skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my story about English and Japanese. I started learning English in preschool and kept learning in till I graduated from college. I liked to study English but my real skills came from playing pc games and watching MTV. I used to watch about 2 hours a day when I was 15 or so. Basically playing games and watching someone speak that language helps with comprehension a lot.

I started learning japanese in college, there were 4 lessons per week, I was doing well with the grammar but spoken part was kind of stuttering rather than fluent speaking. So after 2 years of study one day my japanese instructor asked me a favor: She wanted me to help her friend's daughter study english. The girl spoke very little English. I was expected to teach that girl English in Japanese. At first I couldn't decide if she was playing a joke on me to see my reaction. When I realised she was serious, I told her that was practically impossible as I was not fluent in japanese and it might have been a problem. She just said "I believe in you, you'll do well". I said "What the hell let's give it a try, at most I'll fail miserably and have a story to tell how I pissed off an entire japanese family".

So, for 4 hours a week, I started studying with this girl, aged 12, with only a small english-japanese dictionary in my hand. She also had a similar dictionary, but it was digital and able to convert between kanji-hiragana-katakana and English. Probably it was from the future and could read also read our thoughts. Anyways vocabulary wasn't a problem but communication was. I was speaking slowly when I tried to explain basic English grammar. But day by day, my speaking got more fluent and after about 3 months or so, I was able to read a basic english text and translate it into japanese simultaneously, sentence by sentence. I guess the lesson here is sticking with the practice on an ongoing basis. I want to stress that 9 months of study with that girl advanced my japanese much further than the previous 2 year study as I was actively speaking most of the time.
This is great, one thing I could use would be keys to move between different top-level replies on a comment page. Maybe p/n for prev/next ?

I've also found a bug, if I go to "threads" I can't move up past the third topmost top-level comment I've posted using the "k" key.
Hence it's not a problem for them. Problems are what create business opportunities. In the Alta Vista days, I had a search problem (search sucked) but today I do not. If Google went away I would still not have a search problem.

Obviously, if something arcane like QoS became a problem for users, then an ISP would have a more difficult cost/benefit decision to make about how neutral it wished to be.
Being really hard to guess what would be a facebook "killer", do you have an idea of why none of the heavy weights were unable to at least compete with Facebook.
Microsoft, Yahoo and Google tried for sure (each in its own way), but they are far away from facebook current popularity and success.

Also, do you think it's all Facebook merit or there is also some "people" thing helping them, and not their rivals? [Perhaps some novelty factor, a (n unknown) social economic factor, whatever, I dunno].
I can't seem to find any real reviews of Newtons...there are so many fanboy reviews that I wasn't sure if it was worth the money so I never tried them. Hrm.
My point is that I don't think it would be ominous for most users, which is why it should not be prohibited by law.

Of course I'd prefer not to have it, and I'd probably pay my ISP extra for a "neutral" net access plan, but I don't have a problem with ISPs trying creative packaging/pricing by capturing revenue via non-neutral business deals.

Maybe Comcast would offer 50GB for $30/month if it was getting 30% of the ad revenue Google gets from consumer broadband ad clicks.

Thought experiment: How much would you have to be paid to give up your right to vote for one year? How much to give up your ability to use Google search?
I'm not saying it's likely, but it (or something similar) is behind Google's recent reversal.

Most of GOOG's profits come from simple search ads, and search is not protected by any secret sauce or insurmountable barriers to entry, which is why Google tried to innovate via legislation with its net neutrality push.
Why the markdown? Objective-C is shitty with shitty tools. Ellison is Jobs' friend. Ellison owns Java. Android is iPhone's rival.
Alternatively, you can use http://vimium.github.com/ which is Vimperator for Chromium.
KHTML performance compared to WebKit
To expand on #1.

MS has Xbox, Xbox Live, Windows but weak mobile + web products.

Apple has itunes, ios, macosx but negligible web prowess and zero social web domain expertise.

Google has strong web engineering output and Android, nothing else come to mind.

If you can apply a social web layer to their products which would come out stronger?

The answer to that might be the Facebook killer I think.
Ask HN: How do you control consulting work and concentrate on startup work?
I'm doing consulting to bootstrap my startup. Business has been great these past years. My problem is it's taking me so long to release my product. I also have a couple of other ideas that I can't find time to work on. The immediate income gained from consulting is very tempting for someone with a wife, a kid, monthly expenses, and mortgages. Consulting became the priority and startup work moved back. For those who experienced something like this, how did you handle it? How did you break free from consulting?
"those with higher education earn a higher living wage"

Well they use to, now it seems your pretty lucky to get a decent job out of college. People didn't think about whether there would be enough higher living wage jobs for the hordes of graduates.
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> There are lots of reasons for it.

