skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that consistently puzzle me is how different cultures handle change.

Over the past 150 years, the world has seen all kinds of terrible wars, killing hundreds of millions of people and causing all sorts of hatred and ill will.

Some of these cultures get up, dust themselves off, and go on -- sometimes achieving greatness. Other cultures, sometimes with far less injustice done (if you can measure these things, which I doubt) carry grudges seemingly forever.

Even in personal relations, I've known people in the states who suffered terribly by some criminal, only to have them forgive the criminal and move on with their lives. On the other hand, there are those who suffered the same thing who carry hatred in their heart until they die.

I remember seeing a person on TV from Jerusalem. They were talking about how their great-great grandfather lived in a house but was evicted by the Israelis. And how angry they were about it all. I could see that this was really bothering them.

Hell, if I spent my time emoting over wrongs my entire ancestry both committed and suffered through, I wouldn't have much left of a life left.

Why the difference? That's above my pay grade -- hence the reason I find it so fascinating. I can unequivocally say, however, that hating someone or some culture is a fool's game that hurts the hater much more than the object of hatred. There is a terrible strain of nihilism alive in the world. So many lives wasted by it. Very sad.
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I always thought of "bludgeon" as a verb. First I've heard it being used as a noun (and now my vocab has expanded!).
How about generating some powerpoint slides with this?
Don't use an IDE if you're learning, that seems like a mistake to me. Just use a text editor of your choice and the shell.
How about being able to get a group of people together to watch a new movie of your choosing on demand, in relatively small private rooms, on equipment far better than you could afford?
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You're a known troll who puts baseless comments on every India related posts.

India didn't betray Kashmir. The king of Kashmir (Hari Singh) was a Hindu and wanted Kashmir to be an independent country. But Pakistan wanted Kashmir, so it funded insurgents against Kashmir. When the Kashmir king couldn't face them, he sought India's military help. India agreed on the condition that Kashmir should be annexed to India.

The UN resolution says that India should conduct a free and fair election in the entire Kashmir to know what Kashmiris want (self determination). But for that, Pakistan should surrender its Pakistan-Administered-Kashmir to India and China should surrender Aksai Chin (if it has any population).

Obsession with Kashmir is burning Pakistan more than India.
I'm not sure what you mean by "scaling". Just because it uses a media query to serve a different style based on the screen size doesn't mean it "scales well".

In particular, this reacts quite badly to zooming, either in a desktop browser (chrome/linux): http://imgur.com/r1z9W or in a mobile browser (android): http://imgur.com/7aP39 .

In the desktop case, the font size doesn't change even if I zoom in the entire page. This isn't the default behavior, so the author must have gone to some lengths to break this functionality. I'm sure s/he had reasons for doing that, but I'm not sure what they were.

In the mobile case, zooming is constrained to a very limited range, and even when allowed, the text doesn't reflow, so it's hard to read lines because of all of the horizontal scrolling required. This behavior is quite common for fixed width, "grid" layouts.

In general, I'm all for frameworks that solve common layout problems, but this particular framework seems to have gotten the basics wrong. I would recommend against using it as it stands.
Surely something more like:

int lorem( char* ipsum, int dolor )
{
float amet = 0.0;

for( int i = 0; i < eiusmod; ++i )
{
int consectetur = adipisicing( amet );
tempor[ i ] += elit;
}

return sed * eiusmod;
}

(-- variable names in latin: there's something to win friends and influence people.)
i scored just over 90th percentile and i promise i didn't lie. it seems to me that a lot of the words were very old-fashioned - they were the kind of words i learnt from context while reading books by people like dickens. they're not words i would use in normal conversation, or when writing.

anyway, what i'm saying is that i suspect sat verbal is testing something quite different - isn't it much more aimed at ability to use the language rather than whether you can recognise obscure words?

[what surprised me the most was how graded it was - on both tests there was a pretty clear cut-off point where the words became unknown. i didn't expect it to be that ordered.]
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"The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use"
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I am a non-native speaker (NNS) and got 15.700.

