skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a common thing I didn't understand about my fellow CS majors. Many of them did not want to become developers and even took pride in the fact that they made it until the final exams without ever having to hand in a single programming assignment they did themselves.

Yes, these people have amazing careers in management and consulting ahead. Is this good for the industry? I doubt it.

For me, the purpose of a CS course is to make people reasonable at programming with an advanced knowledge about the remainder of the field. It's easier to teach a programmer formal CS methods than to teach a formal methods guy to program.
Even the ones studying linguistics on some language other than English may not necessarily be used to some random TLA, in the same way most of people in the world would have no idea which topic in schools is called PE in some north american dialect.
Agree with other replies: there are ways to approach this that will cause friction, and ways that might not ("I wasn't looking, but this came along, now I have a tough decision...").

And no matter what your approach, some bosses will take it one way, others another way! And that's OK, do what's right for you, don't make your choice based on whether you get a cold reception or not.
> So? It still has an origin. And you can either use the word as is, or translate it.

"So" I'd already discussed proper nouns.

> Derogatory slag? What? Did you think I was calling someone that? It's just an example of a word. And of course it's a word. It might not be a high status word, but it's still a word.

Made up slang isn't even part of the English language so it seems daft to argue about it's incorporation into other language

> But that's what the word "pasta" means. (Perhaps you didn't know that.)

You're right I didn't know that. And no I don't think France should adopt that term simply because pasta isn't like that these days, we don't think of it like that any longer and arguing that we should readopt medieval terms is the opposite of my point with is that countries should be allowed to adopt their own definitions for modern terms.

Your whole argument in this thread seem to be based on stawman arguments with a minor dash of xenophobia towards foreign languages. You haven't really explained why you think France shouldn't speak their own language aside pointing out some fringe examples and presenting it as evidence that the standard body of modern languages are incomprehensible. Maybe you'd have a better job convincing me if you discussed this from a French perspective as to why French speaking layman's would understand English words better than French word.

*> Your reply really confuses me. Did you just read my post and not the whole thread?

Given a few of your points I'd already addressed earlier in this thread, I don't think you're in a position to be making such comments.
That's not quite the same, from man apt-cache(8):

search regex... search performs a full text search on all available
package lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see regex(7). It
searches the package names and the descriptions for an occurrence of the
regular expression and prints out the package name and the short
description, including virtual package names.(...) if --names-only is
given then the long description is not searched, only the package name
is.

Interestingly aptitude search and apt-cache search --names-only doesn't give quite the same results on my box (apart from the fact that aptitude also lists 32bit "i386" packages). But they're almost the same.

As for the names:

$ aptitude search mbox|grep -v i386 -c
24

$ aptitude search mbox|tail -1
p yahoo2mbox - Retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages
Trying to fix now!
Seriously?

BTW, there is no "A" in "experience".
Mix in another Germanic language, and it gets even more fun. Take Norwegian:

"the" doesn't have a direct equivalent in modern Norwegian - we add the article as a suffix instead (a car = en bil; the car = bilen), but for the rest:

drei -> three / tre
Donner -> thunder / torden
Ding -> thing / ting
daher -> therefore / derfor

du -> thou / du

Older Danish is even more similar to German, though I don't remember it off hand. At school, when I wanted to get my German grade up, I got a copy of Faust, which was way above my German level, and then I got hold of an old Danish translation (1920's or so). The old Danish translation was much closer to the German, so it was reasonably easy to figure out how they corresponded, yet still close enough to modern Danish (and by extension Norwegian) that I could read it fairly quickly when I couldn't figure out the German.

And if you really want to see close relationship between German and English, read some Dutch. Dutch to me reads like German and English lightly mixed, with some other random letters thrown in.
Seems that Hacker News' duplicate detection is seriously flawed, this was a huge story yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7209397
You get a number of free views per month, try deleting your cookies or using a private window.
Really interesting stuff. In researching more, the data culled and analyzed by a former Jeopardy winner blew my mind as well:

http://gawker.com/5860275/how-a-geek-cracked-the-jeopardy-co...
I think this is more about making noise to remember people -- people which does not follow tech and NSA news -- that surveillance is still a problem, that Snowden is still stuck in Hong Kong, that the NSA still collects a huge amount of personal information from non-targets.

