skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You write: "All of them come from Arabic (not just the letters, the scripts) as well, and as an Arabic speaker I find that attitude strange. I could be reading too much into it."

I think that's where our disconnect lies and I do think you're reading too much into it. Urdu is not a child of Arabic. The word itself is Turkish, and the old story about Urdu's genesis is that it amalgamated during the military conquests of Babar, a Central Asian Turk who was funded by the Ottomans but operated independently. A great percentage of Urdu was Turkish (I once heard upto 40% of the words are Turkish), and it contains many Sanskrit words as well. This notion that Urdu is a "Muslim" language, and because of that, it has some special relationship or descent from Arabic, is more of a 20th century phenomenon having to do with Pakistan's affiliation with the Arab world as a result of becoming an Islamic Republic. That's what I think. You are welcome to try and persuade me that Urdu is some kind of Arabic-lite. But in my experience except for a very small minority of very recently Arabized Pakistanis, I have never heard of that view. What I have seen more frequently, however, is resentment against the idea that Urdu is Arabic's baby. Its kind of like how the Anglicans would resent being declared Children of Catholicism. Sure, without revolting against the Church there would not Anglicanism, but that doesn't mean that an Anglican would like to be told, "you came from Catholicism."

I will give you an example. I once had an Arab yell at me for pronouncing Eteraz with a zay ending. He tried to show me that since in Arabic Eteraz ends with a dawd, and since a dawd is a hard sound, I should pronounce it Eterawd. I gently reminded him that for me it comes from Urdu and Persian and I will pronounce it with a Z. That may irk an Arabic purist. But only if he thinks that all languages written in Arabic-script should follow Arabic's rules, which makes no sense. By that logic, Indians should demand that all people who count with a zero in their system should pronounce their numbers in Sanskrit.

I did not intend to write this much in response to that one sentence, but your point of view is something I've experienced frequently enough that I felt inclined to respond longer. It is not just Arabs who say things like this, too. As I mentioned it now includes Pakistanis themselves, who consider themselves "of Arab culture." An example of these Pakistanis are kids in Lahore, Pakistan, who have a license plate tag that reads, "al-Bakistan." They want to Arabize. In you they would have an ally, I imagine :).

I appreciate you looking into my other work. If you get a chance to check out the short story collection, you will find a pre-Islamic story set in Mecca there. There is also a story set in an imaginary state called Islamistan, and there I adhere to Arabic rules of transliteration instead of Urdu or Persian i.e. Dhulfaqar instead of Zulfikar, etc.
A "data property" system that gives the majority of people rights over their personal data is never going to be built. We're far more likely to see "data feudalism", in which the systems you require to get by in the world extract your data as a toll for living in the modern world. In return, you get a certain limited amount of security against other*, nastier, agents trying to get at your data. See https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht...

(there's an excellent book called "Information Feudalism" on related IP issues)
Dad, I'm Not gay.
It was never alive.
YAY 
I had my start-up too ...Startups are here to save the world !
What magic directory names? The special case for "pkg" is the only one I saw.

The main proposal is one of scoping by directory hierarchy - /a/b/c can import a/b/d but a/g/x can't.
I use it on a smaller host, and it's alright. It doesn't seem to support multi-selection of email so you have to delete or move messages one at a time, and it's not at all ajaxy.
Respectfully, you are ignoring European history where certain languages were pretty much exclusively rendered in certain "scripts." This was also the case -- and still kind of is -- in the subcontinent. Anshuman Pandey has an interesting anecdote about how the British tried to "standardize" a script in the early 20th century, only to discover that everyone wrote in different scripts and didn't want to change. In the end, the British tried to force everyone to write in Roman letters, but that failed too.
Painkillers key to a longer life, say scientists
What does the gmail android app do? Does it speak IMAP, IMAP-with-proprietary-extensions, or something else?
You can program bug free
Why Does Everyone Look Hotter in Sunglasses?
The Turkish "huzun" is a lot like saudade.

