skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to Japanese, "I have in Berlin been" almost sounds natural.

In Japanese, you'd say "Berlin ni ita", or translating rather literally, "Berlin in was". You'd omit the "I", which can lead to some interesting misunderstandings.

Needless to say, Google translate borders on useless here.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by standardising folder and data formats?
thank you, looks an amazing tool - I tried it and has almost all the function
this makes me happy! thanks
thanks, we're all pretty excited
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And why on earth is a map of the US scaled in km?
Android and iOS have /etc/hosts, which you can edit if you jailbreak. I dont know about Windows phone, they run something from Nokia.

Some but not all Android devices permit you to install firmware you build yourself. Drivers for undocumented chips can be a problem

You can block IPs at your firewall. I havent actually tried it but I understand you can install a VPS client so you could use a firewall even when you're at a wifi spot.
Flood of cheap grey labour from Poland started right after 1989. 10 years go Poles used ryanair or easyjet, not sweaty mini buses. Jobs also moved from legendary dishwasher to engineers and managers.
That's not the same. Everyone knows that coffee beans are cheap. It's the labour (and rent) that gets you. (And the milk.)
> I can't remember the last time I had a solid bowel movement despite the relatively high fiber diet I have.

That seems backwards to me, did you miswrite that part? Fiber causes loose bowels.

> I just want to clarify that I like living here, despite the enormous number of negative things about doing it. I'd much rather live here than Thailand, that's for sure.

That's interesting, any particular reasons?
That's reasonable, of course, but it makes the title of this story rather inaccurate.

Even so, kudos -- your blog is lightning fast and a pleasure to use.

I did try it on my low-end Android phone w/Chrome, and it's plenty fast, and the menu works well, but the header and text overflow the view port.
I'm coming down on the side that oil's long term value is almost wholly based on potential substitution costs and it's current role in the economy. Meaning the value of money and oil are strongly linked. If the price of oil spikes for too long you get a recession and demand falls and the price of oil falls with it. And you can get price spikes/crashes because in the short term demand is inelastic. But long term, it isn't going up forever.

But price spike/crash is something to pay attention too, in any field. Absent graft no one make bank on anything for too long.
I'd have tried agrep on the bit-packed sequence.
Hi! The regulations are different from country to country, and even from city to city. We are learning by doing and will collect a database of all this but as for now I recommend you to check with your local council or health department :)
LinkedIn was the first in a long line of social networks I deleted starting 4 years ago. Not sure how anyone gets value out of enough to justify.
I think the article is confused itself. Above the image it says:

On grounds of practicality, "a stove-top percolator would not
work", Meharg admits. It would have to be a drip-brewer.
I strongly agree. It's fine if you want to use javascript to augment appearance and behavior, but if a blog post won't load something basically readable in lynx or w3m or similar, you've taken a wrong turn somewhere.
They are going to make pour over, not espresso style coffee.
I agree.

Unfortunately, in Saigon - we get a lot of the BroPackers and they tend to all convene in the Backpacker Area, Bui Vien.

I also have local friends.

I did a motorbike trip with my local friend to the Southern Vietnamese city of My Tho in the Mekong Delta a few weeks ago.

Quite normal to have local friends.
Oh yea I just realized it obviously has to be quite low, shouldn't be too hard to estimate for earth (the problem is, it varies with planet size). I would guess two orders of magnitude or more actually, which would indeed put the expected number close to 1.

A naive calculation for Earth would be Theta ~= 2 * (Earth diameter) / (Mean distance to Sun), which is ~2*10^-4. Since most planets found by kepler were much larger than earth, it seems 10^-2 is a reasonable guesstimate.
What if anything have we learned from C++? [video]
It seems a worthwhile experiment. I Just pre ordered ... now how do I get this thing to Panama City, Panama? Love the low carbon footprint angle.
I apologize. I tried to make it clear that I was giving my opinion, via my personal experience. I'm sorry if you somehow feel I was trying to redefine what you are actually talking about. I was not. I was just trying to engage in conversation with you about people and spreadsheets. And maybe your terms, from what you have seen (or maybe you are talking about some kind of official research into why people do what they do with spreadsheets) are more true than what I've seen, but honestly, in my 25+ years of working with various businesses, I've yet to come across someone who worked strangely with spreadsheets because of company restrictions. Again, and I cannot stress this enough, this is just from my single data point, my own personal view. Not trying to redefine what you're talking about, just saying my opinion.
> I'm trying to understand why large companies use AWS for their primary infrastructure.