I think this test is not very telling for NNSs as it doesn't consider specialist vocabulary which many of us have a lot of of, because of how we /really/ learned the language.

When I left school my English was very average. When I started communicating with email with people from all over the world, but mostly the US, it improved a lot in 1-2 years.
When I first went to a congress in the US in my med 20's I was blown away by my aptitude to communicate in that language.

But these were all people from my field. What I'm saying is that the distribution of words pertaining certain subjects in my vocabulary is severely skewed by the field I work in -- visual effects (and IT).
I believe this goes for many NNSs.
Been using this a lot lately, really love it thanks @dhg
You hit the nail on the head. There is a huge difference between knowing the general meaning of a word and being able to exactly define them. Simple examples: is a cow a deer? Why (not)?. Is a banana a berry? Is a blueberry a berry? A strawberry?

I used the former because I thought it was what people would do (as it is easier to do; people will not what to spend 30 or more seconds on each word), and got 26600. That is below, but about average. I am not a native speaker, but would have expected to score higher in the general population.

I am fairly sure that this test does not reach the general population, though (by the way, it is nice to see that the test adapts to one's level. Try answering almost none of the words on page 1. I got 'my' score down to 28 by confessing to know only one of the words)
I got 35,900, and haven't lived in an English-speaking country in 10 years. I often get frustrated at myself when I feel like I'm losing my vocab. There were a couple of words on the list that I'm sure I once knew, but couldn't conjure up the meaning on the spot, so I skipped them. I was never a sci-fi/fantasy fan, but I do like to read literature for fun.
Isn't this essentially the same way every company is contributing to Linux?
A complete disregard for using psychedelics to treat psychological disorders is the reason I can't take modern psychiatry seriously. We have compounds which are capable of producing deep, lasting changes yet the field is so political in nature that we simply brush them off to the side. Just as there were serious consequences stemming from the influence of the church on society a couple of hundred years ago, so it is with business today.
Ah, I don't want to be the guy to tell Antonio that his English really isn't better than most native speakers'...

It would probably be easiest for him to hire an English-speaking person as a cofounder or early employee for copywriting or communication, I guess.
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it was interesting - as i said, the article helped (i don't think i'd have thought of the answer before reading it).

[huh. so i was the only person who voted this up? for what it's worth, hn is going downhill fast. this kind of article would have been more popular in the last...]

ps this would be related to numbers of variable base, i think - that might be an interesting connection to follow (although google isn't turning up much...)
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You're trying to fabricate the truth.
When the Kashmir king couldn't face them, he sought India's military help is not true.

Maharaja appealed to Lord Mountbatten and not to India.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Kashmir#Year_...

In the last days of 1948, a ceasefire was agreed under UN auspices, but since the plebiscite demanded by the UN was never conducted, relations between India and Pakistan soured,[32] and eventually led to two more wars over Kashmir in 1965 and 1999.

India also annexed Hyderabad state by sending insurgents to Hyderabad.
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Why the difference?

I suspect that in the particular example you gave it's not really about the great-great grandfather's eviction, but rather that's just a personal thing to relate their general grudge and opposition of Israel to.

I suspect that if you were a native American living in shitty conditions in some reservation you would also have harbored much more grudge against these (now ancient) injustices than if you're a white American whose ancestor got killed by Apaches 200 years ago- it's easier to forgive & forget when you are the winner: after all your hypothetical self is now in no way affected by that 200 year-old injustice.
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Hey, thanks for checking it out. I'm the founder of the site. I myself have had some qualms about the low-brow nature of some of the discussions. I think as the site's interface evolves it's becoming easier to discuss deeper ideas. Here's an interesting discussion on the federal budget: https://hyperarchy.com/questions/394. But at first it was just my friends talking about their favorite kind of nut. Not world-changing material to be sure.

Was it the lack of delegation, or just the non-political / deep nature of many discussions that was most disappointing? What would we need to change to make it more interesting to you?

As far as anonymity, making votes public is a controversial choice but it's important to us. We want to heavily favor transparency, and it makes for a more social experience. Looking at other people's votes is actually the number 1 thing people do on Hyperarchy.

