skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd you say that, everyone I ever met here in the US and even in Puerto Rico had MSN. Probably because it came with a free email, and was maintained by Microsoft.
I think you're example is one of the few I would think of as specifically "singular". In most other examples I feel "they" refers to some instance of an nonspecific person from within a group of people, which is still singular but related to a group.
There was a discovery a while back of a planet composed mostly of diamond. Maybe diamond-nine accidentally formed and turned everything around it to solid diamond :)
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So the direct version instantly crashes on 10.11.2 beta, the app store version continues to run perfectly. Oh, the irony.
>creating a decent store front

Because when looking at the metrics they care about (see: $) they see a runaway success, and dismiss the idea that it isn't already "decent".
> If anyone has a serious citation for "he" was imposed by "meddling grammarians"

There are lots of citations about this on the web and even a whole bunch in past HN threads. This is one of the more fascinating articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-onlanguage-...
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping used to be a joke.

Sigh. I feel old.
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The king is obviously from a more primitive time. In the future everyone will want a general-purpose cooking machine that can make toast, scrambled eggs and bacon in parallel.

All these single-purpose kitchen machines take up so much space.
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But MSN had group conversations (as far as I remember), why not simply use those?
The VM/player has been like that for a couple of years. Their change list[1] has dwindling features, and their roadmap[2] makes it clear there's nothing coming in the future.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/flashplayer-air-feature...

[2] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadma...
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Knowing what I know now, if I could go back in time and choose a career, I'd go into materials science. That's where the biggest bang for the buck always is.
Interesting article. I for one would not be coming out of my trench to fraternize with the enemy.
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Indeed, I actually have a ridiculous and frustrating ongoing problem, apparently insoluble, where no matter how many times I update an app that appears under "Updates Available", it will reappear after seemingly successfully updating.

So I've installed the identical copies of XCode, iMovie, The Unarchiver, etc., etc., over and over. Then entries with identical versions and release dates very shortly after reappear in the list.

This, on top of countless other frustrations (such as transferring my MBP from my home "battlestation" to offsite causing full system crashes about 1/3 of the time, Time Machine not working properly with my NAS setup, WiFi overheating/malfunctioning FUBAR right after upgrading to Yostemite, various other minor random things breaking and annoyances, and so on, including the generally arrogant attitude Apple takes of its customers and developers), I've had enough. Next computer I'm running back into the arms of Linux, because the main argument against it is that Linux eats up a lot of time configuring, but I'm already wasting way too much time dealing with my OS' issues, one that ostensibly "just works", so I might as well get the benefit of having a working, productive development system at the end of it.
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You're free to do exactly that. Nothing stops you from publishing a web browser that renders static HTML. But the only way to include a JS interpreter is to use the Apple-provided WebKit.

Language interpreters are forbidden to download any code from the internet, so you cannot use JS found on a web page in your own interpreter.
> Have a "Power User / Developer Tools" category and associated checkbox in iTC that says "My app needs to opt-out of these parts of sandboxing". Put those apps through a much more strenuous review process.

I disagree with this. I like the sandbox constraint; i don't mind opting out of the app store if my needs necessitate dropping the sandbox. I also think the interface of the app store is the least of its concerns.

Everything else you said is on fleek.
Ideally - user curated app lists. Start with celebs and notable people from various industries. If it's successful, eventually expand to everyone, not just selected people. Allow curated lists to be updated by the curator whenever they want.

That's a longer term solution I see. Short term, I just want you to be able to click a button in iTunes on your Mac and in the App Store on your phone to start the app downloading on your TV. That way I could put a link in this comment and anyone who sees it and is interested can get the app in two clicks.
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> I think jpmattia was joking.

Honestly, with the way the comments are for this article, it's impossible to tell.
I am not so sure being first with a mediocre idea is better than coming to market latter with a great idea. Mediocre ideas increase the chance of failure, but more importanty no idea that is being executed on by four others before you is a truely good idea.
It might not be for ad targeting, but it's for Google's monetization as stated in the article. It's mined.

