skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no, I really hope it doesn't give that impression. I'm open to suggestions on how to avoid that perception.

It's freemium. You can download the full-featured app with a deck size of 50 (also enough to learn just enough words for a short trip for free). If you like it, you can add different increments to the total deck size through in-app purchases: 99 cents for +100, up to 14.99 for 3000.

Didn't mean to be tricky. I thought this was a good way to price it so everyone could try it, tourists could get what they needed for free, and every gradient of language learner could only pay for the amount they needed.
Your condescending tone, which is so typical of fact-challenged Yes supporters, belies the weakness of your arguments.

RBS moved their registered office to London. That means that not only will the banks profits move to England, but its taxes will too. Sure, some branches will stay, and some jobs will be maintained, but the main business will be conducted elsewhere. There is simply too much political and market risk.

Anyway, I have better things to do than debate with random strangers on HN. Enjoy your socialist paradise.
I've always found AppleScript to be a read-only language. It is obvious what it does once written, but writing it is very frustrating as you have to get the phrasing just right.
I agree with the Android update issue, and made a post about it yesterday. I got the Galaxy "Nexus" with the hopes it would be kept up to date since it was using the Google brand name, but nope, I'm still on 4.3.

And, while a lot of those "gimmicky features" I mentioned could just be duplicated with apps, I was just commenting on the phone itself, and Moto really. They have obviously made the effort to put out a phone that people will enjoy using, and they are trying new ideas, and taking risks, that will ultimately improve the experience for everyone as people come to expect those "gimmicks". So I'm impressed at Moto for going there, and respect them for that. The whole Android version update issue is another thing entirely to discuss.

Personally, I'm glad it's a problem. I'm glad there is the iOS closed-world and the Android open-world, so we can see how people react and use both, and hopefully come up with something even better in the future.

The Android update issue, while annoying, isn't really that bad, except in the case of vulnerabilities like the AOSP thing. Vulnerabilities like that have to be addressed somehow.
This is how theft works in the future: You mug someone on the street, and steal their iPhone. You run to the nearest store and buy a lot of items. The phone says: 'You are in Electronics Depot, 88th street, with a purchase of $3499'. You type in the amount of payment, and walk out, throwing the iPhone in the trash.
thanks for the advice! What are you thoughts on immersion schools like hackreactor where there is a 99% hired rate at average of 105k starting. Although it comes with a hefty tuition of 17780. I know you should never do anything for the money but it looks pretty attractive. They do have a bunch of startups/companies that hires from there, streamlining the process to get your projects out. Thoughts?

Thanks for your advice!
Hi HN, I built this app because my vacation rental guests always ask me what there is to do in the area! If a host's guests books a tour, the host will earn a commission. I'm really interested in working with vacation rental agencies, who I believe have lots of potential to up-sell their clients. Activities and tours are just the start - other vacation specific services will be available soon. Thanks for checking out TripBright!
If growth was good then getting cancer would be good news
Ubiquiti announces new UniFi managed enterprise switches
It's a white lie that became apparent to the roommate as soon as the next ad was shown. It added comedy to the joke, in my opinion. Did the lie hurt anyone?
Round here all roads are narrow enough to break the 3 feet rule. Narrow to the point that I'm usually cutting into the opposing traffic lane to give the cyclist a bit of room. (Plus I'd rather hit a car than a cyclist)
Pick up the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8330501
Martin Kleppmann's new high-level/technology agnostic book Designing Data-Intensive Systems mentioned here yesterday is available in early release.

http://dataintensive.net
Currently working for a Rocket Internet venture, I'm looking forward to the (probably heated) discussion about German copycatting ("The Samwer brothers are despicable thieves" (Calacanis)).
Assange: Google should be of concern to people all over the world
I wouldn't consider Metro game changing. The design and principles behind it was floating around in Houston long before I saw it appear on Windows devices and the Xbox console.

