skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it would help to see that pronunciation rendered in IPA for English [0]: /ˈiːeɪ.və.ˌskrɪpt/

Note particularly the italicized phoneme (eɪ), which corresponds to the "long A" sound in English, e.g., the 'a' in 'face'. I'm unfamiliar with the Icelandic language, but according to the English equivalents listed on Wikipedia's page on IPA for Icelandic [1], the corresponding phoneme in that language appears to be ei.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Icelandic
That's certainly your prerogative, but avoiding a provider simply based on security issues will eventually leave you with nobody to host your services. Nature of the game. You simply mitigate and plan accordingly.
Google is becoming mature corporation. Nothing new here. The same way Facebook will go. You cant just grow forever. There is a point where you will stop and realize that your strong brand might be vulnerable to markets humors.
They are reinventing themselves so they can diversify portfolio.
The method is pretty unique though.
I'd be more tempted to attribute FM2014's hours played to the style of game that it is. It's very much a "spreadsheet" game in many regards - you can leave it running in the background while it plays through the simulation of the football leagues. I know plenty of people who just leave it running while they browse the internet or watch TV. All they have to do is occasionally check on their lineups and watch through a match.
"We are perhaps the only intelligence species that exists or have existed on earth." Citation needed. Tool use, language, and many other "human" features have been observed in nature. What is definitely true is that humans are the only species that we are able to reliably communicate with.
Note that while snakes and elephants are physically incapable of using tools, doing so doesn't necessarily require hands (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlh0cS2tf24).
I sorta regret writing that in retrospect because its a somewhat reply-bait thing to write.

But I was thinking of Bohumil Hrabal as my most dear author.

In some respects they are very different, in that Hrabal doesn't quite have the same magical realism bent. But in their writing itself, in their structure, they are often similar: Hrabal also favors extremely long sentences. Hrabal's book Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is actually just one long run-on sentence that spans 160 pages. Even when Hrabal's sentences are not long, his paragraph breaks are few. It drives some people mad, but I think if you can follow along, it is an immense pleasure to read.

Both of them adore language:

> "Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing through the veins to the root of each blood vessel."

An example of those beautiful sentences: https://gist.github.com/simonsarris/11014861 (made a gist so I stop polluting comment-space so much)

That's from Too Loud a Solitude by Hrabal, a short book, probably the most beautiful pamphlet I have ever read.
Generally science and industry are negative factors for Macondo. Throughout the book Macondo grows to be a darker place after a brief initial boost from scientific method; however science when paired with capitalism can be dangerous (unhealthy obsessions with alchemy and banana republics come to mind as examples). Capitalism + science = weapons of mass destruction and war. It isn't necessarily white guilt but capitalist and technological guilt.

Of course, as in any Marquez, there's a great deal about how powerful love is, transcending cultural narratives and causing its own problems.
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I reckon this "big companies hoovering up smaller ones" phenomenon will eventually cause the startup economy to die. None of the services are reliable; they come up, start their services with a "no warranties, use at your own risk and we go away at our own disposal" policy; then some big company like Google, Facebook or the newfangled giant Dropbox buy them out and mix them into themselves. The service is gone. The users have to recover. The only acquisitions I can recall, which did not disrupt users recently was that of Instagram's and Vine's (also WhatsApp, but that's too recent to be sure, isn't it?). But the wonted story is that money is poured onto the owners, and the services get killed. Now, I am not an entrepreneur, and am not that knowledgeable about business topics, but I can see that people become less likely to invest in startups each day, every time news of these kinds hit the headlines. Sad, that is.
More interesting reading around "Tuned Mass Dampers" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper
Ask HN: Why aren't Google, Facebook or Twitter CAs?
It would seem to me that their graphs are stronger predictors of authenticity then government sanctioned ID or financial payments.
Fixed price for a semi-fixed deliverable seems a lot better than "per week".
Why would you want to maintain a separate service discovery cluster?
What I think this is missing which was a huge part of the SICP course is that Lisp is probably the best language to write your own language in with a custom syntax tailored for the problem space you're working on. Even if it isn't trivial to do.

An example is Clojure's Hiccup[0] where there's a whole new syntax for dynamic HTML generation. It's not a full new Turing-complete language, but it's a custom syntax and vocabulary that illustrates Lisp's extensibility (a sample of Hiccup in action is linked below, though it isn't mine.)

[0] - https://github.com/yokolet/hiccup-samples/blob/master/src/hi...
That's the wrong metric.

I learned Scheme over 20 years ago and it wasn't that hard to use it for small college projects. But that's different from being comfortable working with large code bases full of unfamiliar code.

