skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am currently in China for a holiday. I can read chinese (learnt it since I was young), but I have never actually used Chinese - my parents simply made me learn it on the off chance I would need to go to China.

I have for the first few days found some difficulty, but reading has since became relatively easy. Chinese is a contextual language, and contextual cues gives rise to understanding of the word that you don't really know. Sure I have to look up some words/phrases (especially adult ones because they all seem to be slang terms), but it is quite easy to read.

I agree with his other points up to too many romanization processes. There is one: Hanyu Pinyin. Others are old, and should be discarded.

The bit about tonal language has led to some rather hilarious situations where I accidentally sexually propositioned to someone else. However, upon arriving in Luoyang, I realize that Chinese being a tonal language doesn't really matter. Accents exist, and they change the tone of the language. And yet I still could, after a bit of adjusting, get used to them
Sure, but as a cloud sync product it's a "you had one job" situation. Not so much incompetence as a fundamental failure to achieve that basic requirement.
Amazon is awesome.
How Heartbleed transformed HTTPS security into the stuff of absurdist theater
They started collecting tax in NC in Feb and I'll be honest, I've bought less since then. Last year when I needed something I went to amazon first and if it was there ordered it. Now I shop around.
I'm not so sure. I can remember the feeling I got when the news during the Iraq war showed a couple of kids laughing like it was a big joke and listening to Metallica as they shelled Fallujah. In the US 40% of active duty members are less than 25 according. Humans have a long history of getting their young ones to do their dirty work.
http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2011_Demo...
How did Africa become like this?
Did Africa completely miss the industrialization and its benefits?
Here's my one and only interaction with the author:

I met Tom a couple of years ago when I first got to SF. It was at a bar in the mission that was holding an international get together for github users. I'll never forget the impression he made on me. We talked for a good while, most about drawing.

Since I was totally new to town (and had spent most my adult life outside the US), I had no idea who he was. I'd used github but didn't know much about it and certainly didn't know who he was. I love drawing and sketching and it was actually via a flash game tutorial on Kongretate.com that I found my first serious entry point into programming. Telling Tom about this, he started talking about drawing octocats and the entire conversation was about artwork. Until someone told me otherwise about half an hour later, I thought he was the "octocat guy", an artist who happened to be at a nice company.

It's really rare in my life when I've been shocked by someone's humility and congeniality, but meeting Tom was one of those times. I'll also say that in the intervening two years, I've gotten to know the product quite well and really hope the best both for Github and his upcoming venture.

Edit:
I've been an HN user since almost the beginning and I have to say this is saddening. It boggles the mind that sharing a brief story of meeting with author of the piece and wishes for the success of both Github and the future venture is something that warrants multiple down votes.
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1) Totally normal
2) Big Nerd Ranch Guides are quick and painless
3) Go to the library for the books (old books for iOS 6 and better are good enough to learn from); use the simulator for code. Don't worry about getting it on the device first.

With iOS, ignore older tutorials and always start with the most recent stuff. If you find code that's from, say, pre-2013 even, you'll find non-ARC stuff, people going through all kinds of hoops, a resistance to use storyboards, and in some cases, you'll be solving problems Apple already solved.

I think there is some online Stanford course that is pretty good that'll take you 2-3 days to get through to not feel so "hello world."

Also, one last note: Don't read everything and then try to make something. It's painfully boring. Try to build something complicated right off the bat and read to make that happen. A lot of iOS stuff is painfully boring to read about, but crazy fun to rip apart and break in XCode.
An interesting typo I've been seeing in the last week around China is 什么 －》 神马／神么

In fact, typing this on a pinyin keyboard, I can see why this is the case
Reactive Systems: Modeling, Development and Analysis
That's basically the Marketplace Fairness Act, which is the most likely "internet sales tax" bill to pass in the near future.

http://www.marketplacefairness.org/

It requires each state that wants to collect from foreign sellers to provide a uniform state-wide sales tax policy, a single organization in each state to handle registrations/filings/audits, and free tax compliance software. It also builds a mechanism to certify companies (like Avalara) to take care of internet sales tax for you, and relieves businesses of liability for mistakes if they use one of these companies to compute/file their taxes.
What exactly do you mean by "consciousness"?

I think the word "consciousness" holds very different meanings for different people. I don't think you're interpretting the word in the same way other people do.

Furthermore, after reading the comment you linked to, I disagree with the premise of gradually replacing each organic neuron with a synthetic surrogate. But, hey, if you're into the idea of slowly eroding your central nervous system, and back-filling the tissue with a machine that picks up the slack, I won't stop you.

The remnants won't be you though. If we amputate a goldfish from it's brain, and the body continues to be guided by an electronic apparatus, the gold fish is no more. The husk that remains is a grotesque puppet.