Really? Provide some.
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Jesse Schell (http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-the-bo...) said convergence doesn't generally happen, except for the "pocket exception", which includes swiss army knives and mobiles. He predicted the failure of the iPad because of this.
I think you mean, "The horror! The horror!"
Near constant anti-drug propaganda from infancy through adult hood has that effect.
Indeed. He just needs to say, "dear world. the paper you have been reading was unfinished and was leaked without my permission. please disregard it until i release a version that is sane. kthx, bye."
An easy way to boost a paper's citations: Cite and you shall be cited
It's still true for the top schools. The rest, meh.
By far the best list available: http://venturehacks.com/angellist
For deliberate DOS attacks, sure... I think the law could make exceptions for dealing with deliberate vandalism. But worms and the like are not the ISP's problem, unless they harm the network itself and affect users who wouldn't otherwise be vulnerable to them.
Now Twitter has fixed the bug and only shows the t.co link not the text or exact URL in the tweet! No more longest tweets! Only t.co links.
Does your model include a central feed?
The popup was not a gatekeeper and you can easily switch that off without signing up to the newsletter.

It may not have been a physical gatekeeper, but things that overlay the main content while I'm reading them (even if it was meant to show quickly, before I started reading and was delayed because of download or javascript execution times) communicates that the author/maintainer of the website considers their content to be less important than whatever the overlay's content is. I don't have time for this, the internet is quite vast. There are a bunch of other hacker news entries to review.

The only advantage you have now is that I don't even remember the name of the site that I so quickly closed due to annoyance, and my browser is now flagged as having visited it previously, so if I happen across it again, I presumably won't get a popup/overlay telling me I'm a new visitor.

I'm not sure why a new visitor needs to be told that they are a new visitor.
now Twitter has fixed the bug and only shows the t.co link not the text or exact URL in the tweet! No more longest tweets! Only t.co links.
Grandalf's predictions were only ominous for Google; another vigorous search competitor with rising market share would be good for almost everyone else: end-users, advertisers, websites.
But Facebook has proven to be very vigilant on potential competitors and has been effective in snuffing it out by not just cloning them but improving the (feature based) startup's concept. Or they acquire them or its next smaller competitor startup.

My money is either in 1 of the 3 giants (GOOG, APP, MS) finally getting the social web right or Twitter.

But the problem with Twitter is it has fumbled countless times already and is only growing due to the strength and type of its community. So i have no confidence they can catch up to Facebook.

So Im guessing if its not the 3 giants, it will be an inter-operable social layer and a thousand private social networks.
There are different kinds of memory in a process, e.g. code segment, read-only data segment, and read-write data segment. The code and read-only memory can be shared between the parent and child processes. The read-write memory pages are copied-on-write when they are modified. There can be fair amount of sharing.
What is a Galaxy, Anyway?
On OS X, it is possible to disable just Etisalat's Comtrust certificate. Click the lock icon to view that certificate, drag the large certificate icon to your desktop, then drag it into Keychain Access (i.e. into your login keychain). At that point, you can set the trust settings on that certificate to Never Trust.
"Imagine Warren Buffet announces that he'll pay anyone who wants to buy a used car $5000. What will happen to the price of used cars? It will go up."

Now that you've compared apples to oranges, here's an apples to apples rebuttal. The Cash4Clunkers program not only didn't raise prices of new cars, it didn't raise prices of used cars (since if millions were clunking their old car, that car would be pulled from the market entirely, causing a dearth of used cars available).

Now, the problem with college is that basically everyone needs to graduate from one fare better in this economy. The numbers in this recession speak for themselves: The unemployment rate for people who have no high school diploma is over 12%, ones with a HS diploma is ~9%, and ones with a college degree is 4.5% and holding steady. You're twice as likely to get a job with a degree as someone who finished HS, and almost 3x as likely as a HS dropout.

I guess, along with Cocaine, cigarettes and booze, college is price inelastic.
Why did you get modded up? You're wrong. Sort will write temporary files to /tmp if you exceed its in-memory sort threshold.

Did you really think sort(1) just bails if you pipe it more data than can be contained in memory?
It isn't about search, it is about pay-per-click ads.

Could Apple, Microsoft, Comcast, or Verizon create an advertising platform as functional as Google Adwords?

