skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German company, operations worldwide.

Language is English. English docs, English presentations.

Meetings are done in German unless a non-German sits in. Then, it is done in English.

I can't even begin to explain how awkward it is to see source code once in a great while where the dev used German words as variable names. Good luck trying to get a colleague to understand what'S going on if he doesn't speak German.

In short, you write in English so the lion share of the world can read it. And if people really have a question, they should be able to express that in English. What good does it to post that question in a language that can only be read by a fraction of the developer community?

And with that in mind, I also expect others, like Chinese devs to hand over source code with English variable and class names. Otherwise, again, who do they expect would be able to work with the code if the naming of things don't make sense?
For the 'Nerdy Graphs' at the end: what's being used to plot them? I don't recognise this with the buttons above the graphs.
Yeah, most of these happen during a small window when Latin America is in school.

In any case it is a small load, but we moved from a shared host setup where we had these old sites sitting and they were beginning to bring down the server. They weren't into installing APC or Memcached; we were able to handle the traffic on the 512mb server using Apache, Cloudflare, APC and Memcached and the sites are faster (also using Google's pagespeed module). I've upped the server memory now, mostly because the WP admin is slow and the cost is still much less than we were paying before...
Reading your law enforcement stories

This is exactly the problem. You read the stories, that is, the exceptional cases. Don't extrapolate from exceptions.
I can see the problem of the imbalance of the demand-supply. But I see no reason to blaim tech companies. It is like blaming patients when emergency room responds slowly because of too many patients. Instead of asking patients to leave, we should ask for more doctors or more hospitals. In this case, why not blaming landlords for rising the price? Or asking the government to provide more affordable housings. Stopping a tech company's bus will fix nothing.
The one thing I don't like is that this game's physics don't seem to behave properly. In real life (and in Kerbal Space Program) you burn at apogee to increase the height of your perigee, or burn at perigee to increase the height of your apogee. But that rule doesn't seem to apply to Flappy Space Program, making this game anti-educational. :-(
I wonder if there is any kind of "I was fucked by government insurance". For example we can pay say a $100 per month just in case government decides to create trouble like this for us and we will get an attorney paid for by the insurance company.
That's cool. It sounds like it's time to start another calling company.
I was in grad school with Peretz for a few years, and I can assure you that he was neither drunk nor a smart-ass. And I have no doubt that his narrative is entirely credible.

(And to be clear, we're talking about a guy that has a PhD from one of the top five biophysics programs on Earth.)

He is earnest and sincere, and I can imagine that the officer mistook him for someone he is not that night, but I don't think any of his actions come close to justifying how he was treated.

Further, it was my experience while living near his current neighborhood that the police were as dangerous (if not more so) than any of the myriad criminals operating there. I'm not anti-police, but I am not a fan of the cops that covered those areas while I lived there.
So... who started it?
> A capitalistic system can not be run without growth

I disagree. You are told we need to grow by X% p.a. and we need an inflation of Y% p.a. and we need to weaken our currencies to boost exports bla bla.

It is possible to show that this is BS if you thought it through.

BTW, I'd call "them" by their name if I knew it.
BTW2, "Economics in one Lesson" was my eye opener, it was written in 1946 but it reads at if is was written yesterday.
/tangent

I'm considering applying to Rakuten in Tokyo in some sort of IT/Programmer/Engineer capacity (I'm a native English speaker who doesn't speak any Japanese...yet. Already in Japan and have a work visa).

Anybody who is working/used to work there interested in talking to me about what it's like there? I'd love to take you out for a coffee and chat for 15~20 min. Email's in my profile.
It would probably work out awful. To quote Ford :

"If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse"
I think you should contact ACLU and work with them to sue the officers/department. obviously your rights were violated (they didn't even read the Miranda warning)
Honest question, which part of writing it in JS makes it less safe? I understand that running in a browser is an inherently unsafe model because of the various mechanisms that make it impossible to track code that's running along side yours. How is it that JS is unsafe in a server environment?
Hi, dev here. I certify you that the physics are OKish. You should burn at apoapsis to circularize, etc. What prevent you to realize this is that it's hard to know when you're at apo/periapsis, so you're burning with some vertical velocity and that changes how your orbit change. Anyway, this game was really a joke, if you want an educational game, I've also made this: http://deltav.corpsmoderne.net/
I've been playing using the spacebar... Debian/Chromium
Horrifying Gmail App Informs People When You Open Their Email
There's a very short article on the typography of Metropolis available here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21906884/Artistic-Typography-in-Me...

