skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By using "會說...嗎" instead of the equally valid "會不會說" for the question pattern in your Mandarin example, you deliberately made the Mandarin and Cantonese grammars different. And you changed "Cantonese" to "Mandarin" in the example text. I don't know Cantonese but I'd ask if you chose your example to maximize the different Hanzi used in each language also?

Using the 會不會-form for both the Mandarin and the Cantonese shows a closer match, as does using "Cantonese" in both examples...

他會說普通話嗎？他不會。 //your Mandarin using 會嗎-form
他會不會說普通話？他不會。 //my Mandarin using 會不會-form
他會不會說廣東話？他不會。 //my Mandarin using 會不會-form and 廣東 instead of 普通
佢識唔識講廣東話？佢唔識。 //your Cantonese using 會不會-form

...so I'm guessing there's a one-to-one match between the Hanzi in your Cantonese and complex Mandarin examples, perhaps:

他 => 佢
會 => 識
不 => 唔
說 => 講

Two of those show the same radical i.e. 亻 and 言.

There's just as many differences between the complex and simplified Mandarin scripts also, even though much the same sounds are used to speak it both within and outside China...

會 => 会
說 => 说
廣 => 广
東 => 东

So I'd dispute your claim.
For technical positions, this was never a requirement afaik.

For at least some non-technical positions, a college degree was required, although not for any reason I ever understood.
Talko
Do not confuse "an answer" with "the correct answer".
Keep in mind this was 2003, Google had less than 2000 employees then.
No. Nothing is worth it and we are all dead in the end. If you had fun though? Fun is something else and isn't really to do with worth. You could have been born in a cave and chased rabbits all day. Would that have been worth it?
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"Does Google still refuse to hire people unless they have computer science degrees?"

No.

"In this day and age that doesn't make sense."

It didn't make sense when they semi-officially had that policy either, particularly if you consider how relatively young of a company Google is (granted, "young" is subjective, I'm 40 years old). But when you're incubated in academia and turn out to be very successful, it is easy to think that your best bet is to keep one and a half feet firmly planted in that world.

Of course, Google isn't/wasn't alone, lots of companies have lots of policies that don't really make any sense outside of whatever echo chamber they've created for themselves.
Not letting me edit it anymore but wanted to fix something:

base: org/sim
dimension: real
procedures:
room:
- for:
range: [w, 1, walls]
block:
- makegeom: [cube, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
house:
- for:
range: [b, 1, bedrooms]
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Does ServiceNow count as "yet another IT operations management platform"? Do they make you groan because their IT applications business is doing so well? Or because you think they're overhyped and will crash and sputter?
Dude, the whole world is converting. What direction is China, India, Brazil, Israel, Africa, Southeast Asia, and much of South America, notably including Chile going? Libertarian.

Chile is an excellent example. To prevent it from being taken over by communists, the CIA forced a coup, resulting in a military dictatorship, which was quite terrible. But not knowing economics, Pinoche brought in Americans, namely Milton Friedman a nobel prize winning Libertarian. His advice turned the country around economically producing one of the most prosperous, fast growing, and stable democracies in the region. The chilean government runs a budget surplus, while spending essentially all of their time and taxes on programs for the poor.

Look no further than the USA. Founded by immigrants from Europe, far behind Europe when organized the country developed into super power status in a rapid fashion because the constitution was strong, the federal government was weak and property rights (and human rights generally) were respected.

If you look at history, you find that Libertarianism is so successful, that the only enemy that can vanquish it is itself--- when a country becomes propserous enough -- as europe did, and the USA has-- eventually the politicians are able to collectivize the country in order to loot it, because people are too comfortable to realize what's at stake.

So, yes, the USA is not a libertarian country-- anymore-- and its economic decline and turn to socialism are a tragedy--- but they were, ironically, a tragedy enabled by the paramount success of libertarianism here for most of the countries history.
Fun is definitely not the reason that I do startups.

