skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language support is quite impressive with support for latin, CJK and even indic scripts. Notable omissions include RTL scripts like Arabic and Hebrew.

From: https://support.google.com/faqs/faq/6188721

At the moment Google Handwriting Input supports 82 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Nyanja, Odia, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somalian, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu
Why wouldn't bars be legal?
> I appreciate the sentiments of this community, its unquestioning reverence towards Patrick

I honestly don't. I mean, nice guy, sure, and a great writer, but I don't see that he has built anything I consider particularly inspiring, or successful. In fact he has had quite a few misses, which were announced with the usual self-assured write-ups, only to disappear later.

(I only say this in light of the surprisingly large following patio11 has, he is certainly more accomplished than I or most most posters here will probably ever be.)
Every year, usually in September, I spend 3-4 days in Ashland, OR, and take in a few plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Truly world-class theater, I've enjoyed many superb productions there.

It helps to read a Shakespeare play before going to the performance. Easy to do these days given availability of the work on the Internet, often well-annotated. It often happens that reference is made to the London Shakespeare knew, and I think this interactive map could be quite useful in understanding the full context of a play.

Seems the map project is in an early stage. It will be a great asset as the textual information about the historic features is filled in. I'll definitely come back to it a few months from now.
Voting machines used passwords as easy as “abcde” and “admin”
I think it is better to think of sorting the words as standardization (or looking it up, canonicalization). A typical goal when hashing is to avoid collisions, this algorithm is seeking a certain type of collision.
I like the concept of the separating concerns and no direct coupling between modules. I think they could have taken it one step further by using messaging but I'm biased there :)

I'm curious why they decided to roll their own modules when the web component standard has been around for a few years. Granted the polyfills may not have been available years ago when they started this but I feel like contributing to those, especially since the coding styles are so similar, would have been very fruitful. Looking at it today I'm not sure why I would use their modules versus web components unless I needed IE8 support.

The jQuery dependency is a little odd; is it going to keep up with the latest version of jQuery or eventually drop it? At a job I had a few years back I had to create a new web application where I was forced to use a platform that required a very old version of jQuery (otherwise it would break horribly) which made using a newer version a little annoying (though obviously doable thanks to noConflict()). It's rare to see frontend JavaScript frameworks with dependencies.

Overall this is pretty neat though I'm not sure I would necessarily use it.
I would like to present: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2014&id=D00...

Many of the Congressional representatives on this list have signed letters on behalf of Google asking the EU not to intervene in Google's business.
Wow! That's unbelievable! I hope the media takes TRAI to the task on this.
Quadratic: f(x) = x^2

Exponential: f(x) = 2^x
In London, insurance companies stopped insuring Range Rovers if they are kept on the street overnight. They will only insure it if it's kept in a locked garage. That's how bad it is.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/land-rover/range-rover/89183/ra...
I would like to "hack" together a stainless steel AeroPress, at least the outer tube, I think the press is fine.

I don't know whether I've been pressing too hard or what, but I've noticed that my cylinder is expanding.
> "Even BP didn't get that big of a fine when they polluted half of the Atlantic Ocean."

BP was not fined as much as they should have been, therefore the EU should go easy on all other companies from now on? How does that make any sense?
Why? They gained independence from Great Britain without going to war.

There is a long history or nationalism in India.
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?cycle=2014&id=D00...
And even more specific to front-end frameworks and libraries:

http://addyosmani.com/blog/front-end-choice-paralysis/
It's weird that what you're pointing out doesn't get mentioned more as it seems (to me) a likely factor. The stigma of tech has definitely lessened over time (as the economy has less room for the non-technical), but valuing physical/social prowess is deeply rooted in biology so being intellectual/less social may always have some kind of stigma.
I think they just bumped the warranty period back up a bit some time after clearing out the post-flood inventory. My drives bought from newegg in the US came with a 2-year warranty. I'm more worried about the consequences of the dumb power management than poor materials and workmanship.
Net Neutrality supporters have their priorities out of whack when they attack Wikipedia for getting free zero rating.

Net neutrality is a means to an end, not the end itself. And wiki being available to millions or billions of people for free doesn't threaten the "open internet."
Seems like a great idea. Why should people be paid more just because they have and are willing to use a skill (negotiation) unrelated to the skills they are being hired to use (engineering)?

