skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's this (a bookmarklet):

https://gun.io/blog/openspritz-a-free-speed-reading-bookmark...

However, it no longer works due to him going over the Readability API limit.
I was thinking about those "kn" words a few months ago and sat down with a dictionary to see how many there were. I think there were about 20 or so common ones, and every single one has a cognate in Swedish that starts with an audible k, and same for words like gnat. I wonder why English has dropped that sound. Are there exceptions?
https://github.com/Nephyrin/NephScripts
https://github.com/Nephyrin/emacs-purple-haze-theme
Hiring big data engineers by founder of Apache Hive
Any of the host companies willing to share details of the projects that were worked on? Quite curious!

Edit: Also wondering about the general experience of getting good work done with someone new to the team/project in just a couple days.
yep definitely wood.
My understanding is that it's a middle U.S. accent-ism. Broadcasters learn to speak with this accent as it's perceived "neutral" (General American) and many end up using it. It's not part of my native local mid-East coast accent (the 'h' is silent in words like "white") and it drives me crazy when I hear it on the radio.

In the golden radio and early tv days, broadcasters and actors learned to speak with a "mid-atlantic" or transatlantic accent that was constructed to sound like something halfway between American and British Englishes. For a while, it was even taught in upper-class private schools in the U.S. North East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
Finally won with 21180 points.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58437091/awwyis.PNG
My first thought: a small rectangle (width: 6px, height:4px)
That's crazy. My entire telecoms bill here in the UK for an unlimited ADSL line, land line and three mobile phones is only £47!
The context has to be very particular for me not to consider this to be exactly 24 (natural number, not real number) without intermediate representation. I assume we're working over the ring of integers here. In that case, 6x4 is only ever not instantly 24 when it's part of an expression of similar terms (say, 6x1 + 6x2 + 6x3 + 6x4) in which a pattern is being expressed.

If you're not working over the usual ring, though, intuition goes out the window and I think of it as "six-but-not-six blob four-but-not-four". That's because in a module sense, it is 6 (element of ring) times (arbitrary multiplication operation) 4 (element of module).
There was speculation that the social networks will outplace the traditional media, but to some extent, this will not happen. Fake social accounts and handles are already everywhere nowadays, and they indeed cause good poisoning on search results.
6 wheels out of which 4 are driving wheels.
A grid of 6x4 cells, or a generic thing of 6 units by 4 units.
LolCode is a great language. I mention it at the bottom, with Brainfuck, as one of the few languages worth using
There isn't much to a good looking editor. For me, it's choose a decent font and a color scheme and I am done.

Emacs: http://i.imgur.com/NBZJSd6.png

Vim: http://i.imgur.com/LnnVUQe.png
If someone were to make a Spritz-esque bookmarklet that added more to the basic idea we've seen online, what would you consider to be useful additions? I think that letting users select text and do a run of the highlighted area would be great, or letting them click "pause" to jump the page down to the currently displayed word would be cool too.
I may have done too much math to give a useful answer. 6 x 4 is the number which is the result of multiplying 6 and 4, here written with the 6 first, but probably not for any particular reason. It doesn't seem like any arrangement of lots or copies of anything, but all the listed arrangements of lots and copies are instances of it. Some other instances that are nothing like the suggested answers are "the area of a rectangle with dimensions 6 and 4" or "the amount of torque you get if you apply 6 Newtons to the end of a 4 meter arm"
Someone staying can be a burden if said someone is destroying the property or causing conflict with other people living there.
This could be achieved a lot simpler using an algorithm like shadow volumes
if you've ever met Jacques you'll know that he's one of those people who can jump into just about anything and be productive straight away
Yes, at least for this Scot, "balm" is the same as the first part of "bampot" and psalm is the same as "Sam".
Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=li...

and this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nae9L4EdRs
>I've noticed that most devs seem to have strong opinions one way or another.