It's similar to when I did cross-country running for a few years. That wasn't fun at all, not even once. It was painful. I'd say that I did it just because of competitive instincts.
The only people who ever review items like cables are ones who ran into failures, so that’s a very skewed sampling.
With the lightning cable the problem is with the reinforcement between the connector and the cable. And it's a problem Apple has had with pretty much every cable they've ever made.

The actual connector itself is pretty damn good.
I think the schematic is not accurate. Look at the 6th set of two people in the top pulling row. One of them is clearly facing back. This is the same with the 8th such set of two. A lot of the heads in these 4 rows are difficult to make out.

On the other hand the number of people looking back in the schematic is 0, 2, 11 and 8 for each row.
And last.
Who knows. I'm right there with you, though I have 1 child and 1 more on the way I am supporting with a below-median salary in my area (not SV, but not a cheap place to live either).

But here's what I do know: When I was working as a data scientist, making $150k+ with 3 days WFH and six hour days, my life looked "great" from the outside. I made a ton of money, got to work from home, and worked on a respectable product predicting tax rates.

Inside, I hated everything I did and my family suffered. I strongly considered quitting and going back to waiting tables and walking away from the (often) parasitic industry that is software development, full of "bullshit jobs" as one analyst has so eloquently put it.

I now work as a sports scientist and I've sold 40% of my company to hire a partner who really completes the business. We did six figures of revenue last year and we'll do seven in 2-3 years. But it's not about the money, is it? It's about the fact we get to decide our own path. And for me, that's all that I needed to become a happier person, better husband, and good father. The money can wait, I've found.
Find it under Window > Task Manager, or detailed memory usage information by navigating to "chrome://memory"

The latter displays total memory usage at the top of the page.

edit: As child poster noted, total memory is overcounted as it seems to be quite difficult to audit exactly what memory is shared within each child process. (see https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25454 )
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sqlite (or other "real databases") need a fsync for every or at least many transaction to be data safe. Without that it is far more prone to losing data than journald, because with a write ahead log the window for losing data is far bigger.

And a journal that has another journal inside it would be somewhat silly. A simple write log can be done better.

I don't think fsync on every log commit is a good idea. This would be more a DOS attack.

That said I'm somewhat troubled by the cavalier attitude to log data safety in journald too.
Well, I've lived there, and I'll say it's certainly developing, in the sense that its economy is growing, it's building infrastructure, and the infrastructure that is there is nowhere near the standards of the USA or European countries. While I was there, the talk was that in a few years they would escape "Developing nation" status and be "developed", but I'm not sure what index for this they were referring to.
> "Ok, on that first test Libertarianism is doing quite well."

I think you misunderstand the test. It is not whether an ideology has a growing number of believers over an extended period of time (On that measure, Islam is doing far better), but how well it does when actually implemented (i.e. in practice not theory).

The article is claiming that this story is an example of failure when implemented.
Awesome, a smartphone app that allows me to communicate with people via voice. This might be exactly the killer app that mobile phones have been waiting for.
> To stuff everything in the init system, I'd argue, is bad design.

You've slayed the straw man... ;-)

systemd doesn't put everything in pid 1. It defines some mechanisms to orchestrate the whole thing that include pid 1.
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I'm looking for:

* Linux VPS (prefer KVM)

* SSD

* Data center in Chicago or near Chicago

* Pricing similar to Lindoe/DigitalOcean: $20/month for 2 cores and 2 GB RAM

Linode and DigitalOcean are great, but they don't offer locations in Chicago. The closest is Linode with DC in Dallas.

I've had good experience with SoftSysHosting.com with a Windows box, but they don't offer SSD.

Suggestions welcome.
When your cat chews up the cable, of course you're going to leave a bad review. Get it together Apple!
"Note: This page will show memory use for all running browsers, not just Chrome. (Bug: We seriously overcount our own memory usage: Issue 25454.)"
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I love it "Available for iPhone. More platforms coming."

