could write an article like this about any subject. for instance, here the subject is some people who are trying to be more healthy and take care of themselves. but it's made sinister through some sprinkling of conventional villains (humorless gym owners, corporations with fitness programs), a caricature (people tracking their workouts on clipboards) and some topical/social-justice tie-in (people who cannot afford gyms, headphones that remove you from normal interaction).

i can do this as easily for, say, education. you thought it was about people trying to learn stuff, but it's actually about drones doing rote memorization in ivory towers (which the urban poor can ill-afford), all for the benefit of soul-sucking corporations which will use that knowledge to destroy the world, even while the system oppresses those same students through massive loan debt.

or, how about programming? you thought it was about having fun creating stuff that people find useful, but it's actually about pencil-necked dweebs who got abused in high school and are now taking their revenge on the world through will-sapping social networks, even while the government lets them steal your private data consequence-free and lets them get so rich they all buy teslas (which the urban poor can ill-afford)

someone give me a topic, any topic! i can make it so sinister and hateful you'll soon be too afraid/cynical to do anything more than cower in your basement -- which, you thought it was just cowering in your basement, but it's actually about sociopathic loners hiding from the world, probably polishing assault weapons and stockpiling canned goods (which the urban poor can ill-afford) while forgoing their sacred duty to vote, thus allowing republicans and corporations to pillage the world

this really brings home for me why kim stanley robinson avoids writing dystopias.
Apple is known for giving large apps (eg Uber and their whole screen recording, even outside of the app) special, hidden entitlements though.
...it's yours forever until it becomes Google's forever ;)
Ask HN: Is Dotnet Core mature enough for production use in a startup?
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. AirBNB is a blight on rural areas (I can speak to this because I reside in rural Scotland) where affordable rental properties are simply disappearing from the market. These properties are barely fully booked during the summer months or holiday/peak seasons, and are empty for weeks at a time in the winter and off-seasons.

This is such a waste and hugely frustrating for folks who live and work in these communities trying to find accomodation.
Actually, iCloud backups are not end to end encrypted, which is a massive hole in Apple's privacy stance.
I am referring not just to PayPal users, but those that would refuse to pay a given site for a service they need unless they offer PayPal. The combination of being a “difficult” customer along with the risks of using PayPal in general simply make it not worth it to allow those people to become customers. You may be an exception to the rule, but overall it’s simply a losing proposition for the merchant.
The author addresses the displacement of the foreground waves: "I know those things are easily moved using the clone stamp in Photoshop", and he demonstrates it in the accompanying video.
I've experienced that type of issue a couple of times when using antivirus software.
I doubt Twilio would do something malicious, but you're still technically not wrong, of course do you trust your browser plugins not to maliciously change your clipboard contents? ;)
The number might sound "big" to the uninitiated but due to the mechanics of leg press it's less impressive than being able to get out of bed. There is no way this guy has ever lifted anything.
One thing that 4chan did right is the /catalog/, showing where are that recurring threads.

HN only has new, show, ask hn, jobs etc.
I don't think the birthday paradox applies here. The birthday paradox requires a discrete set of pigeon holes, days of year, etc. If that set is infinite, then the countability [1] problem collapses.

While technically the world is discrete in space and time (planck length), for all intents and purposes it is infinite in practice.

[1] yes, there is countably infinite, but that doesn't work with the pigeon hole problem.
I see it being used more & more in production after an internal test. 1 of the companies has > 1000 employees.

As i assume, they have testing thoroughly after they are moving it to production applications.

To answer your question: Yes
>One of my biggest failures is the lack of structure bled into my studies when I needed my studies to propel me forward. These kids did all the same fun things as me, but played a couple less video games (experiences I have forgotten) and took far less time reading Digg.com and Reddit (Yet know just as much as I do about news).

Exactly, I have the same regret