Because they are corrupt? Could be? Large companies are basically centrally controlled economies, and we know how that turns out..

It seems to me that large companies live in a special bubble where they are willing to pay extra for everything. On the other hand, they also charge extra, so externally, it will mostly cancel out.

The winners of this scheme are probably the people involved in running (either directly or as shareholders) these large companies, because their salaries (and other bonuses) are artificially inflated compared to the rest of the society. The losers are probably the government and the taxpayer (i.e. the public), these can be easily made to pay extra but it's difficult for them to charge extra.
I agree with the other poster who didn't like the font. It's much too light. This is fixable in Firefox, but I don't see a way to do it in Safari.

It would be nice to have something akin to browsing at +5 on slashdot. Muggles can't see the karma each comment has, but maybe HN can give Algolia that information so that it can present just the top comments. For example, there have been recent threads with 600 comments. It sure would be nice to read maybe the top 10 or 20. Or maybe the top 5% of comments, minimum of 10 comments, maximum of 25 comments? That's the general idea.

As for someone else's comment about non-JS fallback, that isn't important to me. Normally I read HN w/o JS, but that's because there's no need to whitelist the site except for optional stuff like search. I would have no concerns with running HN with JS on.
That seems like too logical of a business name for these days -- it'd probably start as "Network Effects" but end up as "ZephyrLimbo.io" or something.
I wonder how much of the $100M[1] is going to get aimed at this planet.

1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stephen-hawking-an...
> I've also heard people say that humans are not the cause of climate change. Just because people say something doesn't mean it's true.

This is a straw man argument, you're comparing regular science with philosophy.

> Nirvana is not a natural state

> It is an artificial state that humans have invented

> we have to make Nirvana. We have to design it and build it and maintain it

Sorry, but you have incorrect understanding of this concept in terms of both Buddhism and Hinduism. Please update your information on this topic.
People leave you alone in Vietnam. The times I've been in Thailand, people were always in my grill. Nobody seems particularly interest in me here, which coming from NYC is a treasured thing. When they are interested in you, it seems genuine, Thailand always feels insincere.

I've also never felt unsafe in Vietnam, except for once. I've been in a lot of dicey situations in Bangkok though.

I also feel like you are less likely to get ripped off in Vietnam, but that's a way lesser concern.
Works great if you have the time in the classroom. Sysadmin skills aren't among any of my learning outcomes, so I don't have time to cover it. My students are still trying to grapple with the idea of a for loop!
In math a field is a structure with enough properties to be able to do polyoninals, meaning addition and multiplication. If you pick a field appropriately, you end up with some properties that guarantee that this interpolation trick works. If you pick it even more appropriately you can have the elements and operations efficient on computers. Turns out that a Galois Field has all those properties.

Specifically, you start with the base field of integers mod 2 and it turns out addition is xor, and multiplication is and. From that, you can create polynomials. Just like you could create a field by considering a set of elements modulo some prime, if you pick a "prime" polynomial and take the set of polynomials modulo your "prime" polynomial, then you get another field. Prime in this case means irreducible, which means you can't factor it.

So what people do is pick an irreducible polynomial of degree 7 and that maps perfectly to a byte. So for example a byte with bit pattern 01100011 would be the polynomial x^6 + x^5 + x + 1. You can then generate some tables that make multiplication and addition of these elements modulo your irreducible polynomial fast, and then apply this interpolation technique.

Hopefully that helps explain it. I was a little loose with terms and details so some stuff might be wrong.
But it's not up to us. It's like someone who charges an electrical car with a diesel engine. How could Tesla police that? They would need thousands of private investigators, and we all know the quality of work of private investigators.
the Power stuff is going to be challenging I think, some of our db's don't support that architecture yet
Digidesign and Atimi Software tried to steal mine.

Dont sign a contract you dont understand.

Atimi in the endnwas cool withma simple nondisclosure. Digidesign got their panties in a bunch when they clued into that I crossed out their clause with the intellectual property assignment, initialed then wrote an explanation just below my signature.

Unfortunately their HR manager didnt understand contract law. Sucks to be him.
Sorry if that came across as insulting, I didn't mean it that way.
Well the exact rules would be determined by the San Francisco power blocks enacting the plan. It would be up to them.

It would be unwise to give all new residents shares, for the reason that you point out. But you would want them to be able to buy shares at market rates. And maybe you also give shares to some class of people who move in, reside a long time, do a certain amount of volunteering, etc.
Hey,
no, no muscles needed - the bikes has an electrical engine so whenever it's hilly you will get help from it.

