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> Do you know of one?

Of course, I use them all the time. I'll give you a couple of silly, yet profound examples. In German and Marathi there are different words for the droppings (crap) of different animals. In fact in German there's a book that teaches the kids different words. Unlike the highly developed squeamishness of the English language around body functions, you might use one of these words to describe something non-scatalogical (say, some dropped bolts under a piece of machinery) Köttel which includes in one word that they are small, scattered, left by some small creature (i.e. by someone careless or simpleminded -- probably insulting yourself or someone else you're talking about) -- something that can be explained in English but by the time you've done so it's not worth it.

Or an example from English: because of the French invasion, English has different words for animals in the field (e.g. swine and pig) and on the table (pork). At home we'll use cow, Kuh, and vache (always humorously) as well as beef or "hamburger" in an English sentence just to emphasize different ways in which the animal is used in different cultures.

Agricultural roots are still current German and Marathi in a way not true in English, again due to the Norman invasion.

(oh yeah, another great German example is the different words for snot depending on its consistency).

German has a rich ontology of earth moving apparatus, and each kind of machine (e.g. Löffelbaggnr) has a descriptive term that even kids know and can understand. If that exists in English I have not seen it (and I've spent some time in construction) except presumably to particular specialists.

At the opposite end, in French you can't say shallow (only peu profond -- "a small depth") which has so much semantic richness it makes the term "shallow" shallow. In general, wordplay in English is pretty thin gruel compared to what you can get away with in French, or even German. Speaking of that the very structure of Arabic lets you say things with a richness (kitab vs katib) that is I find (and I have been speaking English in English speaking countries for more than 40 years) inexpressible in English.

> To continue my provocative thesis then you can think of English as the assembler of human thought

I enjoy speaking English but this statement is hardly true.
Association Between Religious Service Attendance and Lower Suicide Rates
Yes, I understand that the Vespa can do amazing things, is fun to ride and is very economical to use. Still, I was actually looking for a car.
> Montessori is really serious about this; materials are not allowed to be broken or chipped or worn

This is a traditional pseudoscientific gimmick to drive sales revenue.

In the real world, children are enticed by non-new and broken things just fine... until their parents, competitive peers, TV, or lovers insist they be more materialistic and wealthy signalling.
Not that I disagree with you, but is this so much different than the Right wanting to teach their children about a 6000 year old earth and "Creatiom Science"?
The Illiad is doing just fine in the many different languages it has been translated into

I've never heard a translation that captures the rich rhythm of the original.
It's not a button, it's a link in a low-contrast colour. Designed not to be easily noticed by the casual user.
Your comparison is incorrect. The first 2 examples are external industries while the third is an internal agency. A better question would be "Who's best at defining technical procurement than industry giants like IBM?"

The answers are that the SEC and the Fed are best for making banking regulations. The EPA is best for regulating the oil industry. And 18F is best for regulating the tech procurement process.
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Undefined behavior in Perl and other languages
I eventually got what amounts to essentially a "sponsorship" to continue building my project as I see fit. It didn't come out of Show HN (I don't think I've ever gotten anything directly out of an HN contact), but it was certainly encouraging enough to get me to drive forward on the project and eventually make it what gets me the local attention I receive for it today.

My mode has changed, though. I've learned a lot in that time, and I no longer think of advertising and distribution online as a viable method for most projects. I've had far more success getting real engaged eyes on my projects by engaging people in person.

There is an adage in sales, "go to your customers." It is meant literally. Go physically to where people will not only be interested in your project, but they're also in the mood to "buy" (whatever that might mean for your project. Installing and incorporating into my daily routine a free app on a smartphone is a cost I frequently choose to avoid).

For my wife, that means the vast majority of her sci-fi novel sales have been through three book fairs in the last two years, not the 24/7 Amazon. It's mostly just a hobby for her, and it would take a lot of work to replace her current income, so we haven't done more, but there is definitely s direct correlation between effort in, sales out, which is noticeably absent online. It makes it a lot easier to continue making that effort.

