skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be a little surprised if newbies were pulling 10a on their very first day of climbing; do you mean gym rats on their first day outside? The proliferation of gyms have helped a lot of inexperienced climbers get a lot of practice with the moves and training for the right muscle groups before ever touching real rock.

And eh, news coverage is the same ol' story. Articles are written by people with no expertise in a field, so things are wrong. Most readers don't really care anyway, and Rock & Ice or Climbing should have a good article out about it next month if they do.

You're right that the Yosemite Decimal System (YDS) doesn't really say much about risk or exposure (although there's the "r" and "x" indicators on some climbs) ("r" for "runout", if you should expect long sections without solid protection, and "x" for "you will hit something if you fall"), but that doesn't really mean a free climb can't be butt-puckering. Personally, I never did become a fan of flaring chimneys. But yeah, aid is pretty much an exercise in staying calm while your brain screams at you, "you 'bout to die!"

(ed: I only ever did aid once, practicing with a salty old trad climber I used to follow around a lifetime ago. It was only A0 on some pin-scars route in the Valley, but I'll never forget one particular moment. I couldn't get anything to stick nearby, and I was near the top and impatient, so I grabbed a brass #0, reached up, and made a blind placement, just about as far as I could reach -- and I'm not short. Pulled on it and it didn't fall out, so I said hell with it and clipped it. Stepped up in my aiders and came to eye level with the placement and the tiny little bastard was only halfway in, wedged against one very stubborn granite crystal. I made a very urgent next placement.)

The Dawn Wall climb is still pretty awesome for the amount of preparation and effort it took. No doubt someone someday will go back and do it faster & better, but for now, Caldwell and Jorgesen raised the bar for that particular climb.
I agree, unfortunately. R&D in Italy makes sense at least in the start-up phase, probably more harder in the scale-up phase.
Nope. The national bank decided, during a crisis, to artificially push down the value of the currency for the benefit of the economy as a whole (in their opinion). Now they've given that up and the franc has moved to it's natural value. While the information spread and the market tried to find the correct price there was brief volatility that is already gone.

Not like bitcoin at all.
I like this method of taking notes: http://bulletjournal.com/
Thanks for bringing back to my mind where I snatched this one up! Yep, it's Ender's Game. :)

What is the meaning of the Chinese (?) symbol?
I use vultr too and find them pretty good if very slightly pricey
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> Also pairs of languages for which their are big amount of parallel training data will still be favored.

wouldn't bible translations help?
As somebody touching 20st (127kg) I recently started working on a client site and had a choice, drive by car or catch a train and cycle the 5 miles to the client site. Into my second week and finding the cycling is really making a difference and can get desk to platform in 31 minutes (unlocking of bike etc) down from 35 minutes at the beginning.

I'll weigh myself at some point but honestly feel I'm physically getting into a better place and fantastically alert. There is also the challenge of riding hard on the way home to make sure to catch the train ;)

What is more interesting is that a lot of people in the office are surprised where I catch the train from (Newport,Wales) and that cycling is possible to Cwmbran without riding with traffic. The Monmouth canal is disused and the wildlife down there is amazing as are the views.

I basically go to the gym for an hour a day and I don't have a choice. I have to go no matter what. The weather is a bit crazy at the moment but there is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes ;)

I cannot recommend enough the idea of working out a way to cycle to work. Build fitness into your lifestyle and just make it a necessary function of your day. I've lasted at most 3 weeks at a gym. They feel inherently boring to me. My contract is for 6 months.

For those who want to know I'm on the tall side (6'2") so finding a suitable fold-up bike (train friendly) that was 'strong' enough to hold my weight was difficult. I ended up with a Xootr Swift. Beautiful ride and not had a problem on trains ( https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/103836... )
So what you're saying is that we need everyone on the planet to install an app that automatically accesses Turn's website every few seconds ... just to be sure that they know we don't want tracking!

;0)
Switzerland has something like 1/2 trillion in foreign currency reserves built up while trying to keep the franc at parity, putting them in a risky position. I think they were preparing for today - they recently lowered interest rates to negative, and now today dropped them even more negative.

Funny anecdote - the last time this happened around 3 or 4 years ago I was on a project in Germany and was surprised at how cheap everything was now with the exchange rate. Dining out felt like I was in India it was so cheap. We bought an Audi (in CHF) around then and they had to reduce the price 30% before the deal went through - then shortly after they pegged the franc to the euro.

Now hopefully the foreigners will start moving their money back into francs and let the property market cool off.
The photo translation doesn't work offline for me. I downloaded the languages but when I take a photo it just says "no network". I can mark the text but nothing happens.
As an Italian expat, I do welcome the attempt; I just wonder who would actually apply for one.