You should compare Orhan Pamuk's treatment with Fernando Pessoa.
Terrible security record of PHP apps, probably.
This sort of thing is not unique to Airbnb. I have a friend who was the drunk one, who went back from the bar into the wrong holiday cabin to use the toilet, and woke up a family.
Always cool to see more uses of openstreetmap. Gives me even more motivation to work on it.
How could it be misinterpreted?
It would seem the important feature of a modern language is how it handles modularization. The ability to program-at-large requires a language to make trade-offs here and there.

I do note that the Go-centric world would naturally make the file system part of the language. Its plan9 heritage makes this very easy.

I also note that this is a mistake in language design. Packages and modules should never be reliant under an assumption about the underlying file system, as it tend to lock languages to certain platforms.
> Increasing the max setting does not consume additional resources. It merely makes it possible for applications to get the resources they ask for.

From unswappable kernel memory, yeah.

> kernel.pid_max = 999999

> * - nproc unlimited

1.000.000 pids is 1 mil task_struct's.

On my quite stripped out kernel 14 task_struct's fit into order 3 slab -- 14 objects per 32KB or kernel memory.

1000000 / 14 * 32 * 1024 = 2.18 GB of kernel memory

and that's not even counting other kernel structures!
Managing Login Passwords for Capybara with Minitest and Rails Fixtures
Isn't this similar to the ancient "private protected" visibility level [1] of Java?

[1] http://everything2.com/title/private+protected
Nest API changelog
There is a built in workaround in word itself : pasting the huge picture, adjusting size, cut & paste as PNG.
Alternatively, the STL is so bloated and there are so many ways to mess up RAII that it's enough to keep me on the C side. Where I sell C shells.
Well, it is a Perl conf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ejaculation
Coinnext | Closing Down
> Can somebody enlighten me as far as the way the size is measured - does it typically include all of the assets such as music and textures?

In size limited categories like 4k and 64k intros as well as "challenges" like this, the size is the final size of the executable. The productions are typically delivered as a single executable with no other files, so everything is bundled into the executable. In 4k and 64k there is usually some kind of compression algorithm used to compress everything that's possible, including the actual executable code.

The "assets" are procedurally generated as much as possible. A hand-written software synthesizer and the control data ("sheet music") can fit in to less than one kilobyte, which is a lot less than producing a few minutes worth of music otherwise. Same goes for the textures, 3d models, etc.
> I wouldn't bother reading it for fear of bias

That's a dangerous stance in general, probably better to listen to both sides whilst acknowledging that they are both likely to be biased in their own favour.
Technology can keep narrowing the size of the market until there's only one person standing inside of it. Do you really think that Travis Kalanick would think it's a bad thing to recognize that you (as a person) are willing to pay double, and charge you more than your neighbor?

Absolutely not. The only thing that might restrain him from doing that is the law, and he (like Chesky and such) doesn't give one single shit about the law.
Hardly optimal, to be honest. The QR code nature is because all diacritics are not used at all, period. Those dots actually signify, you guessed it, different letters (ironically, they are grouped into Arabic by articulation: b, t, and th are letters in Arabic, same shape and different dots; there order in the alphabet are grouped because you make them with the same part of your mouth).

Problem with that is, grokking text is difficult without a lot of practice. I am not a native Arabic speaker, and reading that stuff, even if I can read novels, the Quran, and weird pre-Islamic poetry (vocab is very different) would take me days to decipher if written in that script.

What is more funny is that there are not even short vowels in Kufic script. So after I learn to read and know contextually which letters are which, I would only know the consonants. And the vowels in Arabic are amazingly important (same consonant, different vowels = same word root, but meaning can change from book to dest to library to writer, for example), so Kufic is an easy way to bring an Arabic student to suicide.
That's not a good comparison, show me a video of German police raiding a house while using extreme violence. Not that I'm a big fan of the police, but in this case it's comparing apples to oranges.
The STL is actually pretty lean compared to the standard libraries that ship with most popular programming languages these days and if you leave the iostream stuff out it's fast and doesn't take up much space in the binary. I've used it with great results on iOS devices. My first step in creating any new class is subclassing a no-copy parent, which in my experience eliminates most of the nasty gotchas with accidental copies. I have yet to get any RAII weirdness.