Thanks for your feedback!
I thought in aDwD that "leal" was just yet another Kindle OCR mess-up for "loyal" until I found out it actually really is a word - an old English word for "loyal"! Goes to show... something, I guess! :)
Nitpick: the text size on the button is smaller than the default text size. I find this on a lot of CSS frameworks and think it's wrong, it's an action, should be at least the same as the default text size, if not bigger.
Indeed it can.

But don't discount how much people who can do graphical design are needed too -- the projects advertised in the Weekend Hacker newsletter -- need a graphically skilled person over a programmer at a 3 to 1 ratio.
I strongly doubt that their methodology has any validity at all for non-native speakers. Extrapolating from a selection of 60-80 words presupposes a relatively normal developmental history; otherwise one would not be able to draw the primary inference at work here, namely that somebody who knows a definition for "mawkish" knows definitions for all words of similar difficulty and frequency.

Atypical language acquisition (e.g., as a second language, or through a non-standard channel like technology or fantasy literature) disrupts this extrapolation step. For instance, a German programmer that knows the word "polymorphic" via OOP is less likely to know similarly frequent and difficult but programming-unrelated words than British or American peers. So adding, say, 100 to the total would be utterly unfounded. Same thing for a science-fiction nerd: Acquaintance with obscure words from one domain doesn't extrapolate to other domains.

Unless they somehow control for domain specificity and atypical acquisition, let's not get too frustrated. (Disclaimer: Not a native speaker -- result around median.)
Be happy my friend: I've scored a shameful 5700. I see it is very low compared to many others reporting here, anyway my English is more than ok when compared to most of those around me.

I believe language knowledge is very influenced by the surroundings, the place where you live, the people you deal with.

Aware of the weakness, a few days ago I posted a call for suggestions on Google+; now the vocabulary test moved me to ask the same to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2772950

PS: I'm from Bari, Italy.
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I am Indian, and have lived in India for most of my life. I have been to nearly every state (all except Kashmir, and Oyra) and everywhere I go, it always seems like the Pakistanis' hatred is the most prevalent one. One thing I can assure you is that, despite the appearance of all of this hatred, all the Indian teens I have met have no hatred for our neighbor but rather wish the fighting would stop.

Since I moved to the United States, I have had several Pakistani friends who voice the same opinions. There is no tension between the youth of the two countries (except during the Cricket World Cup).

The problem is that a government full of conservative, short-sighted politicians in India, and a government, influenced by religion, blinded by hatred in Pakistan can not seem to work out their differences.

Even if the consensus among Indians and Pakistanis' is to stop the fighting, not much can be done until the current regime is changed ( mostly in Pakistan ).

The US's problem is that publicly, they must support Pakistan despite having no real part in the conflict between the two nations ( further increasing tensions on both sides).
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Want to make sure I'm clear on this: I'm not saying that different people don't have a legitimate reason to be upset. If you're living in a former communist state in shitty conditions because the Soviets destroyed your country, sure. If you're living in poverty in some third-world country because your elected leaders like playing the "big man" in politics and killed all your family? Sure.

There are lots of great reasons to be angry about your current conditions _and_ those things that have gone on before. It just doesn't accomplish much. It creates a culture of anger, vengeance, victimhood, and nihilism.

I think the danger here is to confuse the issue and start talking about who really has a right to be upset or what kind of justice is demanded by current conditions. That's a completely different conversation -- one that must happen in all of these cases, but one which happens in a lot more productive manner when people forgive. Take a look at what happened in South Africa, for instance. Not a perfect resolution, but they are not spending the next 100 years in blood feuds either.
The point is not quite that.

The point is not: they are not natural therefore they are wrong. It is: they are not natural, therefore they are not simply, automatically right -- they can have only a practical justification.
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The fact that we managed to get to the point where patents were legislated, while developing all of the necessary technology in the process, without patents proves that patents are not required for progress to occur.
As per New Economics Foundation, Bhutan(17), Sri Lanka(22), Pakistan(24) nations are happier than India(35).
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In other news Mark Zuckerberg calls out Google for lack of search engine transparency.

