skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best website about Esperanto, the remarkably little used constructed language:

http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/

Esperanto is actually full of linguistic and cultural bias, as this website carefully demonstrates, and Esperanto is not a successful language for international scientific communication.
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beg all you like but I see no difference between Google offer a search engine that points to content, same as this chap did with torrent links. That is the comparision.
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Are they actually still doing that? For the last year or so, recaptcha seems to only serve up nonsense words.
Why did you post two links to what's effectively the same story, within a minute of each other?

(the other: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4156153)

And both of them with gratuitously editorialised titles, at that.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like ... adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is.

You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it.
Still can't workout how the Tiangong-1 managed to dock with Jiaolong. Those crazy Chinese :-)
This looks very interesting; however, I do wish they would stop doling out the koolaide on (almost) every page. Instead of telling me why they are "this much faster than xyz" all I see are some graphs and numbers, which isn't particularly helpful because the benchmarks could be flawed!
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I've seen one or two cc processor APIs that enabled the passing of receipt/item info via the point of sale, but my company (I work on a retail POS) has never implemented them.

I'm pretty sure they don't even give the merchant a break on their processing rate if they provide that info, and that it's just for reference by the merchant. I've never read the fine print though, so who knows.
China could do the trick that USA used to defeat USSR. Namely - start a new space/technology/military race, and use its bigger industrial base to ensure USA defaults.

But USA would probably just accept it lost the race, and not bankrupt.
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SpaceX's success is extraordinary, but I'm sure it would be much more harder to reach where they are without the helping hand of NASA, years of government backed research. They can also hire scientists and engineers trained on-job by NASA, again funded by American public.

Elon Musk couldn't do what he did in South Africa, for example. It's just like being a startup in the wally, everything is more smoothe there.
Quit trying to fix CAPTCHA and just stop using them altogether. Here's my rant / explanation why:
http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/07/02/why-you-should-never-...
Thanks for making the point about the modern nation state.

Whenever I make this point to others, I encounter a lot of anger. A lot of people seem unable to comprehend the fact that the modern nation state was stitched together, and they demand that we should have a monolithic state that speaks the same language.
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streak are nice but a little rough around the edges. sometimes I wish they did work over a real google spreadsheet that you could access separately.

the most annoying thing is how they link emails to 'boxes' (btw, wtf is it called a box? ;). if another user adds an email to the box it sometimes doesn't show it in your emails (although you might be CCed on it too) but instead delivers it from what is stored on their servers and it looks garbled. all formatting is lost etc.

I'd prefer them just adding a label per 'box', so that adding an email to a box would be as simple as adding regular gmail label. and that would discover it and replicate among all users.
What about offering the option to switch to a normal CAPTCHA for users like yourself?
Observations from usability testing:

* It's called a game but it's just not fun. (Tried about 6 of them.)

* It's annoying to have to use the mouse in 2 dimensions with dragging. This activates the "locate, identify, capture something and drag it someplace else that needs to be identified" part of my brain. Using that part of the brain breaks my train of thought from the message I was thinking of typing.

Captchas are not perfect, and this is a good idea to try and do user testing, but I find it not be an improvement over captchas.
None of these are massively surprising, you can pretty much shim your way into doing anything when you have control of the environment. Turing equivalence and all that..
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I was first exposed to Lisp via AutoCad in 1989, but other than creating the most simple programs it has never made much sense as a language compared to BASIC and those using semi-colons.

Just last night, I read PG's explanation of Lisp in Hackers and Painters that Lisp's parentheses are there because a Lisp program is its own parse tree (I hope I got that right) and that this is what gives it its flavor.

That explanation is what I think was missing from the Lisp tutorials I used to read, and what is missing from the article. Showing a few examples of lisp programs shows how all those insipid parentheses are used, but doesn't explain why.

A lisp tutorial can't look like a semicolon language tutorial without ignoring what's most beneficial in the language. To understand lisp, I think grsping the computer science concepts matters to a degree that it doesn't in some other languages.
But if you implemented Maybe in Java, there still wouldn't be any compile-time guarantee that Nothing would be handled, right? At best you'd have something in code that more strongly encourages a certain convention.

Just now I briefly looked at implementations of Maybe in Java and at least one of them fakes this with checked exceptions, while another seems to lean heavily on Guava's Function interface, which is just awkward to use. I'd certainly be interested in seeing alternative implementations, if you know of any that are decent.