If you're in the US, your ecosystem is so much more startup-friendly, there is no point moving anywhere else -- opening a cheap R&D is probably the only reason I can think of, but if you're going for costs savings in that area, wouldn't you get a better deal in Eastern Europe?

If you are in Europe, you don't need a VISA to move to Italy.

The only people who would lust after this, IMHO, are:

1. South-Americans who can't or won't get into the United States;

2. Middle-Easters who can't or won't get into Gulf countries or Israel;

3. the kids of first-generation immigrants in Italy who can't get citizenship (because Italian immigration laws are stupid).

Are these constituencies large enough to create a significant ecosystem? I don't know. They will certainly face huge problems with casual racism in the business sector, if they try to sell in the Italian market. And venture finance for unconnected businesses in Italy is non-existent; the culture is very risk-averse, and capital is too sparsely distributed to make venturing palatable to the average investor.

But hey, good luck. At least they're trying something, I guess.
Please checkout http://l10ns.org It handles the pluralization case pretty well. It uses ICU's messageformat which is a markup for defining plural formatting http://l10ns.org/docs.html#pluralformat
Nothing changed for my Swiss colleagues who don't shop in Euros.

Prices of foreign goods in Switzerland should slowly converge to the lower lever.
I live in a very small town 40Km from Milan and I get 20Mb/s ADSL: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4061090445
I'll take my porcelain cup in classic lead white, thanks ;)
and yet that never works for me. the offline bit
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Side note: as you might expect, Wikipedia's internationalization is the only system that attempts to do quantities and other formatting correctly for every goddamn language on the planet, but is considerably easier for translators to work with than the OP's examples (sorry, Sean ;)

I did some work on bringing it to JavaScript and making it HTML-aware, and since then Santhosh Thottingal has vastly extended it and it's become pervasive at Wikipedia. More projects should use it, or at least learn from it.

Demo: http://thottingal.in/projects/js/jquery.i18n/demo/

Github: https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n
I find it a quite amazing situation. It's a good demonstration that US politicians are not interested in free market competition. In Europe, this structural split was a key part of the de-regulation of the telecoms market.

In the UK alone, OpenReach, the BT subsidiary that inherited the last mile network, counts more than 500 companies as customers that provide telecoms and ISP services to end-users. Many of them are business focused or offer only specific subsets of services, but there are a huge number of nationwide ISPs using OpenReach's services.

Especially because the starting point is very simple: You can start out using their "backhaul" service which lets you integrate with OpenReach a couple of places and be able to offer broadband nationwide in the UK and have OpenReach provide you with IP connections to each customer for you to do whatever you want with. You can then if you want "graduate" to local loop unbundling where you put equipment in local exchanges as/when demand justifies it, allowing you to connect directly to the local loop (line) of each of your subscribers, which allows you to offer services in excess of what OpenReach does (e.g. some ISPs offer higher speeds).

Once you go the LLU route, you can turn around and offer backhaul services yourself if you wish, in competition with OpenReach.

If even that isn't enough, and you have the capital, you can look at laying your own lines. E.g. in some cities we're starting to see alternative fibre connections to many apartment buildings etc. as providers are capitalising on the density to bypass OpenReach.

So it encourages competition massively by creating a very low barrier to entry, while allowing larger providers to compete with OpenReach itself.
ICU's messageformat solves this easily. One project that supports ICU's messageformat is L10ns http://l10ns.org
Wikipedia cites Brown and CBO and Brown studies putting the cost at $1 - $2.4 trillion. That's $3200 - $7700 per person in the US.

$6 trillion exceeds that considerably, no idea on the source (I'm not OP), but inclusive of civilian costs to Iraqis it might be a defensible number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
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I agree with everything you say. Unless it is particularily beneficial to do special exercises to counteract deficiencies of our modern life style, it should be sufficient to roughly simulate the movements our ancestors did.

I'm wondering whether our ancestors did stretching exercises. I could imagine that the occasional yawn/stretch and a variety of different movements is sufficient to avoid contracture.
As a side note, there is also OhUI (https://github.com/arcanis/ohui, i'm the author) which has the same goal than blessed, but a different api (dom-based) and codebase.

Blessed is great, but I had some performance issues with really fast updates, so I made OhUI, which tries to minimize as much as possible the repaint zones. I think it is pretty efficient at this regard.
What really interests me is how they located him. The article says they had very many compromised seller/vendor accounts, and it says that crucially they had an IRS agents help also.

So, to me, this implies that they were able to get all the customer information from the compromised vendors about their transactions over the years, their names and addresses and goods sold... and via the IRS, access to customers bank accounts, money in an out.

