skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always found this advice to be a little overrated. Card creation takes a lot of time and I've found it be only slightly helpful in the memorization process and try to avoid creating a card from scratch when I can. I use an extremely modified version of the Japanese corePlus deck and have found it invaluable that it already came with 6000+ vocab words with example sentences all already tagged with the most popular textbooks and online learning materials. I've been using it for about 3 years now and it has expanded to include pictures and example text for many more words as well. However it would have been a huge time sink to even attempt such a deck on my own.

The problem with shared decks is that Anki is not a very good way of learning information for the very first time. Seeing the material from another source, like a textbook or encountering it in the wild and then studying by tags is the process I find to be the best flow for me. I have a cram deck for all the vocabulary I have ever studied, one for the current chapter I'm studying, and if I'm taking a class one for all the vocabulary I've studied in the class that semester or year. With textbooks, I read over the vocabulary and tag words or add an example sentence if I need to but I often don't have to. Using this method I can learn somewhere between 50-100 new words in a week if I need to with pretty good recall.

However I have another cram deck that is tagged with words that are the top 2000 and 6000 most common. Unless I have seen the word previously I find even going through 10 words to be a painful process and it takes me much longer to memorize. I have that cram deck setup to only show me 5 new words a day and mostly use it as a review deck.

Edit: Grammar
No I didn't get my metabolic rate measured. I was using estimates based on my height and weight, which told me I should be burning X calories a day. I used the low end of the range (despite exercising I didn't count myself as active for getting that estimate.) I'm very curious though about measuring my official metabolic rate. Do you know where I could get it done in the bay area?

I did the same as you in terms of measuring calories, but mostly using scales or calorie counts on packets as I was cooking using raw ingredients. I recorded everything in a diary, using paper initially and then myfitnesspal app. I would also "cross-check" (e.g., after finishing a bottle of olive oil I'd look back at how much I'd logged.) I do think there's space for error and variation - e.g., a vegetable that's sweeter than average, or trying to judge how much fat (and therefore calories) is left on a piece of meat. That last one is the toughest because it can make a huge difference.
I thought I was clear about that in the post - I put stuff like that one into Anki because DuoLingo won't remind me of it - but reading it again it seems unclear.

Anyway you are correct - that's not in DuoLingo. I learned that from a different source who does not consider it "hugely gross" (at least when I say it).
Confirmed re: Android App. Just grabbed this today. Got lots of work to do since backwoods Pennsylvania seems to have no photos (go figure). Lots of work to do!
They are a monopoly carrier. If you want a government backed monopoly, you have to accept a certain level of regulation. This is the cost of being in that business. If they'd rather not be in that business, that's another issue.
I've mostly used Anki for learning Japanese, so I'm biased towards that specific language. There are however some awesome free tools floating around that take the pain out of creating flashcards:

-[1] EPWING2Anki creates flashcards from a wordlist and a dictionary in EPWING format

-[2] Sub2srs creates flashcards based on a movie and subtitle files

It's also possible to use e.g. spreadsheets to mass-create cards. Further tools analyze e.g. a selection of ebooks and create word frequency lists of unknown words, Combined those tools have greatly assisted my progress.

[1]: http://subs2srs.sourceforge.net/

[2]: http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=181475
Offtopic, but I've been trying to get into my Thinkpad X1's AMT setup - I hit ctrl-P on boot but it is missing some kind of file and just boots normally. Anyone know anything about it?
Dozens of new accounts were created to vote for this post and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8172521.

Please don't do this. The votes don't count, and it makes the algorithms angry. Penalties ensue.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is excellent for this kind of thinking.

It is supposed to be a short focussed course - 8 hours for mild to moderate depression, for example.
The quality of the jobs on these platforms is proportionate to the level of employment in the economy and the general strength of labour in the economy. In Australia the situation seems to very different to the US. There is a competitor to Task Rabbit - Airtasker - and my experience is that it's really expensive to hire people on this platform. In most cases I decided to do the work myself because the rates that people charge are so high in Sydney at least (for many tasks $30/hour to $50/hour as a minimum) that I would prefer to save the money and do it myself.

This is a function of the strength of the Australian economy and labour market.
It would probably have been faster to code if you didn't use C++ for this type of project. But I guess if that's what you are comfortable with.
Ask HN: Tech for grandparents/parents?
I am working from Florida (AKA the land of grandparents) this week while visiting my grandparents. As the techie in the family, I'm trying to help them pimp out their retired lifestyle with the right tech tools. This has led to some interesting realizations. For example, last night they were asking me to help them upgrade their Garmin. Naturally, I was tempted to tell them to trash their Garmin and just learn to use the "better" GPS device they were already carrying with them everywhere: their phone. We got into a conversation about why they preferred the Garmin, and it came down to the simple fact that it has a bigger screen that is easier for them to see.