I've personally noticed that most devs don't have an opinion either way since they don't use subtrees nor submodules.

I don't know what subtrees offer but using submodules has been very pleasant once you know how they work. For example if you version control your .vim I think that adding submodules for extensions is way better than cloning them inside your .vim.

I look forward to having the opportunity to use subtrees.
Timbl's words are meaningless when he speaks on the web as he's himself bending over backwards to appease corporate interests, control, restrictions and rubberstamped DRM.
This was the major issue I've had some other tool I tried some time back. It spent the same time on, for example, "inconvenience" and "cat". It also didn't really worked with prepositions. Pauses on commas and periods were weird as well. That's just something you could work on. Then there's contextual complexity (that you probably talk about), where sentence could be complicated even if it contains only simple words.
Because it's not in an obviously maths context, I read it as "Six by Four", the first association in my mind for that is cars - 4 x 4 being four wheel drive, so I guess 6 x 4 would be a six wheeled vehicle with 4 driven wheels.
What algorithms might do better than this minimax? I've just read all the comments and there are no suggestions...
Any sense of what makes him that way? Is it something you've seen in other people as well? Is it a skill thing or a communication thing?
The video of the whole speech of Sen. Feinstein about CIA:

http://youtu.be/GNhDDAhCXXE

The transcript:

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-relea...

Very good written, worth reading or watching.
Is it just me or "simple semantics" is not at all simple? Compare with:

hg push -- pushes everything to "default push location"
hg push -r . -- pushes currently checked out branch
hg push -r foo where -- pushes foo to where
Standard photo size (6 inches by 4 inches) - or at least some form of note card/postcard/paper size.
That's phenomenal, thanks a million!
I read it as six by four, as in the size of a photograph in inches.
Quebec has onerous regulations regarding contests and sweepstakes.

http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/te...
More examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym#Examples
That's probably going too far...
Standard dimensions for photographic prints, pre digital cameras.
> I understand your suggestion as changing the contract to satisfy those who falsely think they actually need "/dev/random" even if they don't.

Not exactly. /dev/urandom also sucks, because it's slow, and it never blocks, even when the system knows that it can't deliver cryptographically-strong entropy.

There should only be one interface, and it should deliver cryptographically-strong random bytes at high speed and with high reliability. There is currently no character device on Linux that does this.

> I however prefer having both and expecting from the programmers to actually understand what they need.

I'd prefer it too, but it's unrealistic. Keeping up with the state-of-the-art in crypto is a job for specialists, and even halfway-decent crypto implementers make RNG mistakes on a regular basis.
I thought of 4x6, the photo size.
First association - wood (mighty big as well)

Second association - 6 wheeled vehicle, 4 wheels driven (possibly because of the recent Top Gear with the Mercedes 6x6).
I told my mother I'd meet her at the 'kway' for the same reason.
There are two options for "six, four copies of".

I see this as an area with six units along one side and four units along the next side.

I'd read "6 x 4" as "multiply 6 by 4" which I'd see as "6 + 6 + 6 + 6" and the same as six x four.

I am not sure what you mean by "lots" or "copies".
It can mean any of the things on your poll, and many not on your poll, except for "Six lots of four", that one doesn't make sense to me.

But that term has MANY meanings - without the context (arithmetic? wood? cars? IPv6? matrix?) it's impossible to say.
It requires a lot more infrastructure work to have this type architecture. In addition you move a lot of the complexity of your application to the interface level between the microservices.

I think it has a good use-case if you have one resource-intensive part of your application that has different scaling or completion time parameters than the rest of the application.

For large complex systems it's also a form of code-reuse across several different systems.
Well, can't blame them to avoid PHP.
Lead sounds like read whereas lead sounds like read.
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Exactly! There's a Frazz cartoon about how you can tell if a person reads a lot (mispronounces) or watches TV a lot (misspells). I know which category I'd rather be in.
We had a teacher named Mrs Hoare, pronounced "whore". She was lovely. She eventually left to be replaced by Mrs Robinson, so handing in homework involved "Here's to you Mrs Robinson!"

but nobody got as far as asking "Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson?"

chortle chortle guffaw teenage idiots
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This AI was doing impressively well but still did not quite reach 2048 stopping just before the end.