The coffee is top notch, and will hopefully suit the australians taste as well.
We actually do this in our "expensive" check. The reason that we use the 2 arrays is because in 2 array lookups, we can check for matches for all 200 guides. I probably could've made that clearer in the post - the array contains matches for ALL of the guides.
> As part of that movement, they protested the average pay gap between women and men by burning the extra wages he hypothetically earned because he was a man.

I feel like the better option would have been to split the difference with a female co-worker?
> [...] convinced that a council of invisible cosmic entities governed reality.

Kind of odd to throw that out as an affirmation of this man's eccentricity, when billions of human beings consider this absolutely normal.
I've been to 5 different float centers and every single one cites Joe Rogan as the inspiration for starting. Kind of amazing.

Also, I'm working on a VR setup to use in the tank. Still in its infancy, but shows some promise!

https://instagram.com/p/5PyBmhw842/
It may actually work on *nix, I just haven't tried it. The powershell script won't run and you'll have to do it manually, but it's just a ten line script or so.
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Wow! that is a great thought. I would have never thought that.

On the other side, starbucks don't need that type of advertising now and a small\upcoming shop can't afford that kind of advertising.

This idea is also business specific. Can restaurants afford whole day sitting customers? No, I think
I don't understand -- the primary function of the cart is to make coffee, right? And it's impossible for the cart to carry out this primary function without some source of combustable fuel, yes?

If that's the case, there's no honest way you can claim it's "powered only by the sun and your own body".
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> I started my mobile entrepreneurial journey over 20 years ago (I know, dating myself) in Taipei, Taiwan.

I am extremely curious how old you are and where you are from. Reading the blog post, I had pictured in my mind an excited young man who grew up immersed in popular programming culture, reading blogs, the world was your oyster, that sort of thing.

But then I read this comment and it seems you're married, not particularly young(?), and you also seem similarly excited/optimistic as your original blog post. You seem like quite an unusual person (and I don't mean that particularly as an insult or a compliment, I don't know what to think!!)
The competition for cloud will be more like Intel vs. AMD. There will never be half a million different cloud providers, like there were book stores. A cloud is a huge capital asset that few can afford to build.
https://changeinthe21stcentury.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/p...
Oculus, Sony's Morpheus, Microsoft's Hololens- these are all just the next step in the VR/AR movement. Currently it's at a stage where the tech requires a box with cell phone screens on your face (or in the case of my favorite AR--Innovega's iOptik--sunglasses and a projector). This isn't the final stage of VR though. The next big leap might be bionic eye implants that directly stimulate your optical nerves (Second Sight's Argus II could be the start of this).

The hardware will continue to get better as these companies put more time and money into them. Entirely new companies will be made just to create algorithms and applications to improve the VR experience (how do you make an avatar of a person feel like the real thing? I don't know but I bet Oculus would pay a lot of money for the rights to that algorithm).

In the meantime, you are correct about black in AR being a challenge. I'm be curious how that one will be solved
Really reaching here. Nextbus is a web app. Location is in my experience always good enough without a sat lock. You don't need "to spin up GPS" to get your answer.
I didn't read the article (too long and it's late) but something caught my eye.

If you keep scrolling down, you hit the next article and the URL changes. How did they do that? Kudos
Yeah the site is slowly migrating to a new design but it so huge and run by some many teams that it takes them time to get it all into shape and by then a new style is being brought out.
Starting in the end of next week you will be able to do this in San Francisco. Will get back with more information on WHEN and WHERE.
Why _don't_ they do this?
The presence of overhead equipment for electrification is orthogonal; the real issue is loading gauge, a cross-section profile that defines the minimum car size that the most restrictive segment of a line must support. Usually, tunnels end up being the limiting factor, since these tend to be much costlier to design to accommodate larger cars. For instance, CSX carries double-stack containers on Northeast Corridor between Philadelphia and Washington under catenary, with a vertical clearance above top of rail of 5.54 m [1]. Compare with UIC G2 gauge, which only offers 4.65 m ATOR [2].

I don't know why parent is talking about triple stacking containers. That's completely infeasible; the tallest common loading gauge in America (AAR Plate H, or 6.3 m) doesn't even come close to fitting 7.8 m = 3 × 2.6 m (about the height of a container).

