skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a highly contested subject in linguistics and very much not definitive like the article makes it out to be. There are many languages where mama does mean mother, but there are many languages where it does not. In some cases, you get the opposite. In proto-Old Japanese, for example, papa meant mother. In Georgian, mama means father and deda means mother. I don't know enough about the mama/papa topic to comment further, but a quick Google suggests that this paper is somewhat well regarded by at least some people:

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=where...
As a member of a Vietnamese speaking household, mom is still vaguely similar to English.

Of course, I could be wrong since I have moderate hearing loss.
Well done, nice way to respond quickly with a possible solution to the "falling" new post issue.
If you are a developer, why the hell would you make your daily life more complicated? Who cares if you save some money, this is your job! There are really two problems here.

1. Your life is now even more dependent on an internet connection.

- Someone needs to reset the wireless at the office. Down time.

- Cellular data get's bogged down at peak hours. Down time.

- Server Provider experiences down time. Down time.

- You're married to vim forever (not a bad thing, but there are no options).

- Latency, Latency, Latency.

2. You're restricted to your hardware, which is restrictive.

- Nobody has the right adapters to connect to the projector.

- Goodbye secondary monitor.

- Mobility is easier with a standard laptop.

I believe if you're a developer who loves to be mobile, then your best solution is to buy something like a MacBook Air or 13" Retina and a 3G card. Again, the argument shouldn't be "that costs too much," because this industry has a starting salary of $60k/yr. I think spending $2k every 2 years is appropriate and hardly a sacrifice considering that device is what makes you the developer you are.
And there was me hoping this was a plea for "generous parental leave policy" to be as common a startup perk as "full health and dental".
What other argument can there possibly be? The benefits to the individual aren't huge. And you're welcome to block GA, I'm just trying to make the point that there is a purpose behind analytics, and it isn't just a sinister conspiracy to take over your life.
"Mama" in Hungarian means grandmother. On the very very rare occassions when I heard a Hungarian child call her mother 'mama', it felt really awkward and strange, and always suspected western cultural influences (i.e. western dad or moving between countries, etc.).
> An inch is more or less the width of a thumb

My thumb width is 7/8th of an inch, and I'm 1m94cm tall.

> is there a conspiracy in the USA

Although I live in the US, I am an immigrant who grew up with the metric system and consequently not part of said conspiracy.
It's a bit of an exaggeration I think. Vivian Maier is tremendously talented to be sure, but "quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century" is a preeeetty big leap. "Top street photographer of the 20th century" means you're going toe to toe with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Elliott Erwitt, Daido Moriyama, Bruce Gilden, and a slew of others.

What does separate her from your average Flickr user is her technique and her knack for catching the Decisive Moment.

Go back and look at some of the pictures in the article. Now imagine having taken that photo 0.2 seconds later, or earlier. How many of them would've been as good? How many would be completely different and completely mundane? Knowing, seeing, and capturing the Decisive Moment is very, very hard, especially in the 50s and 60s before the advent of autofocus, auto-winding, and auto-everything.

She's also compositionally very competent. This is something that's harder to appreciate unless you're into photography yourself and have seen a large amount of work. Unlike most amateur street photographers, her photos are frequently not about the subject, but rather interesting light, textures, and geometry, in addition to the subject matter.
This is the classic dilemna, everyone wants good public services but low taxes.

The argument is often that either ways should be found to deliver better services for lower cost, or that money should be diverted away from something else instead of a tax raise. Or people want a tax increase for somebody else but not themselves to cover it.
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Why I love notebooks: you barely need to move your fingers and can get a boatload of shit done. Just leave your hands on the keyboard and touchpad and you can control the universum.

Thinkpads with their red pointing sticks even top this: you can lie like dead in front of your Thinkpad and have even less finger movement -- your forefinger sits on the red pointing stick and your thumb lies on the left mouse key and again you control anything + you are damn fast.

Why do people try to use touch-based devices for productivity work where classic keyboard and trackpad/pointing stick setups and respective UIs/OSes are clearly superior? If people are using Android/iOS as productivity device they need also some kind of mouse pointer on the screen, otherwise finger movement exceeds the limit.

Finally, with current notebooks I get hours of battery time, Retina screens and total silence too (e.g. Macbook Pro Retina 15"). The cost is negligible since it's my working horse.
Ask HN: What phone system or hosted phone system does your co. use?
I thought it would be interesting to crowd source the answers to this question since there's a good variety of companies represented here.

