skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was pretty clear even without any Stats.

People know what Microsoft is doing, the good things and Open Sources. They dont use it not because of hate, I think it is

1. It isn't good enough to make the jump into another ecosystem or language yet.

2. Not hating doesn't mean loving them. IE era, that is IE 5 - 6 if you aren't old enough ( Yes, some people still bash WebKit as the new IE and thinks IE era meant IE7... ) along with the pain on early Windows days still hurt a bit, they will have to try harder, and doing so continuously to win those people back.

The thing about Apple isn't hate as in Google or Facebook. It is people have high expectations of Apple and demands quality from them, and when they are not up to that high bar, people complain.
When you think about it, now that the cold war is over, The United States can only benefit from a reduction of the perception that the country is a singular, dominant super power.

The more America appears to be ruled by bufoons and rednecks, the smaller the target on its back will get.

When the British empire mattered, English adoption was driven by England. In the 20th century, English was adopted because of the cold war, NATO, and business with American companies.

The rules for language prevalence will change, and soon, technology itself will become the arbiter of communication. Those that travel might learn to become multilingual, but many times, technology adoption precludes and obviates even travel.
Americans, take a look at that. I think you have a lot to learn where Soviet, and then Russian criminal justice system went.

US police and that of Soviet Union have surprisingly many things in common.

The biggest similarity I think is police's and DAs' willingness to throw a charge at just anybody, some times even at a first passerby they see, and then "seeing if it sticks." And they, sometimes, show an even greater zeal at going after known "easy targets" than genuine cases.
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Saw that too and am curious as well. Uneducated guess is either fires or refineries.
this is excellent!
My main reason for a web-based Latex editor is multi user editing. Overleaf/ShareLatex had it, but now they are closing it down and charging for it. An open source competitor, even if with less features than the commercial ones, is a great piece of news.
> isn't your current statement at odds with your previous statement?

Not at all. As you've correctly shown, prisons are closer to being concentration camps than ICE detention facilities are. Therefore, if you move the definition far enough to include ICE facilities, you also include prisons.
I thought exactly the same thing so I'm curious why people are downvoting you. I think saying both those things is logically inconsistent.

Edit: especially in a jury-based system it seems like it doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not, but whether the jury believes your story. In addition, many (most?) people who commit crimes do not necessarily think of themselves as criminals, though admittedly I got forgot from which source I got this.

Edit2: bottom line: why would influencing a jury suddenly stop working when you're guilty.
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Another sad situation that discourages death penalty. I can't even imagine the amount of people killed when they did nothing wrong.
Boot up the sandbox demo https://www.swiftlatex.com/oauth/login_oauth?type=sandbox, it fetches and runs this wasm blob: https://www.swiftlatex.com/ide/js/fastlatex/cpdfetex.wasm
This is really nice. Without changing the default look/behavior, I'd be really interested also in a chart of say, top 50 metro areas for the day/month/year avg.
Podcast ads are a dream compared to the web - this will damage that if your product is even half successful.

If the same was done for TV on a mass scale then you'd sure as shit see invasive DRM in TVs ready to stop you from altering the stream during an ad break.
I've always struggled to grok the concept of monads. Worth the 2 minute read.
> EF Education First, a Swedish company based in Switzerland that manages more than 600 language schools across 50 countries.

Wow, I remember the English First billboards in Shanghai around 2009-2010. They showed a white guy and a Chinese woman raising their hands together, and their arms were shackled together at the wrist with a really heavy rope.

This must have worked for the Chinese target audience, but I found it hilarious.

> There are some concerns, as Quartz’s Nikhil Sonnad noted about last year’s report, about how representative the data it collects and analyzes is of the general population of each country. “The proficiency scores are based on free online tests, so the people taking them are self-selected,” he wrote, “They are not a representative sample of the country’s citizens, and may instead represent a group that is particularly interested in English and has access to the internet.” Even so, Sonnad says “it is the best dataset available for measuring English ability across countries.”

This is a weird concern to raise -- the idea that EF's data isn't representative because it's pulled from a sample of citizens extraordinarily interested in English would strongly imply that the true proficiency level in every country is much lower than reported, and to a lesser extent that the gaps between countries are probably wider than reported.

> correlation doesn’t necessarily prove causation. Is it, as EF and others argue, that better English skills facilitate global trade and investment, which leads to growth and new jobs? Or is it that rich countries can invest more in bilingual education?

