skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but it is undergoing domain loss. Dialects with their very own army and navy don't disappear.

I spend a bit of time in Germany and while I can't speak to phoneme shifts in German because I can't speak the damned language yet, there's pseudo-English all over the place in advertising, street signs, tourist info. But for the advertising really is pseudo-English and sometimes translations are pretty desperate. At the very, very least 10% of Germans have English good enough to hold an intelligent conversation in.

ESR is putting too much weight on his personal experience. Most of the Germans I know are CS/Comp Ling or Psychology students and they use lots of English texts in their undergraduate courses and in the computery ones the Masters are all in English. But English is a domain specific language for them. But that's not a language shift. German's not going anywhere. Hell, German dialects aren't going anywhere, most of the Deutschsprecher countries are heavily diglossic, I'd be surprised if Denmark wasn't similar.

I think the post could have been written about any of the Germanic languages and it'd be just as wrong.
Snore. I can aggregate my own Atom feeds, thanks.
Live science: "How the Brain Changes as We Grow Up" [VID]
LookLater - the one to the immediate right of Pandora.
i agree. the original name is probably too (forcibly) clever. walks the line that separates clever and confusing.
Yeah I have to agree. bug.gd is cute but cute mainly sells teddy bears.
"they know that their business is based around repeat customers who all know how to work the system."

Hmm, so they're intentionally crappifying their experience to make their existing customers feel 007-esque? To make them feel that they're somehow hacking into the site, digging deep, to find good deals? Why not just lay the good deals out on the table? What's there to hide? If they really are good deals, wouldn't it seem logical for them to make 'working the system' a relative breeze for anyone looking to score a free trip? And you can't possibly believe that this type of attitude is going to lead AA to a long and prosperous future. It's about an experience. You start with a great online experience, then that seamlessly integrates with your in-airport experience, and that leads to new customers. And I'm willing to bet that any business on the planet that provides an easy and quick service to their customers will have a higher rate of repeat customer use than a business that caters to a customer base by providing a stupidly complex experience, ultimately capping their customer acquisition rate.

Look at Apple. You want to see a Genius at the Genius Bar? Go online, make an appointment in less than 1 minute, go to the store, and see your name up on the screen with a Genius ready to help you. You see how that works? My computer illiterate parents could book a Genius Bar appointment. Why shouldn't they be able to do the same with AA?
Nice analogy with startups : focus on cashflow, not assets.
"I don't want to grow up, because if I did..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8HMSf4O2FM
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Just a note, fat tire is made by new belgium brewing out of colorado, and indeed it is on tap in many many places. However, it is a fair to middling beer compared with the hundreds of beers brewed in portland and oregon (IMO). Come for the fat tire on tap, stay for the really good oregon beers. Also as a tech interested individual, one should make it a point to go to Powell's Technical bookstore, it is 3 blocks from the original big Powells, but chock full of Math, Science, Engineering and computer books, my fave bookstore on the planet.
Because thte Atkins diet like all the other buy this book diets is a about them making money, not you losing weight.

Eat food, mostly plants.
Using computing to teach computing (Hint: Don't use the "P" word)
bug.gd is too web2.0, since you are selling things to corporations and IT groups, you need to stick to 1.0 names. Errorhelp is leaps and bounds better for your business
First I've seen it and I found it interesting so +1
Napster to launch new music subscription plan
Near Far in Science Fiction
So this is essentially the pump-and-dump stock advice I've been getting by email for years, but condensed down to <= 140 characters and delivered realtime. Awesome!
Xubuntu is not lightweight.
How to make your application viral - A guide to getting users
I'd guess they spend more time hanging out in expensive locales in NY and London, or at Gorat's, or other non-twitter, non-IRC, non-online places.
Awesome, let's compare communism to terrorists! Let's edit the history books and paint some explosive jackets onto those philosophers. God forbid the working class ever took it upon themselves to get what they needed by communism or by unionism, it's so patently disgusting is it?

I suppose you'd have been one of the people fighting tooth and limb to keep shanghaiing legal. God forbid people actually want to work for fair compensation for their work. DISGUSTING!
Canadian research team reports major breakthrough in lithium battery technology
If they already have the system in place to track drugs prescribed by providers then it will be easier to require the pharmacys to tie your purchase to you on your OTC purchases. The pharmacys will already have the software and hardware in place. All it will take is a law to require all of the software vendors to comply.
In this case I have to agree with you. I'm a little dumb founded as to what exactly was the point of the article:

was it:

1. Don't use ECB (use CBC instead ?)

or

2. Only send data out if you have to (with no mention of the fix to using ECB)

I'm so confused
If anyone else has the same comprehension problem I found in the article, a 'lakh' is 100,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh
What about Richard Proenneke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

remained there for most of the next 30 years, coming to the lower 48 only occasionally

Sane hermits are rare but not unknown, I wonder what makes them different?
What's funny is that many online only e-books are sold for much higher prices. I'm talking about the ones with those long infomercial-style sales letters that target niche audiences and promise to solve all their problems.

