skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2. Memorizing a bunch of vocabulary does not help you learn the language. If anything, it might be a hinderance.

I wouldn't be so harsh on flashcards. I moved to Denmark last year and am now learning the language. Having better vocabulary totally helps you learn the language, but of course should not be the only or primary mean. I would say that flashcards is a powerful tool that assists my other studies. If I was able to spend hours per day on studying the language, maybe they would not be necessary. But my work environment is English speaking, I have a family and no native speaking friends yet, so my study time is limited.

The way I maintain my deck is that after each lesson, or after reading any sort of text, or while reading, I add the words I did not know into the deck. And I also have a smaller deck for phrases and expressions. So, yes, I am getting exposed to natural writing, but it is not a trivial task to memorise words that you only saw or used a handful of times.

My deck is now around 3500 words and growing steadily, I can read and understand newspaper articles on general subjects and express myself in writing. I have been commended on my vocabulary by teachers and I believe the usage of Anki is the advantage that gives me "the edge" compared to others in similar circumstances.
Try the latest nightly, it should come with big improvements over the last release (including better playback on windows): http://download.tomahawk-player.org/nightly/windows/tomahawk...
To use a Google Service in China you have to bypass censorship, so there's really no point in using Google Translate in the way you suggested.
Coca Cola Connaisseur
The 10 Best Paying Jobs At Google
In-Place Merge Sort Demystified
I don't know... The more I think of it, the more I start to believe some form of technological determinism is driving humanity. That the new technologies determine what will be taught to people and what they will argue about, not the other way around. I mean, do we have a single example of a new technology that could be useful to some while harmful to others, that we collectively agreed not to use or pursue, by means of arguments and educations? Nuclear weapons don't really count, because their use seems dictated solely by game-theoretic reasons (MAD that saved us from global destruction, some nations like Russia apparently pushing their luck by declaring readiness to use tactical nuclear weapons to support their conventional forces, etc.).
All crypto software is guilty until proven innocent, but BitLocker is fine, that guy who wrote the blog post is sure about it.

Made by Microsoft and closed source, how could I not trust it.
Can somebody provide some context for the video?

It's incredible to see how many of the concepts in this video is still present in a modern user interface.
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I think what frozenport means with 'paying attention' is paying attention when not in an active and participating role and more in a passive, listening role. Where it's much harder to stay focused. But like frozenport said it is necessary to acquire a lot of knowledge reasonable fast in a college setting for example.
Self study is also an option (I have seen many do it) but not everyone is good at that.
"decision", heh!
Agreed. It's the presence of China, NATO, Russia, and The Company all under one cryptic roof that makes it weird.
Interesting video. The response time is clearly better than OS X, but this OS will never take off with those fonts.
examine.com does that, they list level of confidence (A - "Robust research conducted with repeated double blind clinical trials" to D - "Uncontrolled or observational studies only") with a percentage value for consensus and a rating of the magnitude of the effects.
I remember when I used pdfimages to extract images from a pdf file and I didn't read the manual beforehand. It turned out that you should call it like pdfimages <pdf_file> <prefix> and if you don't specify a prefix it generates filenames in the form of -img001, -img002, ... (or something like that). I had a hard time deleting those images.
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I think KDE is doing the right steps with KDE5 technology-wise. But I'm still very confused by the way KDE split up the project and started to do separate releases. Now we have Plasma5 and I think there is a 5 version of the frameworks but not of KWin etc. I mean sure it will help them get the projects released and tested. But I'd love to hear a "KDE 5 released" announcement and install it. Instead of "One part of KDE 5 was released" announcement every once in a while.

And yeah Breeze looks awesome. Can't wait to use it.
You can, however this simply means the entire application would load within that iframe, you'd still have to login, etc to get some data inside that iframe.

We are working on an update which allows users to embed public data in external websites. Would that suit your needs better?
I cannot really help you with good book suggestions (there are just too many, and it really depends on what your course will actually look like), but to me it sounds like you're a more practical, pragmatic programmer. In that case, I would definitely opt-in for a a software engineering degree: a lot of people who graduate CS know everything about algorithms etc, but have no clue on how to manage to build a large software application; they have no real experience with project management, etc.

Those are the types of things you will learn in a software engineering degree.

Other than that, I can tell that many, many people in software engineering get statistics wrong (because it's so incredibly counter-intuitive at times), so anyone who would have a degree in statistics on his resume would get points from me.
AcoustID maybe?
I would really like to do some neural network stuff, but i really have trouble reading the math. For example, they have a maxent classifier in the slides but I'd have no idea how to convert that to code.

