skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most Germanic languages have constructs similar to English´s phrasal verbs. Learning them, for a foreigner, is really difficult (I know, because I spend most of my time teaching English to Spanish students). I actually just released the Android app I´ve been building to help with this. I didn´t think it was worthy of a Show HN post, but now seems a good time to mention it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phrasalver...
What Would API Copyright Have Done To The Birth Of Cloud Computing
I know the North East doesn't demand London salaries but even here in the North West you can get more than £20k as a junior.

I guess it depends on your priorities. Are you learning a lot? Do you enjoy it? etc.
I was also wondering if it was responsible of those involved to be talking to the press about their work, even before they said this. They run the risk of counteracting their effects if the students think it is a gimmick. Also, students not selected for extra help could turn against them, as so many have against affirmative action in general.
How about "Because you like mobile games?"

Of course, if you prefer desktop games, learn to make those first. Either way, go with what you enjoy.
The account creation page (for those who like me used Flickr without a Yahoo account) is a mess – for any account name I tried entering, it said that an account with the same name already exists.
Finally managed to create my Yahoo account somewhere else in the settings.
Any good reason for this, or is it just to push their Yahoo accounts on everyone?
What was tulip (and is now asyncio in 3.4) has a debug flag that you can enable to detect if a coroutine is scheduled but never called.

More info here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-dev.html#detect-co...
Deep Learning in Java
Well, the Jack Valenti proposed forever minus one day, and he was supported by at least two congress members. A 1000 years seems like small pickings compared to that.
I've had that problem as well. I'm not sure if it's a bug or it is genuinely taken
While interesting, I find the narrative pinpointing the issue on a single engineer behavior a bit too convenient to be believable.
This is (kind of) one of the reasons that I don't use third party services to sign in to anything. I'd rather have an email+password option and use a password manager (I'm aware that most people probably don't do this and Flickr isn't offering this).

If/when users do as Flickr is asking, I wonder if Yahoo will redirect them to use Yahoo Mail etc. In any case, I'm not a flickr user anymore but it would be interesting to know how smooth they've made this process.
By "discovered" I assumed more of like "deepened knowledge of". I guess I'm so accustomed to sensationalist titles by now that I immediately tone it down to more realistic version in my head and don't even notice.
It's not just "like" the OP, that IS the academic paper by the psychology professor in the article about the work mentioned in the article.
If that were the case you'd expect her to have a middling GPA but much better test scores. But in this story, it's the other way around.
I like the distinction provided in this hn comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5711232#up_5714834
Haven't been able to get to my flickr photos for many, many months.

Even though I'm already logged in to Yahoo, I'm prompted to login. Then I get this error:

"Hello- new account signups are temporarily unavailable from this network address space used by your Internet Service Provider."

By far the most pathetic acquisition integration I've ever seen.
I remember few years ago this concept was demonstrated as an way to get user website history from the browser. This is big privacy hole. And sadly nothing changed. Which is sad.
I'm talking in terms of 25th and 75th percentiles because those figures are public. You're more than welcome to provide other numbers if you have a way of getting them.

And I provide exact numbers for the girl under discussion. Someone else was nice enough to point out that the ACT average for students at UT Austin is 28 (91st percentile nationwide), and the 25th percentile is 25 (80th). This girl got 22 (62nd). Compared to the average student at her school, that's abysmally low.

From memory, the range for verbal scores at caltech was 720-800, and the range at UT Austin was 120 points. The "true top end" at caltech probably isn't that far above 800, since the writing range was 720-790, so UT Austin is displaying much much more variation (120 points compared to 80). In contrast, there's going to be a lot more variation in math ability at caltech than the 30-point math range implies, due to the very low ceiling on the SAT-math. That makes it impossible to say how much variation there really is by looking at SAT scores.

On the other other hand, caltech being a technical school, you might suspect that they're targeting math ability, and the range should be narrower than it is for verbal. ;p

> Because nearly a quarter of students will be below the bottom quartile - at every school.

You could change this to exactly a quarter and you wouldn't be wrong (except in cases like, as we've seen, caltech and other high-end schools, where well over a quarter of the students are in the top 25th percentile by math SAT score). But the sentence preceding it is obviously false. Yes, a quarter of the group will always be in the bottom 25%. Does that mean they're not performing as well as the rest of the group? Of course it does. That's how we measured them.

If your top students and your worst students are very close in ability because of restriction in range, you can sensibly put them in the same classes. If, as at UT Austin, they're very far apart, you can't. I went to a large public university myself, and the course catalog was full of classes covering the same material but differentiated by "difficulty". What's wrong with describing the students who can't succeed outside of the bottom tier as "substandard"?
The article seems to lament Peter's disappearance from the product boxes rather than real life.
Thank you.