The way I won myself rather quickly was using bottom right priority and ignoring up key(which was suggested by HN).

That is put highest scoring tiles bottom and sorted to the right if possible.

So it is mostly down, right, with some lefts, but no ups. This way is really easy to get 1024, I think I reached 2048 on the 3rd try with this strategy(score was 20k something).
Wood for me too, I guess all those summer jobs at construction left something behind.
Why are you not using typed memory views in Cython? That might easily close the performance gap.
That's a pretty brilliant idea!

Sounds like something I'd love to try some day. Of course, two days—or even fourteen days—at a single company isn't enough to get much programming done. So I suspect just trying to do normal programming would not really be in the interest of the companies or me.

However, it sounds like a great chance to share some of my more specialized, esoteric knowledge, like functional programming, FRP, verification or synthesis: things which might be useful for a startup or project, but tend to languish away in research labs or deep inside large corporations.

In the future, if I'm ever in a real position to try this—I guess if I get better known and learn more interesting things to share—I'll definitely consider trying something like this.
'kin' comes from 'ken', so 'kinfolk' are folks that think like you. What does 'kith' mean?
It's easy on your own servers too: Containerise everything or put everything in VMs even when you control the hardware, whether you do it with something like OpenStack or roll your own scripts.
I imagine that the fact that the regular worker has already been paid is not the big picture here.

If every movie is stolen or given away for free, this reduces the incentive to create more big pictures that would keep giving these people jobs.

Eventually this could possibly lead to fewer people getting paid much needed money due to fewer productions happening.
This happened to me during my commute. I was visualizing stacks of cars smashing together and disappearing in front of me. Very unsettling.
I suspect he is in he US a fair bit - does the US Bill of Rights only apply to US citizens in the US?

Even so, we have our own Bill of Rights across on this side of the pond:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
6 inches wide by 4 inches tall.

Multiplication would be 6 * 4 or 6 × 4, not 6 x 4.
Thank you for being sane about this.

Do you know if those folks are working on making /dev/random faster*? I'd really like to see even traditionally "non-cryptographic" RNG's (e.g. rand()) just use the kernel's CSPRNG.
Maybe this is the designer in me speaking, but I immediately thought of width x height.
Independent news is a different thing. I might question how or why it's the UK's obligation to provide that but I'm very proud that we do provide it through the World Service on the radio (broadcast around the world), the BBC News website and multiple regional global news channels available in most countries.

But that's a very different thing to making Strictly Come Dancing and Doctor Who available to expats and others as a "cultural lifeline". Part of leaving a country is that you do leave things behind and I don't see why TV is something people should be entitled to any more than they are to red London buses, policeman in strangely impractical hats or Ribena and Marmite.

Even aside from the practical challenges around licencing of content, I'm not sure the British TV licence payer has any interest in funding a global TV network, and even if we did would having this behemoth of broadcasting available across the world have a positive or negative impact on local stations, particularly in smaller English speaking countries?
Yet that is what happens on the streets of America every single day. I think your statement should be "you'd have a hard time getting your average American majority to understand that people are dying on their streets today".. because, it is happening.
Six sets of four reps each. But that's a really weird routine. I recommend 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps for most people.
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As others have mentioned, a grid of 6 columns by 4 rows, like the resolution of a display.
For me the multiplication is not all that obvious because I'm used to reading and writing "6*4" for multiplications within an ASCII context. 6x4 looks like a noun to me, a type of real-world object or maybe an area.
Actually barn-raisings took just a couple of days, if the neighbors were helping :)
The pronunciation of read ("reed") and read ("red") never merged -- and you can find plenty of other examples if you go looking for wordplay, like evening (end of the day) and evening (making something even). People will only base their pronunciation on spelling when they've never heard the word spoken, but loose (not tight) and lose (not win) are both quite common.

