skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should want to do the things you need to do because you understand the consequences of not doing them. Consider this: many unsuccessful people spend all day doing things that they have to do because someone told them so, whereas the most successful people in our society have the means to do anything or nothing at all but choose to work at the highest levels as CEOs and Congressmen. Teaching children how to make good decisions on their own is much more valuable than teaching them how to sit still because someone said so.
Okay. Interesting response here. There's some points I hadn't considered.

1. I see your argument here but I also wonder if there are processes that you have not considered. I don't know if you're familiar with ClickClack's keycaps, but that's an artist who does custom shaped keys. I'm 99% positive, as I've done the same process myself, that he sculpts a master, makes a mould and pours resin keycaps. You can make these in huge bulks quickly for cheap this way. Getting the Cherry MX backing is as simple as cutting the stem off a key and gluing it to your top. It makes choices of plastics/resin more difficult (you can't just mix and pour PBT...) but this process is super cheap. Cheaper than 3d printing and cheaper than machining. You can build a vacuum degasser for $50 + an air compressor.

2. Cherry switches can be spring modded to much lower actuation forces. There are places where you can buy 30g-45g switches, in bulk, and it's probably cheaper than tooling them yourself. I honestly can't imagine using less than 45g and maintaining accuracy, especially on something that's basically close to being a chording keyboard like the Stenotype (but then again, I'm not a steno).

4. I guess it doesn't matter for your use case because you have to make your own keycaps, but for someone who will be using the switches for something else this is not true. Regular keycaps for ALPS switches are either going to be substantially more expensive or someone trying to dump old/excess stock. I don't even know where you could get ALPS keycaps made in a group buy -- people have tried. The campaign page is advertising advantages that really don't exist outside of your specific use case.

That's really my only gripe. I don't see where there would be a use case outside of your specific project. I know folks sitting on huge bulks of ALPS switches that are sitting doing nothing because usually nobody wants them. Forgive my myopia.

Alps is an interesting choice for your project, especially since you don't have to worry about stabilizers at all.
I've been confused about why the website seems so counterintuitive. I really hope someone at Netflix understands this problem and pushes for a fix.
This is mostly based on my own observations, I don't have a very specific study on the matter.

Here's a data point though. Many French students learn in English class, as an anecdote, that "shallow" has no equivalent in French. If there were many other words like this, there would be little point in relating this anecdote. "Shallow" is one of the very few words in English with no French equivalent. French words with no English equivalent? I encounter them all the time.

There are different words for the mouth and leg of an animal versus human. (gueule et patte vs bouche et jambe). There's a common word for the lump of flours that form in dough (grumeau). There's a word for a sandwich with a slice of bread on only one side (tartine). There's a single word for brown sugar (cassonade). There's a different word for hair on your head and hair on your body (cheveux, poils), etc.

Here's a nice list
http://www.eupedia.com/europe/missing_words_english.shtml

English words with no French equivalent? Shallow and Serendipity come to mind. I'm googling but I can't find many other at the moment, apart from very technical terms.
Ah, I didn't catch that. That's... annoying.

Perhaps you might object mathematically too. I think of a curve as fitting the test scores to a specific distribution as a corrective to testing error. It's not the fitting that's the issue, it's how justified the target distribution is. If you truncate it, you have to justify doing that somehow (all prior test results had that distribution?). Of course, if the sample distribution squashes it enough, you might end up clustered at 100% anyway, but...
Are they pondering what we're pondering?
Yeah that's it - thanks - there's also a Google presentation with the high points at http://tinyurl.com/gomultilingual
Seriously cool. As someone with a background from small-scale farming(not beekeeping though) I love this and I am happy to see others enthusiastic as well.
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Ask HN: Would the job postings be better with comments?
Since I'm the kind of person that likes Stripe's take on email transparency[1], I might just be over-opinionated on the matter when I think that the YC job posts would be better if conversation was able to occur within them.

Some examples:

* Clever - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9082693 - what does code refactoring have to do with that position?

* LivBlends - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9047329 - any YouTube videos of your product in action?

* Mailgun - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681316 - is there any correlation between the positions and the locations?

Sometimes the conversation is going to be asking for more details. Sometimes making suggestions. Sometimes OT. But I can't think of many situations where inspired conversations would detract from the quality of the posting...

[1] https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency
Expanding on the point that bag of words doesn't work that great for sentiment... A good example of why are phrases like "not bad", "not great", "not a good idea". Just scoring based on unigrams really doesn't capture the context well, and people use negators a lot. You could maybe try filtering these out or detecting them with some clever rules.