We'll make the background better, and will support custom theme(or custom CSS) in the future.
They don't make tons of money. I think Michael Lewis quotes a annual revenue of 16 billions for all the HFT companies put together. That's less then half of goldman sachs' revenue alone.
I thought it actually showed how to fix affirmative action. If you just admit the disadvantaged students, a higher percentage of them will sink. But if you help them with motivation, study habits, and positive outlook (which many lack due to their disadvantaged background), then they can succeed at the same rate, or nearly.
> the temptation will be to come up with a price based on your day job's equivalent hourly rate. Do not do this.

To expand, remember that regular employment comes with way more 'compensation' than just the salary that a freelacing gig doesn't come with. As a regular employee, you get paid regularly, on time, based on hours, you get paid holidays, taxes paid, etc. A freelancer/contractor has much less certaintly and much more risk. Hence freelancers should be paid more per hour/day/week than a regular employee.

> Think about mockups/wireframes you can deliver.

Hint: Don't make the mockup look done. Use a mockup style that looks like drawing on a napkin (or even draw it on paper and send a photo of that paper). Non-techies think the amount of work depends on the amount of UI changes. If they see a pixel perfect photoshop image of a done web page, they could think that all the work is done.
Also try http://slimwiki.com
You're right, same with edit-with-emacs on chrome. Shame, the editor looks nice but I definitely wouldn't want to give up my own editor functions for it.
I took a chance on signing up even though it was my instinct to run... my reward was the next screen:

"We're sorry but something went wrong"

That's an immediate double fail on the "simplest way to make a wiki" headline.
Integration Testing with Protractor, WebdriverJS and Sauce Labs
I do enjoy it, I get to work on a game that sells millions of copies per year, and I currently have every single devkit(Xbox 360,Xbox One, PS4, Wii, Wii U) right on my desk and I get to work with them,which I always found exciting. So yeah, I am working at my dream job, because I always wanted to get into the games industry. I am just saying that in any other industry, I could literally be making £10k more/year, which means that in a way, I am paying almost a £1000 a month just to have the privilege of working in the games industry.
Playable Rock Paper Scissors HTML and CSS only
Time to ditch flickr.
I always think of a web server, when it comes to concurrent vs. parallel:

A web server can handle serve many users concurrently, but if they are really served in parallel depends on the number of cores/machines.
D-Day and Edward Snowden – Democracy, Freedom and Banishment
This is good advice. Trello allows you to email to boards and makes a decent free CRM.
This is like Netflix Chaos Monkey but for client side.
That's a +1 from me, I'd love an open-source version for self-hosting. I'd additionally be happy to pay for the "licence to self host" or something silly like that as long as I can see the code somehow (which is a big deal for me).
Does anyone with experience in the automotive industry have any thoughts on this? What sort of culture would lead to the selection of an inappropriate part in the first place? Would it be cost driven? Does this idea that an individual engineer's component selection decision would play such a big part ring true with other commentators experiences?
Only if it is literally pronounced as 'istoric. AFAIK there are no accents that do that other than maybe a few northern areas of the UK.

http://grammarpartyblog.com/2011/01/10/an-historical-event-i...
I just went to my settings, changed the password somewhere in them, signed out, signed in using my gmail address and the new password, and it worked.

But yeah, flickr is buggy. The Android app on my tablet never seemed to load anything (except on rare occasions), and I uploaded a large amount of photos a couple of times, edited the names and tags, and some of the names/tags were lost. But I enjoy some of the groups there, got some good advice on buying a medium format SLR.
Sure, but where to? I had worse experiences with many other such services, or they have a very narrow focus.
about:config

geo.enabled = false

Problem solved.
Oh crap, I thought about Steam and decided "nah, that's a safe example, they won't have it" :) I'm actually really happy that both Steam and GoG re-release those older games.
Remote contractors are heavily leveraged in the game industry. It's not a solution; it usually makes things worse.
But is there any good alternative? You get 1TB of space, a good simple interface and some social networking if you desire (groups).
Story time.

A few years ago (during the height of the anonymous media frenzy), I was working for a hosting company in Iceland, which among other things hosted websites of a large government ministry. One day, I was called into a meeting with a couple of my bosses and other technicians. The reason for the meeting was that we had received a tip-off from the Icelandic police, which they said came from the FBI, that anonymous was planning to attack Icelandic government sites in the next couple of days. They wanted us to make sure the sites were ready, and to monitor for signs of attack.