I really think he hit the nail on the head with his memo when leaving MSFT...
Worthwhile to add "boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls"

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/22/why-girls-may-be-prote...
Would you be as happy if your revenue wasn't increasing like it is? Imagine 10 to 15 years of stagnant growth. Would the fact that you've decided that path be enough to make you happy?
Chinese/Japanese characters do seem to be turtles all the way down. To use some examples from another comment in this thread of how those characters decompose like speech does to phonemes and signing does to individual component movements...

他 = 亻+ 也
說 = 言 + 兌
普 = 丷 + 亚 + 日
通 = 之 + ( 龴 + 用 )
話 = 言 + ( 千 + 口 )
嗎 = 口 + 馬
佢 = 亻+ 巨
唔 = 口 + ( 五 + 口 )
廣 = 广 + 黄
東 = 木 + 日
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> double forks

That's actually not something you want. It turns out that makes process management unnecessarily hard. That said, the glibc implementation isn't terribly good either. The CW is not to use either.

> I think part of systemd's problem, as much as Poettering et al will try to deny it, is that it is full of NIH.

The most exasperated criticism I see about systemd is its use of dbus for a communications infrastructure, because dbus is both a system bus and a desktop session bus, and everyone associates it with the latter. If they'd just done the NIH thing and rolled their own communications protocol (like various other parties), they'd be deflecting a lot of that criticism.

Honestly, the NIH syndrome seems at least as prevalent amongst systemd's critiques.
Whether it's all in pid 1 or not is irrelevant. What matters is that it has a monolithic architecture, whereby breakage in any one part or their communication channels can bring down the whole system. This is not just a theoretical concern; it has REPEATEDLY happened.
Great app now I can find great reviews on the Products I want to buy!
The golden rule of technology hype: once people start abandoning a technology is when it starts being functional.
Killer feature request: a dual-streaming mode where I can talk and hear a friend talk at the same time.

The future is gonna be AWESOME.
Actually, the nice thing about systemd being built around dbus is you can track most of what is going on with it simply by tracking the flow of messages in dbus.

If you find C-code "opaque", you're already kind of screwed in the Unix world...
To be fair, from the finance and legal perspective, it is not healthy to pay a troll anything.
That's kinda close. In sign languages, individual signs can be decomposed into different elements: Hand shape, motion, position, et al. Related terms or ideas will use some of the same elements.

I'll use a couple of examples from American Sign Language:

1. The gender of a subject in a phrase is sometimes communicated by performing the corresponding motion with the specific hand shape in front of your forehead (for male) or in front of your chin (female).

2. A signer could communicate "a chair", "then he sat down", and "so help you god, jimmy, you better go sit down right now or i'm going to make you wish that you were never born" with what is basically the same sign (first two fingers on right hand tapping top of first two fingers on left hand), just by repeating it more times and with more emphasis.
I'm in 3rd year. Thanks! I will email you.
So, wait, a mugger points a gun at you and demands your money. You give him your wallet and he runs off. Your argument seems to be that since he ran off without shooting you, no violence was involved?

> I certainly haven't heard of anyone being raped because they didn't pay their tax.

Oh really? IF you don't pay tax you go to jail. What happens in jail? Do you know the statistics on rape investigations in jail? Well, lets put it this way- they basically don't bother to investigate, and consider it part of the punishment.

Libertarians believe the initiation of force is immoral. Many of them are anarchists because, yes, it is quite hard for a government to exist without initiating force given the definition of government is basically "the mafia that conquered and rules a geographic region." But still there are many libertarians who support the idea of a voluntary government.

>And anarchy is not particularly workable

Prove it.

>without a hint of violence anywhere

Oh really? But you just made the threat of violence quite clear:

>In any case, if that's your definition of violence, then libertarians are actually anarchists - there can be zero law or tax at all, because as soon as you don't feel like complying, any enforcement becomes 'violence', since ultimately, at the end of the chain, it has to be enforced physically.

