skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see this having an effect on the ongoing
development of each language in a way that might leave
them closer together than they would otherwise be.

Yes, since Mandarin had been established as the Standard Chinese in the early 20th century, there definitely are effects that have ended up bringing Cantonese closer to Mandarin in terms of vocabulary and grammar.

For instance, if I take my previous example further, if such a situation existed with English and German, the words "wit" and "thou" might have ended up being more common in spoken English, or at least considered more formal rather than archaic. Certain grammatical constructions might also end up being more common, such as the continued use of the y- prefix in past participles.

I'm already stretching this analogy more that I should, but hopefully it gives a better idea of the relationship between Cantonese and Mandarin.
Why do we subsidize sugar (High Fructose Corn Syrup through corn subsidies) one one end then tax it on the other? Seems like tax payers are double spending.
This question has already been polled numerous times:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/poll/forever/prefix/0/ad%20blocker
> 2,600,000+ messages created. 10,000,000+ unique visitors. 24,000,000+ pageviews.

-According to http://badmeangood.com/
Oh, it will come.

The first weeks are fine. But in time, you will find little things, that will annoy you. You will find things, that are fine in Linux or Windows, but not in OSX. (Like X apps not working, apps that assume some Linux-specific capability or API not available, differently behaving linker - if you are developer, etc.)

And I hope you don't live in Eastern Europe. The Apple service there is attrocious, even little things like exchanging your power supply can take 3 or 4 weeks. Try using your computer without one...
I don't believe I made that argument.

Also, if your view is "before you can do an experiment you must have hard data to prove the experiment will work" then it sounds like you aren't getting many experiments done.
We paid for this as a test of instapanel, got respondents off of Craigslist for $10 each. In general, we're building a tool for startups to get feedback like this on their own products.

I went in strongly in favor of Prop E, I came out as convinced that obesity and soda are bad, but less convinced that this law was a good way to address the issue. I'll probably still vote "Yes" on Prop E, but it was fun to hear the other side out.
The contradiction between the ultimate value of pure scientific inquiry and the detriment of results that could be construed to be racist is an issue I've puzzled with some in the past. The conclusion I've come to is that it's part of our social contract to never act on any such correlation - any result that says that X person may behave like Y must be totally disregarded when interacting with any individual (except for, say, medical use). This extends beyond racism and sexism from disregarding institutionalized prejudices into actively ignoring discovered information. It's a fine line, for sure.
WW1 was supposedly started by assassination of some Austrian aristocrat, which doesn't look like "Austria helping start a war" in this case. Although I admit that I know relatively little about history and maybe there some other reasons I'm not aware of.

But even then, Austro-Hungary was an empire before WW1 and was left in more or less its current borders afterwards (like 1/10th of what it was before? I'm guessing here, but I remember it was a huge difference on the maps). I'd say that's enough of a reparations for any state.
5 - insert coin

1 - one player

arrows - move around

<ctrl>, <alt>, <space> - action buttons
How bacteria "talk" (2009) [video]
How exactly do you think they get duped into downloading this in the first place?

It's certainly not because they "feel lucky to have a machine that generally works most of the time and I don't need to defrag it, virus-scan it, memory-clean it, watch running processes for free RAM, and so on and so forth".
With an option to specify country, as different movies are available for different regions.
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Is Lockheed’s fusion project breaking new ground?
It's done using WebRTC: https://github.com/beefproject/beef/wiki/Module:-Get-Interna...
Great job. I like that you can combine genres, e.g. Science Fiction + Musical: http://www.movieo.me/?grid=grid_movie&file=movies%2F_movies&...
Review of Lever
>anonymously using BitCoin

and a Google account. I don't think anyone would consider using this provider for a hidden service on Tor.
It's my understanding that perception of future inflation is very important in determining bond yields. At the extreme, you want to get paid back in real terms, not "NuDollars" (hmmm, Heinlein assumed inflation of at least 3 orders of magnitude in the time Citizen of the Galaxy was set). Or why we talk about "real" interest rates, subtracting inflation. Of course, let's not get into how the government is scoring inflation nowadays, or how everyone admits that the cost of education and medicine don't track official inflation at all....

As I understand it, the '70s were "normal" in that that sort of response is what you really should expect from such policies. Check out the book, which I bought but have only glanced at.

The smashing of the Phillips Curve, the official, written into law as I recall, relationship between inflation and unemployment, wasn't considered normal at the time, e.g. the word "stagflation" was coined to describe it. But skimming the Wikipedia article on it suggests that it was never true, or at least not for more than the short term.

