skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how that works. To obtain an absolute number the words have to be ranked by frequency and then the 100 words have to be picked so that frequent words appear first and less frequent words appear at the end. The estimator then knows whether you know a 90%, 99%, 99.9% or 99.9% percentile words and uses that to estimate that you know enough words to cover x% of all words that will appear in a text. Then you use that percentile on your word ranking to count how many words are below that percentile.

The posted test site does nothing of the sort.

Imagine the test only asked you a single 90% percentile word.
vocabulary.ugent.be would tell you: You know 100% of the words.
The process I described would tell you: You know 90% of the words.

Obviously both tests become more accurate as the number of words increases but the vocabulary.ugent.be test requires you to test all 60k words to get an accurate result. The second test will probably need less than 1000 words to be dead on.

http://testyourvocab.com/ seems to be a pretty good implementation of the approach I described.
Meet me.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Confluence is OKish. But Jira is absurdly bad. I'm talking about the UI for creating Issues and Epics etc. The front-end devs that wrote it simply didn't have the ability. The parser for entering markup such as preformatted code blocks just doesn't work a lot of the time. The newer "Visual mode" just doesn't work a lot of the time. It simply needs to switch over to markdown and use a 3rd-party parser and renderer. The Visual Mode preview doesn't render using a fixed-width font. have you ever clicked on the little "Link" symbol in the top right of the text entry box? Obviously that should copy the current URL to the system clipboard. But they didn't know how to look that up on StackOverflow and instead made it a normal link to the current page (so you reload the page accidentally), with the link title saying

> title="Right click and copy link for a permanent link to this comment."

! You enter `bq.` to quote a line of text. This is all just some crap that someone with no design sense or standards came up with after 10 seconds thought.

I'm talking specifically about the quality of the UI. It is far, far, below the quality of UIs put out by respected modern products.
> So now I've lost a bunch of my communications due to others' choices that I had little control over.

I wrote a simple exporter using Slack api. It archives Slack from position of user, almost everything (like attachments).

But I'm not publishing it on GitHub because I don't want more people to use it, and don't want Slack to block mass api calls, and don't want slacks admins to know I written it and use it.
can only handle one shape and must me ridiculously expensive. pls compare to this one: https://youtu.be/f1dO8UGAq7A?t=61 not the one in my home
As if 150, 120, even 100m2 homes aren't big enough for a couple, and anything below 180m2 is "squeezing"?
Everybody needs evidence of what this is really about. At the moment, this seems to be vaporware. But it's true that it does not matter if it was Go or any other language the initial one. V claims to be a self-hosting compiler with the initial one written in Go.
You would. Actually rising incomes would bring more democratic everything. As you can see around the world, the rise of rights are correlated with the declining of economy, in US, Europe and other countries. The opposite is true as well. Democracy is about compromising. You cannot compromise when you have nothing. If the world is a perfect place, the income will keep rising at good speed, and everyone would be happy. Unfortunately, it is not the case. The problem is the population size, for Indonesia and Philippine to develop, it will require a lot of resources, and it doesn't come from thin air. Jobs will come at the cost of developed countries. And that's something people in developed countries won't like.

I am certain once the income reach a certain threshold, North Korea would be a democratic country.
Well, by my native language's customs (Finnish), they'd be spelled "Ratte" and "Raathaus", which maybe makes the difference clearer. Same wovel sound, different length.
I am the Odin creator. Please don't accuse me of spreading lies when all I have done is shown that your language is just "Not as Advertised", which I originally stated in this issue: https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/35

Note: You also deleted many comments by other individuals criticizing your claims in that issue too.
I go to work for only two reasons:

- to make money now

- to learn new skills to make more money later at my current job or a future job.

As long as I have a manager that helps me with those two things as well as they give me a certain amount of freedom. I’m good.

The only appreciation I need shows up in my paycheck.

I don’t care how great of a person my manager is, if they can’t get me market rates, I am looking for a company that can.
It's supposedly “one, two, three, five”―though ‘go’ was indeed pronounced like the English one, IIRC. And yes, I've googled all that in variations and with what keywords I could conjure. We're talking advanced loss. Had to exclude Scatman, too―respect to the dude but he's not a Japanese girl.
Not sure I understand... you're gonna call bollocks on the idea that someone can have different likes and dislikes from you?
Just did some test trips of that distance, and for me (based in Chicago) it would be about $200 for flights of the same distance.

But that just takes me to St.Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit. I've been to all of them before, and there's some nice parts about them, but they're not a completely different culture like Paris is to London. Hell, St. Louis is just barely in a different state.

Pretty much all the chain stores are the same in every city you go to in the US, so it really enforces the sameness of the country. There's unique landmarks and museums and parks and local restaurants, but half the city is going to look the same as every other city.

