skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course companies educate their employees ... around the specific skills involved in working for their company. They, the companies, couldn't care less about the general education of their employees. It doesn't matter to them which insurance plan you pick or if you go to some investment guy that rips you off.
Why the fork?
One way to look at the current situation in social networks is that it is a rehash of the pre-Internet situation. Pre-Internet, some institutions already had internal networks with mail systems and so forth, but each network was an isolated island. The internet enabled people in different networks to talk with each other.

The social networks of today are isolated islands, and I would love to see a "social internet", in the sense of a suite of protocols that allows different social networks to be directly connected. I am thinking in the direction of Jabber for instant messaging and OpenID for authentication, i.e. some set of protocols that is truly aligned with the distributed philosophy of the original internet.

Unfortunately, the structure of financial rewards is not aligned with such a goal. I do hope that Google+ gets just enough momentum to force Facebook into cooperating on that front.
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I got 30800, and I am a native Dutch speaker. Though I have to say that I consider English my co-native language. Most of the media I consume is in English, and in my work environment (IT) English is the default language.
But most of the words in this test I knew from reading books, as it is one of the few places where using a very wide vocabulary is not frowned upon.
Most of Houston was without electrical power during the week following Hurricane Ike (and for many Houstonians it was even longer). Our house has a backyard gas grill that's hooked into the natural gas line, and we never lost gas. Pretty much every evening during that week, the neighbors gathered to grill stuff, with everyone sharing. Then we sat around on the patio and 'visited' until bedtime, lighting candles when it got dark. We have fond memories of those times.
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Site creator here -- you're right, survey participants are incredibly literate. I suppose that's Internet users in general, disregarding YouTube commenters :), or else the particular people who have spread the test, or are interested in taking it. Average verbal SAT score on the site is 700 (out of 800), far above the population's average of around 500.
If you've been learning words from the "Klan Academy" you should be very careful when you first address an African-American.
I back you up.
Non-native english speaker here. My result: I know 10,600 words. I really doubt it, I have an english dictionary that contains about 4,000 words and I don't think I need another dictionary. Plus my computing terminologies, 10K words is still way beyond me
Your sample is heavily skewed toward the literate.

Add Education (None,HighS,BS,MS,PhD) as a research statistic and compare it to the national average. I would bet that your sample is greater than 2 Standard Deviations from the mean.
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How to color the complete line in Word 2010?
Not much to see here.

The site BTjunkie was ordered blocked in Italy. In response, the owner of BTjunkie set up a proxy service, proxyitalia. The court then ordered this also blocked.

In other words, guy thumbs his nose at court, court strikes back.
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Same here. Also a native Dutch speaker, but by far the most of my daily communication happens in English. I scored 25600 on the test.

My use of English is limited to daily-use for the most part. Apart from IT terminology, I rarely encounter field-specific words. Nor do I read literature.
See also: What is the "Facebook lockdown"? What does that mean?
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Facebook-lockdown-What-does...
I got ~12K, but I highly doubt the accuracy... I suspect that I know ~1K words, maybe 2K. I remember hearing that people usually use around 100 or 200 distinct words/day.

According to http://math.ucdenver.edu/~wbriggs/qr/shakespeare.html, Shakespeare used ~32K words in all of his works.
Very cool! It's good to see this. Will boost and support the TrueCrypt community.
Site creator here -- you're right, there's no cheating detection. I ask people not to fill out the survey results if they're not being entirely truthful, of course they are free to disregard the instructions.

But I created the site, less interested in absolute vocabulary size numbers (these vary widely depending upon methodology), and more in relative changes among age groups, SAT scores, etc. And hopefully, cheating would not be correlated to any of those...

But at the end of the day, this is not a controlled, scientific survey. It is a voluntary quiz, though I am doing my best to control for other factors.
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We have gone too far.
But their marketing had the brilliant idea of making XP mode only work on some Windows 7 licenses.
Putting aside all the comparing. Many non-native speakers here say they read and watch many things in english. I do that do and I'm quite positive that 95% of all the reading and listening I do each day is in english.

Now with a low score of 17500 I wonder, if it isn't enough to completely endulge oneself in the language, what is?

Of course, watching the Simpsons all day won't teach me some of the rarely used words. But there must be some stepping stones. I still haven't read Wuthering Heights because I don't want to have a dictionary lying around just to understand the story. And looking up something, reading on and forgetting it at the end of the day is quite common for me.

