skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They provide some further visual disambiguation. But still, even if they are mere “style”, style matters. For long ages now those quotation marks – and many other features (take a look at e.g. Oxford University Press’s in-house style guide) – have been a feature of professional English-language typesetting. The public has grown used to them, and typesetting that fails to employ such things tends to look cheap and amateur (and therefore untrustworthy and not worth buying or citing) to a readership that publishers are trying to target.
Other interesting rebracketing/juncture loss:

an napron => an apron

a nauger => an auger

a nadder => an adder

And there's probably a bunch more for future centuries [1].

[1] https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
The internet has given impetus to the global adoption of English becuase that is how most of the internet's functionality is exposed.

The internet supports many languages, but if you want the latest/best/coolest stuff tends to appear in English, especially for young people, but they are the ones who are most likely to adopt a new language.
This comment may be crude, but he might just be referring to Dutch disease in a crude way
> "Because terrism"

Sincere question: what are you conveying by using that spelling of (I assume) "terrorism"?
None of those things retain much value after years of use: they become obsolete, and they can't be recycled.
As a network engineer, with 'enable' on a lot of the bare metal devices that actually run the cloud...

This is why I don't put anything that I care about on a service or system I don't control. If I want to host videos I care about staying online, they live on a VM configured for a pretty common LAMP stack which exists on a hypervisor that I own and control down to the bare metal and the contract for the colo rack space and 208VAC power.

Using this example, that same 1RU system has a connection to an ISP that I know and trust. It's not going to go offline unless I were to do something so terribly abusive (in terms of network abuse) or illegal that it would cause them to admin down the 1000BaseT port facing it. Or it could theoretically go offline if I used it for illegal outbound network activity and somebody from the local FBI field office showed up with a warrant to take it (again highly unlikely, because I don't do that shit). Those are just about the only circumstances in which a third party could bring it offline.
> an iPhone but I’ll be damned if I’ll let Apple dictate my web browser therefore I use Firefox and apps that play along with it

AFAIK all iOS web browsers must use WebKit so really are little more than a shell on top of Safari.
Companies actually do this behind the scenes. They list individual employees as financial assets.
How the Brain Helps You Sing or Say What You Mean
We have too much of this saccharin sweet but vacuous tech support. What you really need to do is.

1) Be polite even when they are not. (The authors approach of doing this makes you sound like a teenager trying to take the car on a date, skip it)

2) hear what the customer is really saying not what you think they are saying. Don't immediately bucket them.

3) Calm the customer down. "Yes Ma'am, I don't know why it isn't working but we are going to fix it. I just need to ask a few questions..."

4) Don't waste the customer's time. This is a big one. Your staff should not be constantly calling for a manager. They should be trained before they go online.

Everything else is just trying to cover for the fact that you can't seem to do your job. If you are rude, gruff, and speak with a funny accent they will love you if you solve their problem.
In many European countries, you cannot get a good job (like one with an international company) unless you can communicate in English at CEFRL B1 proficiency [1].

China may very well become the largest economy in the world, and there is no way that Chinese, as a multi-toned, symbolic language, will ever become the Lingua franca, as it is near impossible for most adults to learn, in contrast to English [2].

It can be argued that the European Union has failed/is failing, at least partially, because of a lack of a common language. In the peak periods of the Roman Empire, Latin was the Lingua franca that enabled business transactions, along with Roman law, the precursors of civil law as a framework.

In many states in India, people speak many languages just to navigate life on a daily basis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R...

[2]
http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
Go does not exist to raise the profiles of Sam Boyer and Peter Bourgon. Sam wanted to be a Big Man On Campus in the Go community and had to learn the hard way what the D in BDFL means. The state of dep is the same as it was before - an optional tool you might use or might not.

Lots of mentions in Peter's post about things the "dep committee" may or may not have agreed with. Isn't this the same appeal to authority he is throwing at Russ? When did the "dep committee" become the gatekeepers of Go dependency discussions and solutions? Looks like a self-elected shadow government, except it didn't have a "commit bit". Someone should have burst their balloon earlier, that is the only fault here. Russ, you are at fault for leading these people on.

Go is better off with Russ's module work and I personally don't care if Sam and Peter are disgruntled.
Microsoft Teams is currently on for 125,000 companies, with a customer base of 100 million in said market. To act like they can't easily "win" or cut slack apart is crazy. This article makes no sense at all.
Is the thrifty MP user the same one that buys overpriced stuff from concession stands, though? I suspect the old candy in the pocket ahead of time trick would be in use.
The story quotes Trump directly as making that claim.
Hah, I grew up off of that stop. Used to be kind of a forgotten part of town.

