skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linus is usually dead-on in language matters.

bool as a type in C strikes me as dubious. In C, you need to care about the underlying representation of things. I'm not even sure it was a good idea to call a char a char, because it's actually a small integer. Calling it a char is just misleading; it's signed, and a literal character is not even a char. It's a source of bugs. "bool" sounds potentially worse.
As a native Russian speaker i totally agree with you. It always upsets me when people try to stick with their native language all the time. Basically, Russia (like any country) is only a small part of all the world. If you try to avoid speaking/reading in some other languages you're closing most of the possibilities(i mean books, movies, jokes etc.) for yourself.

Hello from Moscow, tovarisch :)
It's perfectly valid English. "Who're" is a contraction of "who are"†.

However, for some reason, unlike more common contractions, it is much more common in spoken English than in written.

†http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/who're
First off, I think you are talking about iOS not OS X. If you are talking about OS X then you need to look at margins, not marketshare.
This is a good question. I don't pretend to know the answer, however the following may be related. In print, design, photography, music etc, OSX has far more than 10% of the market. Macs are a standard in small but important markets. The (so-called) creatives for example. I don't see an area where this is true for smart phones.
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Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing
I used to have the same gripe with Firefox for a good couple years. Turned out my profile had.. something.. in it that was slowing down nearly every activity.
I'd strongly suggest nuking your Chrome profile and any other lurking config or cache if you can.
In my experience, old browser profiles seem to sometimes hide slow juice as it were, haha.
What's the difference between an automated train failing to stop at the end of a line in a system with 200 stations to an automated train failing to stop at the end of a line in a system with two stations?

Of course in the rest of the system if can be incredibly complex to ensure safety, but that's not where the accident you're relying on to make your case occurred.
But how bad is it really? I don't know the answer, whether empirical or subjective, but I have a (subjective) suspicion that there's a fair bit of confirmation bias going on. What percentage of diners share pictures of their food on instagram? How many people take selfies? I don't suppose anyone has actually collected that data, we can't quite say how much is too much, and since some of these behaviors may well be annoying, people quickly enter confirmation bias mode. Besides, the problem is not phones, it's people. Phones just give us an avenue to run away from ourselves. I'm not on my phone at the birthday party because I have a smartphone, I'm on the smartphone because it helps avoid the awkward silence and contrived conversations that would otherwise prevail. If you were sharing a bed with someone you find hot, say some star or someone you've been crazy about but couldn't get around to telling them how you feel, I doubt you'd be staring at your phone with that person in bed next to you. So the problem is not the phones, it's the quality of our relationships and interaction, and those won't change or improve just because we've put the phone away. Were the relationships and interactions robust enough, a smartphone wouldn't stand a chance of getting in the way.
"Twitter announced that they need to hire less talented people that are less productive. A spokeswoman said, that though they have the necessary funds to hire the best talent they can get, they just couldn't deal with that much productivity. They are kindly asking that good programmers and sysadmins stop sending in applications. A new interviewing process will be established specifically designed to identify competent and talented applicants in order to deny their application."

Aaaaand that wouldn't happen ever, unless that "company" is funded by your tax dollars. Enjoy.
You're so right.
Here in Germany are many people who don't want to speak english, even if they had it at school for 13 years...

But if I wouldn't speak english, I had to read german news only or couldn't use stackoverflow. 90% of the newest technology would be useless for me, because I couldn't read any documentations or tutorials.
Yes, absolutely. It poses a greater risk when written than when spoken. :)
those aged 50+) are basically not re-educable

The word for that is ageism, it's a growing problem in the IT industry.
iOS has more than 9%, but I suspect your right about the margins. If your 9% share makes you the most profitable PC maker, what's the point in being the leader in market share?
I really wish you could always use the scroll wheel on these.

I've been checking out a fair number of JS Presentation libraries lately, and I really prefer the ones that allow you to scroll, even if the transitions are horizontal.
BTW I was trying to install it on ubuntu 12.04 (an LTS) and could not get it working. It wanted to change my numpy dist
I can play that condescension game too! Mason, you seem to have really taken the don't-question-things-fall-in-line schooling to heart all the way to where you think you are actually an independent thinker, but you just parrot completely baseless folk wisdom!

