skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it'd be the French.
The best of agile can be summed up in one piece of advice: "Create short feedback loops". Nail that and you can't go too far wrong.
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> That's like saying: "nobody was drowned that we know of, whereas there was a significant cost to building the dam that everyone paid". (And also not dissimilar to arguments about doing no major industry/lifestyle changes regarding climate change).

It is very dissimilar indeed - the sentence you quoted does not constitute an argument by itself. It is an observation regarding the present state of affairs (which you have not disputed), which to me indicates a need to take a breath and do a reasoned cost/benefit analysis as opposed to the hysterical "this must be fixed at any cost, externalities be damned" mindset that is fairly common in many circles.

If you really want a climate change analogy, though, consider this - however many mitigating workarounds you invent, as long as speculative execution exists there will always be side channel attacks, and eventually some of them will probably succeed to some extent. Perhaps, as you noted, some major industry/lifestyle changes are indeed in order - people could stop living in the delusion that a perfect sandbox is possible and realize that arbitrary code execution will always entail risks. Rather than turning every website into a potential security risk, perhaps it is our approach to software (rather than hardware) that needs re-evaluation.
As a person who was moved from zero small talk ability to some, I've found that it works quite well to sort of repeat what the other person is saying when responding. I'm not telling you to parrot them, but if person A says "I really like being in my garden because it's relaxing and lot of fresh air". I respond "Yes, I also find myself being more calm when digging my hands into a vegetable patch", instead of just saying "I agree.", if the case is that you like gardening, you shouldn't lie of course.

That being said, I still don't really enjoy small talk but it still feels more comfortable to mee if I notice that the other person is receiving the response they expected. I know that in my example above, both responses says the same thing, but most people tend to continue talking and feel more comfortable if I respond in more verbose manners rather than "Yes." "I agree".

And as some others have pointed out, practice.
yeah, I agree. But I think Twitter, in particular, because of its audience demographics, is mostly one big echo chamber with a tiny effect outside the media industry.
To be fair, the monoculture was almost exclusively white, Western, Judeo-Christian approved media. It created a giant tidal wave of conformity on which progress rose, but it drowned out a lot of other voices.

Always tradeoffs.
This comment seems needlessly rude.
Linear discussion?
Rust: A language that can replace C / C++ over the next 40 years
That may be true for the US, but here I am in France with an unlimited 4G data cap for $16/month.

There may be a hidden limit, but it's at least greater than 200GB/month.
We implemented this with additional DB checks. For example: we put only one job to queue at a time per customer, the rest are in database until one that in progress is not processed.

Actually most of the prioritization could be implemented through additional DB. With SQS in most cases you need persistent reflection of job to keep its status, process times, results. You can put to queue only few items that are highest priority to guarantee that workers are busy next 10-30 minutes.
> the rest of the EU will be freed of the British veto and able to get as integrated as it wishes

Anyone who thinks that EU skepticism is exclusive to the Brits is in for a nasty nasty surprise.
Scrum (and other methods that try in vain to make developers replaceable cogs) won because it enabled bad developers to hide among the good ones, and avoid personal responsibility.
How we found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope (2015)
> It will rid the French or the Germans of the temptation try to make their language the dominant one in the post-Brexit EU

It really won't, especially the French.
This looks like an overzealous interpretation of the law more than anything else. Looking at both the founder's comment and yours, I can only +1 hannasanarion's comment.

And because someone will probably ask "why", here is why:
1) The GDPR was not designed to drown small businesses into expensive processes forcing them into bankruptcy or into cancelling their expansion in Europe. It was designed as to force business owners into thinking twice when they plan on getting rich by exploiting and reselling customer data to third-parties, or by performing "smart" operations on this data (i.e. any company that sticks the words "AI" or "smart" or "neural" or "deep" close to "customer data" in its business model).

2) If a user agreement (or privacy policy) specifies that data requests should only be carried out through medium X (e.g. an email address) then that shuts down all discussions surround the "people contact the company via many different methods: email, twitter, Instagram, etc..." argument.

3) "I'm a database administrator, and I know dang well that WP and WC aren't encrypting student data at rest, nor do they encrypt the other fields where people put student data." So what? GDPR nowhere says "student data should be encrypted at rest". It says it should be protected from unauthorized access, but not that it should be encrypted. Encryption is one way to respond to this requirement, and 9 times out of 10, it will be implemented with security flaws much worse than simply enforcing access control to the data. By trying to address a problem that does not exist with a solution that is inadequate, this business owner basically failed at his primary mission: managing risk.