But you're right the battle is much bigger than that.
Good logs have been especially useful while integrating new motion controls in our wafer handling robot. We have a vendor who's product sometimes does not respond correctly to motion commands. Before logging each movement command, debugging a weird movement error would involve repeatedly moving the robot until the error happened again. Now I just pull the last N commands out of the log file, reproduce the issue, and send a script to the vendor so they can fix it.
It's a matter of effort, I suppose... "proof of work" as the bitcoin people talk about. Clicking a button is less effort than making a phone call and talking to a person.
I would recommend Google, a quick search will bring up millions of results on SEO the good bad and the ugly.
It also gives a huge advantage to students who've been coding for a few years, especially if they've been involved in open source projects. I used source control tools for my programming classes at uni (not a CS major) and it made me 50% more productive, easily.
Try finding something online, i.e. odesk.com, elance.com, etc.
Random tie knot generator
Arch package in AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mbox-git/
I think it's interesting that there are ~200k Twitter/Facebook shares at the time of this comment, but less than 10k calls/emails. The message seems to be, "I think contacting legislators is a great idea! I hope some of my friends do that.."
https://ringcentral.com/

Twilio isn't bad but I didn't want an API and full programmatic control. Like you I just wanted out-of-the-box features that work. RingCentral gives you ability to have toll-free numbers, voicemail, call routing, call recording, office hours, fax (but no SMS). You can have up to 999 extensions (users) for no extra cost. If you have a cell or landline currently, RingCentral is pretty cheap because it forwards calls seamlessly and you don't pay for any minutes (and you can dial out from that external phone too, by initiating the call from their app which calls you first).
Ask HN: Best tutorials for mobile development?
I want to break into the web developer sector. I currently have a PHP full-stack contract (baby's first contract) that, only on my insistence, now uses CodeIgniter. Where do we start with the front end?
Permission to steal your comment for advertising purposes, good sir? :D
I really, really don't think anyone is trying to say that this is the /only/ thing you should do.

Many of the people organizing this campaign worked on any number of different campaigns over the last 6 months (Stop Watching Us, Restore the Fourth rallies, a rally in DC, Defund The NSA), so we'd be the last to say that this is the only day you should take action.

Rather, this is a single day for all of us who care about the isuee to rally round and do something to reach a critical mass of action that gets noticed on capitol hill. And also to help educate people who've tuned out of NSA stories by reiterating all the things the NSA is doing to erode privacy.
Chiming in as one of the developers, these share totals are the total from when the campaign first started. The tools for calling/emailing/petitioning have only been active for two or so hours.
Maybe it's a central Stockholm thing, I don't really know. And I certainly didn't mean to imply that it was common, I only noticed it now and then and vaguely recall some mention of it on P1 Språket or in the newspaper, that it seemed to be making a return.

I've only ever known du, would never use ni except for a group, and feel odd being called ni myself. Not insulted mind you, closest I can describe it is like when a small child refers to you as "that man" but you're only 16 or 17. :)

Ok, did some googling...

This from P1 Språket says that it wasn't a trend in 2004 (but then why were they asking?):
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=411&arti...

And this blog from 2008, in response to a column in DN that I can't find in their archive:
http://lingvistbloggen.ling.su.se/?p=352

And finally this in DN from 2013:
http://www.dn.se/insidan/fjask-eller-respekt-ar-du-pa-vag-at...

So trend or not, it certainly seems to be a recurring topic of discussion in Sweden!
It is currently 4:27 AM on the east coast of the US. Most Americans are sleeping at the moment, and I doubt congressional offices are open.
The Finger and the Moon.
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It's not blocked in Shanghai. It's probably due to the ~10 underwater fiber optic lines outside Qingdao that got cut recently.
"The NHS is shambles"

In 2013 my son received treatment from NHS Scotland for a very serious eye infection and, later on, a nasty shoulder injury - in both cases the care was fantastic and even though I have private health insurance I never thought about using it.

I know lots of people have problems with the NHS (a few years back my wife got some care that was less than "caring" - but that seemed to be a staff problem) but generally the experiences of our family has been excellent.
In fact you are giving argument in favor for the free software.
> I’m an ads engineer at Facebook so I feel qualified to respond.

You'll be qualified to respond when you've actually watched the video so you won't have to write uninformed drivel like the following:

> In the case of this ad — I think we actually delivered on what was asked for. The targeting specs were fairly broad (cat lovers in four countries). Getting 39 people who like cats to like a page with a cute cat picture in 20 minutes sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Because that is exactly what did not happen in the video.

> Fake (and low quality) likes are bad for everyone.

Nobody was talking about "low quality" likes, the topic under discussion is fake ones, from fake accounts by fake people.

> We don’t want advertisers to get fans that aren’t good for their business -- we want to help them drive real results, and we can’t do that with bad likes. We invest a lot in improving the systems to monitor and remove fake likes from the system, and also in helping advertisers set smart targeting to help them reach the people they care most about.

Blablabla, said every advertiser, ever.

> And to be honest, a lot of people like cats, and the picture on the page is pretty adorable. Lots of real people like lots of things. And LOTS of people like cats.