Surely these are both true.
My personal observation of people who watch lots of anime with subtitles but only understand a handful of Japanese words and can't pronounce them correctly indicates that passive exposure to a language isn't enough to learn much. You also need to try and practice using it yourself.
I’m a speaker of one of the smaller languages, and every educated person I know lament the inability to express themselves without resorting to English idioms. It isn’t that they don’t exist, some people are great at my language, it’s just that something like 99% of the movies I watch, podcasts I listen to, or papers I read are in English. I simply am much better at high level English than my own language. Colloquial English not so much though.
Apparently I still own Max Payne 3 because they lied in the game description that it doesn't require you to be online for single player.

Three months after purchase when I got around to starting it, it was too late for a refund...
You're right, here's my anecdotal evidence about it. I've already sent this comment here, but it's been 4 years ago so here it is again:

I live in a small town near the serbian-hungarian border and we can watch both Hungarian and Serbian TV stations. In Serbia movies are subtitled (so you can hear English language all the time) while in Hungary movies are dubbed (so you can't hear anything other than hungarian language on TV). Serbian families who live here watch mostly serbian TV and hungarian families watch mostly hungarian TV stations. Ask any English teacher here and they will all tell you that there is very clear distinction between level of knowledge in serbian vs hungarian kids. They all live in the same town, go to the same school, the only difference is that those kids who watched serbian TV stations had much bigger exposure to english language as opposed to those who watched hungarian TV stations.
Standard Oil probably. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_model
That's more than half of some (most?) peoples' salary.
I'm sure it's a few levels more complex than that though; the ongoing cost of incarceration might for example include paying for jobs and services and often is a big part of the county or town economy.
If you think that's hard, try coming from a Slavic language with no concept of an article and perfect and continuous tenses.
English is just one of thousands of languages in this world.

Europe has many languages and most European countries trade most with their neighbours. IMHO it makes sense to learn the language of a neighbouring country before trying "fit the American mold" (and I say that from the UK).
Shellshock was a bug in the language implementation so this is an interesting question. It'd need some background on how the bug came to be.
Something I think about is why is the American Justice system designed the way it is. Like a commenter said below it is a legal game. Why?

These are peoples lives, why is this system gamified? Why is it not a truth-seeking system? I am probably naive and don't see the full picture of all of this but it is confusing to me. The United States is known to be the country with the highest number of its citizens in prison. With a burdened legal system and little funding, why does this continue to be so? I find the barrier of entry to prison in the US very low compared to other countries I have lived in and visited. What are the advantages of this? I find this all very absurd.
Actually there are a lot of games on GoG that don't include the versions for the lesser platforms even when they're available on steam.

They're also behind on patches, and sometimes it matters.

I still have GoG as my preferred store, because Steam needs a little competition to stay honest. (No, Epic is not competition.)
I think it's partially what another commenter said - the EU market means that learning other EU languages is as much of a priority. Also, the romance languages can overlap quite a bit - my Spanish wife can have a reasonably detailed conversation with an Italian where they only speak their native languages.
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Yes, if countrie's abilities to speak English are lower than what would be ideal, proficiency of any other language in English speaking countries is abysmal.

Maybe the US has a higher number, but a lot of those are due to family, not to education.
In the UK don't speak to the police without a lawyer/solicitor present. You can then "no comment" on legal advice.
Have you checked out Overleaf? I would say they are proof that there is definitely a market. My university (40k students, 8k employees) has a deal with them where all students and employees get access to premium features, and they probably pay a decent chunk of money for that.

They have published a list of institutions using Overleaf here: https://www.overleaf.com/for/universities
Does it matter? They paid for it, they should be able to play it.
Same here, I did that on my dad’s 386/486 machines back in the 90s.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Maintaining a domain you control, with a couple of privacy-aware (Protonmail, Fastmail) fallback / out-of-band email contacts, and possibly a few online presences (Twitter, Mastodon, Reddit, etc.) which you can use for signalling, helps.

Knowing actual postal or phone contact information for key partners is also useful. You can use these to communicate in an emergency as well, and spread word.

Operating as a pseudonymous nym online for a decade and experiencing several lockouts / shutdowns over the period ... has been interesting.
Even if you can only pull $12,000 or even $1,200 ALMOST ANYTHING is better than relying on the public defender.

The public defender is overworked and understaffed. Having someone dedicated to you in the criminal justice system is a huge advantage--especially if you are guilty.

