skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Coldpie's posts in this thread seem to suggest that fragmentation is more of an issue than you want to admit here, at least.

Coldpie's answers about Steam suggest he does not really know how Valve adresses these concerns, however. In a matter of days, the Steam client, originally only made to run on Ubuntu, was running on all other major distros and games ran without issues as far as I know. I don't use Ubuntu and I have had zero problem so far with running Steam Linux games.

> Which is again the problem here -- in order to supplant a dominant market leader you actually have to do something better

You don't have to supplant a dominant leader to exist. Macs exist just fine without being leaders on the market. Even for gaming I'd prefer run the SAME game on Linux if it were available just because my OS is faster to boot, and uses less resources than Windows and therefore my game can benefit from additional RAM and less overhead.

> It's playing catch-up, and it's not quite getting to parity, and even parity is unlikely to get significant market share.

It does not matter. These are additional consumers you are leaving off the table if you don't provide games for them. If your game sell millions, 1-2% is in the order of several dozens of thousands of paying customers. You may consider it to be negligible, but that's literally a couple of millions USD of revenues you don't get, and if you planned your game to be multiplatform in the first place, there's no reason not to service them.

> but I think you'll find that most of the people who are ready to switch to Linux on the desktop already have,

I believe Linux can grow much, much further than where it is now. Currently its awareness in the general population is close to nil. Only people like us know about Linux, and we're a super small minority. Even among gamers Linux awareness is very limited, so there's a lot that can be done in that field before saying the "Linux market is capped".

> unless Valve or somebody is able to provide a compelling "better than Windows" experience in at least ONE aspect.

Steam Machines will(should) be better than consoles (power wise) and Windows (direct boot into gaming system, OS stripped to the bare essential) and could drive further adoption of Linux, and there will be quite a number of games available for them when they launch.

I'm hopeful. But it will take time. Windows gaming will not go away in a single day.
Any up-to-date Swift developer already knows Swift :-p
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> Our apologies. Your results didn't transfer correctly to this page. Don't worry -- your data was saved. If you've forgotten what your results were, you can email gameswithwords@gmail.com and tell us your age, country, and what time you finished the task, we may be able to figure out what your results were. We apologize for the inconvenience.

I see - the test writers must be Canadian...

edit: and since you're here, that message occurred in
http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/done.php#
after the result had been displayed, after which
NoScript or AdBlockPlus interfered when I clicked
on the question mark.
This has to be best best comment I've seen about the project yet! You mind if I use this as an example for my students? (I mean, I will anyway. I just want to know if you mind.)
I clicked "She'll be right!" just to test if this was true and none of the results guess me to be Australian. I had originally thought the same as you did but was pleasantly surprised.
> the police likely believed they were doing the right thing

You mean, just like TSA officers who believe that X-raying everyone who boards a plane is the right thing if we want to catch these darn terrorists?
A surprising number of immigrant groups pick up elements of Ebonics in their English dialects. In my area non-Black groups with notable dialectal markers typical of Ebonics seem to include Vietnamese, Koreans, Salvadorians and various Arab groups (not as common).
Yeah, besides word choice (“I have a doubt” = “I have a question” in Indian English) you also have more interesting things like discourse deixis—“consider that code: …” instead of “consider this code: …”—or how uncertainty is expressed—“some” instead of “a” for example shows up in Daft Punk’s “Something About Us”.
>not all police officers are part of the shoot / oppress first, ask questions later school of policing.

But these were. You're creating a false dichotomy between cops who violate people's rights and cops who think that they're doing the right thing.
Prescribed English grammar often has little to do with the actual vernacular. I've seen many prescribed "grammatical" sentences that are woefully awkward to my very native English speaking ears, while the "ungrammatical" but more common form feels much more comfortable.
I wonder, can you make a device that's an anti-stingray? I mean a device that detects a stingray is present and compromises it somehow.
Google blink tag easter egg
I'm not sure to what degree it was involuntary, but regardless, no, they don't stop being state records because the government handed him a title. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd be pretty shocked if the ACLU didn't win that one.
Aww, thanks :) Go ahead.
Leo editor – “a revolutionary step in the right direction for programming”
> police were lurking outside people’s windows and sending powerful electronic signals into their private homes in order to collect information from within.

