skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that a lot of the "Latin helps you with English" meme comes from the coming together of a couple of things:

1. Some schools wanting to teach Latin at least in part simply because it was part of a classical Western curriculum

but 2. Wanting to justify that inclusion based on more modern practical concerns than it just being something properly educated people learn.

Nothing against Latin or classical Western liberal arts. But the idea that Latin uniquely helps with English is sort of silly.
Why would you want a carpet that is hard to clean and looks ugly in most cases?
Having moved to Australia in recent years, I was very happy to see that JayCar, their equivalent to Radio Shack, seemed to be doing quite well. This is judging by what I've seen of the stores in what is considered a fairly backwards part of Australia (Queensland).

The difference seems to be two-fold. First, Jaycar didn't go through an insane expansion (there are only 12 or so locations per state). Second, they've grown "out" from their core market of electronics hobbyist instead of betraying it. Just a few examples: custom car stereos, solar panel accessories, camping/RV electronics, boating electronics, and DJ-stuff like laser projectors. This is all in addition to the arduino and 3D printing stuff that you'd expect. There's a huge amount of cross-over between these markets, which works out great for Jaycar.

There is one additional factor keeping Jaycar healthy that probably shouldn't be underplayed. Due to mining and a less crypto-facist view of unions, Australia has not (yet) completely gutted it's blue-collar market and culture. Jaycar advertises almost exclusively to this "tradie" (as the Australians call it) demographic. Jaycar is marketed as a "manly" thing, not a "nerd" or "tech" thing. In fact, it's even drummed up minor controversy from feminist as being exclusionary with ads focusing on "leaving her to go to your man-cave" and whatnot. This part of Jaycar's success probably can't be replicated stateside. The market of people who have the skills to fix a small electric outboard motor and can still afford one died with the rest of blue-collar culture and jobs.
> I don't think paywalled content should be (intentionally) linked as the main subject on HN or similar unless that is the only good source of information about the matter in hand.

I think a fair expectation is that if you're going to post a link to a paywalled site, you should add a brief summary of the article as a comment. (Kind of like a companion to tl;dr, only in this case, it's te;dr, for "too expensive; didn't read.")
The problem isn't with AIs dumber than people - it's with what happens when someone finally builds a smarter one. It doesn't matter how good are prison bars if you're smart enough to social-engineer your way out of the cell. And human criminals do escape from prisons every now and then.
http://www.broadbandmap.gov/number-of-providers/wireline/bot...

Then click "unserved" to show those areas...

Interesting stuff...

* Unserved = red
* served ~ 2-6 providers = green
* white = one provider aka monopoly

Lots of white... I wonder how much is due to lack of interest vs "interference" of any sort.
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>Reading this, I felt real anger at our society.

I think everybody feels this way. I have a hard time imagining that anything but the vast majority of parents would agree. So that makes we wonder if there is some agenda behind this? A gas lighting effect maybe? People would say "well things may not be ideal where I live, but at least it is not like over there", and so they are less likely to act to change things locally? I don't know, maybe I'm just being paranoid.
I worked for a place that used German as the "placeholder text", to avoid the problem of text longer than the allotted space. German is supposedly about 1.5 times as long as English, so if you can fit the German version, you won't have any problems with other translations being longer than the space.
"Don't worry. Sure, the thief left with all your cash, jewelry, IDs, tax information, and private documents... But 99.998% of the mass contained by your house is still there! Honestly, if it's less than 100kg it's not even worth getting upset about."

Yeah, it's a stupid statistic designed to mislead, since the metric bears no real relationship to the impact or severity of the act.

I wonder how the NSA would react if a spy browsed all their top-secret documents, but made copies of "only 0.002%" of them?
How are those offices private when there's a full glass wall on the corridor, and what looks like an opening below the ceiling to the next office? That appears to add up to neither visual nor audio screening.

(Audio distraction causes trouble in conversation for me, and visual distraction disrupts any kind of concentration. I might actually prefer a tall cubicle to this setup, not to endorse the cubicle.)
freebsd or "legacy linux"
"commercial software ... is dead man walking"

</troll>
Boy did I ever love Incredible Universe. Must've gone there 20 times as a kid, don't think we ever bought a single item.
If you'd really like to make price-corrections look at a place like http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/ that has a bunch of indexes.
Why would a blind person carry a touch screen phone??
Think about the price in comparison to hiring a design consultant to generate these reports for you. If they charge you or your agency $50/hour, it takes them an hour to design a report, and you're producing 10 documents/month, that's $500/month.

