skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. I recently encountered the phrase "pardon my Australian" from one such inhabitant.
Mama in Mandarin Chinese literally means mother.
have 6 weeks paid time off

Not where I worked. We found "summer jobs."
My perception of any kind of language is a matter of pragmatism and presentation. I don't ascribe any particular ethical or moral value to the words themselves, or how I Say them. To me, it comes down to what your goal is, what the context is, and how it impacts other people.

As far as goals go, I'll use whatever language I think will get the point across that I'm trying to make. Sometimes it's nice that there are words that I can reserve as "I'm really crossing a social line here to demonstrate irritation."

That said, I generally avoid making people uncomfortable or offending them for no reason. For instance, I don't think there's anything inherently unethical about cussing around someone that thinks cussing is immoral, but I'll generally avoid it if there's not really some strategic use to the language. It saves them a little discomfort (however unjustified someone might think the discomfort is) and it can save me a little big of grief if they're really adamant about it.

I follow the same road with how grammatically correct I try to be, or how politically correct I try to be. It's ethically N/A to me, so it's more useful strategically. I do the same thing with clothing/fashion, pictures I post on social media, etc. There's no use for me to self-righteously defending myself if I do something I don't really care about when know will be poorly received. Could just be a lazy path-of-least-resistance thing, though.

I will say, that if it's within my design and goal (and this website seems squarely within the authors intent), I'm not going to lose any sleep over someone finding my website and being offended by my language. I might do my best to be considerate in public, or where it makes sense for me, but if we're hanging out somewhere semi-private or you're on my website and act pissy about the presentation or language, well, no one made you read it, and I'll just as happily ignore you.

Oh yeah. Also. I hate app requests. Make a slick mobile website and leave me alone pls tx.
I absolutely agree with everything you just said. I'm curious, did you perceive my posts otherwise?
TDD is controversial. Mir is GPLv3; lots of free software, including KDE, is GPLv2+. Incorporating Mir into KDE would move everything to GPLv3; if there is ever a GPLv4, no software under that license could ever be integrated into KDE (since Mir does not have the usual "or a later version" phrase.)
Or, more likely just misread their notes.
You're misreading (and the article is poorly written). That quote is listing the amount paid by low-income students, and the amount in merit scholarships received by high-income students. Apples, and oranges.
> The "m" sound is the easiest for a baby mouth to make when wrapped around a warm delicious breast.
I'm pretty sure this would be useful to me, but at install it does ask for 'access your data on all website'. Now, what does this mean exactly ?
I do understand this is very much probably not this extension's fault, but Chrome being very vague.
Fun thing I found on Wiktionary is that in Georgian, /mɑmɑ/ is a word for father[1] and mother is /dɛdɑ/[2].

Add: oh, and it's "panjo" in Esperanto... :)

Other languages outside of rule may possibly include Eshtehardi, Fijian, Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Igbo, Kyrgyz, Malay, Maori, Mari, Moksha, Thai and Vietnamese (suspections per http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mum#Translations and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mother#Translations). Personally, I've unfortunately never even heard about half of those languages, and not familiar with the ones I've heard about to the extent I can confirm or opposite.

[1]: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1...

[2]: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1...
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The smoothness of the transition in Canada is somewhat debatable. We use this weird mix of Imperial and metric now - people and food are (generally) measured in Imperial (I couldn't tell you my weight in kilograms, I can only remember my height in centimetres because it's just a bit short of 2m, and signs in the supermarket meat department are all $/lb (though the meat labels are in $/kg)), while most other things are measured in metric. Whether someone is more comfortable with Celsius or Fahrenheit is a generational thing, but most Canadians can think in inches and feet at least as easily as centimetres and metres, ounces and pounds more easily than grams and kilos, but (at least among the younger generations) mililitres and litres more easily than pints and gallons. The worst one is where we fill our cars in litres, measure the distance we travel in kilometres, then calculate the fuel efficiency in miles per gallon.
Wow, the hostility!

"trotting out tired justifications nobody asked for maybe you're just using any excuse"

I never asked you to respond to my comment, but you still did! I am part of the discussion , the same way you are. and to take a step back and think why things are the way they are, IMO is very good thing. billions of app downloads happen for a reason. I was not justifying the the practice. in fact i did say
"I personally think, having a small, disappearing toolbar to remind the user an app is available is the best way to go"

there are enough apps to draw an example for every case discussed (good mobile app, bad thick client vice versa..)

a) linked in does
b)fb, the app is way better than the mobile website
c) I agreed with this. "yes, it can be extremely annoying at times when companies prompt you to download their app"
d) this is jsut hyperbole and i have nothing to say to this.

