skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many languages get along just fine without that verb, such as my native language, Tamil. I learnt a tiny bit of Russian a long time ago, and -- someone correct me if I'm wrong -- I don't think Russian has it either. For instance, "what is your name?" is "kak vas zovut?" Also, Mandarin has shi which can be used in some senses of "to be" llsted in the article but not others; for instance, identity but not predication.

So I dug a little deeper and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_copula

"A feature common to all Indo-European languages is the presence of a verb corresponding to the English verb to be."

I'm a bit of a language nerd, so this is very interesting.
Win 95 wasn't a follow on from NT. There used to be two separate paths for Windows: 95 -> 98 -> 98SE -> ME [end of line], and NT -> 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> 7
Russian doesn't have an expressed copula verb in the typical present indicative sentence that simply links a subject and a predicate. So the way I used to say "I'm an American" would be expressed in Russian (which also lacks indefinite articles) as if I said, "I American." But Russian does have a verb 'to be' and makes moderately heavy use of it in other tenses and moods.
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Check out FriendFeed's "best of day" or "best of week" feature. Or just have it email you a daily or weekly summary.
I find this example harder to swallow:

"The question of whether to exist or not to exist comes to mind."
Yes, Macaulay's _The Way Things Work_ is a wonderful book. He's a little bit older than I think you may have guessed he is. His younger siblings like that book too.

Libraries in general are where I spend much of my life. I definitely like to bring all my children to libraries at every opportunity. Thanks for mentioning The Teenage Liberation Handbook in your reply. Some older hackers may find that very interesting as a way to hack getting an education.
To be fair, idexes are redundant structures so data will not be lost permanently in this case.
Perhaps memcachedb would be better for this scenario (vs regular memcached) since it is persistent. It's memcached with berkley db.
There was at least one study of speed-readers where they gave two groups
(speed and control) a text.

The speed-readers did fine. The control group was confused because every other line was from a different text (two base texts).
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In these fat-tailed environments it is better to go for breadth as opposed to depth. VCs have better risk-adjusted returns than entrepreneurs. See Taleb's ideas on this, as well as:
http://navanitarakeri.com/Diversification.pdf
and:
http://navanitarakeri.com/CoveredCalls.pdf
Seriously Robert Anton Wilson's books changed the way I look at the world. I started with "Prometheus Rising" and followed that with "Quantum Psychology." Honestly the two best books I've ever read (Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is close).
Key quote here to the tune of Gen Y:

"Today’s students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F.D.R., and they live in a world where startling innovations are commonplace. The current crop of 18-year-olds, after all, were 8 when Google was founded by two students at Stanford; Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was at Harvard and they were entering high school. Having “grown up digital” (to borrow the title of Don Tapscott’s recent book on the Net Generation), they are impatient to get on with life."
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Luke: Listen, if you were to rescue her, the reward would be...
Han Solo: What?
Luke: Well, more wealth than you can imagine!
Han Solo: I don't know, I can *imagine* quite a bit.

Do you really think startups are the road to "riches beyond your wildest dreams"? Most of them get sold for finite amounts of cash, last time I checked. Typically, even key employees just get a few tens of thousands of dollars, and a stack of options that might be underwater before you exercise.

Becoming a millionaire is of course possible, but that barely gets you a down payment on a nice house in the Bay Area. This is very imaginable wealth.

You want to experience unimaginable wealth? Take a few thousand in savings and live in Laos for a while. Your wealth will literally be unimaginable to most of the natives you meet.
Interesting. What's the difference between this syntax and merely eliminating passive voice?

"E-Prime, short for English-Prime, is a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of the verb to be: be, is, am, are, was, were, been and being, and also their contractions. Sentences composed in E-Prime seldom contain the passive voice, which in turn may force the writer or speaker to think differently. By eliminating most uses of the passive voice, E-Prime compels the writer to explicitly acknowledge the agent of a sentence, possibly making the written text easier to read and understand."
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This is a good time for me to point out the RIP Human Intelligence Sources Code of Practi(c/s)e. This is a PDF which details the secret police who have the power to do a lot of stuff. You can find it on Google.

It's atrocious, and nobody knows about it, it's hidden away in a PDF.
Yeah, I actually played it (choppily) for a while on my 486.
I personally would like to get as much of the reading out of the way so that I can process. This really doesn't take time away from processing, just saves time reading. And we really can read much faster than we do and not have it have an impact on our processing.

