skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you don't.

You only need to learn separate spelling and pronunciation rules for each of the languages English has evolved or stolen from.

The tough spellings usually come from Germanic roots via Old English and Middle English, whereas the French-Norman spellings are less difficult.

Greek-Latin spellings are markedly less confusing when you learn the transliterations of the Greek alphabet. Of course Philadephia is pronounced with fricative 'f' sounds instead of plosive 'p' sounds, because the Greek letter for that sound is 'phi'. Because of that, I dislike it when people pronounce the feathered dinosaur archaeopterix as [ar-key-OP-tur-iks] rather than [ar-KAY-o-(p)TEAR-iks]. It isn't incorrect either way, because in English, correct is whatever other people will understand. (Suck it, French.)

This is why I get sick of people complaining about "monolingual" English-speakers. The language has been glued together from Dutch-Germanic, North-Germanic, French-Norman, Greek, Latin, and centuries of absorbing and assimilating immigrant populations from all over the world.

You really only need to learn rules derived from four dissimilar languages to spell and pronounce almost everything in English without having a word-specific association. The remaining ten percent of words are correct when spelled and pronounced as in the native language or as anglicized renormalizations, even using the rules specific to unrelated languages. That is why the plural of octopus can be either octopodes or octopuses. Octopi is colloquially correct, but it is then acceptable to deliver a short lecture on Latinized Greek words. Similarly, the acceptable plurals of cactus are cactuses, cacti, or (los) cactus (pronounced as in Spanish). As Spanish has an increasingly large influence on American English, I have found it useful to know that it only has five vowel sounds, and knowing how to pronounce burrito and enchilada correctly gives you all five.

Despite what your elementary school teachers may have said to you, you are only incorrect in English if other people cannot understand what you are trying to communicate. Nevertheless, failure to be incorrect does not imply correctness, which is why grammar nazis exist.
A blog post about why Startups turn into Companies turn into Startups. Playing on some observations on why so many startups that turn into company lose their rank.
But grand juries almost always indict if the prosecutor wants them to. Look up the statistics.
Maybe techies are slowly realizing that this whole trendy web industry is 50% schlep, 49% bullshit and 1% of something actually valuable to the world. The schlep jobs are obviously boring, but the trendy 49% of bullshit seems to be actually harmful to humanity.

I realized this long time ago. And yet here I am, working on a schlep. I guess that's a step up from the bullshit work I was doing before. Maybe one day I'll be brave enough and take another step, ditch this whole thing and code something actually beneficial to fellow humans.

People will say (I wonder what's edw519's stance on this) - go with what your clients/employers want, and let the magic of capitalism sort it all out, turn it into real value. But we see that more and more things we do don't actually bring any (nonmonetary) value to the world.

So you say, there's a shift in conversation. I'm afraid, that the shift will is towards apathy. "Sell out, grab the data, flip it, and move on". Because they don't give a shit about the world anymore, it's going down the drain, nothing we can do, so let at least have some expensive parties before the whole thing explodes.
March on Washington. Picket the manufacturers. Organise a boycott of related companies. Chain yourself to the gates of drone control bases. Something, anything.

There is no mass movement against drones. Look at protests against nuclear weapons during the cold war. Large, well-organised groups led a groundswell of opposition. The Greenham Common peace camp was continually occupied for eighteen years until the nuclear weapons based there were removed; The Faslane peace camp is still occupied today. In 1982, a million people gathered in New York to oppose nuclear weapons.

You care, as do millions of Americans, but only to the extent that you don't actually have to do anything.
...it seems to be that Disney should be able to have exclusive ownership over Mickey the character...

I have to disagree with this on cultural grounds. Part of the reason that copyright expires is to fertilize the ground from which new stories are grown. Shakespeare does not own Romeo. Dickens does not own Scrooge. To the extent that Mickey has become a part of our cultural mythos, Disney should not own Mickey.

The only reasonable expectation a creator should have after a reasonably short copyright term is protection from malicious misattribution and defamation. Everything else in the last century of IP law is implemented completely wrong, in my opinion.
Can you even buy a dumb TV anymore?
Bookmarklet that shows the average viewing time allocation on your landing page
Right. But if people diversify across all risky government bonds, even after defaults, they'll outperform people who only invest in the ultra-safe governments. The yields are higher to entice people to take the risk, and live with the volatility.
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You'd have to look for an opporunity elsewhere :(
Piggybacking off of this, if anyone would be so kind as to give me their opinion on my resume at http://writes.co.de/resume.pdf, I would be very appreciative. For what it's worth, I'm looking for an internship over the summer
This is really cool, but I'd love to see this narrowed down to something super scientific. Cause I can already hear the haters, screaming about control groups, sample sizes, and all that stuff. Which is actually important.