Does anyone have similar stories to relate, or any general tips on particular tech that made life easier and more interesting for your parents or grandparents?
Just because the site has an opinion doesn't mean that it's not good journalism.
Sivers on SRS (great info): http://sivers.org/srs
I have worked with Linux systems since I was able to write and have heard about this the first time. Thanks HN \o/
Definitely not. Most of the time when I encounter an obvious webpage disguised as a native application, I feel deceived and underwhelmed.

Maybe a little over the top, but honestly it's true. Build a fast, responsive mobile site and be honest about what you're producing. If you want the web and its technologies to win, build and present with the web.
> What's worse is once diabetes (and old age) takes hold, it makes it hard to lose weight and people scorn with vitriolic sneering they know why so and so has diabetes.

I'm really glad you mentioned this. There's a lot more to weight loss then meets the eye. Your body actively works against you if you're not smart about meeting its needs, and knowing what is real hunger and what is a sugar craving takes a higher level of self-awareness then a lot of people think is necessary. Insulin is a hell of a hormone - your consciousness finds any excuse to raise that blood sugar when it gets too low. Makes you question free will sometimes :)

When the established medical practice is to inject people with MORE insulin when their body has produced so much it has become insensitive to it, there's gotta be something wrong. I don't think we've even scratched the surface when it comes to treating metabolic disorders.
Hey, I like the idea of connecting people with ideas and people with resources. I guess the former is a way larger group :)

The site was unclear to me, especially because it didn't provide me a good example of an idea so that I can guess how the site works. I guess "hey, this is an idea." should be the description of an idea. So the idea should be expressed in a length of a tweet? OK.

Then I see '1 day' needed. What does that mean? How can I help you? How can I give you 1 day?

I only see a 'Money' button, which suggests me that the idea needs financial support. (But then this is not consistent with the statement above.) Then, I suspected the button is a paypal button, or back me button, or Flattr button etc. but it was only a Tweet-intent button.

I like the simplicity of your site a lot.
I could never work in computer security
Originally abandoned https://github.com/andrewchambers/pycc which is a C compiler in python.

Swapped work to this:

https://github.com/andrewchambers/cc A C preprocessor and
a C parser, both partially complete.

All in Go. Want to finish this, but sometimes go a week or two with no work.

Various mips emulators:

https://github.com/andrewchambers/cmips (boots linux, I intended to compile it with emscripten)

https://github.com/andrewchambers/luamips (Not as complete as cmips, i intended for it to boot inside gmod)
Very nice! But it consumes mucho CPU...
There's some digging here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/147143/when-and-how-...

Looks like the convention was introduced as part of getopt in AT&T Unix System III (1980), though initially only in a handful of places. Then POSIX adopted it as standard for all utilities sometime later.
Oh it is. Many people do e.g. backups of all userdirs by using tar * as root inside a cron, thus rendering themselves vulnerable.
"Standart" not sure if that's a typo...
I find SRS useful for grammar, using a fill-in-the-blank card. The user types in a template with the blanks marked:

T: {{c1::Mulheres bonitas::Beautiful women}} são {{c2::boa motivação::good motivation}}.

Then it will generate one flashcard per template blank:

Q: Mulheres bonitas são [good motivation].
Q: [Beautiful women] são boa motivação.

The larger the blank, the more grammar the user has to come up with to synthesize the correct answer.

Anki has built-in support for this through something it calls a "cloze card", though I've found its implementation insufficient for languages with grammatical changes spread through the sentence.
If the page author reads this: I find the delayed sidebar animation very annoying. Also so distracting I'd say the "Want to learn more?" boxes are less effective this way.
You're absolutely right. Rural America and poor people shouldn't have access to the internet or phone service. It is a horrible tragedy that we have a universal service fund that helped to give everyone in the country a basic level of service.
What I find interesting about all these services is they are sort of a democratization of how the affluent always lived. An ex of mine worked as a sort of housekeeper for a wealthy couple and those were all tasks she performed, and she even took the kids to their activities, something you would never trust a "ninja" from a random startup to do.
Along with the points already mentioned -- a lot of baby-boomers have been saving for retirement for a long time. Stocks/mutual funds are a major way that people save/invest.
you can also take a look at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl also to find out how to download Youtube videos
You can easily succeed. It's about focus and determination. An introvert must shake off the constant demands to conform by society while staying focused on what matters. Introverts must be determined to overcome their introversion through mastering some discipline(writing, coding, painting, etc.). The lower on the totum pole, the more people will push conformity as a way of life. I think that's why most of the doctors, lawyers, c-level execs Ive met have been pretty introverted and independently minded.