Languages shouldn't be judged by how easy it is to write code, or read your own code, but rather how easy it is to jump into someone else's project and figure out what they did. The level of understanding should be enough to see security bugs when they screwed up.
"Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt..." is the beginning of the first verse of the national anthem that has now been banned, although mostly because it refers to borders that Germany now does not have anymore.
There are a lot of problems with asm.js: the heap can't be resized after creation, the code size is really large (esp. with things like C++ templates, which are duplicated for each specialization), threads don't work, datatypes like 32-bit floats and 64-bit integers are problematic, interop with JS and DOM APIs is slow. These things can only be improved with browser cooperation, which sort of defeats asm.js's main advantage of working in any browser.

Native Rust support would be far better.
(Note that Rust doesn't actually have its own GC yet, Servo is just using spidermonkey's JS GC. pcwalton's comment implies it is being used single-threadly though.)
This is a more accurate translation of the Spanish, although slightly less elegant than the previous one IMHO.
by intelligence i meant, reaching to mars, moon. even a dog is pretty intelligent, so is chimp. but as we know, chimp haven't invented a wheel or bicycle as yet, at their own.
I see a lot of people advising you to increase it. Don't. Its a perfect number with a simple idea "MVP for $2345". It has in-built chance of virality/wordofmouth for its USP - so you are getting free marketing dollars inside that number.

If you charge 10K+ like others are suggesting, then you are competing with 10000 devs ready to do that work. If you charge 1K, you will lose money and target the extreme low ballers, and no amount of free marketing can make it sustainable. Your number of ~2.5K is a perfect balance.

But set a few hard-rules before you agree on a project:

- wireframes, mockups with annotations to avoid scope-creep
- design will be bootstrap quality (otherwise design is never-ending)
- is designed for demo purposes, it will break if 10,000 ppl access it.

Remember your clients are "idea mongers" who want to validate an idea, but dont have the chops to do it themselves. So your clients will not be businesses or startups - but plain old business folks with ideas. Stick with it. If the demand is great, then outsource it or franchise it, but control quality by keeping it within your strengths (py + web.py)
since you missed "1" here is a way to include it:

1 for $2345 :)

Great idea! Good Luck!
I think that's due to the timer causing people to make mistakes.
There are two ways for comments to be hidden from view. One is "dead" and the other "deleted". Comments can end up "dead" for a variety of reasons (such as if the commenter is banned), but they're not really hidden—you can turn "show dead" on in your profile to make them appear.

"Deleted" comments are hidden, but much less common. If a comment is deleted it almost always means that the author removed it or (very rarely) asked us to remove it later for a compelling reason.

When we talk about toxic and other low-quality comments, though, we're only concerned about comments that are live on the page. So yes, you are seeing them. I'm glad they haven't been spoiling HN for you! Personally I think the fading out of negatively scored comments is one of the best design choices PG ever made for the site. I once told him that, and he expressed surprise and said he never sees it. (The admin version of the software doesn't do any fading.)
I tend to downvote when someone is mean spirited, overly pedantic or takes the discussion off topic in an unproductive manner. Or if it appears that the commenter has not read and considered the comments/article that preceded his/her comment.
The type of people that will be buying a $5 server are the type of people that will be sending in 10000000 help tickets on how to do X on that server
Eric Seidel talks here about some of the ideas in parallelizing things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sm-DbIOqiU#t=818

And a 2014 Brainstorm thread with similar ideas: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/Z5O...
I always assumed that deleted comments work the way you are suggesting. I wonder why they do not work like this?

Is the thread you are referring to the Lavabit appeal discussion?
ASk HN: I Need a Self-hosted blog platform
I'm a marketer, and looking for a blog platform where we can host the blog ourselves - ie, I want to implement extreme customization. Anyone have any recommendations.

Wordpress is not capable enough.
Why do you want to script with Rust?
I'd be interested in this type of arrangement for a node.js dev who could do some Bitcoin work.
The fading elements is a nice touch to the game logic. It helps defend against simply mashing buttons (which works surprisingly well in the original).
How Can Yahoo Be Worth Less Than Zero?
Wow. I am overly happy that you guys have figured out a way to give commenting feedback. i had an account way back when shadowbanned for i never knew what reason. Still dont. I feel like if this system had have been implemented back then I would have had a better idea of what was wrong that I said.

Also, I'm pretty sure you've found the secrets to good Internet moderatorship. So many forums went offcourse from ban-happy moderators that didnt want to actually take the time to moderate the community, instead just banhammering people. Kudos to you guys
Github with Jekyll?
I don't think so. A move in 2048-like games is only a move if some pieces actually, well, move. If the board is full, there are no valid moves left, and any radioactive elements can never decay.
I dunno... It seems to me that there's a lot more to creating a minimum viable product than simply building a python web app for X amount of money -- especially without knowing the specs in advance.