Two arguments raised, two arguments completely wrong. Hence the justified conclusion: I am glad that these business shutdown or stopped playing with EU citizens data following the enactment of the GDPR.
Techcrunch is terrible for reading articles now unless you disable JavaScript... works perfectly without JS
Pick a language, any language, but adopt it as official. It won't happen though. Germany, France, Spain, Italy and even Belgium are all way too proud. I am, for instance, a big fan of the Flemish language and the German language, but it is just not practical to keep them if you want to promote a united EU. But being Dutch I am for cooperation/trade; many people do not think like that and think their language and ways are vastly superior and should be adopted instead.
hmm, yes... this is absolutely something you could experiment with.

A thousand people is not enough to influence an election. A single article is not enough to influence an election. Yes, it's possible that something goes viral and gets seen a million times, but that's not what we're talking about here.
The title made me afraid it was about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a New Age "psycho-religion") instead of Natural Language Processing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#A...

Alternative medicine

NLP has been promoted with claims it can be used to treat a variety of diseases including Parkinson's disease, HIV/AIDS and cancer.[62] Such claims have no supporting medical evidence.[62] People who use NLP as a form of treatment risk serious adverse health consequences as it can delay the provision of effective medical care.[62]

[62] Russell J; Rovere A, eds. (2009). "Neuro-linguistic programming". American Cancer Society Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies (2nd ed.). American Cancer Society. pp. 120–122. ISBN 9780944235713.
The problem comes when people go from "good code needs few comments" to "never add comments to your code".
> French Ambassador decided that English wasn't good enough for him

You left out one important word: "only". Traditionally, all important meetings and records in the EU are translated into the major languages, some of them are available in most, if not all official languages. That makes it easier for all european citizens to read the actual records. English might be widely spoken, but fluency varies massively among the population. There's an argument to be made that this makes sense. I certainly wouldn't trust quite a few german politicians to negotiate in english, given the lack of grasp on the language that some have repeatedly demonstrated.
That is indeed quite disfluent... odd.
Wait what? I cannot say illegal things are illegal? The only association I made is that things that break the law are illegal, which is a tautology and obviously true. I never said everything illegal is the same.

Personal data has many meanings and for some, this data might bring their literal death so of course it's a serious topic. Not common in the last ~30 years of western history, but that's just a tiny slice of time/location so of course it's sensible many of us want to keep personal data, well, personal.
So a good syntax highlighter should differentiate between these different kinds of comments. Grey out the javadoc stuff, but emphasize the informative and warning comments.

And I think it could be really useful and commented-out code would still be highlighted, but in a washed out way or some other way that emphasises it's not currently active code.
In many countries if you have a company laptop then everything on that laptop or done on that laptop belong to the company. They are unlikely to be spying on your directly, but they will often have administrative access, will perform backups to ensure continuity of business data you are working on etc. If you leave and start a competing company someone in IT is going to get a call asking them to check your archived data (email, etc.) to see if you were working on this new company while using old company equipment or during old company time. If they find evidence of this then in many jurisdictions you are going to be in trouble...

Save the headache and use your own equipment. At the very least have a personal VM that you run to do your personal work on.
> two political stances can be correct at the same time

I think that arguing that a political stance is "correct" or "wrong" isn't the best frame of reasoning here, because it implies that there might be some sort of formal reasoning process you could use to reach a common conclusion. Whereas humans do now work like that and politics does not work like that.

There's no absolute morality, and there's no universal set of moral axioms you can get everyone to agree on. What actually happens is arguing from specific->general in one direction and general->specific in the other, depending how close emotionally people are to the actual situation or how much they're using it to express their identity.

Examples of "specific->general" are any situation where a person gets a law named after them. Examples of "general->specific" is any time people start talking about the constitution.

Each of those is a lossy transformation. Specific->general loses information about the particular situation. General->specific is what we use most of the time - the basis of legal systems - and has the less obvious failure mode that it can produce bad results that have no obvious immediate blame. But neither is more "correct" in a formal sense than the other.
same with ticks. Fuck ticks. blood sucking assholes spreading dissease. Some species can cause paralyses in victims, others can induce meat allergyes, many carry a verity of hellish viral bacterial and protozoen infections.
There is awesome plugin for VSCode, Better Comments.
I disabled most of highlighting in syntax, rainbow brackets and better comments is more than enough
If we want to use only one official working language, it should be Esperanto. This would be neutral for any country (including Ireland and Malta). This would not be a threat to other languages and cultures.

