skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article was unexpectedly heart wrenching to read. India takes its very name from the Indus valley that lies in Pakistan, while the most famous example of Islamic architecture is the Taj Mahal in India. It is sad watching the two countries' governments waste time, energy and lives in a conflict that is essentially at a stalemate.
lampoon: verb: Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule or sarcasm.

I knew lampoon had something to do with criticism, so I checked the box, but I had no idea that the definition specified a public context. Does that mean I didn't know the word?

I suspect a problem with the test is that it's easy to know enough to figure out the gist of a word's definition without having any knowledge of the specificity of the definition, if that makes any sense.
Show HN: Experiment on unscatter.com, only showing result details on hover
Stop Procrastinating: iWillNotProcrastinate (App Store)
Correct. I have a friend that invests heavily in real estate tax liens and the foreclosure period is usually within 3 years and takes first position - ahead of any mortgage claims.
Better To Do Than To Think
Right of redemption laws allow the original owner of a foreclosed house to seek redemption on the property if they are able to come up with the money they need in a specified amount of time. The redemption is transferable and in essence is just as powerful as having the deed of the property itself.
Looking for love it or hate, and would be really helpful if you can tell me why in either case.

If the "obama" search offends or annoys anyone, sorry. I use that search a lot because it's usually pretty active and a good way to test how fresh of results I'm getting.

Thanks ahead of time for anyone who replies this late (well late Eastern time). I'm off to bed after banging on the site most of the night. I'll check replies tomorrow afternoon/evening when I can get online. Got a busy family day.
Don't care too much for percentile and age stats at the end.. clearly doesn't represent general pop.

What IS interesting tho, from a language learners perspective, is the vocab size estimation. A metric a lot of us use as a rough benchmark of vocab needed for fluency in a foreign language is 10,000words.
Comparing this with what an educated adult native speaker knows in their own language (using my own truthful score of 24k) is pretty interesting.

Would love to have something like this to quickly gauge my vocab in other languages!
Heys. I'm glad that they're being used. I'll definitely post the updates as they come. Thanks!
Learn Core Python in a Week – My Way
Installed on OSX, messing with it. Initial impressions:

* Leans more towards Mercurial than Git

* No man pages :(

* Couldn't get the fancy web server thing running (`vv serve`, and it failboated on some config warning that I'm not sure how to resolve)

* Looks like they store some data as JSON internally

* There's a `vv lock` command...this makes me really sad, I thought we were beyond this mode of version control

* No idea how to turn colors on for diffs/status

* Can't clone local repositories CORRECTION: This is possible, you have to use the "repo name" to clone. I did `vv init .` so that made a repo with the name of ".", and then you can run `vv clone . foo` to clone it.

* `vv init` does not work like `git init` at all...I think repos can have a "name" but only one can live in a directory at a time. (`.sgdrawer` is used for data)

* It looks like it keeps track of repo names at the user level, so you can't have more than one of the same "repo name" per your user (wtf?) This is kept in `~/.sgcloset`. There's a few sqlite3 dbs hanging out in there.

That's as far as I got. This feels like version control sudoku.
in comments to the original blog post, the PM for this feature mentions that the "my friend's been hacked" reports aren't enough by themselves to trigger this, they have to be accompanied by suspicious usage patterns on the alleged hacked account.
Dude it's hard to read the formatting here. Maybe you can use my resume site for better readability:

http://www.cvstash.com
First read the entire story. You'll discover that one of the key takeaways is an incredibly talented developer put a lot of effort into creating some very clever and useful software, but was unable to ever sell it for much money, despite putting effort into the process. Of course, to counter my own position, Apple of today would unlikely allow him to sell software that messed around with low-level internals on it's own platform.
I think a lot of the words are ones that you will only ever encounter in reading fiction (and flower/older fiction at that). Also, keep in mind that this test doesn't include field-specific technical jargon.
Can you point me where it implies interesting == relevant? This post is geo-political, pure and simple. And I don't see why it belongs on HN.
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Agreed, and yet implementing the features that make Github (& Bitbucket) what it is doesn't sound terribly difficult, and most importantly won't ruin the other "project-y" features of Google code.

Personally my projects are still on Google code, but Github is becoming more and more tempting.
I'm pretty much in the same boat. This scored me below median, but I scored in the 99th percentile on the SAT verbal as well (although that was a decade ago for me).

I think one contributing factor is the structure of the questions. If you ask me if I KNOW at least one definition for the word mawkish for example, I'll choose no I don't know a definition of it. I do however have a good enough feel for the word, that I can almost guarantee I can get a SAT style analogy with it correct, or if you gave me a multiple choice selection of definitions I can probably pick out the right one. I don't consider either of those skills equivalent to actually knowing a definition of a word.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

What is the new phenomenon of which this article is evidence?
> I'm not sure if vocabulary size matters once you reach around 25,000 words.