That might well be enough to get a list of potential targets. I wonder if they might be able to use bitcoin data also?
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Yes, there are many factors, but our diet is the biggest (and greatly underestimated by the medical profession). Many people with autoimmune would benefit from eating paleo, not saying 100%. And yes, it's all anecdotal, but there is a great deal of science behind it. I recommend reading [1] for a better understanding.

Again, anecdotal, but my wife has autoimmune that attacks the thyroid, causing her to have 180 bpm heart beat (24/7). Doctors recommended medicine that further attacks the thyroid, but she went with a paleo diet instead, after a recommendation from my bio PhD sister who also has autoimmune. Her symptoms stopped within a week or two, her values are now back to normal. Could be something else, but I doubt it. She had the same thing 6 years ago and it lasted for 6 months, while eating this medication that damaged her liver.

Turns out gluten in particular is linked to many autoimmune diseases. Here are some shorter blog posts by the same author [2] on gluten, autoimmune and AIP.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be many large scale studies on diet and autoimmune, but personally, after understanding the underlying mechanisms better, and having personal as well as overwhelming online anecdotal evidence, I'm fairly convinced. I recommend keeping an open mind about this one and start reading.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Approach-Reverse-Autoimmune-Dise...
[2] http://www.thepaleomom.com/category/autoimmune-2/the-whys-of...
Here is more info about the plural format of ICU's messageformat. http://l10ns.org/docs.html#pluralformat.
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Yep, it's free until you have to pay for it. Hope you can afford it.

If you cant, you either lose your possessions or you die.

Sounds like a great deal! sign me up! /s
Worth mentioning that in the UK, a lot of employers are enrolled on the Cycle to Work scheme.

This allows employees to buy a bike through their company/business (normally worth up to £1,000), and pay it back over a period of time, through a salary sacrifice, i.e. pre-tax.
Can I use the app with another stack? I know i'll give up some niceties but the app seems good enough to use even without Rails...
As an interesting side note, Microsoft just open sourced Bond. It's written in Haskell, and is a high performance, cross-language, schematized serialization tool. The project describes itself as widely used in many of Microsoft's high scalability services.

Microsoft has many proponents and detractors on HN, but no one can deny that they have plenty of services that get lots of traffic. If Haskell is serving a critical role in many of those services, then it seems that it is ready for commercial/real-world applications.
> Why wouldn't it be legal?

don't waste your brain capacity on stupid people

there are too many of them
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A client-side cookie is not sufficient, you'd have to set it in every browser you ever use. Practically speaking it needs to be server-side, but should be (but never would be) opt-in rather than opt-out.

The other option is respecting DNT, but that is never going to happen as a default behaviour for all companies.
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I'd like to ask to all these complaining italians that are telling people to stay away from their home country: how many of you are still in Italy and what are you doing to change things?

I don't think that throwing shit (true or not) and scaring international talents from coming to Italy opening their own startup is a good way to help.

Disclaimer: I'm Italian, living and running my company in NL since 3 years.
I once suggested an idea that maybe instead of strings in tables one could use something better suited for the task at hand like, say, code? Maybe let the tables store not only strings but functions as well, so that you could handle the more complex cases directly?

I remember being hit in the head by gettext manual and told something about translators not knowing how to code.

Heck, I still think it's a neater idea than gettext.
The irony being the poster above used that exact translation themselves?

Translation is difficult, and at least in this case the translation is an accurate one (albeit one many english speakers would need to look up in a dictionary).
If someone chooses to work for a sleazy company, say one that aggressively violates a person's expressed desire to not be tracked, I would not want to hire them or otherwise associate with them.

Should the engineers who enable companies like Turn be shunned by other engineers?
Have you been to Little Sparta? I saw that Little Sparta was a big influence for the couple that created Jupiter Artland (and they have works by Ian Hamilton Finlay) - we went just before it closed for the winter and I thought it was incredible:

http://www.littlesparta.org.uk/

Can't wait to go back!
You might want to checkout http://l10ns.org
It's a japanese character (from hiragana script), and AFAIK used like this it means something like "isn't it?"/"shouldn't it?".
Or the classic: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm
Aren't Google Zurich employees payed in CHF?
Miyagawa makes two claims.

1. L::M::L::G enables PO-based work-flow. This is not correct except for trivial lexicons. L::M::L::G cannot parse the plural extract from the article, so it is incompatible with properly working PO emitters.

2. Maketext is used on typepad and "works really well". This claim is not backed by any evidence. The verifiable facts from the article pointing out the pluralisation problems of L::M still stand unchallenged.
http://enwp.org/ね
I don't really know what you mean by political - I think you are defining it pretty expansively. What, exactly, would count as NOT political to you?