Microsoft made it popular but it's been around for a while in response to design driven web designer vs info and interface driven design.
Android version in the pipeline? Should I sign up for email updates?
Thanks! Right now, we just want to make the best piece of technology possible for learning thousands of words. I don't think grammar is learned very well through flashcards (though, every word does have an example sentence, so you could pick up on some through pattern recognition).

But, for sure, CleverDeck is just one tool in a language learner's toolbox. I have DuoLingo on my phone. It's great. But not ideal for learning tons of vocab.
I agree that a MS curriculum would give more of a holistic picture. I figure if I get a job first, I could always do a masters part time. Money is a bit tight right now. Thoughts?

Thanks for your advice!
Because Lua is a strictly less useful language than elisp. Among other things:

- It doesn't have macros.

- It doesn't have integers.

- It doesn't have arrays.

- It doesn't have lists.

- It doesn't have dynamic binding.

Also, its 1-based array-like hash tables are just ecchy.

I like Lua; it's cool for what it is (and in fact I'm currently writing some hobby code in it), but it's not Lisp (and in fact my current hobby code is Lisp in Lua…).
I almost hate to ask this question here because this seems like a really nice product, but does anyone know of any similar apps? I ask because I'm learning Polish, a language not yet available on CleverDeck.
How Twitter Can Solve Its Onboarding Problem
yes i do, of course!
US Fed offers no hint on rate rise as stimulus ends
Nice UI. I would love if you add a "Advanced English" deck. I have a 11 years old vocabluary (according to some online test I forgot the name).

There is a place for people learning english as a second language where you know enough to be able to communicate, but you don't have a good enough vocabulary to express more sophisticated ideas, or express simple ideas more elegantly. I am at this place and I am sure there are lots of others here.
There is an app called Skritter for mandarin that will allow you to practice writing the characters too.
Mapped the 200 most popular SSD-Drives by size and price today. Some interesting patterns emerged. Im not sure yet if they are artefacts or have some deeper meaning.
Lumix CM1: Android smartphone with a f/2.8 lens
I ask this in like every React thread that comes up:

What is everyones experience with just using Backbone Models as your data source. We currently just pass the backbone models as props, but include a mixin that forces re-renders by listening to the model's change event.

I can see how at very large scales you'd want to move away from that, but for us it works great so far as we don't have to think that much about events, components are still just simply representations of the model in a functional way.
Ah man - one of the things I've learned from my launching my first iOS app is how painful it is to answer this question.

Painful because yes, I would LOVE to. Let's see how people like it on iOS, then I can decide the best way to go about getting it in the pipeline as quickly as possible.
Perhaps Apple can afford to keep iiOS devices at 1 GB of RAM and thus save battery life because iOS uses automatic reference counting rather than garbage collection, so applications' memory high watermarks stay lower. I imagine that's what Drew Crawford would argue, anyway (see http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...).
Wow, Fred has been providing a massive service to the community. It's great to see someone continually producing high quality, open source, technical prose (for Erlang).
Outlandish Labs Announces New Spring Developer Bootcamp in Atlanta
This is invariably the top comment in any thread here about 3D printing. And yes, if you're not in the habit of making things (whether for fun or professionally) without a 3D printer, then you probably won't find much use for one. Most people never interact with unique objects, objects which aren't produced by the thousands or millions. And those types of mass produced objects can be made much more easily and well using traditional manufacturing.

I agree that 90% of the 3D printing going on is just for novelty items like jewelry or statues, which doesn't seem worth it to me. But if the novelty printers provide enough of a market to ensure the availability of printers for people who are using them for inventions or scientific instruments, then it's fine with me.

Things I've printed in the last few months:

* a bracket for installing a PID controller into my homemade sous vide cooker

* brackets for clamping a shaft and pulley into a specific configuration for a tension testing rig

* a tiny clamp for holding ceramic fibers in said test rig

* an adapter for mounting a custom optical filter to a camera

* a prototype of a new strain measuring device
Europeans drawn from three ancient 'tribes'
Awesome. Please add German!
MetaLua has pretty decent macros.
> * Missing Lego parts.