That is where the money comes from. It is in Verizon's best interest to replace all Adwords advertisements with content from it's own ad network, and same with Comcast.

Cable television replaces nationally broadcasted commercials with local versions. Why couldn't last-mile ISPs do this as well?

Also, this is so US-centric. Any other country that adopts a net neutrality policy will have an advantage over the United States, not a disadvantage.
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Whatever it is won't seem like a competitor. It will seem as unrelated to Facebook's business as Google seemed to Microsoft's business in 1998.
Thanks for the feedback, yea I will probably be blogging more often in the fall, esp. wrt language learning as I'll be starting to learn French in September. I'm usually based in Switzerland which helps with the immersion issue, it's practically one alp from one language to the next ;)
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I used to think that any kind of data management in FB-like site would boil down to a friend list. I even had dozens of lists in orkut back when i gave lots of energy to that site, but it turns out lists are weirdly inappropriate to this kind of thing. I mean, i do have some lists in my FB, and i will dutifully file every single new contact. But it turns out not to be too useful!

Now i think that maybe "lists" have bad orthogonality to what people want to do. They seem to make sense from a DB perspective, from inside the system, but they miss the point by so little that they actually cloud the issue. Weirdly enough.

My current guess is that it boils down to identity management. I would like not to classify friends, but to manage "personas", like masks or roles that i play. For example "student" or "employee" or, you know, "night life". It is more like a sub-profile than like a list of friends, though. This would obviously involve a list of friends, maybe it could only involve a list of friends, but still...

Definitely an area where more experiments would be needed.
Arabic is hard, because it's hard to find native speakers to take the piss with. I say that because I am Arab and desperately trying to cling onto the language. I read and write it at a poetic level; but speaking with native speakers sucks, because few of them speak the beautiful language (and the ones who do carry shitloads of political baggage to make the companionship worthwhile.)

Arabic would be trivial for converts to Islam, Maronite or Coptic Christianity; because you will find an all embracing community of brothers. For me, someone who switches between Classical Arabic, and near perfect mainstream American accent, and who doesn't shy away from taking pot-shots at established religio-political dogmas on both sides .. well, tough fucking luck finding friends.

If there are any worldly Arabs who enjoy al-Mutanabi with MJ and the occasional line of coke, and who love reading scripture to ladies of ill repute: hola at me, dog.

I hold nothing sacred, and if you aim to offend, well, we should grab a beer, or indulge in some drunken pen-pal wankery to celebrate an idealized image of alleged former glory (of which I am the foremost perpetuator :-)

[Three things I will not talk about: God, Football, or the Bush Administration]
I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect that once Facebook had about 5-10 universities they were unstoppable. Once you have 5-10 universities, you're going to get all the rest. Once you have all the college students, all you have to do to get HS students is allow them in. And you can get everyone post-college by simply not kicking people off when they graduate.

If only I had realized that at the time, though. I remember thinking that a social network for college students sounded about as exciting as yet another used textbook exchange, but without the revenue.
If Oracle Wins...
What will Google/Android do? Is it too late to switch to a language like C++? Google already has a lot of C++ expertise and since C++ is not owned by anyone (ISO standard) no one like Oracle can come in and immediately have such a strong position on them as they seem to have with Java and their newly acquired patents. Just curious as to what others think. Is it too late to switch?
I am looking at the tweet thing (tweetboard) to see how to eliminate this completely.

Cheers.
How do you switch to the HTML5 version?
This is the approach that I use except that I generate a Makefile which has:

- a target to split the input into chunks
- targets to sort each of the split chunks
- a target to merge the sorted chunks using "sort -m"

Then, if you are using GNU make, it's just a matter of using the -j flag to control how many chunks are sorted in parallel.
Maybe.

One of TED's purposes is to bring together people with ideas and people with the capital and influence to make them happen.
In the Middle of a Difficulty Lies Opportunity
I never said the suit had merit, so I'm not sure what your first comment is referring to.

But your second point is valid, and I agree that some things needed clearing up. I just thought the way that particular comment was worded wasn't helping that much.

Going back to my Russian roulette analogy, of course playing Russian roulette won't protect you from getting shot. It's the fact that you're playing Russian roulette in the first place that is putting you at risk of being shot. If people are confused about that, then it's probably best to educate them about how playing Russian roulette can result in you getting shot.

Bringing the analogy back, I feel like it would have been more useful to just educate people about the fact that creating Dalvik is what directly led to this suit and for what reasons.
Splendid, thanks a lot!