If, as my parents were slowly debilitated by alzheimers, they elected to supplement their mental functions with computer assistance, I would regard them as I might regard a dead animal that was stuffed and mounted.

There is no such experience as climbing inside the circuits of a computer to experience immortality.

There is no such experience as slowly disolving one's self into a mixture of microscopic machinery, after which we suddenly blink our eyes and become miraculous robots.

We die. The robot blinks, and masquerades as us for the benefit of the living. Nothing more.
poor walmart, poor amazon
It's not that OneDrive is modifying files "as it syncs"; it's that it involves Sharepoint, which adds certain metadata to documents that it handles, and has probably always done so; here's a stackoverflow question about it from 2010:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2762841/how-can-i-stop-sh...

EDIT: I see that 'ppog has already mentioned this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7624293
Amazon fought tooth and nail against paying sales tax, even in states where they clearly had a presence (California in particular).

Now that they agreed to start paying sales tax going forward (in return for no back-penalties), they are lobbying for their competitors to have to pay sales tax as well.

They are also building warehouses in-state now and trying to compete on speed of delivery, which is a more respectable way to compete against out-of-state rivals.
> I live in the U.S. where the country was built by those that wanted freedom of religion.

That's a bit of a stretch. In Puritan New England, worshipping anything other than the Christian God was a capital offence.
This looks great. Debugging simple 'click' events has always been a non-trivial task for me -- doubly so on touch devices where an a 'click' event can have a range of unpredictable side effects.
A Brief History of Software Patents (And Why They’re Valid)
http://about.monash/
All it would take is an Act of Congress, but it's political. Birmingham, Alabama has a sales tax of 10%. New Hampshire has no sales tax. How do you set the rate nationally without making enemies?
The use of current viral/ad-speak techniques in the article greatly depreciates the argument presented.

Design is iterative. Nearly all non-profit design will originate from the gifter not the giftee. This is suboptimal, but any solution created via social obligation or charity will require a feedback loop in the support tree first in order to allow for a iteration in the recipient loop.
Moreover, the concept is quite abstract and has many similar applications. I used to work in a scenario when there was a specific gateway resource that was needed to be run by every developer for executing his code, was very expensive and people would annoy each other by suddenly remote logging into machine and disturbing others. Then we came up with a resource locking / waiting and current state showing software, along with estimates of when which machine would be free, so you could request a reserve slot. Some sophistication included things like how much of it was actually used by you vs reservation time so it could adjust appropriately.
Many of Prof. Harel's publications over the years are freely accessible online:

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers.html
Google "James Gurney". Go on, I'll wait.

He's far from the only artist working today who's as hardcore as the Old Masters. He's just the first one who comes to mind.
Not everyone knows and uses pinyin, especially older people.
For that matter, what's special about the Grunt or Gulp communities?
The "no gas" part is big. I don't think many people realize how much they spend on gas to run errands. A quick run to Target for something is about a 10 mile round trip from my house or about $2 in gas for a typical minivan. A Home Depot or Lowes is more like $4 from here, $5 with tolls.
I think you misunderstand the fundamental problem. Even if the Federal government were cut by 50% in terms of $ spent it would still be massive. they wouldn't all of a sudden have an epiphany and realize they were being ripped off by all these beltway bandits. They would just do less stuff in the same inefficient way. You might feel better about it because you would be paying lower taxes but the taxes you are paying would still be spent inefficiently.
Not to defend the banks, but in what situation could date/amount/description become personally identifiable? I guess it sort of depends on how descriptive the description field is, but if it just lists the product(s) then I don't really know how you'd ever be able to verifiably match it with a name.
He dropped out of college to build a start-up taking on Myspace and Friendster, two well-funded incumbents. Furthermore, Zuckerberg didn't have the wealth or family connections of say, the Winklevii. I don't really like Zuckerberg, but to minimize the risk facing him and his investors is kind of ridiculous.
I work for a small Telco.

We charge two state governments ~$10k a month each for ~200 phone lines.

They both pay well over $25k/month for Internet - and it's about 50 5Mbps DSL lines, with capped usage.

This is today.
That ignores the fact that their are efficiencies achieved through centralisation that save money as well. It's a complex topic; "make government smaller" isn't a strategy, it's an outcome.
I suspect if you tried to do it federally it would be a violation of States' rights and thus unconstitutional.
My opinion as an artist: If you feel like it might be cheating to do something, then it is.
Perhaps I'm just jaded but what you describe sounds a lot more complicated for most people than just writing a Makefile. Perhaps even the vast majority of people. I think you underestimate how far you can go with just a vanilla make build system.
I've recently installed cgit. I'm really happy with it's simplicity and easy of use.
That sounds about right. We abbreviate whatever we can if ideas become awkward.

