skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respect the Indian engineering and the effort. I have several Indian friends, who are very capable and intelligent people. But with $2500 you just cannot make something I would call a car. See my other post on why.
I got a score of 26,000. I'm Finnish, and actually learned French as a second language in school and English as third.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, but English is so prevalent in Finland these days that I wouldn't be surprised if it gained some kind of official status within the next 50 years. Whether in formal meetings or informal bar encounters, people voluntarily switch to English if there's even one non-Finn present. In my field, this happens nearly every day.

I even use English to communicate with Swedes, even though Swedish is the second official language of Finland and I studied it for 6 years... There's no point in limping through the conversation with my childish Swedish, when it's 99% guaranteed that Swedes speak English.
25,500 ~ Dutch.

I'd hoped to score at least median, disappointing. My exposure to English is pretty much limited to TV, 19th century literature, day-to-day conversations, and tech articles.
97 is not that hot. I've spent months in those temperatures without AC just drinking water.

Almost everywhere, AC is truly a luxury.
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It's interesting that you bring us (Israelis) up in this context. About ten years ago I was talking to a Pakistani who proudly said to me that Israel and Pakistan are the two "homeland states." I had never thought about that.

Anyway, if you want agreement, I can offer one vote.
Same exact score. 22 years old with a Bachelor's degree. It doesn't concern me that I don't come across rare English words in my daily reading enough to know the right column. I also suspect that the average quiz-taker voted yes to words they were contextually familiar with, but couldn't give you a straight definition.
if Caste == Religion
there is no Hinduism
So you have used up nearly 70% of your vocabulary to write this comment? I have to admit, your proficiency in English grammar is extraordinary given this.
Does the fork still have the same de facto non-free license that plagued Plan9?
Patriotism/Pakistan/Muslims are the tools/tricks used by the Forward caste to manipulate & use 80% Indians viz BC/SC/ST/Minority communities.
Embrace and extend, the contribution is basically VM support. Run Linux in a VM, just like XP-mode in win7. The SMB team or ODF people would never go cheering about MS's self-interest...
Would you have checked the word "manner"?
29.800, Greek. Judging by the replies of the other non-native speakers,I guess that's an okay score.
> it is too late that the relationship can be changed

What would be one of the "things" that would have to happen for this to change, even momentarily?
Some facts from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Nano

- NO airbags

- NO passenger-side wing mirror

- NO crumple zone

- Front brake: 180 mm drum (drum brakes at the front... WTF???)

- Rear brake: 180 mm drum

- With kerb weight of 600kg and power output of 26 kW it will go reasonably fast with one person inside, but will be completely undrivable with 4 people inside. How do you overtake in this case? And being able to overtake IS a safety feature!

- The Nano's trunk is only accessible from inside the car, as the rear hatch does not open.

- Three lug nuts on the wheels instead of the usual four

SO one of the main concerns is the safety. I would not want any of my close people driving in this box of wheels, without basic safety features. Several tests in Europe showed pretty good results (not Euro NCAP though), but this is the European version, that costs around $6000. My main point is that for this money you can buy a much better 5-6 years old car, which will be much safer and much better to drive and live with.
Here are the reasons I recommend Python over Ruby:

* Python is easier to learn (not much syntax)
* Easier to read (explicit vs implicit)
* Has a bigger ecosystem (more packages/libraries)
* Taught at universities so it's easier to find good programmers to help
* More research/resources going into to its development (e.g. PyPy)
* Used by more websites/companies so its easier to find jobs

And these are the online Python tutorials I recommend http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-learn-to-program-in-Python/an...
According to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sachar_Commit... report the status of Indian Muslims are below the conditions of https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Untouchables
13700
German, 22 years old

I had 9 years of English in school. Because of my hobbies I read a lot of stuff in English. I also watched many TV shows and spent about 6 month living in Australia.

Yet I feel insecure even typing this. Knowing lots of words is one thing. But what makes it hard are all the subtleties you have to take care of when building sentences. I also think that I get grammar wrong most of the time.

Another thing is that my sentences are almost always way too long.

As someone else pointed out before: I don't want my former English teacher to read this, either.
It would be great to have smart people working on real problems, but problem solving skills without a desire to work on those problems just won't work. I think a lot of mathematicians just like doing mathematics and would be really bored solving "real problems." You could also say it's a huge waste to have gifted problem solvers working on photo-sharing apps when they could be helping the developing world with clean water and energy. Could these problem solvers provide more benefit to the world? Sure. Will they, if they don't enjoy it? Not for long.

The real question is how to inspire people with those skills to tackle important problems.
The most important news story ever. Ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#License
You mean the FSF-vetted and DFSG-compatible license Plan9 has been under since 2002?

