skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short of cauterizing your own genitals, nothing seems like it would change who you are like speaking in an-other's language. Blech, I'd rather wear someone else's underwear, no thanks, I'll take the 12 credits but no way am I retaining anything. "Well, science says you lose the ability to learn languages as you get older." Oh, did NPR just interview TED? Dummies in other countries and dummies in the CIA learn as adults, are they all using different science? An American describes another American who is fluent in French as "oh my God, he's so smart, he speaks French and everything" but this statement is easily unmasked as a defense by getting him to describe a Frenchman who speaks English: "well, they all speak English over there." The bilingualism is robbed of the "intelligence" signification because it's seen as customary.... who they are. America is a branded-identity nation, which means hearing yourself speak in not-your accent, with not-your vocabulary sounds very not-you, which is why when an American tries to speak French he feels self-conscious, but the Frenchman hearing it feels you aren't even trying. He'd be wrong, you are trying: trying not to become French.

"Ugh, I hate psychobabble, why can't you be more like Malcolm Gladwell and give me practical neuroscience based tips like 'get up before dawn' or 'play basketball annoyingly'?" Fine, here's your concrete advice that you won't take for shaving 6 months off your second language acquisition: master the accent first. Before even one word of vocabulary. The accent will teach you the rhythm of the words and the grammar-- it will make it okay for you to learn the vocabulary. And you will think differently. American exceptiono-isolationism isn't arrogance, it's a cognitive bias impressed on us from kindergarten when we learn that there are only two languages in the world, English and Everything Else. Which teaches us that a German is more similar to an Italian than a Texan to a New Yorker, and I can predict with 100% accuracy that if that made you pause you only speak English. Can't wait to hear your foreign policy ideas over drinks. You should work for NPR.

Once you have the accent down, pick a foreign language actor or actress you admire, and learn the language as if you were them. Talk like them. This trick works because you are thinking like someone else, acting like someone else, yet simultaneously distancing yourself from this change-- I'm doing this, but it's not me, I'm just pretending. The self-consciousness is removed because it's not "you" who is doing it. Yet it is; and after a time, you'll become it-- and the positive benefit for society is you'll hate the guy you used to be. C'est la vie.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/05/thank_god_the_heart_a...
Just to make sure we're all on the same page. Audible is just another piece of Amazon.
I can think of two possibilities:
1. IE is honouring the ClearType tuning settings.
2. The default gammas are different.
Kindle Unlimited gives you unlimited access to about 600,000 ebooks and audio books on Kindle devices.

Prime gives you free 2-day shipping on a large number of Amazon products and gives you unlimited access to Amazon Video.

I personally was a little surprised (and disappointed) Amazon didn't roll this out as another Prime perk. I'm not sure why making Amazon Video available to Prime members makes financial sense to Amazon, but making Kindle Unlimited doesn't.

edit: With Prime, you also get access to music, some ebooks, and something called "Amazon Pantry". There is a description here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
Bill Gates says, "You know assembly language? You're a hacker. <nudge nudge wink wink>"

That's like saying to a plumber, "You're a plumber? You're a partisan." Da fuq is yer problem?

(pipe bombs)
It is a surprise that Audible is an Amazon company. Will the launch of this service create self-competition?
Lately I've found myself using Firefox more and more. The last couple of weeks Chrome and Canary have been hanging a lot, especially when I want to download a file. Chrome will slow to a crawl, tabs will stop rendering and when I try to close it thinks it's still downloading something.

As someone who's been using Chrome since the first public release I wish it were a bit more stable (for me at least).
"an iconic font made for developers, code jedis, ninjas, HTTPsters, evangelists and nerds."

Urgh. Why do people do this?
had a quick glance through his history, and it's ireland. (I'll remove this if you want OP).
Can I just throw in that Ireland has some definite advantages, however living in Dublin is painfully expensive, and the money here (for lower level positions at least) is less than that of the UK
I am really sorry people downvote you. People please don't downvote for mere disagreement; not upvoting is enough. You are actively discouraging otherwise completely legitimate and sensible questions.
That figure includes partial speakers , so people who learned a little French in school but probably have a much better knowledge of say English.
With the exception of France most countries that legitimately speak French as the main language are either tiny or third world.
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I wonder how hackable these will be, or what kind of bandwidth you might be able to push. I could see putting one at my home and one at my office to create a poormans wireless bridge.
Contracts.