Also, a maybe more serious issue is that since it's not idiomatic Java you'd have to do a lot of wrapping around libraries, and hard-selling to colleagues. Admittedly no longer dealing with flaws in Java's type system, but a big part of a language is the community and ecosystem, and in Haskell's case people using it have already bought on to the advantages of stronger types.
On mobile devices, there is about a 1 to 1.5 second delay before the animation begins. touchstart and js might be a better solution...
Additionally, this looks like a repost anyways: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3622888
That Norman is more attractive than John is not in question. The contention is that many companies want a Norman and so will pass over a John, even when a Norman is not available (hence creating the perception of a shortage). Furthermore, these companies usually do not need a Norman; a John would work out fine.

A number of posters in this thread assert that anyone who can write code competently[0] can get a job in this economy. I personally, as with the OP, don't see that. I see two broad groupings of companies[1]. The first group only wants Normans or near-Normans, and complain that there are not enough of them to fill their slots. The second group is happy with Johns, but drops a laundry list of (sometimes conflicting) skills and experience requirements that filter out almost all of the Johns, and then complains that there are not enough of them to fill their slots. I have also encountered an overlapping subgroup of companies willing to compromise somewhat for local candidates.

Unfortunately its difficult to move beyond anecdotes on this matter. I have some that support the OP's point, many here have some that refute it. It would be really interesting to see distrbutions of these anecdotes by geography, experience level, and undergrad program, though.

[0] "Competently" goes beyond writing FizzBuzz in this case.
[1] I am not asserting that every company falls into one or the other; my current one does not, though my previous one does. I'm asserting that most do.
Yeah, this came up the first time we wrote about OAM [0]. There's a pretty informative (and heated) discussion about it in the comment thread -- Bo Thide defending his work from attacks made by other scientists.

[0] http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/120803-vortex-radio-waves...
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I made the same mistake at first!
"Mr Cleary also faces charges in the US, where he stands accused of breaking into a number of websites, including that of the US X Factor, in order to deface them and steal personal details."
Why not mentioning running Linux kernel? http://bellard.org/jslinux

Also, with https://github.com/kripken/emscripten you can run a "port" quite a bunch of apps to JavaScript.

And don't forget you can decode several audio codecs: http://labs.official.fm/codecs/ and video codecs: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway + http://people.xiph.org/~bens/route9/route9.html
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Isn't the case over? I thought the extradition trial ended months ago.
This looks interesting, but can someone explain the benefits over memcache/Redis?

Is "hyperspace hashing" storing multiple copies, so it's like storing records on multiple shards of a database?

And "enables lookups of non-primary data attributes": how useful is this, actually? Is this a big step forward for NoSQL?

The site doesn't seem to be giving me a real-world case where HyperDex solves existing problems better than other things... maybe I just can't find it?
Funny story, I was at Sam's Club the other day checking out the tablets and I noticed two important things.

First, the iPad is always out front - highly visible and ready to play with. People are always stepping up and using it. The android tablets (including the Kindle Fire) were around back.

Second, a customer was playing with a 10" Android tablet and his wife came over. He commented to her something like "I like the tablet over there better" and he pointed to the Kindle Fire. The hardware is obviously not as good on the Fire, but the UI/UX and form factor seem to suit non-geeks a lot better than Android 4.0.

Also, my mother-in-law just got a Kindle Fire and loves it.

A couple data points don't mean much, but it's always interesting to see how normal people view and use these devices.
Why is a USA person (Mr Wales) petitioning a UK goverment about a action that is instigated and being carried out by a USA goverment.

THIS makes no sence. It is like complaining to my local GP about starving children in africa!

If you think it is wrong about him being extradited then take it up with those extraditing him and those who have brought these actions into being. Shout all you like to the UK goverment but all they can do is point at the USA and go talk to the hand, sadly.

So personaly I see this is a futil petition that is because it is targeted at the wrong people.
I think there is some base (like the founders) but the rest is a combination of factors. I don't think there is some recipe for success.
Didn't he write any code for it?
OP is the founder of appcod.es, so I would like to hear from anyone else who has used this or similar service? This is a big sticking point of the app store of course so I wonder how good this type of thing is and whether it's worth it.
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Reloading the demo a bunch of times, there appear to only be a handful of different games. Maybe they have a reduced set for the demo, but it certainly seems like each game would require human intervention to create. They don't look that difficult to solve automatically once a human teaches the computer what to do for the given game once. CAPTCHA relies on being able to create new puzzles with zero human effort but which require some human effort to solve. If each puzzle requires human effort to create, then attackers can simply take advantage of the fact that their time is cheaper than yours.

