skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't need even need to look at the science formally. We can look at it at a different level. If we know a little about how the brain works then a phenomenon like this might become obvious.

Language affects how you think, there is no question about that. People who have a dirtier vocabulary will think dirtier, people who have a more formal vocabulary with think more formally, etc. If the language you speak makes it harder to talk dirty then you will probably talk less dirty. This will in-turn affect how you think.

There is a native tribe that does not have words for left, right, ahead or behind, but instead they relate every direction to the cardinal directions. So, instead of referring to your foot as your left foot, this native tribe will sometimes refer to it as your west foot, sometimes as your northeast foot, etc. This simple example shows how different your thought patterns can be based on what words you use. These natives will always have in their minds where north is, where any "normal" outsider will have to spend a second or two locating north first. Their brains are almost set up to think in a different way.

Language is complex as hell, but it makes sense that if a word, or expression is used more often in one culture than another, that its speakers will be more influenced by that word or expression. Can you imagine if in English there was no easy way to say "sex"? In English there are dozens of ways to refer to sex and other sexual acts, and many only take one or two syllables. What if the easiest way to refer to sex was to say a 5-syllable word? I bet that would have some influence on how much we think about sex. We might still be able to think of the act of sex easily (the images, memories in our heads), but thinking about/using the word will take too much energy and as a result will be used less. Can you imagine if the word "sex" was used less on TV, in music, etc. simply because the word was too long and no longer fit nicely within the script/lyrics?

Now, it's not too much of a leap to see that having a language where present-tense and future-tense are less distinct from each other will influence the speaker of that language into making less of a distinction between the present & future.

How much influence? Who knows? That, we need formal, nitty-gritty science for.
I like to think that this is a state of temporary insanity for our nation. One day, I pray, we will all be able to look back and laugh about the days when we had to take our shoes off at the airport like we do at those duck and cover PSAs.
This is my congressman. Here's why he's interesting:

He doesn't miss any votes, and he explains every single vote (even boring, inconsequential votes) on his Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/repjustinamash

Here's an example of a boring explanation:

https://www.facebook.com/repjustinamash/posts/51291397874801...

Here's a longer explanation:

https://www.facebook.com/repjustinamash/posts/51246580545949...
I think that's the shortest definition of "lasts a while" that I've ever seen.

Posted from my almost-8-year-old desktop running Windows XP.
Tim Ferriss predicts a “nuclear winter” for startup angel investment
The underlying reasons here make sense to moving away from Ubuntu, but I am curious about I live in a remote place. Getting stuff shipped here is very hard. The linux boxes that I order I get from Tiger Direct for like $300 or $400. They show up the next day for regular shipping, but that is because I am in the same state as their depot. Where are you that the shipment is very hard?

And throwing money at the solution became a viable and intelligent alternative for me is the way to go when the box is a tool and not a object of tinkering delight.
Music and photos and associated metadata on OSX are stored in standard file formats. It's trivial to write a program to extract them, using a programming language already installed on the machine.
Have you heard anything to suggest an off switch for the Amazon integration? I love Amazon, I like Ubuntu, and I even liked Unity once the performance issues were fixed, but I don't want to see Amazon advertisements unless I open my browser and navigate to amazon.com.

Edit: Thanks guys. I wasn't aware that we already had a work-around.
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Whenever someone complains of poor hardware support on Linux, it's worth remembering that this is not just because Linux sucks or Linux developers can't code. It's about money. Hardware manufacturers don't write drivers for Linux; the market share is small, so the ROI is low. And they refuse to release documentation from which others can write drivers, because the default in business is to keep as much information secret as possible (sometimes due to fears of patent lawsuits, or NDAs with upstream suppliers).

Thus, there are powerful institutional and economic forces at work against the success of a free-as-in-freedom consumer OS, and it pains me to see fellow hackers piling on.

Disclosure: I'm a Xubuntu user, and I have to borrow someone's Mac when I want to use the printer at my co-working space. So yup, the problem is real. But more people switching, just to earn a little convenience, doesn't help.
Saying "its as easy to do in OS X as it is in Linux" isn't really a fair defense.

If it's "easy" that she wants: drag and drop her music/pictures from iTunes/iPhoto window to a network drive/USB drive/Firewire drive.
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> Asus Transformer Prime

There's your first problem. (Okay it's not a big problem, and yay for sd slots, but the Nexus 7 and 10 are fantastic devices.) I have a Nexus 10, and got this case for it: http://www.amazon.com/Poetic-Removable-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Fu... The keyboard is just big enough that I can type more or less at full speed (the weird location of the right shift sometimes bugs me). I can understand the view that without being able to type quickly, productivity in a lot of areas isn't possible. But it's an easily solvable problem with a case, especially if you have a 10-incher and thus aren't too worried about trying to fit the thing in your pocket. (Though caseless my N10 fits in my rain jacket pocket.) I also can get that lacking a second monitor is a pain, though it helps to have a 2560x1600 resolution on the tablet.

