skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that constitutes bilingual to you, surely speakers of African American Vernacular English are bilingual too?
the printing press
> In 2006 and 2012, Computerworld surveys found that over 60% of organizations used COBOL (more than C++ and Visual Basic .NET) and that for half of those, COBOL was used for the majority of their internal software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#Legacy

Also, COBOL got a spec update in 2014. It is not really a dead language.
"Good reason"? It is a question of definition. If your reasoning makes you define it as a dialect and not a language, what have you gained? It doesn't matter.
"Looks like TLS". "Also looks like TLS". "That's funny, this one looks like TLS too".
Sailfish 2.0
MUMPS is a subject I've tried to study before but confess I didn't get very far. For my purposes back in the 90's, PostgresQL was the best fit and it has worked out well.

Meanwhile EHR systems have become a huge industry, but now having to catch up is hard. Learning about VistA is mind-boggling in its scope and complexity, and especially since it has been open-sourced for a long time. It's a point of curiosity that it's not been discussed more than a little here and there in the FOSS media.

So I appreciate the informative article, as it gives me some starting points to explore this vast field. Might even give another stab at MUMPS, though it's a hill to climb. However some of the open-source projects that grew out of (or on top of) VistA offer some interesting ways of approaching it.

One project with immediate appeal to me is EWD.js, which is a node.js javascript implementation of server and client via WebSockets, and a MUMPS DB backend. Should be interesting to try out. http://gradvs1.mgateway.com/download/EWDjs.pdf

I could be wrong but it seems someone just starting out could find opportunities in the field of health care computing. Given the political thrust to have EHRs everywhere seems logical the field will grow.

Above all, the need for security expertise in the EHR domain is enormous and will greatly expand in the next several years. The FOSS aspects might well create openings for innovators with creative products and ideas to reduce the cost burdens that high-priced EHRs have been contributing to health care systems.
Does rather limit the audience though - my main VM is ARM, my main machine is OSX and consequently I can't use this on either. Which is a shame because I'd really like to.
Bel Marra  Pinterest
I wrote MUMPS for a system called COSTAR (this was in 1989 or 1990). It was truly a terrible language. From what I've tried hard to forget: Everything is abbreviated, single letter functions everywhere. The database is a giant persistent hash table, accessed through programming language variables, with no schema, types or type checking (keep in mind this is used to store medical data). Everthing is global. There's virtually no structure in the language, I think they had subroutines but IIRC there were no named parameters. Existing programs were just unreadable spaghetti.

Edit: Not Co-Star, but COSTAR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Stored_Ambulatory_Rec...
A bit of humility will do you good.
Do you really believe that no regulation is the answer?

Look at airbnb and the detrimental effects it has on cities. Residential areas are residential for a reason. It must be horrible to wake up one day and find that your neighbour has decided to turn into an unregulated hotel.
tl:dr "Right now, the information void makes for polarized rhetoric"
How I migrated WordPress from shared hosting to DigitalOcean without downtime
There is no precise and official way to identify something as a "language" rather than a "dialect".

For example: there are five major dialects of Hindi, some of which are mutually unintelligible -- yet few people call them separate languages. On the other hand, standard Hindi is mutually intelligible with Urdu -- they use different writing systems, but as spoken languages are roughly as close as American and British English -- yet they are considered different languages. Similarly, China has a vast diversity of mutually unintelligible languages -- or, rather, what outsiders call "languages", and what the Chinese government insists are merely dialects of a single language: "Chinese".

What's going on here? Max Weinreich's quip that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy" seems to hit the mark. If Britain and America had not become allies in the late 19th century, then the ongoing antipathy between them would have required their speaking systems to be classified as "languages". But that would have been a political necessity, not a linguistic one.

As an aside -- as somebody who grew up in America and emigrated at age 31 to Britain -- I must say that the oft-cited differences in spelling and pronunciation are the least important areas of divergence. Much more significant (and confusing) are the idiomatic divergences. For example: in the UK, people commonly say "are you alright?" as a greeting, equivalent to the American "how do you do?" or "what's up?". But in American, "are you alright?" is an expression of serious concern -- something you might say to somebody walking around in a state of confusion with an apparent head injury. It was extremely disconcerting when people kept asking me this -- I thought I must be acting/looking really strange to provoke such continual concern!
Have basic income,keep www.gwern.net.The current model isn't the only alternative.
I have clients who ask for this kind of nonsense every week. I have to explain it to them again and again that this stuff is not ok.

In my mind, it's an extension of the anonymity principle: if you don't think someone knows who you are, you're more willing to be an asshole.
If you have a child with OCD, or know someone who does, I really recommend this book: http://www.dawnhuebnerphd.com/OvercomingOCD.aspx
(No affiliation with author!)
It takes a cognitive behavioural psychology approach, and is written in quite a child friendly way which works pretty well to defuse a lot of stuff that can get wrapped up with OCD. For example, OCD is very much about fear and fear about the fact that you are basically going insane can compound the whole thing, so just talking about and understanding what is going on can help a lot.
(For a child with OCD, it's actually helpful to have a book which is a bit 'childish', i.e. targetted at a younger age group.)
Also, it's a good thing to be aware of as a parent, and to watch out for if your child is taking a long time to get to bed, or whatever. If you have a child with OCD it's really good to catch this and do something to help them with it, if possible, before puberty, when a bunch of other stuff can basically bundle on top..
my main desktop is also Mac OS X, I run vmware fusion + linux hosts when necessary, but all of my server infrastructure is linux anyway :-) linux kernel makes assembler so much easier than OS X and of course all of my library is catered for server-side infrastructure.
Slowing down the rest of the program? :)
This is awesome, the sshtalk mentioned above looks great too, although trying to brute force a room name isn't working out for me.