I agreed with the poster too. I had trouble with his tone like many others. with app downloads not slowing down, it is important to understand why things are the way they are. this might also help to predict the winning strategy.

and it is not just big firms that prefer an app over a website. piggy backing on my previous example, a search for stocks brings up an entirely different list of services in the apple App Store than google. the mechanisms in play are different when it comes to mobile apps.
As a coder, i prefer rich mobile websites to app's whenever possible. But, I am unsure about the trend ( as it seems many business are..) and that is a discussion I look forward to have.
For example:

> Using URLs of the form http://example.com/ creates a number of problems, and we strongly recommend that you avoid it.
http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/baredomain

> zone apex domains (also called bare, naked, or root domains) ... have serious availability implications
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains

Granted, you don't always have to follow the RFCs...

> the DNS RFC (RFC1033) requires the "zone apex" (sometimes called the "root domain" or "naked domain") to be an "A Record," not a CNAME ... Never one to let a RFC stand in the way of a solution to a real problem, we're happy to announce that CloudFlare allows you to set your zone apex to a CNAME
http://blog.cloudflare.com/zone-apex-naked-domain-root-domai...
They download it, they can't install it
Cassandra and many other NoSQLs are designed primarily for OLTP workloads, not OLAP. OLTP is almost exclusively "find me sth by primary key" (see the TPC-C benchmark used for RDBMSes). Sorting huge amounts of data, top-n queries, skyline queries, aggregation, joining huge data sets, complex filtering belong to analytics world, not OLTP. Unless your whole database is very tiny, let's say 10MB, those operations are pretty expensive even in RDBMSes. That's why those features are deliberately not included in Cassandra. Contrary, MongoDB took a different route - they include some of those features and then seriously underdeliver on many of them.
It's this reason, more than any other, that's brought me to clean up my language as I've gotten older. Calling someone a motherf* is easy. Being able to point out their promiscuity would make an 18th century French libertine blush, now that takes, if not skill, at least the effort of reading some 18th century French libertine literature.
That is what we are using for my startup http://www.linkies.com. (#Linkies) is a bookmarking service for posts or web pages organized by hashtags. We use something very close to that to group hashtags together. We call them (#grashtags)
Also, over a certain amount of traffic Google Analytics will just extrapolate the numbers up rather than actually recording every visit.

If you don't want this to happen, there are plenty of other analytics services out there. I'd recommend GoSquared, but I did work for them last year, so I'm biased in that recommendation.
You're not limited with a Python scraper. Just scrape the comments url, and pull out the id number. That's unique, even if the story url and title aren't.
Everything in life is not about productivity. But even if it was, the aesthetics of your environment does impact productivity. Personally I do continuously tweak the appearance of my environment because being relaxed and at ease makes a big difference to my concentration, which makes a big difference for how easily I get in the zone and is productive.

To presume that a feature that is "just for aesthetic reasons" has little purpose is arrogant and/or implies a lacking understanding of other developers.
I've seen people amend reviews in the App Stores without being prompted, it certainly helps and they tend to mention that they are updating a previous review.

As for contacting people, Apple don't make this easy. The only way i've done it in the past is to match up user names, if you can't do that then you have no way to respond to the review in any way. Hopefully Apple will change that in the future or at least allow developers to push the user towards support via email or similar.
I've come to the same conclusion. Hackers (and smart people in general) have an inclination to use drugs like marijuana and ecstasy that actually do something, as opposed to pharmaceuticals which, well, do something else. I've never understood why feeling good is deemphasized over not feeling bad. I can't help but wonder if there is some ulterior motive. If there is, then somebody profits from depression. That's pretty messed up..
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We get a lot of questions at GoSquared (https://gosquared.com) as to why their engagement metrics (and visitor counts) are so different between GA and GoSquared.

Pinging all visitors to check their still online is our solution, rather than making a guess/estimate - this means that sometimes GA reports about 10 visitors online when there are actually more like 100.

This is especially true with HN posts where most people only visit the one page and then leave.

Thanks for the great post :)
While this is a very cool sport and the armor is very nice, I think it is important to point out unfortunately the techniques these guys use are not historically sound. Historical manuals such as the German Fechtbücher clearly describe how to fight in and out of armor (harnischfechten and blossfechten) and what these guys do is neither. This is for the simple reason that the harnischfechten would still be lethal and blossfechten ineffective. If you see a "reenactment" or movie and people are swinging sword against someone wearing armor, they are "doing it wrong" from a historical perspective.

I think its interesting that something like BoN, which is like SCA on methamphetamines, gets so much attention when actual martial arts events such as Swordfish are ignored by the media. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Swordfish+2012+...
Yes, they do - there are lots of them in this thread. Either you are not paying attention, or you are making assumptions of the validity of other peoples experience that you have no basis for.
Actually compressing doesn't make any difference to the propogation delay since that's the time to the first byte, which remains the same, irrespective of data size. In fact, if compression is performed on the fly, then it will likely increase propogation delay. You're probably referring to transmission time, which is a function of data size.
everything is wrong with the blue e.
Is it just Georgian or the entire Kartvelian language family?
Well, there's a downside in the sense that no-one will ever see how you use web sites, so when they change their behaviour and break functionality you used to use, you'll have no-one but yourself to blame.
I went and tried to find some information. Definitely worth a read! Thanks. Actually. I'm gonna post it as a story.