Once again, did you not watch the video, or are you in fact arguing that those 39 people are actually real people and not fake accounts?
He's actually on a temporary asylum in Russia, his stay in Hong Kong was short lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Temporary_asylu...
There is a private health care sector in the UK - doctors can choose to work there exclusively or share their time with the NHS. You aren't forced to use or work for the NHS - although everyone does have to pay for it.
This sort of exists in the form of a hardware box which you add to your network: http://www.measuringbroadbandamerica.com/fixed-broadband/how...
see also http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-...
I wonder when they'll release their flight data. I'm very interested in this as my work for a travel company has recently included building dynamic packages. Having flight availability on the scale that Google has would be of most use to us!
This looks very interesting, I will definitely have to take a better look later.
UAE to use drones for parcel delivery
Afaik NSA is/was gathering information worldwide.
Oh, a flash protest, one that seems to have been announced with a press release only yesterday and pushed by the EFF just one hour ago.

Well, it is too short notice for me to invest the time to black out my website, so I will not be supporting this. Maybe there will be a similar action next year that I will support, if it is better advertised beforehand.
"Thee" is actually "to you" or "for you".

(I thought I knew less English than I actually do!)
To avoid clutter, it might be more practical to start your own ASK thread for this.
Yeah, no problem ;-)
Can we be a little more digitally violent in our protest?

For example, crowdsourced black hat hacking bad links to any companies funding NSA loving politicians?
Scientist: "We have a theory", crappy web site journalist: "now finally confirmed and validated once and for all!"
> If I had a Page that I wanted to target in Bangladesh, how exactly could I go about doing that without having the majority of my likes be fake?

Well obviously this means you can't use targeted advertising on people in Bangladesh.

Hm. We should roll out click farms everywhere.
Forward ports behind router/firewall with Firebase
Ironically, the Nook for Android and Nook Video apps don't work on Cyanogenmod on the Nook HD/HD+ (not from the Play Store anyway, they do work if sideloaded). B&N should at least put in the effort to enable them on CM.
It was announced here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7037548
Well it's not like the health insurance companies really want to pay for the bills the contracts are always phrased in such a way that the can just say... well we don't cover that when you get sick but the do expect you to pay every month when you are healthy.

They wouldn't have that ability in a European like country sponsored insurance since everything would be covered.
Some congressman/senators are busier at night than during the day ;)
Korean has many grades of "you" that can manipulate politeness and formality somewhat independently. Most younger people in Seoul today would speak to a stranger using a grammatical register that is both informal and polite. It communicates the idea that we can be "at ease" instead of at attention with each other, but we're not going to be presumptuous about being old buddies. We'll be casual, yet polite.

But I was surprised to hear people addressing God in a Christian prayer using a form of you that is both more formal than the form I described above (no surprise so far), yet less polite (there's the surprise.) It's not an impolite form, just a form that makes it clear in a formal ("at attention") setting that you are speaking to a peer, not a superior.

Korean honorifics were puzzling enough to me without this mystery, and it was only later that I discovered that Western languages that still distinguish between a simple formal and informal you seem to always choose the latter.

I've always speculated that the Korean pronoun choice is a result of translating the Western practice to Korean. I've never been able to test that, though, because older Korean religions such as Buddhism don't talk directly to any deities (that I've ever witnesses, anyway), so there isn't any form of "you" used at all.
What did that page say back then? I missed that story. I subscribe to several EFF feeds and I recall nothing about a Swartz anniversary protest.
Asynchronous Life
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I think if you're doing the same task a lot then a command line based workflow can be very productive. However, the big advantages GUIs have is that they allow the discovery of new functions. Reading the man page for a command line application is complex and often quite confusing, while a well designed GUI will often allow you to easily find the functionality you want with a tiny bit of trial and error.
Is 400 Gbps globally really that much?
Download my white-paper: "iBeacon Quick Start Guide"
Ubuntu 12.04 here.
Ah, got it. Thanks for the explanation and good luck with the campaign.
> So are you saying that in the past it was OK to use a foreign word, but today they must be translated?

No. I'm saying in the past countries were invaded and the occupiers brought their own language.

> And do you really think those are the only French words in English? How about RSVP? I'm sure there is a huge list if you look.

Oh absolutely. As I said, there are exceptions. But generally what I said is the norm.

Also, RSVP isn't a word.

> You said that English would never use a French word, and I've shown you that they do it quite often.

Oh absolutely. As I said, there are exceptions. But generally what I said is the norm.

It's also worth noting that when foreign words are used in English writing, it's the convention to italicise the words, verbatim ;)

> You said that English would never use a French word, and I've shown you that they do it quite often. And likewise French should not be worried about using English words for things, that's how languages work, they borrow.

"Never" was a poor choice of words on my part. Sorry for that. However you're looking at things a bit naive if you assume that the primary way words are created is through borrowing from other languages. Yes that is a part of the evolution of language, but it's not the only part.