So, which is it. Are you paying taxes under the threat of "physical enforcement" aka violence? Or are you free to not pay your taxes?

Are you free to not be mugged?

>Something doesn't have to be considered violence to be wrong.

Not the point. Initiating violence against the innocent is wrong.

We point this out to force people like you to admit that you want to do violence against innocent people to pay for things that you value but that you don't want to pay for yourself (what you call taxes.)

By the way, given that Democrats voted for Obama and Obama is the one who signed the legislation that has the TSA molesting children, and the Republicans have done nothing to oppose it, yes, you DO have to be libertarian to claim to oppose the TSA. Otherwise what should we believe? It's not y our fault that this government whose violence you endorse is using it in way you don't approve of? Did you vote for Obama the second time? If so, you endorsed the TSA molestation regime.
The article is essentially a fabrication.
I honestly don't find anything new here. There are ways to increase telomerase (TA-65 or simply 10-30 grams a day of astragalus extract according to Jim Green), but it can accelerate cancers and given everybody has cancerous cells to a different degree, this really is playing Russian roulette.
I read a lot about how you get at least 1 interview if you have done side projects. I hope I get that.
Your interesting comment led me to do some more reading on whales and it seems that Cuvier's Beaked Whale now holds the record for both deepest and longest diving mammal.

A study of this whale published in March of this year recorded a dive of 2,992 meters (9,816 feet) and another dive lasting 137.5 min.

Pop science article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140326-cuvie...

Actual study: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Your firearm. They are quite effective.

The definition of libertarian: People who believe the initiation of force is immoral.

Thus, those trying to forcibly take your property are initiating force. Nothing about that being immoral precludes you from defending yourself or your property.
The Lightning connector design exposes all the pins to the hazards of the world (the most dangerous being ESD, pin shorting being another). In order to make the industrial design work electrically, Apple had to put a tiny chip inside each lightning connector. This chip also handles switching around which side of the connector is active.

As you can imagine, embedding a chip inside a connector is pretty expensive. The USB-IF doesn't actually make hardware. They create standards that other companies can use to make hardware. It would be crazy for them to spec something out that requires the kind of NRE that Apple must have paid to produce their connector.

The USB-IF gets around the ugly pin shorting and ESD problems by simply adopting the same connector design that every other connector uses. They hide the pins behind a shroud so that fingers and other objects can't reach in to short anything out or cause ESD events.
I appreciate your work on uselessd. Nothing demonstrates a counterpoint quite like written code. The last thing we need is another ranting systemd blog post.

We always need strong alternatives, even if they face the risk of being taken as simply a political statement, the effects of the statement will be seen in the decision-making down the road.
no no no. this is a very well engineered movie. Everything that occurs in the movie is specifically designed to generate an emotional response. Some responses are positive, others negative. iirc, they always develop in a way where they could go either way, and then they break. this creates suspense and surprise, heightening the response. I could go on for an hour about all the audience manipulations in this movie but there isn't room here. suffice it to say that, its not hype, it is actually very well designed.
> Look no further than the USA. Founded by immigrants from Europe, far behind Europe when organized the country developed into super power status in a rapid fashion because the constitution was strong, the federal government was weak and property rights (and human rights generally) were respected.

There are times in US history where you can argue that property rights and human rights in general were respected (but not any time before the end of the Indian Wars), and times when you can argue that the federal government was weak (but not any time after the Civil War) -- but they don't overlap.

Your ideological fantasy interpretation of history is amusing, but not very much related to anything like facts.
Before "Ping of Death" there was "Beeping Death" at Microsoft and Larry was involved well.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/11/09/490...

And then there was the time Todd Laney took the entire corporate network down by streaming songs using multi-cast UDP...
Objectivism is a philosophy, not a mythology. This was not an objectivist effort, actually at all. You're giving the article too much credit, it is pretty much all spin.