I've considered reverting to plain C to make it easier to interface with other languages like pure ObjC and now Swift but when I think about how much extra work this is going to entail for absolutely zero benefit to my users I always give up the idea.
Great idea!
I would suggest adding an option to read the highlighted text so as to make sure you can get the plugin to work even when it can't detect the portion of the page where the article is.
Imagine that your company was a person. Meet Rose.
You just expressed these in English.

Although you might spend far more words on it, and it might be hard to properly capture abstract concepts in another language, these are not examples of concepts that cannot be expressed in English.
>It in turn, draws more to your story, your world- who loses?

The one who created the original material.

The oldest line of record/ad/publishing industry crooks trying to rip you off it's "it will bring you publicity/exposure" (ie. "draws more to your story").
I'm at a loss to find where 616c in any way talked about Urdu as a language as descending from or owing anything to the Arabic language. All of his comments were specifically about the script. Unless 616c has radically edited the post since you responded to it.
The Arpanet IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection [pdf]
Coffee: From commodity to Petrus
> /a/b/c can import a/b/d but a/g/x can't.

No - x can import d because d isn't in a directory literally named internal. That's the magic name.
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Wonga chased debt with fake lawyers, says FCA
mplayer and VLC also use SHM and are completely broken with these settings.
I support copyright to some extent for economic reasons. It costs millions of dollars to produce a major game or movie, and writing a book takes weeks or months of an individuals time. Someone shouldn't be able to copy your book and take the market by selling it at a lower price or distributing it for free. At least for like 10 years while it's economically relevant.

But that you can't make derivative work is insane. You would see fan art and fan fiction disappear completely if it was better enforced. The best book I've ever read was fan fiction. Before copyright it was common for characters to be reused between different stories. And it's still true that most works are not original. They are just different in ways that aren't copyrightable. Who cares if you reuse character names if your story is just a clone of another anyways?
He's not exactly winning many sprints. Checking out UCI World Ranking #1's on the graph, they're reasonably in the middle.
>Is art, similarly to science, not an iterative process based on the input of dozens, hundreds, thousands of people that came before us? Are we all not standing on the shoulders of giants, pushing just a few steps forward more, both because we like what came before us but want to see it go someplace new?

Yes, and a lot of us want to be paid for our contributions to this mass endeavour.

Case in point, lots of those giants on whose shoulders we stand got ripped off and died peniless.

Obligatory link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE&feature=kp

(Harlan Elisson, "Pay the writer").
Project Eurler[1] is a great way to familiarise yourself with Eratosthenes and learn some coding too!

[1]https://projecteuler.net/
How about donating to some opensource project like Gimp or Krita, so that everyone benefits, not just Windows users?
> You write: "All of them come from Arabic (not just the letters, the scripts) as well, and as an Arabic speaker I find that attitude strange. I could be reading too much into it."

>

> I think that's where our disconnect lies and I do think you're reading too much into it. Urdu is not a child of Arabic.

Ok. I think I should have been more clear. Urdu is not Arabic. I specifically mean the script, Nastaliq, and Arabic aphabet as used in Urdu is from Arabic (even though, as we are both aware, letters were added to compensate for the lack of certain letters in the original Arabic alphabet, re your Pakistan->Bakistan comment).