If there's a society with mistreatment of certain races built in, then that mistreatment must first be addressed.

It's a bit unreasonable to ask adwords engineers to layer on some post-hoc fix many miles downstream when they can't even measure the mistreatment or reasonably predict the effect of the fix. It's also completely unfair to the individual humans (individual humans are the only ones I care about) who didn't mistreat anyone and are now obligated to pay for the actions of someone else (in the form of fewer clicks on ads).

And of course, built into all of this is the assumption that statistical disparities are all caused by mistreatment. That is unlikely to be true.

Incidentally, as per the description given in your edit, unintentionded consequences of ad serving algorithms can only be interpreted as "political" in the broadest sense. So can anything else. So if you just mean "political" in the sense of "anything that ever affects anything", then sure - ad serving is political.
Well, AS seemed rather big to me compared to NW.js, also it wanted me to use a special directory structure for my application.
Isn't that the point of having a billion dollars? You can afford it.
It's a Japanese sentence ending, used to seek agreement/confirmation. Similar to "right?" or "isn't it?" in English.
This is called "persistence hunting" [1], and is still pursued by some hunter-gatherer cultures today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
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In the spirit the correctness and accuracy, which Commonwealth? :)
> they recently lowered interest rates to negative, and now today dropped them even more negative.

How does this not cause a run on the banks? (Serious question)
Using a VPN would encrypt your traffic, preventing Verizon from injecting a UIDH header. You could then clear your cookies and websites would not be able to re-add them via the UIDH header since it isn't being sent.

This isn't to say that the websites can't identify you via some other means, just that they no longer have the guaranteed UIDH header to identify you.
that's what you (pl.) said last year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723751
I love this article, and used t send it to none-technical people all the time. <3 Sean Burke, the author
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...and having worked remotely with people from Southern California for the last couple of years, it looks like they're in a generally worse state than us (northern Italians), at least from a network stability perspective
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So what languages are actually supported in conversation mode?

Few months ago spoken Thai input was not supported.

Also, World Lens works nothing like in the animation. The app scans for words and provides translation in a traditional UI, it does not overlay translation over the image.
The two Turkish letters dotted and dotless i are often confused by users of poorly localised software. Wikipedia links to a murder case allegedly caused by this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I

A real horror story.

(Less seriously, Unicode has counterintuitive case-changing behaviours with those letters. If you are working outside the Turkish locale and uppercase a dotless I and then lowercase it, it gains a dot. I am curious about this design decision, since it seems like a basic error in operating a the level of glyphs rather than symbols. Or maybe the opposite.)
Lombardy is not Italy, you know. Come down here in Catanzaro (where i'm from) and let's talk about this again.
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Well, in absence of tangible success, what else can you do but admit failure, or otherwise produce massive amounts of hot air?

It's probably easier to catch a “pirate” than a “terrorist”, so if the NSA has you believe “piracy” is a threat to National Security, then maybe they can claim some success stories after all.
Cool, but pretty useless.
It does and has for some time[1]. Just switch to airplane mode and try it before asserting this? You have to download the language packs first, but it works.

[1] http://googletranslate.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-worlds-langu...
Yup, and those two sum up.

It's not State XOR Mafia. It's state AND Mafia. As if state alone was not enough.
We use Recurly, Stripe and FreeAgent. Recurly creates the invoices required for customers (so thats nice and simple).

Our book keeper creates an invoice for each day within FreeAgent, we then attribute the amount that came from Stripe in to it.

We then download the CSV data from Recurly and work out how much VAT should be attributed to the specific invoice.

We also work out currency gains/losses as well here.

FreeAgent lets you add a VAT item to the invoice.

It's a bit of a pain but gives our customers what they need, and it gives us what we need from an accounting perspective.

Recurly stores all of the transactional data if we ever need to go back and audit it for any reason.

Hope this helps!
On the line chart examples , the scales do not seem like able to change,otherwise great project.
I've found Gmail's offline and multi account support to be pretty sufficient for me. I'm mostly just curious. There do seem to be some cool things here, but I'm probably not going to be convinced to use a desktop client regardless. (And I can't in this case since I'm not a Windows user.)
Do not take it personally, but I cannot think of any major problem attributable to Italy to be any better in Brazil or Argentina.
I wonder if it isn't better to generate the messages as an AST, and have a language generator, the back-end of a compiler really, that generates strings for each language. I'm sure there will be less edge cases that way.

/edit: wow, downvotes.
Does anyone know of any equivalent open source systems for the word lens or audio translate apps? Or even what kind of algs they are using?
How old are you? I've heard my metabolism will slow down as I get older but I don't seem to be there yet in mid my 30s.