I too would love to see a more detailed blog post on Typography and Metropolis as it's a hugely important part of the film's style and sense of "future".
Reuters isn't what it used to be, since it got bought out by Thompson. It used to take the long view, now it's like any other corporation, all that matters are the quarterly figures. Why? Well the decline started when they broke with tradition and appointed a CEO who hadn't worked his way up through the ranks...
Similar thing happened to me and I was not willing to fight the Police force. A lawyer after hearing my story approached me and told me "you dont bend before wrong laws or wrong application of the law, you fight them".
No. We expect better, I guess.

You probably should, too.
This game is super fun even though it's a joke. Might I suggest that once your bird has left the cloud layer, all subsequent burns are purely prograde? (To deal with the edge case where the bird reenters the atmosphere, the rule could be that all burns are purely prograde if the bird has ever left the atmosphere). I think a lot of people will play this game and the Hohmann Transfer concept would be a cool thing for them to be able to take away.
I think anyone who brands themselves in such a manner -- namely, to purport to be something they're not -- is a duplicitous, deceitful deceiver, and has no place in honest business. This is the worst outrage since that time I spend $500 on an apple and this punk kid handed me some shiny telephone in a box. I wanted an apple, junior, not some slab of glass and plastic. Your jedi mind tricks won't work on me.
Putting Ruby on Rails on a diet
> mutually unintelligible dialects (Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Hakka, etc.)

But the trick is that when written on paper these dialects are mostly mutally intelligible.
"San Francisco doesn't like the experience of becoming a suburb of Silicon Valley. ... Because the people in Silicon Valley are living in San Francisco, more and more and more, and this is a trend that will continue. ...

"But the effect of that has been to drive up rents about 30%. ... That's inevitable." - Tom Perkins

I could reply to Perkins' statements but I'll just leave his own words there.
Nominally, the US isn't a police state, but practically...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

Your view is probably skewed by personal experience, but the fact of the matter is most people who have to deal with the police regularly do not get the "right representation." And of course, those people "can" talk about the violations of their civil rights, but what good has that done them? It's fairly clear that both the state and those with the means to change the situation are not listening.
Or something that would happen in the Czech Republic or Greece
I'm not sure why you think you speak for "the bitcoin community" here.

My answer is much simpler:

#3 It will be fixed.

And I know I'm not alone with that answer.
I think that you can also use env(1) for this.

berlin='env TZ=Europe/Berlin date'
Would you mind sharing how you've made the game?
Very poor idea, if you're a coder you've got to speak decent English. There is no way to get around that, period.
The Tesco hack – here’s how it (probably) happened
As soon as I saw the app description (it detects passive voice, counts adverbs, long words and long sentences as the bad thing etc) I've expected such results: HemingwayApp grades real Hemingway's writing as "bad."

I applaud Mark Liberman for the tag "Prescriptivist poppycock."

I still wait for somebody to actually pass one whole Hemingway's novel through the app and tell us about the results. Probably the new insights await us, once we analyze the dynamics of the "badness" inside of the real novel.
It would be nice to be able to dismiss the error highlighting for certain words or phrases. Or better yet, click on the highlight to change it to a less distracting dotted underline. I like knowing what is unclear or indirect, but sometimes I want to break the Hemingway rules by conscious choice.

(And yes, I used the app to make sure to write this with passing marks.)
I'm not saying correlation == causation, however, there are something like 55k college students who are probably more of the target demographic for that particular genre making up a big portion of the listening audience.
> Anything you say to them while in custody cannot be used unless you have been Mirandized.

Dudes, seriously? You just read a blog post about how thuggish police officers just abuse you however the fuck they want to, with no regard to your rights or due process or anything, and you're citing some obscure, minute details of the laws that were supposed to somehow prevent those very same abuses from happening?

It's like you've just seen fish swimming, but proceed to cite some obscure document that says fish cannot swim.
A bit of a nitpick:

Maybe you have their nationality from another source (though I googled the case and didn't find any articles stating their nationality), but this article does not state the nationality of the Roma girl or her parents.

Roma or Romani refers to the ethnicity of a people that emigrated from India as a group, and does not in itself have anything at all to do with Romania.

While Romania has one of the largest Romani concentrations, and there certainly are Roma that are also of Romanian nationality, many other countries - including Ireland - have populations of Roma that may have lived there for generations and whose ancestors may very well never have lived in Romania at all.

(The mother of the boy that was taken in a separate incident is mentioned in the article as being Romanian, on the other hand)
>> "1. In point of fact, much scientific evidence shows that depression is a physical illness, not a mental illness."

> A false dichotomy there.

