skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In spain we have a mix of both; although it is very normal to say it formulaically to e.g. a shop clerk, we are also very often very direct and don't use it, just using tone or phrasing - and foreigners (including spanish-speaking ones) are usually shocked by how rude we seem to be.
As far as I can tell, T-Mobile in the US provisions handsets with IPv6 by default.
It would be tricky because there was an amount of precision required that would be tricky to emulate on touch-based input. Plus you really wouldn't want your finger obscuring the screen at the vital moment! Maybe with a stylus, though.
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QML/QtQuick etc are modules in Qt 5, you don't have to depend on them at all and they're not linked in. QtCore is tiny.
I think you've got a good 6-12 months before Haskell is more productive for you than OCaml or a C/Python/Lua stack.

Though merely anecdotal, that data point eases my mind a bit. I come from Assembler, Lisp, C, OCaml, so maybe my difficulties are par for the course.
Cutting edge!!
I have tried it, but I didn't understand why I would ever use it. The Income Tax e-filing is already dead simple in India, and has only become better over the years. You just put data in and it basically does everything for you. If you use DSC then it's as instant as it gets.

So I don't really see the benefit of using Cleartax for personal filing. It might be feeding on distrust towards Gov services among people. But IT filing tool is already dead simple and easy.

Cleartax may have uses for businesses if they Uber-ify the hiring of CA for short term.
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Once a ubuntu phone turns up that supports docking, as the original concept video shows, I'm all over it. Until then it's just a niche mobile OS with a restricted number of apps, and likely too many bugs.
I completely agree. I was raised to say "please" and "thank you", not because it's makes me look good, but because it's showing appreciation, gratitude and empathy for the other person's work on your behalf. Politeness is about empathy, not self-aggrandizing.

I've been told more than once that just being polite to a cashier or a waiter has turned bad days they were having around. Treating other people decently is its own reward.
Actually strtod will convert 0x to hex.. It would be nice if it had an option to ignore commas.
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Indeed - they became Rockstar North. Their offices are still in Scotland (Edinburgh, though, rather than Dundee).
'extracted' as in 'run an auction to let the market sort it out'.

It's popular to blame governments for everything, but if market actors behave irrationally, there's nobody to blame but them.
Feel At Home basically means that your mobile will act the same as if you were in the UK.

Sending a text from the UK to a (for example) Spanish number incurs a cost outside of your allowance.
So that same text would also incur a cost when you are in Spain.
I love your library's name! :D
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It bothers me that AWS doesn't have usable IPv6 support (not in VPCs, unavailable for EC2 instances, not S3, missing from Route53, etc).

I think there is a bunch of progressive companies running on AWS that would like to offer IPv6, but cannot.
>> There was a kind of pixel preciseness with the original lemmings

I always wondered what kind of challenges that imposed on the sprite-based consoles of the day like the NES and especially something like the Gameboy.
For your amusement: a calculator written in BASIC:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/blob/master/snippets...
Every time I say thanks, I mean it.

My first job was selling cokes at football games when I was 12. One dollar for each tray I sold, and I'd carry it to the top of the stands. Yeah I'm grateful when someone serves me.
Maybe I was just the perfect age - 12 - when the game came out, but I remember it as pretty much the most formative video game I've ever played. It truly blew my mind that you could have something that seemed so open, even to the extent of being able to modify the actual environment. Lemmings just seemed so different from everything else around, in a way that might be difficult to appreciate nowadays.

I must've played Sim City & Populous prior, but something about the platformer genre and the level of indirection combined perfectly to make this game genuinely unique.
Special editions, ports for almost every system that existed, it was really the closest thing to Angry Birds of the time.
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It applies to the types of personalities that decide that their life is defined by what they do to pay their mortgage and put food on the table. At the end of the day a startup is still just a job.
I think this is an interesting idea. Cultures are often categorized as "individualistic" or "shame-based"...but I wonder if "debt-based" might be a good descriptor for many cultures.

There's definitely a range of individualism in the U.S. as well, some people take it to a kind of local maximum, some people just try to find workable balances. When my wife first immigrated here from South Korea, she struggled to characterize "America" in simple, digestible differences so that she could work within the society. No a couple decades later, she's developed a more nuanced view, and understands that it's very hard to say "Americans do x" without going into a higher level of abstraction like "some Americans do x" when explaining something to her friends.
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> So they replaced the moc functionality with some c++11 magic ?

Given that signals and slots were already implemented with templates in 2002 or before (see http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/1.0/), there's probably no need for c++11 magic.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the less formal Kansai local term:
"oh-KIni" おおきに:
It is also used as "Thank you" in casual situations, but my understanding is that it is literally "Excuse me".