This is what I was thinking. I scored 34K, and rarely encounter a word that I don't understand in regular speech or reading. I also know several thousand jargon words, none of which were on that test. I know what I need to know. Memorizing another 16K words to reach Shakespeare's magical 50K (and feel good about myself) would be a waste of precious mental resources.
I built a strawbale house in 1998. Cost of the strawbales was about $1000, and the cost of the rest of the house was another $85,000..... it was 1400 sqft. Amazing how much the rest of the "necessities" cost.

The house had 2000 ft of CAT-5 in it, about 1000 ft of co-ax.
Oh, why the venom? I'm an Indian, and I personally found it interesting (though it tells me nothing new) but I find it irrelevant to what HN is. Like I mentioned in the reply above, geo-political news is irrelevant to HN discussion unless it has a direct bearing upon startups/programming. I miss the link here.
F-15 Strike Eagle Protection Unlock Keys, in order:

B C H P B J H H M F K M P P E L

I've been carrying those unlock codes in my memory since 1985 or so. I knew I'd have a chance to use them at least one more time in my life. Thanks. :-)
I set my own schedule, so I don't really distinguish between week and weekend. I'm often working on the weekend and you can find doing weekend-like activities during the week: surfing, mountainbiking, snowboarding, etc. I especially like having the flexibility to do these things during the week as the crowds are usually much smaller on the mountain/trail/lineup.

For me, the weekend is different primarily in that I get less email from clients and partners. This can be an advantage in that it enables me to have more uninterrupted work sessions. Of course, many of my friends do work traditional work weeks, so I often make time on the weekend to do things with them – dinners, dates, hikes, etc. The weekend is also a better time for me to make my international flights, as it minimizes the impact to my availability during the workweek.
Most != All

The benchmark seems to be if it's intellectually stimulating, which this one seems to be.
Was thinking the same thing..
>Minneapolis seems like an odd place for the first home air conditioner, but, hey, if you've got the cash, who's to stop you?

I'm guessing the author hasn't lived in Minnesota. For one thing, the temperature differential is much higher than in Southern States. It may reach 110 degrees F in Phoenix, but it almost never drops below 32 F. In contrast, Minnesota gets temperatures from 0 F to 90 F.

There's also the question of energy use. The Minnesotan winter makes a huge amount of energy (for heating) an absolute need for survival. When you're used to expending all that energy 4-6 months out of the year, using a much smaller amount to stay comfortable when the temperature peaks above 80 F or so is not an incredibly noticeable loss.

When some sort of active climate control is a requirement for life, it's unsurprising that Minnesota did it first - since AC is more a luxury in the Southern states, even though the heat can kill you if you don't have some sort of effective cooling.
clickable http://cameronkeng.com/category/case-study/
How much money should a startup have in the bank?
I've used this a number of times already and it's made rapid deployment of pages a breeze. It's used on my little sandbox site, Rawr: http://rawr.mschade.me/

@dhg (the creator) seems quite nice and responsive to people tweeting him about it as well, which is a definite plus.
MIT's Recompose: An Actuated Gestural Display
I got 28,800 http://testyourvocab.com/?r=38317 So apparently I should be 31 instead of almost 21.

I had a phase around 7th through 10th grade where I thought learning lots of vocabulary would make me smarter, especially words others didn't know well. (And so I'd use them in English essays for Extra Points since your grades are often determined by how little sense you make, because if the reader doesn't understand it obviously it's too smart for them!) I also had a general grammar nazi-ism.

Anyway, I think this exchange kind of tipped me over the edge to stop caring. (Of course that's led to forgetting a lot.)

William Faulkner, on Ernest Hemingway: "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

Hemingway: "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."

Of course, having some background in French and Latin probably helps for inferring a few words.
It's really great to see open-source resources like this emerging all the time, as opposed to the likes of Flash. CSS, HTML5, and JS were all pushed pretty hard at a mobile hackathon I went to today.
I agree: the test seems to correctly estimate vocabulary size, but is incorrect in calculating percentile.

I got 12900 (English is my second language) and it seems to be about accurate. I also feel that I'm fluent in English, and it confirms that 10000 words is sufficient for fluency.

The test is also missing professional lingo: where are such words as SQL, lisp, ai, startup, PG, HN and other that we all know so well?
I will probably get downvoted but articles like these do not belong on HN.

This is just a propaganda article from the Indians, to make Pakistanis look bad.

Now there will be propaganda articles from the Pakistanis next, to make Indians look bad.

To pass propaganda is very normal for these two third world countries, they have faught 3 wars since independence in the last 60 years and still half the population in both countries live in poverty.
Being a Pakistani (and Punjabi) American myself, I do not agree with some of the views the author puts forward.