(As for being guilty, there are a lot of things that can land you with a felony that are far short of murder or armed robbery. Having a lawyer of your own can sometimes mean the difference between a felony that will haunt you forever versus a misdemeanor that can be expunged/erased/etc.)
Can confirm that this is the case in India. In fact it's much worse - due to a long history of colonization, most govt. services and education are exclusive to English speakers. Due to this unchallenged linguistic apartheid, public education is slowly switching over to "English medium", which is increasingly creating a class of nowhere men, who neither know their own languages nor English. This structural discrimination has knock on effects on the economy which are as yet unknown, and unexplored (due to geopolitical reasons IMO).

http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/

India, due to its deeply colonial state apparatus, is well on its way to losing most of its languages in the coming century. I think this is also the case with African nations - which might explain why the sub-continent (not just India) and Africa share so much in terms of human development indicators.
Except that consoles do work on this model, and they are the razor, not the blades. When did you ever hear of someone getting a new console for the game they already have?
I didn't see it mentioned, but Greece speaks English quite well. I often comment that Greece is like Europe on easy-mode for Americans.
> My pet theory is that English proficiency is much better in countries where movies are subtitled, not dubbed.

That is how I learned the basics of the english language when I was a kid. Here in Portugal movies are subtitled.

Incidentally, I went to Milan once to participate in this thing, and neither Italians, Spanish, French, Polish and Russian people could understand each other. I speak a little bit of everything (almost, had to use pseudo-english with the polish and russian) so I had to do the translations. Talk abou information assimetry: I knew everything that happened because I was the unnoficial translator.

The "best" part of that trip was to have to watch Four weddings and a Funeral dubbed in Italian! It went some months before I was able to tolerate italian language again..
How much of this nightmare happens in other 1st world countries? Does the adage "Never talk to the police" hold elsewhere/everywhere?
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How do you know which lawyer is good?
> Get the best lawyer you can not afford.

I've always wondered, what are good ways to actually find the "best" lawyers?

For the typical person who doesn't keep track of legal cases, wouldn't it be pretty difficult to make a judgement on whether a lawyer or legal firm is super amazing or totally mediocre?
The Internet Archive has classic Mac emulators, right? Someone should upload the image for the Magic Cap simulator there.
I'm waiting for Google to productize Alpha Zero (or whatever its descendant is called nowadays) as a "C-suite as a service" thing for directors to play with.
> I find this all very absurd.

I do too, and many citizens of the Soviet Union thought of that the same with "guilty no matter what" mentality dominating Union's legal system.

Unlike in USSR, American judges don't join their past clients in the gulag if they disagree with prosecutors. Why do they do it then?
Does that count for Scotland too? Legal system is completely different here for example in England when you buy a house it is not legally binding agreement until keys are exchanged whereas in Scotland it is binding as soon as both parties sign the agreement
Seriously, mind your own stuff. How would you feel if some other country parks an aircraft carrier group in US waters, because the US
- has a racial discrimination problem?
- invades citizen's privacy through wire tapping?
- the presidential election is just a funny show?
...

Stay the f* out!
Why not? It’s interesting to ask why an old, average to mediocre game had enough users trying to play it to discover this problem.
You can already overcome COCOM limits partially by buying the right receiver. If you build your own receiver you can do whatever the hell you want.

COCOM limits are the equivalent of client-side form validation.
Belgium is a great test case for your theory.

The country is split linguistically between Dutch speakers in the northern Flemish region, and French in the southern Walloon region.

The Flemish region's television stations and cinemas run mostly subtitled programs (really, anything outside of children's shows and content made in the region or in the Netherlands).

In the French-speaking areas, the media companies and cinemas buy their content from France, where the vast majority of it comes overdubbed.

As a result, the Flemish have a much stronger command of English than their French-speaking counterparts.

That said, the French-speaking Belgians, at least in my experience of living there for a long time, speak English much better than the French.

A lot of that has to do with how international the country is, where Brussels not only hosts many international institutions, but also a lot of companies have their EU HQs there. Many people need to speak English to get jobs with these firms, so it drives up the English competency among the local population.

Your theory definitely has some merit.
Their paper even won the Best Student Paper award at DocEng 2018.
No, because what these CLIs actually provide is a preconfigured build system, not the straw-man overstuffed boilerplate you are suggesting they do.

Do I miss spending hours configuring Webpack builds, CSS and HTML processors, JS compilers, linters, unit and e2e testing frameworks, dev servers and npm dependencies before I can even start coding on the problem I really want to solve? No, I do not.
I think that the advice is that just because you know you are innocent that is not enough, they will still assume you are guilty (regardless of innocent until proven guilty) and that you need to come at it from the point of how can I change their mind from me being guilty to me being innocent.