And the "'70s" economic agony was rather long term. E.g. you won't read it in Wikipedia, but LBJ closed the gold window to all but central banks in 1968, i.e. moving it much more to the political arena by cutting out "speculators" like George Soros. That was a near catastrophe of the "black swan" type ... at least to them, who thought we could afford both "guns and butter".

With a slow end in the early '80s, delayed in part by the phasing-in of Reagan's tax rate cuts required by the Democratic House, conveniently providing an "It's Morning in America" 1984 campaign theme as "Reaganomics" vanished from the vocabulary ^_^.
There is an epistemological problem. If you want to program the machine to respect that men is the most important animal in this planet you can't base that only on intelligence because then the machine can deduce correctly than once they become more intelligent than us, they should occupy the throne and men would be then only an appreciate animal (a dog, a sheep, a monkey?). We need a Turing test for any program intended to program such a supercomputer, it should be necessary that the program deduce logically the Great Axiom: Men is top animal of this planet. In case the boot program is not able to proof the Great Axiom, the machine could proceed to self-destruction.

If there isn't any way to construct a logical system in which men is the more important animal of this planet, then we are doomed to be dominated by the machine, because our throne based in our intelligence should be now the justification for the machine to take the lead and take us as their dogs or sheeps.
> And speaking from experience, many Indians will do anything to get to US.

You can't really blame them can you.
The irony is that Pinboard really is the rightful heir of del.icio.us, not Delicious.com.
It's FUD. They don't see anything wrong, but they don't know much about computers. Something could be wrong, so better download this too just to be sure.
Totally understand and respect your position. But one of the other great things about TextSecure is that although it may require a bit of work and you may not be interested, you could even run your own TextSecure server if you were so inclined because it's free software: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server
I'm the guy kansface mentioned. I've spent a decent amount of time figuring out how to make my programming experience better.

I've tried almost every editor out there: Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text, Textmate, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and Atom. I've customized them all with plugins. I've even written plugins for most of them. My first editor was pico, quickly followed by Vim.

My toolsmithing goes beyond editors. I've tried different keyboard layouts to improve typing speed, settling on dvorak with qwerty shortcuts. I even gave chording keyboards a shot. I built Ag[1] to search code faster.[2]

I don't own a mouse. If I want to point at something, I use a trackpad. Switching to/from it is much faster than grabbing a mouse.

People don't want to hear this, but I could not be as fast in Vim. Even if Vim had every feature in my current setup, it would still be slower because Vimscript executes synchronously. Executing plugin code blocks Vim's UI. If a plugin spawns a subprocess, the UI will be blocked until it exits.

With Vim, you can't start a search and examine another file while it's running. This problem can be worked-around by using multiple Vims or searching from the command line, but then you lose quick opening/replacing of results. You can also abuse certain AutoCmds and updatetime to get a sort-of working async execution, but it requires each plugin have its own event loop.

I agree with kansface: Vim users may type less, but they don't move faster. I have yet to see a Vim user who has impressed me with their speed. I typically see wasted motion, waiting for commands to finish, and fixing mistakes in regexes. Even your example invocations are as good or better in Sublime Text.

I want to add an extra parameter to this method I just wrote. ... I just press "f)" to jump to the closing parentheses and start adding text.

That does not jump to the end of the function definition. That does a search for ) on the current line. If your cursor isn't on the right line, you're SOL. Also, ) shows up in many places. It may not be part of a function definition in the language used. In my setup, "cmd + r, up" goes to the previous function definition no matter the language. If I want to go to the end, that's ctrl + m.

I want to replace everything on the current line, starting from my cursor position somewhere in the middle of that line. ... I instead just press "c$" and start adding text.

For me, that's ctrl + shift + e, (start typing). Unless you have a $ key, both are three keystrokes.

If you use Vim and you're happy with it, great. But I would heavily discourage anyone from switching to Vim. Editors and UIs have come a long way in the past 25 years. Even with nerdtree, YCM, and other plugins, Vim can't catch up. NeoVim looks promising, since it fixes Vim's architectural problems.

1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/

2. http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-...
Seems like a cool idea, though all I'm getting is a directory listing when I visit the site.
I've seen several articles on intelligence/IQ/g hit the front page recently (often followed by being flagged and removed). There have been two this morning, plus others in past weeks. At the time of this comment, this post only has 6 points, how are they consistently climbing the charts so quickly?
I'm sure as hell as a manager at a big IT company I would not want the fastest delivery but a rock solid one with deep understanding from the developers behind it.

Your tone is very agressive; you need a serious record of work and credibility to make statements like yours.

There are data structures and algorithms in web development too, so it wouldn't really be branching out anyway.
Because Iowa farmers get to vote on federal matters, but they don't get to vote in SF and NYC.