Any resources to learn that stuff?
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Hi All - OpenRent Co-founder here.

We're today announcing our media-for-equity deal, and thought it's probably quite interesting to everyone here - happy to answer any questions and I'll be visiting this thread throughout the day.

As far as I'm aware, this is the first "Media for Equity", or "Media for Airtime" deal in the UK since 2000/2001 - but something we felt worked well for us, so we went for it!

Thanks for the upvotes and excited to see OpenRent getting covered on TechCrunch!
Also because he's legitimately wanted for questioning about rape and fled to escape justice while simultaneously demanding people be accountable to justice.

He's a fucking hypocrite of the worst kind, and his antics probably hurt Wikileaks more than anything else.

If you're willing to recklessly endanger others but try to cause international incidents when you are wanted for questioning then you are a douchebag.
How the US and Its Spy Allies Scan the World for Hackable Servers
Credit card, ideally in GBP, with the caveat that I don't want to be forced to care who is processing the payment. e.g. I prefer not to pay by credit card via Paypal, because then I have to go through the hassle of resetting my Paypal password before I am allowed to pay.
I thought you were about to go full thermodynamics on the data and suggest building an information-equivalent of the Stirling engine.
Battle-Tested Tips to End Email Overload
Mypy – static type checking for Python 3
Former HN discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4561973

Although it seems that MyPy has done a lot of progress since, most notably adopting Python 3 syntax for type annotations.
Not sure 2) is a real issue. There's a huge range of data and even more questions that could be asked of it. I doubt any pre-baked settings are going to be useful.
Quandl makes it really easy to get hold of the underlying data. Definitely one to keep bookmarked for 'I wonder what...' situations.
Because if they don't have jobs, because the robots took them all, they can't afford anything.
Taxi service doesn't allow you to easily share your car and hotels don't allow you to easily share your flat. Traditional renting of an apartment is a long-term proposition which again inhibits sharing.
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Mesosphere collaborates with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
One of the earlier stories ever submitted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348315

Here are a few more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407443

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818955

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1814047

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211358

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3345922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3711451

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4575742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4671783

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837876

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837886

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999813

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512784

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7122985

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7388184

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524282

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8051242

Interestingly, none have generated interesting discussion.

There's also "Near-Field Authentication over Avian Carrier"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4422155

But that's something entirely different.
I guess one of the main ideas is to port to Qt5 and use the latest technologies.
TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds
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It doesn't say where he is going to go. It seems to be a plea for support rather than a bone fide plan. Can't imagine being constrained to the same place for 2 years, horrible stuff.
It said 'ethernet' in the parent comment to mine, not TCP.
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I think it makes you look like a prude or a child more than gross.
There are widely used slang in both european and brazilian variants if you want to make those kinds of remarks. Not to mention all the african variants I'm not really familiar with.
He's most likely going to Sweden. Assange won't have much say in where he's going to but the British authorities do.
Interesting article, but the 100GB/s does not make sense, i mean that would require a 800Gbit/s - 1Tbit/s connection per Team ? Uhm no.
Even if its 100Gbit/s, that would still be 12,5GB/s which seems like a lot for telemetry data and video streams. I wonder how they transfer that anyway as the nearby city would need to support that kind of throughput for all teams at the same time.

Pretty sure the actual number is a lot lower than that. I'd say its probably more like a low latency 1-10Gbit/s connection per team.
the better question is: how is he going to leave?

iirc uk police were waiting outside for him to leave. he'll get detained once he sets foot outside of the embassy.
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That is certainly true, thanks!
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Sending post request on window unload event
are there any good solution to this problem beside from sendBeacon ?
GoCardless for me, for services anyway. Slick, helpful dashboard, comes out of my bank account after they notify me. Products I guess I'd rather pay for on Stripe as it comes out straight away.
The problem is the consistent politicization of each word in ways related to intelligence and the extremely good properties of lorem ipsum text (its nonesense that doesn't stand out as nonesense - a holy grail of ciphers).

Its possible that this is statistical noise... but it seems particularly plausible that it started out that way then some one gamed it into being far less noisey and more consistently intelligence-based.
The kernel doesn't have much to do with the desktop environment running on top of it, what would the kernel's future have to do with KDE Plasma 5?
I'd love to replace Atmosphere[1] with a Elixir solution. Is there support for a websocket fallback in Phoenix?