$40 for a .pdf with large font and only 90 pages of content is not unusual at all. Neither is stuff in the $70 range. The high price is due to the supposed "value" of the information.

I've actually always thought those e-books were totally overpriced, but I guess a lot of people had no problem buying them.

It's weird though how the set point for price is expected to be much lower for more traditional books that have been ported over, even though in many, many cases the real life books offer tons more value than a cheaply thrown together e-guide to parrots or dating or something.
I actually find the examples it cites extremely annoying. I don't like getting constant emails from services just to remind me they exist, I don't like constantly being asked to give referrals, etc...

If I like something, I go out of my way to recommend it. If not - emails aren't going to convince me you have a good product - if people like it, it ought to spread itself.
Ruby pong with audio, using shoes and bloopsaphone
I miss something simple - how do I tweet? (not DM to someone in my contact list)
"If you find yourself typing the letters A-E-S into your code, you're doing it wrong". Obviously moreso if you're typing D-E-S.

We give our clients a very simple recommendation when it comes to encrypting things:

* If you're encrypting data in motion, rely on SSL.

* If you're encrypting data at rest, rely on PGP/GPG.

There are plenty of libraries that will GPG a blob for you, and you can assume GPG got all the details right. That would have been the right call here (as opposed to figuring out CBC and --- importantly, for someone who is still fetishizing "salts" in 2009 --- how to safely set an IV).
VC's and the like are very bullish on twitter, ergo investment in things related to twitter, and undoubtedly pressure for many portfolio companies to somehow bolt twitter on to their app/service.

I happen to like twitter, myself, but I agree this is obviously a huge risk for anyone. At least they are building something that will generate revenue (assuming demand):

Stocktwits premium, which is coming very soon , is like Stocktwits, but with even more awesome (or as I like to say…’The Social Bloomberg’).
Obviously, I can't speak for amichail, but I heard about the lectures via Peter Smith's blog: http://logicmatters.blogspot.com/ Smith is a philosopher at Cambridge who is sitting in on the lectures; he also runs a nice blog.
The physical costs associated with books run maybe 2-10 dollars.
email is obsolete: too slow for communication + too weak for storage + too insecure for id management
Another example of word import in Danish: the word "shopping" (in Danish: "købe ind") is now used when shopping for fun stuff (girls/gays buying clothes) while the danish word is used when shopping for groceries.

So "jeg skal shoppe" (I have to shop) is shopping for fun, while "jeg skal købe ind" means "I have to buy groceries".
Yep, it's clear what you meant now.

I think this was a terminology misunderstanding - I don't see it as "the answer". "The answer" in my book is specific for each particular situation and your guideline is important to take into account for each such situation. I'm splitting hair now, but only to illustrate the source of misunderstanding.

To advance the state of the art it would help if you created a list of cases where "build" produced unexpected advantage and a list of cases where it backfired. At least it would work better for me to calibrate properly.

EDIT: It just occured to me that you answer to my answer is what curried function is to a function result. Throw in lazy evaluation and the line gets blurry. :-)
Lawyers: To Save Newspapers, Let's Destroy Pretty Much Everything Else Good
Here are a few pics of my workspace. It's essentially an unfinished room in the basement. I keep my computers, power tools, collections...everything in this room. It's not fancy, but I can get things done. The main computer is an imac with VMWare and VirtualBox for Linux and Win XP. There are also a few PCs scattered around for robotics work. I use the Netbook for microcontroller interfacing...in case I fry something. The Netbook is cheap enough that I won't be too upset if it get ruined.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheagy/sets/72157618418142512/
I don't know why you'd debate trivia when his key derivation function is just MD5(keystream), and even that is optional (why-oh-why would you have a "bool useHashing"?).

In this case, the "salt" is completely irrelevant, because there's no precomputed dictionary you can build for this function.

But I still dispute that a distinction needs to be drawn between the word "salt" and "nonce".
> [Fuck] has become such a common use in Denmark, that I don’t think people even realize that it isn’t Danish. It is used by just about everyone younger than 40 all the time, to such extent that Danes travelling to the English speaking countries routinely and unwittingly cause offence.

This surprised me -- is "fuck" not considered rude in Denmark? Or do Danes use it among "foreigners" without realizing it means the same thing in other languages?
Can you expand on what in particular is wrong with this research?

I commend you and upvote for asking the follow-up question. I am familiar with the journal, and with one of the authors of paper mentioned in the submitted article, and while you were asking, I was reading the abstract of the paper to be as familiar with that as I can before the paper is formally published.