IMHO most of the content in the books (especially non-fiction) is of no use to me. It's the 5% of insight that is added to my life that adds value and that I really want to think about.
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"One day I might have an idea for something to write, and the next day I’ll think about how that might limit my ability to achieve some other goal, how it will pigeon-hole me or make me vulnerable."

It's not necessarily being "vulnerable" rather than being "accountable". We hear stories of trolling and online abuse, but particularly now more than ever, we're accountable to what we say/post/videotape/record, etc on the Web. "Social media" hits this point home.
Windows culture is so full of wrong assumptions that any OS change breaks apps. Versioning looks like a very small problem.
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Hamlet:

I am chiefly concerned with the question of killing myself or not killing myself.

EDIT. Oops, 2nd try:

A concern has arisen in my consciousness regarding the question of killing myself or not killing myself.

...I'm trying to keep all the same implications that WS put into the phrase, to hell with scansion.
"I don't particularly feel I need my mobile, but my friends consider it unfriendly not to be at their beck and call"

I didn't own a wireless phone in 2008 and noticed the same thing. For example, nobody wants to arrange to meet at a specific place/time for a public event; they want you to call when you get there and walk toward them pointing out landmarks that betray your location.

I already knew that this is how meeting arrangements are now handled; what I didn't expect is that it's now considered rude to require a more specific commitment.
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I agree, but with a caveat:

The problem of "talent" migrating to lucrative fields is universal, but is not really a problem at all. I'm going to be graduating from college soon, and I've seen many of my peers look at Wall Street, law, and even medicine (I'm an engineer).

The people who do so, invariably, are hardly people I would consider top-talent. The people who take up code jobs at banks in the hope of one day becoming traders invariably can't code their way out of a wet paper bag. The people who are only after the money tend to also be the most incompetent. We're not losing that much when they all flock to the flavor-of-the-decade industry.

The hackers who really care about their work continue to work in their respective interests, rain or shine, and they're the ones who are advancing their fields in leaps and bounds. As long as we do not dis-incentivize these people (e.g. pay them a non-living wage) we're doing pretty ok.

I had a job offer from one of the major British banks for code, and I asked them how much real programming I could look forward to. My contact was honest and told me most of it would be front-end C# hackery, and I turned them down. I don't care if you pay me $200K a year, I'm going to hate my life if I hack C# GUI day in and day out.
It's a shame that FeedBurner stagnated after Google acquired them, but there's still not anything out there even remotely close to a viable alternative. It doesn't seem fair to beat them up just because they haven't given us even more free services, when their fundamental product is still great.
Speed reading is basically an urban legend.

http://www.slate.com/id/74766/

Intriguingly, this legend was greatly encouraged by JFK's campaign staff:

http://www.slate.com/id/74766/sidebar/74768/
I don't speed read per se, but I have developed some techniques that help me digest what I need to digest when reading an assignment (I'm in grad school and the amount of reading assigned is obscene).

I love to read, and when I read for fun I start at the beginning and read to the end. This doesn't work when you have 500 pages to read spread across 4 classes.

Assuming you know what book you're reading and why you are reading it, and that you've gone through the table of contents so you know the shape of the book, let's say you're starting a new chapter:

Read the intro
Read the conclusion
*Read section headings and topic paragraphs
-Hopefully now you know where you need to read more carefully and what you can skim

Sometimes you'll get sucked into what you are reading because it is so damn interesting. You could view this as negative, but I think that is positive. If you are really loving what you're reading, you're going to learn it better than you will if you don't care.

Anyway, I've given some thought to bondafide speed reading, but the above works well for me when I need to get through a bunch of pages and know I need to learn it well.

edit: I've gone back and read your question, sorry if my post response wasn't what you were looking for at all.
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I like being contrary, so I'll take the side of Facebook advocacy: by "showcasing," as you say, Friendfeed makes their service far less efficient, and to some degree less valuable. It adds nothing but a place to visit everything at once, which means that it hurts the communal aspects of those other sites and reduces the visual efficiency of each. Facebook, on the other hand, centralizes everything, which means that as a user you can use it and only it and have everything you need. I have relatives who use Facebook because it's so easy to understand.

Also, what does it mean to effectively aggrandize collective genius?
How do you translate "the cat is on the mat"? Do you have to add a verb like "the cat sits on the mat"?
Perhaps something along the lines of "My consciousness proves my existence" or "My awareness precedes my existence", depending on the interpretation.
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Agreed. Shake the hand. Look them in the eye. Say "Hello name." Then pause to look at them while they respond. Tunnel vision.

