skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a library called Faker that can do this for you. It exists for perl, ruby, php and probably other languages.

I am interested in where do this pictures come from? Did these people give their permission to be used like this?
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Ask HN: Any good speech therapist recommendations?
Have you worked with any speech therapist to reduce your accent? If so, would you recommend them?
All you're doing by saying "ad hominem" is shifting the focus to technical delivery of the argument rather than focusing on the real matter of the discussion.

I'm not sure I agree. The use of ad hominem is the shift away from the discussion proper. Calling ad hominem (or any logical fallacy) out is merely a recognition of that shift, and could be considered a (weak?) attempt at getting back on topic. When used correctly, that is.
I'm not saying that humans are smarter in a generally useful sense now than they were 500 years ago. Especially at the median, where what most people know isn't how things work but what they need to do to make things work within their environment.

Take your average man or woman off the street today and drop them into 1500s Europe, in all likelihood they'd be unable to function.

Now, an engineer (or a Connecticut Yankee) with both a specific understanding of materials science, a knowledge of history sufficient to know the broad outlines of circumstances in the past, and where the gold (or more importantly: coal and oil) are buried, might be able to accomplish some interesting things. If he could convince someone to go along with his proposals.

But that's not my point.

It's that you could pretty much take a European from 1500 and from 1750 and have them swap places. Most of the general nature of day-to-day life would remain largely similar. There were very few significant changes (among the biggest would have been in how business and banking were organized, as financial systems were developing over this period).

Socially and culturally there may have been a few bigger differences. Martin Luther posted his 95 Thesis in 1517, and the changes that this triggered in the Church would likely have dwarfed much else.

And really, you could move another 500 or 1000 years backward and you'd see some incremental change, but nothing at all like the past 250 years.

But again, 1750 -> 1500 is going to be a hugely different change than 1750 -> 2000.
The title is misleading. This is not by Bill Watterson, it is inspired by Watterson's work...
Hmm...interesting. Which part of India is this happening?
Unidentified Navy Officer Sums It Up
One thing that really annoys me about HN is how damn contrarian everyone always tries to be. Responses typically take the most absolute narrow and unforgiving interpretation of any point you are trying to make and subsequently use that to spin a counterpoint.

Drives me batty.
Yet more charismatic than their current ceo ...
That's not it at all. Food stamps and subsidized housing don't empower people to just do what they like doing, become entrepeneurs, etc.
I'm glad you're not one of the "many people". Neither are my parents - they're also very enthusiastic about adopting new technology. But my parents are also constantly bitching to me how many of their same-aged friends refuse to learn anything new. My parents want to share photos of their travels using tools like Flickr and Facebook to their friends, but their friends just refuse to learn anything new past the year 1999, so e-mail it is.

If you believe most 68-year-olds are gung-ho about learning Android programming, I think you'll find you're a bit mistaken.
> it's OK if people just leave anything as a comment here because it will be modded down if it's irrelevant to the discussion.

It would be great if down voting was more prevalent. Many people don't down vote for anything but the absolute worst comment. Some people downvote for disagreement and not poor comment.
It calls[1] into a module called `euler`[2], and that looks like a very basic euler integrator.

[1]: https://github.com/sebcrozet/nphysics/blob/916199c0a67219482...

[2]: https://github.com/sebcrozet/nphysics/blob/916199c0a67219482...
Less of an American accent? Surely their English would be unchanged but for vocabulary; it's not like grammar differs.

Anyway, just because a country is a language's namesake does not indicate anything but history. A language is a dialect with an army, so perhaps we should rename it American. Names of languages are arbitrary.
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I think Tox.im uses NaCl, too, but it's for PC only right now (it's new).
It's immensely frustrating when someone is discussing a well conducted study showing an interesting result to have another person say "This feels wrong. I had $ANECDOTE, so maybe they researchers are missing $CONCLUSION_FROM_ANECDOTE?", which has been covered in the study and in the HN comments and is just a weird point anyway.
Maybe their systems are so poorly run backups are a sys admin swapping tapes.
Certainly in the early industrial revolution the "paid handsomely" bit was not true. People took the jobs because it was that or starve, and many of them starved anyway. This was especially the case during deflationary periods, as wages fell.
Same in France. It's all about acquiring knowledge that's only available in English. For example, I'm pretty sure that the only database systems documented in French are MySQL and PostgreSQL. Only those who can read English (and are not reluctant to) can use the alternatives.
I think that's perfectly valid. Sometimes a dead guy can make an argument better than I can and it's better to quote him than rephrase it in my own words and pretend I'm insightful. This does however mean that I'm supposed to respond to criticism of the content of the quote since I agree with it.
The art is not Watterson's, but the words are.
From my experience - it does not.
Sometimes people ask me whether I'm foreigner speaking Hebrew, but it rarely happens, and I think it is more related to the pace of how I speak now and less with the accent.
One interesting case is the Yom Kippur War. Groupthink was broadly attributed as a major factor in why the Israel Defence Force's intelligence unit failed to foresee the surprise attack that started the war, despite very clear signs leading up to it [1].

