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I speak Russian, which is gendered (masculine/feminine/neuter) as my native language.

> what utility do you think a language gains from gendered nouns?

None whatsoever. When speaking of things that don't have any meaningful gender, it makes things unnecessarily complicated. When speaking of things that do have physical gender, it often forces you to make assumptions about it even when it's completely irrelevant.

> ow do you know what gender a noun is? I assume there are "themes" that might inform you. But if you're unclear, how do you do find out?

In Russian, it mostly follows the spelling of the words - i.e. if a word ends with a certain vowel, it's feminine, except if ... etc.

Sometimes it doesn't work that way, mostly with loanwords. Some loanwords so obviously don't match any "genderizing" pattern, that they basically end up with neuter by default.

In other cases the historical form of the word did match a pattern, and was assigned a gender accordingly - and then changed (e.g. by re-loaning it in a more accurate spelling), and no longer fits. When that happens, people will use the more "appropriate" rather than the "right" gender in colloquial speech, and eventually it becomes the new standard, collecting the mismatch.

A good example of this is the Russian word "coffee". When it was first loaned back in 18th century, it was "kofiy" - and in Russian, that is definitely masculine. Eventually it got re-loaned as "kofe", which would normally be neuter; but the masculine gender assignment stayed from past spelling. In the dictionaries, that is - in practice treating the word as neuter became one of the common incorrect colloquialisms, just because it doesn't "look" masculine. Language purists fought this for several decades, and eventually lost: it's still nominally masculine, but neuter is considered an "accepted variant" in modern dictionaries.

> how are new genders decided? I'm struggling to think of an example as "laptop" presumably has the same gender as "computer", but it must come up sometime

For new words, by their spelling, as described above. So "laptop" is masculine because it ends with a consonant, for example.

Personal names are an exception to this stuff. As in, when a foreign name is used in a context where gender cannot be guessed, people will often apply the usual rules (and then often get it wrong). But once context is established, it's properly accounted for.

On the other hand, for place names, gender is automatically assigned by the usual rules. So to a Russian speaker, New York and Texas are masculine, while California and Florida are feminine.
Especially if the content is truly evergreen. Chances are your audience has grown a year or so after posting it - tweet/fb/etc it out again!
I was trying to support it through the print sales at first and that was nowhere near covering costs as there wasn't much interest to be honest.

The Pro version was only launched last week, so still early days!
I wouldn't read too much into it. When users see a flagged comment, they're more inclined to flag subsequent comments of the same tone. Saying that you didn't read half the reply didn't really help matters, plus it was very energetic overall. Energy tends to be met with energy in the opposite direction, which tends to spark flamewars.

In general though, it's better to email hn@ycombinator.com with concerns about the site rather than comment about it. They're very responsive.
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More discussions at this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692632
you can apparently choose the least professional communication style-- littered with cursewords and personal insults

This is silly. Linus has written (tens of?) thousands of completely "professional" messages. A few outbursts over the 25 years of kernel development are not a choice of "the least professional communication style".
It certainly does provide some extra flavors for poets to play with.

It also makes translations to other languages hell, when noun genders are used for allegoric purposes.
I've never understood why deflation is such a bad thing. Sure in larger levels the old arguments deferred consumption kicks in but as lower 1-2% levels this could be a good thing is we have some years of small increases with others offset by smaller decreases.

I think govt chases low inflation so hard as it 1) business looks its growing more than it is and 2) helps them manage budgets better. Whereas for the majority a stable situation would be better.
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The browser is finally starting to deliver as the universal interface, and with it, the resource hogging. Seems odd when laptops are maxed out on RAM for running the browser.
Not entirely sure why you're getting downvoted - I can only assume it's a kneejerk reaction at the mention of DeepFreeze, stemming from residual bitterness due to all the installations of Halo CE that were removed from school computers thanks to DeepFreeze.
Hi, I have released part 2:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14694092
That isn't a compramise, it's the goal. Your comments should be about the "why", and not the "how". We already know how, that's what code is - instructions about how something works.

What we don't know is why it was done in the first place, or why it was done a particular way, or why I shouldn't change that line that looks wrong but is really correct.
Don't take this as an officially supported feature, but http://artpip.com/live exists if you want to simply display the featured artwork on a second monitor in a fullscreen browser. It should refresh and stay up to date.

I'm using it to power my ghetto live painting - http://i.imgur.com/bNDEZTu.jpg
If the last letter determines gender what's the point of using "el" or "la" at all?
>But flask also almost invented the whole @route API, which is really awesome.

Hasn't that been inherited from bottle?
There's nothing stopping you from using hiredis in c++
Sent you an email, please check @davidshariff.
We absolutely do notice the difference. One is voiced, the other one is voiceless. The way you articulate them is different as a result, even though there are obvious similarities as well.
Even though it's more characters, I usually use perl -pe 's/search/replace/' instead of sed in pipelines because it understands /n (and other escape characters I don't remember). Because all it takes is to get burned a couple times for it to be worth sticking with what you know will work.
I will note a pattern I have noticed:

In situations where men make initial inquiries and the woman turns it down, but does not cut all contact with him forevermore, men seem to pretty consistently interpret this as "she actually likes me and is playing hard to get." The problem for women with careers is that walking away entirely from a powerful man would mean walking away from all kinds of professional settings where she is likely to run into him. Cutting him out of her life entirely would be career suicide.