That's step 1 to remembering someone I meet at a party.
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Quoth the Wiki (quite accurately tagged [citation needed]): Using E-Prime makes it harder for a writer or reader to confuse statements of opinion with statements of fact.

The above statement is an opinion dressed up as a fact which is nonetheless compatible with E-Prime. (Do you need a [citation needed] to mark self-negating statements?) Anyone with a high school command of the English language can conjure up their own alternatives. Here are three examples. Oops, scratch that: I present three examples below.

* E-prime renders me incapable of expressing a value judgment as a statement of fact, proving my superiority over you ignorant savages still using standard English.

* Anyone who cannot write a statement of fact in e-prime lacks sufficient proficiency in English to find their way out of a paper bag.

* Some people believe that e-prime decreases conflict, but I prefer the traditional route: wholesale slaughter of those who disagree with me. Why? Because one does not need "to be" to bathe in the blood of English professors who (pre-humously) possessed far too much free time.
Sure thing. Focus on nurturing the desire to keep learning, rather than whatever specific, short term interests their variety of "hacking" implies.
I'm interested. What kind of game is it? I just finished up a game that uses some basic opengl. http://mattdonahoe.com/memix/

The guys at idevgames seem pretty smart. They helped me get started.
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Same here. I'm not sure how much exposure the community here has to those ideas...
As long as it's a personal choice, it's fine.

The problem with this 'movement' is when it tries to impose its choices on others.
Of course my experience is just anecdotical but I lived in a a small village in the countryside (350 inhabitants if you count the cows) until I was 17. I find that since living in big cities, I have more energy, I'm much more upbeat and much less depressed. In the morning, I love walking or biking through busy streets looking at everyone move around.. I feel that it's invigorating...
Right now I'm back in the countryside in malaysia and I clearly don't have as much energy as I had before...

Now, the cities I've liked the most and for which this was the most true are rennes and kyoto which are both cities with quite a bit of nature (and hardly any sky scraper). And when I lived in shanghai (which I really liked), I lived right at the back of Zhong Shang gong yuan so I could see the nature everyday when I went to work...
Thanks for the suggestion! Since I just start to build the site, I am not affected by the linking and ranking stuff.

However I am interested in the following paragraph from the link you provided:

"From a GAE google groups post (posted by Google):

One question that we see a lot on the group is about setting up an app
to serve from a naked domain (http://example.com) While this has been
difficult but not impossible in the past, we've made some changes and
are no longer allowing naked domains to be used for App Engine apps.
The infrastructure which we use will occasionally force TCP connection
resets when an app is running on a naked domain, so we're recommending
that everyone switch to a subdomain (like http://www.example.com) and
set up DNS redirects if you already have traffic going to a naked
domain. "

I don't understand why using a naked domain lead to TCP connection resets. Is it a general case (which means using naked domain is a bad idea anyway), or is it just Google's problem?

Personally I think prefixing every domain with "www." is really a silly idea, but it seems now there is some technique difficulty behind it. Puzzled ...
Isn't that a broad assumption? If I read a particular book twice as fast as someone else, who's to say that I enjoyed the experience less?
http://github.com/languages

We've been seeing a lot more Python recently. Perl and PHP are growing nicely, too.
Ctrl-CMD-D over any word in OS X gives you a definition. Keep holding Ctrl-CMD and move around...
Nuh uh, you used "I am."

Try:

"I might or might not want to kill myself." (The indecisive emo teenager version.)

"Death and existence vex me." (The pompous philosopher version.)

"Life sucks / then you die / so fuck the world / and let's get high." (The goth poetry version.)

"OMGWTFBBQLOL." (The hyperactive netspeak version.)

"?" (The concise punctuation version.)
The referenced item is at the bottom of page 11.
Being able to pick up new terminology quickly can be helpful.

Case in point, I'm trying to learn financial math. I get the concepts pretty well (just parabolic PDEs and similar things), but it would be helpful if I could more easily remember what the boundary conditions for "down and out barrier options" were or what the exact definition of "VaR" is.

Speed reading could help here, though I don't know how to do it.
article summary: the world is full of sheeple.
How should I market this game?
My friend and I made a fun memory game for the iPhone, but it isn't selling very well. All our beta testers gave us really positive feedback, but now that it is up in the app store, we are only seeing one or two sales a day. It is selling for $2.99

Here is the homepage
http://mattdonahoe.com/memix/

I'm pretty surprised by the poor sales. The $1 app I made in 5 hours is out-selling this one.