Dichotomy, yes. False, no. The evidence is copious. I posted evidence, you posted opinion. Which part of the evidentiary links that I provided caused you the greatest amount of emotional upset?

Which part of "drugs and therapy do not work, but neuroscientific treatments do work" didn't you understand?

> "Psychiatrists and psychologists, of course, insist that depression is a mental illness and is treatable with therapy and drugs. But there is no reliable scientific evidence for this view."

> Stated without actual evidence, naturally.

I said there is no evidence for the belief that psychiatrists and psychologists can treat depression. Your reply? Where's my evidence that there's no evidence? You are clearly unaware of (a) the impossibility of proving a negative, (b) of the role played by the null hypothesis in scientific thinking, and (c) who has the burden of evidence to provide positive evidence for a claim.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

Quote: "Russell's teapot, sometimes called the celestial teapot or cosmic teapot, is an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims rather than shifting the burden of proof to others ..."

In other words, you are a scientific ignoramus.

Psychiatrists claim to be able to treat depression, the claim is formally unfalsifiable, there is no evidence for this claim and copious counterevidence, and the burden of evidence belongs to psychiatrists and psychologists.

Nevertheless, in spite of the fact that the burden belongs to those making the claim:

Title: "Treating depression with the evidence-based psychotherapies: a critique of the evidence"

Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2007....

Quote: "... the specificity of CBT and IPT treatments for depression has yet to be demonstrated."

Title: "Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration"

Link: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

Quote: "Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance."

Title "The Emperor's New Drugs: An Analysis of Antidepressant Medication Data Submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration"

Link: http://alphachoices.com/repository/assets/pdf/EmperorsNewDru... (PDF)

Quote: "If drug and placebo effects are additive, the pharmacological effects of antidepressants are clinically negligible. If they are not additive, alternative experimental designs are needed for the evaluation of antidepressants."

The scientific consensus? Depression drugs and therapy don't work.
Something along the lines of <x, y = point> would be a little cleaner than directly referencing the indexes. This technique can also be used in a loop <for x, y in [(0, 1), (23, 41)]: print(x, y)>.
If you really want to save the elephants, farm them
Question: What is money?

And something existed before "money" was "created". It was and is called "debt".
How could apple mobile payments change the apps landscape
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a fascinating take on a post-scarcity economy. As I remember it, though, whuffies were not a zero-sum game to be traded like currency; they were more like followers on Twitter or likes on Facebook. Sort of institutionalized Klout [1].

[1] https://xkcd.com/1057/
I wonder what someone who writes for a living thinks of it. Oh wait:

"The Hemingway app is fun to experiment with, and it’s useful in that it calls out in your writing places of friction—allowing you to decide whether they are necessary or merely sloppy. No one is above clarity. And the app, based on the experience of running examples of my own writing through it today, is, like a good editor, attuned to the places where vanity seems to be getting the better of things."
Yup, Chrome on my Nexus 5 also has the Share menu, and with the Facebook & Twitter apps installed (and also some App.Net clients), they all appear in the Share menu. It works well. On the desktop I use the Pocket & Buffer extensions instead.

Of course, out of sight, out of mind - if your audience isn't tech savvy, perhaps they need that visible reminder to share something.
Another interesting SciFi exploration of economics is the Unincorporated Man (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4025200-the-unincorporat...). Everyone is incorporated at birth, and trades shares in themselves (paying dividends once they are earning) to advance in life. People who don't have majority of themselves can't make their own decisions.
> And something existed before "money" was "created". It was and is called "debt".

The word you're looking for is "barter", not debt. Debt exists whether or not there is money.
Mac OS X unit tests enhanced in cdist 3.0.9
I do not speak any language with that writing paradigm, but I can think of one big disadvantage: it's different memory efforts to learn a word's written and spoken forms.

In languages where letters are mapped to sounds, even after phonetics changed a bunch, the written and spoken forms are huge cues to each other. (There are exceptions).

If a new word came to be in English and it was written, for example, "scaramara", two fluent speakers who only saw it in writing would probably guess similar pronunciations for it, to the point that one would understand the other's speech. I suppose something like that could not happen in Chinese. Is this assumption correct?
You do realize that he was born and raised in the late USSR, right?

You are seriously defending US police actions that made a former Soviet citizen worry about what would happen next?!
Suggestions. Decrease the number of clicks slightly when using a mouse. The fingers hurt trying to go that fast. Alternatively, add spacebar support.