Chances are if you're an introvert, you're stuck with the wrong group of people simply because you're not skilled enough to hang with the masters(which requires intense focus and determination).
https://github.com/kunalb/PressTest - Unit testing framework for wordpress wrapping phpunit. It mocks out functions (by parsing the existing php files + plugin files you might have and generating stubs) unless you explicitly require them and makes it actually possible to write tests. Alpha a couple of years ago, not sure if it still works.

https://github.com/kunalb/PressTest/blob/master/screenshot-3...
https://github.com/kunalb/PressTest/blob/master/screenshot-2...
etc.
It's interesting to speculate on what would have happened if Hitler hadn't betrayed Stalin. Hitler had reasons for doing so (I can't remember what they were), and they probably had some validity -- but the Soviets were certainly uneasy allies with the US and Britain, so perhaps the Soviets could have been kept out of the war, at least for a while. If Germany was weakened, though, Stalin might have seen an opportunity and attacked Germany on his own.
I personally wouldn't use your app because it doesn't look like you can add or modify cards and list and doesn't appear to robust enough to be the main way of studying.
One thing that Anki does very well (and that neither memrise nor duolingo attempt) is allow you to immediately rate the difficulty of an exercise right after you do it. This allows you give feedback that e.g. You got something right by fluke or conversely that you got something wrong because it was so easy you weren't paying full attention. I find with memrise that it sometimes repeats the easy stuff too often leaving less room for hard stuff that I 'fluked'.

Also Anki allows you to fill your brain with the subset of the universe of vocabulary that most interests you (knowing that pinguna is a macchiato made my life a lot better today).
I'd advise starting out with the set courses of memrise and duolingo and using them to fill up an Anki card set as you come across interesting vocab.
Does anyone know what JS library was used to make that interactive graphic? I tried taking a look at the source, but couldn't figure it out.
There is plenty of water for people in those areas, not enough for plants. For comparison the 800 mile Alasca pipeline moves 10times as much oil per day as all of the worlds declination plays put together. Or the equivent of about 1 million peoples daily water use. Scaling it up and arizona could import 100% of it's water usage for less than 1% of it's GDP. It's not free but less than the heating costs in many northern states.

In the end it's just a question of how many thousandth of a cent your willing to pay per gallon and you can have water anywhere you want. Agriculture happens to need a fucktun of the stuff but food is easy to move and land in those areas is cheap. So, it actually is reasonable for people to build on cheap land out there simply because it's not useful for anything else.

PS: Shure, we are rapidly draining a few aquifers but there is little point in leaving the water there in the first place.
I realize now it sounds as if Erlang got something wrong and Elixir got it right instead. That's not what I wanted to say.

Elixir semantics is very close to Erlang's, but it also has things beyond what Erlang can offer as easily: macros, protocols, comprehensions with any kind of enumerable as a generator.

Of course, the core facilities provided by the runtime system are left unchanged: concurrency primitives, functional semantics, distribution, error handling (Elixir has slightly different conventions, but the idea of "letting it crash" remains). And in OTP land there are quite a few additions that simply make OTP more "elixirish" (like getting a lazy stream of events from GenEvent).
One problem with this approach is patients who are making stuff up entirely. They're not a large part of the population, but since they relentlessly seek medical attention (often to the point of self-harm), every doctor is familiar with them.

Giving such patients editorial power over doctors' notes gives them a further lever with which to manipulate the system.

It's a weird situation in which the doctor/patient relationship is actually adversarial, and it poisons a lot of otherwise good ideas predicated on the assumption that doctors and patients want the same thing.
Thanks, I've been looking for decades for the name to describe what ASMR is. I'm surprised there's any doubt it exists; it's a very distinct sensation with very specific triggers (which I guess are different for different people). I just figured it was common.
I'd never seen that he wanted to reestablish the monarchy - presumably the Kaiser Wilhelm line? Some of the leftovers from (Queen Victoria's) Prince Albert's line? Interesting. Yeah, that's by-$DEITY about as conservative as it gets.

I dunno then - what do you call post-Bismarck welfare-state Germany? It was certainly cradle-to-grave, something we now identify with socialism. And yes - Bismarck was generally considered a conservative as well.

But the entire idea of Germany was basically... uh... racial. So it's a racial-ist socialism. Don't look at me like that, it's was their doing :) 19th century, phrenology, all that.

The Wikipedia page refers to Bismarck as a "revolutionary conservative". Ooh, my head hurts now :)
He's going about it the right way. Always learn vocabulary first, grammar after. Without the words you cannot communicate at all. Without the grammar you will be able to engage with a native speaker enough for them to correct you as soon as they get your meaning. Duolingo rightly postpones the grammar til later lessons and takes the right approach.
>> Do you think a "Hitler" has to have a funny mustache and behave like in the caricatures?