Is it just me or does this not sound terribly terrible?
My neighbours wifi router sends "powerful electronic signals" into my private home every day.
I would love to know where the option is for a 30 hour work week for those people who value things like extra hours with their family more than those luxurious goods and services you say you prefer. You're using yourself as an anecdote here - for many people its not a choice between leisure/idleness and work, it could be spending less time to take care of a special needs kid, or elderly parents and grandparents, or spending an extra day out hiking and exploring nature, or finding and pursuing a new passion.

I think our collective values would change if people had more time to stop and think about what is important to them. For those that realize that a fast car and 2 expensive latte's a day don't matter at all in the long run, shouldn't there be more options than assuming they want to work more to afford more things?
No idea why Finnish, but the Korean population near where I live often speak with notable dialectal markers indicative of Ebonics. I think it comes from the relative popularity of hip-hop culture in Korean popular culture.

This interview is a great example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeb-PJJN9sk
I think you're both right. There are side channel attacks against remote hosts (timing-based padding oracle attacks agains TLS come to mind). But for the case of PGP, which is mostly for encryption at-rest, attacks like this don't seem as relevant. I say seem as relevant, because crypto attacks can be surprising :)
It seems that the distance between American English and AAVE is very small, which is natural I guess.

I got 1. Ebonics 2. New Zealand 3. English (England) for dialect and 1. Turkish 2. German 3. Finnish for native language. I'm native Chinese currently living in California.
Why "clear: both" CSS?
I realize I'm in the Lion's Den. I feel that if you stepped outside the Google employee and Hacker News bubble you would see Go stubbornly refusing to have modern features, as I do.

I've been programming for 30 years and have written code that is in every Linux distro, and yes I did read the Go mailing list occasionally in the early days. But if it makes you feel better to call my opinions ignorant then I hope that's working out for you.
The way I speak...

Pleased to meet you. I am an active sporty guy and 'I play on the soccer team'.

Also, the last variation, would be 'I play at The Soccer Team'. Landmarks are (usually) capitalized.
I find it really easy to tell people who are native german speakers, based on learning german for years, and having had grammar drilled into me. I dont think there's been a time when I've picked up on it, and been wrong
Swiftlang.org
I'm so pleased to see that (at time of writing) 4/35 comments are about this feature of the data. It's really encouraging to know that the HN audience is sufficiently academic to spot features like this, wonder about them, question them, and arrive at interesting insights. It leaves me keen to continue treating HN as one of my main new aggregators knowing that bullshit data and visualisations will be detected and treated as such!
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Same

dialects
1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
2. Singaporean
3. American (Standard)

This is really off! My english is a mix between various London accents. However, since I often hang out with foreigners, I may be more acceptant of sentences with weird grammar. That would explain the Ebonics.

native language
1. Italian
2. Chinese
3. Dutch

Although I hangout with Chinese people, I don't speak any of those languages. Plus, it would be good for a language study test to differentiate Cantonese, Mandarin...
Ir's true that Blink project leaders have expressed a disinterest in improving web documents relative to web apps. But the WebKit project is very interested in both document-centric and app-centric uses of the app platform. We are frankly a little confused at the idea that there is a conflict. The best platforms include awesome document support. It's true that the Web is a little quirky in this regard - it's built inside-out with the app layer embedded inside the document layer, instead of vice versa. But that is part of what has helped it be more successful.

But actions speak louder than words. Some awesome webapp-focused stuff that's been just recently announced: IndexedDB, WebGL, JavaScript Promises, Media Source Extensions, Web Crypto, a vastly improved JavaScript VM that scales from super quick startup for simple pages to advanced optimizations for complex webapps, and massive optimizations for webapp responsiveness (covering DOM, rendering, layout, style, JS, etc). And that's just the announcements, there is a lot more cool stuff in WebKit nightlies like HTML templates, new ES6 language features, major web developer tools improvements, and more.
I'm impressed - it suggested New Zealand as #1, and Australia as #2. Raised in Australia and New Zealand, with kiwi parents.
It also gets tricky doing spam detection and search if all email is encrypted on the client.
I've noticed that prepositions seem to change usage over time in different regions. For example, "different to" has become common in British vernacular, even though "different from" is still typical for formal British English and in American vernacular. Sometimes I hear "different than" but I'm not sure where it is commonly used.
Maybe not Ebonics, but probably AAVE. It's a pretty significant dialect in North America.
Thank you for making this compatible with Android 4.1.2. Because of bluetooth issues, I switched my Xperia T back from 4.3 to 4.1.2, and I've been missing all the cool 4.3 Xperia wallpapers.
I'm running "Glitch" Config with "Blueshift" Gradient, all other settings defaulted. Gonna stare at it for a few hours.
with access to the radio firmware if your phone you can

good luck getting it though
> My neighbours wifi router sends "powerful electronic signals" into my private home every day.