Detroit is actually the closest comparison to London/Paris, because you can go through a tunnel at the edge of Detroit to Windsor Canada, and then you do get a bit of a culture shift.

But with Paris, further travel to other very different cultures are just some quick and cheap train rides away, whereas I just have more Canada.
What about those 300k employees in the 80s? That just sounds way off-scale and hints to sloppy editing elsewhere. The only number close to this is what they call their direct distibution system customers.

This article NYT from 1986 mentions 26.500 employees: https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/02/business/frito-lay-s-go-i...
Couples are taking out loans to pay for their weddings
Marinetraffic is the industry standard for this service. I use the paid version at work. It’s great! Their database is very extensive.

I think they do a good job for the free version too.
> PG's ANSI Common Lisp

Would you say PG's ANSI Common Lisp is better or worse (as a zero-to-hero intro to CL for an "experienced" programmer in other languages) than Peter Seibel's Practical Common Lisp?

I'm curious because I'm currently teaching myself CL (slowly, as a leisurely hobby), mainly because I realized that I need a hyper-flexible un-opinionated language in my toolkit for some types of experiments I want to try on and CL seems to fit the job. But I found the "practical" part missing from Practical Common Lisp with the non-plausible problems/examples and also missing stuff about packaging/ecosystem and little on modern concurrency patterns...
The internet’s previous models were doomed to fail. Service providers did not have a reliable monetization scheme. Client apps for open protocols have rarely had wide adoption and longevity, especially anything you had to pay for. I can think of plenty of examples of paid client apps from the late 90s/early 2000s... email clients, web, irc, etc. that just aren’t around because not enough people would pay for the client to sustain their development.

Slack and other tools are solving a problem customers have and they should be compensated for it, especially given much of their users are profit oriented enterprises.
As always, there's a relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/243/
They’re joining a “LOL JavaScript” but refusing to use the easy tools available to understand what’s actually happening, so there’s lots of shooting in the dark – not unlike the thread here about strong type systems.
I entirely agree, and what you write connects with Karl Marx's theory of alienation: that as workers become more specialized they become more alienated from the people and communities that benefit from their work.

I think this is a huge problem in the tech world especially and businesses would be wise to find solutions to it. Sending workers on outings to interact with users sounds like a great idea.
It's a cycling cap. Helps to manage sweat and sunburns.
Andy Rubin was a President/CEO/Founder of Android and then was at Google for a decade. Maybe he wasn't C-level though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rubin
Forking hell, Bitcoin! Why blockchain forking is the enemy of progress
I've had 9 managers in the last 4 years and I'm going to make two different points about good managers:

POINT #1

Lou Holtz [0] has a great quote about leaders:

"You ask every leader three questions:

1. Can I trust you?

2. Do you care about me?

3. Are you committed to excellence?

Think about someone you've always thought of as great leader and I bet the answer to all three is 'yes'. Now, think of someone you are having problems with and I bet the answer to all three is probably 'no'".

I think about that quote all of the time when interacting with managers.

POINT #2

One way to categorize management is into two different types:

Type 1

The "widget maker". Here the manager is the smartest person in the group and they know more than any other of their underlings. Each employee is considered replaceable because the manager is the one that knows everything so it doesn't matter if a junior person leaves.

Type 2

The "film director". Every member of the team is better than the manager at their particular speciality. e.g. the Special Effects head knows way more than the director ever could about SFX. That means that it becomes the manager's job to be the co-ordinator and get this disparate group of folks to work together towards a shared vision. In fact, part of the director's job is to make that vision and then communicate it in such as way that everyone wants to participate.

This goes both ways in that the "director" needs to trust the team members to do their best work and they, in turn, need to trust the director to "steer the ship" in the right direction.

Personally, I MUCH prefer the "film director" mode although there are times where it's nice to have a manager that knows more about a key part of the work than you do so that you can learn from them.

[0] http://triplecrownleadership.com/the-3-questions-asked-of-ev...
Preliminary analysis of an alternative implementation of Redis expires
I don't see a single valid discrepency
Not really, usually super pricey and try to scam you by taking a longer route.
Oxford is different because of geography. In most places where housing is too expensive the core problem is politics. That's not easy to solve, but it's universal. But in Oxford the biggest obstacle is that the obvious place to put more houses is in fact a swamp.

For students it works out OK (so long as numbers don't grow too much) because the very wealthy people who paid for Oxford's university to exist built somewhere for students to live right inside the university too, in effect their housing costs are subsidised - until they graduate. Then though, either they need to move far away ASAP or they're going to be spending most of their income on rent.
It used to be free, until people thought it was free to waste.
Not really comparable. Facebook has been a full-blown ecosystem for end users even before their IPO. Slack is a productivity tool that your tech job forces you to use. I envisioned Slack's exit being a Microsoft/Amazon acquisition.
> However, Slack has lowered the standards for desktop software by being a really terrible piece of software.

