skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm French and I speak english everyday since 5 years (foreign girlfriends) I just can't pronounce this language correctly, the mouth positions required are simply to far from my native tongue. And in the morning it's even worse.
I think there is an elocution max level for each of us that's very hard to pass (I suppose that would involve some kind of specific elocution training), whereas the vocabulary always grow.
I've met people living in the same foreign country for 20 years and still have a very strong native accent.
I loved this game in high school. We played the Windows version in my networking class. I remember shouts of "Ahh yea, cocaine is super cheap in _____!" going across the room as we tried to outmatch each other's cash pool.
I've never really attended any conferences, but I enjoy listening to the Java Posse Roundup exactly because they're discussions, and not just presentations, which seem better fitted for a marketing event than a technical meeting.

Have you considered recording and releasing it as a podcast? Assuming enthusiastic support for the idea, of course.
I bought the TI-85 dispite it being an older model because it had been hacked so I could program it in z80 assembler.
There is no 'fixation.' PG noted stuff in his data that was screaming to be retold. That was one thing he found. A correlation between strong foreign accents and lack of success. Blame reality, not him.
At my parents house where I lived for around 15 years, next door the lady was a professional breeder of dogs. 5 Dogs at any one time at our house. They bark all day and all night. It used to drive me insane.
>when using the music player and you accidentally remove the head phones, the music continues over the phone its speaker immediately. It should pause instead.

Isn't this the case for a lot of devices? Every desktop and laptop I've used, on Windows and Linux, follows this behavior.
>Paper books have search in three forms: flipping quickly to scan for information, a chapter index, and a concept index in the back.

An E-book probably has the last two as well. These are almost ineffectual compared to direct word search.

>e-books don't come with DRM or a record of purchases if you torrent them or get them from Gutenberg, whereas you cannot conveniently steal a paper book.

Sure, but if you do buy a paper book at least you can sell it. You will never be able to recoup any of the money in your ebook library.
According to the product page [1], the Nokia 515 includes Mail for Exchange and does support tethering (Internet sharing) at up to 3.5G speed.

[1] http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/515/
The axis should start at 0 degrees, not 53. The 3 dimensionality distorts it as the orange bars slightly angle to the left and makes 2012 look much bigger in relation to the other bars. If you actually plot all the hottest years on a 2d bar chart starting from 0, it gives a much clearer picture of climate change while still revealing that 2012 was indeed the hottest year on record..
We do have a html5 fallback, I'll get that looked into.

Edit: Are you on firefox by any chance? Apparently mp3 is not supported there. If not, which browser are you using?
"I've run through three nights without sleep and the third night of sleepless running was a bit psychotic. I actually experienced bouts of 'sleep running', where I was falling asleep while in motion, and I just willed myself to keep going."

That sounds quite dangerous. Not only mentally, but I'd be concerned of a sudden lapse of physical control and smashing my skull onto the pavement. Then again, I'd never have to worry about that because I don't have that level of extreme determination. Very impressive.
Despite the fact I consider myself git-literate, I never pass up the chance to go through intros (for fear that I am literally just doing every single thing wrong).

I particularly liked this one, read the whole thing (I liked the easy-to-skim-and-pick-up-the-important-points style of this article), good read.
"I predict that more companies outside the US will start producing products and services that the US can't touch legally. As a result US tech firms would lose out.
"

I guess I view this as highly naive. What makes you think the US won't get agreement from these places to share? They already have in a large number of cases.
What's more interesting than how the calculator works is how Sinclair was able to write the code for such a chip, which the article doesn't attempt to guess at. I wonder if he used some kind of boostrap on paper, looking at the algorithms.
Technical nitpick: your front-end code blocks on mixpanel, and terminates if mixpanel doesn't respond. Usin noscript and blocking mixpanel, I don't get to see any content on your page.
Or something like this:
http://pythonforios.com

Which nicely replicates the feeling of laboriously typing in code you acquired from who-knows-where.
Founder here. Panicking, because I'm SO not ready for HN traffic! (Not technically, but product-wise.)

We probably will use openbadges - https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/issues/40. But they are not implemented yet.
Also (this may be my personal opinion), but I think people are used to seeing the x-axis encode time. That visualization makes it look like its slowly getting hotter year after year if you don't pay attention to the labels.
Graphing calculators are entirely unnecessary for learning high school/college mathematics/physics/etc. (though they might be useful for engineering students working on-site where access to a full computer is impractical – I don't have such experience with that, so can’t comment).

There is no good pedagogical reason for assigning problems to students which use numbers that can’t be worked out easily on paper or with a regular scientific calculator. Forcing students to expend effort on keeping track of many-digit numbers is in general an unnecessary mental load which distracts from the concepts being taught. Including "how to use your calculator" sections as part of mathematics instruction, and assigning "calculator problems" which include e.g. unreasonably complex symbolic integration problems or unreasonably precise numbers, for the sake of giving students practice with a graphing calculator interface is a waste of teacher and student effort.