As a safeguard, the structure of the organization was changed significantly, including the creation of a "devil's advocate" office, whose task is basically to criticize assessments coming from the main group.

From a Brooking's Institution report [2]:

The devil’s advocate office ensures that AMAN’s intelligence assessments are creative and do not fall prey to group think. The office regularly criticizes products coming from the analysis and production divisions,and writes opinion papers that counter these departments’ assessments. The staff in the devil’s advocate office is made up of extremely experienced and talented officers who are known to have a creative, “outside the box” way of thinking. Perhaps as important, they are highly regarded by the analysts. As such, strong consideration is given to their conclusions and their memos go directly to the office of the Director of Military Intelligence, as well as to all major decision makers.

The devil’s advocate office also proactively combats group think and conventional wisdom by writing papers that examine the possibility of a radical and negative change occurring within the security environment. This is done even when the defense establishment does not think that such a development is likely, precisely to explore alternative assumptions and worst-case scenarios.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War#Lead-up_to_the_s...

[2] http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2007/...
"What does it represent? Does it mean, given the opportunity, I'd lean low, and they'd lean high, in an effort to pull the numbers in a selfish direction? Maybe."

Not maybe. Obviously. Obviously, no matter how close knit the team is, and how well you know everybody, people still love the almighty dollar, and if they can will get more of them for doing the same amount of work. The boss on the other hand, as much as he loves transparency and communication and won't admit to it, also loves the almighty dollar, and subconsciously leant low.
A lot of the regions of the UK have pretty strong dialects of English, not just accents e.g. the Doric Scots of my birth uses "fa", "fit", "faur" and "fan" for "who", "what", "where" and "when"

e.g. "far div ye bide" -> "where do you live"

However, I haven't spoken like that much since I was a wee loonie.
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- Relaxed working environment with an energetic and passionate bunch of people.

- A growing company that never wants to stop learning.

- The chance to take ownership of problems and solve them in creative ways.

Requirements:

- Fluency in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3

- Strong understanding of user-interface design principles

- Comfortable with the Adobe Creative Suite – particularly Photoshop and Illustrator

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£27,000 to £32,000 - while we are willing to consider any reasonable salary request, we reckon it’ll be around this amount.
Are your URLs predictable? If that's not the case, then I highly recommend you to take a look a http://seo4ajax.com (disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founder) which is the only service that handles this problem correctly.
RMS can really save Microsoft, encouraging freedom for MS users. That will be the best thing MS could ever have done.
I wish more people in software followed this kind of advice. I see posts about air hockey or ping-pong tables and fully stocked mini-fridges as if that is an acceptable replacement for ones free time and best creative years. Are we children, so easily fooled by the shiny, bright candy in the checkout aisle? Worse yet those who take the corporate-ladder type jobs at a big corp like MS, and sacrifice their friends, family, and home for something as meaningless as office or tablet apps.

Your startup is probably not changing, or even improving the world. Your social media killer app is part of the problem, not the solution. And I know Microsoft/IBM/Oracle/etc gave up on improving the world a long time ago, instead opting for "shareholder" value, whatever that is. What good is money you can never enjoy? Your kids won't thank you if they don't even know who you are and have never spent time with you. Exhausted evenings don't count.

I have chosen door number 3. I live an ultra-frugal lifestyle and am already planning an exit from my day job in the next decade, to retire before 40.

People like Bill Watterson, Cory Doctorow, and Richard Stallman are on to something. They are actually enjoying life now - Are you?
Very cool! Limited to US only though. Check out behindthename.com/api/ if you need country distribution. Had to map country codes to groups of names. Let me know if you need this data. I’ve got some scripts to generate random users, although not address or picture data.
No way, Steve Ballmer is the epitome of charisma. :-P

Have you not seen the best of Ballmer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8M6S8EKbnU
If Spanner is a "variant" than it introduced something new, an improvement. You sure are jumping through hoops trying to diminish things. Most of computer science was invented in the 50, 60s and 70s when the low hanging fruit was easy to get, now a lot of it is incremental gains. Just like the astounding pace of advances in mathematics in the 1700s/1800s/1900s can't be bested in the 00s, progress is slower as the easy stuff has been mapped out already.