Here's a sample of productive/useful things I use my tablet for: programming (Terminal IDE is a great help here, it has vim and ssh if I need something on my main machine), calculating, price checking, note taking with keyboard (if you can type, why write?), lecture recording, reading, testing Android apps I/friends have developed, fitness tracking, instantly satisfying my curiosity when only Google can do so, navigation, calling people over SIP, memorizing important things with Anki, taking pictures and never having to say "I wish I brought my camera", and buying stuff from vending machines that accept NFC-credit cards. All of these could be done with a good phone+keyboard+maybe screen-dock, but I don't want a phone.
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I agree with the author.

I resisted Apple products for a long time for the same reason. As someone who was brought up with a command line OS and a basic knowledge of file structure I hate how Apple "tries" to take this away from their users.

I say try. I bought a MBP in 2009 because I loved the physical machine (aluminum unibody). With time I was able to use the OS without it controlling me. All of my music is ripped on EAC in MP3 VBR format. I add the folders to iTunes and do not allow it to "organize" the folders for me. I do not use iPhoto because of the way it treats the files. I maintain my own file structure. I can see how this would frustrate a lot of people. I put up with it because I think it's the best combination of hardware and software available at this time.
What VM program were you using? In VMWare, at least, whenever a device with a "new" USB hardware ID is plugged in, it prompts you whether it should attach it to the host or guest (and you can change this for each device at any time.)
Because power, as Mao said, comes from the barrel of a gun. Without the 2nd, the other amendments may as well be suggestions.
Google's problem with “long-tail” searches; need Quora to help fix it
Cappuccino is an open source project, and continues to thrive. You can see the public activity on Github: http://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino

As you are aware, Atlas is dead and has been for some time. But Cappuccino has always been valuable without it -- virtually everything ever built with Cappuccino was not built with Atlas. Instead, the community poured a lot of resources into improving compatibility with Xcode and Interface Builder, getting many (if not all) of the benefits Atlas would have brought to the table.
In short: I was tired of spending time on my computer working on my operating system instead of working on my projects.

here is the rub: you are not working on your projects, you are working on AAPL shareholders' projects -- AAPL is a platform company with which they do as they please. Therefore with you also.

Need an OS update? If your machine is new enough (AAPL gets to decide if it still suits your needs or not), then consider yourself lucky if you didn't physically switch regions.
You don't have to disable USB completely. With VirtualBox I just pass through the specific USB device I want to use, everything else remains working on Linux for me.
I was wondering about Native Client, and if it did catch on, if people would settle for just using JS as glue code between the DOM and your NaCl extension. It would open up the opportunity to use any language that can be embedded, but might be too much of a faff for not much gain.
Do you have phone numbers or at least full names? Zip codes?
This is precisely what I came here to comment. Case in point: https://bitbucket.org/BerislavLopac/waexplorer
Serial hackathoner here. This misses the point of hackathons. A hackathon lets you dedicate time to building hacks you think are cool, learning new things, and meeting and making friends with other hackers. This is just programming quickly with little sleep.

Moreover, hackathoning as a lifestyle is a poor decision- you can only take so much pizza and caffeine every single weekend.
Your right to bear arms is silly. Incredibly silly and archaic. You live in 2013, not in colonial times. While the amendment made perfect sense then, it makes no sense now.

The pro-gun movement seems to be completely ignorant to the staggering evidence that guns in citizen's hands are unnecessary at the least and dangerous at the worst.

Society: an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

As the above dictionary definition suggests, a society is based on a collective set of ideas, rules and order so that all within the society can live peacefully. Remove the guns and the strange associated chest-thumping, less people die. It's really that simple.

You used to be able to drink and drive, until we all realized it was for the betterment of the society to change that. You lost that right, too. Guns are no different.
Did you check bitbucket.org? They support binary downloads, git and hg, issues priorities [1], free private repos for 5 users.

[1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-inte...
I am an author of DrawExpress - a gesture recognition diagram app. I built it because there is really no app that let me draw ideas and designs fast enough. Too many of the current apps for tablet are not optimized for touch-based input. Productivity is all about speed and I like to see more gesture controlled productivity apps in the near future. (My app video - http://youtu.be/SI9VdC_JYWU)
The main problem with flowcharts for programming is that flowcharts are procedural, whereas much of what we do in programming is declarative: the flowchart describes more how to do something than what has to be done (at some level).