Additionally, Because Texas Instruments has so effectively lobbied textbook authors and test writers and school administrations to get their calculators on the list of approved/official devices, many students are prompted to spend an unreasonable amount of money on calculators which they do not need. It’s something like a tax on those students.

TI graphing calculators have awful, obtuse interfaces. Their programming and debugging tools are rudimentary and outdated. Their graphics capabilities are limited, and graphics made with them can’t be used for any other purpose or easily shared. Students would be much better served by lessons/mentoring on the use of regular general-purpose computers and programming languages, whether for mathematics or whatever else. If they need symbolic integration or graphing capabilities for solving some concrete engineering problem, or for exploring, they would be much better served by a tool such as Mathematica or Maple [or heck, Python] than by a TI calculator. Full computers are much better for inputting and interacting with data and mathematical structures.

It's been 9 years since I was in high school. But on principle, I never bought a graphing calculator, and I never found it to be any disadvantage in any course I encountered in high school or college [except, briefly, on the AP Calculus test, where I had to familiarize myself with the TI83's awful UI on a borrowed calculator during the test; it didn’t end up hurting my score]. However, I found programming in Maple, and later Python, to be invaluable in solving all sorts of problems.
Hey j_baker thanks for sharing your perspective. The beauty and curse of code is that it's hard to have subtext that isn't explicit, like in your example. Again if "Let's see what product thinks" has the negative connotation you allude to, in my mind that is a horribly run company. We are still very small (6 ppl) so I want everyone to think like product managers and CEOs - as long as they fulfill their core responsibilities. It gets a little harder bc sometimes, engineers will be vetoed, not because they don't have great ideas, but ultimately, there is some negotiation between a great product/experience and something sellable or to work with a time constraint.

I personally think it is ASININE not to involve my engineers in the decision process, bc they might be able to optimize my business process, or even my thoughts as a product owner. I am a sales and marketing guy, that desperately wants to become a good product manager. The only way I can do that is by learning from others' approaches. If you'd like to continue the dialogue feel free to email me at ben@projectsherpa.com

Cheers,

Ben
CoFounder
ProjectSherpa
ben@projectsherpa.com
>>> And further, the exact stuff that the NSA is most interested in is going to be the first to go.

It's already gone. That's what's so insidious about this whole NSA/CIA/FBI/DHS/DEA debacle: it's all a wasteful charade. They haven't caught __anyone__. They haven't stopped __anything__ of import. It's a bunch of bureaucrats playing cold war with real lives and money. They shouldn't have access to anything because they don't DO anything worthwhile with it.

The world is getting safer. Information/education (power) via technology is being shifted to the individual in a big way and they HATE it because it makes them irrelevant. The current state of the government three letter agencies is an ongoing FUD apparatus that exists for almost no other purpose than self sustenance.

The NSA has systematically and illegally shared information with the DEA and other domestic law enforcement[1]. It has done so while encouraging them to cover it up using “parallel construction” to establish probable cause for an arrest. The FBI entraps people into terror plots and then "busted" them[2]. The ATF sells guns to the Mexican drug cartels[3].

Look at the sources below. It's Forbes, The New York Times and The Washington Post. This isn't edge case conspiracy theory. This is systematic institutionalized corruption covered daily in the main stream press .

The military industrial complex and it's self-sustaining security theater is eating billions (trillions?) in real tax payer money and costing us god knows what via chilling effects and opportunity costs of human lives ruined or snuffed out. It makes me sick to think about the scale of the losses.

The only good news is we (as in we, the people) are winning, as of now. We can all still talk about this stuff without secret police showing up at our door. And, more importantly we ARE talking about it. Everyone is pissed, congress' approval rating is 11%. Pretty soon everybody will know everything. Obama, Holder, Clapper and co have a lot more to hide than we do. That's why the government and their financiers are so freaked out and paranoid.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-p...