The one message we really need to get powerful men to get is this:

Working women are talking to you at all for the exact same reason working men are talking to you. And it isn't because they think you are hot. They are trying to make a business deal or further a career goal, not fulfill your wildest fantasies.

I think this is why so many men persist in saying things like "I just misread the situation." And we will keep hearing that until it is the cultural norm for men to assume that women they work with are there to work, and that's it.
thats exactly what a rental agency will do for you, but for a fraction of the cost.

they only require one or two month deposit, and any document from your previous/home country.
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I had the gaul to cite personal experience as reason to legitamitely question the narrative, as there was something I didn't understand.

Rather than take this as an opportunity to bring someone onto their side, I was met with a barrage of down votes and flaggers for doubting the wrong narrative.

This kind of community censorship hinders progress.
Glitch caused Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and other stocks to spike or plummet
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Well, it is commonly called "scharfes S" (sharp S), at least in Austria -- and I'm pretty sure in Germany too.
I certainly plan to use it in practice, and have already started telling my friends and relatives about it. The substitution with "SS" always rubbed me the wrong way, since it should be "SZ". The capital "ẞ" solves that problem for me, and I no longer have more letters in the uppercase version of certain words, which is nice.
Marvell mwifiex cards seem to be broken past ~4.9. git.marvell.com is down so I can't check for new firmware, either.
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Check out part 2! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14694092
I think it's more that you have no absolute speed...? I.e.
it's an ill-defined concept. Of course we often talk about speed as if it's absolute, but as you point out it's actually always relative to some assumed background, e.g. the ground.

(It's also impossible to measure speed without some sort of external reference.)
Check out part 2!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14694092
Do Grades Matter? A Discussion About Thinking Bigger While at CMU (2016) [pdf]
I may be tilted, but I don't intend to intentionally break the site rules just to force a ban. It'd just undermine the point I'm trying to make about wanting to have a fair and reasonable discussion.
Wait, this is 75 records? What kind of leak is that? Seems far more likely to be one user accessing data over an insecure network and having that session captured, or similar one-instance leak. But on the other hand...what are the odds this journalist was one of a random 75 records?
Your comment basically says we should never try to improve it then, which is extremely depressing.
What comes out when you ask yourself whether you enjoy building things or making money from ideas?
What are you doing on HN when you could be off reading source code?
Yes. I put on my resume that I can solve a Rubik's cube in less than 20 seconds. It makes you stand out from the crowd. It literally got me multiple interviews where people asked me if I could solve one for them but of course who the fuck brings a Rubik's cube to an interview ... I should really start brining it.
As a foreign speaker, I find some of your examples curious, because for them it would actually make it harder for me to deal with English if we went with those suggestions. Reason being that some of these words reflect similar semantic changes in my language, and losing them would feel unnatural. "Who" vs "whom" is a good example.

"It's" vs "its" is also bothersome, but for a different reason - this probably has to do with learning English in a way that emphasized formal sentence structure, rather than just the way it sounds. But I think that's not all that uncommon for non-native speakers. When I studied in college in New Zealand, I once had a chance to converse with our ethics teacher (native Kiwi) one on one, where she remarked on my spelling in a recent essay. From there she quickly went on to a general rant about how immigrants are much better than natives at spelling, citing "its" vs "it's" as one of the examples - according to her, she had never seen a non-native speaker substitute one for the other inappropriately.

On the other hand, "if I were" never made any sense to me, and is one of the more common mistakes I still make, even after 8 years of speaking and writing English 99% of the time.
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Ask HN: Is there a random chat site (like omegle) that isn't taken over by bots?
I remember when omegle could actually yield some interesting conversations, although there were always a fair share of bots and ne'er-do-wells. Is there anywhere to have random conversations with mostly real, well-meaning humans?

I suppose it's a pretty hard problem to make such an app, since it needs to be popular enough to have active users, which means the bots are going to try. You could use some quasi-real-life identity (like Facebook), but many people probably want anonymity and wouldn't trust that.
Difficulty aside, gendered nouns make gender-neutral communication awkward. If you want to refer to a group in a gender-neutral way you have to refer to both the feminine plural and the masculine one, or invent some silly new forms.
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If it's something you need to do on a semi-regular basis, using a pidfile seems to me to be the best solution. Instead of trying to be clever about pipelines, just write the pid(s) to a file and use that.
I thought they blamed a DDoS by unknown parties in addition to the unexpectedly high load of us all trying to access it?
Sure about the G?
> Asking to sleep with someone and trying to kiss her, and then leaving when being told "no", is not sexual assault;

That's not an accurate summary of her account. He'd been rebuffed repeatedly and clearly before forcing her into a corner and trying to kiss her. While the exact legal definition of "sexual assault" varies depending on the jurisdiction, if it came down to a court decision I don't like his chances.
A major city can't end traffic short of politically unpopular methods like congestion charges or total vehicle limits. But it CAN let people escape traffic, which is what NYC does by having an extensive subway.
There was a previous discussion on how do you know when someone is addicted to over-engineering, and looking at this giant UML diagram, I think this might be the case.