[1] http://www.csx.com/share/wwwcsx_mura/assets/File/Customers/S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lademass_EBO.png
It's something I actively think about and we have a few ideas about, but would love to know what you'd like to see and what your pain points are. :)
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I doubt it. Motion sickness mostly comes from a discontinuity between what you are seeing and what you are feeling. Though extreme motion even without a visual disconnect, especially wavy or circular motion, can do it to people who are sensitive.
OT: What a coincidence. A friend was talking about cartegraph the other day (talking about .NET and OMSs).
I should have mentioned that the reason we no longer offer SmugVault for RAW storage is that Amazon has deprecated AWS DevPay, the product we built SmugVault on, and will be shutting it down "soon".

Which means we need to build something entirely new, which I'm happy to do, but we're currently in limbo and gathering feedback.
You have to realize they have been consistently cutting prices (and pulling Google and somewhat Azure) along with them.
Hey Matt, happy to have you on board. I will mail you!
I agree on working out of a cafe.

I came to that conclusion and have doubled down on my home and home work situation.

That decision has paid dividends.

This old picture is a bit crap - and looks barren on the outside because of the ugly construction at the time (we put up trees out on the porch and construction is done) - but I put together this office in the house. Hard to get a feel for the scale of this space, but it's quite nice to work in.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10051350/jon-myers-home-...

In fact, if you get tired of working at home, you're welcome to pop over.

Cheers.
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Binary pattern matching is commonly used in Erlang/OTP and given Elixir being used in nonspecific-to-Erlang contexts it makes sense to showcase them in the new Elixir language application context.

No duplicity on the part of the author if you ask me :)
Not received one yet? Mail me maria at wheelyscafe
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I did this once. I fell asleep. After 2.5 hours (I had only reserved one hour), they came banging on the tank to wake me up.
But I can't modify the engine...
> he seems to recommend a whole new approach every couple of years

you make that sound like a negative. If you find a 'better' way, why not use it?
My friends in the industry seem to like it a lot, but I couldn't make it through the first episode. It's like the sterile hybrid of BBC Sherlock and Fight Club, with the computer plotline of the movie Hackers and DDOS substituted for Gibsons.

If you're watching Mr. Robot now and haven't watched at least the first two seasons of BBC Sherlock, stop what you're doing and switch shows.

Halt and Catch Fire was, I thought, a lot better than some of the reviews I'd read.
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I got stung with it too, but was refunded...
There is a distinct disadvantage for not being able to function during almost all seasons and weather conditions.

YC also backs the bike startups ViaCycle and Vanhawks, and Wheelys represents the use of bicycles in business. In a future with safe autonomous cars, does that make it safer for a bike culture to really take off? And YC can be at the center of a drastic shift to the next evolutional step of the bicycle.
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That's completely opposite of my experience. I guess we have to chalk it up to different people have different experiences. It's also hard to compare experiences as a tourist with those of a long term resident.

If I attempt to aggregate various comments and my own experiences I think one of the few major differences is the visa situation. For younger people who aren't employed by a local business or married to a Thai citizen Thailand is a pain for a stay longer than 3 months.
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In strong agreement with task_queue here. The taxi industry is legislated on the city level. Uber is poised to become an international actor, with larger gross revenues than the GDP of many small countries (projected $10bil in 2015).
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Isn't the average lifespan in Japan longer than just about any other country? And don't they eat lots of rice? I guess I wonder how much of a problem this really is.
tl;dr: care-of "dmail" (of "Delicious" bookmarks) you send via a special browser extension, and if your recipient doesn't also have that extension rather than your email they get: "This secure message was sent using Dmail. To view this message, simply click the button below."

That is, your email is kept on their remote server, and they'll delete it off their server if/when you so request (probably)
Is it actually possible to have a "decent school district" in Texas after what the Texas State Board of Education has done to the history textbooks?

McCarthy's blacklists were justified because of widespread Communist infiltration?

Slavery was just a side issue in the Civil War?

No mention of Jim Crow or the Ku Klux Klan?

Four major thinkers who greatly influenced the Founding Fathers were Locke, Montesquieu, Blackstone, and Moses?

Science doesn't really fare well with the Texas State Board of Education, either.
Wow, this is awesome, awesome news. Ahead of Chromium here, no?
Other way around. You need 64bit to use more than 4GB ram.
Way to go Peter, Travis, and the Continuum Team!
Is "in-store pickup" really that popular?

When I need something in a few days (or later), I'll order it from Amazon when I think about it. If I need something "now" or today, I'll just drive to the store and go get it. I, personally, don't really see the point of the "in-store pickup" -- why order it online if I have to go there to get it anyways?
I'm guessing that Netflix is getting truly massive discounts from their published rates. For most everyone else, it won't make sense.