Besides which, there's a difference between inventing say, Newtonian Physics, and building an interplanetary ship for human space flight. It is in the application of much of computer science to extremely large systems where most of the work is being done, and frankly, experienced gathered building the world's largest database and most trafficked site gives you insight into new ways to engineer things that you don't necessarily figure out from basic application of CS principles. I could probably design a basic bridge or house given what I learned of civil engineering, but chances are I could never design the Burj Dubai with that information.

My point is, the way Google applied things like MapReduce was based on their experience of solving web services problems. HPC hyper-computing typically looks at problems of simulation, like QED/QCD, nuclear explosions, climate, finance, oil geology, et al. The difference focus leads to different pattern of application, and there is new value created in the papers published by both sides. Google's datacenter configurations don't look anything like say, BlueGene.

And when you look at what Google is doing with machine learning, few organizations have the resources and data to pull it off. Sure, lots of people have run the algorithms before on small sets, but few actually have daily data from a billion people flowing into them.
"Passenger Service Agents" are on some, not all trains. And on about a third of the trains they are on, they are manually operating the train at full speed (generally for "diagnostic" (read as sanctioned joyriding) purposes, I am informed by a friend at TFL).
The only way it could be better is if it were wrapped in bacon
Problem is, I don't want to tangle with a non-for-commercial use language (and I can't pay.) At least with the GPL (J) I could do what I need behind the scenes and use the language as I see fit.

But I'd love to give Q a go, just for geekiness.
I think GP meant the shakespearian accent, which is probably the same as the one used in american TV series or movies to sound british.
Voted for RMS only because VS is the worlds worst editor.
These settings are actually used to fix Chrome's font-smoothing bug. This bug has been open for over a year and fonts really look ugly.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
If you know a startup, don't envy or disdain. Ask how to help
Seriously, as a new-born entrepreneur I now realize the challenges startups face. And any help is like a godsend! It took me coming to the other side to realize this.

So my request to you is, if you know an entrepreneur, please drop in a line to ask if you can help in some little way. Could be an intro, a quick coffee or promoting their updates. You don't know how your reaching out could make your friend's day!

Btw why this rant - I am running a survey of entrepreneurs and hitting a wall in responses. If you want to make my day, please fill this! - http://bit.ly/18aFwFC
Share Your Startup - September 2013 Edition
I don't know. You seem to be agreeing in tone with the post so it can't be everyone who is contrarian.

Sorry. :)
As one of the folks who was able to try these on (thanks Morgan), I can say that the initial impression is speechlessness.

It’s a very foreign feeling to have information at your fingertips, but not having anything in your hands. There’s a moment of pause as you figure out what to do with them.
> Other than adding the fear of famine

Er, that's a pretty huge other.

> Fear of disease? Check. Both realistic (as in, the huge fraction with no/minimal health insurance or any dental at all).

As far as the developed world goes, that's largely restricted to the US. And, of course, most of the diseases that killed people back then can be treated with a few euro worth of penicillin.

> Bouts of warfare, check. Both actual for kids in .mil, and imaginary daydreams of terrorism.

It's highly unlikely that the neighbouring lord will burn your village in the developed world today, however.

> Inferior diet? Check.

Not really on the same level. Even those who got enough food often had severe malnutrition issues. Nowadays, some people have poor diets; in the developed world this is largely a function of personal choice.
cool, I could make a dating site with this ;)
Great post Marcin, I love these types of personal essays. Lots of insight delivered in a super a relatable way. Hope to see more like this in the future! I’m extremely excited about the future of wearable tech and I can’t wait to get my hands on my own pair of Google Glass.
Comments that annoy me most (mostly because they are blatant attempts at fishing for karma):

"I would use this but it's in Javascript, there are better languages like X and Y."

"The web is utterly broken, when are people going to realize this?"

"For all these years I ignored RMS/Assange/etc. but now I know he was right."

Comments with the words "nail" and "hammer".
Wait, what?

You're the product (https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22you're+the+...)

Betteridge (https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22betteridge%...)

Correlation is not causation (https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22correlation...)

Maximise shareholder value is trickier, but here are three (and there are many mnay more) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5001366) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262187) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6045044)

Citation needed (scroll through the list a bit) (https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22citation+ne...)

Dunning Kruger (https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=dunning+k...)