I thought the whole thing was really strange, how did the Icelandic police have this knowledge? And why did they know with such certainty that there would be an attack in the next two days, when they could not provide us with any other information on the attack vector?

Anyway, we decided to just make a static HTML dump of the site and serve it with thttpd for the time being (the site didn't really have any dynamic content anyway).

Now, several years later, with this and other leaks related to Sabu and Hammond, I wonder: was I used as a pawn in the FBI's game to entrap anonymous? Did the FBI encourage anonymous to attack Icelandic government servers?
hey, it looks like we don't have any good competitors now! let's just push Yahoo accounts on everyone, because yeah.
Also, not too focused on high-quality photography. Flickr is a very nice pool for picture pools for conferences etc.
Just a note: your website http://dsirijus.com is not loading for me.
That's a pretty bold move, given over 100k people a day/800k a month use the facebook auth alone[1]. and though looks like its on a bit of a decline. Maybe losing 100k users a day doesn't matter much to yahoo.

[1]https://factets.com/application/flickr-AQkvRaEJ
I love Notification Center with its extensions! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umZCjMduuUY

before 8 I always disabled it because I litterally had no use for it...
I gotta chase thaumasiotes all over this thread and stand up to his elitism. He wrote:

"What's wrong with describing the students who can't succeed outside of the bottom tier as "substandard"?"

The article tells you what's wrong with that: it keeps people who COULD succeed from doing so by undermining their confidence and their motivation. Why are you really intent on knocking down the disadvantaged at every turn? Why don't you want to help them learn how to succeed?
I remember exploring COMMAND.COM with DiskEdit. In going through the compiled code I realized that the common DOS commands, (DEL, COPY, etc.) basically had a 3 byte string after them in COMMAND.COM that would cause the program to jump to some subroutine that executed the actual operations underlying the command. If you, say, copied the jump code for DEL and pasted that where the REN(ame) command was, and then installed that new COMMAND.COM on the PC's in the schools lab, it caused some very frantic reactions ;)
$2 per gigabyte is absolutely astronomical, the actual cost to major ISP's per gigabyte is literally measured in pennies. I used nearly 2 terabytes last month, so my new bill should be maybe $40 at most. I paid $63, and Comcast just raised me up to $85 3 days ago which I haven't called and bitched about yet. Anyone using <50 gb/month is getting bent over so incredibly hard by the ISPs it's honestly mindblowing.
I always think its a moderation and output issue rather than input.

In anyways, sugar fuels the brain!
One of my lecturers for my first degree was Gordon Preston. He worked with Turing at Bletchley, and apparently used to play Go with him quite regularly. He will have known Turing quite well, both professionally and, insofar as was possible at the time, socially.

I knew Preston quite well - he mentored me in the scholar program - but I never knew of his connection with Turing. When I did find out I started to make enquiries about re-establishing contact, but Preston now has advanced dementia and doesn't recognize even close family.

Such a lost opportunity, primarily because I was young, self-absorbed, ignorant, but believing I was clever and knowledgeable. And now the chance is gone forever. This is why I now try to take every opportunity to connect with people who have stories to tell, and encourage them to talk.
Finnish government commits to cutting emissions 80% by 2050
>> If Netflix is 35% of global internet traffic at peak capacity (as per the Akamai CEO's comments at a number of events), is it really fair to treat them like every other company? That is to say, if Netflix is really the sole driver of Network upgrades, why does Verizon have to subsidize their costs of business?

Netflix isn't the driver, the Verizon customers who want to use netflix are the driver. They're paying Verizon to get them access to cool stuff like Netflix.

It sounds to me like those customers are not getting the service they expect.
Yep, ICC's output is much bigger:

clang 29K
gcc 36K
icc 89K
Open Data from the UK Houses of Parliament
HFT doesn't enable electronic markets, it drives down the cost of them. The reason for this is that HFT participants are high volume users of electronic market infrastructure and have a vested interest in making that infrastructure cheap.
Check out Wysihtml5. We've been using over the last few months and found it ok. We had a strict requirement on good quality HTML, and so far, Wysihtml5 seems nice.

http://xing.github.io/wysihtml5/
I'm taking a bit of a stab but flat pricing probably works well for you because the profile of a customer/restaurant doesn't vary that much. If a restaurant can't afford or justify $495 per month, they probably aren't a good fit for your product.

'3 full time employees answering phones' was your starting point. I assume that a restaurant with more than 5 is rare and a restaurant with less than 1 full time person on the phone is a bad fit.

You are not losing many potential customers under that size and you are not leaving too much on the table with huge customers.