Right now I take it for what it is a quick mock up of some shallow data. But it seems compelling enough to take a deeper Nate Silver ( http://fivethirtyeight.com/ ) style deep dive.
You're thinking of the GPLv3's anti "tivoization" clause. Linux is released under the GPLv2 only, and that license does not include that clause.
Ask HN: Tips for undergrad internship seeker
Hello, I am a freshman at University of Colorado Boulder, and I have been unsuccessfully hunting internships. Do you have any advise on good places to look? Or ways that I might be able to stand out?
> I would hate to see my kids read this article and get any ideas.

Better keep them away from the library and internet in general then. There's ideas everywhere! (Said jokingly, I get the parental concern)

> I wonder how often they make methanol in these stills as well.

Every time. The distilling process doesn't make it though, it's a natural product of fermentation.

Making and operating a still isn't hard (clearly!) and the risks associated with consuming "homemade" product are greatly overstated. The risks associated with fire/explosion are greater, but should be reduced in this situation since there's not an open flame. I wouldn't be surprised if the prisoners are tossing the "heads cut", but even if they didn't, there shouldn't be enough methanol to cause toxicity (especially when consumed with the ethanol!). I've read that a lot of the methanol toxicity stories originate from the Prohibition era and were caused by failed attempts to remove methanol out of denatured alcohol sold as degreaser, not due to hooch.

edit: I'm sorry to be blunt about it, but "think of the children" and the appeal for censorship is responsible for the abomination that is the modern chemistry set.
It's absolutely similar. It's getting something without paying for it. The "deprived of property" thing is kind of a red herring anyway, since the cost to make an additional DVD is close to nothing, and stores routinely dispose of unsold merchandise, often ordering more than they think they'll sell so there's no risk of selling out.
OCaml desperately needs some wind on its sail. It fares poorly than PowerShell in terms of # of repos, and that says it all really. Compared to Haskell and Clojure, which are soaring to put it mildly.
now they just need to embrace 2-step auth ...
ASK HN: Is our mobile time machine app explainer video clear?
Guys, we're assembling a tool that will allow to view the tourist place You're in as a geolocated 3D scene from the past ( http://www.pastguide.com ). We've assembled a video on the site - would love to know your opinion - 1)is it clear what the app does, 2) is it interesting or just informative, 3)would You like to try out the product after viewing it
Ok, that's revelation of the day! (sometimes you fail to connect the simplest things). Now I can eyeball the weight of a stack of paper :-)
Transportation and storage of contraband are both large issues in prison. Concentrating the intoxicant can be quite useful.

They made the wine in the manner the article this one references describes. Where 'wine' is just what they call any sugary liquid that has fermented.
If these existed in the late 1700s, no way that US colonists can declare independence.
I've been to state prison, not county jail, in Florida, for 13 months.

They are loaded with people with whom you would want to keep away from your loved ones. Way more than 1%.

I could tell stories, but what's the point?

Just FYI.
We need a brave insider leak some private data obtained using one of NSA programs of _every single federal judge_. Something simple, like one full recording of a phone call/private email per judge/judges spouse.

Snowden showed that every analyst can just log in and get at this shit with no checks, no warrants, no supervision. Somehow people in power still think they are above the rest.
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Exactly. This is a horrible misuse of the canvas element, alas, the moronic "war against native" destroyed all the good we had achieved ten years ago. I think then we had the golden age of web standards, progressive enhancement, graceful degradation, accessibility, and what not. Now we just have a race who can rape poor HTML/CSS/JS further.
The cost of producing the DVD is close to nothing. It's not like stealing a physically hard-to-produce object. You're paying for the IP.

DVDs don't operate in a scarcity model. Stealing a DVD really is almost equivalent to pirating a movie. The fact that the store is deprived of a physical item is pretty much irrelevant to the argument; they probably would have disposed of many unsold copies of the DVD anyway.
please expand on this...
But they didn't change from a widely used system to another widely used system. They changed from no standardized system to ISO.

North America already as system in place. Switching from one to the other confers very little, if any, benefit.
That we will!
> Keep in mind home distilling is illegal in most states, some have alternative fuel creation exceptions or small allowable amounts.

Isn't it still illegal on the federal level?
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Since titles and short phrases aren't copyrightable, could I start a tech news blog, have all of the exact same stories and titles that Engadget uses, and write my own content for each story and not being infringing on their copyright?
No, if you want native applications experience, make native applications. Now you are just breaking the web.
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"The "correct" answer"

The author had some awesome analogies and phrases, but one I like that he didn't mention, was the subprime mortgage era.