Let's not forget that American English and British English differ as well. For example:

* fanny / bum,
* pants / trousers,
* underpants / pants,
* sidewalk / pavement,
* elevator / lift,
* truck / van,
* car trunk / car boot,
* kindergarten / playschool,
* restroom / toilet

and even some words pronounced the same are spelt differently:

* center / centre,
* standardize / standardise,
* color / colour

You also see similar trend in other English-speaking countries as well (eg Australia refer to 'flip-flops' as 'thongs'; but in Britain, 'thongs' refer to a G-string-like garment).

So your argument about how modern terms should be static across languages doesn't even ring true amongst the different regions of the world speaking the same language.
Not really. First, people love to write about the end of the world or in general about horrible end of something successfull. And second, Muller's video gave traction to this, for the lack of a better word, "movement" and now people are just jumping on that bandwagon of talking about how FB is a fraud or dying.

And it's not like this is the first post about future of FB. That stuff's been popping for a while now.
How is this much different compared to other software on the market, such as 7 Speed Reading or Spreeder http://www.spreeder.com/?
Well, no?
They're shutting themselves in in their Ivory tower. If you're already a free software enthusiast, than maybe you can hear what THE MASTER has to say. Otherwise, well, be fine with your life of consumerism and oppression that we won't contribute to overcome because our self-entitlement and shut-in attitude.
Why don't we (as the hacker/programmer community) also "fight back" in the meaningful & legal way that is our core strength?

Resolve to push for encryption if there is any PII data in an app that you work with especially if it is a e-mail/mobile/social app. at scale

Refuse to work with/at NSA until their policies change

Refuse to participate in any committee/standards body, conferences, with NSA employees (or their cohort companies who have willingly forsaken the public's interests)

Encourage non-tech folks to adopt stronger privacy practices

etc etc...
"...the UK's system, where price controls help pay for healthcare for those who can't afford it..."

I'm not sure how much you know about the UK system, but it doesn't use "price controls". Its funded by National Insurance Contributions [1], which are a form of payroll tax. The more you earn, the more you pay. People on low incomes pay nothing but still receive health care.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance
To your call for violence, I make a similar call: let's make sure we don't and instead adopt a more visible but equally peaceful approach.
...because this really won't conflict with the obsolete email storage format, right?
Remains of an ancient universe
X) Number of cgroups. We were getting slow performance, apparently related to slow IO, but nothing stood out as being the culprit. Turns out, since vsftpd was creating cgroups and not removing them, the pseudo-filesystem /sys/fs/cgroup had myriads of subdirectories (each representing a cgroup), and whenever something wanted to create a new cgroup or access the list of cgroups, this counted as listing that pseudo-directory, which counted as IO.

Fixed by using the undocumented option isolate_network=NO in vsftpd.conf.
> I'm reading it from my devilishly closed iPad and I can't watch the video because it's in a format incompatible with the devices many people use to surf the internet everyday

Are you sure you're not mixing roles here ? Ogg Vorbis has been supported by Firefox, Chrome and Opera for at least 5 years. Who doesn't play it ? Microsoft browsers and Apple browsers, the latter explicitely discouraging [0] its inclusion as a lowest-common codec in the HTML5 spec.

Heck, the most widespread video format on the web is Flash and Apple is notoriously known for not supporting Flash natively on their mobile.

Don't you think Apple is to blame for this more than the websites ?

> irrelevance

The fact alone that you can't play the video because of your browser shows that the free software fight still is relevant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_Ogg_formats_in_HTML5#Su...
I really can't figure out why a comment like this might be in negative downvote territory.

It articulated a personal perspective (such a farce,) properly scoped it (men who can't cooperate,) referenced personal observation (team I have been on,) identified a positive attribute (tendency to communicate and collaborate,) ensured not to exclude men which have those traits and expressed amazement at the strength of the positive effects.

I'm sure I won't ever hear it, but I'd loove to hear from someone who feels this is worthy of a downvote...
Is there a legitimate reason why any ISP / hosting provider etc allows traffic to exit with an IP that doesn't belong to them?

Surely enforcing this would prevent any IP spoofing, which would cut down on these types of attacks?

(As far as I'm aware in this type of attack you send packets purporting to be from your target, to anything on the internet that will blindly send back a reply. Hopefully the reply will be bigger/more packets than your request was, thus amplifying the bandwidth).

If I'm mistaken please explain why...
Almost. It's a difference between subject and object, like I versus me or he versus him.

Thou is the subjective form. "Thou art wise." Thee is the objective form. "My lord did kiss thee in the garden."

Thee can be any object, such as the object of a transitive verb in the above example.
I think this is more or less true. I also think that the NSA can wield plenty of influence without resorting to something so risky. They have a lot of support among the political elite. This administration has their back and I bet the next one would too, whichever party wins in 2016.