So much of proper speech is dependent on who you are with and their preferred idom. Of course formality in the case of uncertainty is usually preferred, but that can lead to both humor and embarrassment.
Per the article, he now understands that perfectly well, it just took him a while to get used to it.
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Yes. I also try to wish them to have a good day, genuinely.
travelling to Germany / France / Luxembourg next month and was wondering if there's a good solution for mobile data? I hear in germany you can't get a local sim card unless you are a resident. is that true?
> If you were already a keen programmer, what would software engineering classes in the 80s have given you?

A lot of us keen programmers had just learned our way ourselves, and had very little exposure to existing research on things like data structures (a binary tree is nice!), algorithms (bubble sort is not!) or software engineering practices (yes, you really need a version control system and some automated testing!)

So, software engineering classes could give a lot. I remember how clever I felt as a starting freshman, and how humble I had got in about three years' time when my professor took me through the Compilers class. A lot of education and classes is not really teaching you to know things, it's just to teach you to know how much there is to learn.
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In my opinion, it's a race between FirefoxOS phones and Ubuntu phones as to who gets 4G first. I've been using FirefoxOS phones for a while (Open, Open C and now Flame) but I'm missing the 4G connection, and that may well be what tempts me away from FirefoxOS.
I've set up Google Voice -> US SIP -> UK SIP -> 3 Mobile. This gives me a US number to give out to Americans (who don't want to dial my UK number) that they can text/call. I can then make calls when on Wifi or using a Phonecard app which automatically dials my UK SIP and forwards the call via the US SIP provider. I don't have to switch SIMs or give up my UK number.

This works well for me (since I travel between the US/UK often)
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Worse is better

edit : damn it took me too long without refreshing the page to answer someone did it better
The About page [1] lists two people: Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim.

[1] http://www.copperspice.com/about.html
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Why work in the US as a foreign developer?
Considering Boris Beizer was giving seminars on designing and coding for testability in the 80's ... yeah, not ultramode.
Well, it wasn't that hard to come up with
Great timing you've got there with deciding to step in. How about actually paying attention to the spamming and gaming of the system instead of jumping on me for getting annoyed with someone making me repeatedly explain myself?

I even removed part of what you quoted before you responded, and the part I didn't remove is obviously half joking.
Ugh, taxes are due in 6 days. I have to remember to do them soon.
When in the US, I found I have to disable "automatic" and force AT&T -- using T-Mobile blocks data for some reason. I don't know how to configure my iPhone to just block the provider (so I obviously have to disable it when returning to the UK or Europe).
As an English speaker, I agree with others above that this article misses a huge point about our language.

Yes we use thank you a lot, even for some things people may consider 'trite'. I'm from the UK so I use it a HELL of a lot.

But I want to call out 2 points based on this:

1. As mentioned above, just thanking someone can turn their day around, and most times I feel rude if I do not say it (that is my cultural upbringing).

2. For me/the English culture, it is a multi-faceted word. It can be used in everyday scenarios, or it can be used in deeply emotional ones.

The article doesn't seem to acknowledge this, so perhaps the OP hasn't truly grasped the intricacies of the language.

As an aside, I did find the information about the attitude towards 'thanks' in Hindi really interesting. Thanks!*

*sorry, couldn't resist. ;)
I think you're reading a bit too much into that. If you're at a social event, when do you hear "Thank you so much for coming" from the host? Usually when you're leaving, or as the writer says, when it's time for you to leave.
Perhaps you misunderstood. For instance, suppose you paint bridges and you want to hang out with people who think you should paint kittens. You don't have to paint the kittens, and can still be "you" when you are not around them. The article seemed to indicate that Van Gogh feared that the people would change him, and I'm saying this is not a reason to avoid people.

The software analogy here would be like "I'm not going to talk to people about my new startup idea because hearing their opinions and thoughts would taint my work" -- which doesn't make any sense to me, or possibly even more so "I don't want to be around other software people talking about anything because that will change the way I think".

The argument is drawing the argument of you-need-to-be-alone from Van Gogh ends up with it not being valid. Van Gogh is amazing (see his stuff in person if you can sometime, it doesn't photograph well), but these are seperate orthogonal things.
There is NO particular workflow built into git. Teams have to reach an informal agreement on how they're going to use it, otherwise chaos ensues.
Apple Announcements at WWDC Include Introduction of iOS 9
Uhm, "modern" and "built using GNU Autotools" in a single sentence just doesn't compute.

Cross-platform portability obviously isn't their goal.

Oh and thank you for removing moc and replacing that with some template black magic. Yeah, you can do that, but your developers are going swear up a storm at you once they see the wonderful compilation errors that e.g. MSVC produces with templates ... But I guess they don't target professional Windows devs (cf the MinGW compilation ...).

This looks very much like a classic not-invented-here syndrome project - "let's make something better by throwing out everything that made it useful".