Letting engineers who feel like negotiating get higher salaries makes about as much sense as letting engineers who happen to have paddled to work on a sea-kayak get a higher salary.
With any luck we'll also turn out to be a campaign to be remembered. :)
I think we're counting about 100k short of actual figures.
Oh, no doubt. It was a smart choice for them.
"the most" (as in the title) is measured by crowd votes....

Also the page-goto links (those at the bottom of the pages such as "1 2 3 > last>") seems to be not working if you are at some later page and want to go back to the ones in the front (e.g. go to a smaller page number), you could just replace the ${NUM} in the link with an integer,

www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/${NUM}

this will take you directly to that record sorted at ${NUM} position...
I think you are mistaken. /dev/tcp is not visible in /dev or devtmpfs, however it most definitely works.

$ nc -l 8080 &

[1] 13694

$ echo hi >> /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/8080

hi

[1]+ Done nc -l 8080

I just tried it on a relatively diverse set of distros. Depending on the version of netcat, if it is an ancient one on an older distribution such as say RHEL4, you have to do:

nc -l -p 8080

However, the same echo command works in all of them.
Me too. I'd take a job doing assembler over one doing Ruby any day of the week. I'm sure lots of people would.
That video is wonderful. Anyone know of a video that outlines the importance of net neutrality as it pertains to America? This video covers the core idea excellently, but some of the details are very specific to India and their struggle with neutrality. I'd love to have something to show people that think Neutrality is some government overstep. But I feel like they'd be too distracted by the fact that it's not specifically discussing the new American laws (which is stupid, I know).
The key to selecting a programming language: focus
Because the access to information is extremely constrained. The Internet is much bigger than just wikipedia. There have been studies which showed that people in such situations who used these so called "Free services" didn't even realize they were actually a part of the much bigger Internet, and just considered them standalone. I guess a similar situation would be people in the old days thinking AOL was synonymous with the Internet.

Do you want to live in a world where your access to information is constrained to one site only?
Web master's solution to front page traffic
Ah, ok. Maybe a tiny bit of UX to alert a submitter that they have to 'opt-in' on the up-vote, then?
The difficulty in analogies like this (and other arguments against net neutrality, such as saying partnerships between Facebook and network companies are the equivalent of promotional marketing or bundling) is that controlling the availability of specific sites or apps on a network inherently introduces bias in the network. So this is like an organization that gives away food creating roads that only they and their partners can use, given a government license to build roads (the same way network companies have a government license to build on the wireless spectrum and other channels.)
I know nothing about life sciences, but from talking to friends it seems like this is one of those no brainer ideas.

I'm curious to know what some of the adoption/market challenges are - is it hard to get scientists/students to actually use something like this? Why hasn't anyone built this yet? Are there certain technical challenges that haven't yet been addressed?

Congrats to a great team!
Yeah, comics have enough duplicates of everything (including, in some cases, multiple identical clones of the same character) that the only sane way way to handle it is to assign an arbitrary unique ID to each character.
Switchable Glass+Smart Architecture for Vertical Urban Farming
agreed - foursquare was great, then they split apps, now it is completely useless. maybe they were ahead of their time ...
My gripe is that I have no leverage negotiating.

Salary is like the last thing I care about in which employer I choose.

If I like the company, I would take less than they offered probably.

If I don't like the company, I would probably not want to work there no matter the offer.

If I ask for more money, but am unwilling to walk away, I feel like I'm starting the relationship off on a bad foot.

I feel like favoring negotiators favors people who don't care who they work for, and are most interested in money.
Travel in the USA Requires ID
Show HN: Ananias Roguelike on Steam and other platforms
When your company is on its way down and may never make money again, Yahoo will be there.
A fix is currently in progress: https://github.com/atom/text-document
http://www.keiretsuforum.com/about/team/

I like how most people are directors or presidents of Keiretsu Forum and TWO people are staff employees.
Even a Pyrex one would be interesting.
How to Create a Sortable Grid with JQuery UI
Don’t Be So Happy About That Tax Refund
Auto-parallelizer: #pragma loop
I just discovered that MSVC++ can automatically run each iteration of a loop in parallel in separate threads. Add "#pragma loop(hint_parallel(8))" and "#pragma loop(ivdep)" before the loop, and compile with the /Qpar option. This simple change sped up my cryoablation simulation code by 4x.
I don't come from a frontend background, most of my experience is just cobbled together websites that use jQuery and maybe a spot of Angular.