What phone system or hosted phone/communication system are you using at your company? Plus answer the questions below:

* How many users are on the system?
* Do you have a call center or virtual call center?
* Is it on premise equipment or a hosted solution?
* Does it work with other VoIP/video networks, e.g. Skype?
* In general, your likes and dislikes

Thanks!
It seems we play plenty of taxes if the opening quote to the article can be believed: "Neat fact: If the federal government were to take all of the money it pours into various forms of financial aid each year, it could go ahead and make tuition free, or close to it, for every student at every public college in the country."
No; NT Embedded existed based on NT 4, in the late 1990s.
Could you direct me to some of this research you're citing? it seems really unlikely to me that dual monitors would have any kind of significant impact on productivity. in fact don't they encourage multi-tasking which tends to decrease productivity?
Hey everyone, I'm the author of that post. Needless to say, I was wrong and ya'll were right. I made a follow-up entry in case anyone is interested: http://www.jontsai.com/security/2013/05/12/pinterest-wasnt-h...

As I mention there, there was still a minute possibility that even if this didn't belong to Pinterest, it could have been an internal tool for a small team or an employee hack day/side project that got accidentally exposed.
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You have tab groups built in, but no tasks system. For me it's quite sufficient as I get tasks through employers.
A related extension is TabsOutliner (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...)
To be honest, the time I spent developing on my Transformer Prime, I found the touch screen to be much more efficient to use than the mouse pad.
There's a mirrored version of the article in planet kde: http://planetkde.org/#item-f97a50b7
Yah, well fuck you and your stupid piece of shit POV on why Americans have a folk up their ass.

The English aren't exactly swinging naked from the trees now are they? Every freaking day in France some man or woman is letting it ALL hang out, having a public chat with poor little children around no less, and nobody gives a shit!

Hah, hah, Anglophones are prudish in general, although we probably take the cake in the States.
A simpler explanation is that his new diet contains less calories than the old one. Achieving ketosis by accident is pretty far fetched, even among ignorant people on some crazy food group diet.
Lots of people follow the newest trend. The same thing happened with the web in the early days. Everybody (person, company, entity) wanted a website. They didn't know why, who would use it and what for, but they said all their clients/customers/friends were asking for it. The same thing is happening now with mobile.

As time progresses, people will get a better understanding of who uses mobile, when and for what and will adapt development of mobile apps accordingly.
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I've thought about it as well. It is extremely hard to innovate successfully commercially inside the educational system. On the other hand, targeting the bottom of the system, the individual teachers, parents, students, and the like, does work locally. Scaling that up to something akin to your stereotypical internet startup, however, is hard or even impossible because once you get big you're start messing with the educational system as a whole, looping back to the original problem of entering into the educational system. Still, I think that selling individualized educational services will work, it just does not scale.

(And the question is: should it?)
I like the content on there, I really do. But why the hell do you have to sign up just to read it?
I've been thinking about learning Go this summer, but this article just reminded me about D. Anone have any insights re the two?
I think it's too easy to blame people who vote against raising taxes. The rate at which college tuition has gone up since I went ('95-'99) is insane. This is not including that you could graduate from college from my era and find a decent job.

I don't know why the tuition fees have risen so rapidly over a short period of time but it's certainly not helping out middle class families.
This is really great. I was going to use Ratchet for a Android prototype but having the native UI components sets better expectations of how the app will look and fell. Thanks for putting it together
Had the same experience. Also - a brief description of what I'm clicking to see would help a lot.
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DNS.Gov.ph was hacked by Anonymous Taiwan.
MESSAGE TO PHILIPPINES

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YOU MUST APOLOGIZE. KILLERS MUST BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY.
OTHERWISE, WE WILL NOT STOP.

PIN0Y V3NDETTA LOSERS, YOUR INJUSTICE BEHAVIOURS WILL DESTROY YOURSELF.

WE ARE ANONYMOUS
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Ok, so the University of Phoenix has a six-billion dollar market cap. That means that somebody, somewhere is wanting products they sell. There is a market in education that views it as an legitimate expense. The only question now we have is cost and perceived value.

Instead of a four-year, pass-or-fail model for education, how about switching to a incremental model? You can have 50 levels of applied knowledge, rising all the way to PhD. People can purchase small amounts as they can afford it. Certification systems could tie into the levels. Early levels could require 2 or 3 courses in other areas. Later levels could be more narrowly targeted. A universal directory could manage it all and allow competition between providers.

As some random internet commenter, I agree with the author: this field is getting ready for major innovation. Just not quite yet.
Yup.

In the South Indian language Tulu, "ma" root word (ie., Amme) is used to refer to the father and the "pa" for mother (ie.,Appe).