See this explanation by author Charlie Stross:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/07/some-ram...
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Yep, just went through my list of 38 and only 2 are on unlimited. My list is comprised of relatively popular books that are relatively old, nothing like new or anything. Examples: Army at Dawn, Eternal Golden Braid, Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons, When Genius Failed, Snow Crash, Good Omens, The Signal and The Noise, The Looming Tower. I would expect at least a couple of these to be on there, its not like they're at peak popularity or anything.

But I did chuckle at Piketty's Capital being on unlimited.
> but I'd still like it to be researched and tested for decades

That's the real problem though: in order to attest that the system works and is reliable, you need massive knowledge and study. Considering that elections are supposed to be for everyone and the amount of people capable of conducting such studies is at most a 100 per country, the whole electronic voting is impossible.

It's not a technical issue, it's either an education issue (everyone needs to be able to understand and verify the system) or a "knowledge" issue (we need to find a straightforward solution to the problem)
From what I am reading, it runs on Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS). i.e. 151-154 Mhz spectrum.

Excerpt From https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-02-139A1.p...

Under the revised rules, MURS units are:
• Permitted to have detachable antennas;
• Permitted to have external antennas up to 6.1 meters (20 feet) above a structure or 18.3 meters (60 feet) above the ground, whichever is higher;
• Permitted to have a total power output (TPO) of up to two (2) watts (instead of two (2) watts effective radiated power);
• Not permitted to be used as cordless telephones, radiofacsimile (imaging), or for continuous carrier mode operations; and
• Not permitted to be used for repeater operations

Without a repeater, I would assume it is very difficult to imagine a hop-by-hop network?
I am a native English speaker (born and raised in the US). In school -- over a decade ago -- I took six semesters of French courses, and I've done some immersive trips to Quebec (which admittedly is a different dialect, but at least helps a bit).

Last week I was in Paris. Even with a refresh on grammar and vocabulary, I struggled a lot to communicate in French.

The most difficult thing, for me, is the sentence structure. I have enough vocabulary and grammar to choose the words I want, but I have a lot of trouble putting them in the correct order. And this is not a rare thing; it shows up in all sorts of simple sentences.

For example, in English I might ask "Where is (X)" or "Is this street (X)". In French, I need to flip those around to "(X), where is it" or "Here, this is (X)?" The sign to hang on the door of the hotel room would, in English, say "Please do not disturb" -- in French, it says "Thanks of not to disturb".

All of those words are, of course, easily recognizable, but the structure is completely alien to an English speaker (especially the way French uses infinitives in so many situations where English does not, giving rise to stereotypes of French speakers attempting English and always saying "Please to tell me..." and such).

I suspect that it would take me many months or perhaps even years of immersion and full-time speaking and thinking in French to get to the point of being able to construct most sentences in "natural French" structure on the first try.
Probably because Amazon is known more for their books than their movie/TV show selection.

Also: Prime gives you access to the lending library, but you can only lend one book a month.
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F secure key works well and syncs well between all my devices and computers.
cstross elaborated on it recently.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/07/some-ram...

HN thread for that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998604.
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I would rather have unlimited Kindle books over both videos and music.
I'm actually required to, oddly enough. Well, nobody will stop me from working during the holiday if I want, but I have to file one and at least officially be "on vacation", for one contiguous 3-week period every summer (defined as between March 1 and September 30). Unless I get a manager's approval in writing that special circumstances justify skipping the vacation this year.

(A financial reason is that the company doesn't want unused vacation accruing on their books, because it represents a liability that in some circumstances can be cashed out. A non-financial reason is that having a high % of employees who don't take a proper summer holiday can lead to quality-of-workplace statistics that look poor.)
I don't know for node but FFI calls usually have an overhead. Depending on the complexity of the routes it might be faster to use a pure version.
Native French speaker here, I think going from "I don't know the language" to "I can hold me end in a conversation" is easier in English than in French. French has a richer set of verb tenses, while with English you can go a long way be knowing present, "<present> + ed" and "will + <present>". You also don't need to understand why a chair feminine and an oven is masculine (hint: there is no reason).

One thing I do think French has over English is ease of pronunciation; although not completely regular, most letters have one pronunciation (unless they have an accent, which gives them a different, but clear pronunciation). If you know the phonemes, French gives you a much easier time. Try reading this [1] out loud for kicks. I probably got 90-95% of that right, but even after 15+ years of speaking English, I still got caught by a few words.