Google should not be allowed near an educational environment. It's business is built on data collection and monetization of it.
Damn, those functions are longgggg. While the code seems to be organized well, it is a hell to keep track of variables, and all the flow changes.
I'll take another look, thanks.
But there are tons of companies offering WordPress hosting? I think until recently WordPress kept parts of their management interface proprietary, but I think everything else was open-source.
"They" isn't really used illogically.

If someone wants to understand, they only need to examine it beyond what they learned as rules in English class.

The use of "they" is usually general, when not really pointing to a specific person. If Dennis is standing in front of me, and someone asked me whom to speak to, I wouldn't point at Dennis and say, "They is the one to speak to".

But if I was talking about DennisP online, and I didn't know who was behind that vague identifier, and someone asked whom could help, I might say, "I talked to DennisP earlier, and they helped me with my problem."

For all I know, "DennisP" is an organization, or shared account. It's a vague generality, when the individual attributes of a person are unknown or irrelevant.

It's like when one speaks in general ways that apply to all mankind, and you might even use the word "you" to refer to, not YOU, but anyone.

"They" works great because a group is a vague fuzzy kind of thing. In the plural form, speaking of them, over there, and their attributes, it's not so much about the plurality, as it is the abstract fuzziness of it.

All that we're doing is applying that same fuzziness in the direction of what could possibly be a smaller target in terms of numeration.

That is why, I don't think those rules about singular and plural were ever really correct. It isn't the numbers that we were trying to convey with the words, but the fuzziness.

"He" and "She" are referencing specific object types with common properties across the whole of the specific object. Whereas "They" is referencing an object with either mixed or unknown properties.

Do you see what I'm saying? It isn't about the count, but the uniqueness of known attributes for a specific target. It just so happens that when you have many of an object, the commonality of attributes blurs, and so the "they" pointer appears to be about the number of objects. Then some people who aren't thinking beyond that get upset if you violate the number when using they to point to >1.

When really, it's just about fuzz.

I don't use "they" as any kind of feminist thing. I just think that "he or she" is not only incredibly distracting and inefficient, but it is the illogical one. Also referring to fuzzy things as "he" or "she" are both wrong, because they are trying to instantiate objects using a template that requires certain attributes when the properties of the spoken of object are unknown or irrelevant to the conveyed concept.

"He" when the boy template is needed. "She" when the girl template is needed. "They" when a fuzzy generic container works better. The number of people references is irrelevant. Just like how an organization may contain many people, but we refer to it as if it were a person. Even an individual person is an organization of smaller components.
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This is great, but I wish it was longer. The first 23 levels are pretty easy and it tells you what properties to use, then it drops you into a really difficult level with no hints. It would be nice if it built up to that with some medium difficulty levels.
Yay for SEO spam at the bottom of it.
English "you" is the grammatically plural (previously used also to denote formality, where it is not semantically plural) form, corresponding to French "vous". The English grammatically singular form ("thee/thou") corresponding to French "tu" has generally fallen out of use, so "you" has in effect become the all-purpose 2nd-person pronoun, but its still grammatically plural.

Likewise, "they" is grammatically plural, regardless of its contextual semantics.
It doesn't matter what others do and how many hours they spend in the office. Only becasue some people do stupid things you don't have to follow them. If you are "just" an employee (eg. you are not working for the fuck-you-money) and still work 65 hours a week you are selling your soul for cheap and are high probably on the way to burn out. Maybe it's time for you to learn to say politely "no" and to get back to the 40 hours work week.
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I think it's a tenable but extreme position, because basically they are objecting to Google reserving the right to develop new features in an empirical/data-driven way.

They can develop new features with their data.
Does this upgrade to Windows 10 prompt look suspicious?
Ahh yes, my favourite new trend in online publishing: Opening a link to an article only to find I have to scroll past a full-screen image to get to the content. Preferably an image that has precisely zero to do with the content or even the outlet where the content is being published...