1. Gather a thousand individually worthless mortgages

2. Massive manipulation and number crunching and fraud and derivatives to the Nth degree, just a pile of self referential promises, not a human centipede analogy but more a snake eating its tail? who cares as long as an endless string of commission earners all get their cut.

3. Get really rich... for a little while. Suddenly the bagholders go bankrupt. Hopefully you took your millions and ran?

We're running the same business model with data and tracking and social and followers and marketing, or in general, the internet, instead of subprime mortgages.

Make your millions fast, you don't have much longer, and make sure you're not the guy left holding the bag when it all goes down.

Insert investing discussion about the difference between the concepts of price and value and how making money off suckers relies on the suckers not understanding those concepts.
Very accurate and observant comments. Someone (person A) was once explaining to me how boring this other guy was (person B). Person A was bored with person B's conversation. Person A said "this guy was so boring, why didn't he do something exciting or talk about anything interesting? You know, I have a smart phone here and the ENTIRE INTERNET IS IN MY POCKET. But Person B didn't even care! How boring! Scoff guffaw pfah!"

I thought it was pretty sad, firstly because person A was judging person B's worth through his own perception of what was interesting (everything's interesting if you take an interest!), and secondly because having the Internet in your pocket doesn't really mean anything by itself.

It's like walking around with a dictionary in your pocket but never reading it. If you keep reading the blank opening page over and over again whilst proclaiming how wonderful the dictionary is, it is missing the best bits (the rest of the book and word definitions, etymology etc.)

As you state, having lots of people connected together doesn't magically make it a wonderful place if they have nothing in common and the people have meaningless lives in the first place, in the same way that having a library close to you doesn't magically mean that you'll be knowledgeable on everything inside the library if you just hang around outside.

Thanks for the food for thought. Now on to evaluate my use of time and frequently visited sites to see if they are actually enriching my life.
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I'd also, when you do start looking for work, tailor not just your CV, but also your resume to the job you're applying for. Use the same words the employer uses on their web site and in the job posting. Identify technologies you have in common with them (even if in passing), and mention those.

It will help you get an interview, if nothing else.
awesome news! that has been pending for some time in the issues section
It took me 2 years to get a 5-month visa (to the US)
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You mean it's our "lingua franca" — the thing that isn't better in any way, but is just used universally enough that everyone ends up using it. I don't understand the metaphor to Esperanto.
For whatever reason, on my Firefox (35 on Linux), all the audio files fail to load with a 403 error? For example, http://s.cdpn.io/190177/Our3.ogg returns a 403 Access Denied XML document.
Why does it only limit you to 500 results per search?
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We need more network monitoring in the cloud than ever
Why can't we just trust the cloud providers for network health? Some of my thoughts at http://blog.ruxit.com/network-cloud-no-free-lunch/
Some people are blessed with some kind of inherent sense of meaning. Maybe you are one of them.

For others, the absurd dominates if all else is stripped. Myths and spirituality were (and still are) helpful things.

Extreme empiricism and knowledge acquisition in pursuit of omniscience, in my view, is not good for a human on a personal level. Perhaps it's good for society.
I don't know what country, but pro-drugs like Vyvanse are the best thing to ever happen to people who suspect they have ADHD. "Pro-drug" basically means "no high possible" and therefore "no abuse potential", which further means "being interested in this drug is not drug-seeking behaviour." (It also means "not easily converted back into its active metabolite by anything other than the appropriate liver enzyme", and therefore "chemists can't do anything to concentrate it without a whole huge bioreactor setup.")

Any doctor aware that an ADHD pro-drug treatment exists will have no problem diagnosing people with ADHD any more, because it's no longer a risk they're taking of potentially giving some addict their fix, or giving some drug chemist the raw materials for their next batch of speed. It's an awareness problem at this point; most doctors don't know about these drugs, and still think ADHD treatment is a scary place they don't want to go near. Psychiatrists tend to be more up-to-speed (heh), but even then it can depend on the country.
This seems pretty nifty. However, how does the IDE itself stack up against something like IntelliJ/PyCharm/Visual Studio/etc?

My current solution to needing to develop on multiple machines is to keep an external SSD with me that has a Linux VM development environment. It's inconvenient in certain ways, but I have a completely customized environment & toolchain that's reproducible and reliable anywhere VirtualBox is installed.