FTFY (https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=ftfy&star...)
Whoever runs the site blows away troll votes every once in a while so hopefully Scott Hanselman comes back on top.
If the Snowden leaks were a 12 on the damage scale of 1-10. What's it going to be when they flip the switch on the sysadmin factory factory and find themselves locked out of everything because of an off-by-one error?
It's all relative. Ever seen Idiocracy?
'Leaky abstractions': I think its the wrong question if an abstraction leaks or not; any abstraction is leaky by definition, an abstraction is created by omitting details that are not relevant to the analysis, with the wish to extract the essence; The right question is if the abstraction is relevant or not.

Wikipedia says:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction
"Abstraction in mathematics is the process of extracting the underlying essence of a mathematical concept, removing any dependence on real world objects with which it might originally have been connected, and generalizing it so that it has wider applications or matching among other abstract descriptions of equivalent phenomena."
> Are you saying some people are too stupid to do any job except the job they happen to be doing right now?

No. I'm saying that there are certain strata of jobs into which most people of the jobs you propose to eliminate fall and that that strata of job is being systematically reduced as automation takes more and more of that cut of the pie. They are not effectively substitutable workers.

> I still think even for those there's plenty of jobs if you bother to look.

Reality indicates otherwise, as demonstrated by the massive underemployment and unemployment among marginally-skilled workers (both with college degrees and without).
Well, I think this is nightmarish, from a purely context-switching type of thinking. I don't mind using letter opcodes, strings then are pretty clear to distinguish. But come on, number opcodes? Add 5 to B and store in AX (or whatever) turns into a nightmare of numbers. Of course, after a while you probably "get" that 3001 is a conditional. But I wonder how this affects the way you feel numbers from now on: what do BANCStar programmers think about the 2000 effect, 3001 Final Odissey (heh) or the TV show 24?
Actually, in many cases non-NN methods still beat NN for those use cases, at least if you consider things like the speed of the response and consumption of resources as relevant.

Recent papers show that NN are coming back, but I think most of the speech recognition out there is still Hidden Markov Models and most of the image recognition is definitely based on tailored detectors & descriptors. This is especially true when you do these things on the users' mobile devices.
This is idiotic. Look at the Nordic countries. They rate highest for happiness, freedom of the press, etc. You're still suffering from the idiotic anti-communist propaganda from the cold war which ended over 20 years ago.
The Internet Strikes Again

At first, I laughed, but the more I think about it that may not be as crazy and hilarious as it looks like at the first sight. No matter what you think about Linus and RMS, they both have leadership qualities.
Given that this comment is also about Haskell, can we assume that one of the bots became sentient?
Right, so when the commander-in-chief orders Guantanamo closed, you leave it open.

Basically every single person in the military who serves at Guantanamo in any capacity is disobeying a direct, signed order by the commander-in-chief.
You can pick your favourite character.

Please don't pick anyone from the show "My Name is Earl".
This item, called コロッケ from the French croquette, is an unremarkable, common part of Japanese food culture. You can find them sold in most convenience stores and substanitally all supermarkets. (About 80 cents for one in a convenience store, perhaps 60 cents if you buy a five-pack and fry them yourself for dinner.)

KFC is, most definitely, not attempting to sell a newfangled, unhealthy food to the unsuspecting Japanese populance.
The NSA can't trust 'brilliant' people huh? Worried that they might be acting against the NSA's best interest? Weird! I can't possibly imagine how they feel! Nope, not at all! It's not like I have a secretive government agency stockpiling of much of communications as they can get their hands on that could one day be taken out of context and used against me or something. Crazy!
It has little to do or it should have little to do with the ability to communicate clearly? Because I strongly suspect you mean the latter, not the former. There are plenty of examples of the former.
That'll teach them! It's fortunate that nerds are psychic.

It's ok, you can downvote this, I know it'll make you feel better about yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM45TACI4H4
Man with synesthesia creates a taste map of the London underground
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Thanks!I'm excited about wearable tech as well. Currently crossing fingers hard for iWatch ;)
That's about why Sweden is the only country in EU I don't want to settle in. A year or two ago there was a well-known (at least in Poland) case where a child was taken from an immigrant family on the grounds of being "too sad". This was assumed to be a sign of some abuse. What happened in fact was that child's favorite gradma died.
Background: Homeschooling is not legal in Sweden since June 2010, and even before then (this seems to have happened in 2009) it was a difficult exception to make use of (you had to convince the council where you lived to examine and approve of your course, convince a local school to do some kind of testing for grades, etc).