For me, that means presenting at JavaScript and designer meetups.
and maybe also because Java is not trendy anymore?
Mandatory schooling is much much older in Germany, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulpflicht_(Deutschland) (in German). It was part of the Weimarer Verfassung of 1919: http://www.verfassungen.de/de/de19-33/verf19.htm (Art.145). In some parts, mandatory schooling laws were first passed in 1592; Prussia in 1717/1763, Bavaria 1802, Saxony 1835, etc. There's really no need to bring up Hitler in every article that mentions Germany.
Citation needed? I'm just describing the Montessori method, which was developed in the early 1900s. But maybe they were driving "sales revenue" then also?
I grew up listening to Garrison Keillor and stories from Lake Wobegon. Listening to it as an adult, I have to say, it's not very good quality. I guess it's impossible to keep up a high level of quality week after week for so many years. But when I listen to it I hear a man rambling almost incoherently. There's not even a reasonable arc most weeks, he just babbles until time is up and Garrison abruptly says ".. and that's the news from Lake Wobegon".
Apparently you didn't notice who you were replying to.

rsync.net charges more for data at rest but they don't charge for downloads which is a significant savings for some use-cases. Also note that AWS's IA storage has a $0.01/GB retrieval charge on top of their standard data transfer out charges.
How early is "early"? Grade 1-5?
Kids younger than that don't need to sit in a classroom.

What does "appears a prompt" mean?
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Besides NPMgate?

http://incolumitas.com/2016/06/08/typosquatting-package-mana...

https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/4016

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141702881055/package-install-scri...
Interesting! Is this a full-time job for 3 people? Does your business run solely on donations or is there another source of income? (It wasn't obvious from what I saw on the site.)
Running a large list of dependencies controlled by someone else. Stores data on disk unencrypted. Stores code that gets executed, on disk in text form unencrypted and unsigned. Executes code while running directly from a website (github).

All in all an order of magnitude less security then a native app to put it mildly.

http://blog.scottlogic.com/2016/03/09/As-It-Stands-Electron-...
> Someone having 1000 times more money than you doesn't really affect you.

This is observably not true. Prices increase for everyone when average incomes (demand) go up. So if people around me suddenly start making more and I don't, suddenly, I'm paying more for things, and am worse off. If you want a concrete example look at Bay Area housing prices.
It really comes down to the children. If they have a lot of selfdisciplin it's great if not they are better off at more strict schools.

At the end of the day though, parents and their indirect involvement is the key to a proper education no matter what educational philosophy one follows.
Having maintained a C++ API and ABI based on implementation inheritance with virtual functions, I have deep respect for both kinds of compatibility. Someone even used placement new to put objects with vtable pointers in shared memory, expecting destructors to work in a different process!

Check out the "fragile base class problem" some time for more things than can go wrong.

Something that want made explicit: If you support closed source, shipping binaries, then the ABI can't change, or you break all compiled binaries users have installed.
If rebuilding the world from source is an option, changing the ABI is an option.

(Introducing a new ABI for new subsystems is still OK - hence renaming libc when it changes)

(Say what you want about Microsoft, but COM solved that problem pretty well in the '90s...)
From the electoral code, rough translation: "Independent observers are allowed to verify whether the digital fingerprint of the system in the data centers matches the publicly announced one"
I don't mind the ads, actually, but the tracking sucks. Ghostery is showing 19 trackers. JFC.
This seems quite the opposite of the headline?
Automatica’s exhibitors were trumpeting Industry 4.0. Is this the turning point?
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> I don't understand what is so controversial about the idea that other places use the language slightly differently, and it can take some time to become accustomed to the differences.

Nothing. What's controversial is equating "other places use the language slightly differently, and it can take some time to become accustomed to the differences" with "it takes a few weeks of practice to intelligibly [sic] understand someone from another place".

The first of those, yours, is a very weak claim. The second is a very strong one.

I said "this is dramatically overstated" and you're trying to contradict me by saying that a much weaker version of the claim is true. Yes, it is, that's what "overstated" means.
I wonder to what extent motivation is the culprit. I, for one, have experienced intense motivation and intense procrastination at the same time.

I have every reason, internal and external, to get the thing done, but I sometimes have trouble starting. This is particularly true of tasks where premature optimisation is possible, as I quite enjoy the analytical/planning part of the work. It's just that it takes on a life of it's own and the actual/quali-mechanical act of starting keeps getting pushed further back.

Surely I'm not alone...
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It hasn't been very long, but I've making solid progress since I posted Flask-Ask a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11871554

I've created and put up 6 tutorials at

https://alexatutorial.com

Worked with Amazon on a guest blog post:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/post/Tx14R0IYY...

Flask-Ask and AlexaTutorial have been featured on

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/4qdy73/learn_t...

and

https://www.producthunt.com/tech/alexatutorial-com

280 github stars

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask

Having a blast!
Challenge them in what sense, and for what affront?
The problem with completely opt-in is that kids dont know what they'll like until they try it, and if they can opt out of anything difficult, many will learn almost nothing.
Ask HN: Does live chat support really increase conversions?
We run a little e-commerce store and we tried a free live chat software for a month. We saw quite a few chat sessions during the month and we thought we did a decent job. Providing live support is hard because context switching kills productivity but I was hoping live chat would bump our user happiness. Despite our efforts, the conversions for that particular month didn't go up by much.