[1] - http://async-io.org/
Some advice on trading equity for help
Hi, First a disclaimer, there's just 2 of us and we made a few apps in our spare time alongside our regular jobs. We are not focussing on setting up a company around these apps or anything right now.

The latest one we made has actually turned out to be a pretty good looking and fun app. It's a messaging app where you quickly make a gif (animated loop) and send to a friend. The interface is ridiculously easy and UI turned out pretty nicely.

I have this idea that I wouldn't mind floating. give away equity in whatever the app is worth eventually to the person (marketeer) who can get the app to a million downloads(or some number). The way I see it, our strong point is design and dev. And an app that's worth nothing is, well... nothing. And if someone gets us a little bit more than what we have... then hooray.

Is this a bad way to approach promoting a product? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Git v2.1.0
https://github.com/stackoverflow/clojure-crawl

A very simple and crude dungeon crawl made when I was learning Clojure (the code is very bad as I was learning the language).
I really hope Sweden hands him over to the US, it will be a legacy they wont ever escape.
What about this exploit really requires a US supply chain? Why do you believe that the Five Eyes have fewer exploits for hardware originating from BRICS nations? Don't intelligence agencies have explicit missions to spy on those countries?

If you think that because you are running less popular hardware, that the NSA wouldn't bother obtaining exploits for them, you may be right. In that case, though, you're simply making a popularity trade-off. (And it is a trade-off, more popular hardware is more popular for a reason.)
Could be an alternate view of the "saved stories" list. Since it would be repeated only to those who saved the story, it could increase increase ongoing engagement with the story. Would need a way to terminate the repetition.
Indeed; I have no claim to originality. The pre-existing list is (extremely) incomplete, and gives a laundry list of outdated and unmaintained libraries which are often not useful or broadly relevant. Such entries dilute the usefulness of all other entries on the list, so I made this version to avoid that (and to be more complete).
I would't know about McDonald's, but at least where I live Starbucks offers a lot better and in many ways different service than local cafes. It's also very different from what I have seen in the US.

I made a real effort to go to the local places, but they just don't offer what I need. In a Starbucks you can come in and sit for a few hours reading magazines, studying or working. Nobody bothers you. The place offers a variety of couches, chairs and tables which you can pick based on what you plan on doing. In a local cafe once you're done with your coffee or tea you get pressured into leaving by constant questions about your other orders. Local cafes offer uniform seating which often is completely unsuitable for a laptop or a stack of books.
The UK government is trying to get him to Sweden.
No, automation just reduces the amount of repetitive labour. The remaining labour isn't distributed evenly across the workforce: some people take up more work to increase or maintain their level of wealth and some people become unemployed.

Envy and ambition create worst-case nash equilibria for all.
I support Assange 100%. The harassment of him for his involvement in wikileaks was completely inappropriate, especially considering that the Guardian and New York Times worked with him on this and would be similarly culpable if there were any culpability; digging around in his sexual history was a pathetic thing to do -- if you try hard enough you would, for a substantial percentage of people (especially successful men), be able to find someone who will make a negative sexual accusation against them, especially if there are inducements to do so; and the general critiques of his character as "arrogant" etc are similarly irrelevant, and also superficial and childish.
'awesome-lua' is not typically a phrase/term referring to the Awesome WM. On GitHub, there is only one awesome-wm-related repo by the name `awesome-lua`; it's just one person's configuration and hasn't been updated since 2012. I don't think I'm stepping on anybody's toes here.

Typically, the window manager is referred to as either just 'awesome' or as 'awesome wm'. awesome-lua is not a name conflict with 'awesome' or with 'awesome wm', and the worst case for search results is that awesome-lua shows up and bumps everything else down by one spot. As klibertp suggested, adding 'wm' to your query makes awesome-lua not show up at all; claiming that I 'make life a lot more difficult' is rather silly.
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It's no mystery at all.

Funds aren't allowed to invest in anything they want, but typically have investment mandates.

Somewhere in the region of $3 trillion (my estimate) is in pension funds/endowments in the US that have a 7-8% nominal return target for their managers.

Bonds price off the Fed funds rate, with longer dated bonds being based on predictions of where these rates will go plus an inflation component.

If the 10 year US bond is giving you 2.4% yield to maturity and you are, say, head of CalPERS who runs $268bn and needs to hit 7.75% nominal return, what will you invest in to keep your job?

It isn't all one way though, at the start of this year I predicted bond strength followed by equity weakness before we move much higher on stocks: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-contrarian-bearish-2014-f...