It's not GPL-compatible, but it's definitely Free.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#lucent102
I assume it was the usual story; tight deadlines, lack of resources, architectural changes made in the last minute and perhaps management incompetence.
Oh, no, he just learnt barely enough words to make that comment and a few similar ones. Quite frugal, really.
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11.900, Norwegian. Worked in a multi-nation company where I spoke/wrote English daily for several years, and read books in English regularly. I guess this explains why I have to use the dictionary in the Kindle a lot, and probably should use it more.
Or "manor"?
> can you beat an adverse possession claim simply by giving the squatter permission?

You can beat it with a peppercorn:

> [A] peppercorn rent is often used as a form of nominal ground rent where a (potentially substantial) premium has also been paid on commencement of a long lease of, say, 99 or 125 years (a "virtual freehold"). The notional collection of the annual peppercorn rent helps to maintain a formal Landlord and Tenant relationship between the two parties, precluding the risk of a claim for adverse possession from the tenant arising, were no consideration to be paid for an extended period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_%28legal%29

(In this case, a 'peppercorn' is any tiny amount of money or other consideration, which is required to make a contract valid. It may, in fact, be a literal peppercorn.)
I'm another Thunderbird user, who assumed its bugs will never get fixed and will jump to a better alternative when I see it.

I fully sympathize with that Richard guy, and share his discontent at this serious issue happening in too many open source projects: the "community before quality" meme. Some people just don't understand that without quality the project will just die. Slowly but surely. Some other people seem to just want to see their name in the credits, even if they essentially screw the project in the process. Screw them, if that's what they think.

Did anybody notice that the bug had been clinging there for +15 months and it had 12 duplicates submitted by users and there were being ignored???

Also, as an experienced developer I can't figure a reasonable justification to the injection of such bug in the first place, specially when a beta-tester reported it in due time. Breaking the behavior of Ctrl-F is an awesomely visible and annoying bug!!!

Regarding the insults, well, when you know that nothing will be done to improve things and you are essentially wasting your time there, you don't f*ing care about being banned.
Hey, the {$e('$value')} idea is interesting.

old way:

$sql_email=mysql_real_escape_string($email);
$sql="UPDATE t WHERE id=123 SET email='$sql_email'";

your idea:

$sql="UPDATE t WHERE id=123 SET email='{$e($email)}'";

Im not yet sure, which one I like more.
The greatest good for the smallest number ?
* Subjective

* Subjective

* False: http://modulecounts.com

* Some American universities.

* Agreed.

* Statistics please.
Phallometry is nice when you have the big phallus.
Another Finn here... I got 25,200. I guess I need to read a couple books. :P

My Swedish is atrocious. I can't recall a single time that I'd have had use for it outside school. In contrast, English is useful every day, though mostly in written form.
Good point about how people think about social. They say, "hey let's create a viral campaign," and dump all this money to agencies to create them. When campaigns fail, they say social doesn't work. What they don't get is exactly that, social is an on-going series of experiments, you're basically trying to create something that will get carried on and shared by a number of individual human being. Optimizing to Google's search algorithm is a relatively simple task compared to optimizing your message to one that resonates with hundreds and thousands of human beings.
How does it compare with Less Framework(http://lessframework.com/) ?
All fair points. I was talking about opinionated/troll/FUD blog posts.
5,160 words here. I was expecting a worse result for a man who never really learned English in school.
What recession? It's boom time again in Silicon Valley
till now the most "real view"
Don't worry, this article (http://howlearnspanish.com/2010/08/how-many-words-do-you-nee...) says that for most people, 3,000 words will get you to 94% of oral communication and 10,000 words constitute the active vocabulary of native speakers with higher education.

The difference between 10,000 and 30,000 is knowing the words "uxorcide" and "tricorn". Before this test, I've never seen the first one and the only time I've seen the second one is in reference to pirate hats.

Frankly, I'd rather have 10,000 word vocabulary in multiple languages than my current situation.
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Oh, you sure can get a programmable computer for under $200. I've been wanting to get one of these for some time now: http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrmx/index.html

With a hard drive, you can use it as a small, efficient and silent home server.
I set up a simple wordpress blog in my old job. It was quite easy to use and I could find anything I wanted using the search. If I had to do it again, I'd probably use a Wiki for canonical info, and the blog for more casual comments and long-form writing about why we did stuff the way we did it.
I am a non-native speaker, too, I got 10800. I guess when reading books, I should quit my habit I developed lately of skipping over those words I don't know :-)
They only thing they are contributing is their hv driver to make Linux run on Mircosoft HyperV.
HyperV has to support Linux.
And the major hv developer is a former Novell employee.
I'm german - ignoring words I know but couldn't immediately place properly (raggamuffin for example) I got 19000.