Of course, this depends on at which level the flowchart is drawn.
Nobody is suggesting building every facet of a new build tool. But Cappuccino has a pretty significant library of custom tools built on top of our existing (custom) build system that will need to be rebuilt and rethought on top of a node based system. That's what this project is about.
> Android is obviously out of the question since it's just a different flavor of the same garbage

I'm not sure this makes sense. Prior to this she seems to be saying she'll be having issues using her iPhone without OS X. Is she saying she'll also be having issues syncing an Android phone with Linux?
(FYI, an appreciable number of the downvotes you're receiving are probably because you're consistently using male pronouns for the author of a post on rachelbythebay.com. You might want to fix that, and your assumptions...)
The same thing I wen through in 2003. I was playing around a lot with video codecs, and both Windows and Linux would lock up on me and require lots of tweaking and repair. Finally fed up, I just decided to pony up and let Apple take care of things. It's true that things just work. There was a recent glitch when I decided to tweak Time Machine and add an encrypted disk image to my Time Capsule and found the rough edges of Core Storage. That was painful. But so long as you stay near the common case, Apple has you covered. Stay within those bounds and you get things done.
"But I didn't write any code. Oh no."

I think this was a reference to burnout from work, not a complaint about the OS X dev environment.
Though I recently bought a MacBook Air I still cannot say I am as enthusiastic about the OSX as OP is. Having said that I could immediately identify with the story, just from the title actually. After years of struggle with Windows I finally thought Linux is the answer and Ubuntu leads the pack. But after years of frustration and struggle - I gave up on the idea of Linux as my personal compute OS.

Initially I thought it's just me trying to resit the changes Ubuntu is brining to my computing experience and others are coping just fine with it. But then I realised it's just probably Shuttle who is designing Ubuntu for his personal needs, I decided to leave it to him :-).

As of now it seems okay to use OSX. Certainly better than Win and a lot better than those Linux distros in GUI/UX context but incompatibility(or every other day moving mountains to make it work with other ecosystems) with non-iHardware might just be the one single reason(there are lots) that should have stopped me from buying that Mac but I bought it anywa. Quality apps were a reason and of course I wanted a taste of it.

Purchasing the Mac has actually been of benefit to me. Now, I know that it's not going to be another Mac when I upgrade(considering Apple is not opening up it's orchard, though I am not sure on it) and no I'll never buy an iPhone or an iPad(I am sure about it, if 'innovation' and prices of these iDevices are on the current tracks) because I don't need them or even if I need such a device then there are better and more powerful devices out there in less than half the price.
One more typo:

> either are or we're very depressed
> All of my music is ripped on EAC in MP3 VBR format.

Why exactly? MP4 (M4A) is a less patent-encumbered format, and also has higher sound quality for the same filesize, and still plays on everything (except, I guess, decade-old MP3 players.) I can understand not wanting to use DRMed/fingerprinted songs downloaded from iTMS, but the file format itself is just better. Or are you one of those people who sticks to using RARs now that 7zip/libxz exists?
may want to add http://groundwork.sidereel.com/
Android is obviously out of the question since it's just a different flavor of the same garbage

Not quite:

http://f-droid.org/

http://replicant.us/

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/
Thanks for the link, that may be interesting.
"This is representative of the constant, buggy struggle that Ubuntu became for me. All I had was a dual monitor setup on an NVIDIA card with an Intel chipset. Nothing particularly special or weird, it was a rig I had built to play Battlefield 3 back when I used to still be a gamer."

Seems odd to change the whole OS Universe for a driver issue like this, but good luck to the original author on MacOS.

I changed from MacOS to GNU/Linux about 7 years ago and I miss exactly two programs; Preview and Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox. Oddly enough, I use two cheap no-name 1080p monitors hung from an Nvidia GT520 card with the Nvidia drivers installed by Jockey.

I suspect Bob Pike has the answer

http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/
I live in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It's extremely inconsistent whether tech items can be shipped here. There are a couple reasons for that:

1) UPS considers it international shipping making the cost extraordinary.

2) Generally speaking, it's very common that I'm considered "outside the US" on various websites.

3) Lots of websites don't have USVI to select as a possible destination. Even entering a proper zip code doesn't yield helpful results.

In regards to the "object of tinkering delight," you've sort of illustrated one of my points in my post: it's not a delight anymore. I've got things to do and projects I want to work on. I don't get delight from digging into drivers or code or projects anymore.
Ask HN: PR and Project Post Mortems?
I am interested in hearing personal experiences with deciding to end a project. How did other people react to the news? How did that make you feel? What did you do? What do you think you should have done differently?

I am getting pity emails, like people think I am ending my project for emotional reasons. This seems to be a pretty standard reaction to me personally, one which both baffles and offends me. I routinely inspire the "gosh, I feel so sorry for you" type reaction. It is usually not accompanied by any genuine attempt to be helpful. It is generally delivered in the most insulting way possible, like any personal problem I have ever had is evidence of stupidity and incompetence on my part, which is not remotely true.