You just need to think through how you would act if you're one of these huge funds, your moves are constrained.
Of course it does happen, it's not a rare case, it's the usual case. Any remotely successful product will have N = millions of users. The only reason this doesn't enter the calculation is that you don't get the money you saved by not making your users do unnecessary hardware upgrades.
> Can't imagine being constrained to the same place for 2 years, horrible stuff.

Yep. A lot like prison, in fact. Which raises an interesting question: As this drags on, at some point wouldn't it have been easier for him to cooperate, go to Sweden, and take his lumps? He could just about be out on parole by now; instead he still has it hanging over his head.

The whole thing seems very short sighted; the UK and Sweden aren't going to just get bored. Is he hoping to drag things out until he dies, or what?
> "These books are selected over books from saying liked most on Booksaying. That's mean; This can recommend you books in a more efficient and wise way than your friends do. You will be in books you liked not just sayings."

Translation needed.
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I tried it a few months ago and liked it, but the android app wasnt ready.

And I didnt like that I couldnt save the songs I listened to any the device that I listened to them on - like a simple local cache. Whats the big deal with adding a "Download" or "Save" option...for any streams.
Having read the article, nothing at all.
Is there a review site for doctors? It would seem to me that such blatant profiteering at the expense (both health and moneywise) of patients ought to be exposed.
This is similar to www.codebashing.com/sql_demo
I'm interested in the foods you should avoid (my email is in my profile).

Are you referring to the problems caused by fructose / sugar? I've been watching Dr. Lustig's lectures and he seems to have good arguments, and your post seemed to echo some of his explanations.
A fair few devices use DFU - for example, the Atmel-provided USB bootloader for many of their chips is DFU, and a number of ST Microelectronics chips have a DFU bootloader in ROM - and they're all subtly incompatible with each other. So for example, right now I've got one DFU utility installed that only supports Atmel AVR chips and another one that supports STM32F2/3/4 devices and a few other pieces of hardware. Even then, there are many devices out there which aren't compatible with either and require special proprietary tools.
http://www.codebashing.com/sql_demo
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Be very, very careful doing this. The biggest problem is that many investors see it as a red flag if a person who is not involved with the day-to-day running of the startup holds significant equity. Equity seems cheap when the company is worth nothing, but it will be near and dear when you are seeking investment, when you have dozens of employees who would go to Google if it weren't for their stock options, when you and your cofounder are deep in the trenches and want to quit, or when you're trying to hire an executive. And if he holds a significant fraction of voting shares, you may need to consult him when you do something significant like sell the company or issue new shares, and if he's no longer involved with the company that can introduce delays when you can least afford them.

Also, typically marketing a product in the early stages involves making really significant changes to the product itself. You can't just hand it over the wall as-is and expect someone to drum up a million downloads. If you lack marketing experience on the founding team, you may be better off just bringing on a full cofounder who shares your vision but is comfortable going out there and talking to customers.
As I understand it, it wasn't "digging around", but two women who reported sexual assaults that he committed.
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He's been able to work in Wikileaks these 2 years, but effectively he's been imprisoned for 2 years and it didn't even compute as serving a prison sentence.
There was a brief window where consumer PCs came with firewire ports. There were a lot of fanboy arguments about how firewire was technically superior / faster for hard drives. There were even hard drives that came with both ports - I still have one somewhere. There was a genuine format war in the consumer hard drive space - and USB won it.

In a few years will you be arguing that Thunderbolt never really competed with USB because it was never meant as a consumer standard?
From the page:

> Will the Rolling Jubilee have to file a 1099-C Cancellation of Debt form with the IRS?
No. The Rolling Jubilee will earn no income from the lending of money and is therefore exempt from filing a Form 1099-C under the Internal Revenue Code Section 6050P.
Two women who were interviewed by the police at the same time, who were also friends with the police officer.
Just some fiction:

In the two years Assange was imprisoned in a Embassy, he lifted 5 times a week. He also changed his wardrobe to black suits and black shades. His hair also changed: It was now completely missing, Julian now wore a bald head.

Today was the day. He had to leave the Embassy and step out to Great Britain's soil. These Brits where always waiting for him outside, always eager to attain him.

But lucky for Assange, nobody expected him to be a personal body guard of a leaving diplomat. He just walked outside with the other guards and nobody checked his papers. No Officer recognized him or expected a nerd with muscles. After some meters, he split up from the group and vanished in the streets of London.

Rumors say, even today he is roaming the streets, assassinating US spies and lobbyists.