Also I'm sure that 15 year old americans haven't read that many novels, still their vocabulary is supposed to be larger than most of the well read non-native speakers around here.
This is where I lay my vote. The whole hybrid situation where private companies are given (often) exclusive rights to lay infrastructure on private right-of-ways and easements leads to natural monopolies. The infrastructure on public land ought to be public.
I'm a native spanish speaker, And I got 26,800. But then again more than half of the culture I consume is in english, and I spends an awful lot of time in forums and such.
I guess it would never work like that around here...
As far as no-cost ways, your best bet is natural word of mouth. People will happily talk about things which genuinely solve a pain point in their life. (I realize this avenue of advertising will be difficult as Facebook apps are probably not something people are going to chat about unless they are a drop-dead necessity.

Facebook advertising (as mentioned) is a really good idea, actually. And if you look around carefully enough, Facebook has been offering free $75-100 to play around with their ads. (Look in Wired magazines, or do a few well intentioned searches for "Facebook ads" or the like.)

You might consider including screenshots (where appropriate) and explanations of how some of these "apps" work. Like with Unrestricted Status, will this work with the same exact flow my normal status updates work (or do I have to open an App to send my update)? I shouldn't have any questions about how something will work (or should have a dead simple way of asking and getting the fastest response possible). A potential buyer will quickly lose interest if it takes long to get questions answered.

You've got a LOT of text to parse through to decide if this is something I want to pay money for. (Let alone give you access to my data on Facebook to try it out.) Find a way to more quickly convey the value you're providing with this bundle.

Find sites which are in line with your value prop and marketing strategy. Lifehacker loves stuff like this and finding good bloggers and writers to cover your site is some of the best "free" advertising you can get. I say "free" because you still have to invest in the relationship with these writers.

That should be plenty to start with. :) (And sorry for the slow reply...)
two reasons. first, because of the historical animosity between ms and linux. second, because the contributions have appeared high in some site's "ranking" of contributions to linux 3.0. part of the article explains (poorly) that this is because the particular ranking was by number of commits, rather than significance (or number of lines changed). this isn't a criticism of the commits (linux prefers many small changes to one large one), but rather the ranking method used, which misleadingly implied that ms was making "major" contributions to linux.

so the whole conversation is addressing a discussion elsewhere that is based on those two points: ms and linux are traditionally "enemies"; "ms" was misleadingly represented as making major contributions to linux 3.
If you had to pick one...
Site creator here -- That has been the most interesting finding so far -- I certainly didn't expect it. Unfortunately I haven't had enough participation yet from children, or older folks :), to see how it continues to extend in either direction.
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I'm very surprised that when you use Google Takeout it doesn't give you all the data that has been made available to you. For example, it doesn't export email addresses or phone numbers for people in your circles that you didn't explicitly put in your address book. Basically the same as Facebook's position on data export.
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True, but it's still much better than just relying on people submitting accurate results without even testing them ... at least with multiple choice everyone is being tested to approximately the same metric, and you can get a more accurate percentile

BTW, the word is 'deduce' ;)
haha, I love the vibe of the project. Seems like a fun team. I do miss Glenda though. Getting someone to color her in would have been a good mascot.
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Site creator here -- what a surprise to wake up this morning, see my inbox full of messages about this site, and discover that everyone was coming from Hacker News, which I visit every day!

Thanks for all the participation, and comments -- I didn't submit this myself, so thanks, mike_esspe.

I've responded to a few points down below; there's a lot more info on the details of the test at:

http://testyourvocab.com/faq.php
http://testyourvocab.com/details.php
I'd ask the recruiters for their resume, tell them some lame sentence about what I'm all about, then tell them to visit my website with a deliberately painful user interface that reminds them of how desperate they really are.

'Supply and demand' meets 'power corrupts'.
After having some experience trying to write portable Bourne Shell scripts, I recently came across Tom Duff's paper[1] describing the "rc" shell used by Plan 9. I was quite blown away by the number of common shell-scripting problems it solves, and the elegance of the resulting language. There's no chance of it replacing, say, Python, but I'm sorely tempted to install Plan 9 From User Space and try out rc the next time I need to script something.

[1]: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc
You can count me as one of the long-term Quora detractors. To me, it's a good example of the "bubble effect". Everyone in the Valley thinks its huge because everyone in the Valley uses it.

No one outside the Valley does (figuratively speaking).

It's a thin social layer on what's just a Q&A site not that different to Yahoo Answers, which I guess is fine but I just don't see it going mainstream.

As an aside, I've always said--and I maintain--that I don't see Stackoverflow/StackExchange going mainstream either.