I do wonder what is the raison d'être of this project.
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For Germany that's false.
You can get usually get one of the "no-frills" prepaid providers at any supermarket register (Medion Mobile at Aldi, Lidl Mobile at Lidl, jamobil at Rewe, ...).
You will usually need internet to activate it.

I (native German, living in the US) usually just use my american T-Mobile SIM. Thanks to their free global data roaming, I don't have to care which country I'm in when visiting Europe.

It is "unlimited", but they throttle you to something like 10 kb/s. Still works fine for Maps/eMail/Facebook/...
It's honestly not thaaat bad because I still had LTE, so the latency was great, just the throughput was mediocre.
I was even able to use Facetime Audio. T-Mobile also supports WiFi calling on my iPhone, so as soon as I had WiFi, I was able to just call people back in the US for free.
Indirectly related blog post: "Can Qt's moc be replaced by C++ reflection?"

http://woboq.com/blog/reflection-in-cpp-and-qt-moc.html
That function syntax is a nice example of C-isms bleeding through. If I want to write some arithmetic, I want something more declarative and succinct than C.
Hi Arihant,

I work at ClearTax http://cleartax.in - so I'll add some feedback here.

Many people find the Government tool intimidating and difficult to use. It is hard to figure out which Form to file (there is ITR-1, 2, 3, 4S, 4) and now there's a new tax form (ITR-2A) which muddies the waters further.

ClearTax identifies the correct tax form for you automatically. You upload your Form-16 (W-2 equivalent for India) and our software will automatically read everything and fill out the correct tax form within seconds. We'll take you through a simplified form which will ask basic questions and help you make progress. If you get stuck, our support team answers questions or you can buy CA assistance for complex plans.

The Government form is sufficiently complicated for Income earned from Rent (if you own a house), because it won't give you the 30% deduction (Section 24) in the ITR-1.

If you need to figure out long term or short term capital gains when you sell assets, the Government form is very very difficult to use even for experts (We have 10K+ Chartered Accountants using the professional version of ClearTax).

I truly believe that the level of cognitive complexity in the Government's tool is much higher than ClearTax.

Lakhs of users in India e-File on ClearTax because they find it simpler than the Government's tool.

I do agree that for an expert user, the tools may feel equivalent :)

Regards,
Archit
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You may be reading a lot of value into this distinction. To me, as an American, equality in a peer relationship is important but bookkeeping and debt is destructive. The 50:50 split is just an ongoing division of labor, it is explicitly NOT debt because it never accumulates. Any "thank you" is an acknowledgment of gratitude or merely a polite exit to a conversation one doesn't want to continue. The debt that children have to their parents is to be paid to the next generation.

It's another one of those cultural quirks that seems more telling than it actually is. For example, because Russians don't smile to strangers, they're cold and unfriendly. Or because Americans do smile to strangers, we're untrustworthy and insincere.

The reason we think it's so big is because we're translating the literal contents (smile, "thank you") but ending up with a completely different meaning or set of pragmatics. and then we miss the ability to use set phrases in our native language. Just like you can say "pleased to meet you" in Enhlish, but you can't say "よろしくお願いします".

Edit: to clarify, cultures are different and language reflects that, but I think a lot of set phrases reflect history more than they reflect living culture.
Sorry, but there is nothing new here. Skype has been providing this service for years now.

It could either be achieved by buying a "Skype number" in the country you are visiting, or by using "Skype To Go".

And you don't have to dual-sim, you can route numbers wherever you want.
Apple Music and Apple’s Focus
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492068 (168 points, 34 days ago, 43 comments)

It has a few comments about a similar project for Warsaw with links to the videos.
This is very similar to awesome Gary Bernhardt's Boundaries:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries

Watch it if you still haven't
I'd counter this

> But programmers don't want better languages

With TypeScript and/or ES6(7)+Babel. These have a pretty healthy userbase between them and there's a lot of excitement around ES6 which leads me to think that developers do want better languages.

Also... I want a better language. I'm not sure how you'll convince me otherwise and I don't think I'm alone in this sentiment.

Do they want a "different" language... maybe, maybe not. I suppose my comment about Apple "positioning" (and I'm careful to use that word) Swift as a replacement to Javascript can make a lot of sense to Apple and people who develop for iOS and OS X.

Firstly, Apple doesn't need buy in from other browser vendors. They can supply a Swift runtime with Safari (desktop and mobile) and I think it would be no more difficult to write a Swift to ES5 transpiler than it is to write an ES6/7 to ES5 transpiler, meaning that web devs can be agnostic about what browser their web app is running on and make demote Javascript to simply being a build task.