When I worked at Climate Corp, it was pretty interesting to hear the (nearly universally) Republican farmers argue for why there should be farm subsidies. About half wouldn't even try to justify it, and just said if the money's there I'll take it.
Where sites have chosen to keep SSLv3 and mitigate via cipher selection SSLLabs makes note of it without impacting the overall score: "This server uses SSL 3, with POODLE mitigated. Still, it's recommended that this protocol is disabled."
This is your chance to ask Mark Zuckerberg anything
What kind of data exactly would be accessible?
I keep seeing this plugged (by yourself actually.. :P )

I think it definitely needs a tutorial or walkthrough of some sort. I only ever get dodgy looking words that aren't memorable in any sense, in fact would be extremely difficult to say over the phone. I am guessing it's the way I'm using it but I don't know any better! :)
Looks good!

I think you have a small issue with the Rotten Tomatoes API, for example with the movie Lucy (http://www.movieo.me/240832-lucy). The page shows a 96% audience score, while the Rotten Tomatoes website says 48% (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lucy_2014/).
It really depends on the hardware you choose. I switched from a MacBook Air to a Samsung ATIV Book Plus (what a name...) and can't say that I've noticed a difference between the trackpads.
In this case, it's because Archer Daniels Midland can afford to buy enough federal representation to get the subsidies.

Sugar producers care more about the issue (because they get all the subsidies) than voters (for whom the subsidies are a small percentage of their tax bill). Plus, the subsidies represent a positive return on lobbying dollars, because there are a relatively small number of people to bribe. Sorry, I mean support.

This, however, was put on the ballot by local supervisors, and will be voted on by SF's population at large. That's a much harder dynamic to influence with money. Not that they aren't trying.
I'm 100% sure that in the past MacKeeper was
recommended on support.apple.com (not discussions.apple.com).

As far as I remember it was a page with three
suggestions, not unlike [1] and the last one was
to install MacKeeper. MacKeeper was just mentioned, but
not linked which appeared odd to me at the time.
This was about two years ago.

Unfortunately I couldn't find the page anywhere, not even
at archive.org.

[1] http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht1147
> Asking scientists who specialize in Spearman's g whether g is real is like asking astrologers whether astrology works.

Climate change deniers use the same argument -- "Of course people who professionally study global warming will claim it's real!"

Why is your claim valid while the above is specious? It depends on the rigor of the subfield in question.
If you run Ubuntu 14.04 you don't run systemd. You have a process called systemd-shim that is some kind of compatability glue for software that requires systemd.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/systemd-shim

If you want to try a real systemd system use a recent Fedora or Arch release.
The government is not a single entity. There are various groups and conflicting interests, and it can be easier to do something that goes against a powerful lobby's interests on a local level. Corn subsidies are also meant to lead to stable food prices, which is something that benefits governing politicians. There are various conflicts of interest at work here.
Are cigarette taxes applied at the city level in the US?
The Web Speech API uses a mix of system TTS and remote services, depending on browser. The app itself doesn't have any audio sources.
I love the lack of buttons. It makes it much much easier to click on things since I don't have to precisely hit a button. I don't think I've ever used a right click drag for anything, but it seems easy enough to do on my macbook pro. Just click with two fingers and drag.
I'm so curious.. I don't use pinboard, but everyone says it's awesome. What's so good in it?
At $120/year, Spotify is much more expensive than most people's annual music budget.[0] It might be convenient, but it certainly isn't cheap. At least with individual album purchases, you are building 'equity' in a music collection $10 at a time.

[0] https://recode.net/2014/03/18/the-price-of-music/
You underestimate the desire to get out of India.
>Rust does not use reference-counting GC. Instead, it has a fairly unique borrow checking system for garbage collection, which not only handles cleaning up memory but also cleaning open sockets, file handlers, etc. There is a generic type implementation of a reference counted variable you can use, though.

Rust does not have garbage collection, unless you count using types like Rc<T> garbage collection. It has destructors, just like C++, and uses them for cleaning up resources like file handles and memory. Lifetimes do not really interact with destructors. They're part of the type system and do not have any effect on the generated code.
Show HN: Simple, functionably customizable poll creator
I said the same thing at the start too, and after months of use I never managed to re-train myself (although, maybe those habits run deep!)
I love it! I'm sure everyone has had the idea of logging all their troubles but this guy has the fortitude to do it. It is troubling to see that Rust still has a way to go in terms of learning it. I was trying to learn Rust 1.5 years ago and ran into enough problems that I gave up. I will try again this week...
The #3 app in the mac app store is "Memory Clean", and apparently it was featured by Apple as an "invaluable utility" and won a Macworld award.