Esperanto is easier to learn than any naturally evolved language. Its benefits are clear, it only needs a political support to thrive.
I would like to see the meningof the acronyms in the title.
Natural language processing ?
Nonlinear programming?
Neuro-linguistic programming?
Lingua franca: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
I disagree, people have the views they have because of a wide variety of "real" reasons, based on their personality, their peers, their education, etc.

A tweet, or even a series of cunningly-crafted tweets, will not change someone's mind enough to change their vote.
Text rendering using multi channel signed distance fields
maybe once you've processed a message, you resend it to a different queue, just in case?
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites spark fights between astronomy, spaceflight fans
You're absolutely right, in fact I have a whole package that is just that https://node-ts.github.io/bus/packages/bus-workflow/.

The problem is this. Let's say that I want to trigger a step in a "free trial" saga that sends an email to the customer 10 days after they sign up nudging them to get a paid account. If I can delay send this message for 10 days then it's easy.

However because SQS has a much shorter visibility timeout, I have to find a much more roundabout way of triggering that action.
My Asus Lolipop Tablet (Aka Android 5.x) can certainly use the market.

Just like the "deal of the day" ones that are still being sold across German consumer stores at shopping malls.
Spain will fight tooth and nail as well. And Germany too. So no it really won't.
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> Somewhere in Explorer something is passing one of these shell names to a file API, which is interpreting it as a Drive Relative path for the ‘:’ drive.

Isn't this just a pure bug? I'm quite surprised such an intimidating behavior still exists in today's Windows...
1. It is not my field, but in general, self driving cars should be connected to a central entity that manages them. For more information search for "C-V2X".

2. They guarantee an SLA.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend using query rewriting for public graphql apis, but for internal apis or private apis to power mobile apps or web apps it should be fine. Just make sure you add tests for the old queries to ensure they keep working. Once you see the deprecated queries stop being used as users update their clients you can drop the rewriting entirely too.
You probably don't know that 'u' in colour is a more recent British development than the standard US English is based on. US English is more original than the current British one.
Let's get your facts straight:

> Esperanto is easier to learn than any naturally evolved language.

...only for many Indo-European speakers.
No 5GHz, I'm disappointed. Was considering switching to AMD, but Intel looks better. I'll wait for Threadripper announce, though, may be they'll release something powerful.
So you're saying that you don't care what the original author named his software, and you're going to say it your way, just to be different?
Chinese would be even better
The majority of western media and communication is in English. This would be a humongous waste of time and resources.
It is pretty known that the parliment have an army of translators. Both live translating and translating law documents into most languages.
Listen, I've got to obtain that unobtanium somehow. Or at least get a further four movies out of it.
This. I remember people laughing at this decision back then, and flaming on OpenBSD policies to handling security vulnerabilities, to the point where they aren't informed anymore. Yet OpenBSD is the only major OS taking these issues seriously instead of believing whatever Intel marketing department yells every other day.
I think it should be a common language that is already used; so English, German, French, Spanish. Of these English or Spanish are the most logical, but again; it won't happen (any time soon).
Writing a cost calculator for firebase is a baffling experience.
The relative difficulty to gather precise information and model costs are intentionally discouraging you
to undertake any estimation.
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for example https://github.com/Shinmera/.emacs.git
Quite the opposite, a library can be understood fast and in depth when the code and its comments are readable directly, skipping the indirection layer of any external documentation.
By using methane instead of kerosene.

Methane won't cause soot/coking.
Absolutely. But the decision that the Ambassador objected to was to use english-only for the records. And citizens don't have access to that army of translators and might be interested in the records too.
Mobo manufacturers could solder some weak GPU on board, but nobody seems to be interested so I guess they did their homework and decided it didn't make any economical sense.
I already speak English * and I can use it to communicate with people all over teh EU who also already speak it.

Why do we all need to learn a new common language? We already have a perfectly serviceable one.

In any case, if we're going to go for a different common language then that really should be my native Greek because it's the language of the country who gave birth to European civilisation, and it was already the lingua franca of the people of Europe in ancient times, so there (i.e. everyone in Europe will have an argument to support their own language being the new common tongue).

___________

* And French and Italian and my native Greek
Medium pays the writers who opt-in to the paywall by dividing rev on a pro rata basis a la spotify.
I'd be in favor of Hiberno English being adopted. It's not much different to other forms of English and wouldn't allude to the EU being "Americanized" or further flatter a country leaving the EU on acrimoious terms.
Mandarin? I would not mind that as well, but that is even more extreme than the other suggestions. It would get no votes.
True, so in the spirit of discussion let me phrase a hypothesis from the two facts we have established: 1. Material wealth grows without the number of happy people growing, and 2. Happiness increase tapers off as a function of wealth. The hypothesis: material wealth increase in the world is concentrated with people who are already happy.