Secondly - Swift is going to have a lot of developer support. Because native apps are are increasingly dependent on a corresponding Web API - I think it's reasonable to expect people to be happy about sharing code between the front and back ends of their apps. I think nodes biggest advantage over any other server-side languages is that I can use node packages in both place.

Thirdly - I don't think Apple really cares wether "web developers" have an issue with this. They care about providing tools and solutions for people who develop for and use their platforms. If they can make the case that Swift is going to be "better" than Javascript by some metric we don't know right now, then that's what they'll do. Everyone else can go cry in a corner.

Also, Down-votes? Really? It's not the most radical idea in the world and I fail to see how someone could take offence from it.

PS: Apologies but I don't have time to watch that video right so I hope I haven't got the wrong end of the stick.
> Uhm, "modern" and "built using GNU Autotools"

Autotools represents a pragmatic solution to a non trivial problem. What's your solution? Hipster like complaining? Perhaps the c/c++ eco system is too easy and straightforward for the hipster developer class?
Fascinating. My income tax liability in India would roughly match my liability here in the United States (assuming I took similar deductions).

Are there Indian equivalents to the U.S. payroll taxes or other broad-based, non-consumption taxes?
Nantero is not the only company making nanotubes. Nanotechnology as a whole, and carbon nanotubes (CNT) as a prime component, have been a hot topic in material science and chemistry for almost two decades now. Not just research for applications, but for production. They are not alone in trying to solve problems centered around nanotech. But the CNT production overall is still very low (only 5k tons in 2014 according to this article http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/04/22/727078/1013...)

No one is saying the iPhone 8 will have NRAM. The manufacturing research and implementation cycle is painfully slow. But if the cost/benefits may pay off in 2025, someone needs to be looking at it today.
ClearTax has a tax calculator as well :D

https://cleartax.in/paytax/TaxCalculator
This really isn't the case. Some banks provide free electronic transfers to account holders at the same bank and third parties they have agreements with (i.e. billpay).

It's quite possible when performing an EFT, for the sending party's bank to charge a fee and also for the receiving party's bank to also charge a fee. I'm speaking from experience.
You are right in that it seems like a impractical solution and the providers should just figure out roaming.

As far as the competition goes: OneSimCard charges 25 cents per Megabyte, Project Fi doesn't really exist since you need an invite and it doesn't work on most phones.
I find it funny that it seems that Microsoft will actually deliver on this promise before Ubuntu gets a chance to.
Sandboxing affects obj-c and swift code too.
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Indeed, a note explaining why it's named Escher would be appropriate.
Seems to be all here: http://www.copperspice.com/docs/cs_overview/index.html
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I'm using an Xperia Z3 Compact flashed with Firefox OS and can report that the 4G radios work perfectly. :)
How it worked was that each lemming was actually treated for collision purposes as if it was a single dot, and that was tested against some kind of bitmap for where there was solid ground.

(I think! I remember, with a friend, implementing our own version of this, and that's definitely how our version worked.)

So this is less realistic than other ways of implementing lemming behaviours, and easier to implement than some kind of more 'correct' collision approach, but gave the gameplay a very nice precise feel.
Yes, but software engineering was a completely different field back in those days. A lot of it was purely academic, and not of very much practical value for a solo programmer.
That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came from and Why It Went Away
Can't you just use Google Voice on Three's 4g connection/Wifi to make/receive calls/texts on your Google Voice number using Hangouts?

What's the purpose of the two SIPs?
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I planned on learning Vi first, then moving on to the 'improved' part.

Thanks for the tip about ed, I can do the basics with it.
There are a lot of support for this crude model. Look at writings of J. Krishnamurti, Nabokov, Huxley, Chomsky, the guys who invented NLP (before it has been ruined by adopters), there are a lot of consensus among insights of thinkers with completely different background..
I think, if you look at it from the perspective of a user who wants to switch from Android to iOS, this tool makes the job easier. And I wouldn't fault Apple for making this transition smoother, they're being "customer-centric" in my books. Is it not that you can take your data and move to any other platform the entire selling point of Android and the openness?

I'd venture that Google's tightening its grip on Android and making it more closed than it ever was. A high profile engineer, JBQ, quit AOSP project for a reason. As an android user, one is already consuming a lot of Google resources for free; and Google isn't going to sit back and not make you pay for it.
I've found that Greek translates pretty much exactly to Spanish (culturally and linguistically), so I just say "puedes traerme <x>" or, at most, "quisiera un <x>".
I understand the people in the Bitcoin community are trying to prepare for the future, but is there any evidence at all that Bitcoin transactions will grow to a point where the blockchain can't handle them and sidechains will actually be necessary?
I agree with you that it is very important that AWS offers it everywhere. However, I would say they do offer it "where it counts": their load balancer a are already dual stack and Route 53 ALIAS records support this directly too. Your clients can access you via IPv6 and that is huge.