skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an example just how far they go, the statement:

clavis hashus nominamentum da.

Is equivalent to [1]:

@keys = keys %hash;

And in Klingon Perl [2]:

De'pu'wI' bIH yInob!

Is equivalent to:

%data = @_;

[1] https://metacpan.org/module/DCONWAY/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-...

[2] https://metacpan.org/module/Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun
No dynamically typed language is going to be "The Dominant Language Of The Enterprise" anytime soon. When you have hundreds of mediocre developers in cubicles pounding away at a single, huge, codebase, you're going to want as much compile time checking as you can get. You're going to want the ability to refactor and immediately see everything that needs to change, etc.

For a new language to have a shot at it, it should be statically typed and probably run on the JVM or CLR.
I don't understand why you got downvoted. Nice to see freelancers on here that aren't just developers or designers.

Also nice to meet someone else in marketing. Hi!
Sometimes you don't need to win to make a profit, however. MS does have a huge enterprise business. Now what happens when an enterprise that uses MS computers everywhere, MS servers, MS exchange, etc. wants to add tablets? They are far more likely to chose an MS tablet because they are already running all the MS kit anyway and have all their software and support staff targeted at that. MS even puts forth the non-RT version so the tablet can replace the PC if needed. There are companies with millions of dollars sunk into desktop PC software.

So even if MS never wins in the consumer market and always just runs second third or fourth, having their own in house solution could still be cost effective.
Yeah, automating all software development is probably equivalent to inventing general AI. At which point we're probably all very well off, or all screwed.
But not surprising. In 2001, the college I was accepted to also accepted a record number of students. Every year since then, the number of accepted students increased. The first year drop out rate also increased every year, to mirror the accepted rate. The number of graduates stayed the same, though.

The only conclusion I could come up with is the college was purposely accepting people they knew wouldn't be able to pass the first year. They fudged the numbers to maintain their graduation and placement rates AND they got the extra cash from gullible first year students.
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I hope that whatever happens to Nintendo, they keep making great games. The hardware needs to be "good enough" to not get in the way. As long as the games are fun, I will keep buying them.

We have a Nintendo 64, a GameCube, and a Wii in my apt, because there are versions of MarioKart and SmashBros that are best on a particular system. But the games, not the system, are the reason we keep them all.
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No argument from me there.

Spying is not something "nice" people do in the general sense.
I'm a big javascript proponent and think it's someday going to achieve write-once, run-anywhere... but this is a really good point.
Especially because when English is less expressive than a Romance language, we steal those words from the Romance language until we're at least as expressive.
A related but better idea is what Amazon did: create a digital currency and give it to users to buy apps with. App sellers redeem the digital money for real money from Microsoft. Now you're still subsidizing apps but real users decide where the money goes.
No, no thanks, I'm not going to login to read.
Great!

I wish I could read it on project's web site. I's literally 2 more lines.
Oddly enough, the English-language service of Deutsche Welle provides much of what BBC World Service used to provide, and in a fairly standardized "mid-Atlantic" accent.

(There was a time, as well, when the CBC and Radio Canada International used/enforced a standard pronunciation across the board. There was something quaint about it for every regional Canadian English dialect -- and our dialects, apart from Newfanese and the Nova Scotia Lunenburg dialect, tend to be pretty subtle -- but everyone could understand it. With the trend toward a vox populi approach, a rural Saskatchewan listener may find the various immigrant Englishes of major population centres like Toronto baffling at first. It's nice that communities can hear themselves on the radio -- it makes them feel more like first class citizens -- but it can impede communication between groups, and that friction can foster the very problems that the policies are trying to correct.)
Take your time Ryan. We will wait patiently.
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HN and the internet community reacted with consistent and vigorous outrage towards Facebook and Google for complying with subpoenas, and over unconfirmed rumors and suspicions that they were selling user data to 3rd parties (not just ad targeting internally). We had boycotts and alternatives to try to move off these services.

Where's the boycott of the PSTN? Why aren't we angry at AT&T for actually embedding staff in the government? Why aren't we encouraging people to switch off their services?
How, exactly, do you design a gigantic curved reflective surface without considering things like this? I mean, the basic idea dates back to at least Ancient Greece if not further.
I think it's over-criticized as a language, but I'm not going to be dishonest in describing what features I think it lacks or where I think it is actually, legitimately bad.
Have you seen what alcohol does to people? It kills over 80,000 people a year in the U.S. http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

You think you're protecting people with that attitude but you're actually supporting a system that kills even more.

Sanctimonious nanny-staters like you are the ones that let the madness continue. You should be ashamed of your ignorance and complicity.
>weakening the American government.