You need to explain a claim like that.

On the face of it, the Slack UI works beautifully in Browser, Desktop and iOS clients. I'd quite like it to have code syntax highlighting. But really, what are you talking about?
How to Handle Project Change Requests Effectively (Incl. 10 Templates)
I do, but I'm not going to rely completely on one.
Too Big To Sell

https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/too-big-to-sell-C9L...
Where do you keep your bike when you are going other places?
My theory is that the latent space isn't perfectly 'disentangled' (there's not really anything in StyleGAN akin to InfoGAN which would force it to be exactly linear/disentangled, it just nicely works out roughly disentangled), so when you train a linear model on the tags+latent and manipulate it linearly, you get slight changes in correlated features. Thus, the slight 'glitchiness'. Not something you'd notice in image samples, but more apparent when you generate interpolations of the 'same' face.

If you mess with the style noise only and leave the latent vector alone, the glitchiness should be less, but you also lose a lot of possible control. Training a more powerful nonlinear classifier like a random forests should be able to compensate for the remaining nonlinearity in the latents, I think, but then it's harder to do the actual modification of the latent vector, of course, since you're no longer simply tweaking one variable but many simultaneously to try to hold the other features constant. One could try to brute force it by doing blackbox optimization of the nonlinear classifier... but I haven't seen anyone try that.
I am no economist but a 50% decrease in price value is going to leave some scars on the performance of some portfolios. That lack of revenue (or growth) will be passed to the weakest link: the consumer.
I can't say that I'm a fan of Slack, but in a sense, what they did to IRC (and associated tools like logging bouncers) is what Dropbox did to rsync. Take something that works for people willing to give it time and effort, centralize it, make it a bit flashier and minimize setup to make it accessible to more people.

The user experience for both these tools haven't been great for me, but streamlining them for casual computer users evidently has a lot of commercial value.
It depends on the size of the company.
I believe people shape politics, not the other way around. Fundamentally, economy shape politics. Bad economy will not result in good political reform, it is actually the opposite. I cannot expect people to behave rational when there is a food crisis for example. Democracy is a luxury, and it is only useful that way.
I’ve only been in Tokyo once ten years ago but I remember the regular taxis there being staggeringly expensive. Are app based rides really more expensive than that?
There's certainly some truth in what you say, but a lot of variability in such a large country too.
Ask HN: Stuck with an unpronounceable product name
Hi everyone,

Throwaway account. Been on HN since 2008, but first time asking anything.

Here's the situation - we have a mature desktop product, IT-oriented, with a very good reputation and strong loyal following of people who know about it. Started as a side project, so didn't spend much thought on naming it and just picked something. It finally grew to a point of being worthy of proper marketing and promotion and... that name choice is now a problem. It is hard to pronounce and it doesn't sound nice if you manage to do that.

This complicates things when trying to sponsor video channels and podcasts for obvious reasons, but these are one of our best options for reaching people we are interested in.

Obviously, we can rename it, but this translates into a massive amount of work, in part because of several years worth of accumulated support/kb/forum material, all of which refers to the existing name.

Another option is to adopt the "Called Hahaha, but written HxHxHx" approach. This feels needlessly complicated if not forced.

Third option is to launch a clone of the product with a different name, use it for capturing the ad traffic and then direct it towards the original product. This seems workable, but also a bit too experimental for comfort.

---

Anyone's been in a similar situation before?

Do you have any experience with renaming a _mature_ product?

Thanks!
Stanford doesn't really have to worry about accreditations. Their place in the academic world, especially in CS, is well established.
There are some exaggerations and factual errors in your claims.

> Transferring money from one personal account to any new account (adding a beneficiary account) would take more than 4 hours.

NEFT, which has been around for a long time before IMPS and UPI came, would transfer money in about an hour's time. For larger transactions, RTGS would transfer within a few minutes. I agree that UPI is a lot faster, but it comes with lower transfer limits. Four hours for a transfer through NEFT or RTGS could be extreme cases, since RBI has some tightly stipulated deadlines for credit to the receiver's account for both (you can check RBI's website for more information).

> - Transferring money doesn't have any extra charges

Well, UPI transactions do have fees, depending on the bank. IIRC Kotak introduced or was set to introduce charges for it. The rest of them would've followed, since NPCI is not a government organization (like RBI), but a private consortium of banks. But RBI's recent notification removing transaction charges for NEFT and RTGS (which are owned and run on RBI) may have given pause to banks wanting to charge for UPI.

> - Safe, transaction can be done only from mobile which is linked with bank.