I did a bit of work on this using the JDPA Sentiment Corpus for my thesis about 5 years ago. Its hand annotated for things like negators and inversions of sentiment. There's a bunch of code and examples here: https://verbs.colorado.edu/jdpacorpus/

Warning: code/corpus is academic licensed, but even reading the papers may give you some ideas.
Holding a position for a few days, hours, minutes, or seconds is not investing. It's gambling.
If Escalade has to be built, they should build it entirely underground with just a handful of few holes at the top and a couple at the bottom. Each room gets its own fixed camera projecting outside view to the room as well as remotely controlled camera drones for lazy visitors.
He's pointing out that official statistics on crime in Japan may not accurately reflect reality.
It's a contract-, TOS-, trade- or tax-code-violation but not "as much a copyright violation" as plain old piracy.
‘Why Not Us Women?’
I think this is a matter of personal preference, analogous to whether or not people want to be early adopters in technology or music, though not necessarily correlated with preferences in those other areas.
Sweet! Thanks for bringing that forward. If you ever make an academic edition that students could play with, please let me know! http://linkedin.com/in/tekelsey
Er, how about make one side the "quiet" side and one side the "noisy" side? Address the actual difference rather than unrelated side effects.
Extremely high. There are a number of intelligent special on this planet right now: dolphins, elephants, whales, primates...

How likely is that there will be a sophisticated tool using civilization is a more interesting question. There are non human species that use tools[0], but they lack in sophistication. In order to start advanced technological civilization I think there are few conditions: ability to store information, ability to communicate information, and ability to utilize and improve tools.

[0] Some primates use sharp sticks as weapons.
I'm being downvoted by VCs with crappy blogs
Just click on "Recently Watched" at the top left of the homepage.

It links to here: https://www.netflix.com/WiViewingActivity
I have always liked the noisy-channel model of language. It appeals to me because I think of the human as an extremely good pattern recognition "device".

In my opinion, it gives a satisfying explanation as to why many languages (about half of them) divide their words in noun categories or genders, which are rarely sex-based. It's a system of redundancy, which allows for noisy or compressed speech (either mumbled, or at a party, or fast spoken), to still be understood, because the gender endings give clues to what the original word was
And that social experience is something an internet streaming service should be able to exploit. Though maybe Netflix doesn't want to get involved in social networking.
>Of course while you're developing a new feature you might want to use it from another module on your dev machine, but "npm link" is what you want to use for that.

Yeah, but that's the manual way. It works okay when you're only developing a small number of modules (say 1 to maybe 3), but at some point doing it manually becomes pretty annoying. And you need scripts and commits to package.json files if you have a build server which makes builds of feature branches.
Most of Shakespeare's language is accessible to English speakers in England, Ireland, Australia, etc. There might be a few word here or there that are not widely understood ("bodkin" is not one of these, its meaning is generally known in the UK).

However, American English, especially as is daily spoken in the more ethnically diverse areas of the US has a much reduced vocabulary due to the need to accommodate non-native speakers.

For an example of where Shakespeare's language become confusing consider

"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo."

Modern speakers of English most often interpret "wherefore to mean "where", when it means "why".
When people start talking about crazy sci-fi scenarios about "the machines taking over", and I try to ponder realistic ways something like that could actually happen, my speculative journey currently leads me to the future of farming automation.

Maybe in 20 years Farmlogs 2035 will be powering fully automated farming that will be beyond our current imagination in efficiency. Application of machine learning and evolutionary programming will lead to it doing things with seeds and crop planting patterns and watering frequency that will be outside of our ability to comprehend.

Because of this amazing improvement in efficiency, we will need much less land to support the population. Fields would lie fallow and be turned into condos. It is at this point that we will be past the point of no return. Further into the future, if Farmlogs AI 2075 just decides that it has other plans than feeding humans... or even if there was some weird "bug" that caused a severe downturn in crop yields for a year. We would have to scramble to grow enough food without the incomprehensible techniques used by the machines.

Ok... getting back to work now.
Can you be a little more specific. What is the use case?

I have feeling you mean a parser API...but I am not sure.
no chromatic aberration in etalon Lie group, no near-field unresolved flare parameters. Perplexion itself. Nicely grounded in the supplement http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2015/02/18/science.a...
What happens when you have a society composed of nothing but managers and financiers shuffling paper around?
I don't think you appreciate the different arguments being made here, and I'm not sure if you read the article past the title.