First, Pakistanis do define themselves primarily as 'non-Indians'. However, the view that Pakistan has somehow carved out a new identity is the past 60 years is false. 5,000 years of shared heredity, language, customs and political history don't shake off that easily. Even Pakistanis and their relationship to religion is very similar to Indian Hindus and their relationship to Hinduism. Just as there are extremist groups in Pakistan, there are extremist Hindus in India. Pakistani's are more Indian that they want to believe and vice versa - especially if you live in the West where the two groups meld together indistinguishably.

The second point I disagree with is that minorities left only Pakistan (because of communal violence). History shows that there was a reciprocal exodus of Indian Muslims to Pakistan. Communal violence is one of the defining aspects of the sub continent.

Lastly, many of the poets, philosophers and British bureaucrats did predict one thing correctly - being a minority in a Hindu majority India ultimately would have a ruinous effects on Indian Muslims - formerly some of the most educated and economically prosperous citizens of India. South Asian culture is one of rabid communalism and today Indian Muslims are less educated, less wealth and less politically represented than in any part of India's long history.

Sometimes I wonder what impact it would have had on both sides of the border if the new nation had been called "West India".
What format is Playlist Builder using, m3u perhaps?
I just did some perusing of the records against this property and my bet is this guy is screwed now that the news media has picked it up. The mortgage company didn't "go out of business." According to deed records, the mortgage is owned by one or more of: Countrywide Home Loans, CWABS Asset-Backed Certificates[...], and ReconTrust Company of Texas. I can't tell what the second entity's full name might be (Denton County's deed image server is down and the name is longer than the data page shows), but the other two are now subsidiaries of Bank of America.

Why does this matter? Bank of America never actually foreclosed, so the original owner[1] is still the owner of record. The original owner can still contest the adverse possession in short order without dealing with the mortgage mess, assuming he cares to do so. In addition, BofA can foreclose and then evict the current occupant.

1 - Not naming the current owner here, but it is a public record.
The key, for me, is forging and maintaining relationships with other people. I spend a lot of time with my girlfriend, which is the best thing ever. I hang out with a few close friends. When I can commit to decent blocks of free time, I fence epee and go kayaking, and socialize with others who take part in those activities.

When I can't manage that kind of commitment, or I need solitary time, I read a lot of fiction and play with the cats. I also have some hobbies with low time commitments or at least a lot of flexibility: robotics, learning about science outside my own field, brewing beer. Occasionally I'll do something related to my current field (HPC), but even then I have a strict no-real-work rule: the only work that gets done on weekends, barring emergencies, is on side projects.

I learned to do this after grad school, during which I focused on my work 100%... and then experienced a period of burnout so intense I could not imagine ever being happy again. I know a few of people who seem happy, or at least satisfied, in a cycle of 100% for a year or two, followed by 4-6 months of burnout, then back to work. But my burnout was accompanied by depression, continuous feelings of failure and shame, and a deep lack of interest in anything in the world. No amount of productivity is worth my sanity: I need my work-life balance.
The part about Wolfram.
Some of those words had a definite brillig quality.
Perhaps a stalemate has simply been deemed better than losing?

After all, it is far better to throw away endless lives than let your neighbor have what you can't have.
OT nitpick: it's spelled "Lua". It's not an acronym.
If you're able to use an online trading service, reasons 1 and 2 don't really hold, unless BitcoinDeals' margin is less than that of trading services (which would be weird).
Vash - The Visual Hash
How Ethernet Went From 3 Mbps to 100 Gbps and Beyond
I was looking for a service just like this the other day.

Because I'm in Thailand, Paypal freezes my account regularly, and for CCs many places won't ship to a different address, let alone a foreign address because of the risk of CC fraud. Online shopping is set up to protect the consumer and so merchants are cautious and prefer to deal with the 90% low-risk transactions and turn away the 10% risky ones.

When you're in the 10% though - you want to just say - 'I trust you to ship. I'll take the risk. Here's the money. Ship it.'
The view of HVAC varies wildly depending on where you live. It's similar to big trucks, guns, and heavy machinery. In suburbia, these things are pure decadence and waste. In the outback they are tools of the trade, no different from the briefcase a businessman carries.
I remember creating a blank password on Mac OS9 in grade school. It was clearly a bug that allowed me to do it, because the minimum password length was set to six characters, if I recall correctly. After I set the null password, I couldn't change it, but it worked fine for logging into my account. I was too embarrassed to ask the admin for help, so I was stuck with no password for about two years.
You can drag a playlist from iTunes and drop it on the "New Playlist" button in the left sidebar in Spotify. I don't know if it works with Genius lists, but it works with "Recently Played" and other dynamic lists.
One would be hard pressed to find a two-year-old who is not sometimes irritable, a boy in fifth grade who is not sometimes inattentive, or a girl in middle school who is not anxious.