The amount of complexity I'm willing to accept is proportional to the the difficulty of the problem. In this case it's manipulating web pages, which shouldn't be too hard. This isn't a knock on React in particular, but it seems all the major vendors are competing on complexity. React has "fibers", Ember has a "virtual machine", Angular has their own overblown architecture (I don't know anything about it, and don't want to).

Now that the DOM API is implemented in a standards-compliant way across most browsers, it should be the perfect time to use it. I don't like the current mess that is front-end web development, and more of the status quo isn't going to get any simpler, quite the opposite.

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Identity theft. Medicare cards are used as a form of official identification by government here and it's photoless. Make a convincing fake with coherent details and I'm sure it'd be a handy stepping stone.

Granted, it's local to AU which makes it small fry on a worldwide data black market scale.
I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who pays attention to the way good people are seduced into bad actions by the exercise of power beyond what's appropriate.

I do this precisely because I want to avoid situations where my behavior and viewpoint will be compromised by the level of authority I wield.

The very point I'm attempting to make, anyway, is that if you hand even the best humans inordinate power they will abuse it. That's how power is. It's not about the people - it's about the power structures we inhabit.

Reference the milgram experiment, the stanford prison experiment, whatever you like. They're not definitive, by any means, but they show you what is possible.
"During that same time, it made over $15,000 per month just selling t-shirts (3x+ more than ads)."

Lately I've heard a lot about selling t-shirts. Sometimes, I think we are overlooking the easy revenue? Just sell them t-shirts?

Or, maybe t-shirts have always sold, but they need to be somewhat immediately available--like after a popular pod cast, or after a concert?

There's a printer that spits out t-shirts, but it looks like it breaks down a lot, and costs 30 grand.

My point is sell tee shirts, instead of taking years writing a technical book, or app? I don't like it, but maybe it's just me? I don't like doing something because it makes money. Yea--I'm a loser, or a loser in some circles in our society.

My sister makes millions selling wooden women's shoes. She would sell her soul to make a buck, but she does make a fortune. This rich kid I went to school with had a very nice, enabling father. His father told him what the world needs, and gave him huge amounts of seed money. He sells dental picks, and those white tooth picks. I actually have one in my mouth now.

I don't know what my point is--, maybe we're too consumed with the perfect app?

For myself, I need to use tech to market what I'm interested in. For myself, right now--it's watch repair/watch making. I want to convey what I know to other people for free, or at a very low cost.
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Funny to see uruguayan Pedro Figari, of all people, featured today!
Please note it's "Apple Inc." without a comma.
The risk is yourself, not the market. Losing your coins is equivalent to the market crashing to 0. And it's shockingly easy to completely lose your coins, even if you're not incompetent.
You haven't seen Old English then.

https://www.omniglot.com/images/langsamples/smp_oldenglish.g...
Sienna too
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That's because they only count the part that they're working on. The rest of the Hour project includes standups, testing, documentation, deployment, retrospectives and post-mortems, team happy hours, ...
I'm fairly certain they're aware of the problem :)

And yes, I bet this is going to lead to some interesting meetings between them and the data providers.
I find introducing "new" unicode glyphs for characters that have historically been in wide use is extremely useful, as people working with historical texts no longer need to use workarounds to express them. See [1] for an example of the kind of characters you find in historical texts. Having an official way of representing anything that's actually (or has been) in use makes sense. Whether that's the same as recommending it for widespread adoption is a different question. Several German-speaking countries have dropped the ß from their orthography, but still agree on what the ß character should look like and how to represent it in text.

Now, emoji, OTOH, just feels to me like unnecessarily polluting the character space. I'd much rather have a capital ß in the codespace than some smiling poo family.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15327r-n4704-medieval-punct....
Using Skype for business communication and I think this update is awful. The new tabs do not make any sense to me - "Highlights"? "Capture"? I cannot see if someone is online from the contact list anymore. Swiping back to close a chat hardly works, most of the time it opens the "Find" tab - where I can find things I don't need. The call screen is confusing (what is difference between "Microphone" and "Headset" anyway?).

Skype does not feel like a serious communication tool anymore.
I did send in a request a couple of days ago, please check.
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@dang, could you please update the link to the article by the original journalist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14693998
Financial stress is caused by people/the system preying on people who can not adequately defend themselves against these predators. It might seem like I have a tinfoil hat on but I honestly believe that people should be protected and safe-guarded for their own good. I once read that more than 50% of Americans start too late with their retirement savings which means that they will have financial stress later on. In contrast, here in The Netherlands you automatically save for your pension if you are employed. I have studied some actuarial science and my god it's quite complicated and you can not expect a simple lay-person to understand the subleties and the complexities of each system. I think it's just a messed up system all round ... people should be protected more.