If its and it's were going to collapse (not an unreasonable guess), I'd bet in the other direction, with its dying and it's surviving. The mistake is pretty much always made in that direction today, as people think "'s for possessives" (or, less generously, as they think "better add an apostrophe").
I had never noticed this about the level of service Apple offers here in the UK, but it is true. Most people don't like making a fuss here, from what I can tell. They grumble about it, but don't actually complain if something is wrong. I think it is changing.

But I would agree that the concept that something you do is someone else's fault is wrong. If anything, accepting that idea leads to daft warning messages on everything, eg. mats on the Land Rover Freelander dashboard for putting stuff with massive warnings reading "Don't put hot drinks here!". It is obvious, but they felt the need to put it there in case someone blamed them for their action of putting a roasting hot drink there and then accelerating swiftly. It's silly.
So what will happen if his next game hit the top ten again? Shut it down? Why not put his game for charity or just stop releasing games if he really care about how his game affects the players?
My favourite self-antonym is 'sanction' - to permit or to forbid.

Plenty more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
That's a strange argument.

I'm a person. I didn't cause economic or education downturns, and my firm actually does the opposite - we create jobs in education and improve core standards. This is a classic situation of critic meets the generalist.
How about: "The multiplicative ring operation of ℤ on the elements (((((1+1)+1)+1)+1)+1) and (((1+1)+1)+1)."

As a mathematician with a slight focus on algebra when I see such terms the questions that come to my mind are rather: Which ring am I working on, has it finite characteristics, is one of these numbers a ring element and the other an Element of ℤ [1]? It is always funny to see how your focus changes your perception :)

[1] For example 4 could be an element of the finite field with 5 elements GF(5). Then I would interpret 6x4 as 4+4+4+4+4+4, because 6 is not an element of GF(5) and I thus cannot plug it into the multiplication operation of GF(5).
I see 6x4 either as the dimensions of a surface, or as some kinds of informal coordinate (like "the 4th episode of the 6th season of a tv show).
Come to think of it, name any recent rock stars... anyone? I can only think of people outside the last 10 years...

It seems you can just as easily be forgotten as a rock star.
Some (reputed) schools also offer part-time CS degrees that you can work at your own pace while continuing to work.

Besides the online GT Degree already mentioned by another comment,

Tufts has a part-time masters too [1]

So does Stanford Honors Co-op program [2]

They are both probably more expensive than Georgia Tech Online MS CS.

[1] http://www.cs.tufts.edu/Master-of-Science-in-Computer-Scienc...

[2] https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/gradadmissions/programs/...
The ordinary language expression "six times four" [and a wasted opportunity to use Polish notation]. After that "24" and I don't mean some picture of countable things but just the abstraction called "24".

Even after reading the poll answers none of the this-or-that options even prompt an image of a grouping. What makes algebraic notation useful is that it abstracts away the need to model the calculation further in most cases. There's no need to ponder "x lots of y or y lots of x".
That's good because "lots" and "of" are more muddied. concepts than "times". My fourth grade teacher could explain "times" by giving examples of timesing. Examples of lotsing and ofing are harder to come by.
Seriously, the guy who invented the web (and let's stop for one second to think about what that has given us) makes one bad call and you say as a result he has no credibility?

I sure as hell hope you hold yourself to the same standard in your own life.
And that symbol is called 'ampersand' but originally was just 'and'. The alphabet song used to include it at the end (w, x, y and z, and per se 'and'). So 'ampersand' is supposed to be a corruption much like 'Saint Nicholas' turned into 'Santa Claus'. Or is this apocryphal?
Given the number of Bentley, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and cars in general roaming the streets of Hanoi I'm not sure that's a valid point.
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I did, but you probably didn't notice it because it wasn't in your face whilst you played the main game. I think it was shown after you had ditched. Clever.