See? Isn't this productive and enjoyable? Hmm, if not, maybe you could try to have respectful and productive things to say in the future. You might learn something.
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you're a towel.
Strong typing?
ماكينات الطباعة
ماكينات طباعة مستعملة
شركة الحسينى لماكينات الطباعة ومستلزمات الطباعة وآلات الطباعة المستعملة والمستوردة من اوروبا .
شركة الحسينى لماكينات الطباعة ومستلزمات الطباعة وآلات الطباعة المستعملة والمستوردة من اوروبا .
شركة الحسينى لماكينات الطباعة ومستلزمات الطباعة وآلات الطباعة المستعملة والمستوردة من اوروبا .
> People who complain that digital technology leaves us isolated have it completely backward. Digital technology is slowly giving us back some of the interconnectedness that we lost

I am not entirely certain whether the two are mutually exclusive.

Sure, we're regaining the ability to interact with other people on a nearly universal (or maybe just "global") scale. But at the same time we're not really giving them the attention they might deserve. Or need.

The same advances that allow us to constantly communicate with one another? They have also made it easier to ignore people without suffering from social discomfort. It's easier to just get distracted by yet-another-shiny-thing if we lose our interest, even momentarily, for any reason at all.
This is it: bad grammar is not "accent." Not using (or overusing) the article "the" is bad grammar, for instance. And a bad pronuntiation is not accent, it is a mistake (there is a difference between hearing a French pronouncing "ze book" and another one saying "the book" but with difficulty; the former is making a mistake, the latter has an accent.
> Markets also, it's become very increasingly apparent, have very substantial externalities, both positive and negative, which lead to increasing distortions of underallocation to behaviors in which positive externalities are prevalent (e.g., free software, public education, universal healthcare)

In other words: "Because there are externalities, the negative ones will outweigh the positives"?

Why would that be? You say public education and public healthcare would be good things, but won't you please think of the "externalities"!?!?

Here's a simple question with profound implications: How prudently do people use other people's money? Here's another: If people can't be fired, will they strive to do a good job anyway?

Why does education need to be public? Is there something you couldn't be taught by a private school?

> A problem of capitalism is that the same self-interested motives which can be harnessed for productive activity can equally be harnessed for activities which provide private benefit but social costs (see negative externalities above).

So they can, but that won't change. No matter how much Coercion you throw around, there will always be some people who don't give a fuck about other people, or nature, or whatever.

On the other hand, self-interest can also guide people towards minimizing externalities. For example, Apple knows its customers don't want nature to get raped, so they go through a lot of trouble to produce computers in a "greener" way.

> Written by someone who's either never heard of, or is unable to admit, slavery, coercion, blackmail, forced options, and other circumstances in which decisions are made under duress or lack of any feasible alternative.

Well, I didn't say that voluntary exchanges constitute all economic activity ever. On top of that basis, there's room for non-voluntary exchanges too. The point was that an economy is a massive "network" of voluntary exchanges. But I don't think coercion is relevant here. For example, it's safe to assume that slavery or blackmail have nothing to do with any of the exchanges you've made in your life.

> Not if the game is structured to explicitly benefit one side or the other. E.g., "contracts of adhesion", monopoly provision of communications or broadband services, toll authorities, agribusiness conglomerates structuring "intellectual property" laws to forbid saving and planting of seed grain, eternal copyright extension, etc., etc.

What do you think the source of these particular problems might be? Hint: It's not Capitalism. What might it be that "structures" "the game"?

> Identified problems in one area of a practice doesn't mean a freedom from problems and conflicts elsewhere. So your conclusion is largely moot and void.

I can't tell what you mean by that. But here's a mysterious statement right back at you: Humanity involves intractable problems.
Right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

So after 100-110 years, maybe it's time to come up with even more efficient work day? (But keeping the right direction).
Motivational CORNER: A mad woman sings
he idea is simple: give everyone a certain salary per month that allows them to rent a flat, buy groceries, and have a social life

The cost of the welfare system in the UK is such that it would actually be cheaper to just give every man, woman and child in the UK 3000/year no questions asked, no strings attached. Could a single person live on 3000/year in London? Well it was a long time ago now, but I did, as did millions of others, when we were students. Could a family of 4 live on 12000 somewhere like Wales, today? Sure, especially if it was supplemented by a little casual work from one or both parents. And we'd need to stabilize the population too.