This is really strange to me because, like you, I thought OSX's native memory management ought to be optimal and tools like this are just placebos.
Should be easy to counter. Just show several dithered images to NN. Of course if there is a deliberate attack this may not be sufficient.
If we have to have these visa programs, the law should be changed to only allow the actual hiring company to contract with the worker, and under no circumstances allow any intermediary to be a go-between. Then at least there can be some kind of tracking instead of everything being hidden behind closed doors.

Of course with our stupid politicians nothing will change except for the worse.
Was this a worthwhile read or was it debunked like some other New Yorker stories?
New thinkpads from the older lines are good. The original x1 carbon is glorious if you can find them still. But all the latest thinkpad models are junk - awful trackpad, bizarre keyboard design decisions. Yeah macs don't work too well for me either. I will try to ride my x1 forward and hopefully in a couple of years the google Chromebooks will be strong Linux options.
Show HN: Jenkins CI Client in Go
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Open Source, the Religion
There are many cases in which one can't restore the harm. If someone dies, you can restore that. Many times the harm is psychological and is not easy to restore. I don't know if restorative justice prevent or diminish the probability of further crimes, but a good justice system employ punishment as an excellent inhibitor of crime. People are sensible to long term sentences in jail.
Transcript is a good idea, we've been looking into APIs & mechanical turk for that. In general we're trying to figure out how to present the responses in an interesting/informative way without you having to watch ALL the videos.

Generally when you run an in-person focus group or user interview, you're combining the interview time with the "watching" time since you're there in the same room. With instapanel, it's definitely faster than doing the interviews yourself, but there's no forcing function to watch the videos.

Reminds me of how my dad stopped watching talks at Xerox PARC once they started webcasting them. Without needing to show up for the talk at a specific time, he could always say "I'll watch that later".
No: the proposition exempts products that contain only "natural fruit and vegetable juice", not "natural flavors" - the two are different. Some "natural flavors" are only natural in the sense they are derived from natural compounds, but are still synthesized in a lab.

Similarly, diet sodas - which do contain artificial flavors - are similarly exempt. You can read the ballot measure in full here:

http://ballotpedia.org/City_of_San_Francisco_Sugary_Drink_Ta...
It always takes one issue and one municipality at a time to make progress. Is marijuana decriminalization in Colorado a symbolic victory because people in the surrounding states and even here in California haven't yet experienced decriminalization.

Wouldn't if be great if we can one day get back to having robotic milkmen deliver milk in re-usable bottles?
No. I don't know about Envy, but I made a mistake of buying Samsung's MBP13 clone (np700z3a) once.

It had awesome specs on paper (same CPU, GPU, RAM, larger HDD, 14" 1600x900 LCD instead of 13" 1280x800 in a same body size, 2/3 price of MBP), but in reality, I'd be better off buying used MBP. Or used Dell Latitude/top line IBM.

Drivers. They suck, and never got updated. Wobbly plastic body that cracked in a few places during normal laptop use. Keyboard backlight that is awesome unless the system doesn't toss a coin on resume from sleep and decide that this time you'll have to type blind. Battery life between 2-3 hrs instead of promised-on-the-box 4-5 hours. Broadcom wifi adapter that slows to crawl on Windows 8.1+, with no fix from the manufacturer (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-...).

And I must't leave out the cooling that is significantly louder than on any MBP I used.

Ugh...
Of course it's possible that no one makes good laptops anymore. All you have to do is take a look at the economics of the business. It's low margin and the PC business isn't growing like it used to. OEMs are rightfully looking at smartphones and tablets to allocate their capital to. Lots of OEMs have exited or are in the process of exiting the PC business (Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, HP).

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/06/sony-vaio-...

http://www.crn.com/news/mobility/300074158/samsung-to-exit-e...

http://online.wsj.com/articles/hewlett-packard-plans-to-brea...

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2014_09/pr1801.htm
Indeed, though it's still a pain for nested arrays, as you have to coerce the inner layers first via mapping. Quite burdensome for arbitrary nesting.

Anyways, most of the time you're better off implementing a concrete type like he did.
I remember my mom teaching me the phrase "like dragging a cow up a tree" when I was little, and I was never sure whether she was serious. I was very excited to see it captured here! Mom, I'm sorry for not trusting you.
200,000 recordings uploaded.

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California judges, for example, have consistently ruled that IQ tests are "racially and culturally biased": http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/30/us/court-upholds-ruling-on... .
That is an excellent summary.

teacup50 has an axe to grind. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7279358

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7287939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7288699
It's good, but I recently found http://omive.com/ and it works great for me. Simple and very neatly built.