[3]http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2011/09/28/fast-and-fur...
"'Do business w people who believe what you believe' by being you."
I had an incredibly inspiring chat with Adii Pienaar (adii.me), an author of several amazing books on entrepreneurship, co-founder of the incredibly successful web company WooThemes and founder of the recently launched PublicBeta.co, an amazing new learning community and resource for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs.<p>Great points on the power of being the "perfect you" by being yourself in writing to connect and do business with those likeminded people.<p>Check out the highlights below the video in the post. Would love to hear your feedback and possible future guests I should pursue.
I didn't have any structure to the "hour" rule beyond: Have something to show for your efforts in an hour, and then move on to something else. Stuff was either "Never done this before" or "Done a version of this countless times before" - and either way, in the past, I've gotten caught up in trying to be perfect, and then not getting anything done.
The hour limit took perfection out of the equation for old and new tasks. So, for example, who knows what is the perfect regex for grabbing websites and their associated comment pages from HN? Not me! But I whipped one up, and v1.0 was enough to make a graphical version of the front page of HN. Spin up a Linux Azure VM? No experience with it - but I could probably spend a day reading about other people doing it. Or, I could give myself an hour (or maybe more if Azure takes longer than an hour to create a vm(!) ) and then see what I have after that.
I think the most valuable tool I used was my brain :^) By that I mean if you are great at coding in a particular language, and you are trying to "get stuff done" then use that language to help you learn the new stuff. For me, shell scripts work perfectly to glue multiple languages and utilities together for projects like this.
The last part I'll mention is that I tried my best to keep the solution simple. So there's no elaborate backend here, no super-cool caching of anything, nada. Yes, I can do all of that stuff if I have to, but I can also spend days or weeks perfecting (messing around with) all of that and still have little more than what is here. Sixty minutes is plenty of time to get something done if it's new or old hat. That was a pleasant discovery. I can go into even more detail about the path that led to "Hey, this is actually becoming a thing" if you wish - I sense I have started to ramble.
A small correction here - A2 is a secondary auditory cortex (as in 'secondary stage of processing').

[it's just that the phrase 'second auditory cortex', especially in the context of discussing a process of acquiring a second language sounds suggestive of a development of another separate part. and A2 is definitely not that.]
Yeah, pretty much. I'd be pissed and amazed if the default was to pause the song. I don't want the device to try to figure out what I'm trying to do, I want the device to do exactly what I tell it to do, which, in this case, would be to simply do nothing. I just removed a physical cable, I don't need it to do anything on the software side other than make sure it updates the current audio output.
* What problem are you trying to solve ?

* Do people care enough about that problem to look for a

* What are others doing wrong, that you'll do right ?
Cool funny photo
Really funny picture that will make you smile for sure. Go check it and don't forget to share with friends!
My Nokia C1 (GSM on T-Mobile in USA) goes for about a week between charges and it's about 2 years old on the original battery. It's my only telephone which I on average text or talk on at least once a day.

As long as coverage is decent and I have reasonable signal levels that's usual. With weak signal levels or no service when it's hunting for service the battery will go flat in a day or two.
This is a good paper but I believe it is misinterpreting the results. There is strong evidence that people have a limited capacity for making tough decisions. This "willpower" or "bandwidth" gets used up as decisions are made. I think the right interpretation of the results of the experiments is that fixed price decisions are tougher decisions for poorer people than for richer people. This interpretation would differ from "poverty impedes cognition" in the decisions of richer people to bigger price tag scenarios. I would expect asking richer people about what they would do if their house were destroyed in a plausible way not covered by their insurance would induce a similar cognitive impairment.
I like the idea of a freelance focused market place. I have wanted to build a system for it, but before I jump into it, there are several issues that need to be validated.

How prevalent is this need?
Would it need to limit locally craigslist style or is remote possible?
How would you facilitate / enforce payment for leads (if not a one time payment)?
How should leads be priced?

etc.
Snowden must have really hit the jackpot.

It will be interesting to see what else comes out.
Google can't not track which results are clicked for which queries. It'd be impossible to build a decent algorithm without measuring how well it works for people.
I have read a fair amount of this thread and I still stand by what I said. Furthermore, for obvious reasons, I don't believe HN is an objective place to discuss the merits of PG's statements past & present.
How much are the houses on sale for if you don't mind my asking?

And is there any significant risk posed as a result of depopulation eg increased crime rates, lack of good infrastructure etc?

I'm currently looking for a cheap purchase if it makes economical and lifestyle sense.
Based on the discussions here I just must know.

Why would you ever want a back-light on a high-end keyboard?
Thanks, I'll check this.
If a site did this I'd just leave tbh. I turn everything off and opt into advertising on sites I find I enjoy (if it turns out those sites had bad ads I just turn them off again).
>>>If they can make a 7mm thick smartphone with two cameras and GPS, etc., why can't this little Nokia be <7mm thick ?

I'm not sure, but I think it has to do with the network its built for. The Motofone is a dual band GSM. The 515 has CDMA capabilities. I know most CDMA phones tend to be a little thicker because they need a specific antenna and some additional hardware, which doesn't allow them to be as thin as they could be.