Making your phone use max power to emit information is nothing like the wifi radiation you get from your neighbors.
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"It was the monkey that pushed the bear."
What possible room for interpretation is there here? Unless you're not paying attention.

http://i.imgur.com/cxGR1Mm.png

I think this thing is broken. I did catch myself almost selecting something ridiculous-sounding a few times because I didn't read the sentence close enough, though; maybe that's what happened. But there were a ton of "US Black Vernacular" options that I never picked.
Move aside graphene, there's a new wonder-material on its way
would make for an interesting read for sure :)
Wow, this is pretty good. It guessed my Finnish native language. Although it said my English dialect is 1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 2. Singaporean 3. New Zealand. Well, I don't think I have any specific dialect so it might be just pretty random.
Side note: I get an SSL error on https://www.thre3d.com/
I'm writing Android app as well, using Scala. Do you have sbt script and/or ProGuard config that you can share?
As a former (non-native) resident of Singapore, that's one of those features of the local lingo that makes me shudder every time I see it, but it's probably already crossed the line from "mistake" to "accepted local evolution". It certainly is well entrenched, as I've seen it in bank letters about choosing good passwords, and it's in this university policy as well:

Have both upper and lower case alphabets

http://iits.smu.edu.sg/cyber-security/password-management

Quite a few other telltale Singlish features in there as well, eg. the use of "staff" to refer to a single employee and using "credential" instead of "credentials". Both of these are rooted in how Chinese and Malay lack a grammatical plural.
Plan9 won't take off until it can run software. But I find it amusing that at night I got +8 votes but the following day I got -4.
totally incorrect for me. Didn't guess my nationality and put Russian at third place in native languages.
Visual studio does definitely allow that, although I honestly don't use it very often.
Other: impossible to complete on iOS due to insane drop down boxes that don't allow one to make or even view the proper selection. So, I suppose, I'm in the entitled American group. Finally, popular.

edit: dead I guess? If anyone has showdead on and sees this, I'd be much obliged if you could take a gander at my history and theorize as to what got me banned. Email in profile. Thanks in advance.
Hey, thanks for the heads up! We will get that fixed ASAP.
That's right. In our data, Standard American, Canadian, & AAVE are all pretty similar. Partly that's a function of the questions we ask. But partly that's because there's a clear divide between the north american dialects and the UK-based ones.
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What it's testing for:

1. Passive alternation

2. It-clefting (simply `clefting` in some circles)

3. Another it-cleft?

4. It-cleft + possible scope ambiguity

5. Quantifier scope ambiguity (do you get quant raising, basically)

6. More clefts? Don't recall, but maybe they're mixing it up with the overt complementizer (`that`).

7. Ditto above

8. Passive construction again

9. More quantifier scope stuff

10. Lexicon inventory (modal shall is antiquated in most (all?) dialects)

11. Idunno, phrasing. Not-quite-collocate decisions

12. Aspect-tense interaction, I guess...

13. 'Conjugation', or how do you express tense?

14. Lexical selection/wh-feature spellout (does `+person` override the 'incorrect' case-marked `whom`?)

15. Skipped this one due to a double-click, too much coffee

16. Even more lexicon stuff

17. Lexical selection, or 'what kind of thing needs a determiner?'

...okay this is tedious. My point was going to be that a lot of these, especially the syntactic construction ones, seem very specific. I don't know of any dialects of English for example that switch the assignment of roles (A speech delivered Bill, eg) so freely as some of these questions suggest, and I thought all dialects had passive construction and it-clefting. Maybe I'll go through again and answer all the wrong things and see where it thinks those features are from.

Anyway, this was interesting. If this sort of thing also interests you, waste the rest of your day on The World Atlas of Language Structures! [1] It's a ton of fun.

[1] http://wals.info/
This is a huge problem that's akin to "replacing HTML/JS." It's a non backward-compatible change that make the plugin nearly 100% useless for current PGP users. Obviously folks can generate new EC keys, but they will be reluctant to abandon keys they've had for years that contain valuable third-party signatures. I think this will be a huge hindrance to adoption, and it would be imperative for the community to implement RSA, even if it's only for key import and interop, not generation.
The model doesn't do a good job of telling apart the various Chinese languages (yet), so we aren't including that distinction in the feedback (yet).
"How is it not awesome that someone can detect and prevent a SELF INFLICTED major infirmity with such nonchalance"

A bit like being impressed by a surgeon's ability to fix up his own femoral artery when he deliberately shoots himself in the groin.