Good means to advertize your site on HN, though. ;-)
Sorry, it was $5 per 90MB. Forgot to add the 90
I think those problems stem from the embrace of metaprogramming, the creation of DSLs, and language oriented programming. I don't think that Lisp's typical lack of syntax is to blame there.
I suspect Nashorn, the just released edition of JavaScript for the JVM, will be heavily promoted by Oracle and become heavily used for quick and dirties manipulating and testing Java classes, putting a dent into use of Groovy and Xtend in Java shops. After all, people who learn and work in Java will want to learn JavaScript for the same sort of reasons.
Thanks Colin -- sometimes with a bookmarklet I forget to check for stories existing on HN before submitting.
Classic video, though it's wrong at times. For instance, the audience member who corrected him was right.
The most terrifying reality Google faces is that it cannot effectively productize any of these "moonshots" it's working on.

That includes Glass, Self-Driving Cars, Drones, and all the other superfluous stuff they're throwing money at.

My suggestion -- focus -- on search. Redefine how we find information again; we're still looking at blue links on a white background with pagination.

In that regard, Google's been stagnant for over 10 years.
I used to be a heavy gamer, now I spend my spare time doing research and working on side projects that will make me a better developer. I now find this infinitely more rewarding than video games. At a certain age the entertainment value of the games was ruined by mortal terror at the rapid increase in the rate of my birthdays. :)
The thing is, good language design means you don't have to read the docs.

The number one thing taught at user interaction / usabillity courses is that users don't read the documentation. Or skim it and go directly to one or two parts they want to check (Sure, some bizarro outliers do read it all).

Besides, a golden rule from the UNIX era is the "principle of least surprise". Don't define stupid behavior as default, as in this case (both for parseInt and Map).
Outside of the echo circle you have a celeb circle. They intersect at some point but the intersected oval isn't that big. I am not saying you are common-denominator-fluff, just that some people simply upvote you when they see your user name.

Having said that, I think your opinion and views on the echo-chamber are highly biased and out of scope.
The arrow of time develops from moving particles? You sir just begged the question.
Hardy, for a specific counter example: Longitude Act 1714

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_Act Ed: "In total, Harrison received £23,065 for his work on chronometers. He received £4,315 in increments from the Board of Longitude for his work, £10,000 as an interim payment for H4 in 1765 and £8,750 from Parliament in 1773." which works out to around 4 million USD inflation adjusted.

Also, NASA is not part of the military, the air-force has it's own space program that was sending a lot of unmaned missions during that time period. But, the moon shot had no military applications.
arrays don't do that, but map() does. Normally in js you can just ignore arguments you don't care about, but it does lead to surprises like this one.
Your fee is too low. It turns out to around 35 000usd per year. Before taxes.

Thats probably lower than a cleaning man is selling his time for.

Oh well, I guess you get what you pay for. No offense, but seriously.
Ask HN: What VOIP provider do you use for your startup?
I'm looking for VOIP solutions for a small startup (~10 employees) that only needs 1 number.

What's hot? Is there a Stripe/Digital Ocean/AWS of "VOIP" ?

Some more details: I need something hosted and managed.
Hi @enjo, see the reply I gave @pnathan to answer some of this.

But in general I can tell you that we really are driven by much more than money here. A few times we've gotten to consider the idea of having a small financial outcome, and we keep coming back to the same thing: if we all became millionaires and then went out to start another company, what would we do?

If we're being truthful with ourselves, it's still doing Picturelife. There's just not another idea we're passionate about, and working on something we're not passionate about sounds like a terrible, terrible time. So we're just not going to take any easy roads here. If it ever gets tough, we're going to toughen up. When things get really good, we're going to dream bigger.

Maybe it's that we've all been around the block a bit -- both of my co-founders have already had great companies (OMGPOP and Threadless) -- but we really don't want to be doing anything else.

We love our customers, we love our work, we love the challenge. Selling out for 10M to Dropbox frankly sounds like a shit time to us, and we wouldn't do it.
This one of the reasons why, as a Lisp programmer, I don't care much for Clojure. Three different bracketing constructs when one would do just fine. Now I have to go look up the difference between () and {} and [] just to emit some HTML.
I personally had a terrible time using VirtualBox on a Lenovo T420 running Windows 7 x64 about 2 years ago. I was having frequent blue screens, so Lenovo sent out a tech to swap the motherboard. The issue persisted, and after some time, I noticed that it seemed to always occur when I had multiple VMs running. The problem went away when I migrated to VMware Workstation.
From the article's comments:

"Imagine a Tesla that was powered by a Google self-driving system."

That will NEVER happen. Ever.