My english comes mostly from watching movies and tv series long after I graduated, reading novels, articles, handbooks and later by chatting in english.

Due to movies and tv series, I adopted an us-american flavor of english.

Also keep in mind that this test didn't ask for domain specific vocabulary - if they would have made a section of computer related vocabulary, we probably would have all scored perfectly. :)
This is why I'm not too keen on the Lean startup methodology.
Why is everyone making this Ruby vs Python? which is unproductive discussion.

I think the article has some good tips for people learning any new language(it can be python,ruby or anything). The tips most useful according me are:

1. Dedicate fixed time for learning

2. Find Good mentor.

3. Use recommended development practices from Day1

4. Learn Core Language first, then try frameworks

5. Write Code(that's the only way!)
GRRM tends to use a bunch of unusual words pretty frequently: "dandle", "garron", "palfrey", "hauberk", "solar".
20.7K myself and I'm 24 from the UK. I think the test is a little harsh or doesn't really mean what people would think. On the second group of words, half of those words aren't in popular use any more -- it's almost like a lesson in history.
I think that Ruby vs Python is the most useless debate ever. They're similar enough in design and capabilities as to not matter which one picks, so arguing about it is moot. Just pick one and go with it, and if you want to learn another, try a lisp.
Oh, I meant it in the most literal sense possible. It is not possible to achieve the kind of breakneck-pace modernization that has taken place over the last ~30 years in a country as large and diverse as China without a very centralized, authoritarian government that doesn't fuck around.

The reason why Japan (and Taiwan and South Korea, to a lesser extent) was able to modernize at a similar rate from ~1950-1990 was because of its ethnic and cultural homogeneity. They technically have a democracy, but everyone is so alike that, in practice, the same political party (the LDP) stayed in power for that entire period. There is no way in hell that a similar situation could occur in China.

China's modernization has no doubt come at a terrible price, albeit one that Americans, as a democratic and (supposedly) just country, are able to ignore thanks to our ability to collectively ignore the cognitive dissonance.
What reasons do the Rubyists give?
Why, I can personally attest that this is true. I went to a meeting of our elites and someone said, "Hey, you want to put the idle resources of the construction industry to work on fixing America's deteriorating infrastructure?" and some other guy was like, "Nah, it's more evil if we just have them stay unemployed" and then there was a lot of chuckling. That's totally how the world works.

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Most of the people calling it off-topic are being downvoted. So let me refer to the HN Guidelines:

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I really wonder why no one mentions the official Python tutorial (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/). That is by far, the most concise and easiest to understand Python tutorial I have ever come across. For those who run after multiple sources and 400 pages books, give the official tutorial a read. You will not even feel at looking at another Python introductory book again. I speak from personal experience and based on the feedback from the people I recommended this -- they simply love it. As talk is cheap, don't listen to me and go ahead and give it the first few pages a read. You won't regret it.
Yeah, only the English language name uses "India". All the Indian language names are something like "भारत गणराज्य"/"Bhārat Gaṇarājya" (Hindi).

> The name India has it's roots in Latin and not in Sanskrit

Actually, the Latinate name originates from the Sanskrit name "Sindhu" for the Indus river, as it says in the Wikipedia article you linked.
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I just Googled 97 degrees, expecting some large temperature, and it's only 36 degrees! For comparison, it's 40 C here today.

Stay out of the sun, sweat a little, you'll be fine. Arabs have it much worse.
Manipulate minorities by using Pakistan? What are you even talking about?
Here are the Indeed job trends showing Python vs Ruby: http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=python%2C+rub...
14,000 Words

I am non-native speaker. I guess that's a excuse for such poor score. Need to improve :(
Poster may be talking about something similar to this

http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...

"After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them."
Holy wowsers. I grew up in England, and i only scored 14,800 on the test! Although English isnt my native language, i did speak it from a very early age.
After doing some reading it appears the main branch may be broken in github. So I used an earlier version and it appears to work fine. Specificallyplay framework 1.1.1 and installing the scala module 0.8
Ahh...did not know that :)
I wonder if his observations about "millennials" is actually true. I'm always skeptical when people refer to (especially) younger generations and their flaws, it reminds me of a grumpy old man. "Kids were tougher back in my days! Knew the value of hard work and a dollar! Nowadays they got their MTV and their eyePhones, I'm telling ya this country's falling apart!".