Imagine you are innocent and you naively believe they can't convict you because you know you are innocent. There is no device to test for innocence so in the end it is not that hard or impossible to end up in jail even when you are innocent.
That has to be the most cryptic explanation but then again perhaps I need the ELI5 version. I’m certainly none the wiser for reading it.
Because Finnland is a small country (5 million native speakers). They cannot afford to dub TV or movies, so every kid gets exposed to English every day. As soon as you have a somewhat rare hobby you need to read about it in English. There are many books not available Finnish, so people read the English one.

In Germany none of those are an issue, there is little exposure to English. English is a theoretical thing in school.

Quite some Finns over 40 years old have difficulties to speak fluent and somewhat correct English. (Source: I have worked in the high tech sector in Finland for 20+ years) That is caused by completely different grammar of Finnish compared to anything Germanic, Nordic, or Romanic and the fact that speaking was traditonally not taught a lot in Finnish schools.
What will they achieve with this?
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Ask HN: Feedback from ecommerce owners/dropshippers
Hey guys, I wanted to ask your feedback on my weekend project, especially if you run an ecommerce/dropshipping store before.

Showparcels is a tool for dropshippers/eCommerce stores to create a branded shipment tracking page for their customers.
It also allows to display related products on the order tracking page for up/cross-sell customers when they visit it to check their delivery status. Since many people check the tracking pages very often, you get quite a lot of free traffic you can use to try to convert them again. You are also able to implement your Facbook pixel or any other retargeting pixel on the page.
The owner also has an admin panel to check how many orders are in transit and ho many have been delivered.

I've integrated multiple tracking APIs to get shipments data, so it basically works with all the major 600 carriers worldwide.

If you have any questions or feedback for me, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Not necessarily. They could argue that they're a platform, just like Facebook or Twitter, and claim they want to be neutral. Facebook and Twitter have taken flak, but all in all, people still trust the core features of these platforms. Even if Wikipedia sold the right to edit Turkish Wikipedia to a pro-Erdogan organization I would still probably trust the article about set theory on English Wikipedia.
> and english as spoken in Europe, for which many words are not known to native english speakers.

Have some examples of these english words that native english speakers wouldn't know?
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This may be a field where future machine learning algorithms might shine: Code vetting. It would be hard but much more interesting than classifying cat videos. The amount of code involved in software projects will not decrease and if we don't vet it ourselves, we need something that does it for us. Even if we wanted to vet code ourselves, we might stumble over complexity. Will my software fail in interesting ways if I use library module X this way?
This was a little sparse but it was a fun read.
Weird, I had the opposite experience - I moved to Spain after Uni but during Uni I worked in Germany for half a year.

I found Spanish much easier to learn than German because the grammar is simpler and the words are often similar to Latin words which are in turn similar to English words.

I never had to use Flash Cards when learning Spanish, they were vital for German.

For example, Mano is similar to Manual which is related to the Hand, obviously in German it is simpler as the word is the same.

However, negocio is similar to negotiate which reminds me of business... Betrieb on the other hand - probably going to need the flash cards.
Another way to say it: a monad is a generic type with the sufficient API to do binding sequences like

x <- fetch "foo"
y <- frob x
return (x + y)

The meaning of binding/sequencing is decided by the particular monad instance. This is why it's a useful formalism to represent things like asynchronous I/O (you make the sequencing mean promise chaining), abortable computations (you make the sequencing cancel when it sees failure values), combinatorial/nondeterministic programming (you make it so one binding can happen several times).

Monads are also closely related to continuation-passing style or delimited continuation capture, and those techniques can also be used to implement everything monads can.
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Either Julia is not mentioned or it's dubbed as the language of the future. What's your opinion?
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This is great! It still needs some polishing (like autoscrolling the output to where I just made a change), but it FEELS really great!
Of course language standardization is something that exists.

You get a ruling body to declare a particular manner of speaking as the preferred one, mandate that it be taught to children in school and prevent anyone who speaks differently from appearing in mass media. After a generation, you have children who grew up speaking non-standard with their parents but standard with their peers in school. Many of them will speak standard with their children, so non-standard becomes something you use to speak to your grandparents. Then the grandparents die and almost everyone who speaks non-standard fluently doesn't use it regularly, so they forget. The next generation grows up barely aware that the standard way to speak is not the only way.

All of that doesn't completely stop natural language change from occurring, but it strongly constrains the range of possible variation. Locutors may create languages, but ruling bodies can tell them which language to create.
> That sounds like a very poor business model - they can and do that for free already.

I might have been unclear, or I'm misunderstanding you, but charging people for something that used to be free is a great business model, since Wikipedia is so big and is so trusted that it's not realistic to go somewhere else or start a new wiki and hope it gets just as big and trusted.
Oh, I misread where the "not" was.