I would seriously pay for a universal plugin that lets me browse everything with j/k.
The iPhone opened the door. It made everyone see a phone as something that's possibly very sexy. Android came in after it and implemented a bunch of features that it heard iPhone users complaining about. And now recently, the UI and feel is as slick as the iPhone as well.

The iPhone still has better games, but Android is catching up fast.

Disclaimer: I am on my second Android phone.
僕はtwitterにアカウントを登録してから丸三年といったところか。実際には2007年5月20日に登録後、初POSTで「豆ごはん食べた。」とだけ書き残し数ヶ月失踪したのち2007年11月から本格的にツイートを開始している。当時の僕はtwitterの仕組みや面白さがよくわかっておらず、とりあえずはてなグループのついったー部に登録されているIDを片っ端からフォローしていたような気がする。真面目な僕はきちんとリプライで挨拶をして「いまなにしてる？」の問いに的確に答えていた。当時よくリプライのやり取りをしたなと僕が勝手にそう思って印象に残っているユーザーが@smokeymonkeyと @aorenjarだった。

のちに@aorenjarが起こしたバルトロン祭りにより所属していたシューター部が拡大し、あれよあれよと、シューターと変態は紙一重みたいな言葉を体現するようなクラスタが出来上がり、今もなおその一員としてフォロー600人中半分以上がシューター部というようなタイムラインの中で現在に至る。さて、僕のtwitterデビューを振り返ったところで、昨今問題となっている荒川智則の分裂についてである。twitterを本格的に始めた当初、タイムラインの話題に上がっていたのが今では当たり前のように存在している『ふぁぼったー』という「みんながFavoriteした発言でつくる、全自動Twitterまとめサイトもどき」だった。

このふぁぼったーとtwitterのシステムが僕にはたまらなく魅力的で、今までなんとなく壁に向けてつぶやいていた事がふぁぼったーの存在を知ってからは誰かに向けてのつぶやきに意識が変わっていった。ふぁぼったーのトップページはbotや有名人、芸能人ではなく、いつも面白い発言をするアルファついったらーで賑わっていた。そんな中、ふぁぼったーのトップページで見つけたのが荒川智則という情報統合思念体だった。彼、いや彼女かもしれないし、彼ら彼女らと表現するほうが適切なのかも知れないが、とにかく荒川智則は情報統合思念体なので肉体がなく、すなわち融合ができないので、紛れもなく未経験者であると同時に童貞だった。おまけに無職でいろいろとこじらせており、ふぁぼったー内では面白コンテンツのひとつとして消費されていた。もっともその話は後から知った事で、僕は荒川智則の一人が当時使用していたギートステイトのアイコンに魅かれてフォローを開始したのである。

荒川智則は、Ustreamやskypeなどを駆使し積極的なコミュニケーションをたびたび行った。荒川智則が主催するUstream放送はそれなりに人気で、常時十数人のリスナーがいたのだが、今考えると荒川智則は情報統合思念体であるのだからIDを複数使ってのサクラなど造作もなかったのかもしれない。あるとき荒川智則の一人がいつものようにskypeでのボイスチャットをタイムラインで呼びかけた。賛同したのは@okinaoと、そして@Dawnsongという同じシューター部のチョコパイだった。なぜこの組み合わせだったのか未だに謎だが、ネットの出会いなんてそーゆーものだろうし、僕が認識していないだけできちんとした必然がきっとそこにはあるのだろう。情報統合思念体である荒川智則の話は新鮮だったし、どうやら僕と同い年らしくなにかと馬が合った。それからしばらくskypeなどで荒川智則とコミュニケーションを取るようになった。僕は荒川智則を通じていろいろな世界を知り、そして荒川智則を理解しようとした。荒川智則はいろいろこじらせて、僕もロリコンをこじらせて、そんなこんなで日々が過ぎていった。ちょうど一年前くらいに荒川智則が本格的に派遣のバイトを始め、僕も結婚が決まって慌しくなり、生活リズムの変化から今では以前ほど連絡を取ることもなくなった。彼はおかのうえに立ち、そして僕は嫁の尻に敷かれている。それでもいつかは荒川智則と酒を酌み交わしたいと願っている。