Pity, the article, itself, is interesting... bootstrapping a hardware business was going on before Kickstarter, so it's interesting to see these more traditional options laid out.
The data still exists in aggregate form. Even if Google went against their business model of using as much data as possible for targeted advertising, as recent data breaches have demonstrat4ed, it is foolish to think the data will stay with Google forever.

Data that is sitting around unused is tempting to use the next time they hit a financial hardship, and it's a very tempting target for various types of thieves and governments with national security letters.

The proper way to handle this problem would be for Google (or whomever) to be liable for mishandling the data they hold. If google wants to have this data, they would then have a strong incentive for keeping it secret. Even better, it would encourage Google to only keep data for as long as it was needed ("leftover" data becomes a potential liability risk with no benefit).
A "public utility" has very specific meaning, being an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service, that is subject to forms of public control and regulation and for which you pay taxes.

Is Mozilla subject to forms of public control and regulation? Do you pay taxes for Mozilla's existence? If not, then Mozilla does not qualify.

My problem is actually twofold. On one hand bashing Mozilla is like bashing a charity and most people doing it have never donated or contributed anything. But also I don't understand what's the freaking deal with that Pocket button, which is nothing more than a shortcut that consumes nothing, that can be easily removed and for which Mozilla got nothing in return for the deal.

This is why Free Software will never happen at scale. Far more aggravating than the problem of the business model is all the shit these people have to put up with.
Off topic comming up. I feel the one thing that will really get Google in trouble is this hypothetical senerio--right out of a bond movie:

Google has the ability to look at all our internet history. They have the ability to read our emails. That can match up ip addresses with street address. They can most likely figure out what most people do for a living. (yes, some of this spying in illegial, unless advertising purposes?)

Could you imagine looking at the Internet history, and emails of the Titans of business around the world? Looking at the information that stock/investment types pass around.

Looking at all this information, collating it, data mining it, etc., and then buying and selling stocks/bonds/etc.?

Yea, I know it's illegial. It just seems like it would be tempting? I know the SEC is probally, or I hope they are, watching out for this kind of hypothetical behavior, and no--I don't think the founders of Google would ever even think about doing someting like this. If I worked there, and had access to sensitive files on those servers; It just seems like it would be hard to not look at that information, and make a few bets? Yea, I know they have great internal security, and have strict policies, but there's always a guy who would be willing to break the rules? I don't think I could not look at that information, and try to predict the future? (In reality I would never do anything like I proposed, but it sure would be tempting?)
In conversations with people who also speak multiple languages, I've sometimes explained the distinction between "y'all" and "all y'all" as similar to the one between "allí" and "allá" in Spanish. Both "allí" and "allá" mean "there" (as opposed to "aquí", "here"), but "allá" is further away in a progression; informally you could translate it as "way over there".

For instance, suppose you know a family of people. Two people out of that family are currently visiting you. You might say "Y'all should bring the whole family over next time; all y'all are welcome anytime." The first "y'all" refers to the two people visiting; the "all y'all" refers to the whole family.
I guess that's why QEMU translates small linear segments of machine code, i.e. code up to the next branch or jump.
Why is using "her" everywhere worse than using "him" everywhere?
Very cool. Another fun project would be loading up the Pi with speed run controller input so you could pretend to be superhuman at video games.
> We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.

Ninety. Nine. Percent.
Elsewhere on that page they seem to give, if not approval of the construct, than at least acknowledgment that it is solving the problem:

> The use of they as a singular pronoun is a hot topic in online grammar forums. By traditional standards, the sentence is incorrect because it contains no plural noun for they to refer to. Traditionally, the correct versions are “The telltale sign of right-wingers: they can’t write in English to save their lives” and “The telltale sign of a right-winger: he can’t write in English to save his life.”

> The growing acceptance of they as singular is in response to a need for a gender-neutral pronoun that avoids the use of he to mean he or she. Good writers would make right-winger plural to avoid the appearance of incorrectness or gender bias, but in other sentences the plural is not a good option: “Someone ate my Twinkie, and they’d better watch out!” In those contexts, many language experts now approve of the use of they. You can learn more by searching online for “singular they.”
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It was very popular all across Asia too, except maybe China where Internet restrictions probably led to local competitors,sprouting up. It likely wasn't popular in the US as AOL captured the market first, and the impact of network effects is huge when it comes to chat apps.