The "only" needs to be removed here. UPI transactions can be done from mobile, but can also be done from any computer or device with a browser if one has online banking and the particular bank supports UPI over that.

> There is no need to give personal information, one can provide UPI address or Virtual UPI address.

Your (recipient's) real name would still be visible to the payer on the payment confirmation screen. I consider name also as personal information, if you really want to remove all real identifiers from transactions and make it seem like it's anonymous.
"Many comments" (2). Repeating the same lies and misinformation.

Most features requiring AST? Really? Codegeneration not possible to implement json decoding?

It's just as ridiculous as claims here like V depening on glfw and freetype.
Your exporter goes beyond the 10k limit for DMs on a free plan?
> Had to exclude Scatman, too―respect to the dude but he's not a Japanese girl.

He was reportedly popular in Japan, so perhaps your remembered song is a derivative or reference to his song “Ichi Ni San… Go!”?
You’re making the assumption that they have no churn and that they don’t need to acquire new customers.
Does it has anything to do with the Sesame Credit score we are discussing here?
Yep. Functions as it should.

It almost seems like a majority of people expect that the nature of supply and demand should not apply to real estate.
Servants...
For the mathematically inclined, I strongly recommend Frank Morgan's book on Geometric Measure Theory, which is the math of bubbles, essentially:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128044896/geometric-m...
Sen. Hawley introduces bill to repeal Section 230 of the CDA
But you can see the route and price beforehand on the mytaxi or taxi.eu apps? (Which existed before Uber, btw)
git add *

git commit -m "I want everybody to stop creating drama, and this codes maybe it's not clean or does not compile but people can now see it and therefore people can see what I claim to be a 3 file compiler with tons of features"

git push
As long as the City of London is independent of that!
I don't think so, as both "r"s are sounded (like at the start of a word in a non-rhotic accent). It's when the "r" is at the end of a sound that there's a difference: "are", "our", "letter", "arctic", "architecture", etc. (none of those "r"s are sounded in my non-rhotic New Zealand accent, edit: unless followed by a vowel sound, like "letter and").
What does a rich older couple do in 7500sq ft/700sq m

Tools
Hipchat had service issues at the same time Slack was getting momentum. It was terrible timing for HipChat.
My anecdotal evidence suggests that the London premium in salaries does not, anywhere near, compensate for the increased housing costs and/or commute time. Obviously, YMMV
That quote is missing some context that I think makes the story even more impressive.

So, this was before the Hot Cheeto idea. Montañez was looking for ways of advancing inside of the company and had asked a salesperson if he could trail him as he did his routes. This was on Montañez's day off work, so it was unpaid. The advantage to the salesperson was an extra set of hands for unloading.

He saw the shelf or whatever the terminology is and how much FritoLay product they were selling in the individual stores. That's what he had in mind when he used his arms to say how much market share. The question scared him (apparently he and his wife hadn't gotten to the "market share" chapter in the book they got from the library) until he remembered that day following the salesperson and so the punchline is that he thought he nailed the answer.
A New Way to Define Desktop Software Using Web
> Billions of people around the world do not want that lifestyle. They do not want to own a car. They do not want to own a bicycle. They do not want to own a house [...] they want it 5 minutes walk from their front door. [...]

You're assuming that essentially the entire world ("billions of people around the world") thinks as you do, just because you think so.

I've lived in cities of different sizes (magnitudes of 10⁴ to 10⁶), and those who don't want any personal mean of transport, not even a bike ("They do not want to own a car. They do not want to own a bicycle."), are a tiny minority.

I guess you must be in your 20s/early 30s, since something that actually happens IRL is that when people start to have children, instead of moving to more dense locations, which are more convient according to the theory you expose, move to more sparse locations (towards the suburbs), which actually require a personal mean of transport (of course, this is part of a variety of reasons).
You mean the one who wrote the attacking code? Or the one who wrote the vulnerable code? Why do we even assume there is a "one" here?
My grandmother is living alone at the moment in a house where she and her husband raised 4 boys, each with their room and a bathroom for the children at the first floor and a bedroom, an office, a kitchen and a living room at floor level. There's also a basement with a parking space for the car and three rooms and a laundry room. And it's surrounded by a 0.35 acres garden.

Yet, it's cheaper to live in the empty house than renting something smaller or getting into a elder facility care house.
Interestingly, Uber in Germany (Berlin at least) are taxis

https://www.rbb24.de/content/dam/rbb/rbb/rbb24/2018/2018_10/...
You wish hardship upon them because...why exactly?
Thousands Petition Netflix to Cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens
Any plans for AMD to release first party NUC form factor devices with Ryder chips? I bet I’m not the only one that both loves that form factor and also amazed at the perf numbers and core counts of these CPUs.
They have a German version - click on “in English” to get a drop down list of other languages