> most self-declared libertarians aren't very good business-people

This kind of broad smear is exactly the point of the article-- to give you cover so you feel comfortable impeaching your intellectual integrity.
That's an awful lot of hype that sounds like it was written by (or for) someone who has never used Skype, or Hangouts, or <insert messaging app of choice here>, all of which do store-and-forward messaging for individuals and groups, and let you call people with a touch of button. Hangouts also shows me if someone's on mobile or desktop, and whether they're "present" or not, and while it doesn't tell me exactly where they are, that's arguably more a feature than a bug. Same goes for apparently recording everything forever (cue image of legal departments around the world reaching for the NOPE button).

What am I missing?
Just a note that a site moderator has responded to this reply in their comments:

"First of all, we understand the correlation between low output and longevity, and acknowledge that the Centennial Light produces a very low output. Even so, out of hundreds of thousands of low wattage bulbs produced from 1880-1910, it's the only bulb of its kind that has burned for 113-years. Just a handful of bulbs on Earth are older than 60. We think that qualifies as mysterious on some level -- even when scientifically dissected.

Secondly, I appreciate you clarifying the complexity of the Phoebus cartel's actions (admittedly, it's a bigger picture than what we presented) -- but there exists compelling evidence that the cartel exercised planned obsolescence (we understand planned obsolescence to be when the "lifespan of a product is rendered artificially short by design"). Pre-1900, bulbs had lifespans of 1,200-2,500 hours; the cartel set bulbs at 1,000 hours -- even when GE (a member of the cartel) had access to modern tungsten filament technology that could've increased the output of bulbs without so aggressively compromising lifespan. While, as you said, the cartel's motivation was to standardize the haphazard market, the byproduct of this was an overly-assertive cap on longevity."
"fat data" (just to avoid calling these mere gigabytes "big data"

Mere GB's of data is just a normal database.

I have a rule that should be more widespread:

If you can put the database in RAM on a x86 server, its not "big data" by any stretch. Then beyond that, it becomes more complex, but for starters lets consider whether the indexes fit in RAM.

If the indexes/hashes for your data cannot fit in RAM on a commodity x86 then you probably can consider that you have "big data".

So, currently its possible to buy supermicro systems that take 6TB of RAM (just a normal QPI link) without getting into any of the exotic SSI systems (like the SGI UV 2000).

We should also avoid talking about the physical plant requirements for "big data" as well, since as its possible to put over 350TB of storage in 4U with products from Nexsan, JetStor, etc. That is over 3PB per rack...

So, you can call your data set "big data" if the indexes are > 6TB or the actual data set is > 3PB. These numbers will change next year when new machines/storage arrive.
I think it was a mistake to put "Education" at the top. Here's my resume - http://goo.gl/rswmvC
The USA was not a planned economy, but much more of a free market. South Korea and Singapore are very much free markets for most goods and trade.
How sure are you that mongodb doesn't rewrite the entire document with each update? I couldn't find a definitive answer without source diving.
Agreed. Everyone makes mistakes, owning up to them shows maturity. Sidenote: I'd much rather find out about something like this before release than have someone exploit it in the wild and force a patch.
Talko wants to be Google Wave for voice.
Already went through that time. Had 7 years of stagnant growth while I worked full-time as a software developer / data scientist. This is year 9.

I knew this would be my full-time job eventually. My field is very research-based and very niche. It took over 10,000 hours (I guess I'm a Gladwell expert now) of unpaid research and experimentation to get to where I am at.

Was I happy doing it? Tough to say. I know that I wasn't sad when I worked on it, compared to working my "bullshit" data science job.
Markdown code and JavaScript code are both clean. Now people know how to "kill" JavaScript, but it may become the new assembly language.
Yes, definitely open for any feedback. Here's my resume - http://goo.gl/rswmvC
Thanks! I will apply at Lookout.