People say I'm a fascist because I want to abolish the welfare state, but it's not true: I merely wish to abolish the department that runs it and go direct!
Hmm, while this the assumption (in some pretty flawed) early anthropology, I think the modern consensus is that hunter gatherer societies were relatively peaceful, both amongst themselves[1] and between each other[2].

Of course, successful/stable hunter-gatherer societies are pretty geographically isolated, since encounters by tribes w/ more "advanced" (post-agrarian, colonial, modern) societies usually has meant obliteration.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201105/how...
[2] http://www.sott.net/article/264152-Warfare-was-uncommon-amon...
There are many, many movies with women as the main actrice. Even female heroes.

What do you mean by hero, somebody who carries heavy guns and mows down lots of enemies? Even those exist, for example Resident Evil (totally unrealistic of course).

Have you even actually counted the movies with male and female heroes, or do you just have a gut feeling that there are only few female heroes?

While you are counting, you could also count how many men die as collateral damage ("guards") vs how many women.

Edit: some more I remembered in the meantime: Underworld series, Alien series, Aeon Flux, Buffy, Dark Angel, Nikita
API for creating random users in your application
"Only the person you send the message to can read it. Period."

To use this kind of sentences on new software not reviewed by the comunity is dangerous. There is people that risk their lifes using this kind of app.

The thing that puzzles me is that sentence:
"You can delete your message from the receivers phone."
I don't see in the 'how it works' any information about it. Do they do that in a cryptographic way somehow that I can not imagine? Or is basically that the application removes the content if the server request it, something we could avoid just with a backup or modifying the code of the app.
Unfortunately there are too many useful rhetorical devices in the list, devices that serve a purpose. Ironically, the list starts off with "correlation is not causation," an expression that in most cases is raised for very good reasons -- for example, any popular science story that includes the word "linked" but without adequate qualifiers.

If more people were science-literate, these platitudes wouldn't be necessary. But they aren't, so they are.
That's a quite long quote, and it partly contradicts your assertions with statements like

> The procedures adopted in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to subsection (i).

... and the actual contents of subsection (i). You have to be more specific.
I tend to not discount people's English language acumen when English is not their primary language.

Think about it. How many English speakers are fluent in more than one language, or, like myself, are barely literate in our primary language?

I deal with people from all over the world, and am always impressed by people who can converse in my primary language as well as I am able, and those who may have small difficulties with syntax, etc, are still able to convey their ideas to me despite many language shortcomings.
Unfortunately, the mastery of a language has not particularly much to do with using grammatically-correct language constructs, or even a correct accent. In that respect, language is a bit like music, and mastery is much more the ability to use grace notes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_note, than the ability to just follow the rules. "How much can I be off, and break the rules, before I am off too much?" You will find that excellent native speakers are systematically off all the time. This can become a problem for non-native speakers when the real message is hidden in the grace notes. Other native speakers will immediately get the point ...
Great article. I would like to add some more...

1. I used to watch that American TV series "24" and I tried to repeat everything Jack Bauer said in the same way he said it... I even tried to mimic his facial expressions. People say my accent improved and nobody complained that I speak like a CTU agent. You can pick your favourite character.

2. There are great services like http://livemocha.com/ - you can do exercises and you can record yourself and upload it and native speakers let you know what mistakes you made - you do the same thing for people trying to learn your language. And even listening to yourself from the recording helps.

3. I got rid of the fear. At the beginning I was afraid to talk, I don't even know why, nobody is ever going to laugh at you. But I learned that foreign accent can even be good for you... it makes you interesting and it's a conversation starter - oh, how many of my friends I met after "that's an interesting accent, where are you from?"
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Because ec1, ec2, and ec3 turned out so well. corn subsidies, oil subsidies, and energy subsidies are working well too... You're a towel.
It isn't just word choice or sentence construction. I have a hard time understanding co-workers that put the emphasis on the wrong syllable, for instance, even when they are speaking grammatical English. I would say it's just one person, but it seems to be a very common thing for people from south India to do this emphasis mixing.
At this point youtube seems more like an experiment in how much bullshit you can put your users through without them leaving your service.
"When a user is created and its public keys uploaded to the server, the server signs the public keys. Clients that download the public key then validate the signature of the key against the hardcoded server public key in the client. This ensures a MITM attack trying to use a rogue key pair to impersonate a user will be prevented."