>If the output isn't coherent or fails to articulate such that the listener doesn't understand the message, then it's hardly adaptive.

Clipping, assimilation, etc. do not meet your criteria as they do not cause incomprehensibility. They may draw prescriptive criticism, but they do not deprive phrases of all conceivable meaning. Those are the types of phenomena that the article is discussing.

More to the point, when I say "adaptive" I am talking about the evolution of language. The winds of change. It isn't always "good" in an objective sense, but it never leads to a breakdown of meaning.

>incomprehensibility of mumbling.

Think of the definition used by the article as "failure to enunciate" and it should make more sense. Perhaps it wasn't the best word choice, but I'm guessing it's reflective of social use. I don't know what else a layman might call "not enunciating", especially since there are several factors involved such as the examples above.

The rest of your comment, as well as chasing's comment, seem to be hinged on the idea that there's only one definition of mumbling, which I just don't agree with, but I won't continue to argue against it either. If you have a better title for the article, I would direct it to the writer.
You could buy a lot of movies outright for only a bit more than Amazon charges, so the price seems a bit steep to me. Obviously not back-breaking, but the price feels wrong.
From my own experience I can say it would be an enormous advantage when shooting in low light. At least for current sensors. Where I am living, for four months in winter have only limited hours of dim daylight and current phone sensors are pretty much useless. You are right about dust though and extra care has to be taken, but it seems as a small inconvenience to me compared to sub-acceptable noise levels.
Does anyone have a link on how to diagnose whether your machine exhibits this crash? everything that I can find that was available has been removed by Apple or expired.
Dancing the night away with Kinect v2
>tldr; there were once only commercial implementations of Common Lisp that cost far too much and delivered little. Because money.

Which is complete bullshit.
That's basically domestication.

Also, the 10:0 number is highly misleading - the number of bacteria in our body are only around 1 to 2 percent of our body mass.
That was actually the point of the essay by Paul Graham, you can perhaps find it on his site.
To me, your comments seem to reinforce the article's point -- namely that the structure of typical modern classrooms does not help boys succeed as much as girls. The only other way to read your comment is that boys are just inherently less capable/motivated than girls, which seems just as objectionable to me as historical attitudes which dismissed women or minorities as less capable and/or motivated.

I don't think the only possibility here is 1-to-1 education for boys. Many believe that there are other ways of structuring the learning environment and school schedule (e.g. more gross motor breaks) in a way that would help draw out the strengths of boys. In the end, I wonder if this won't steer us more towards separating the genders for at least part of the school day. This would be politically challenging in many public school systems though, in particular because of the historical abuses of "separate but equal" systems.
Exactly. It seems to bump against the warning against eating up your buffer. Whether that's physical space, time, or money. We all need some wiggle room to deal with the unexpected, don't run to the edge with everything or one small mistake will ruin everything.
Here's a fun surprise: Microsoft allows driver vendors to ship arbitrary programs in addition to drivers. They will download and install these programs automatically. For instance, I bought some "gamer" mouse because it was the closest thing to an Intellimouse 3 I could find. Suddenly I have a \Program Files\Razer directory, and a popup on install telling me to register and do all this other stuff.

So if Lenovo was evil, they can just ship shit in their drivers, get it certified by MS, and have it distributed automatically by Windows Update driver install.
They have a lot of this, at least if you are accessing the service via the web. Just click on Browse and choose a genre and you'll be able to sort by rating, year of release, maturity rating, or alphabetical order. You can also access these genres by clicking on the section titles in the recommendations.

Otherwise, your best bet is to use one of the many external sites such as allflicks.net.
If you do a dig on ir.netflix.com, you'll see this is hosted at shareholder.com. It is not uncommon for publicly traded companies to host this stuff through third-party providers.
If you're an isp they'll give you a server full of it for free. https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/hardware/index.html
Google Webfonts, the Spy Inside?
Because the business and consumer teams at Lenovo are largely separate. I can't order a Yoga through my Thinkpad rep. I have to go to a retail vendor and us a credit card. I expect there are lots of people at the old IBM offices in New York who are as horrified as we are at when the consumer team agreed to.
That's a problem already for passengers on China's Qinghai-Tibet railway line, whose highest station is above 5,000m (16,600 feet).

The railroad cars offer enriched oxygen and supplemental oxygen, though they're not pressurized. Edema is a real possibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghai%E2%80%93Tibet_Railway

Or this travelog:

http://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/HIGH-TRAIN-TO-TIBET-Wor...