There are some who believe that wasting incredible resources on military / defense is actually weakening the country in light of the fact that we have no superpower enemy with even the remote potential to match our military. This leaves us vulnerable to other novel attacks, as well as just spending ourselves into oblivion. You know, the same way we 'overcame' the USSR's military threat via the arms race when their economy could not match the pace of ours.

Yes, the US gov't should be weakened by any account; given the degree which it has overstepped its stated bounds.
Ruby is neat! Except for this part:

return nil unless other.is_a?(self.class)
Does anybody actually believe this?
A friend of mine worked on one of the few "laser disc holographic" arcade game machines. (ex: http://www.oobject.com/revolutionary-arcade-cabinets/1991-ho...) The "hologram" was a visual trick involving a large, curved mirror. They had to do a recall after one arcade establishment positioned the machine next to a window. The sunlight shining through the window was focused to a point on the side of the wooden cabinet causing the machine set itself on fire and burn down the arcade! A quick redesign later and they had a variation on the "holographic" effect that used a convex mirror instead of a concave one.
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That's something I don't think this article covered. Sure technologies like WP make it easier for someone less skilled to accomplish something but then demand is created for others that are more skilled to fix, support, customize like you said.
This is so incredibly handy. I've been searching the internets for this page for years now.
Any blog post that purport to achieve anything substantial in less time that usual has uncounted costs. "Learn this new language in 20 mins (after learning to program other languages for years)"
> Public disclosure changes things.

We'll see. I hope you're right, but what exactly should it change? The NSA is a spy agency after all. There's lots of people here who think that the NSA should knock nicely and ask politely if they can bug your phone...and that you should be able to get a complete log of what they listen to as if the NSA was just some kind of national phone conversation backup service bureau.

I see lots of sabre rattling in Congress, people on the Intelligence Committee who are shocked shocked that their "oversight" has been revealed to be insufficient and other members of Congress who are equally shocked that you need gasp a security clearance to see classified stuff. But I don't really see anything particularly material happening.

The material things that are happening is that the NSA is making it even harder for a future Snowden-alike to do the same.
It seems that they've inadvertently built a giant parabolic reflector. Out of glass...

I wonder what the solution to this will be, and to what extent the developers will be held responsible. Is there any laws against focusing light intensely onto the street? I'd imagine that the cost of either increasing the light absorbed by each window or somehow adjusting the windows so they don't create such a uniform reflector will be rather high.
i'd argue that this is a myopic view. isn't the success of a product or company determined by customers? and the customers are making decisions which include evaluating competitors...
As a Swede having followed American politics (who doesn't these days) I can sort of see reasons to shun government influence. I guess you have to have a reasonable amount of trust in your government for a larger state apparatus to be acceptable. Not sure what would allow that but one bet is a political system that doesn't enforce a two party outcome.
One crazy idea could be that a system that take a closer responsibility for wellfare issues also tend to encourage representatives that focus more on humanitarian values to be elected and such may be easier to put your trust in.
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I don't know who Yegge meant, but my read on that passage (as a Googler) is that he was talking about Craig Silverstein. Several of those items are definitely attributable to Craig.
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In Belgium you often need 3 languages to operate (depending on the company location, and how big the company is): Dutch, English and French...
> You honestly think programming will become such a vital skill in everyone's job that it'll be taught along side reading and math to young children?

I'm in the UK, and yes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23222068

> They memorize a few formula and apply them on tests but how many people can even take a simple derivative a few years after leaving school?

You're right about this. But the percentage of people that will learn will remain the same, the quantity of the population that were taught will increase. It will have an effect.
The thing is Win RT it's not anything like previous versions of Windows, both from a user interface standpoint and from API/ABI compatibility standpoint. it does not support Active Directory, fullnExchange or most other Microsoft enterprise integration tech. There is no compelling reason for a corporation to go with surface.

Bizarrely iOS and Android both have better Microsoft stack integration.
>Think about how many wildly popular websites run with a handful of people.

You're talking about the "Silver Bullet," [1] whether you mean to or not. There have been hundreds of attempts to reduce the complexity of development, starting in the '50s and continuing pretty much continually until today. And just as Fred Brooks describes in the book I linked, that kind of productivity increase doesn't happen in software. And won't happen in software.

You do get ways of better managing complexity. Look at object-oriented programming, for example. That's a recent development, right? Sure, as long as you're old enough to consider the 1970s to be "recent." [2] Not me, thanks. ;)

The best you do get is a single problem being solved in a somewhat general manner. The CMS gives us a generic web site/blog. Square and others give us easy commerce integration. And so on: Specific common problems solved really well.