These sort of clever/unusual human detectors can work great on a small scale, when it isn't worth anyone's time to attack them, but fall apart once they get popular. Maybe I'm missing some secret sauce here, but this one certainly looks like one of those.
Also, "click" only makes sense with a mouse. Touchscreens are here to stay.
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The cargo mission to the ISS by SpaceX made more splash. At least online and at blogs or wired/reddit. I guess the commercial aspect and underdog status made it more reliable for readers than rooting for Chinas ambitions.

But I think you are right, the story of Chinas successful start was not ignored by mass media. It just was not front page material.
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I know, Twilio, disclaimer and everything looks ok... but still i do not feel entirely safe to give my phone number... Not that i do not trust you... but...i don't know...it feels strange, even if i use more email and mine is everywhere i am not totally ok with giving my phone around.
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I never meant to assail his intentions in this case. However you can't refute the PR implications of what kind of candidate he throws his support behind.
As much as personalities like JW want to be associated with Net Neutrality initiatives and the like, they still have their apprehensions when it comes to associating themselves with the geek / hacker types.
Take this guy (picked totally at random from a YT search for Linux distro) in the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeZaUyixvk

I am not entirely convinced if JW would have come out in his support if he were the culprit (keeping every other detail of the case untouched).
Yes, I am suggesting that JW threw his weight in - atleast in some measure - due the seemingly well-adjusted looks of Richard O'Dwyer.
Interesting article Renat.
I know someone who just graduated cum laude with a BS from UIUC who is having trouble.
>Actually, most of those lists are based on PHP4 or older (meaning their opinions are fully eight years out of date; a LOT has changed) or are made irrelevant by changing one or two quite well-documented confit settings. The little that's left over are mostly complains that PHP isnt something that it's not trying to be (strongly typed, most commonly)

Sounds an awful lot like you are just ignoring the things you don't want to hear. It isn't just that PHP is weakly typed, it is that it has absurd type conversions that no other weakly typed language does, that aren't even consistent, and explicit casts don't serve the expected purpose of forcing the correct type:

"1e1" == "10" => True

$a = "foo"; $b = 0; $c = "bar";
$a == $b => True
$b == $c => True
$a == $c => False

"22 cream puffs" == "22 bullfrogs" => False
"12 zombies" + "10 young ladies" == "22 cream puffs" => True

(string)"false" == (int)0 => True

PHP is full of bugs. Ancient bugs that have existed since PHP3, and which are still there. Serious bugs where the lexer or parser is outright broken:

$ perl -le 'print 07'
7
$ perl -le 'print 08'
Illegal octal digit '8' at -e line 1, at end of line
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
$ python -c 'print 07'
7
$ python -c 'print 08'
File "", line 1
print 08
^
SyntaxError: invalid token
$ php -r 'print 07;'
7
$ php -r 'print 08;'
0

$ perl -le '$foo = 1; print(($foo == 1) ? "uno" : ($foo == 2) ? "dos" : "tres");'
uno
$ php -r '$foo = 1; print(($foo == 1) ? "uno" : ($foo == 2) ? "dos" : "tres");'
dos

PHP is written by absolutely incompetent developers. There were 37 exploitable vulnerabilities in 2011. Compare that to 3 for python, 3 for perl, and 7 for ruby. Steffan Esser was the only person attempting to make the PHP project give a shit about security, and he ended up giving up on it because the other PHP devs absolutely refused to consider security as important.

These are not problems that are fixed in recent versions of PHP. They are not misinformation. If you want to revel in your ignorance, feel free. But don't expect the rest of the world to tip toe around the facts to avoid inconveniencing you with reality.
What a great idea! I am very interested to see if I can really learn a language this way.
Can I also enter text to be translated?
See, and I'm the opposite. I never use the back camera on my tablet (too low quality, no flash), but I frequently video chat with friends and family with the front camera.

Also, I'm not too sure the lack of a back camera would be a deal breaker for most people -- the Fire's sold pretty dang well without one.
So you want to work in an Apple Store?
The code is available on GitHub. If the benchmark is flawed, help us fix it.

Here are some ways it could be flawed:

* MongoDB and Cassandra were set to default consistency levels. They are not configured to wait for the majority of replicas to respond. HyperDex waits until data is committed at all replicas. This clearly biases the benchmark away from HyperDex.

* MongoDB and Cassandra operate on the key for the search benchmark, while HyperDex operates (solely) on secondary attributes. Another bias against HyperDex.

Most of our gain in the benchmarks comes from high GET throughput and high SEARCH throughput, although PUTs are competitive as well.