If you're happy working in Adobe / Word yourself, that's awesome! I built Remarq as a tool to help freelancers and consultants generate high-quality, beautifully designed reports and proposals _without_ needing to invest in a designer for them.
I think this is great execution but I'm not sure I would use it over Wikipedia. If I want to know the timeline of Boko Haram, I think I would get more objective and comprehensive timeline information, with sources, from Wikipedia's page on Boko Haram* than the Timeline.com page.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram#2009

2 https://m.timeline.com/#!/stories/boko-haram-nigeria-history
Secondhand or secondary?

Secondhand - Thredup and sites like it.

Marshall's, TJ Maxx, Men's Warehouse, etc. You can also travel to Hong Kong, Beijing, or one of many other cities in Asia and have them tailored for much less than retail department store prices.
This was going to happen in the wake of the Sony DDoS. Right now, there's a huge public outcry to apply the full force of the law against "hackers".

Considering these attacks are starting to increase and their durations are getting longer (The Sony DDoS went on for several weeks) people are getting fed up and want someone to do something about it.
Pirate activist shows politicians what digital surveillance looks like
Open offices are more vulnerable to bad cultural practices that you have no control over. A private office fixes these issues with pure physics. If open offices had librarians shushing everyone for talking too loud constantly and stopping people from shoulder surfing they would be a lot better for many people.
I love this trend of building compilers for existing languages that target Javascript. Other 2 languages with fully functional Javascript compilers that are worth checking out:

- Scala / Scala.js (http://www.scala-js.org/) and I'm actually using this one for a non-trivial app

- Clojure / ClojureScript (https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript) with some companies using it in production

Both are using Google's Closure compiler to do tree shaking minification and are emitting source maps for the compiled code, so the size of the compiled artifacts is manageable in spite of the huge standard libraries they come with and debugging works well. Normally if you want tree shaking with Google Closure, you have to write code specific for Google Closure, however these compilers are doing that for you.

What you get in comparison with Javascript are saner languages that aren't just a prettified Javascript - completely different type system, awesome standard libraries, packages, saner semantics overall; you get a sane dependency management and build process, by means of their build tools (SBT and Leiningen respectively); you get libraries that are cross-compiled for the JVM and Javascript, so you can do code sharing between the server and the browser and you can use mostly the same tools, like IDEs. For example it's a great experience to use IntelliJ IDEA for targeting the browser with Scala - you get code completion, refactoring, the works.

And yes, the compiled size of the final artifact is a source of worry, but in practice I found to not be an issue and what's awesome is that in the long run it actually saves bandwidth for heavy apps. With Javascript many people tend to avoid using third-party libraries, because every imported library adds to the download size, however with tree shaking you're paying only for what you use. As I mentioned, being a Scala developer I picked up Scala.js and it's completely awesome, in spite of the project being young. Unfortunately these heavier alternatives to Javascript haven't picked up popularity - for some reason people preferred putting lipstick on Javascript and pretend that it's a new language.

I'm happy that compilers for C# are happening as well. My only gripe is that in true .NET fashion I'm not seeing a link to the source, which makes me think that this won't be open-source. Which is a pity.
Actually, Geordi endows Professor Moriarty with super-intelligence, by mistakenly asking the holodeck/computer to create an adversary "capable of defeating Data" instead of "capable of defeating Holmes" as he intended.

God, I'm such a nerd. :P
Would really be great to show some examples of the beautiful documents that can be created right up-front. I assume that's a big selling point because nobody wants ugly documents. So, I'd take the time and display examples front and center (instead of the "icons" that are there now).
An explanation for downvotes would be appreciated... perhaps "poor type system" was too strong wording, and for that I apologize. But it was surprising to hear his opinion re: concurrency, as from what I understand that's one of the biggest features of Go.
In most of the world children ride around two or three-up on the back of their parents' motorcycles with no helmets or insurance. North Americans are paranoid freaks in comparison.
That hampering is necessary to ensure that the fake AI is artificially more intelligent. If you allow retrospective analysis, then you can reasonably outthink the AI because you have more time to evaluate and make the decision.

With a real AI, you will not be able to do this: the decision will already have been made and the consequences of its release already in effect.

Besides, you would need to repeat the experiment many times to get any meaningful data.
It's funny how most of these places hire the top cs grads and dont realize they're implemented an n^2 noise generation (audio and visual) algorithm for their developers, deoptimizing the very thing you hired them for: concentrated brain power.

Maybe the best thing to do is layout things like a microprocessor, where everyone gets their own isolated location (ram/register address), a place where people who need to be associated come together periodically (a local cache), and a meeting place for larger groups (an ALU) for bigger operations.
He doesn't sound that smart...
I agree completely. I prefer the open office layout a hundred times over, compared to a private room or a cubicle. Maybe it depends on your coworkers, you have to trust them not to be too loud or bothersome, and you have to be fine with being in the same room as these people for 8+ hours a day for a long time.