Interestingly, MSN Messenger's capabilities in the late 90s/early 2000s were quite impressive. I remember being able to make long-distance audio VOIP calls using Messenger back in 2000, even on an awful 33.6kbps modem. The feature was removed pretty soon after, probably because it was abused (there was no charge for calls).

You could also send decently sized files (~10MB) using Messenger until about 2005, and that too was discontinued as people used it to send MP3s to one another.
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There's nothing understandable, and certainly not mindful, about a bunch of childish students telling someone they can't do Yoga because it might hurt someone's feelings. Especially when the argument devolved into "You can't even have a stretching class (no longer associated with yoga), because it might hurt someone's feelings." That is ripe for hurtful, deserved, mockery.
> The interesting thing is that the singular usage of "they" doesn't get used with singular verbs.

Verb forms agree with the grammatical number of the subject, independent of the semantic number; in English those almost always are the same, but aside from "they", "you" (which is grammatically plural, even though its semantics are sometimes singular) is a case where they can diverge.
And sound. Wtf?
So who's going to get a copy of the data set and upload it?
Didn't realize that -- okay, so what I should probably just do is offer dual commercial licensing as well
Learning how to learn is really cool! Best time investment I have ever made.
A general-purpose cooking machine that can do all these things in parallel is nearly as large as three individual machines, assuming you are not sacrificing performance for size. It is also more complicated than three individual machines and causes greater headaches if one of the functions breaks.
The certificate expiration issue apart I would move to a non appstore version at least for my 1Password. I started using 1Password to store all my passwords including iTunes password and the recovery email. One fine day, I try to launch 1P and i get an error box saying I need to authorize the app on the computer using my iTunes ! Rats now this is a deadlock ! Possible solutions are use the same password for 1Password vault and iTunes or buy iPassword from agilebits directly. I will go the latter route in future.
Just because your experiment is difficult doesn't mean it's ethical to use other people's data without their informed consent.
That would be awful, but is a misunderstanding. People say "they were" for the singular, just like "you were" (not "you was").
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What should I look for when negotiating a remote job offer?

This would be a first for me, so advice and warnings are greatly appreciated!

Are there perks I should be asking for? Are the 'red flags' that I should watch out for?
Nope! But that's OK:)

A majority of people will never develop any real skill level at administering servers. We still need them to be able to use reasonably humane software though, because the consumer software industry revolves around them. If they continue to be easy pickings for predatory software (lock-in, etc.) the incentive for industry will be to continue improving at making predatory software . . . not ideal.

So empowering normal users (even partially, Sandstorm certainly doesn't give as much freedom as becoming a unix guru or whatever) is good for expert users too.
I use soundcloud all the time and although I love the concept and access to new music, the app makes no sense. Adding songs to playlists is too difficult, "liking" songs and reposting them is too difficult, nothing flows smoothly.

As time has gone on I think soundcloud has got crappier and crappier. Not too mention that using it at the gym with your phone strapped to your arm sucks. I am sure many people use soundcloud on iphone at the gym and I bet they all think it sucks too.

Now that soundcloud has ads I see room for competition. The app sucks and the only saving grace is the user base. It is no longer the cool underground place to listen to hot new tracks. It is now a crappy memory hogging ad spewing vibe ruining music player. Hopefully somebody who has the cash to pony up for music hosting servers will come by and re-do a simpler version.
This depends on the tax situation of the country you live in. If you do the math, you might realise to get $1m in personal income by declaring dividends, you actually need to earn $2m in corporate profit. So to get $3m (capital gains from a sale), you would need to earn $6m in taxable income. Meaning it would take you 4/5/6/7 years.

Also, if you then reinvest that $3m in more traditional assets (stocks/bonds/property/alternatives), you can earn 5-10% on that capital ($150-300k per year), WHILE working on something new. Capital is awesome.
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