I would be interested in a cloud solution, but the JetBrains products are so amazing and so I would be hesitant to migrate even with how clean this solution looks compared to mine.
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Free hi-resolution food and restaurant photos for any use. 5 new pics every 2 wks
Majority of Android dating apps are open to hacks
Nice article. The reality is that mainstream IT security is driven by audit and compliance, not by engineers asking how can I break things/how can system X be more secure. Most companies want to be XYZ compliant (and nothing more than that). So they follow check-lists and continually get hacked and really don't care. They'll fire the C level executive responsible and hire another, but nothing really changes. Welcome to modern IT security.
I actually canceled a sizable ($1000) contribution early in a campaign. I got excited, pledged, and then talked to a buddy who actually has subject area knowledge in what the campaign was trying to do. He raised a bunch of good questions and I never got any good answers back from the campaign, so I didn't feel comfortable it wasn't vaporware and I withdrew the pledge. In retrospect, they were focused on the gee-whiz signed photo and coffee mug level prizes whereas I was interested in the actual end result hardware for science, and I think whomever was running the campaign just didn't communicate well.

I would feel very awkward waiting until the last minute and certainly if they were on the edge of the goal, but in that campaign's case I canceled in the first two weeks and they made their stretch goal anyway.

I'm a hardware engineer so I'm just incredibly suspicious when really cool hardware pitches can't answer follow-up questions with sufficient details. Lesson learned: I'm an impulse buyer so I'm not allowed to pledge money on Kickstarter without waiting twenty-four hours and talking to a subject matter expert.
I've never heard the idea that no one during the Middle Ages drank water, so I'm not sure who the author is referring to when they say reputable scholars repeat this idea unthinkingly. It is notable that there seem to be no references in the post to anyone who actually believes this supposed myth.

The notion that anyone believed "bad water" caused disease is also one I've never heard in a Medieval context. "Bad air" and evil supernatural influences were the most commonly believed causes of disease in Medieval Europe.

People may have drunk watered wine and small beer and said they believed it "healthful", but many people smoked cigarette in early-to-mid 20th century said that was "healthful" too. Some of them may have even believed it. What people say about things doesn't necessarily tell us much about their actual reasons for doing them, or their true effect.

Drinking your local water source, full of micro-organisms your body was already familiar with, may have been on average no worse for you than drinking watered wine or small beer. Or there may have been some raw empiricism at work whereby people noticed that people who rarely drank pure water didn't get sick when everyone else did.

To make that argument you'd have to give an account of why no one ever noticed that bloodletting never cured anyone of anything, or that geese didn't actually come from barnacles, and so on.

Our ancestors were very bright, but had an outlook on the world that allowed them to miss the notion that small animals--tinier than dust motes in a beam of sunshine, too small for the eye to see--that lived in water and on decaying flesh and feces were the cause of much disease. Which is weird, because you'd think that such a simple idea would have been mentioned by god in one of those books he spent so much time dictating or inspiring: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1052
The really interesting thing about this story, to me, is that many of the animals don't actually want to do the drugs unless they're put in situations that stress them out.

However, many humans seem to want to do drugs all the time.

Isn't this indicative that there's something fundamentally "wrong" about our society? We've set up a system where we constantly feel existential angst and want to numb ourselves to it.
The study is suggesting that the heretofore observed beneficial effects of moderate alcohol consumption (the "J" curve wherein there appears to be a "sweet spot" for health benefits at moderate consumption levels) may be greatly exaggerated thanks to selection bias and failure to account for confounders in prior studies.

That is, the benefits of any alcohol consumption may be greatly exaggerated (if not completely nonexistent) for most of the population.

The BMJ has an editorial on this topic[0] which is entitled "Alcohol’s evaporating health benefits" and refers to this study (I figured people on HN would be more interested in the study itself). That editorial heavily implies that the prior (potentially flawed) studies received widespread notoriety due to the alcohol industry's media influence.

[0] http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h407
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That really is Hacker News' worst limitation. I understand if they want to limit what formatting is available, but the fact that basic listing is so clunky is annoying.
You know what I never checked the federal level. At the time I was doing this I figured if the state said it was legal in a certain case then the feds didn't have a problem either. I since realized how wrong I was about that logic, although it still makes more sense to me than the reality.
The Big Rewrite, revisited
> Student, Hacker, Adventurer

Does text like this really sell "you" to people? I find them quite pretentious-ish.
edit: found it in your hackernews profile
I can develop part-time on my Chromebook, and have the same development environment, build environment, etc etc, as on my desktop. Even if I had a laptop running Linux, I'd have to fiddle around with Vagrant to get that.
Along with rovers that build bricks.
That would be interesting too!
I wonder if this isn't so much for convincing people to switch to Apple so much as giving people a greater attachment to Apple. I use an Android phone, and I didn't even know that the iphone showed a difference between iMessage messages and SMS messages. So the color doesn't have an effect on me.

However, if you have an iPhone and don't like the green bubbles, you become a sort of brand ambassador -- you'll both have a greater chance of staying on iPhone (because you associate the "green bubbles" of other phones with being inferior, you won't want to get an inferior phone), and you'll also try to convince your friends to get an iPhone.