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-well-written-accounts-of-...
You're one of the luck few of us that actually understand the joke. There is a very large portion of people in this thread that do not understand the swearing and are simply 'offended' by fuck all and are throwing their toys out of the pram because of a few fucking words.

Simply put, in this instance it is acceptable to explain the joke because a large percentage of people are pathetic fuckwads.
Drinking tea certainly sounds more appealing to me.
David Hansson (of Ruby on Rails) wrote about this five years ago from a software developer's perspective, and I saw a ton of it in college. It's not just in science/technology majors either, friends in things like education were bragging about all nighters they pulled to get papers done just as much as the compsci students.

Not much has changed, and I have no idea what could be done about this problem. With a few exceptions, everyone who does this could be working much more effectively if they managed their time better and got enough sleep, but there's resistance to doing that because it's considered "normal" to be in the computer lab until 2 AM. And if you leave a 9 it's because everyone else is more dedicated than you are.

It's almost like a more freeform version of a 9-5 workday with people judging you based on how much time you put in, except there aren't any limitations on how long you can spend. And it's friends and peers you're trying to impress instead of your boss. That obsession with trying to impress friends by working all night seems tightly tied to the rise of social networking sites.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1006-sleep-deprivation-is-not...
Interestingly, in Spanish "mama" means "breast". The intimate word for mother is "mamá" (stress on the second syllable, not the first).
It's impossible to know the intentions behind every single post, but together they're a trend and they do tell a story. What is unclear to me is why would anyone post their Show HN in that gray, de-emphasized text field where URLs are not even converted into links? Visitors have to actually copy and paste the URLs into their address bar. That makes absolutely no sense unless there is another advantage to be gained from submitting text posts (instead of URL posts).
Assuming you have a reasonable estimate on the time spent reading an article, the distribution of time spent on the page can be telling as to the quality of the article and how you conveyed the content.

If a reader leaves early that's possibly a symptom of poor writing. If you're lucky, it was just the wrong topic for the reader: no shame in that. If you're unlucky, however, it may be that your content is confronting.

If you have good content but it's not presented properly, you're not going to get value across to the reader. They'll decide to skim read, skip paragraphs, or just leave the page altogether.

In a perfect world, the readers would comment about what was problematic about the article. In the real world, they don't. They don't comment as they don't feel confident to speak about the topic. They don't comment as they don't feel it's worth their time. They don't comment as they don't want to sound stupid.

If average time spent reading a page (culling the outliers) is about the same as what you'd expect to read the article, it's a good signal that you have the right content and the right method of presentation.
Authors can use this to help bring content to readers in a clearer and more engaging fashion -- a win-win for all involved.
Actually, my elementary school math textbooks were American, awkwardly pasted over to use metric for the measurement unit, so I can keep the Imperial liquid measurements straight by just remembering that there are "2 half litres (pints) to the litre (quart)" and "4 litres (quarts) to the 4 litre bag (gallon)" (because milk comes in bags here)
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So he "switched to a tablet" and used another computer via SSH (or MOSH), and did his web testing via VNC to another computer.

Please explain to me how this is "switching to a tablet" rather than just "using a small screen".
My grandmother had a drunk for a father, so I am told.

He left the family and kept to himself, but that didn't stop my grandmother from visiting him every week. Bringing food and making sure he was doing OK.

To this day, I have never once heard her speak a bad word about the man. In fact, she wasn't even the person who told me this story.

I don't know if he paid "child support" or any form of it, but I would assume not as he was constantly penniless.

He couldn't help being a poor drunk, but it was nothing to punish him over is how my grandmother saw the situation.

Sometimes forgiveness and acceptance is the best medicine.
And as usual, any HN post that contains profanity is immediately overrun by 'offended' fuckheads that simply don't understand the joke and are offended by fuck all.

Stephen Fry says it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM
Most mobile browsers on the platforms getting these popups expose a geolocation API.
This was just on the front page of Reddit.
Oh and I already read this article years ago.

HN == Reddit
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A lot of our food is already 'unnatural' due to humankind practicing genetic modification for thousands of years using plant breeding techniques. If we follow the line of reasoning you present we should also stop all medical research because some companies prioritise monetary gain over the welfare of humankind. I wouldn't argue that it needs regulation to ensure it is used responsibly.
I don't see, in their FAQ, how they deal with "you can't put CNAMEs in the zone apex according to the RFC, but cloud hosting providers like Heroku want me to set a CNAME on any domain pointing to my site".