However, we live in a different world now. Means of production have opened up to virtually anyone; whether your writing software for computers, producing films, music, t-shirts, etc. It can pretty much all be done with a laptop and your basement. Channels of distribution have also opened up too, so anyone's work can easily be accessed, purchased, and collaborated by anyone else in the world. By these factors alone, we'd expect to see a higher volume of low and high quality work. I don't think its necessarily true the younger generations don't understand hard work, but that we see much more success and failure together.
This was true for me too, it was just called 'Learn Python In One Afternoon' and it was true.

There is need for other short begginer tutorials, simply because we are all different, but for majority of people official tutorial will really be the best place to start.
Well, IBM's contributions to Linux are to benefit IBM - they make their money on hardware and services, Linux is what we call a "loss-leader" for them. Red Hat's contributions to Linux are to benefit Red Hat - they make their money on selling support contracts, they've got to have something to support! Intel make their money on CPUs, of course they want to tweak the OS...

Basically I don't think that enlightened self-interest is a bad thing.
Yep, I was expecting something like:

class Lorem(val ipsum: Dolor) extends Sit {

def amet(consectetur: Adipisicing) : Elit = sed.do((eiusmod: tempor) => incididunt)

}
Well, in many cases it helps to know multple languages. Case in point: uxoricide. There were quite a few other words I knew from other languages in the quiz (English is not my mother tongue).

That and the amount of words I know RPGs in the quiz really surprised me. How often do you use a bludgeon, wouldn't you use a bat in stead?

Finally, there's a huge difference between active vocabulary --the words you actually use in speach or writing-- and passive vocabulary that is tested here. In my humble opinion, passive vocabulary should be tested in context of a sentence.
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To be more precise, the modern kind of PR that actually lives up to the "Public Relations" name, not the legacy kind based on control of the message that is fundamentally flawed.
Something similar here, but command-line only and you need to give it sample input first, so not as useful:
https://github.com/ppearson/paragen
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I was really surprised by the result of this. I was flipping through a friends learner's Chinese-English dictionary that claimed to contain over 150,000 words and in a couple minutes of thumbing through it I didn't find any I didn't know. But on this test, I didn't even get 50,000. Then according to the info at the bottom, the median was far less than that.

Honestly I think the evaluation method is terrible. My collection of sci-fi/fantasy books alone probably contain over 100,000 headwords. A single biology text book might be as many as they claim the median person knows. Avid WoW players would similarly destroy the curve (if the test included the kinds of words they'd know instead of archaic religious words),
While this is true (at least the part I can verify, no idea about personal things here), I'm genuinely curious why you want to point this out?

The article says the same thing (contributing to the HyperV driver). Why is the job history of this guy of interest?
I don't know whom you mean by "the elites," but I suspect they could care less about the activity or lack thereof of construction guys. I suspect "how do we pay for x" has higher priority.
Awesome. The #1 thing I hate about Slideshare is that I will find presentations that I wanted to see for myself.
Because it's not Microsoft who is contributing.
They just paying Linux Kernel developers to build a driver for their HyperV.
So, Microsoft does not contribute to Linux. They make it just run on HyperV because some customers need this "feature".
It appears that this is accurate within 4 or 5 thousand words.. I've taken the test a few times, and my results are relatively distanced..
Local time + timezone is not enough, because timezones change. For time in the past, including measurements of the current time, store something equivalent to UTC, e.g. time_t or ISO 8601. For times in the future, store local time and location, and do the location -> timezone lookup at rum time. Add an earlier/later disambiguation bit to deal with DST transitions and other ambiguities. Sadly no-one does it this way which is why you have problems like needing to fix all the copies of the TZ information in your Exchange server when TZ rules change. Because of this, the location to TZ database is an exercise for the reader...

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I read that note - that's an absurd analysis. It assumes (against all sense) that the increase in horsepower would be linear and is based on a couple of numbers that themselves were pretty sketchy estimates.
The Oxford Advanced Learner's dictionary has a 'defining vocabulary' of about 3500 words. They claim most definitions are limited to the use of those words and proper names. So, that 6000-8000 looks believable.
This is actually not surprising since word Frequencies more or less follow a power law probability distribution. With a vocabulary of even 1,000 words you are very well covered. Anyone who engages in a discussion with words that are not very common is doing the very opposite of trying to communicate.
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"tricorn" is an everyday word in Spanish. The reason behind is we have a kind of police force that still wear "tricornios". And in my opinion they are still ridiculous.
Very interesting, reminds me of the conflict between Freud and Adler. You answered on a post who explains procrastination with desire, but added the self-esteem element. I am with you on this, i suppose the problem is a combination of desire and self worth problems.

I also can recommend "The Now Habit", this is really a book that stands out on this topic.