Haven't lived in NYC for more than a decade, it's a shame to hear how far downhill the subway has gone.
would be nice if plots scale according to terminal width, so they fit in the screen without line wrapping :)
> Opening a second account is probably a bad idea: One day some algorithm will find out and either merge them or simply nuke both.

Nuking both would be nuts except in extreme edge cases. It could potentially nuke the accounts of all spouses and parents and kids who share a laptop at home. Granted, everyone has their own writing style and computers seem good at identifying text written by people based on the latter, but that's still a big risk for the tech company.
Bing works just fine, but people don't use it because it's not what they're used to. Rarely does Google have an actual monopoly where new competitors can't enter the field - in fact, for every Google product I can give you a viable alternative. The only difference is that Google is winning.
Mandarin is hamstrung by an impossible writing system, even in its various alphabetization schemes, so I do not see that as a reasonable winner. It simply requires too great an effort to reach functional levels of reading and writing proficiency, compared to competitors.
Lead acid batteries are basically worthless though.

There's a $12 deposit (core charge) you pay if you don't exchange one, which drives recycling, plus stores and landfills tend to accept them for free.
I'm curious. What sort of features would you not want to see in Rust?
Jeez man, I mean what one always means when saying event horizon in the context of black holes: the surface that separates causally disconnected inner region around very compact objects from the rest of the universe.

Now, the term "black hole" is admittedly from after Einstein died, but since he what he actually didn't believe was anything physical could be compact enough to have a size comparable to its Schwarzschild radius this is simply a difference in naming: clearly we are talking about the same sort of object.

The math does little difference to the discussion, but if you want it then I suggest you find a book like Wald or Shutz.
Resource extraction under capitalist, fascist or otherwise non socially minded governments has been shown to hinder growth in regions where high amounts of valuable natural resources are available since elites can leverage the low cost of labor to extract said resources.

Planning on a backup plan and providing large numbers of jobs through factories to increase the value of labor in these places is a much better way to increase the standard of living other without installing socialist governments.
true, but I think their point is that if the policy catches on there as popular, what is to prevent the US (or others) from implementing similar laws? Relying on a business model that could reasonably be illegal after the stroke of a pen by a legislator is not a good thing. And legislators are at least putting on the appearance of being concerned about user data after the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica thing would cause one to exercise even more caution.
TL;DR: they don't give a shit about privacy.

https://hbr.org/2018/07/a-study-of-thousands-of-dropbox-proj...

Quote:

> Dropbox gave us access to project-folder-related data, which Dropbox had aggregated and anonymized, for all the scientists using its platform over the period from May 2015 to May 2017 — a group that represented 1,000 university departments (from the top 100 universities and their Dropbox collaborators from other anonymized universities of any rank).

This was done without the consent of those involved.

Wired seems to cover the story: https://www.wired.com/story/dropbox-sharing-data-study-ethic...
Technically, and to quote the film Pi[0], "Mathematics is the language of nature".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)
Thanks for this refreshing comment. I had off and on responsible for figuring out how to do chat at my company for awhile just pre-Slack. Trying to get IRC to work the way we needed (which includes history and search) was a real pain, and the various proto-Slacks were an improvement but also noticeably less well executed than Slack when it hit the scene.
Show HN: Nikita – Deployment automation for Node.js
> imply

I thought I stated it quite plainly, not by implication. It's what I was told by the engineers that worked on it.

There was also some concern that by lessening the feel forces, men would then be likely to overcontrol the aircraft, but this concern didn't pan out.
It's in my profile now, thanks.
This is pretty much about writing a cpu emulator. A system emulator is much more complex even as far back as a gameboy or Sega genesis. I think there is still great value in writing your own cpu emulator as described in the article.
The article says that a unit of housing is $600K, but you have to click through to see that that is for an example 100-unit building. This is somewhat relevant, since construction costs for residential buildings scales nonlinearly with size. And that does seem pretty high. Here in the Boston area, I think it would be less, though perhaps not a lot. THe new Millenium Tower downtown cost something like $600 million, or roughly $500 per sq. ft. But that's a super-lux tower on one of the most valuable plots in the city. Around where I live, I see a lot of semi-prefab buildings going up--smaller buildings where the units are trucked in on flatbeds and stacked up like Legos. This is presumably much faster and cheaper.

But these sorts of costs mean that developers are only going to build when they can get premium prices for sale.
"Only" three? How many should there be?