The myriad of JS frameworks is bewildering to me sometimes.
I was against this zero movement from the start. I'm really happy to see that it is started to be seen as anti-NN. Wishing for Turkey Operators to pull out too.
Ask HN
What's a Mac app that you would like that doesn't exist and you would pay for?
The CS Unplugged material is excellent - I've used it to teach kids from 6 - 14 years some Computer Science with out using any computers - the exercises are good and have a good pedagogical underpinning.
The question would be, how did those links in the OneBox get there? Is there harm in being the #1 search result, but not the first "result" on the page, because there's a OneBox above you with links from a different source?
I find that I generally pronounce 3 letter acronyms letter by letter but I pronounce four letter (or more) acronyms like words if I can, and only fall back to letter-by-letter if there's not an obvious word-like pronunciation. There are certainly exceptions ("SQL" being a notable one).
I love their name! Like Dragdis they definitely seem like a nice alternative to the in-browser functionality.
Not quite, but you've identified a key leverage point.

You only need to relink the apps, unless the newly patched library breaks its own ABI. Otherwise, it would be ideal for package distributors and package management systems to ship just a single .o file for an app, and do the final linking at package install time. Then updating a buggy static library doesn't require full recompile of any apps.
Google's competitors should spend more time improving their products and less time complaining to the EU.

As an example, google flight search is just hands down better than the alternatives. It is ultra fast (a killer feature) and has a simple but intuitive UI.
In my opinion that's a totally valid response. What was Google's other option? Pay to index their websites? That's ridiculous.

Now if Google asked them to pay or else they wouldn't be indexed, that would be a different story.
I don't use their products, but gosh darnit they still keep bribing Congress.
Disagree about what?

Civil asset forfeiture is incompatible with the definition of "state of law" (it's what you'd expect in some totalitarian banana republic, really).

Not allowing for same-sex marriage can not really be justified except for religious reasons. And if a nation claims to maintain a separation of church and state, religious reasons can not dictate law.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent. The way it is practised in the US (in effect, the way it has to be practised to maintain any claim of being a civilised society) is extremely costly to the tax payer.

Assuming that killing innocent citizens is the amongst the worst things a government can do, the death penalty also can't be morally justified in anything other than a nearly perfect justice system (which the American justice system evidently is not).

Which point exactly are you disagreeing with?
I'm the subject of this interview, so if anyone has other questions about my experience with the challenge or hacking in Go I'm an open book.
Wikipedia's charter requires them to increase access to Wikipedia, so signing up for internet.org was the right thing to do as long as it is not illegal. Let's put them aside for now and focus on the others.
"This is wrong on so many levels, I don't even know where to begin."

^ This was remarked about a correct, but slow algorithm.

I couldn't figure out the deception part either.
No,

Everyone should be fined based on how much damage they have caused on the environment,civilization, etc

Do you seriously think google has done damage worth 6.4 BILLION ?

BP,Shell,Nestle have caused real damage to real humans and the environment and there seems no outrage or investigation towards them.

Banks in germany have clearly destroyed lives of people financially and no one is asking any questions ?

Google allegedly tweaked its algorithm to make it slightly inconvenient for people to use alternative services and now we need to fine google 6.4 BILLION ?
Facebook's simple trick for serving so many different Android devices
I would guess your grind is too fine. It shouldn't take an enormous amount of pressure.
Yeah, I wish people would stop dismissing all the effort the Atom contributors are making by bringing up the 2MB file limit all the time. I've not seen a 2MB source code file (thankfully!) in a long time so it doesn't impact me. If I need to edit or search through a >2MB e.g. log or CSV file, I usually do that from the terminal anyways. The file size limit is a bit weird I'll admit but not a showstopper for me.
BYOD: One phone, one number for business and personal
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, or why you think it's a ridiculous opinion.

People respond to incentives. If you add an incentive to drink more, they will do so. Whether the positives outweigh the negatives is hard to tell, but you can't ignore the fact that they are there.
Bikes are at least as practical as horses. And buses are at least as practical as that.
Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition – With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Web, server, mobile, hardware, and now OS. JS is omnipresent. JS all the things!
sourcegraph-atom looks pretty awesome, I tried to get Jump to Definition to work but gave up after an hour of messing with it. If Atom had that, it would be definitely better than Sublime for my use case.
Announcement here: http://bartongeorge.net/2015/04/09/4th-gen-dell-xps-13-devel...
Channeling growth through user centric design
ASLR is a pretty hackish solution to the main problem, which is that the function call stack and parameter stack are combined. The problems that ASLR mitigates don't exist in languages like Forth, where there are two separate stacks - a call stack and a separate parameter stack.
Do you believe that HILLARY CLINTON has LESBIAN LoveRS? –
Exactly. "It works, except when it doesn't".