For example, in the US military, there are a lot of concepts that are clumsy to say - for example, it's pretty silly to refer to the Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization Program seventy times when you're talking about why you need to change a safety protocol, so you just refer to it as the NATOPS. All of these concepts get abbreviated - Physical Fitness Test becomes PFT, Non-Judicial Punishment becomes NJP, Then people turn these into verbs, (Bill got NJP'd yesterday) and those get abbreviated as well, and pretty soon you end up with a totally new language that no one else can understand. I told this story to my girlfriend without even knowing that I was doing it:

"[Name] got caught pencil-whipping a PM on the radar. Top wanted to fix him with "EMI," but the OIC wanted him to burn, so it went to the CO for NJP. The CO is a pilot, so he maxed him out - took his pay, 45/45, reduction to PFC. Then, the SMaj told him he looked fat, so he got sent over to the S3 to weigh in. He's over, and he didn't tape out, so now he's on BCP, too! He's gonna get adsep'd if he keeps going the way he is."

My girlfriend started laughing at me, told me to repeat it, and laughed again. I realized that I was basically speaking another language, and then quickly realized that a bunch of the things I was talking about were alien to her anyway! This 90-second story became a thirty-minute discussion of what exactly "taping out" is, why Extra Military Instruction is a sarcastic term for "told to weed the desert for twelve hours," and what's so bad about the Body Composition Program. All of these concepts have been put into my brain from years of living with them, and describing them to someone else is often really difficult.

The tech world does the exact same thing. So does medicine, laboratory science, theater, band... We all have our own languages, created by common experiences and a need to communicate them to other people.
This is very encouraging to hear, thanks for taking the time to share!
Yep. I'd add delusion to your list of echo-chamber-friendly conditions. Faith/Religion are one case people like to yell about, but you have plenty of nibiru/reptilian/fema-camp/bill-gates-is-a-eugenicist people who are ready to believe whatever the internet tells them, all the while believing everyone else is guilty of intellectual laziness.
Yeah, even in Japan, they are not the cheapest option anymore, there are usually smaller retailers for specific items that get you better deals, but think about the following cost:
- cost to register on a different website
- cost to "trust" a minor player you have never used before
- cost of time lost because of delay in delivery
- cost of how they handle returns

Most of the time, I think a few seconds about the difference in price between amazon and that minor retailer, and unless the difference is huge (which is usually not the case), I'll go for Amazon. Even when I had issues with what I got from Amazon they sent me the replacement item BEFORE I even send back the defectuous item. Who else does that?
Seriously, what a bunch of dorks. We had a good run. I knew for the longest time it was inevitable. The convenience factor outweighs the negligible sales tax that I would have to pay elsewhere anyway.
I think you should look at Appery.io, a cool way to build and deploy mobile apps on the cloud. To start with, your focus should be on what you want to build rather than how you build it. The idea is more important than the implementation. Appery.io lets you build nice prototypes and real mobile apps using their app builder. Try it and see if that takes you further.
There was a presentation that tackled this question at the most recent ICSE conference. Here's the paper: "UML in practice", http://oro.open.ac.uk/35805/8/UML%20in%20practice%208.pdf

The author interviewed people from 50 different major companies, and found people's use fit within the following:

Category of UML Use, Instances of Declared Current Use

no UML, 35

retrofit, 1

automated code generation, 3

selective, 11

wholehearted, 0

From the conclusion: "The majority of those interviewed simply do not use UML, and those who do use it tend to do so
selectively and often informally."

In my own experience and research, people draw extensively, but have their own shorthand for writing things specific to their domain.
To answer your question, it depends entirely on how that company presents the opt-in, or rather, does not present the opt-in.

If there is a check-box that's pre-checked and all I have to do is un-check that box as I'm signing up to opt-out, I respect the company for being up-front about the choice and will un-check the box. On the other hand, if they do anything I consider "shifty" like trying to hide the opt-in anywhere (eg in ToS), then the answer to your question is yes. I would not expect those emails so in my opinion they are unsolicited, at best.
I guess I'm not totally aware of who the "they" are in "they usually do some research first" because I feel like a significant chunk of fish purchases come from parents of little children who are already sleep deprived and go to the nearest pet store or (God forbid,) Walmart or any other shop where they know there are fish.

If you're correct that "they usually" actually do research beforehand, there would probably be a market big enough to sustain a small online business.
At the time he took leave from Harvard (which was not dropping out), the company already had offers for $500k in seed money at a $10 million valuation. The chance that going full-time on Facebook would end up worse than staying at Harvard was remote. Even if failed, the experience and connections would have been far more valuable than two more years at Harvard.
This article is trash. From the summary --

"Hence the vast structures of personnel and resources that constitute modern ‘science’ are not real science but instead merely a professional research bureaucracy, thus fake or pseudo-science; regulated by peer review (that is, committee opinion) rather than the search-for and service-to reality."