[1] http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/stuff/english-pronunciation...
Definitely an interesting idea. I would be more interested in the post-fact analysis. How many people applied? What percentage were qualified? What projects were they working on, if any? What kind of compensation did they prefer (vacation vs. money vs. equity vs. health coverage)? Where were most applicants from, and things of that nature. Good luck with the hiring process, I am sure it would catch the attention of a few good developers at least.
I will always remember the original slackware and Wallnut Creek FreeBSD distro cds I could buy from microcenter 20 years ago... I had so much fun installing, partitioning, install packages, then write my own code and compile it. Thanks to any old slackware maintainers out there - you made this 12 year old kid (20 years ago) love computing and learning about how computers worked.
I think the audiobooks part is going to be more interesting than the rest. I spend a lot of time listening to podcasts, so listening to unlimited audiobooks is something that might be amazing.
Usually you can even do it online without having to go to the library. Go to your local library's website and see if they have anything there.
Similar idea: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/1010-code.html
Just went up to the Flatirons myself last month. It was amazing :) Not only the nature but the towns around there were nice. Took awesome photos, felt re-energized when i came back :)
I'm sorry but I still don't share your opinion, even after looking at 1:1 screenshot. Just look at the 'crisp' letter w - for me it's not crisp, it's jagged. I can clearly see vertical line after vertical line (offset to the right), trying to make diagonal lines which constitute the letter. In contrast, "old" style w looks very smooth, much closer to what one would write by hand. Also look at the top of the curve in letter e - it is actually not a curve at all but a horizontal line which stands out.
Content licensing. Different companies (or legally distinct subsidiaries) control licensing & distribution for different countries. Inherent limits of physical books (i.e.: space & mass & energy needed to haul content across significant distances) mitigated the issue, as it's usually cheaper to get a book locally than ship it from afar. Now that content can, for most practical purposes, be shipped free with instant delivery the legal ownership rights are being enforced and controlled (and more middlemen squeezing into). Amazon will get around to sorting out licensing issues elsewhere, but 'til then they've got a big local market to satiate.
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Title is wrong, these are aerial photos - from the linked page: "Google has global ambitions for our consumer aerial imagery."
I'm moving house on the 28th and I've taken a week off - it won't take me a week but this way I get to move in (with the other halves parents, again (so we can save for a house)), relax and take a well earned break.
I love TLP but losing your accent is easier said than done. I started learning English when I was a few years old and I've lived in the US for 22 years speaking English 99% of the time. My German accent is still clearly there. I'm not sure what it would take at this point but it's not something that happens easily. I listen to the way other people pronounce words but hearing your own accent is hard.

Interestingly, my kids claim they can't really hear my accent, they know I speak a little differently but they don't think I sound like Arnold or Angela.
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If your Wartburg would hit a modern car you would be squashed. At this point they're a hazard on the road. They're cool and have their appeal but if a modern car company would design the Wartburg today it wouldn't pass safety or environmental regulations.

And most modern cars are not thrown away, they are sold as second hand cars in my country or other developing countries :)
I guess that's why they can make it a separate product.
"American exceptiono-isolationism isn't arrogance, it's a cognitive bias impressed on us from kindergarten when we learn that there are only two languages in the world, English and Everything Else."

Actually the French suffer from this as well, thinking that every language has the rhythm of French, and only stressing the last syllables.

Learning the accent first is an insteresting trick.

But what it seems to me is that the biggest disadvantage of learning as an adult is the exposure to the new language.

Adults, by necessity (and lazyness) shy themselves of exposure to new languages, they also don't have the environment around them to support it (watching cartoons on TV, school kids talk a lot more amongst themselves and/or are paying attention to classes, etc)
Correct. But the idea is probably that the dicts in the frozendicts themselves should be frozendicts.
Was wondering if this could replace my Safari Books Online subscription, and the answer to that is a resounding 'no'.
Being spoken in the least developed countries seems more like a plus for French than a minus. As those countries develop, French will become even more important (assuming they still speak French). A language like German on the other hand will never experience this kind of organic growth because pretty much everywhere that speaks German is already well developed (and has negative or near-zero population growth, which certainly isn't helping the language grow).
With that logic applied to Windows, V8 would never have seen the light of day.
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Income and work demands aren't a problem for me, but they are for most of the close friends that I would want to vacation with. I have been putting off arranging a trip for myself, and a big part of that is I don't think I would enjoy myself nearly as much alone.
Why bother? Isn't it better just to donate these icons to Fontawesome?
> Prime gives you access to the lending library

I'm a Prime subscriber and I didn't know about this. It seems the lending library has 350K-500K books, not dissimilar to Kindle Unlimited. And like other commenters, it looks like both unlimited and the kindle lending library has pretty small intersection with my reading habits.
How'd you find the overlap between the two? I'm trying to do the same but can't find a simple way to do it other than checking every book.
According to the Security+ exam, and I suppose other security recommendations, is that it's a good idea to have mandatory vacations. It apparently can help detect fraud and other issues.
Non-native French and English speaker (that is both are second languages to me). I find English much easier.