Absolutely unplayable on a phone. Bind to touchdown events on mobile. Click events have a 300ms delay. Make the game full screen for mobile.
Ask HN: How much of your earnings do you save?
I always tell myself that I want to save at least 25% of what I make but as much as I try it always seems to fall to about 10 to 15%. So I am curious, for the young engineers and developers, how much are you saving? Is it just me or there is a lot of us?
Unless both participants are geeks who like having fun practicing game theory.
More than 30% here. But we have no children at the moment. :P
I'm loving the internet remix culture. This is hilarious.
This doesn't meet any reasonable definition of "using" traditional radio. It doesn't even prove people are "listening to" or "hearing" traditional radio.

Under this system, one person could "infect" hundreds of other people who aren't paying any attention to the noise. I could even be watching a movie with noise-isolating headphones on and it would still register if I were in range of somebody else's radio.
Well there goes my spacebar from ferociously whacking it.
I'm pretty sure that's mostly fairly simple habituation. This is something that's unfamiliar at first - though not hard - and that slows you down. But you'll get used to it really quickly.

Syntax like this tends not to matter very much in my experience. What does matter is syntax changes that affect order dependence, and particularly nesting. Those really require changing the way you think - replacing one symbol with another is just a matter of plain & simple practice.
Buitenmuren isoleren doet je geld besparen
Reflections on skills, resumes and flow
that looks great, and if you don't have a browser accessible way to consume that data, i'd suggest going that direction.
I'm not sure this will work wonderfully. As someone who tried to spend a big chunk of time sitting at a MacBook and using Windows via RDP, it's a royal PITA as the keyboard differences are pretty big and the mappings are unintuitive. The ChromeBook keyboards are pretty much a rip off of Mac keyboard so you're getting into interesting territory of no F-keys and odd delete behaviour for example.

It's not going to be pleasant.

Windows can be driven very effectively and easily by keyboard only (unlike MacOS and ChromeOS) and this advantage is lost so power users at least and a lot of office workers accustomed to using their devices via keyboard are going to be shot.

I've had to go back to a PC for RDP sessions to be honest as it's the only thing that's bearable.
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It is very easy. If you speak German I actually could send you an excellent PDF.

Debt is a law like gravity. You can have it explained by Ludwig von Mises. It is a reward for risk and saving. Discounted cash flow is actually the opposite and the reason why a cash creating asset, let's stay farmland, still has a finite price but theoretical unlimited future income.

To serve debt you have to create more in the future. Do you know how all our debt will be paid back? With more debt. Once the expected return is 0 then there is no reason to give credit anymore. Every capitalistic system relies on these unfortunate facts.

I like Mises a lot,even if I think his idea of money is plain wrong. But it was Keynes who always saw the end coming. He also gives some ideas in "The death of the rentier".

This is also an interesting post:
Wealth And Energy Consumption Are Inseparable
http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-...

or here:

There is No Steady State Economy (except at a very basic level)
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-stat...

I am afraid you are the bullshitter, not me.
Photoshop is meant for photo manipulation. For user interfaces and web design in general, Flash is a much simpler and intuitive option.
yes. And this is why I was talking about "debt" and not "barter".
There is a pretty well accepted definition of money: It's an object or record that's accepted as a form of payment, often with very little value in itself. Early forms of money included shells, for example. Coins are an evolution, printed bank notes as well.
The precursor to money is barter: I trade 5 goats for one cow, that I can then trade for a horse. The money equivalent is that I sell 5 goats for 10 money that I can use to buy the horse.

Debt is related to property and certainly related to money, since debts are nowadays kept track of in terms of money, but debt is not the precursor to money and certainly debt is not a requirement for a money-based system. It's like saying "before money was created, there were the sun, the moon and the stars".
About 48% at the moment.. But that's really for a 3 month travel and code mission at the end of the year. I also put 10% pre tax in a super. I should probably salary sacrafice and put more in but I'd rather have a bit left over to manage myself. (Put chunks into long term stocks every once in a while, equates to roughly 10% (part of that 48%)
Seems exactly like modern day witchcraft/wizardry hunt.

If a Middle Age dude was an expert in chemistry, he'd probably be tried quite similarly. The fact that no one around him could even comprehend what chemistry is, is now completely irrelevant to them ruining his life.

Now replace that with technology, the people with modern day morons and death with impossibly high bail/languishing in prison for years together ruining any chance of an average, let alone decent future and you've got what we have today.

The point is, they don't know the subject yet feel that they know enough. History, it seems never changes.
As mentioned, SIGTERM can be caught and gives the process a chance to clean up. SIGKILL, the nuclear option, cannot be blocked.

Related: Solaris tip for Linux admins: killall does exactly what it says and not what you think.