As the altimeter approaches 17,000 feet, a package of potato chips balloons outward until it ruptures a seam. Sunscreen and hand sanitizer erupt unbidden from bottles. In soft sleeper class, Chinese businessmen sprawl listlessly on their bunks, sucking oxygen from plastic hoses. The bathrooms smell of vomit.
There's also the primates that learned to modify sticks (i.e., peal off the bark) to stick in termite mounds, causing the termites to stick to the sap on the wood. This is an invented and learned behavior, but I don't know if there is any cases of a primate teaching another one this trick (vs. a primate picking it up by observation only).
Dentists actively try to make the experience less rough, make you feel more in control.

At least good ones do, and I have freedom (and sense) to not go to bad ones.
5 Things Chinese New Year Reveals About the World's Most Vibrant Economy
The very fact that there are so many more consonant phonemes than vowel phonemes in English reflects their importance.
With them using a totally custom shape keycap, a standard keycap would be too far outside the scope for it to be worth their time.

No two makes of Alps keyboard have ever used the same stabilizers I think. Designing that I think would be a pretty big job and Matias has a standard layout for their own boards already (as long as you use Macs).
Seriously? What % of the English do you think will understand this (random start of first Shakespeare play that popped into my head):

If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken, and so die.

That strain again! it had a dying fall:

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,

That breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:

'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,

That, notwithstanding thy capacity

Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,

Of what validity and pitch soe'er,

But falls into abatement and low price,

Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy

That it alone is high fantastical.
Perhaps you failed prey to ad retargeting? It's happened to me with several services. Once you visit their website, you keep seeing their ads everywhere.
I wish it wasn't true - but if there is a native app available for a website/service i wish to use - I choose native app almost all the time. Each of these services have a 100% work website & maybe a mobile-web:
- Ebay, Amazon, Mint, SigFig, Homejoy, MerillEdge, BofA BillPay, PizzaHut, Dominos... Somehow using their native app feels solid, real and not flakey. I don't have a feeling that I will loose my shopping cart or be logged out due to an error/network connection etc.

I am a big advocate of truly native mobile web, but honestly the first thing i look for when i love a service or website is: "Do they have an iPhone app?"
Like the others stated, our cells are way to polymorphic to "just" be a clone society - although I agree that an ethnically homogeneous society is still more diverse than that.

Spot on with the ant/bee society thing. In the words of E.O. Wilson: "Communism/Socialism. Great idea, wrong species."
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I see your point. "I will invest more money in educating our children better" is not a vague as "Hope and Change", but it is still quite vague.
I despise Lenovo. Purely from an engineering quality aspect, they aren't remotely close to IBM. I've been on the T440p for a year now, and I utterly hate using it. Every time I'm not docked, I'm really, really, annoyed. (Compared to feeling great when on the X201.)

But what am I gonna do? There's essentially no options to replace an old X-style ThinkPad. The newest Carbon X1 is as close as anything. Everyone else is moving to the Apple-style clickpad, which is unacceptable. HP and Dell sell mostly crap. Apple's devices are hot and unergonomic (apart from questionable Windows driver support).

So good luck not trusting them. And I doubt HP'd do any better.
Those three you selected co-existed alongside 295 days of many mediocre, dull, boring and ridiculous job posts that don't foster good or valuable discussion. I think there was also problem(s) with startups trying to stay secret + being identifiable from their job listings. There did used to be comments, until those reasons.
How do I download the demo themes? I was hoping to download the http://sites.layerswp.com/acquire/ business theme, but can't seem to figure out how to do that through your docs.
Laser pointers don't work if the video is being recorded or screencast at the same time. They only work when the viewer is in the same room, and even then, they are typically pretty poor.
Will it really cease making all breaking changes? In the past, the Rust team has been open to the possibility of making changes that technically break backwards compatibility, but that they view as being unlikely to cause many problems in the real world. This is still different than ceasing breaking changes in the sense of SemVer.
I'm not even that miffed about being a product and not the customer; I am incredibly miffed that I'm apparently one of the products in the discount bin.
Interestingly, Roku was create by Netflix, at first it was Netflix TV, but they spun it off.
I think this comment/discussion ends up over-emphasizing the 'strangeness' of the line-number situation with this library, the page linked ends with: 'This position is subject to discuss. Also it doesn’t stop anyone from forking the code and maintaining line-numbers implementation separately.', which seems pretty reasonable to me!
Has anyone actually tried submitting a patch that implements it yet?

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/highlightjs/UVJaQcQNC1c/1C6U...