It was all 9am-6pm live chat with founders themselves, without any scripted answers. We tried to be as prompt as possible. Where exactly did we go wrong? I've seen several blog posts claiming that live chat increases conversions. What has been your experience with live chat on your website? Did it increase conversions? Should we have tried it for longer than a month? Does it work for other industries but doesn't work for b2c online stores?

Thanks
That is irrelevant to the topic. Yes, there are big problems, but they are not fixed overnight. They are fixed slowly and patiently by introducing ever more transparency and safeguards.
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Sorry, did not mean to insult. Just stating how I interpreted the name.

There seems to be a number of forks already (currently 12).
This is not limited to tech. It seems to permeate the financial world. If the curve is not showing growth, or perhaps even growing growth (figure that one out...), then it is time for the rats to jump overboard...
It is a lot worse than this. It is jaw dropping terror.
How about "Constitution".
Hate?
> Let me get this straight. Government contractors are concerned about the lack of transparency of 18F/US

No, I believe they are complaining about the transparency of 18F (e.g. blanket purchasing requirements, allowing open source, etc).

1. Make government more screwed up
2. Complain that the government is screwed up
3. Get a sweet contact to privatize something
4. Profit!

Assholes.
A compendium of Tesla Autopilot perspectives
Cerebro: GitHub fork search tool
Why do you think nominal housing prices will not increase with the new money? I can understand why housing prices would be sticky when going down, but I've never heard that they are sticky when going up.
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This isn't really a traditional 'Show HN' but perhaps someone will find it interesting. Around 5 months ago I posted about Nim in Action[1], the book that I have been writing for nearly a year now. It's been an interesting experience, but certainly not an easy one. Right now the book is very close to completion and I cannot wait until it's finalised so that I can get back to working on some fun little programming projects :)

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987975
So, do we have evidence that we can actually joke about it and this is really not what that link does? That does sound very much like something they would do...
That's right, LLVM does support JIT compilation. But it's just one tool in the toolbox. I would hazard a guess that most projects which depend on LLVM don't use the JIT compiler.

But even with a JIT compiler, LLVM doesn't provide the kind of runtime services (e.g., memory and resource management) that we would typically associate with a VM runtime like the JVM's. Like their Web site says, "Despite its name, LLVM has little to do with traditional virtual machines, though it does provide helpful libraries that can be used to build them."
I posted my project[0] to try and help people find jobs where they would be happier writing software, just a few days ago and didn't get much traffic or any comments. I guess that means it wasn't a great idea or I'm really bad at marketing.

[0] - https://www.devjuncture.com -
> A lot of commentary tries too hard to invent problems with native apps to level the field with web app applications.

I don't necessarily disagree with that, but...

> Is updates a bother?

Yeah, kind of. Maybe just because I'm slow to update (my OS and my apps), but every couple of months, my apps break because I need to update (app devs apparently don't care about breaking older versions of their apps with API updates). On my iPhone5, I'll open an app (say, Facebook or Lyft), it starts up and then immediately crashes. This is how I know an update is available. I download the update, and yay, I can use the app again.
Of course it's not. Still, there are a lot of people who don't really care about node.js and other trendy "tech of the year".

We wrote about Java and the choices we made for Spincast here: https://www.spincast.org/about
Stable, great infrastructure, three of the best 10 universities, business friendly government
How did you find it?
Technically this is a solved problem, but somehow no one cares enough.

Bad people would say, companies make them bad on purpose, so people get apps and can be tracked better.
I posted that before they responded. Good to hear they don't respond to RFPs.

The point of RFPs are to allow fair competition between vendors. Also to allow the government agencies to compare bids apples to apples and score accordingly. You're example is fine as long as you are providing the other bidders with the same information. It breaks down if you have inside information that other bidders don't have.

For example, most RFPs don't include budget info, but often a large portion of the scoring is based around the budget. If 18F had worked to create the criteria, knowing information that wasn't public to bidders, then won said bid, that's where the conflict comes in.

But this is all for not, as 18F has clarified that they don't do this, which is great. I'm all for better requirements, transparency, and lower government spending.

I bid on a lot of RFPs and the process needs fixing for sure. Anything tobreduce the amount of work I need to do to draft a bid is welcomed. Goverment bids take an insane amount of man hours on our part.

Love the work 18F is doing in this space.
Roger Dingledine on Jacob Appelbaum Resignation [pdf]
No, they are not fixed slowly and patiently. There is ONLY one way to "fix" these "problems" and, unfortunately, it is the exact opposite of slowly and patiently. That's how absurd Bulgaria is.
>Why is it bad when businesses find that conditions for them constantly get better everywhere?