At my office, the "Dev Room" has 10 engineers in the same room, as well as open desks for anyone else to join us. The rest of the office has rooms with 1-3 people working in them, but we requested to take this large room. Whenever anyone from the rest of the office walks into the dev room, they always have to remark "Wow, it's so silent in here." And it's true, it's a different world once you walk in here. We even have our own conference room only accessible through this room.

But because everyone here are friends, it's easy for us to ask questions, have fun, play around. Right now as I type this, two developers are drawing Chinese characters and playing with the new Google Translate app. The rest of us have headphones on. It's on you to ignore distractions and get your work done, but everyone does, and everyone helps each other and laughs while doing it.
Not working for me on a fresh install of IE10. I.e. (no pun intended) not due to any sort of ad/privacy blocker.
BrainCloud
Bathrooms are the limiting factor in most self-respecting venues. Yet as you state, there are never enough bathrooms, and I'd add they're never private enough. I do not want to hear or smell when other people are doing their business, and I certainly don't want them to hear or smell mine. Why aren't there more private bathrooms? Is it taboo to discuss bathrooms?

edit: But Where Do People Do Their Business In This Office?
It's also a way to establish trust between the blind and the volunteers. I haven't used the app but I imagine the blind can somehow (via voice?) specify a certain threshold of "points". Otherwise, there might be some uncool people out there doing uncool things.
The 1099 Economy's Shift from Feasibility to Sustainability
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This highlights the importance of a second and third opinion as well.

As the joke goes, "what do you call the guy that graduated last in his class at medical school? Doctor."

Doctor's aren't machines, they're more like mechanics, they see a symptom, use their knowledge to make an educated guess essentially, and then work from there. If their knowledge is soft it's likely an incorrect diagnoses could just be exacerbated by incorrect treatment.

Get another opinion, and then another, the next problem is deciding on siding with consensus or outlier.
I like the thought that has gone into expressing the app's motivations. As a curated app, I was interested in learning about the people behind it. Your About, FAQ/Editorial and Licenses section under timeline.com/about was fun to read. Too bad it was hidden away on the homepage. But, maybe you did this intentionally.

I'm in the process of working on a timeline-like design, non news related, so this piqued my interest.
although this will never see the light of day on hackernews the backbutton behavior should be sane now! :)
Thanks! I think this is a good suggestion. I should definitely feature a real document more prominently somehow.
It probably wouldn't need bitcoin; it could figure out ways to trick humans into paying for the servers or just hack its way into electronic transfers.
Just started trying it. It does have multiple virtual consoles within one window. Also many other features, which I'll check out over time. Great!
A New Study Reveals Much About How Parents Really Choose Schools
I feel like you only read the first sentence of my comment. "2 weeks wages" should feel somewhat similar across time and place.
In modern terms, anyone selling a $5,400 rifle would be hard pressed to sell 2,500 of them, let alone 25,000 to the civilian market. And while we're making adjustments, the US population in 1900 was just a hair over 75m, meaning that one of these was produced for every 3k people.

Don't let the raw numbers fool you - this was an everyman's gun. A good one, yes. Still though, an everyman's gun.
Huh, I'm the opposite.

I've had my own office, been in cubicles, and currently work in an open office. I would detest getting trapped in a stuffy, carpet-walled cubicle again, and kind of disliked how isolated the office makes you.

I'm also a little clueless about all the disruptions that everyone is talking about - I think the team I work with now probably has some kind of has an unspoken rule to keep disruptions to a minimum. It's mostly heads down working all day, and when disruptions happen, I usually enjoy them because it's usually the break I need to get out of a mental tunnel.
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To me, it wasn't an option. I'm not a developer — I'm an SEO and Outreach Consultant — and so using something off the shelf (at first a pages template, now Remarq) made a lot more sense.

I didn't want to build something DIY or right to customize something. Pages — and now Remarq — made it easy for me to get a beautiful output.

And, on top of that, there was an ROI consideration. How much time would I spend getting Pandoc working that I could spend growing my business, mapping out a campaign for a client, or relaxing?

To me, the cost of Pandoc was too high.
Open Source “Yeah, Nah” Movie Recommendations Site; Uses Hapi.js, GER, TMDb
> An extremely interesting question IMO would be what is the longetivity of these tactics? Are there phrases that worked extremely well for a period of time, and then stopped being effective? In other words, how long before people get tired of clickbaits?

I mentioned at the end at the disenchantment against linkbait. Linkbait works due to basic human psychology, similar to ancient psychological marketing tricks like odd-even pricing and price anchoring.