Yes, these are things that previously took many man-hours of time to create one-off versions of, but what happens is that people want more and more complex (and differentiated!) functionality in their web sites or apps.

And that differentiation is by definition not able to be packaged in bulk. As soon as it gets interesting, I don't care how easy you've made the "language" that specifies it, you still need a programmer to implement it. Or someone who can think like one.

And most people not only don't think like programmers, they firmly believe they can't think like programmers, and so refuse to even try to learn how. Or at the very least they have an image that programming is dull or dry or boring.

There are still huge barriers to people entering programming en masse. And even if they did, it would be the lowest complexity jobs that would be harder to get -- the ones where the barrier to entry is really low.

I work tasks a few tiers of complexity above those jobs; I'm not worried about being replaced by a new wave of college graduates any time soon.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming#Hi...
Similar also to DiscoDB, which does support compression, and uses perfect hashing for constant time-lookup with minimal disk access.

Not only that but it provides lightning-fast conjunctive normal form queries, a.k.a logical combinations of primitive keys. Plus it has Python / Erlang bindings.

http://discodb.rtfd.org

https://github.com/jflatow/discodb
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Interesting. This is a very detailed effort, with encyclopaedic ambitions across different languages. The question is if there is a lightweight version of this - someway of chosing a reasonably small set of phonemes which can represent, most English words accurately. The second part is to represent the phonemes by either using a small number of new letters and diacritics (which is what the IPA already does), or to map the phonemes directly to single letters or a string of two or three letters. With the second option, there would still be ambiguity in reading a spelling (where are the phoneme breaks?). But, the accent situation would improve and one can get used to the phoneme boundaries by looking it up for each new word.
In fact if/when someone comes up with a working attack it will probably require ASICs to run cost effectively.
> This is a very reasonable bar when it comes to hiring employees all across the country

It depends what country you're in.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1515825.stm)

> A head chef who was sacked for speaking Welsh at work has been awarded more than £10,000 in compensation.

> The award for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal comes five years after Gwilym Williams was sacked from a hotel near Caernarfon after refusing to speak English to Welsh-speaking colleagues.

His bosses didn't speak Welsh.
Providing an md5 hash of the example password is just asking for bad password models in new apps! Users, don't use the provided hashes, instead run the user and password through the exact sign-up method real user data will go through.
Create a non-English based programming language is very different from translating a english programming language. Different languages have different ways to express time, state, etc. If one translates a english programming language, it will be a translated English based programming language (not a Non-English base...)

I`m a native portuguese speaker, for example. In portuguese, we "break" the "to be" verb in two forms: The "ser" verb to denominate an immutable state like "The sun is hot" and a "estar" verb to denominate a transitory state "It is hot today".

My guess is that, if programming languages were made since the beginning with a language like that, the coding world would be a more pleasant place today. Things like differenciate mutable/immutable state would be much more natural.

So, it`s possible even to create a Non-English based programming language IN English. Russian, japanese, etc. languages have their peculiarities, that could shape coding very different than what it is today.

Ruby it`s a nice example of it. Just google about the subject, and found this material (http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2010/12/17/learning-japanese-th...)

Any rubyist-japanese-speaker who would like to give some thoughts on the subject?
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Yes but these sysadmins need to be stronger. The rationale given was not to have fewer sysadmins but dumber ones.
Sounds like we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Not that this is unassailable reason, but I've heard people say the exact same thing about Microsoft in 1999. "Palm's so far ahead of them, etc. etc." - a few years later, Palm was shipping Windows.

Microsoft's fundamentals on Windows 8 mobile are quite solid. Even the design aspect ("pure digital") is something that both Android and iOS are moving to in some form.

It's true that WP7/Win8 haven't launched as well as they'd hoped, but calling it over seems rather premature.
In my opinion giving bounties to developers is a flawed idea. Devs may be motivated to do an app, but if the userbase is small, they will simply cut corners, and do the bare minimum, forgetting about support and further development after the bounty was acquired.

In other words - if there are no users, a bounty will not convince devs to build a reasonable product, as there will be no incentive to do so. If there are users within the ecosystem, then the bounty is unnecessary.

That is why so far the bounty programs did little to improve the ecosystems.

A nice idea someone posted here in the comments - instead of giving devs bounty money, Microsoft could give free cash to users left & right, so they'd spend it on the apps. This would force the devs to not only do an app, but do a really good app...
> Is there any laws against focusing light intensely onto the street?