What should I do? Free version? Better video/website? Advertise? Give up and make iBurp?
When I saw the title "Scientists discover true love", my first thought was, "Awww, scientists in love, they must be so happy".
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In most cities I have lived in, when you feel like taking a walk, it doesn't seem to make a difference which direction you walk in: you will be traveling along the same buildings, built into the same mold. Come by a park, the park will still be an accessory of this mold, like makeup on a woman without charisma.

I can only recall a few instances when you could take a stroll into a modest expanse of nature, and anticipate to find bugs and critters around your path. Every walk, even when retracing the same route over and over, is different and interesting.

Talk about Newbury, or 5th ave even. When I glance into the stores I am happy to myself that I am not in the store being looked at by the passer by.
All three of the above statements describe facts. Incorrect facts, but a fact does not become an opinion simply because of its wrongness.

* A single instance of a value judgment expressed as a statement of fact in E-prime falsifies this.

* The existence of one person who cannot write a statement of fact in E-prime yet can find their way out of a paper bag falsifies this.

* This presents 2 facts and an opinion. "Some people believe that e-prime decreases conflict": fact, find one. "I prefer the traditional route: wholesale slaughter of those who disagree with me": opinion, unverifiable. "Because one does not need 'to be' to bathe in the blood of English professors...": fact, simply bathe in their blood without uttering "to be".

The original Wikipedia comment presents an opinion, because it does not define an objective standard for what "harder" means. Hence the [citation needed] tag. If phrased as "10% fewer college students confused fact with opinion when using E-prime", that would present a fact.

Also note the wiggle word "makes" in the Wikipedia quote. While not forbidden by E-prime, wiggle words like "makes", "becomes", and "does" often let you express the same sort of sloppy thinking.
I have to agree with this (I'm thinking of that Stuff essay by Paul Graham) - I have stuff in Dubai, Kabul, Yangon - in boxes. I'm sixpence none the richer (experience-wise) without it.
We've been running these numbers ourselves lately as well.

We find AWS much more expensive.

For instance, we bought a Dell 2950 / 2xQuad Core / 12 GB RAMB / 4x500GB RAID 5 w/hot spare for ~$4500. We have it in a colo where it costs about $150 a month for the space + bandwidth.

This is about equivalent to the $750/mo extra-large instance. There will also be additional AWS fees for transfer, storage, etc, but we'll go with $750 for simplicity.

That's a $600/mo premium, or $7200 a year. So I pay for the hardware within 8 months and after that it's $600 a month savings.

There is a lot of value in being able to provision extra server quickly, use cloudfront, etc, but it comes with a high price, IMO.
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To exist, or not to exist? That question occupies my thoughts.
My high school banned freshman and sophomores from using to-be verbs in their English essays for a lot of the reasons discussed in the article.

I soon learned to get around that without thinking hard. Instead of saying "Macbeth is malicious," I'd say "Macbeth has/holds a degree of malice," which just makes my essays more cumbersome to read. And thus, the intention fell flat on me.

When I became a junior and was allowed to use to-be verbs again, I felt as if a great weight had been lifted from .
I remember reading that when Einstein moves, the most important things he brought with him were some paper, his pipe, and his violin.

Paul Erdos probably was an even lighter traveller.

It all depends on what defines you.
As I commented on the other submission of this same link, what about Archimedes? His pure mathematical works have survived to the present better than some of his scientific works, but he is not alone among Greek-speaking people of his era in being scientists. Eratosthenes must fit, I think. Accidents of preservation make it certain that ancient Greeks were engaged in science, while also making it certain that many of their scientific writings are now lost.
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Library usage soaring
spot on for the behavioral changes

i'd use the $100 knife LESS than the $10 counterpart -> that's why i use $1 knifes because i cannot care less if it breaks

even google doesn't use sun blades, that's pretty telling

about home ownership, there are correlations that countries that are low on home ownership level(e.g, swiss) is richer than ones with high level (e.g, spain)

those examples are correlation, not causality ... anomaly i'd say and it's worth practicing
From a follow-up article by the same author:

"Lousy PowerPoint presentations: The fault of PP users?

"The common defense of bad PowerPoint presentations is that they are the 'fault of the user, not the tool.'

This point raised by PP advocates in fact provokes a rich and complex question about nearly any type of expressive performance: What are the causes of presentations?"

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
Malaria, polio, and a few others, I think.
That's interesting, because staying truer to the latin would result in "Pienso, luego soy"