Considering he even says that it only holds 88% of the time, you would expect 1 or 2 games out of every teams 12-game season to go the "wrong" way. That is more than enough to screw up any ranking you want to make based on the transitive property when you take into account that the top 25 teams all range between 0 and 3 losses.
> If a company wanted to provide aid and give away food, we don't claim that it is creating an unfair market for the local food industry.

Actually some do claim that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/americas/14iht-food....

edit: In case you are hit by the paywall,

> Charity finds that U.S. food aid for Africa hurts instead of helps, Celia W. Dugger, 2007-08-14
There are plenty of us that just think of work as, well, work. We just hide that fact because this whole industry pretends "passion" is a prerequisite for doing a good job.

My hobbies are of an entirely different variety.
In TFA, the author says that bus passengers are subjected to random ID checks. It sounds like it's a statistical thing, not a 100% screen, but nonetheless if you are dead-set on not carrying/showing ID, it's going to be an issue.
I know people that has rewired some fundamental part of the car like the fuel pump or something like that. There is a combination of the car buttons that must be pressed to start the car, if not you may start it but the engine will stop after some minutes.
It must be done by someone that knows electronics, but doesn't seem that dificult to implement(although probably expensive), and it's very hard to detect and avoid by thieves if done properly.
If you really care about programming and not having someone else tell you you're good, then do it because you want to.

I have been programming for over 25 years. I have never and would never go to a hackathon. I program because I want to. I program because I'm paid to. I don't program because I want a room full of strangers to stare at me.

Turning programming into the type of popularity contest they had at the high school prom I never went to sounds like a nightmare.
Some of the most interesting computing I did was as a child with nothing but paper, a pencil, a programming book[0] and my imagination. I coded my work on reams of paper with decimal numbers representing everything (the idea of assembly code didn't really occur to me). I got a LOT of mileage from that method, and I still today refer to lessons and accomplishments learned that way. There is hope.

To be fair, I did have a Commodore64 to put my work into -- but perhaps the subject of this story could get one too -- the Internet and illicit hacking/communication are probably the biggest worries for a "no computer" environment.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Language-Commodore-Other-Compu...
I reminds me of Google building Chrome... and that turned out okay :)
Keep an eye on such people. If they are white, do they feel entitled to voice their opinions on race issues? If they are middle class, or went to a $40,000/year college, do they expect to be heard when they speak about poverty? That will be enlightening.
It doesn't, I'm just impatient.
Is the MTA in NYC still subject to random ID checks?
You are coming at this from the perspective that anything in the tech world is a true meritocracy, which I don't believe for a moment. Not in corporations, not in open source, probably not even hackathons that people do just for fun. I just don't see it.

It has natural tendencies that asymptotically pushes it towards being a meritocracy, in the same way that markets have natural tendencies towards being rational and efficient. However the key to understanding them is understanding the ways in which they can never get to 100%.

I would love to see the correlation between people who state that the tech world is meritocracy and people who feel like they have gotten where they are purely on their own merit (the truth of it doesn't matter, just what they think). I would imagine that correlation is very, very high.
I agree.

I am someone who constantly tries out alternative google services. consumers are always looking for better deals.
If there were better search engines, email clients, etc than google people will be switching in droves.

The reality is there isn't and the solution is not to fine these companies but to promote the creation of competitors. Given that there is 60% youth unemployment in may europeans countries I do not see why this is so hard.

This lawsuit just seems like a nice way for lawyers to pocket some money from the wealth that was created by google at the expense of google and the consumers.
So it's a french press made of plastic?
Percona XtraBackup 2.2.10 is incompatible with MariaDB 10.0
Not to mention the random checkpoints various states can set up in the name of immigration or DUIs.
You might also be interested in OpenMP, which does similar things for more compilers than MSVC++.
The ISP connecting to facebook may not have any marginal cost, and if there is a marginal cost is it very low. So nobody or the ISP.
KptnCook has grown to over 100,000 users in only 6 months by concentrating efforts on seamless user experience and beautiful design, instead of pumping money into traditional marketing avenues. The user-centric design increases quality and engagement of users and is the catalyst for word of mouth marketing.
Your code should get *better* with time
"We have literally reached a point where the only way to travel long distances anonymously is to use a horse."

Sure about that? Brief Googling on regulations around moving horses between states indicates that "under ... federal regulations, horses moving interstate must be identified and accompanied by an Interstate Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (ICVI)."