What kind of printer do you have?

I was under the impression no hobbiest-grade (ie, costs < ~$250k) could print to the exacting standards it takes to make Lego bricks.
I'll answer!

Check out Anki and Memrise. They, in my opinion, are the best SRS alternatives out there.
Wonder how is it different from Link Bubble ?
Right... or I could just use a phone which doesn't force me to micro-manage my memory usage. That's a workaround at best, not a solution. iOS has always been subpar in regards to multi-tasking.
One thing that's unclear in the app description: does the free app come with 3000 words? And then is the $15 purchase is for an additional 3000? That would be amazing!

Are all the words nouns? Or are there verbs/adjectives/adverbs, too?

Is there a way to create a set of flashcards via a file upload? That'd be a wonderful feature!
Well, yes, if you're on a server then polluting your hosts like that probably isn't good. I'm just a regular home user and more of a system programmer than a web developer, so for me it's fine.

It's also a rat race of sorts, as is inherent with blacklisting over whitelisting. But I don't exclusively use this approach either, I spoof user agents, referers, X-Forwarded-For headers and have Privacy Badger running on Firefox, as well. I just use hosts as an alternative to ABP in particular, due to the lower baggage.
See the x-axis of the graph. All labels are "17-Sept", when they should be hours. Also the colors should be changed, blue blue is confusing. Look at the Android Kit Kat adoption chart, overlapping labels and similar colors makes it hard to read. Full on shoddy design.
You won me over immediately with the fox in a lab coat
I used to, but got tired of it. ABP just seems to make everything slower. Back in the day, an ad blocking hosts file worked like magic. No memory leaks from the browser or other problems. Ad loads failed at name resolution time and failed very quickly.

Also, to be fair to internet marketers, ads are much better than they used to be. The old 'punch the monkey style' ads are long gone outside of.. how do you say, questionable sites. Auto-playing videos are rare. Once in a blue moon I actually click on ads that are targeted to me. The system sometimes works.

Railing against ads just seems like a poseur-ish thing nowadays. I also feel especially bad blocking ads from sites I visit regularly. Its a dick-ish thing to do. It just seems better to keep open a dialogue on what we consider acceptable ads and what we consider unacceptable ads. Or help the site owner understand that they're better off with targeted ads or selling their ad space themselves, than joining some shady affiliate group with generic "This school teacher is making $900 a day" crap or, heaven forbid, video auto-play ads (which are pretty rare nowadays outside of news sites/youtube where the content is video but you're forced to sit through 35 seconds of ad before you can see it.)

A lot of annoying content isn't ads at all, its dhtml/css 'pop ups' asking you for your email address or facebook login or survey or whatever. ABP doesn't usually stop those either.

Loudly proclaiming you must use ABP is almost like saying, "Well, I visit tons of shady porn and torrent sites, where its more or less required." The non-shady web just seems like a better place than during the early 2000s when Flash ads ruled. YMMV of course.
As a Blackberry user, I was just thinking today how I could never go back to the iPhone. Multitasking is much faster on the BB10 OS. No button mashing and drilling down menus - not like I remember with the iPhone.

Of course, the iPhone has it's strengths too, but I just want to get work done.
A "killer app" would be one that'd be sufficiently good to do lego-style bricks of decent quality. It will require a leap in quality, though.
Parents should control their children, right? When I was a kid, I wouldn't have dreamed of stealing my folks' credit card—and had I, that would have been their fault for raising me poorly, and my fault for doing it, and the criminals' fault for encouraging me to do it, not some random fourth party's fault for not saying, 'don't do that.'