Hmm, it's a fine line...
I didn't pick that option and it still put my number 2 dialect as Australian.
I believe he was a hero.
"It's not a popular sentiment on HN, but not all police officers are part of the shoot / oppress first, ask questions later school of policing."

To be fair, even those of that school like believe "they [are] doing the right thing and attempting to bring a bad guy to justice."
I just took the test a second time, and I'm getting the exact same results, appart from my native languages which changed to:
1. Italian
2. Dutch
3. English

Well, that must be it.
Honestly, this is all being done over public airwaves. It may be an FCC violation (cell phone jammers?), but I don't think that's what the ACLU is upset about here.

The part that seems shady to me is that Verizon appears to think it is OK to give out customer information to law enforcement without a warrant. Without being able to tie a device ID to a person, its all just a bunch of numbers.
Amazon’s Power Play
any benchmark vs cpython avail? (not startup speed). just curious.
This is very exciting. Bravo to team Etoile!

I wonder if there are similar version-controlled object databases available for other environments?
Heh, I wrote this. Glad you enjoy. :-)
If a software engineering company has superstitions then I wonder about their engineering capabilities.
Great work nilium. I always wanna try one of these but I worry about battery life - how does everyone find these live wallpapers affect the performance of their batteries?
None of the top three guesses are correct in my case, not even close. I wonder if this is because they have more data for Chinese and Portuguese (Brazil) speakers.

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. South African
2. Welsh (UK)
3. New Zealand

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Chinese
2. Portuguese
3. English
True. I was thinking of some way not to capitalize it, any ideas?
The only thing I can imagine would be relevant is that I'm using pfn's android-sdk-plugin.[1] I also have a sort of generic build.scala file I tend to reuse for Android projects (it's based partly on Ascension's, but has been tweaked a bit), which may also be useful.[2] I leave most of the proguard configuration up to pfn's sbt plugin since it does an acceptable job, but your mileage may vary.

[1]: https://github.com/pfn/android-sdk-plugin/

[2]: https://gist.github.com/nilium/db5bfac2174370ebdd97
Big Bang blunder bursts the multiverse bubble
Those who made the mistake of installing pre-releases of VS2012 alongside other versions got burned badly. In general Microsoft pre-releases of VisualStudio are so bad that we've resoved to installing them only on VMs. Some who didn't had to resort to reformatting their drive and OS.
Very good article indeed, you've made your point.
OpenSignal already has a database of towers, with their associated FCC ID info. It would be trivial to crowdsource rouge/out of place "towers".
> The amendment process was intended to allow the Constitution to remain a living document, and balance longevity with future flexibility.

A little bit of a tangent, but amendment process shouldn't be confused with the theory of the Constitution as a living document. In fact, they're almost opposites. The living document doctrine holds that the Constitution can change -- without formal amendment -- based on the evolving standards of a society.

E.g., what is "cruel & unusual" is not based on what the authors had in mind when they wrote the phrase, but rather what society thinks that means today.
They appear to list three guesses for variety of English for everybody who takes the quiz. They correctly spotted that I'm a native speaker of American (standard) English and listed the other two possibilities as Canadian (I do listen to radio from Canada, by rebroadcast on Minnesota Public Radio) and ebonics (which everyone in the United States hears sooner or later).

The guesses for my language background were spot on too. Like many Minnesotans, I have a few dialectal usages that reflect Scandinavian influence, and besides English as a first language, the other two languages guessed for me were Norwegian and Swedish. I have Norwegian ancestry (in part), so I come by those dialect habits honestly.
I appreciate the guide to the printing processes (https://thre3d.com/how-it-works/3d-printing-process). As an outsider to the industry, I didn't realize how many there were.
Evil British Airways
It's a pity about your friends, so I get your decision and am sorry for your losses. I don't see why taking occasional trips means you can't take life seriously though. I still live a normal life and like to occasionally try out stuff.

On that note, I finally got to do some 2cb, 2ci, and 2ce about 2 years ago. Amazing stuff.
What about Zappos? Great customer service and a delightful experience is supposedly what got them to where they are.
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This makes for a sweet wallpaper! Nicely done.