Unless basic human psychology changes, linkbait will still work. There's still a negative brand perception for BuzzFeed though; it wouldn't surprise me if they attempt a rebrand at some point if they want to be a serious publication.
I understood most of what you said, but I'm not sure about

> * They carry no cash to hand over in the event of a mugging

Can you elaborate on this point? I'd be surprised if thieves thought, "Jeez, nothing to steal from this one, I'd better at least stab them or I won't have done anything wrong..."
To say that something is reducible to a conjectured hard problem is what 'provably secure' means in cryptography. Also, cryptographic hardness is not trivially relatable to P vs. NP, especially for hardness assumptions used to build public-key systems. For example, a poly-time factoring algorithm would not prove P == NP, but it would break RSA.
In-App Dunning for Stripe: Even more effective than Dunning emails
It's a bit thin on the ground in the US. In the UK at least, the "charity shop" is an important part of the circulation of used clothes (and to a lesser extent books and ornaments). They are small and common rather than large and rare like Goodwill (I live in a medium-sized market town, population ~50,000, and there are dozens of them) and are usually run directly by charities with specific goals. It's a standard part of the culture to donate unwanted clothes, and the volume of donations is such that they usually only sell undamaged clothes. It's perfectly possible to only buy charity shop clothes, and because they're so cheap (price of a beer or two) one's wardrobe tends to grow quickly - until you run out of space and have to donate stuff to make room.

So it's a nice system. It's a shame that the US hasn't adopted it.
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The real problem is that human values are incredibly complex and messy, and any deviation from them multiplied by the power of a superintelligence would most likely doom us forever.
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I wonder if someone is buried under it.
This also was my first thought, and my second thought was to solve it through redundancy.
There were articles posted in multiple categories, which caused misleading results due to double-counting when I first made the chart. (http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2s6d1y/30_l...)

The dupe articles had the same exact title, however.
Inside Vidyard's (YC S11) $18M round led by Bessemer
Awk is optimized for working with the output of other Unix tools. It's great for writing filters for larger output, like "show me the third column of all lines in <million-line-long-logfile> that contain the word 'moose'". Of course you can do this in Python or Ruby, but it's very convenient in awk as it's really optimized for that exact task.
Can these compilers really generate "readable and maintainable Javascript" and at the same time generate performant JS? I think this is one of the reasons why languages like Dart and Clojurescript chose the opposite (not generate readable JS).
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> I think everybody feels this way. I have a hard time imagining that anything but the vast majority of parents would agree.

I think this is typical mind fallacy.

Most parents, especially in these days of tiny family sizes, are probably more heavily protective than parents used to be.

I was ten in 1983, and for most of my childhood my only present parent was of the same age as most of my peers' grandparents (all of my siblings were boomers), and the difference in protectiveness was noticeable: I could stay out for hours at any time of the day or night when I was 13 and 14, except for times that were scheduled (school, church, and homework, basically). He wasn't surprised if he didn't see me for the entire weekend at that age.
Mindtcoin: How do you pay and reward talent?
In a recent post (*), the very important problem of how do you pay and reward for talent was raised, following P. Drucker ideas, I think that a new type of coin should be created: mindtcoin is a mind-talent-coin, a way to reward the talent. People could give mindtcoins to those they admire, the new virtual coin could get some traction and get into the real world of real money but that transformation is a process to be defined, a goal could be to win the 100000 dollar award of (2).

As there is no new thing under the sun, is very likely such an idea has been formulated before, but I think now is the moment to ripe from such an idea/project.
(1) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/5LRmR8BLz0Y

(2) http://www.druckerinstitute.com/drucker-nonprofit-innovation-award/

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/5LRmR8BLz0Y
Mandarin and Simplified Chinese is a popular course these days, even in some high schools. If you want something different from the way Westerners think about writing, grammar, and spoken language, and a different body of literature, there it is. And it's more useful in practical ways.
Ask HN: Does it make sense to hold my shares in an offshore company?
I'm about to start the process of incorporating for a startup. The company itself will be in the UK or the US. However, I'm considering creating an offshore company (Honk Kong or New Zealand maybe) to own my shares. If we ever sold the company, my offshore co would make the profit, receive the funds, and then I'd be able to keep the profit offshore and only pay tax when I bring the money into whichever country I'm living in.

Does that make sense as a strategy? I'm assuming more founders would be doing this if it was a smart strategy, I'm struggling to find any info online, which leads me to think it's not common practice.

Hoping to put off any discussion of tax dodging, my goal is not to avoid paying taxes, but to choose when to pay them. I don't necessarily want to pay capital gains at the time of the sale, especially if I want to reinvest in other businesses, etc.