People should be sane. The right response to a lunatic who blames Mojang for his child's actions is to hang up.
And it's not just the cost. Printing things has to be as easy as printing text which can still be annoying. Maybe someday there will be a sequel to Office Space in which they destroy a 3d-printer with the futuristic equivalent of baseball bats.
Immigration policy is interesting.

I'm actually doing (early-stage) interviews with a number of companies in London and elsewhere. The visa situation for a US national hoping to work in the UK is obnoxious: assuming you've signed up to be eligible to sponsor people already (~8 weeks and a thousand pounds or so) you then do a little dance with an overly-tailored job description to demonstrate you can't hire someone locally after N weeks, pay another thousand pounds or so on the visa application, wait an additional ~6 weeks for processing, hope you get approved (quotas are falling dramatically) and if not, well, maybe you could to an inter-company transfer after a year of working for them elsewhere. Big companies benefit disproportionately while startups try to avoid the complications. Could be worse, though: it could be like the US.

In a place like Amsterdam or Berlin I'm given to understand that you can hope for a straightforward and relatively cheap approval process with very short turnarounds (on the order of two to four weeks) and much higher likelihood of getting the requisite approval.

Having access to a functioning tech industry in English-language friendly Scotland with low barriers to immigration would be awesome -- but then again, by the time it happens I'll probably either have married the girl or moved back to the US. :)
Show HN: Mine output simulator
I also talk to my wife and our baby :).

I am not sure if you have or had a baby, but sometimes you need to know what the weather will be that day, or how long it will take to get to XYZ. And with a baby, you always have too few hands, especially when they are having breakfast as well ;). So, yeah, it's handy if your phone can answer questions like 'what's the weather gonna be today' or 'how long will it take me to get to XYZ' without having to unlock it or pressing the power button...

I'll begin to worry if it starts talking by itself.
CFPB Consumer Complaints on Mortgage Nationwide
grep -m "Stop reading a file after NUM matching lines", while head -10 takes the first 10 lines and searches on them. Different things.
You could use this for birthdays, anniversaries, special events...imagine once facebook takes over the web, we can pay them to make someone's day on the internet special.
That's partly why the use it: the problems with C are well understood by many people. They choose the devil they know.
Thank you! The German list is done and we actually finished recording yesterday. I think we'll be able to release it within a month.
Swift and iOS8 App Development from Scratch
It seems like a slicker UI specifically for language learning, as well as "curated" decks for each language.

I doubt anyone can replicate everything that Anki can do, but there's probably some gains to be had by cutting out complexity.
Note, I didn't create this
Pure math is interesting. The research topics are often out of the left field and have no bearing on any current application. How do people pick research topics that can't be seen useful for a long time?

Kudos to Zhang for his perseverance.
> Because Lua is a strictly less useful language than elisp.

The word "useful" is too subjective to be useful here.

> - It doesn't have macros.

There's MetaLua for those who truly think they need macros. But in reality they're just a convenience.

> - It doesn't have integers.

Lua 5.3 is getting them.

> - It doesn't have arrays.

It has tables that function perfectly well as arrays.

> - It doesn't have lists.

Singly-linked-lists can easily be created using tables.

> - It doesn't have dynamic binding.

Thankfully!

> Also, its 1-based array-like hash tables are just ecchy.

This is purely an imaginary problem. Personally, I prefer 1-baed indices.

> I like Lua; it's cool for what it is (and in fact I'm currently writing some hobby code in it), but it's not Lisp (and in fact my current hobby code is Lisp in Lua…).

So, your favorite language is Lisp? Great. Except, favoritism and bias aren't really compatible with truly constructive criticism.
I use a 4S with iOS 7. I can't wait to get the new phone, iOS is so slow now on my device. I guess there aren't any problems per se except that I pretty much hate using my phone.
And another story for http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

We believe that iterating on design should be straightforward and free of repetitive work. We’re excited to be joining GitHub to continue to pursue that goal.