(It was probably because I was always ditching and dying that I saw them; I was pretty hopeless at it, although when I plugged my Xperia S into HDMI, the phone ran noticeably slower so it was significantly easier to play.... just a tip for anyone out there....)
Since this is a language thread, worth pointing out that an anecdote is a story about an event, place or person. What you've shared is in entertaining fact, not an anecdote.
"&" is actually a stylised way of writing "et" (as in literally writing the letters "e" and "t" together).
Another fun spelling is 'connexion', a somewhat archaic form of 'connection'
I have always found 5 sets of 8 to be best :)
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There was a thing going around twitter lately:

> If ping was designed by the git people: net-ping host --no=dns,bind --proto=TCP,rfc:492 eth0@ipv4::http://1.0.0.127.IN -ADDR.ARPA --stats -v
A plank of wood? i.e. six by four
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I'll throw in another vote for the "six-by-four area" group, this time from communicating the sizes of lego pieces to my brother while we were building things. I also see a malformed attempt at typing in a hexademical number.
When I saw "6x4", my immediate thought was a "six by four" matrix. So, by convention, this means 6 rows and 4 columns, corresponding to e.g. 6 observations of 4 variables each (from a statistician's perspective). The closest answer I could find here was "six lots of four."
An unusual use of the 24x7; 6 hours for 4 days?
What do you think about that ?
https://github.com/dgellow/home-bootstrapping/tree/master/em...
Are you a native English speaker? I remember being shocked when I learned that in English "sexy" has a popular meaning outside of sexual context. While I wouldn't use a (translation of) sexy in my native language in this context it seems that it's perfectly acceptable in English.

That's actually what's hard when learning foreign languages - words which are similar to the ones you know, but with different semantics. It's even harder when the language you're learning is relatively similar to yours - it was a bigger problem for me to learn Russian than English for this reason.
Surprising that the "words that begin with n" section didn't discuss how the process works both ways. For example the word newt (as in the aquatic amphibian) used to be ewt, but because it was so often prefaced by "an" eventually the n was attached to the ewt. Wikipedia's definition for this process is juncture loss.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Juncture_loss
Great to hear he's doing OK.

There's just one recommendation i can give him develop a thicker skin you can't change your game for every person blaming external things for their own incompetence.

My office is net to the call center if you ever hear the stupid shit people say you will realize you can't take anything to heart.

Do your thing man and ignore people complaining that their life was ruined by you in some way they will blame everybody except themselves.
Because people want to take their SD card, plug it in somewhere else, and have access to their photos / videos / songs. This necessitates using FAT. That is the case for most removable media.
I don't doubt that, i just don't see alot of value in SteamOS right now. Id just get a Steambox and put Windows on it and have the same experience, just with the full catalogue of games.
I think it's a combination of having a broad range of skills, experience and not being at all afraid to call bullshit bullshit. He's polite but focusses on getting stuff done and not the minutiae. If you have the opportunity to work with him, take it!
It's six wide and four tall.
Those were quite literally the first two things to come into my mind after "6 times 4", right down to Lego's with my brother.
Definitely a matrix... * is for multiplication ;)
Haha, I'm gratified to be described as a 'young person' in the Granttree section... TERRIBLE photo of Swombat, though. :D
Nope: everybody sat down and things were dragging for hours.
Thanks for the XKCD font, didn't know it. Will put this to good use :)
TL;DR "13 kids at my school broke their phones because of your game, and they still play it cause it's addicting like crack."
My English teacher told me that "You" is now pronounced like that because the "th" in "Thou" used to have its own character, which looked a lot like the Y.
Think of the amount of people that would return to their lives and do something productive!

(I say this whilst typing a comment on HN; the irony is not lost on me)