If those conditions are getting better at the expense of the local populace, then it most certainly can be bad.
I remember reading that when you compare the development of a child that went to a regular school vs. Montessori the results are the same.
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The News From Lake Wobegon is available in a podcast, with a very long archive: http://prairiehome.org/listen/podcast/ - and really it's better as a podcast
That can happen to your native app as well if it requires network access.
What are you talking about? Proper attire is no less mindless conformity than whatever heyday of suit and tie wearing you're thinking of. The only difference is that suits have fallen out of favor as the correct uniform for many situations.
I showed ngxtop [0] about 2 years ago as a top inspired tool to quickly check the status of my nginx servers, something I created for my need. I expected some people would find it useful and shared, turned out a lot of people need something to monitor their nginx servers and it got 3k stars in a day or two. So I built a much better tool to help monitor nginx and sell it as a product, Luameter [1]. It didn't take off like the other but now making a couple hundreds a month and being used by some high-profile users, i.e. well-known companies.

[0] https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop
[1] https://luameter.com/
I disagree. If someone has deactivated their own humanity enough to say "It's just a word" then they probably need a shocking reminder of the power of words. Making an abstract argument about words won't move the needle for a wet robot.
I don't think you're responding in good faith but I'll humour you nevertheless:

Merkel is a conservative in the truest sense of the word. She doesn't like change, and she especially doesn't like rapid change with snarky comments. Also keep in mind Schulz is from the equivalent of Labour while Merkel is from the equivalent of the Tories. Schulz wants more EU, Merkel just wants something stable. That they're not in agreement isn't surprising.

Merkel doesn't want anyone leaving the EU at all and ideally she doesn't want the UK to leave, or at least not leave entirely. She's not interested in a destabilized EU or a destabilized UK.

As I've said before; unlike what I've seen Leavers spout on the Internet for months: Germany (in general) is not consistently promoting the idea of a United State of Europe and the EU certainly isn't our Fourth Reich. Remember how I said that the impression in Germany is that the UK is falling apart because of this? I was talking about the man on the street, not politicians.
Can you elaborate? You seem to be saying that the HDMI or VGA socket in a laptop can also act as an input instead of just an output? That intrigues me, though I'd also be really surprised if it were the case.

You could potentially use one of those wireless display technologies (Miracast, I think it's called) and setup the computer as a sink, but the software seemed far from usable when I tried that a year ago.
A year and something ago I posted about my first mobile game that I developed for Android. It got some cool traction (~3M downloads) and I've ended up doing an iOS version, and a landing page for it (http://2121.io/). Was pretty cool to do a start to finish side-project, since most of them end scrapped. I expect to start developing a new game later on this year. :)
Does anybody hear about colony.io? What do you think?
I read about assembly, and I see that colony.io team are trying to build something similar.

Do you know more platforms like that?
Tried the test in desktop Firefox, and the HTTP1 gave me a "insecure connection" error.

Apparently it is an expired certificate.
That's a good question, and as I'm replying from my phone, I'll try to be concise and to the point.

1) It started out as just an image optimization API (so it was a little bit of a niche product back in 2013).

2) Our API covered all major image formats, and supported both lossy and lossless optimization modes, which again, was pretty rare at the time.

3) Listen to customers, fix things, and add sensible features such as image resizing. Always listen to customers and try to understand what they want even if they don't know how to explain it themselves.

4) With enough people using our platform to essentially replace the development work, R&D and infrastructural requirements needed for a decent imaging workflow, the app will essentially market itself.

5) Develop a stack which can be rapidly scaled up and simultaneously allows for costs to be kept as low as possible. Pass on the value to customers at every available opportunity.

6) I'll edit this post and add more detail once I get to a real computer.
Well, yeah, or they'll announce that due to customer feedback, they have decided to allow upgrading for free for some more time.

Or the nagware to upgrade for free will turn into nagware to upgrade for money.
Ha. I know all that. We lived in Puerto Rico for five years a couple years back.

No, local sales are not at all profitable. The wholesale price of coffee is fixed to benefit the big roasters - our plan is to roast it ourselves and sell retail online as a boutique brand serving the mainland. Our friends already do this, and do OK with it.

The electricity is fine in Ponce (water can be a temporary issue there, too, but every house has a tank); when we do come to Adjuntas, we'll be building a solar house, ideally somewhere with its own spring water.

No hurry. It's PR. :-)
>It seems unfair to compare Davos sessions to some rather robust, historically important, top-of-the-line explorers. Virtually all sessions are boring, including or maybe even especially in the 19th or early 20th centuries.

So is his argument that Davos is unimportant or is he waffling?
Revolutions normally don't fix problems, they create new ones.
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