What does this means to you, our users? Easel continues to run as it has. We’ll continue to provide support and all of our paid plans will continue to enjoy their current benefits. We’re excited to begin this new chapter and hope you’ll love what we have in store. [1]

Weird. I checked them out yesterday, even thought about signing up. Good that I didn't go through the hassle.

[1] http://blog.easel.io/blog/2014/01/06/easel-acquired-by-githu...
On-demand service capital of the world: NYC
From the same thread https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-09/msg00...

> It's not a 100% drop-in replacement, that's true…(eq foo t) should always work. (eq foo nil) will only work if that
`nil' came from Elisp code; if it's a Scheme #f or '() in disguise, then you need to make that (not foo) or (null foo) (both works in both cases); anything but (eq foo nil).
Open source projects using a donation model tend to do roughly as well as games using a donation model. And both tend to do roughly as well as the guy standing next to the offramp using a donation model.

Open source projects using a model where people pay for the software tend to do nicely, however. The distinction in what you pay for can be as simple as "you're now officially allowed to use this in a commercial product" or "in addition to the paid version, we also offer a completely free* version" (where "free" is defined by some insane guy and his cult from the 70s to mean something completely orthagonal to "free", in a completely non-standard way seemingly designed to raise red flags with your company's legal department)
very cool way to present price comparison
I am still in Berlin, but couldn't find your e-mail address.

Entra em contato comigo, meu endereço é adelgado1313arrobagmailpontocom.
A Blackberry strikes me as more of an impediment to work these days, but then I guess that's why the market exists.
Police do on occasion fail to do things that seem pretty straightforward.
What’s new in Git 2.1
This update requires 1.1GB download and 5.5 GB Free space to install!.

Did iOS7 also have similar requirement? I dont record that happened last time.
Do you have anything to show for the 7 years? Open source contributions or the like? If so, I would just put that up on the resume.

If you have nothing to show and simply want to restart your career, I would do it this way:
a) narrow down a bunch of technologies you want to work on.
b) now narrow down on a bunch of companies as well.
c) look for opensource things around the above two.
d) make contributions on the above. this can either be in the for of code, answering things actively on irc, being active on mailing lists etc. show people you are knowledgeable.

Once you spent a couple of months on the above cycle, you should be able to generate enough stuff to put on your resume.
Linus is Finnish, not American. And I suspect he's aware of what it means, given the quote "I name all my projects after me: First Linux, now git."
Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance
Also review previous discussions of Elixir for pointers to additional resources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8007383 (july)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7622280 (april)
To be expected after being acquired by Github.
"This update cannot be installed because it requires at least 6.9 GB of storage."

That's over _half_ of the maximum available capacity on my 16 GB model. No wonder they're releasing 128 GB iPhones now.
"How, what, why"

Use code for describing how your program does what it does, function-level comments for what it does in cases where you cannot put that in the name of a type or identifier (getFoo typically does not need a comment, but strtok does) and sprinkle in comments why your program does what it does in the way it does where that may not be clear to the expected reader of your code (as in the example of the AVL tree in a sister comment)
pretty much how I feel about it.
Yes, when talking about the language learning market, English is the whale. We're going to get there as fast a possible, but it means we'll have to be prepared for everything that comes with having non-English speaking customers.

Though, having an Advanced English deck - so people have good enough English to tell us all the problems we have - sounds like a terrific way to start :)
I wrote this little simulator to help a friend in college who was stuck with his thesis. It simulates the output of a mine based on the distances required for trucks to travel and each location and trucks capacity.
I spent the time to learn Marionette, and while it improved my Backbone code enormously, I found there was a pretty steep learning curve to using it correctly. And even so, I found doing certain things was often overly difficult or confusing.

Recently, I switched a small project from Backbone/Marionette to React and I haven't looked back. The learning curve for React is tiny compared to Backbone/Marionette, and it is so much easier to 1. reason about and 2. recompose. Not to mention much better performance!

It's clearly still maturing, but to me React feels like a big leap ahead of Backbone/Marionette.