Honestly, I think the lack of social graph portability on Facebook is a really good thing. Look how they messed up the Wall with these so-called social games. The day Zynga gets my social graph is the day I leave.

Google's posturing is really getting old. Maybe I'd take them more seriously if they didn't have their finger in every pie.
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Talkative people will bludgeon you with their thoughts. It's useful when you've already used other words like "harass" and "bore" and need a synonym.
Actually, higher income individuals are more likely to spend income tax rebates. Lower income individuals are likely to save it or pay down debt with it.

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I agree that's it a lot less productive than forgiving and forgetting (I wouldn't give South Africa as a positive example but that's a different discussion, perhaps post WW2 western Europe or post cold-war Europe), and a lot of conflicts would have probably been solved by now had it not been so easy a trap to fall into.

However, I'm not sure it's possible to evade that mentality unless you are able to lead at least a minimally comfortable life - or at the very least it become a lot harder the shittier your life gets.

On a more anecdotal level, as an Israeli I remember a great sense of optimism on both sides when I was a teenager in the early/mid 90s - the territories got autonomous rule, a peace treaty was signed with Jordan (2nd one between Israel and a neighboring country since Egypt a decade and a bit before) and it genuinely seemed as if peace is inevitable.

Then at some point stuff started getting bad really fast, each side only "retaliating" to the other sides actions and the vicious cycle continued to this day ("we're not the bad guys, we're just reacting to what the other side just did!").
Pakistan(83) is a better nation to do business than India(134)
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I'm not sure it's valid for native speakers, either.

Your basic vocabulary will be the same as most other speakers because we have structured learning in our schools.

But the less-well-known words are generally learned in context... So if you haven't happened across them in a book, you probably don't know them... But there are probably many others that you do, instead. This test could easily hit a bunch you don't know and totally miss all the ones you do.
Agreed, 2 days is ridiculous. If the timeframe to shutdown is that fast, surely they could send a compressed version of the userdata with the email?
I usually have things with the kids - scouts, sports, church, First LEGO League, etc. but the summer is pretty quiet. There's also yard work. I get most of the other housework done during the week. Since I have a "day job", I usually spend part of the weekend lining up scheduled blog posts, tweets, etc. for my side things. I should spend more time coding for side projects but I don't.

Before kids, I used to go hang out at a bookstore for a couple hours and read whatever I found interesting, go for long off-road bike rides, volunteer for fund-raising walks/bike rides, volunteer with the Red Cross, hang out with friends from a ham radio club or college, etc.

If you can't reconnect with friends, just make new ones. Try meetup.com, look for tweetups or barcamps, go to user group meetings, join clubs (ham radio, model railroads / rockets, LEGO, cycling, etc.), take a class (cake decorating, painting, etc.), volunteer somewhere, go check out events at local bookstores / libraries, etc.
Compared to India, a higher percentage of women in Pakistan feel they are treated with respect.
As per National Crime Records Bureau, every 26 minutes a rape is committed in India and out of which 30% are against minors.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/more-women-respected-in-pakistan-...
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On the plus side, nothing is happening
I think rest of the world should stop mirroring India with Pakistan. There is hell lot of difference between these two countries. India is developing fast, its diverse, secular and no threat to global peace.
Pakistan on other hand is a failed state.
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Agreed. The framework looks fantastic but that is definitely a deal breaker. Zooming in on the web to see text larger is such a huge use-case.
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> The reason we have copyright and a patent system is very simple: they're optimizations to make society better at producing more new stuff.

Any optimization will sacrifice one thing for another. Perhaps a better approach would be to revisit our assumptions. Why do we assume that efficiency should trump freedom? Why do we assume that everyone will agree with the efficiency-is-king way of thinking? Why do we not consider the effects of our philosophy? We have smartphones and laptops now, but by forcing everyone to specialise they only gain happiness in the 'ignorance is bliss' understanding of it.
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"Is English your first (native) language, or a second (non-native) language?" my english is actually my 3rd non-native language :)