I don’t have numbers or regencies to back this up, but I have read countless times now that inequality is on the rise. Could it be simply that even as material wealth increases we are just horribly bad as a society at spreading that wealth to the bottom tiers where it would actually make a tremendous difference?
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>Obviously, for the extraterrestrial theory to work, you have to imagine you can warp or fold spacetime to get where you need to go, rather than using a conventional engine.

That's fantasy, though. One might as well imagine aliens coming to Earth riding dragons through magic portals, as far as reality is concerned.

For any extraterrestrial theory to work and be plausible as a speculative explanation for real world events, it has to assume the speed of light is an inescapable hard limit on everything, because that seems to be the universe we actually live in.
That's very nice of them. However I'd have to read all of firebase's small print before i would consider using it.
Does their SLA guarantee data availability even if google dcide to spin it off or sunset the way they did with google+, reader and such?
Blue yellow is also a form right? What is a safe color blind-friendly pair of contrasting colors?
Is it? Color was already spelled "colour" in the typical Middle English [1]. AFAIK the US development happened later to make all color-related words consistent (since it was spelled "color" in Latin, and English has lots of Latin-derived words).

[1] https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dicti...
The 'franca' of Lingua Franca do indeed refer to the same 'Francs' who gave their name to France and the French language. But as stated in the Wikipedia Article the Lingua Franca language used in the Ottoman Empire didn't had much relation to French itself. It was a creole language heavily influenced by Italian who dominated trade at that time. 'Francs' designated western people in general, not specifically French people. Lingua Franca then become 'more french' in some regions of Ottoman Empire were France was more dominant like Lebanon.
Even if we apply your logic, Esperanto is still a bad choice. Interlingua would be a better one in a European context.
> Esperanto is easier to learn than any naturally evolved language. Its benefits are clear...

Both of these statements are not true, arguable at minimum.

Sorry for not explaining properly but if you do say something like this, is very likely that you are aware of the discussions around it and knows that this is very far from consensus in the linguistics field.
How did you manage to make that a “millennial” thing
There is no reason to post things manually with (h)ledger, it's a command line tool so it's perfectly scriptable.

Our company uses a plethora of (mostly) ruby scripts to get data from banks and the billing system API and a few other sources like exchange rates websites and converts the output into ledger files. And then another bunch of scripts takes the output from ledger and sends it to the API for, for example, the government VAT payments. (Our company is by no means big, but multinational with business in 7 currencies).

There are a number of test and assert statements along the line to do sanity checks with a manual review since sending out incorrect values could potentially be expensive / illegal. It works great. The whole thing is stored in git so any changes are auditable. We need some of the power features of ledger though, so I doubt ledger will work for us, but I'll give it a spin.
Ask HN: Tech news sources/communities in spanish?
As I am learning Spanish I have been looking for good tech websites in Spanish. It can be websites like Techcrunch which have a international focus or pages that focuses on the local tech/startup-community for a spanish speaking country (f.ex Spain) or a Spanish HN. Anyone got any good recommendations?
It should develop its own language, easier to spell and write perhaps taking advantage of machine learning etc during development. Something like Esperanto that is not owned by anyone but is easier to learn by everyone(within EU).

English gives an unfair advantage to native english speakers not to mention that it has a lot of legacy stuff that makes it hard to learn. Non-native speakers will always be seen as outsiders/2nd class.
Yeah, that makes total sense. For some of our saga's (we don't use SQS -- we use a custom redis queue), we have the saga potentially wake up and immediately sleep again ("Nothing to do right now, defer again in a few days").

But yes, a quirk.
Nestle's goals were aligned with their own (or some of their own) humans, not all humans. There's the rub, and that's why it seems vapid, the moment you dig into the detail there's nothing behind it and somehow it still manages to ignore the reality - businesses are already human to human with humans at the core.
>> More specifically, Brexit’s silver lining for Europe might have to do with unleashing the deepening of European integration in a whole bunch of areas where the Brits have been reluctant to go. After Brexit, they won’t have to, and the rest of the EU will be freed of the British veto and able to get as integrated as it wishes.

Nice- a little controversial barb hidden in a larger, already controversial (but less so) article. Who is this Ivan Dikov? He sounds like a man who likes to stir the pot just to watch it boil over.

(Not that I don't fully agree with him, mind- but it's still a controversial and rather mean opinion).