I'll adopt the other reply you received to constitute a large part of my reply. I would further add, mentioning a point that I learned from a geneticist, that there is no mention of genes here. Most purportedly "genetic" studies of IQ and the relationship between IQ and something else use pre-Mendelian correlational methods, and never get to the level of detail of identifying genes. Such studies show a lot less about causation than most members of the general public might guess about such nonexperimental studies. And of course the chief problem here is that the study didn't have an experimental design, but was a correlational observational study done by a researcher who admits, in the submitted article, having a preconceived notion of what the relationship would be.

Thanks for asking.
Sorry. That's what I assumed since you compared tabpages to MiniBuffExplorer. MBE does what a lot of people think the tabline should do, but doesn't.
i dont know whether he's honest or not but one thing is sure that in real estate the value is almost all the time manipulated in a nicest possible way (putting value in the best light possible) ... there are many factors that needs to be considered to come to a value of a property, it depends upon the creditors whether or not to accept the project value ...

also one of the most important reason why Trump companies are not public limited is because then he (donald trump) won't be able to manipulate things and have to disclose every minute details of the each projects to the share holders ....
"How can I make my app viral" seems like asking yourself "How can I make someone love me".

You don't want to make users want to spread your app, you want them to want to spread your app.

The "Invite people" forms are a really bad way of doing things IMHO. It's like asking your wife/hubby to fill in a form detailing how much she loves you.

I'd also say a good strategy is to give users something for free, that they think should cost money - they'll be sure to tell their friends off their own back.

Still good ideas in the original article though.
ProFont - what other font is easily readable down to 6pt?
I think one thing you're missing is the idea of social validation, or social proof, of your product. Like TallGuyShort said, getting invitation emails is rather annoying, and quite insincere. Users can spot that insincerity in a heartbeat. Sure, you'll rake in some users, but what you want is to create a demand for the product. When I did that whole FluShirts thing, I used twitter to message people, and within seconds I would see them tweet "haha, check out these shirts [flushirts url]." I'm not sure as to what percentage of shirts I sold were because of twitter referrals, but what that did at the very least was introduce my product to others in a genuine manner to potential customers using their friends.

Of course, to gain social validation of your product, it needs to be useful and something people will enjoy. There are some counterexamples, like hi5, that are fairly popular and got to that point because of their random email invitations (I don't know who you are Aaron, Britney, and Alexa), and to that, I'm not quite sure what to say. I guess they found a market. But as far as virality goes, in the genuine sense, I think Facebook/Myspace/Twitter beat hi5.
What about Guttenberg and his printing press. We may not be having this discussion right now if it weren't for him.

That could also be said about Tim Berners-Lee and his crazy idea called the World Wide Web.
A much better example of how this is done:

http://www.37signals.com/better/fedex/

I suggest explaining your changes instead of aimlessly bitching.
both. Older people refrain from using it, but for young people it's just an innocent filler word. We don't beep such words out on TV/Radio, and they can be said in primetime by guests without problems.

And therefore it's easy for Danes when visiting USA/UK to say it without realizing that Americans/English people considers it rude.
Does no one think that fool.com or TheStreet or Dow Jones or the FT or [pick 'em] will pick this up to show that they Get It(TM)? Really? Come on.
Hits is a meaningless number (if you're measuring visitors), I don't think I need to explain why to this crowd. Maybe the author/source got confused?
Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost
> it helps us sort the articles and comments.

Are you sure about that? I find it roughly as many good comments with low votes as I find with high votes. My most subjectively valuable comments remain at +2 whereas my smart-ass comments get upmodded uncomfortably high. Same with stories - half of the stories I find valuable are lingering at low scores.

Voting seems to be about social status, values and group identity, not about content quality. There are people who try to vote quality but I rarely see them rising above the normal voters.

I suggest you give it a try and take notes while reading both high and low rated stories/comments. Maybe you will come to different conclusions than I.
OpenStreetMap: The Free Wiki World Map
Strange Bedfellows: The Linux Foundation and Microsoft
Sniffing out Great Ideas, Company Culture and Demographics
Hackers 'launch attack' on Facebook
Baseball Tickets Too Much? Check Back Tomorrow
Psychiatry and the Human Condition
Recently the Facebook-equivalent in my country introduced an API for apps similar to Facebook's and a friend created an app that is doing quite well in terms of users. The trick was to ask the users "Do you think this app would interest your friends?" and if they answered "Yes" it mass-invites all the friends. I think it's against the rules of the site, but since it's good for the site too, the rule is not enforced.

I recall that FB also started out by mass-mailing the Harvard mailing lists.

I guess virality often is just spamming or tricking the user into spamming.
I love NERDTree as a matter of fact I got it mapped to <F3>[1] (it only works on Linux and Windows)

[1]: map <F3> :NERDTreeToggle <CR>
How do you do concrete interviews for non-technical people?
If you have a small living space or just don't like clutter, the e-book + Kindle is more attractive than the physical book. Not to mention convenience of purchasing. The people that value those things probably doesn't overlap much with the people trying to squeeze every penny out of every purchase.