Also, mama = Uncle in many Indian languages (both Dravidian and Indo-European).
Depends on the quality of the mouse pad too. Macbook touch pads with all the gestures and Thinkpad pointing sticks outdo the competition by far. And Androids UI is just not optimized for mouse pointing uses. But still I'd love to hear where you are faster than on a Macbook Pro with OSX.
One of many: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/technology/for-multitasker...
Is far easier to zoom in a tablet. I use a 30" LCD for my main setup, but no problem when need to read code in a iPad 2. I simply put large fonts and zoom.
We get it. It's an addiction that's glorified by society. Parents can't help because the entrepreneur doesn't want help. Till he ends up totally broke, burnt out, and unemployable. I'm pretty sure then the "don't give us money" rule gets reversed, at least by some parents. It's no different than having a crackhead or dopehead as a child. The chances of success are equal, if not higher for the drug addicts.
I love the WeHostels app, it's super easy to use and the hostels are pretty nice.
> Object-oriented? Linux is partially object-oriented

NT's OO is actually very pragmatic. Things such as files, pipes, processes and locks are objects that, because they are global, can be shared across processes and worked on by many different APIs.

Every object has ACLs that are managed by the kernel itself, so you can create a named pipe that is accessible by users with a given role, for example.

You can use synchronization APIs with heterogenous collections of object handles; for example, you can tel the kernel to wake up on the next mutex, file activity or process exit simply by giving those objects to the appropriate wait API. Unix' select() pales in comparison.
As a 2013 Thiel Fellow, this hit close to home for me.

Growing up in an Asian family, I was always pressured to take the safe, traditional college route. And then grow up to be a doctor or lawyer. It's not their fault, of course, who wants a risky life for their kid?

As part of the Thiel Fellowship, I'll be moving away from Vancouver to the Bay Area. Leaving the nest. This article will be my Mother's Day Gift, to let my parents know - it's okay to let go now.
is this a simplified implementation of what core.logic covers ? I was looking through that earlier today.

https://github.com/clojure/core.logic

https://github.com/clojure/core.logic/wiki/A-Core.logic-Prim...

its certainly not as easy to understand when you are starting off, but it would seem to have more rewards to work with core.logic since they've implemented a lot of classic logic programming.

or is there no overlap ?
I don't think marketroids care about reality based things like data -- the good ones does, but not the kind that is employed by the daily mail.

The daily mail is actually better because they _explicitly_ wrote "you wont see this again for 7 days", which is insane, since if I didn't want it the first time I don't want it the second time.

As for quora, well they are run by people who wants to make the world a worse place to be, so no surprise there.
Huh? The original post wasn't about bringing a walled garden approach to the web; it was about modals encouraging visitors to download an app.

I don't think you need to worry about only accessing the web via apps - it just won't happen.

FWIW, I abhor the popups in question but I can understand a company's decision to add them to their site. However, the way to stop this pattern is by showing decision makers statistics that prove they don't work (if that is true of course). The blog in question just seems like one big hissy fit - not the most convincing of arguments.
In portuguese 'mamar' means to suck, usually associated with babies. Mother is 'mãe' or 'mamãe'. Actually, the r is usually dropped when speaking, so 'mamar' is usally spoken 'mama'.
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The article presents a hypothesis without experimental evidence.
Yes, very well said. I was hoping someone would help me out explaining things better. :)
It's been quite the opposite. College tuition fees has risen rapidly (as most other things have) but the middle and lower class wages haven't been keeping up with this trend. The middle class today is working more for same amount of money they made a decade ago.
> I'm not sure if this is meant as a refutation or an orthogonal comment

Neither. It was proffered as an explanation for the choice of typeface.

> Using such a typeface on such a technical website is for one totally anachronistic, but also without any logic that I can discern.
Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"
Thanks. I didn`t dig that far ;)
I don't think you really understand what "begging the question" means because these two excerpts are nowhere near doing that.
A very very small price to pay for some sense of privacy online.
Hi, you can try www.circcle.com, where you can create personalized video news feed based on topics you are interested in.
Onswipe.

Yeah that is another company that has decided to make world a worse place. What I can't understand in how they got so many content owners to ruin their websites by using their crap.
"Some people like to split their articles into multiple pages, which forces people to click on a second link to continue reading, which means a second data point for GA. This is a dick-move, don’t do it."

Huh, so that is why people split articles.
it's quite simple to be anti-GM today with the grip that Monsanto is trying to grab. Soon we'll hear it's "too big to fail"..
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Most likely. :)
I don't really understand why TDD is controversial.

When we build software we are building a machine with components. In every other industry where a machine with components is being created they apply test-driven-development. A component is rigorously tested over and over and over again until it meets the specifications.

I would not trust a car where every component inside of it wasn't rigorously tested in such a way. Otherwise I cannot credibly make the claim that a bug won't show up when I'm driving the car around on a highway that hadn't appeared in development. TDD doesn't eliminate this risk, but it gets us a lot closer.
I wonder why Google does not track the time to an event fired on another Google Analytics site. While it might yield strange results if the user closes the browser or opens a page without Google Analytics, it would provide quite accurate results. Of course, this only works if most websites use GA.