As for your insights in pronunciation, I LOVE the irony here. I was also studying Farsi for a while, and I routinely had trouble with this dispartiy, as I had to relearn sounds. It is hard to shake as the eight plus years of Arabic will not go away overnight. I also had friends who were advanced Farsi students with the opposite problem. And I have a father-in-law who teaches Arabic, and unfortunately I hear students and him confirm the religious Pakistani students are poor performers and/or argumentative in class: they have trouble realizing the difference between their knowledge of Arabic vocab and pronunciation through Quranic Arabic, Urdu, and complete inexperience for formal Standard Arabic (which is different from Quranic). I have also been party to these arguments, and heard of them. I have also been silly with my stuff.

In any event, I am amazed I am having this conversation on HN. I thought there would be such little interest in this topic. I am glad to have talked to you and others about this. I thought no one cares.
Congratulations on your game's success.

I use reddit a lot to promote my blog posts but I've realized what @chatmasta mentioned to be true.

If you want to publicize your startup or project on launch day, its better to get it published on some famous blog for that stream.

Need not necessarily be techcrunch or mashable. Can also be CSS tricks or Paul Irish's blog. Equally valuable. And the HN / Reddit takes care of itself.

Sauce: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/open-source-marketing-with...
I think I'm at least partially on YouTube because of YouTube rather than the content. I pretty much only watch videos on my phone, and it the only video app that I have, and it's good enough.
I am currently working on a location-based game for iOS and have been using Google Maps SDK and I'm extremely interested in this.

Google Maps has refused to respond to all requests for custom styled maps on iOS despite being the most requested feature.[1]

I've also tried MapBox but both have been giving very bad performance on iPhone 4... this could be just my code, however as a game I really need to perform a lot of animation on the map itself and these 2 options perform quite poorly in my experience.

Another issue with map SDKs is that there's usually no way to turn off road names. I just need the road vectors to be rendered (like Ingress) so players get a baring of where they are relative to their roads, but not necessarily the name of the roads. I imagine that it would be more performant if I could turn that off. Neither Google nor Mapbox allows this unfortunately.

Might give this a go to see how well it works with all the things we're throwing at our map functionality. Thanks!

[1] - https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=...
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Has been possible in older versions of Paint too, albeit indirectly; select region, copy, file->new, paste.
Gartner: DBAs Aren’t Part of the NoSQL Conversation
> Another way to put it is that specialized supercomputers no longer exist, and the top500 is now populated with super-branded racks of PCs running Linux with souped up network cards.

While there's a grain of truth in this, in reality, a supercomputer still looks like a room full of refrigerators and not at all like a typical computer or even a server farm.

Some of the computer hardware in there is just commodity hardware but for example the interconnects can't really be described as "souped up network cards", they're in a category of their own.

Yes, the era of the Cray boxes is gone but a supercomputer is still a supercomputer.
Thanks for specifying that you made "new car money" rather than "new house money"!
How machine learning of the customer desires can improve your business?
The max macro in Section 4 is using two separate GCC extensions: typeof and statements in expressions.
Replace the word "drone" or "UAV" with "truck" and re-read your comment.
Salaries before or after the WC? Or player purchase price?

Some players will vastly have increased their market value after the tournament.
Low Hanging Fruit Link Building for Boring and/or Ugly Sites
My first step in creating any new class is subclassing a no-copy parent

That's exactly why, when presented with a choice between C or C++, I'll choose C every time.

First, because it's often inexperience with other paradigms that forces programmers into an "everything must be an object" mindset. Second, because the fact that you need to learn a gargantuan amount of trivia to use C++ inheritance non-dangerously is a sign of underlying derangement. Third, because through experience I've learned that C is far less scary once you embrace standard patterns for accomplishing various tasks. The total linecount isn't significantly increased by using C over C++. The codebase complexity isn't increased.

What I like about C is that it gives you a set of inalienable commandments: thou shalt not go completely nuts with {inheritance, template metaprogramming, flavor du jour}, because you can't. In the hands of an experienced programmer, C gives you more reliability than C++ precisely because there are fewer gotchas. The dangers are straightforward: free memory after you use it; have a single place that a pointer is "owned"; check your lengths before copying between buffers.
You may be interested in this article: "Tagged architecture: How compelling
are its advantages?", http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=327070.327153 (unfortunately behind a paywall).
I use Pinta at work. It's no Paint.NET.
> What magic directory names?