Other car companies -- Mercedes, Audi -- are already ahead of Google on what matters; external packaging, car integration, and vehicle dynamics.

Just because Google can strap a 3-foot-tall spinning LIDAR to the top of an Lexus RX doesn't mean they have any sort of product ready to be put into any production car.

It's a science fair experiment.
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Process and tools will always have problems. You will always need a good language no matter what process or tools you use. No amount of touting of process will make the "you need ze one process zhat does zit all" argument that much better.

Believe me, I know there will never be a perfect language. But this idea that we only need process is tantamount to a claim that there will be a perfect process which will solve all the problems that a better language could solve. That won't happen.

Why would you choose a crappy language and a good process when you can have a good language AND a good process? Is there something about having a good language that prevents you from having a good process?
Playing for almost 2 hours not getting any further than lone Sr-128, now seeing all those "too easy, beat that 3 times already".

Uh. Did scientists came up with a brain replacements already?
I'm in Austin with lots of family throughout the state. TX near the top of your post caught my attention.

flights from Austin to Amarillo are as cheap as they come; same with DFW, or Houston. You could probably still keep up with your daughter while working elsewhere; plus, the 6 hour drive isn't really a deal-breaker. I have a cousin that drives from Midland area to Lago Vista multiple times a month to see their kid; he's a painter, and makes it work on his wages. Invest in some audio books, point your car in the right direction, and press on the skinny pedal on the right!

If you're wanting to stay in that geography (I'm one of those rare people that actually LIKE North and West Texas), you can always look for work you can do remotely. There is a lot of this available, and companies in TX may be more likely to hire you if you are able to come for an introductory meeting and are operating in the same time zone.

best of luck!
All of those things you mentioned are currently being worked on and will be added to JavaScript directly.
Interesting article. Thanks for the fact check!
The same reason people want asm.js: speed, and avoiding the many problems of JavaScript.
And $17.5 million damages to pay!
I actually asked Llosa about it when he spoke at my college about seven years ago. His reply was something along the line of, "I don't talk about that."
It was an agreement between the church who owned the land and the Citicorp company that wanted to build a building on it.

Sure you could have move the church, but where would you put it? It's in downtown Manhattan. You could probably find space pretty far away, but it's unlikely church members would stay members.
Well, our company's PayPal address is linked to nate@picturelife.com -- if anyone wants to pay us for the custom S3 service they are already using, and we are giving away for free, they can feel free!

Like I said, as we take another look at pricing (we are in the middle of it now) we will think about what to do on a more formal level.

Thanks for the feedback.
This is super inspiring and really makes me want to try a similar experiment. I've been wondering how I can make income while doing month long stays in different countries throughout the world, and this seems like it would be about perfect. New country, new project, enough income just to get by. Keeping the price low is not necessarily a mistake. It will allow you to pick from a much large range of products and if you can live for two months on $2000, why not just keep it low. The world doesn't necessarily always have to be profit-maximizing.

P.S. I checked out your essay about the first person view. I think you should watch this video from the BBC. It describes how this first person view that you describe is not actually making the decisions for your body, an MRI machine can predict what decision you will 6-7 seconds before you become conscious of making a particular decision. This doesn't necessarily answer your question, but the video shifts the question from why am I making decisions to why does brain make me think I'm making decisions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6S9OidmNZM#t=303
I know you were joking, but I once had a guy complain about just that. I contributed a (very basic) search feature to some FOSS software and a user complained because it "wasn't as good as Google".

My response was something like "If I could write a search engine as good as Google in my spare time, I'd be living a lifestyle somewhat more luxurious than the one I actually have."
I'm not talking about me. Look at 'michaelochurch. Or, out of the echo-chamber along a different vector, 'rayiner.

I don't know what your last sentence means.
Would it be possible to use that algorithm and get the same sort of 95% confidence here given that many people can't downvote?
Thank you for your response.

I have been quite open about the fact that both on HN and elsewhere, I have had the shit kicked out of me for talking about my medical issues and what I have done to get healthier. What with being human, it's a little hard for me to not be "overly sensitive" about the topic. I do try to be as even-handed as possible but repeated vicious attacks do take their toll, no matter how much the victim wants to rise above it.

Have a great day.
In German, the word "Land" is used for both states (as in the federal states of Germany, Bundesländer) and countries.

Berlin is a City-State in Germany, entirely surrounded by the state of Brandenburg. Thus it's not too surprising that Berlin's big airport is "in another state."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany

This happens in the U.S. too - Cincinnati airport is actually in Kentucky, etc.
I would suggest $7890 for 3 weeks. Thats still low-balling somebody with your skills, thats about $65 per hour, man.

A better idea is to go with $12345 for 4 weeks.
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