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When I would watch BBC Shakespeare productions and follow along with the text, I noticed BBC would change things like "O Jesu" to "O Lord" or change complicated medieval political terminology to "we are fighting for our rights against the king." If they'll do it to Shakespeare, they'll do it to Dr. Who.

You really think that grainy video from forty years ago is driving the discussion? It's unwatchable.

This guy who learned Japanese from anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG9kpqTRmU&t=681s

Learning Latin with Harry Potter latinus.

http://indwellinglanguage.com/reading-latin-extensively/

Internet gurus are hacking language learning and the consensus is moving towards the importance of a steady diet of "comprehensible input" versus grammar instruction. That was always the expert opinion I think but the internet has accelerated it. One important factor is that the early content you consume be translated from your native language into the target language. For instance Latin learners should start with something like Harry Potter latinus. It's interesting to think about why translated-from-native material is the best for beginners; it probably reduces the mental overhead and focuses the learner on learning the language instead of learning the language & content at the same time.

I had a 4th gen processor (i5-4200) and it couldn't render video without lag until until the OS was upgraded to Windows 10 with DirectX 12, after which it was more than capable of handling video. DX12 probably added a few years to the life of my computer.

I thought GPUs were involved in all sorts of calcuations like matrix calculations that had nothing to do with graphics.

Are laptop GPUs different from data center GPUs? I would assume that Linux is so prevalent in DC that support for Linux would be a given.

This is a little off topic but I don't want to read a lot of text-heavy blogs that all look the same. Give me a little variety and some nice pictures to look at. By the way this looks nice and I'm going to check it out, too bad my Tumblr has 2500 poasts and no readers.

These stories are all planted by the trucking companies. These stories have shown up a million times over the last twenty years, and maybe earlier. The WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, WaPo and now NPR run this same article about every two weeks. It always amazes me when people tweet this article or it shows up on HN because it is so predictable. Haven't you seen this same article at least a hundred times? Where are all the truckers' yachts?

Bing is my homepage, beautiful photos every day. Search results in US are fine.

"Because the Circassian was thought to be the purest, most primordial exemplar of the white race, that may have led the white viewer to yet another thought: that the sexual fate and the sexual proclivities of the “Circassian Lady” (no true “lady” by Victorian standards because of these very proclivities) might just as well be those of any given “American Lady,” who must be, after all, the racial descendant of the woman on exhibit. And that, in turn, would suggest that the white American “lady” was, at bottom, in her unadorned, uncultured nature, no different from the Circassian—and so no different from the African."

http://mirrorofrace.org/circassian/

"Language learning apps are step 5 in the ten step process of achieving programmer hubris nirvana.

1) I'm in college and I'm going to build an app to easily buy and sell books

2) Off campus housing is hard, I'm going to build an app to find roommates

3) Splitting bills with roommates is hard, I'm going to build an app for cost splitting

4) All my previous apps sucked because they weren't social, I'm going to build a social network app

5) I'm bored partying with my new friends, I'm going to level up and build an app to learn a new language

6) I'm lonely, I'm going to build a dating app to find a mate

7) I found a mate and the whole engagement/wedding industry is a fraud, I'm going to make an app to make it easier to navigate

8) My children are awesome, I'm going to build apps to manage their time/friends/eating/sleeping/learning

9) Technology is a waste of time, I'm going to spend my time on other hobbies and my family

10) I've been working 20 years in a boring industry and I see an opportunity to write boring software that solves boring problems that businesses will actually pay for. Jackpot.

Edit: As others pointed out, should have included: ToDo app, Blog App, and a travel app. Travel should probably be 5 with language at 6."

From here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508239

How so?

CP5-471-312N , got it refurbished for $150

I was looking at buying a new computer recently and dreaded another ugly Windows machine at $500. Some Chromebooks were going for almost nothing and with crouton for loading Linux it was the perfect solution. Later on I found out Linus also uses Chromebook/crouton as his Linux setup.

Linus has said that he uses Chro

I would be willing to pay money for a service that would allow me to a) pick sources (or ability to opt out of certain sources) and b) follow specific tickers and c) mass import tickers (ie ability to cut and paste a huge list of tickers from my watchlists that I want to follow).

"Stenophylla had not been seen in the wild in Sierra Leone since 1954 and anywhere since the 1980s in Ivory Coast, Davis said. A few examples were held in coffee research collections."

I think that means that there are a few labs with plants or seeds, but the discovery here is of a wild variety of the plant. Could be wrong.

Articles like this are probably planted by an industry group. The article mentions that the species was never lost because samples are held in labs, so there really isn't any news content here. What is probably going on is that coffee prices have been in a long term slump, producers are barely making money on arabica beans, and they want to introduce a cheaper variety that isn't low-margin robusta in order to survive as the low prices persist.

If hiring is so broken, then some company could succeed by hiring all the non-traditional applicants. Has nobody tried this? "We hire weirdos" might attract a lot of high-quality applicants. There is a market failure here or there isn't.

Thanks

For stocks Bbg is overkill. A stock investor basically needs latest PR, SEC and earnings release info for his watchlist of stocks, which can be done using Feedly and Seeking Alpha. Alerts connected to the watchlists ("high volume on stock at new high in this watchlist") would be useful but I haven't found anything with that. Finviz is good for charts, although it doesn't have log charts (at least in the free version). That's basically it. Yahoo Finance was brilliant while it lasted.

Another PG (Phil Greenspun) had this comment on Bel:

If you weren’t persuaded by the existing 100+ dialects of Lisp that have been created over the years, Bel from Paul Graham should change your mind and lure you aware from the dark and tedious arts of C and Java.

After you’ve saved bigly in development time on your next project, you can thank me!

I've heard the "sell shovels" advice a million times but I've never heard of anyone getting rich selling shovels.

Have you tried Hoovers?

Nobody knows how Rentech makes money. The most likely explanation for the success of Medallion is that Rentech assigns ex post the best strategies to Medallion, which is run for the benefit of insiders. For instance the fund Bluecrest was charged and fined for doing exactly that. We also know, because it appeared in a Senate report, that Rentech is a massive tax fraud and owes over $5 billion in unpaid taxes. Is it so unreasonable that a massive tax cheat would also cheat his investors? The press is far too credulous towards Rentech. For instance Zuckerman in his book devotes just one paragraph to a discussion of the tax fraud and the Senate report. Noah Smith himself worked at SUNY Stony Brook, which is heavily funded by Simons.

There's interesting info in here but it's buried pretty deep. Not clear on what this adversarial attack would be exactly.

You think they're going to pay off $168,000,000,000 of debt at the current rates? Maybe. If not, watch out.