"internal"

> The main proposal is one of scoping by directory hierarchy - /a/b/c can import a/b/d but a/g/x can't.

/a/b/c can import a/b/d, and /a/g/x and /z can too. The new rule is that /a/g/x can not import /a/internal/y.
What's the name of the best book that you've ever read?
How does this compare to roundcube?
Number Duck: Create Excel Files With Charts From C++
Mind this is only the simplest functions and thing can already go wild if you apply classic bad C++ coding practices, like cascade inheritance or god object.
Add to that, you will (oh yes, you will, at least once) make type errors with macros, and you will fail to maintain all the class constructors and virtual functions.
I don't think it's a bad thing either.

Those scripts will not be forgotten soon because of the way information is preserved in our current age. Nothing of their historicity is lost to us at all. Yet this script (and many others) do not present compelling reasons to stay in use. The same goes for Chinese characters; the knowledge of this script among Chinese youth is waning simply because these characters are not as useful as pinyin romanization is. It's "natural selection".

From my limited knowledge, only some "effective" scripts in the world that translate efficiently to a digital age. From the top of my head, only Latin, Cyrillic, (other descendants of Greek) and Hangul script feature a small enough 'standardized' amount of characters to express a wide variety of information. That is what is needed to survive in a digital age methinks.
This is a great feature. You also have the ability to create and use your own profiles.

I wonder if they made any new improvements in RHEL 7?
The history of the cheat code
>"But that you can't make derivative work is insane."

Well, if you "support copyright to some extent for economic reasons" it's not really insane. In fact it makes perfect sense.

The work, eg. a book, you've spend tons of money, thought time and effort to make, can be copied in a couple of days or weeks. What's to say what's just derivative or is a rip off? Is changing a few plot points or wording enough?

>You would see fan art and fan fiction disappear completely if it was better enforced

It's not like fan art and fan fiction ever produced anything that worthwhile though. Has there ever been any major fan fiction work hailed as literary worthy? Maybe you'll find one or two examples. I doubt you'll find ten.
This is why employers should force their employees to take those holidays.
That's untrue.

Publicly traded companies are required to disclose revenue, but not required to break it down by source.

Neither Apple or Google break out the revenue from the *Stores (unless they have started doing it very recently). There are third party analytics firms that provide reasonable estimates though[1].

[1] eg http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/23/google-play-quarterly-app-r...
It's like saying "why use phone when telegraph is good enough". If you can order things and receive them very fast in any place, there are things that you can start ordering that otherwise you wouldn't do.

It's raining and you need an umbrella, with nomsalesperson near? Order a drone. Forgot to buy mayo back in the store? Order throug drone and get it in an hour.

But there once you're able to order stuff and get it within minutes, not hours or days, there are other effects that start happening. For one, you don't need to stockpile supplies anymore, or you can do things more spontaneusly.
Will 40 or 100'people come to a party. Who cares, if there are not enough forks or plates, you can order them fast.
Or, if you want to play in garage, you don't have to make sure that you've got all the supplies well in advance, or go to the store and back 20'times.

Think how many businesses were spawned, and how much more efficient are people now that there are mobile phones, not just stationary. But ic an imagine people saying "who needs mobile, I can call when i get back home, and i've got an answering machine if someone calls when i'm away.
Well, if it's not an inconvenience to YOU, then clearly the idea should be scrapped.
Review of South African Capped ADSL Services
Thanks for the hint. Although I imagine reading a translated version won't be quite the same thing.
Sounds really interesting. Do you have any links to the resources you found?
For people who value tradition, yes. For people who value utility, no.
The code in the article is just a plaything, a C programmer wouldn't use any of that and wouldn't use C++ as a starting point for their C implementation. Don't let it reflect negatively on C.