The selling point of the Kindle is "reading made easy", not "saving money through electronics".
Because it's a short bit of worth-reading hard sci-fi written by someone known to much of the HN community who's not known for writing engaging fiction, but clearly capable of it.

So, it's interesting on few levels, but probably divisive in terms of audience (i.e., you're either going to like it or hate it).

The story is part of a bigger narrative, so it's here because it's part of the thread he's been tugging on for a few months. Feel free to ignore.
When it gets in the way of effective collaboration. The way Dustin wrote his letter, he portrays himself as someone who isn't interested in his client's input. AA might have valid reasons for designing its site that way, based on years of being in the airline business. Even if he's written off AA as a potential client, he shouldn't alienate all potential clients by appearing so opinionated. What if he had picked one of my websites to bash, without asking me why I'd made certain decisions, proposing his own reasons for those decisions, or at least reaching out and being civil? I wouldn't be too happy at all. I'd have to waste time formulating a public response and managing my image in the face of an unprovoked attack.
They're certainly not the same. But when Google debuted, it wasn't the same as Yahoo either. And many of Yahoo's categories were superior to Google's early search results.

Definitions aside: If Alpha works, it -will- impact how people use Google.
If people change how they use Google, it -will- impact Google.
hits is more important than visitors when determining ability to handle load. when I see "concurrent users" in a load test it makes me want to puke. a user can click once a second or once every 10 minutes. each page load can load 1 resource or 100. hits is what matters.
AWS CloudWatch seems remarkably expensive: 15 cents per instance per hour! Considering that all they are doing is aggregating and distributing per-VM statistics.

Woops: Brainfade. Yes, 1.5 cents/instance/hour, not 10x that. Still, quite expensive I think.
I think you underestimate his ego. What you describe is true, but it's not all. For example, he's also smarter than all physicists:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=690

Oy! For relief, I suggest his epic spanking in the Linux Kernel Mailing List:

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.1/1909.h...

Which is actually a good thread to understand kernel development.
Google Checkout pays internationally... for businesses with bank accounts in countries described by the the set {United States, UK}.

The author of that blog lives in Europe, so it seems she opened and maintains a U.S. bank account to be eligible for Google Checkout.

Perhaps the O.P. can pursue a similar strategy?
The physical books ported over have the lower price because they're comparable to the physical book. People have expectations about what physical books cost, but people buying the parrot e-books are looking for specific information that's not available in a bookstore. At that point they're buying specific knowledge, not a commoditized product.

For instance, if I want to enter the import/export business, am I better off paying $99 to International Living or spending hours scrounging the internet, trying to sift what's real from what's fake, what's trustworthy from the scams, etc? If you value your time, informational e-books can be a lifesaver, even if their delivery medium (poorly formatted pdf files) is cheap.
"Shukla said even heavy-traffic websites like Google did not get as many hits. He said NIC had budgeted for 80.64 billion hits in eight hours on the basis of 2,800 hits per second but with 3 lakh hits per second, it received 8.64 trillion hits."

This makes no sense.

8 * 3,600 * 2,800 ~= 80 million.

3 * 100,000 * 86,400 ~= 26 billion.
I'd say swombat tackled that point appropriately. You have to remind your users of these things, but it doesn't have to be in the form of email communication. http://thesixtyone.com does a brilliant job of this through quests, notifications, and other on-site features. They aren't clogging up my inbox, but they are still telling me about new features, asking me to promote and share, and getting me more involved through internal communication channels. You can't be afraid to talk to your users.
Peter Thiel On Valleywag; It’s the "Silicon Valley Equivalent of Al Qaeda"
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These numbers just don't make sense. Rounding the population of India to 1 billion the implication is that each person made over 8000 requests. Which works out to 1 request every 10 seconds.

What I think they've done is taken the peak value and extrapolated out for the entire day but even that doesn't reach 8.64 trillion.
I just wanted to note that apps that do this on Facebook get banned very quickly. Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh away.
But only for a very small value of impact.

What percentage of Google queries do you think might eventually become WA queries? I'd say easily < 1%. I see the two as very complementary, not really competing.
Back then, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
what they needed was a static page generated offline and pushed online every few minutes and a cdn like amazon aws.

Hah! good luck telling all this to the NIC (national informatics center) webmasters who are running this off ASP.

I'm getting this completely unusable page http://eci.nic.in/results/

Almost all the indian govt websites, both at the central level and the state level are beholden to 90's web design, programming and microsoft technologies.

It's almost a testament to the general incompetence of microsoft web developers who still think that programming against IE is good enough.
It's also possible they were spammed.
Substitute 80.64 billion for 80.64 million and 8.64 trillion for 8.64 billion and it makes sense