Further, people who valued the information I was trying to share so little that they could not remember the url and had to ask me for it are announcing how cherished my wisdom is and they want to copy it while it is still available. I know this is actually pretty standard human behavior. If you announce something is banned, being discontinued, or otherwise of very limited availability, people who never had any interest will suddenly want it. I have had a class on social psychology. I know this is a well studied, well established phenomenon. But it is really making me grumpy.

So I am trying to figure out what to do that is more constructive than giving a piece of my mind to some total stranger who has sent me a pity party email. I have other reasons to be grumpy this morning, on top of this. So my usual objectivity and relative aplomb are escaping me.

I am hoping someone else who has been through something similar can clue me.

Thanks.
Have you tried xubuntu? I went all kind of mint installs for some time. But when I went back to Xubuntu it all fell in place.
Because he didn't evaluate how hard it is for a small shop or lone developer to get their app on the big three console stores, in any way. He's just jumping to conclusions.
I was referring to the multiple suggestions that my issue was simply not buying compatible hardware.

I'm glad Ubuntu has worked for you! Really, I am. I don't dislike the project, or Open Source at all. The hardware available to me didn't work, unfortunately, so I experienced what I did.
ooo I like this. definitely going to be building usable code snippets customized for logged-in users! thanks!!
I see things the other way when it comes to culture -- it's the end result of people finding ways to work together, and if a candidate can't fit in with the culture of the existing team, then they're not going to be a good hire, no matter how brilliant they are.

I once interviewed an otherwise brilliant developer that was militantly anti-TDD and anti-pairing, both of which are attributes that both myself and my team considered to be essential parts of the business of building software; working as a part of an engineering team is about more than just writing code.

Considering cultural fit helps you avoid hiring prima-donnas that are unwilling to be a member of the team, and it's also a good way for a candidate to know whether or not they will be happy working with a given company.

That kid wouldn't have been happy working with us, and the team didn't want to work with him. He was a competent developer, but not a good fit for the culture of the team, and not hiring him on that basis was a good decision all around.
http://gumbyframework.com/
Good read, and useful. Whether you're in silicon valley or not, as any sort of entrepreneur, it's hard to find people you can relate to without any sense of competition. Family/friends can sometimes help, but they can't often relate. When speaking with close family, you may often either scare them or piss them off when talk of money issues way outside their experience level.

A few years ago I ran a phone/email group of some fellow entrepreneurs to help support each other - it ran its course and people moved to various stages of life and business at different rates, but was extremely useful for me to help put perspective on issues I was having in business.

I've also recently found a 'support group' of sorts in a local business group in town. Most of the businesses aren't tech related at all, but the support and being able to just be honest about issues 'in private' is very useful for all of us.

EDIT: If anyone is interested in starting/joining an informal support group, ping me at mgkimsal@gmail.com.
Why would I ever want to give up knowing exactly what buttons to press to make my system behave the way I want it to?

When there are literally hundreds of buttons available to press or adjust to tune Unity or Gnome, that exceeds my threshold.
Reading PDFs.

I Now do almost all reading of technical books on a tablet simply because they're far lighter than most technical books.
" Nobody likes to kill people (except a few lunatics), so nobody will kill you unless you give them a very good reason to."

" Nobody likes to kill people (except a few lunatics), so nobody will kill you unless you give them a very good reason to or unless they're a lunatic."

FTFY

BTW how many lunatics in Germany?
I'm constantly amazed by how many informed people have allowed themselves to be locked into the iTunes ecosystem. Apple has made it pretty clear in recent years that iTunes for Windows was the exception, and that they are never going to build software for other platforms ever again.

I know that there is some convenience to buy iTunes if you are using Apple devices. Of course, most of that convenience is due to restrictions in the platform that make in impossible for others to be profitable and convenient at the same time.

But nevertheless, it amazes me that some people are so content with the Apple world that they can never foresee themselves leaving it. I've never been that content with anything I purchase, so maybe it's just me.

Remember that Apple makes its money selling hardware. So they'll never have a reason to make it easy for you to use iTunes-bought content anywhere else. That's why I buy from Amazon. It's content selection is just as good, but it is available on nearly every platform imaginable. It does this because content is its business. So I can feel confident when I buy a new tablet or set-top box that I can probably watch all of the Amazon content I've purchased over the years.
This is hilarious because I was just about to go the the art supply store and buy materials to make blinds for my windows. I am constraining my materials to paper and string.
I've just been conditioned to not respond to claims over email that someone needs help. That said, if the email linked to a legitimate company that I could look up, I might call someone at that company.