Ultimately I see the end for both companies being a Google or Facebook buyout in the $X00,000,000 range, which I think says more about the overall market than it does their inherent value.

EDIT: let me add regarding SO/SE that I think the SO model works great for programmers but my point--which I didn't put very well--was that I don't see that same tagging/voting/self-organizing model necessarily translating that well to other verticals. I guess time will tell.
There were around 10 french words in the list I got. Maybe more, maybe less, I didn't count exactly.
It takes no effort to be a wet blanket; all you have to do is lie there, covered in water, and drown out anyone else trying to do anything.

How many emails/comments/posts EXACTLY like what you just wrote happened in 1991?

No one is saying what Plan9 will or won't become, but that also means you have no idea where it is going in 10 years or what fun innovations will come out of it.

Don't make a habit of shitting on people thinking outside the box, you'll miss a lot of interesting things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_positional_numeral...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_number_system (which makes your indexing as simple as reading the digits from the number, i think)

yes - here it is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_number_system#Permuta... :o)
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nah. what can be done will be done. besides... it has it's uses.

of course, I would say that.
The linked talk on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/11420397
Yes, it's amazing how many people are "casually" posting their scores. Dick measuring indeed. (98,750)
I sense a tremor in the force. Its as if the probability wave in Randall's head collapsed from a thousand cartoons into one Xkcd.
Ethan, the fun vibe of the project really shows through. I think it is inspiring and inviting. Glad to see you guys having fun with some really cool tech. Keep pushing it forward and keeping us posted!

The native Go integration was a really good move; a lot of interested cross-overs I am sure from the Go community will get into 9front because of that attractive piece.
Its worth noting that it's actually subjective ethnic diversity that has these effects, rather than actual race. As a really clear example, Kenya and Tanzania both decolonialized with roughly the same mix of tribes in their borders but due to the different paths they've taken post independence most Kenyans think of themselves as primarily of their tribe first and Kenyans second, its the reverse in Tanazia. And Tanzania now has a much higher level of trust than Kenya, just as Putnam's work would suggest.

The second thing worth nothing is that more ethnically diverse societies tend to have faster growing economies than more homogeneous ones, even after taking into account their less efficient governments.
so so true.....i can't actually remember the last time i read a book that didn't have pictures in it.....but man, you can't beat having a child :)
Aah..didn't notice that. Thanks.
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." — NelsonMandela
There were many mistakes made at C=, but engineering wasn't one of them.

I'm fairly certain the serial speed was kept low because of a management decision to keep the drive compatible with some earlier C= business gear. The engineers had designed the thing to be much better than it was out of the box.

The drive, and the C64, were both capable of running the serial port at a much higher speed, (and that's what your fast-load cartridge did....)
Although I agree that Stack[Overflow|Exchange] will never been a mainstream site, I think there's an important difference in that SO is very useful to the community that it does support.

They've really nailed the technical question 'problem' to the point that my day-to-day job would be measurably harder without it, and so as the poster says I can easily imagine paying for added-value features there.

Quora, not so much. Although I really doubt the solution is to add more eye-candy to the page design. Sheesh, web designers. ;-)
Just a tip, hit esc to go to a very nice multiple slide view.
haha, got me :-)

To my defense, they are both derived from 'deducere', to lead away, and 'were not distinguished in sense until the mid 17th cent' according to my system’s dictionary
From the article:

"The site is visually bland: there’s barely any color or images, and you won’t find any effect fancier than rounded corners."

Somebody please save us from the attack of web design. If I see another gradient rounded flashing Javascript-enabled button for gradient rounded flashing Javascript-enabled buttons' sake, I'm gonna hurl, Wayne's World style.
The point about humidity has already been made. I was astonished at how comfortable 115 degrees was in Phoenix. I went on a hike, no problem... Except that I carried a huge water bottle and the bottle ran out in an hour, so there's that.

In humid places, however, sweating is almost useless and you can suffer in mere 90F heat.

The other important point is that somehow folks in Singapore manage to survive, but in Singapore there's never any winter. I once heard a physiologist remark that humans can adjust to a wide range of temperatures, but it takes a few days for the body to reprogram itself for freezing ambient temperatures after spending months in roasting ambient temperatures. That's why the first few days of cold weather in the fall and winter feel really cold and everyone dons parkas, but when spring rolls around the exact same weather feels really warm and everyone puts on their shorts.