This doesn't look good to me. Process implies trusting central server for cryptographic operations, which is very insecure. Central server should only be used as transport mechanism and should not be in any way involved in cryptographic operations that include working with secret keys. If someone, for example, seizes control of server (for government agencies this is an easy task, especially in these days) then he could forge user's public keys. The fact that public key is hardcoded in client application doesn't solve the problem either. What if server key is compromised? You'll have users with hardcoded compromised key in their app. Not a good situation. I see bunch of other security related problems in algotrithm description page also, but this one is crucial.
You can never, ever be assured that a message has been deleted. There's always packet sniffing, a modified client, even just taking a screen dump. It requires trust in the participant.

Recently I read a whitepaper where a security tester was talking to a malware author on Skype. The author mentioned an IP address and deleted it moments afterwards. The researcher dumped their ram into a file and searched for the string (successfully).
Also, no mention of Wahhabi Jihadists that are being brought in from all over the world to fight Assad regime. There is a good piece by German media that talks about how Europe is supporting ultra-extremist insurgency in Syria [1] by turning the blind eye on Turkey, which is providing al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists with arms, shelter and healthcare. They gather in Turkey, then proceed to fighting Assad regime and massacring civilians by thousands in the spare time. [2][3]

Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families… many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,” writes Dale Gavlak. [4]

Dale Gavlak has been a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press for two decades and has also worked for National Public Radio (NPR) and written articles for BBC News.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdvbinNLH8

[2] http://www.opendemocracy.net/rozh-ahmad/mass-slaughter-of-ci...

[3] Search the Web for "Lattakia Massacre" (caution, very explicit content!)

[4] http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-sau...
Except for Firefly I don't know these characters you mention, and I am not going to watch My Little Pony just so that I can understand your comment... Don't recall what was specific about Zoe from Firefly.
There is one big issue here which I'd like to address. People feel uncomfortable pointing out the mistakes you make, so they never tell you that you're making the same mistake over and over again.

I try to ask people, at least those who I am in contact with a lot, to tell me if they hear when I do a mistake, sadly most of the time they still don't, either because they forget that I asked them to do so or they just don't want to interrupt the normal conversation flow.

The only one who does it quite good is my daughter, Swedish is her native language so she points out what I do wrong when she hears me speaking it. I assume that is because I have been doing the same with her German since she was 2 years old, so it doesn't feel weird to her.
(Native English speaker.)

There's definitely no rule against it. I wouldn't think anything of hearing "who're" everyday conversation. It's rare you see it in writing, though.

What you hear in every day speech is governed more by the mechanics of how your mouth works when you're speaking fluently, honestly. For example, if I were to say, "I would have done it" it most likely would come out sounding like "I'd've done it." Unless your intention was to get the sound across, though, you'd never, ever write that.
> Let's actually see this problem before we anticipate it.

The problem has always existed. It's the reason that people need to be paid for most jobs, since they won't do them just for fun. If people know that they'll be paid a decent amount for doing any job at all, then there will be a lot of recreational activities which are thinly disguised to look like jobs.
Cameras, phones, music players, computers, not much has changed really.
And how does your request play out?

We halt any technological improvements which would result in lost jobs. Is there any historical precedence for such a thing?
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The words of the law are actually not supporting the spirit of the law, at least when passing data to Google is concerned. Data protection can not be enforced with messing with cookies. EU should focus its influence on ensuring that companies operating in EU (like Google) respect user's privacy - including not passing data to third parties, like NSA.
The article states in the first paragraph that it's exploring edge cases from a thousands* of foreign travelers.

*surprising that they don't give a real number.
Ignorant American here, asking of the non-native English speakers:

As most (every?) programming language is "in English", does this impair understanding? (for, in, throw, select, from - all English words whose meanings are more or less in line with the programming concept they define) (Even Ruby, created by a Japanese, is "English")

For those who write/type in languages that require Unicode: since you typically code in ASCII, was this a challenge to learn? (do modern languages support Unicode for things like variable names? I've never seen Hebrew, Chinese, etc code - does anyone have any examples?)
Indeed, Mr. Arno Sosna, ain't public knowledge a great thing? Who needs privacy!
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Random PG quote I've kept on my clipboard for days looking for the right day to paste it. GOD I HOPE HE SEES.

Copying != stealing, because apparently time stopped about 8 years ago. And this is digg.

IE is hard to develop for even though all the problems it had have been solved for approximately 11 thousand years before anyone alive today was even born.

First they came for [whatever we're talking about] and I said nothing ...