But, I also learned English first, and most of all, I learned it because all the computer stuff was in English and movies were in English. There were powerful external motivating factors to practice and understand English. French was imposed on me in school but I never saw a benefit in learning it aside from saying "I understand some French".
I'm not saying that 512MB isn't a step down from 1GB. I'm saying that, considering WP8's overall memory efficiency, I'd rather have LTE (Lumia 635) at the $129 price point than the extra memory (Moto E). I think for typical usage (web, e-mail, music, etc), the 635 is a lot more compelling than the E, because of LTE + double the storage. I certainly don't see how you can call it "underwhelming" given that the E with lesser specs on everything except memory has gotten very good press for being a good value.
I usually get unbelievably depressed on the last day of my vacations because it means I have to come back to my awful life.
Good idea. I've got plenty of PTO days (which I've been rationing carefully throughout the year), and I reckon it's definitely time to burn a few more days for an ultra-long weekend.

Besides, the weather's novahot at the moment and it's quite hard to work when you're being boiled alive.
I read this as more of a tounge-in-cheek joke about people who do this, but I may be wrong.
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...and that book can only be read on a Kindle-branded device. No iPad/Android Tablets.
I don't see any evidence that the heritability of desire to have large families (or the heritability of factors linked to not accidentally having large families) is anywhere near as strong as the effect of socioeconomic trends which have decimated the cultural and rational reasons for having large families in developed countries. Looking at a different aspect of heritability, modernity did far more damage to the intake of celibate religious orders and celebration of virginity than aeons of selective removal from the gene pool of those especially vulnerable to the idea that chastity was a virtue.

Populations of people that think birth control is a good idea and are quite happy to defer their children until later in life still reproduce in sufficient numbers to remain the majority in developed countries, especially assuming that many offspring of reproductive fanatics will end up "defecting" and behaving according to the prevailing social norm rather than their parent's preferences or inherited instincts.

Given the continued reproduction of people who think birth control is a sensible idea, women should have careers and more than three kids is a headache, I think heritability of desire to have large families would have to be almost deterministic for us to start to worry about hyper-fertile people taking over.
Note that only having 22 days is pretty low by European standards. Here in Sweden we have 25 days by law, and many people have an additional week or two.
The text I type to the room is cached locally.
So what's the upside of this vs Geohash?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
The associated patent application:
http://www.google.com/patents/WO2013057221A1?cl=en
Why can't I use regular scrolling for this?
It's not very readable but lends instant gravitas to the material, sort of like the anti-Comic Sans
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
-Bob Dylan
Vacations are for the weak
Libraries have fixed locations you must travel to, and limited collections (rarely more than one copy of each book) of aging content (limited range of latest material). If you want something in particular, good chance it's not available.

Amazon will, from the convenience of any computer (mobile devices included), ship you books from a vast & nearly inexhaustible collection at acceptable costs.

Now the Unlimited plan brings you both for $10/mo: beyond-library-scale of practically free books delivered instantly, and bringing you in close proximity to darn near every book ever written available at modest cost in 2 days.

Heck, many subscribers would pay more than $10/mo just in gas driving to the library.
agreed, scrolling is unpleasant.
Well it's dead to you, obviously.

My counter-advice to the above is that on an extremely deep, life experience level it doesn't matter how popular a language is, in numerical terms. Or what will come of that language 500 years from now.

What matters is what experiences open up to you, as individual, when you go visit (and live) in those countries, in this life, right. It's the people you meet -- and become friends with, perhaps fall in love and start a family with -- and the literature, the music, and poetry that keeps reading and listening into the dead of night and into your dreams -- that matter. Not the gender/case system, of the fact that can speak some generic version of it in 54 countries.

In that sense nearly every (major) language community is infinite, and unique. Maybe the one that's most meaningful for you will be a globally dominant language, like Spanish, Mandarin, or Arabic. Or maybe it will something far more "marginal", like Basque or Pashto.

But whichever it ends up being: whether that language is "alive" or "dead" to you will be a direct function of the energy and enthusiasm you invest in learning it, and (correspondingly) your love for the people who speak it, and their culture.

And not a function of whether you can go to a Barnes and Noble right now and find a shelf with 50 (mostly) mediocre books and interactive learning tools for it.
Seriously, schoolchildren can manipulate online polls.....
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Can a few well chosen words improve inclusivity?
it's nice that in the ideal world in your head, these things aren't linked. maybe someday, that will be the real world, and then I'll be interested in it.