We are faster than MongoDB because they do idiotic stuff they don't have to. When I was investigating why HyperDex is faster, I looked solely at client libraries (since MongoDB's default config just writes to socket buffers, or buffers it in userspace). HyperDex has one function to create the request packet, one function that enqueues it with a constant number of operations, and one function to flush the queue. Once a request is created it is not copied until the kernel moves it to the a socket buffer. MongoDB, on the other hand, bounces through half a dozen different layers, some of which perform memmove to compact the data, keeping it contiguous in memory. While I've not examined the whole MongoDB code base, I suspect that it's more of the same. I can tell you first hand that the same diligence paid to making the HyperDex client efficient was paid at all layers of the HyperDex stack.

Edit: Trying to get bullets to work
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Maybe, although i'm sure he has said he did receive this money, but was spent on hosting bills etc, so he wasnt really earning anywhere near that amount.
Sooooo, no Anthony Weiner then?
> What if I don't agree that a low-carbon future would be a good thing?

Then my comment doesn't apply.

> What if I think that the tax is too high?

The level of the tax should be chosen so, that you get the societal optimal output of CO_2. Where the measure of optimality is choosen by some mechanism, e.g. some form of democracy or so, outside of the scope of my suggestion.

If you actually want to have a high carbon-future, you might even opt for a negative tax, i.e. subsidy. The `proceeds' that get divided equally would turn into costs. If you want no interference, you set the tax to zero and forget about it.

> What if I think that the tax is too high?

For the average CO_2 emitting person the level of the tax doesn't matter, since the scheme's designed to be cash-flow neutral for them. But with a tax that's too high you would get less CO_2 emissions than your society would agree on as optimal. With a tax that's too low, you'd get more total emissions than people would agree on. At the moment our situation is essentially equivalent to a tax/redistribution of zero.
I have been waiting for this forever! I can't wait to see what they come up with.
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(as a tech person and I've been to two startup weekends + numerous hackathons) Whatever idea you come up with the team, I think the way to "motivate" the tech people is to validate that the idea is viable one - that means, do all that is necessary - make calls, go out and talk to people, SELL IT! - to let the tech people know that whatever they are building is worth it.

For example, if you spent 5 hours during your startup weekend outside talking to potential customers and actually lock in a potential buyer AND even invite that person to the demo - heck invite 2 or 3 potential customers - then I think you are doing an awesome job as a non-tech person.
While seeing "index.html" (or "index.ANYTHING") makes me cringe, I have some sympathy for the developers who do this.

Let's say I have an old-school, all-static site with pages at http://example.com/x/index.html and http://example.com/x/about.html. I would like to make a link to the "index" page from the "about" page. What are my choices?

<a href="/x/"> will work, but will break when someone decides to move "/x" to "/y".

<a href="."> will work from the server, which does an internal redirect, but not on the static version on my local drive I'm going to demo to my boss. (I also have a hunch a significant number of developers aren't aware of "." and don't know this is an option.)

So we end up with <a href="index.html"> for better or worse.
Use a Google Voice number or something similar?
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I worried that might be the case - I just didn't get a chance to integrate the Twilio.JS API which would help solve that problem as it would all happen in-browser, but I wanted to see if anyone would even be interested first.
They did later release the Nokia 7110 which had the spring-loaded cover, so I guess they got it to work. The phone in the second movie is not even a Nokia, it is a Samsung SPH-N270. Samsung sold it as a limited edition.
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One topic that I've seen come up on HN numerous times is the value of networking and making connections with people. Some hacker folks seem to be able to do this pretty naturally, but I get the impression that lots more are not. Someone who is not, but is trying to learn, is likely to make lots of mistakes, and perhaps appear annoying in the process.

I cannot speak for "Percy", but I imagine for a lot of socially-challenged hackers, doing what he did (make a feeble attempt at interjecting himself into an ongoing conversation, and awkwardly distribute a business card) would be, to them, a very successful occasion.
I always assumed that it would've been better to address the root cause that creates "malfeasors", which are (in no particular order); brutal poverty, constant assault and general mistreatment by those other than themselves.

Actually, a recent study shows that malfeasors are the result of the local political posturing in their own countries:

The effort poured into diplomacy and public relations to counter anti-American sentiment among some Muslims has so far ignored the main source of their anti-US feeling - competing political factions in their own countries. ... Blaydes and Linzer conclude that the main explanation for high levels of anti-American opinion in a given country depends, not as previously thought on Muslim perceptions of what America is culturally or what it does politically, but on the degree of competition between the political elites within that country itself.

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-muslims-america-intriguing.html
Um, you do realize that this paper proves that (subject to certain assumptions) a specific form of racial profiling is mathematically optimal, right?
Trove and Colt handle those cases fine.
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