Although I'm not a scientist, I spend my working days with scientists (astronomy, climate science, solar physics; not in backwaters, but prominent in their disciplines), and I can say that this is completely without merit.

The article is basically bitter personal reminiscences and anecdotes trying (at length) to be convincing. But there is no data. It's all personal reflections of the author.
It's not that easy. 灯 is pronounced "dang", not "ding". 汀 is "ting". Phonetic components only indicate "sounds like". And not all those examples you gave had the same tone.

Having phonetic components makes it easier (if you like cryptic crosswords), but not easy.
You are experiencing survivor's bias. The artists from the past that you know of are the excellent ones whose art and reputation survived. If you explore enough galleries and museums, you'll know that there are plenty of contemporary artists who create mind blowing art too, and in 200 years, some fellow will talk about how artists in the 23rd century do not have the skills of the 21st century masters.
I've put this up for people who got selected and want to connect with fellow HNers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623598

Maybe we can do something better.
There's always a way around that. Most likely you'd just do it like many other federal carrots — "This tax is levied on all online purchases and will be distributed to the state of the recipient provided that state does not impose any additional taxes on the purchase." You're not depriving the states of their right to tax the purchases, but it will be onerous to their residents if they don't go along with the federal plan.
Japanese has pitch accent, but usually only one syllable is accented and there are only 2 "tones". It's not fully tonal like Mandarin.

FWIW, I've never bothered to learn Japanese pitch accent properly. I'm sure that gives me a foreign accent, but in 10 years I can't recall a single instance of being misunderstood due to pitch accent. Context takes precedence over pitch accent.
That isn't necessarily true. The number of e.g. Senators is set by the constitution. If the government were doing half as much stuff, each Senator would have twice as much time to allocate to each thing. Then they might find more waste to remove and reduce the budget even more.
I'm surprised by this ElixirConf thing.

I've been involved in the Rust community, a considerably larger, more active and more mature community, and I would consider a RustConf still a little premature.

Is there really enough interest in it? How many people are expected to attend? How many are needed to attend to break even in some manner?
Ah right, yup fair enough. Data export is definitely on my radar, but it's a bit early at this stage. As you say, worst case, you'd be able to extract your data via the API.

Yes, good point - it's just a single contact form at the moment, probably time for an upgrade.

Re caring about making a great product, that's alright haha. I used to be a money chasing developer, but I had a bit of an epiphany, and realised that trying to help others improve their lives means a lot more to me than spending my life acquiring and hoarding possessions and wealth!
Facebook's auto-playing videos are working for marketers
Lots of things are violations of states' rights. (nationwide drinking age, enforced by revoking federal highway money; national handgun ownership age, etc)

The actual question is if there's enough political capital to get it through congress, in the face of united opposition from the low tax states and the republican caucus.
I'd like a real console object in worker (at least a variadic pretty-printing log() function and time()/timeEnd()) and a "break all threads" button too, please. Worker debugging is a pain.
I think it has merit, essentially a form of play. Kittens will act out various attacks on each other, even though there is no real threat. It allows them to work through various solutions to problems in advance, so that when they are in real danger they have already practiced, and will be able to learn more quickly.

You are right that we don't, can't know the truth. So what we do is we map out a space of possible realities and talk through as many of them as we feel inclined to. We try to figure out where the line is that a founder's wife mustn't cross. We try to understand how common sexual harassment is, and what the probabilities are that any given accusation is truthful. These discussions aren't oriented towards reaching any sort of verdict. That is for the courts, and the coworkers. Instead what we need to do is a kind of cartography. Is there a mountain there? How big is it? What are the routes across it?

I think these issues are supremely important, because I think sexism in tech is like a giant hole in our rowboat that we are constantly having to bail out, and I think our organizations will be much more efficient if we can get better representation of diverse skills and viewpoints. And I also believe that rare events can make an outsized impact on a project. And that with such issues you rarely get second chances. And I believe that some of the traps that exist are on a hair trigger, and are very difficult to see. So I think putting energy into "play" ahead of time is very important.

You don't want to be going for the jugular only to realize you've never tried out your claws.
What constitutes deduplication?

If they use a filesystem where blocks are content addressable, but files referring to those blocks are unique, is that illegal?
"Recently promoted to lead the engineering team", which I believed was ZH.
Having the bits is fine as long as you actually have the bits, not a DRMed stream.
How are these ridiculous contracts negotiated?
You have it reversed. It is inevitable that government is going to be inefficient, so as a practical matter the lower-hanging fruit is to decrease the magnitude of the waste. Not try to put lipstick on a pig.

Reducing the scope of government spending requires the flick of a pen. Reducing the scope of government inefficiency requires changing human nature.