Again, not positive, but it's what some engineers told me a while back when Verizon was getting some of the high demand Motorola phones and we were wondering why they were thicker than their AT&T and T-mobile counterparts.
Beware of carriers bearing gifts
> I'm curious how and/or why he gets this kind of press

Because he tries for it. Some people (most of us like/love him) in the ultra community curse him for this, but this has enabled him to go on all sorts of adventures & inspire others to run. Not a bad thing.
Historically, the government has won every political fight about this (I guess nobody remembers CALEA, or it's predecessors), and been roundly supported by both law enforcement and the populace at large.

Outside of the tech community, i have yet to hear large amounts of actual outrage.

I thus predict the same outcome as say, patents:

Techies will complain on techie-friendly websites about how it sucks, rather than doing something productive like repeatedly contacting their congressfolks, requesting and having real live meetings with them.

People will propose technical solutions, apparently oblivious to the fact that the government will simply require you not to use them (as they have in the past).

Nothing will change.

Techies will then blame the tech companies for losing this war, or blame it on not spending enough money on lobbyists, or some bogeyman that does not require realizing the harsh truth: As a whole, techies refuse to actually get involved when it's something that actually requires doing something other than coding or writing comments on a website.

Instead, they rely on EFF and other orgs, which are simply not enough.
Driver-less cars: A $600 billion opportunity
GoDaddy is the grandpa of auto-optins and upsells, should of been mentioned there.
How much sense would it make to annotate a variable as being representative of a "present time" and then have the compiler insert a check that the variable must be greater than the time at which the file was compiled (plus or minus some fuzz to account for daylight savings and time zones)?
No kidding. I had a couple professors in college with accents truly as thick as molasses. I would leave every lecture mentally drained, and during the lecture my brain would run anywhere from 1-3 sentences behind realtime as it struggled to comprehend what had been said. It took me weeks to get used to "wahriable" (variable).

(Not complaining, just agreeing)
> [0] I tried it for a week or so on a Nokia 301 and an example of a raw edge is that when using the music player and you accidentally remove the head phones, the music continues over the phone its speaker immediately. It should pause instead.

I can imagine that a software trick like that is patented by for example Apple who iirc were the first ones to have music pause when unplugging, and a license wasn't taken on the technology to cut costs.
I expect privacy, yet anticipate privacy violations..
This whole thing, how most of the people in Reddit or Hacker News loves C&H, is kind of amazing. I love the comic when I was a kid and now I adore it. It really touches me, the characters and the ideas. And now I see the comic every day when I browse the internet...
There are five Japanese l/r sounds: ra (raa), ri (ree), ru (roo), re (ray), ro (roe) - sorry, not a linguist. For each of those, if I pronounce them in English, my tongue doesn't touch the top of my mouth. If I pronounce la (laa), li (lee), lu (loo), le (lay), lo (low) in English instead, my tongue moves from top to bottom. Specifically, the tip of my tongue starts by touching the gums behind my front teeth and at some point touches my gums behind my bottom teeth. Whereas in Japanese it touches the front teeth and doesn't touch behind my gums at the bottom.

Is that more clear? I agree that there are other r and l sounds in English, but there aren't in Japanese, there is a fixed set of phonemes. I'm trying to explain how each Japanese l/r sound is clearly split into a different l and r sound in English. Of course, there are many English l and r sounds that are badly approximated by the five l/r sounds in Japanese.
>> TI 8* calculators seem to me to be particularly overpriced and lacking in modern features.

It's something, which is better than nothing to a bored kid in math class. So many hours spent in study hall getting a dots to form patterns on the screen.
Mass surveillance is watching everything and fishing for illegal activity. That is not the same as filing subpoenas for data on persons of interest.

If you think everything that generates records the government can eventually access is "real harm," what exactly are you doing on HN?
It's interesting to hear so many people still use these kinds of phones. Reminds of people who used to carry their palm pilots and their phones around with them.

Hell, I used to be one. the Handspring Treo 270? Oh man I loved that phone!!
It talked about this in the article: "Probably the most distinctive part of SCUMM was that it was multi-tasking. This meant that multiple scripts could effectively run simultaneously. You might create a clock on the wall in Zak McKracken’s office and have it animate. [...] The script would simply command the actor to walk, and then issue a “wait-for actor” command which put the script to sleep until the actor had arrived or was facing the right direction. This allowed you to write your scripts in a very linear fashion reflecting the series of steps that you wanted the actor to follow."
Also saying they've set up something to add their affiliate link implies they own amzn.com, which to be clear is not the case. http://www.who.is/whois/AMZN
I don't know about the Sinclair development specifically, but for the HP-35, they wrote a register-level simulator in software that let them develop the algorithms and single-step through for debugging. My favorite quote from the article: "Correcting a problem was a simple matter of changing a punched card or two."

http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1972-06.pdf

The article goes into a lot of detail on the HP-35 internals, so it's worth a look.
i miss calvin and hobbes.
Your product is very similiar to EventMobi

http://www.eventmobi.com/
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