I don't think that mustache will come back into style. Ever.
Wow, I have a lot of stuff like that!

http://github.com/MDamien/publicdb : Create datasets and have an (ugly) API. The goal was for everyone to create a database on almost anything (recipes, photos, party, budgeting). Later I discovered that it's what firebase/parse are doing. But I'm happy with my solution because you don't even have to use JSON to store you things and the interface is really simple.

http://kioto.io/ : Would be cool if any group could have an anonymous "suggestion box" ? Maybe! So I made this. But at the end I'm gonna do better a online discussion system based on ideas from reddit/discourse/disqus.

https://github.com/MDamien/GifMyLife : Just an app to take of photo of you at regular intervals and then it makes a timelapse GIF of that (good to see how your face and your mood evolves with time).

Really nice idea from OP, people are posting really interesting stuff
Awesome! I maintain a site called "sideprojectors" http://sideprojectors.com

The idea spawned from people wanting to take over other people's side projects (completed, abandoned, whatever in-between).

We've been running it for awhile, (check out in PH - http://www.producthunt.com/posts/sideprojectors)
The industrial spies in the West send back information that binary was used exclusively and the Soviet bureaucracy, like usual, decided that the West knows best and shut down that area of research.

One thing people in the West don't understand is that the Soviet Union after Stalin believed it was a second rate power and acted like one. In many ways the Politburo was a US cheerleader, they only challenged the US tactically while strategically accepting most of the propaganda more uncritically than US dissidents.
Wow, people really think that breakfast cereal is healthy, especially the sugary stuff you were eating? This might just be a US thing, because outside US I don't think it is considered healthy at all. And it has been that way for a long time.

Breakfast cereal is easy, and it has milk which is good for you, I thought that is why it is popular.
I think it's interesting to contemplate that all this is not about TPB relieving anybody of their property, but the possibility of preventing somebody from making the maximum amount of money possible off of their property. TPB doesn't even host copyrighted material, and the access they grant to it requires just enough technical knowhow that most people don't even bother and just pay for netflix and itunes.

Under no conceivable legal system has TPB violated any law (though TPB's users may have). The closest analogy I can think of is putting the mayor of a city into prison because there are people in the city who might break the law, and properly running city services and having functional roads, public transport, property title management, etc. enables them to break the law slightly more easily.
I think it can be pretty complex. A lot of people (especially older people) will have a preconceived idea of what they have, and come to the doctor only to get confirmation, or have a prescription. Then some will only take the drugs matching what they think they have, and just ignore everything else the doctor told them (my parents do that).

Or for people with chronic issues, there isn't much mystery about what's going on, only some variations between a month and another, most of the time. What's special is that the patient will be motivated enough to do a lot of research (in the time there was no internet, go through medical documentation, even research papers), taking time to understand well enough what's happening to them. Then, a doctor might diagnose something different than their previous doctor. Or prescribe different drugs with different side effects. Or sometimes the doctor might not be as well informed on the subject as their patient is, because it's not their specialty for instance.

These might be the cases where having transparency and trust between the doctor and patient are the most important and crucial to have the patient cooperate.
What alternatives have you used?
> GNU userland and unneeded complexity (e.g. more features than any user will ever use) are practically synonymous.

Ahhhh, the memories. These accusations bring me back to the early 1990's. Remember? Remember how it was? Oh, boy, how did we all get so old? To be young and running System V again...

And still today, whenever I'm faced on a system without GNU utilities, I find myself installing them to get what seems to me like basic functionality. We have never changed, have we?
A game of chance became anything but (2011)
Microsoft clearly has the resources...
They simply don't care because they want to artificially inflate the app count for their marketplace.

Microsoft should take care of this issue soon or they will eventually lose the trust of it's customers (eg. IE).
It's pulled directly from each API (and it's why it take a lot of time often, I do it synchronously).

I want to add sorting and real time in the future (especially for things like concerts, would be so cool). For now I keep adding APIs, I'm trying to add Facebook/Twitter/Vine for now.
Performance is less of an issue than it was, but it still exists (though the great IOS8 news is that in-app webviews finally get Nitro[1]). The larger problem, IMO, is UI. You simply cannot recreate native UI in a web view.

But there are some interesting frameworks out there that blend native UI components with web views - it can work well, and is used more than people often think (in Instagram, for example). As with anything, it's a tradeoff. If you want to make cross-platform a priority, having your main views be web-powered can save you a lot of time, even if they won't be quite as good as native ones. But I maintain the non-HN crowd will be unlikely to notice a slight lack of polish - the standards in our echo chamber are artificially high, IMO.

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/ios-8-webkit-changes-finally-a...
Dagobah v0.3.0 released – DAG-based job scheduler in Python
If I needed a reason to avoid Windows 8 and Windows phones, this would do nicely. As it happens, I have for years had a policy of avoiding Microsoft, but it's nice to have my prejudices validated by fact.