Just like one would be hard pressed to find an adult who is not sometimes full of themselves, sad, or paranoid. Mental illness is usually an exaggeration of some normal behavior. There's a world of difference (albeit a sometimes difficult to see world) between being inattentive at times and not being able to function normally due to not being able to pay attention.

I don't mean to say that everything is fine with psychiatry. I just think this fundamental distrust of it is not good. I personally wouldn't be where I am today without it.
Fear and Uncertainty Around a Public API
Things can technically be about 2-3% cheaper if you don't have any merchant fees.
"You will never become proficient in a foreign language by studying vocabulary lists.
Rather, you must hear and speak (or read and write) the language to gain proficiency.
The same is true for learning computer languages."

Coincidentally, I just happened to come across this quote in Peter Norvig's "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming".
Just work hard
Yes, by international comparisons, the United States has been doing poorly in education. Chapter 1: "International Student Achievement in Mathematics" from the TIMSS 2007 study of mathematics achievement in many different countries includes, in Exhibit 1.1 (pages 34 and 35)

http://pirls.bc.edu/timss2007/PDF/T07_M_IR_Chapter1.pdf

a chart of mathematics achievement levels in various countries. Although the United States is above the international average score among the countries surveyed, as we would expect from the level of economic development in the United States, the United States is well below the top country listed, which is Singapore. An average United States student is at the bottom quartile level for Singapore, or from another point of view, a top quartile student in the United States is only at the level of an average student in Singapore.

A thoughtful article from the Notices of the American Mathematical Society

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

identifies some of the problems with United States education that hold back full expression of the learning potential of many Americans. Professor Hung-hsi Wu of Berkeley has devoted much of the last decade to writing important articles about what needs to be reformed in United States mathematics education.

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/Lisbon2010_4.pdf

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/Lisbon2010_2.pdf

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/NCTM2010.pdf

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/NoticesAMS2011.pdf

http://math.berkeley.edu/~wu/CommonCoreIV.pdf

Other mathematicians who have written interesting articles about mathematics education reform in the United States include Richard Askey,

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall1999/amed1.pdf

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~askey/ask-gian.pdf

Roger E. Howe,

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf

and

James Milgram.

ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/milgram-msri.pdf

ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/milgram/report-on-cmp.html

All those mathematicians think that the United States could do much better than it does in teaching elementary mathematics in the public school system. I think so too after living in Taiwan twice in my adult life (January 1982 through February 1985, and December 1998 through July 2001). Taiwan is not the only place where elementary mathematics instruction is better than it is in the United States. I'm trying to do my part to fix the problem of United States elementary mathematics education by offering supplementary classes in elementary mathematics on weekends through my start-up, a nonprofit organization. My colleagues and I are gratified to have clients commute in for the classes from eight different counties. The client children have parents who grew up in the United States and also Ghana, Korea, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and other countries. All the families want to make sure that their children have a chance to succeed in the next generation.
I'm in the same boat as you as far as how long I've been using hotmail. I've been migrating more and more to gmail, but I've got that hotmail account tied to so much shit over the years, I'm not even sure what I'd be losing if I ditched it completely.
I read once that France has way too many highly educated people. The result is that a person can have a Master's degree and be waiting tables. People need to work, regardless of what the larger context is with regards to such things. Yes, context can and does change individual opportunities but people still make choices. Increased automation doesn't necessarily lead to a specific outcome. That is one possibility. Another is that we adapt as a culture and come up with a means to use the freed-up labor of actual thinking human beings for more complex labor, thus allowing society to create something of value which could not exist without freeing up so many people from drudgery.

It's been said that the Chinese word for "crisis" is written with a combination of symbols meaning "danger" and "opportunity". Great change always involves danger. But that doesn't mean that stasis is superior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_%22crisis%22
Could you cite something about your assertion that Indian Muslims have had a raw deal? I have only one data point Azim Premji, who is one of the richest Indians and is a Muslim.

I've heard that in some rural areas, banks do give loans on religious lines i.e. Banks in some muslim predominant areas only give loans to muslims and in some Hindu predominant areas to only hindus. Though I heard that the government is trying to curb this.

Personally, a lot of it seems to be anti-Indian propaganda. In India, our media tells us that such anti-India propaganda is quite common in Pakistani media.
(Yes, I understand the dichotomy that I am dependent on Indian media for a lot of my raw data)
More quotes from psychiatrists on the subjectiveness and ineffectiveness of the DSM:

http://www.cchr.org/sites/default/files/education/appendix/0...

http://www.cchr.org/quick-facts/disorders-voted-into-existen...