If you were trying to sell a hotel booking software and wanted to target customers from BnB scale to resort scale, you would need some way of charging bigger customers more, even if the marginal cost to you was the same.

I think the point that Patrick is making with the margin on booze is that similarly to restaurant prices, software pricing (like restaurant pricing) is more "made up" than the price of manufactured goods where a 'rational' pricing model like cost plus can be employed. Most costs are fixed rather than marginal so pointing to the marginal cost is almost like saying software shouldn't cost money.

I think you demonstrate that by selling tickets. Instead of charging patrons by what they order, you charge them by when they come. The 'what' pricing was made up and you made up a different pricing that worked better.
Finally someone calling out thaumasiotes for his dubious anti-affirmative action screeds. And what a surprise to find he links to racist websites. Not.
Well when I did my mech eng college course one lecturer mentioned that a UK car manufacturer used the wrong type of component to fix the steering wheel to the shaft.

Resulting in it being possible for the steering wheel to detach! whilst driving.
Well, if you don't mind Google, Google+ lets you handle images pretty well. I would have said picassa before, but that was merged into G+ (and some features were lost I think).
In a way it is, but only really through tricks like this one. Browsers can no longer access the properties of :visited, but they can affect how visited links are displayed.
I was speaking in general terms because I did not want to pick out specific schools that are considered "better" and more academically rigorous than others. I simply wanted to acknowledge that the average freshman at Harvard or Williams probably sees a harder test than her counterpart at Ohio State. The price and prestige of a school are not always good indicators of quality, but I am very confident that selective schools that receive the top students have curricula to challenge those students. There are certainly exceptions: I go to a private university that is leagues behind some of the top public institutions: Berkeley, UCLA, UMich (among others) provide excellent educations, and they are much more academically rigorous than my private institution and many like it.

I am not saying that students who go to a private college are "better" or more likely to succeed. My point is that more selective (and generally private) schools are accustomed to receiving students that have been groomed for academic success throughout high school, and thus the bar for academic rigor starts out at a higher level. The crux of my original comment was to propose a solution for identifying just how high the bar is set on that first batch of exams, to see if you are ready. Knowing what is coming would prevent the overwhelming feeling of depression and "not belonging" that comes with failing a test in a new, scary environment. My point was somewhat obscured and vague, so thank you for challenging me to clarify.

As a rising senior in college, this is just a personal observation derived from my choices and conversations I have had with friends.
Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images
Deciding how you’re going to handle responsive images is a big part of most responsive projects — also, one that usually causes many headaches!

We had really interesting discussions within the team to try to find out which options were out there, being used by other people, and whether those solutions could be useful (and possible) for us.

There is a range of solutions and opinions on this matter, but ultimately it’s all down to the content and types of images your website actually has to handle, and the technical and resource limitations of your team.

We tried to keep an open mind as to what would be possible to achieve within a very small timeframe: we wanted to find a solution that would work for our content, that would be achievable within our deadlines, and obviously, that would improve the experience of the visitors to our site.
My girlfriend got one of these the other day in Singapore. The cash vs tech spec ratio on the thing is much better than the premium handsets and she seems quite smitten for picking up a good deal.

The reason they sell out so quickly is the local phone stores buy them in bulk the minute they're released and add a $20 premium on each set.
Pints in the sun
C++ PGO can do less than JVM JIT does. E.g. JVM JIT takes into account actual configuration options chosen by the user and actual, not predicted workload. This can help e.g. with inlining, because JIT can see only one particular implementation of something was loaded by the user, and optimize for just that case. C++ PGO profiles for a single workload and config chosen by the program creator, which may or may not match what user is doing.
"How are you getting that from what I said?"

It's implied by what you didn't say. You don't require technologists involved in internet ads to justify their existence whenever a post about google comes up. Nor when news breaks of a new internet startup being acquired. I'm picking on you a little bit as a proxy for the entire HN community, as there seems to be a bias against HFT and towards internet ads that is a little unseemly.

Further, I'm not convinced you understand the scope of money involved in HFT vs cancer treatment for instance. When Roche bought genentech (a cancer research company) they paid 46 billion dollars for the privilege. Knight Capital Group, one of the biggest players in HFT is worth around 1.4 billion dollars. The market seems to be allocating resources correctly. The PR companies on the other hand...
I can't see how game devs can work remotely in any practical sense. It can't be easy pushing gigabytes of assets down the Internet.
It's likely just an error in the design process that turns into a problem that is cost driven, but from the perspective that the problem was found after tooling had been acquired and production started and would require a lengthy/costly recall procedure.