一度だけでいい、会うことが出来なければ、僕の中で荒川智則は永遠に情報統合思念体のままである。今日、荒川智則と呼ばれる情報統合思念体の対有機生命体コンタクト用ヒューマノイド・インターフェースは増加の一途をたどっている。ネット上のハンドルネームには本物も偽者もない。そもそも情報統合思念体のインターフェースである彼ら彼女らにとってオリジナルなど存在しないのである。だから「荒川智則とは誰か」という問いには「荒川智則は荒川智則である」としか答えようがない。ただ確かなことは、あのときtwitterがあってふぁぼったーがあってシューター部があってそこにチョコパイがいて、そして荒川智則が僕と同い年だったという事実だけである。これが僕の見てきた荒川智則の全てである。そしてもちろん、これが荒川智則の全てではない。僕がフォロワーそれぞれのタイムラインにいるように、荒川智則もまた、それぞれのタイムラインに存在している。僕には僕の、あなたにはあなたの、主観による日常世界が文字どおりタイムラインのように止めどなく存在し流れている。「ならばそれを物語と呼ぼう」あのころの、とある荒川智則の言葉である。

It actually isn't interesting enough to bother translating.
Your proposed 1-line law is a good example of the romantic, childlike, wishcraft-dominated thinking about this issue that I'm criticizing.

That wording is neither enactable by any federal body, nor enforceable by federal prosecutors, without a ton more detail.

And, its simpleminded application would prohibit services I'd actually like to buy. I would prefer an ISP which privileged web browsing and VOIP over BitTorrent and bulk email/video/software downloads. I would like it if traffic that attempts to compromise my privacy or exploit unpatched software on my home network was blocked by default.

In fact, I run a traffic-shaping router/firewall for these and other purposes, including preferencing my own traffic over that of neighbors and visitors who use my guest wifi node. Would that make me a net-neutrality-scofflaw? Oh, I hope so.

I have the technical acumen to do this myself, but if my ISP wants to implement similar policies the next few hops up, that also provides me with positive value. And of course most customers can't set this up for themselves, so they can only get positive value from having an expert -- like their ISP -- enact upstream preferencing and blocking for them.

Why make providing a service some people will prefer a federal crime?

We've made it almost 20 years without FCC rules to protect the internet. The internet is faster and freer each year, without any help from the FCC. (Thankfully, the FCC can keep busy fining broadcasters for dirty words.)

It is not true that "we must assume... vast powers of control" are about to spring some trap. We can wait until actual harms are demonstrated -- if ever. We can wait even further, until such harms persist after enough time for competitors to adapt, before freezing into federal law starry-eyed notions of how the network should work.

Network neutrality regulations: YAGNI.
Since the telecoms own congress we're probably better off without any new legislation. Companies like Google standing up and fighting on our behalf would have been the best possible solution but that didn't work out. I think the FCC is the last best hope. Reclassify broadband so the FCC can regulate properly. I'm sure the FCC is partly owned by the telecoms too but at least it's an appointed position and there's an effective term limit on FCC leadership due to Presidential elections. It's probably the only hope.
Frankly, I expected more citations in her "References" section.
Treat the startup like a client. Juggle it into your schedule with the same priority as your other clients.
Have you tried prioritizing your startup like you do your consulting? I'm sure you meet all your consulting deadlines and requirements. I'm addicted to consulting right now and I've been using it to help bootstrap my startup ideas as well. I don't think I'll be backing off consulting until my startup ventures actually make as much money as my consulting and even then the consulting dollars will give me more options in promoting my startups!

I love the variety of consulting so much that even after my ventures bring success I will still want to do consulting because it gives me that instant achievement satisfaction.

Don't focus on breaking free from consulting and before working on any other ideas get that first product released. Set milestones and treat it like your other work.

I'm still consulting until I get my own projects off the ground, my first launch took 1.5 years to finish, my next launch will be in a fraction of the time.
For me, it's been very important to just "keep moving forward" on my startup. At the end of every day if I'm at least one step closer to my destination, it's a win. Some days I get a huge surge of startup movement, some days my "money maker" zaps all of my energy and maybe I only answer one FAQ in my knowledgebase.

The bottom line is keep moving forward, and eventually you'll exit the workload brackish and emerge on the other end full-time on your startup.

I'm 100% bootstrapped and I'm going full-time on my startup November 1st - until then, babysteps shall continue!
this is kinda interesting stuff.

"...Here’s how it works: I create a burger, call it “The Bits Burger” and broadcast it to Twitter or Facebook. Each time someone orders my special creation, I get 25 cents credit in the restaurant and my burger rises up the leaderboard. The more customers order my burger, the higher it goes and the more credits I get, until I’m eating free..."

Now, how to game the system...