Also, I am not a web developer, but is it not possible to specify another GA event in the onbeforeunload function?
All those setups have only one problem: I'm too paranoid to type important password on a bluetooth keyboard. Ever.
Not without getting additional permissions, they can't. And If the daily mail wants to access my contacts, they can go to hell.
I think this captures it. Its a form of "score" for feedback on an activity, and human nature is such that we like feedback.
Read some code thanks to your comment. I think I will try it.
I know I'm not using the "new hotness" of PaaS startups, but my company runs entirely on a plain-vanilla Asterisk system that I first put together in 2004.

And I know I sound like a techno-hipster here, but it's been so easy to deal with that I didn't even upgrade past 1.4 until a year or so ago (and that was because of a bug -- I'm now on 1.8 and quite happy)

No GUI, no fancy FreePBX or Asterisk@Home, etc. Just a very very simple basic Asterisk box with the IVR/extension logic all hand-coded into .conf files.

The biggest change I made was moving the whole thing from a server sitting in the office to a VPS on Linode (that was pretty cool).

I use Aastra 57i handsets in the office - there may be better ones these days, but I've found Aastra to have the best compatibility with Asterisk (ps - open to suggestions if there are better ones!). I tried to get people to use SIP software on their iPhones but everyone loves having a desk phone and I haven't found any good SIP clients that work reliably.

It works flawlessly and people still wonder how we have such a flexible and easily changeable phone system that only costs me the price of the Linode + the handsets (and my time tinkering, of course). My favorite part is the infinite flexibility that having a programmable system gives us -- if someone in the office wants a feature, I just code it up, record some new prompts if necessary, and it's done.

For actual phone service, I used a very old-school hard POTS line into the server for a while, and fairly recently ported all the #s over to a SIP provider (FlowRoute). They've been fantastic, super cheap, super reliable, and super flexible. It's a service clearly designed for telephony nerds.

We have about 12 people who use this setup and here's some info on our volume (from FlowRoute):

Past 30 days:

6154 calls

14087 minutes

$253.34631000

(Much of that volume is from an 800#, hence the slightly higher cost)
I'm sympathetic to the purpose -- I'm less protective of privacy than most here.

My objection is to the means, namely, giving the page's author essentially unlimited access to compute resources on the browser and hoping the author will choose to be moderate.

Until 2008 I browsed the web on a slow machine (Celeron based on a PIII core, probably made in 2000 since the BIOS copyright notice referred to the year 2000) and blocking GA on that machine very drastically reduced the amount of time the browser was unresponsive. So much so as to suggest that even on modern fast hardware, there will probably be some improvement in responsiveness even if the difference will not be immediately noticeable to the user like it was on my old machine.
> Irrelevant for what? This was a debate about whether or not Go can replace C++, remember? So the fact that there is no such implementation for Go has to be relevant.

Well, surely with so many top notch brains Google can come up with a way to improve Go's runtime if they care about the issue.

> It is also very relevant for me that there is no Java implementation of a pauseless garbage collector that is even remotely viable for my business model or the business model of 99% of all startups out there.

Do you mean viable, as free of charge?

> If all you want to say is that it is possible to solve this problem for garbage collected languages, then we can agree. Unfortunately there is no viable solution available right now.

Yes, that is my main point.
Ctrl-Shift-E in Firefox.

(Unfortunately I tend to overflow it, and it's impossible to create groups after that)
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What increased most was the sticker price - net price has experienced a much slower increase rate: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/22/153316565/the-pric...
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True, but somehow *BSD seem to have lost the enterprise train, as IBM and others decided to invest on Linux distributions instead.
I feel like panic/recover give me 90% of what I need from exceptions.
agreed. the whole article is about masochism.

I can get pretty much a better environment just by flashing a decent ROM that has a good terminal/ssh client and/or a modern port of VIM.

...and then using VNC is just the conclusion that his setup is not even close to optimal.

Sorry, but a netbook is way more feasible and less masochist than that ever will be.

Android/ios are not useful for general purpose by design. it's not something that you can 'improve' gradually. And that's why instead of punishing me like that, i'm excited about the other 'mobile' OSes comming, like ubuntu, mozilla, etc.
You don't need to be an native english speaker to understand what the site is about - it is mostly pictures. We don't need some 'pompous twat' (as we say in the UK) explaining blindly obvious stuff in pretentious language.

And defending the Daily Mail newspaper to top it all (they are a poisonous bunch of scumbags in case any non-UK people don't know it).

I think the idea was to start a conversation. A conversation about why so many companies are thrusting these stupid apps on you. The idea was most certainly not to start a conversation about swearing, which is what 90% of the comments seem to be about.