The phrasing of the title of this article is curious.
http was created in 1991. MySpace came later.
Indeed, but I keep my browsing history, bookmarks and everything else in Firefox, which I also use on all my 3 laptops, so it synchronizes between them.
I think vgo's solution is better than Cargo's though.
Working with labs, I've found it extremely eye-opening how archaic the supplier relationship is. A big challenge appears to be with the sales model and its reliance on contracts, opaque pricing, and exclusive relationships.

This is, of course, made even more complicated because not all supplies are created equal. Even simple plastics can have slight variations that are invisible without further testing which can impact experiments. You have to be careful, and many of the scientists I work with are superstitious when it comes to buying products, not wanting to risk their experiments.

An alternative I see a ton of labs using these days is Quartzy (YC S11) (https://www.quartzy.com/), which also provides great price alternatives, and also evaluates against other parameters people care about when it comes to their experiments. They have an entire team dedicated to vetting these products so scientists can order with peace of mind. Quartzy also provides some very useful supply ordering and inventory tools that are a huge boon for lab ops.

There's a lot of opportunities for disruption in the lab supply space. It's definitely needed.
“...be more valuable than the cost of a movie ticket.”

That’s the gamble right there. You think a movie ticket is worth what the movie theaters is telling you. MoviePass is calling their bluff by undercutting them on their own service if they get enough of the market theaters will have to cut them a deal they can survive on.
Interesting, on the other hand I've worked with a lot of technically sophisticated librarians and archivists.
Technically, it would almost be easier to rewrite Google from scratch than to split it up. Google is a giant monorepo, so anything can depend on anything else. Also, all their services run on the same data centers.
Read all the way through, didn’t know it would end up at a Tamil word as the origin of naranja
The influence still goes both ways--I read that American movie studios cut out dialogue that they don't think foreign viewers will understand because of English-specific wordplay or culture-specific references. (See https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-10/saving-ho...)
But for some unusual but binding decisions applying the Fed Arbitration Act against consumers, situations where it's not cost effective to sue as an individual can be cost effective with private attorneys general, i.e., a class action attorney. Lacking that your only recourse may be your state equivalent to my state's division of Agriculture and Consumer Services or the FTC, neither likely to be effective or satisfying.
Innovative companies on their own are not really innovative really. A monopoly enforces their opinion and product in the world. If you don't like their price or approach too bad for you. You are kept out of the game (it is a monopoly right).

As has been mentioned a bunch of times here, Google and Facebook have all too naturally embraced Microsoft's (and prior monopolies' ) approach of embrace, extend, and extinguish. There were at least 2-3 articles this week about the games Google plays (e.g. youtube loading faster on Chrome due to Google going ahead with their own suggested implementation without consensus).

I don't think there is any economic model out there that even argues monopolies are a good idea in some fashion.
The best part about this is that you called them "free flicks". Are they actually? I was under the impression you were paying something for them?
Everyone should take some time to go through their online accounts and ask: “if I were to wake up tomorrow banned from this account, would it be a disaster?”

If the answer is “yes” you should take corrective action right away and make that answer “no.” Or at least minimize the number of accounts for which the answer is “yes”.

The reality is that this could happen to anyone, for any or no reason. Don’t pin your life to an online account you have no real right to.
How to switch between your Chrome tabs using your keyboard
Which successful companies came out of EU in the last 20 years? How well do they stack up against US (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Uber etc) or China (Tencent, Alibaba etc)? If not many, does that mean EU entrepreneurs are hindered by the regulations?

One might also argue that European model is better because it might prevent one company from dominating the market. But if that is the case, why does EU face technology dominance from American companies (smartphones, search, e-commerce, operating systems etc), rather than having that marketshare captured by European companies?
Interesting that yellow red was used to describe the color of a fox

Is that why gold fish are called gold fish - and not orange fish?
This English dominance is pretty strong in coding, most Chinese coders in China use English to code because programming languages are written in English (aka the if loops and more advanced and they occassionally sprinkle in Chinese characters as variables, comments can also be Chinese) and I've seen Latin American friends using English as well to code when they come over and can't speak English well even. It is pretty much the lingua franca in coding.

Its an expected but quite interesting phenomenon.
I have my own domain and I use desktop email clients, so I always have a full copy of my email archive.

It would take me at most 1 hour to move, on the clock. I know because I moved between email provides about 3 times already.