So maybe if I set out to live without A/C I'd get more used to it after a while. But the first few days are a killer, and at some point one just gets sick of being listless and warm and starts subconsciously looking for excuses to visit nice air-conditioned buildings.
Couldn't agree more. However, for Pakistan and it's people, hatred towards India is a way of life. That's their inspiration, that's what they live up to. They possibly don't have any economic, social or technical goals to look up to. In such a scenario they naturally turns to religion and religious leaders feed this hatred mantra. Hence hatred becomes their living breath. Of course, this is all hearsay and I haven't personally been to Pakistan to witness any such feelings.
Like it says in the comments, any day now:

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The irony in a scene release of a torrent client is overwhelmingly amusing.
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Who wants Emacs on Eggshells?
How does it compare to Less? http://lessframework.com/
there's a lot of assumptions in that particular view of immortality. It assumes that it would also mean infinite memory, a loss of senses and certain capabilities, and that we cannot modify ourselves to create new urges. All of these are possible and plausible, but for example in the simulated AI situation only the loss of senses is likely to be true (as well as perhaps the inability to modify ourselves, depending on the approach)
emacs, and a reasonably decent knowledge of other standard unix text processing tools.
Can these people ever walk away from the idea of war. I mean, really which rogue state can or will possibly launch a nuclear missile over the continental US ?
Am I the only person who expected something like that?

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Hey, wait a minute, you are procrastinating on HN just like the rest of us. Pfffft, working ....
When I first thought of the idea I was seriously going to have my CV auto generated and see if any recruiters contacted me.
What do you know about Facebook marketing?
Total guess for this particular case (but I've seen it over and over). If you're well off, not getting genocided, etc you past wrongs don't bother much. If not, then past wrongs are what you blame for you're cured Ty shitty situation.
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I dunno, I think this is a somewhat legitimate issue. There's probably going to be another large solar flare on the scale of the Carrington event eventually and being prepared to recover from broken electronics and electrical systems in its wake isn't such a ridiculous notion.

I definitely do doubt that we're going to have to worry that much about terrorists using an EMP strike. I'd expect a nation with nuclear capability would be much more likely (like Schwarzkopf suggested doing in 91).
They will be happy to walk away from the idea of war - it is just that the Rotary club pays less in campaign contributions than Norman Gunthorp.
The OStatus[1] specification enables distributed operation of Twitter-like interactions (specifically, short status messages, @replies and direct messages), so there's that. The people who worked on that are working on a new revision[2] that presumably will try to address the use-cases of sites like Google+.

[1]: http://ostatus.org/about

[2]: https://plus.google.com/104323674441008487802/posts/it3iBLUj...
Incoming Facebook UI Update
I was sitting in Chris Paget's "How to hack GSM" talk at DEFCON 18 last year[1], it was one of the biggest talks of the entire conference.

Chris has basically setup a make-shift cell tower in the room where the talk was being held, with two high-gain antenna pointed out towards the crowd. Behind him he had... (bear with me, I am not an EE guy) a huge receiver hooked to the antenna.

He kept belaboring the point that he was only turning the power up to some micro-fraction of what the box could output.

When someone at the front pushed him for more info "Why can't you turn it up more and try and pick up more cell phones from around the hotel?" he replied that if he "cranked it all the way up" he would "kick every cell phone in Vegas off their towers"... and then he kept presenting.

Given that Paget knows his stuff, and he is sitting there with equipment from any radio store... and could take at least most cell phones offline for a few-mile-radius if what he said was true... it seems to me that the biggest thread to America is just smart people in general.

He could hypothetically put that think in an SUV, turn it on, and just drive across town, causing havok all day long. ANYONE COULD.

Every time politicians learn about a new "threat to America" they get all excited, throw a saddle on the damn issue and ride it to glory, screaming and shouting the whole way until we can't remember why we ever thought it was safe to leave our houses in the first place.

I understand the need to push your own agendas for elections, but besides not being able to take laptops on airplanes, I only see a whole lot of hurt for citizens coming out of this.

While we're at it, you know what else is the worst threat ever to America? How about education, health, the sun, asteroids and gangs of unruly dogs.

<sigh>

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/202298/fcc_con...
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I think the biggest problem Quora faces is that it's invite-only. A question-and-answer website needs as many users as possible to provide as many answers as possible.
Ah, then I think you shouldn't have used the term pythonista because this refers to serious Python people, not trolls.
Looking at the stats, it's interesting the Google are so low (1.4% of changesets) when they do so much work on both Android and Chrome OS. Does their work not go upstream?

It's also interesting that Nokia are at 1.8% of changesets when Elop siad they weren't producing any more MeeGo phones.

Is most work that goes into Linux now just adding drivers for new hardware? Or are there ineresting new kernel features that people are working on?