Laws tend to be passed for things that people think of. This will now be something people think of, and will probably end up in building codes. In the mean time, tort/delict laws may still serve to make the developers/owners financially responsible.
This, so much this.

The problem with poverty is often not that you have no excess income, but that you have so little (or should have none, but sacrifice some food to have some) that you're exhausted and can't help but want what little luxury you can afford.

It's easy to say that if someone was better disciplined they could save what little extra they have and make something of it in the long run, but it's very different to actually be in that situation and have the resolve to do that.

You can be smart enough to know you're being irresponsible and keep doing it, which just makes it that much more painful, but many aren't even smart enough to be aware of this.

This does not mean that giving people in this situation additional means would always be a total waste; often, people just want/need a certain baseline, and beyond that will use additional means to lift themselves up.
Its basically propaganda to claim that the current Chinese government doesn't strongly direct the economy. They've just gotten better at it, not micromanaging, letting pseudo-market means allocate capital at the micro level while focusing on long term objectives.
That makes me curious what the braking performance and stopping distance is relative to normal trains and at different speeds.
Finally iptables works the same on every Linux distro
haha. didn't catch that one. english idioms...
Wow, didn't expect this to make a mention on the front page of HN today. I never did convince Etsy to let me deploy bam in production, but it's so simple that it should be doable without much fuss. I mainly built it as a proof-of-concept to show that serving static data does not have to be difficult – and that loading large static data sets into a relational database is a truly wasteful, terrible approach. Are you actually using bam "in anger"?
You have one investigator commenting on preliminary evidence, but the actual commission investigating not backing her up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22424188

Carla Del Ponte told Swiss TV that there were "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof".

Ms Del Ponte did not rule out the possibility that government forces might also have used chemical weapons.

Later, the commission stressed that it had "not reached conclusive findings" as to their use by any parties.

"As a result, the commission is not in a position to further comment on the allegations at this time," a statement added.

The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says the statement was terse and shows that the UN was taken by surprise at Ms Del Ponte's remarks.
Lingua franca (on the ground, as opposed to diplomatic French) wasn't exactly French, either; it was a sort of Occitan/Spanish/Italian hybrid that was something more than a mere pidgin (possible because of the common Romance roots of its speakers). The name is more of a "this isn't Italian; sounds like French to me" designation. (William Caxton remarked that London-area English was received similarly in Kent in the 15th century.)
Probably language, the ultimate force multiplier. Followed by the wheel.
But it`s much easier to create new words in english. Like transform a verb in a noum, or adjective, etc

I`m a native portuguese speaker, and think that romantic languages can be more "emotional" than english. But its amazing how a new idea can be expressed so easilly in English.
I find it interesting that these hardcore Apple guys talk about putting Nintendo games on iOS when they support a company that makes their own hardware to put their own software on it only. Nintendo has enough money saved up to think of something and I don't see them giving up on hardware. I like that Nintendo takes great care of there games just as Apple does with their software and hardware. Nintendo's strongest business is handheld games yet they should make iOS games. It just doesn't make sense.
WTFPD is about people forbidding ideas because they are offensive, rather than having an honest debate about them. I'm perfectly willing to debate any idea with an honest opponent who's not going to get offended and start calling me names like "xenophobe" and "racist".

Once name-calling starts, we are playing the grade school game of seeing who can invent the worst insult. No thanks.
Here is my solution to the "problem".
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}
They're nice when you are on the couch or lounging in bed... at a coffee shop. And they're cheap. I use mine mostly for netflix. Got rid of the TV and cable, so it has actually saved me money.

Unless you are struggling, I would say give it a try. The Nexus 7 is a good low-cost choice if you are unsure, and you could trade up later if you decide you need more power.
And, as a corrolary of this, you presently won't have much to fear if this break has happened, simply because the NSA would only use it _very_ sparingly, like how the allies used the Enigma break during WW2.

Of course, if the cat ever gets out of the bag, that situation would change.
nope, only thing this would've shown is that pictures aren't really deleted. Think about it. Facebook would do a rollback and all the pictures would be back. However with a little bad luck on their part they'd mess up which would lead to them restoring rightfully deleted pictures (many of them embarrassing). Would this have happened for sure? Probably not, but I strongly believe that this could have ended hilariously and frankly I am a little disappointed that the researcher was a white hat ;)
Would it be correct to interpret the sparse areas as "needing more research"? Picking a PhD topic can be difficult, a map like this could show where human knowledge needs expanding.
I tried my (wild) numbers here: http://designagame.eu/2013/09/fermi-estimates-crowd-funding/
Alternatively, Nintendo should make smartphones.
It's worse than that. Most people don't take calculus in the US...