If you only have a dedicated box, or if you have a full time on-pager sysops team, then, yes, it's easy enough to set A records on the zone apex pointing to your web server.
Is that the best argument you can make for why he should turn GA back on?

If so, I think I should block GA to reduce the length of the interval of unresponsiveness while the "on load" JavaScript runs.
It's quite useful when one is doing Internet researches! I've just started using it in my searching for a html beautifier SDK for LIVEditor (my live html/css code editor).

Would you consider adding a 'Notes' section, just like 'Tasks'?
Strictly speaking, "ma1ma" is equivalent to "mummy/mommy" and "mu3" is the formal "mother".
I'm not the OP, but I have my own personal blog and a lot of side projects I make $0 money on (I don't use ads).

I use Analytics (Google Analytics, Woopra, GoSquared, and ChartBeat (although never at the same time, that would be ridiculous)) for two main reasons.

1) I enjoy looking at analytical data. Something about charts and graphs just intrigues me. Don't even get me started on the netflow statistics I monitor at my job.

2) It's fun to see how many people are viewing my posts. When I get a post that makes it to the front page of HN or Reddit and I get to see the hundreds of thousands of hits my page gets, it gets me excited to keep posting.
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Just browsing casually and Noto Serif looks nice. It's based on Droid Serif, which I find to be a nice adaptation of the serif for technical or UI content.
The author is trying to convey a point that is clearly way above your head. Stop being 'offended' by stuff that doesn't fucking matter.
That goes for any modal, anywhere in the app (mobile or not) unless it's absolutely necessary. Subscribe to your newsletter? Fuck you. Ads? Double fuck you. Pointless promotional modals. Triple fuck you.

A dialog box should be modal only when it cannot be otherwise. Even then, if I can't click/tap out of it and I have to hit your stupid little 'X' that's somewhere on some layer of the god-awful shit you just wasted money developing so you can throw it in my face (especially on paid sites, aka banks) do yourself a favor and terminate whomever is working on your app. Likely that would be thyself.
Most Indian languages also follow this pattern, however Marathi uses 'Aai' for mother
Is there the same sort of binge drinking culture there as in the US, though? Anecdotally, more than half my friends in college would get blackout every single Friday and Saturday (in addition to 4-5 drinks during each weekday) -- it was severe enough that they always got DTs whenever they tried to take a break for midterm/finals studying.
You'd have to have fucking laser vision to be able to use that small of fonts crammed on a 10.1" screen.
In spanish 'mama' and 'papa' are the actual words for mom and dad, respectively (and IIRC they are too in italian). Funny that other languages don't use the same simple sounds for both.

Auto-nitpick: Well, actually it's not 'mama' but 'mamá' (same with 'papa'), the accent is in the last syllable
What boggles my mind is that articles where people code X that does Y where Y is completely "useless" to 90%+ of the population get all the touchy feelies from HN, but when it comes to something laptop/netbook/desktop/cheap workstation related, it turns into a slamfest like this and the current top comment. Why is that?

What are /you/ missing? You're missing that he got a piece of hardware that's relatively closed down and made it useful him. Yes, none of that revolves around you, so tough luck. The end.
Something he already mentioned on his tumblr site.
NIH funding trends: http://www.faseb.org/Policy-and-Government-Affairs/Data-Comp...

SUNY budget: http://chronicle.com/article/NY-Budget-Takes-Another-Bite/12...

"Didn't get expected increase" is equivalent to a budget cut, because the time horizon at a university is long - you hire a tenure-track professor in a suitable field, give the person startup money and hope he will stay and get grants in. It takes several years to recover this kind of investment. You simply cannot have politicians dick every year with the operating budget, it makes planning impossible.

That is in fact what has put space research in the US far behind. That sort of project takes decades from proposal to wrapup.
I don't like google and/or facebook having their tentacles reach out on far more websites than their own. I'm against centralized data gathering, even if it's futile in this world..
I didn't like the swearing, but for different reasons - it was just annoying/tiring to read "fucking" (or some variation) every fourth or fifth word. This is similar to some people finishing every sentence with "you know". Just a nitpick, that's all.

I agree with the content though.
I feel the same way about onswipe. At a time where mobile devices have ultra-high screen resolutions and very fancy zooming features, I find the use (shoving into our eyes) of onswipe by many websites to be disruptive and annoying. I usually don't bother the moment I see the spinning wheel. Swipe right to left, paginated content, larger fonts (less content), hard to scan content... it breaks the whole internet experience. I know how to browse, I know how to read web pages, thank you, please give me my web page or gtfo.
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.. Maybe wrong thread?
Nope. I think we are on the same page overall. I just wanted to reassure the new users on this thread that the general practice of submitting a "Show HN" under "Ask HN" is not considered as an exploit. Add to that your point that it should not be abused and I think we have a solid rule of thumb.