("imapsync" helps)
Due to the salacious appetite of millions of people for gossip and related info, and for candid camera-style videos on youtube. This isn't rocket science but a keen understand of human action and reaction.
There's a ticket about this. The linked comment in particular gives a good background on what HKT's are, and how they could look in Rust:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/324#issuecomment-24...
For JavaScript / Front-End, "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" by John Resig (jQuery creator) is fantastic. The Second edition includes clarifications and explorations of ES6 & ES7 features.
After trying a couple of the other "internet" thermostats (not Nest, though, that was too obviously creepy), I ended up springing for a Proliphix IMT550c, which I had to wait for a while to show up on eBay, since they stopped selling direct to consumers quite a while back.

It's not exactly open, but it's reasonably hackable, and works just fine with no direct access to the Internet. I've never tried the wifi model (replace the "c" in the model with a "w", IIRC), since avoiding wireless issues was part of what drove me to this model in the first place.

Security's almost completely absent, so you'd want to keep it on an isolated network with no direct Internet access, anyway.
It's a sliding scale. Certainly we have much less progressive taxation than we had through most of the 20th century.

The difference seems to be in the industrial era we actually had political will to do something about it. Now, Republicans have mastered the sleight of hand to harness anti-intellectual sentiment to pit the bourgeoisie against "the common man" even though it's the 0.1% capitalists that're really running away with all the gains. This is not going to end well, and the super rich should be trying to get ahead of the problem before the pitchforks show up.
Also (unusually?) English retains some semblance of the original spelling of words borrowed from numerous other languages and dialects
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There are plenty of public companies that reach a steady state. What happens for those companies is their PE ratios shrink, they start paying out dividends and their expectation is to be a big lumbering giant whose valuation isn't expected to have dramatic swings based on outsized expected future earnings. What happened here is not "Wall Street" saying that Twitter must die, it's saying "Hey, your newly expected future earnings are no longer able to justify your prior valuation and therefore here's your new valuation based on all currently available information".
and what if the city repeals the monopoly? did the city enter into a contract to guarantee that a monopoly will be in place for n years?
NY orders Charter out of state, says it must sell Time Warner Cable system
I think instead of chiding people who use English as a second language "poorly", we should look at their mistakes for what they are - the influence of another language - and see if we can't incorporate the ideas that caused them into English, if the ideas are good. Newspeak isn't fiction, languages really do shape how you think. We should continue evolving English to be suitable for expressing more modes of thought.
I agree and that's the issue when you compete and differentiate on price in the low market. The customers that subscribe, will do everything possible to save a couple $s.
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As to humanitarian use for OSM and how anyone can contribute by small tasks (I've tried it myself, was surprisingly exciting), enabling faster and more accurate response and travel to people in need, see:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager

As to work in progress on detection of features and automatic conversion to maps, I've recently found the below website:

https://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/07/15/mapillary-osm.h...
Can someone explain this line to me?

>In addition to setting the confidence threshold far too low, the Rekognition results can be significantly skewed by using a facial database that is not appropriately representative and therefore is itself skewed. In this case, ACLU used facial database of mugshots that that may have had a material impact on the accuracy of Rekognition findings.
Hmm, fairness? "Level playing field", maybe.

The idea of anti-trust regulation is to break up companies that cornered a market, that is, (mostly) prevented competition on it. Breaking them up serves to make more, smaller companies (out of the split giant) that would start to compete again.

Anti-trust laws can be seen as pro-market laws that try to prevent long periods of monopolized markets without waiting for a naturally occurring disruption, instead providing a mandated disruption.

Whether it's _efficient_, and whether it works as intended, can be discussed.
Ben Thompson from Stratechery has some good thoughts on what makes Google tricky to regulate:

- Google: https://stratechery.com/company/google/

- Regulation: https://stratechery.com/topic/regulation/

His vastly oversimplified point is that most anti-trust regulation focuses on supply. Owning all of the printing equipment and distribution networks in newspapers gave you leverage. Google is instead a demand-side aggregator (they don't own the content on their product, but own the choke point, which is the consumer facing user experience of having a single, simple, easy to use search engine).
Google translate does a just about acceptable job on Indo European languages. Diverge a little further and it often descends into comically poor.

One of the most enjoyable things I used to find about travel was experiencing and dipping into other cultures and trying out a little local language picked up from phrase books etc. These days people seem to prefer practising their English on me as I'm a native English speaker.

I miss those global differences more and more as everyone adopts English and global brands.
As an aside, this is how you do content marketing. Really timely and topical post, and sprinkled product tid bits in without feeling like an over sell.
s/"telephone choice"/"telephone voice"