I found a few of the key bindings by accident, trying to scroll with j. I considered making something like this a long while ago, but definitely not in asm, this is impressive.

I may have to poke at the code a bit and see if I can add/change a couple things :)
Music Videos versus Narrative Films
>> But in common use I wouldn't be surprised if it was 98% or less

I would. One bit of evidence against this is the amount of the Extra's script Ricky Gervais had to rerecord for an American audience. Most of the change was for unshared cultural references (local food brands etc.) and only a couple for words (fanny).

Due to the level of exposure, I believe the difference between generic Brit and generic US is less than the dialects within the countries e.g. older generations of Yorkshire vs. Cornish, Glaswegian vs. Cockney etc. can suffer great difficulties understanding each other.

The number of unshared words is much higher, methods of denotation and sentence construction are different and even the pronunciation of shared words become unrecognisable (I'm not a linguist, so open to correction). I'm sure there are similar extremes in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Belarus#Opposi...

Belarus is subject to US sanctions for “undermining democratic process and constituting an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”.[25] It is also subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union for human-rights violations.[26] Belarus has been determined to be a habitual violator of international human-rights laws and accepted norms of international behavior by the UN, the US, the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the Council of Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Council, the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. As stated by the UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus, “it is impossible to believe that all these people are wrong or biased.”
Fair enough, I had no intention to minimize your problems or deny existence of the problems. Just by description of symptoms (which I didn't knew were only small part), I put forward another possibility.

I can only imagine that its frustrating to hear such comments over and over again from people who have no idea about your situation. However the problem is that partially this is the problem of rampant ADHD miss-diagnoses which creates natural tendency to first question it.
Basically a way to package a set of HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a reusable table that can appear as if it was natively supported by the browser.

A new generation of web developers gets to rediscover desktop native widgets, 20 years later.
> First, figure about 50 milliseconds for network latency (this is on desktop, latency on mobile is a whole other discussion).

And outside the USA, add on another 200ms more. I, an Australian, visited the USA last year and was surprised, although I had expected it, at how much faster the Internet was.

I get the general feeling that people in the USA end up much more picky about performance than their Australian counterparts, because they’re used to a result which is quite a bit faster anyway.

It’s rather a pity that we as an industry don’t care more about performance, because on average we’re utterly abysmally appallingly atrocious at it. There’s simply no good reason for things to be as slow as they are.
I really liked the player when I was a a teen, I would always pick the Fiorentina in FIFA games to play with him. Overmedication (if not worse) so that he can always be on the field has put him in this condition. Very sad. But I read he feels better with his legs now.
Why a Creative Day Is Awesome for Your Team
I just bought a Surface 3 for the following reasons:
1. It is a Windows machine that I can run desktop apps on it.
2. It is very light
3. It supports 1920x1080 resolution. Yes, everything will look small, but when you need full HD, it gives you full HD.
4. You can charge it with a micro USB charger or even a power bank. It means easy to find a power source and one less gadget to travel with
5. The keyboard is not as good as Apple's notebook, but it is not that bad either

I might get the stylus, since I prefer to write as I aged. :)
Facebook Offices in Tel Aviv
The ones who also speak High English (British English? Newscaster English? Academic English? Something along these lines...) are, yes. From what I understand, most^ just use AAVE all the time and don't learn to speak High English.

^Disclaimer: I live in Eastern Europe, I've never met a Black person (I know many dark-skinned people, but they aren't negroes, ergo not Black), I've never even met an American, I may be wrong about the "most"
My sister works for a place using Mumps. I read the manual she let me borrow and I decided I liked it better than the COBOL I was doing at the time.

Then I cried myself to sleep.

True story.
If you intend to try the plugin:
"Please create an Asym account to activate the extension. It's simple and we don't give your email address to third parties!
We'll send you a confirmation email with a link to activate your account, so please make sure your email address is valid and correct."

I wonder if the addition of spaces is done client side or server side (and as such would send all your website texts to them)?
I tried to find how different they are, is this "virtually identical"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Slovak_and_Czech

Apparently "present-day standard Slovak wasn't codified until the 19th century." Then it's not something invented after the breakup.
For me how-old.net says (correctly) 23 and how-old.asia claims 34
Depends if you ask Americans, i think a large percentage will answer it _is_ a language.

Also they tend to forgot their heritage there. 'We americans' == 'We previously european and other geolocations originating'
Well then I suppose it might be worth it, I've had great experiences on Lufthansa the few times I've flown on it, one time the plane was entirely empty except for our group of 5 so we had a 747 to ourselves.
You delved[1] into the vim source and found this. You offered no solution except to use neovim, which happens to be 'supported' by the /amazing/ company you're the CEO of. You're very well practiced in false modesty and apologies but fuck you; I'm not sure you know what sincerity means.

I'm sorry if I don't think you're being sincere. Let's have a drink sometime! Let's network!

1. Anything as old as vim, continuously developed, will have any number of these frankenfunctions. They're not hard to find.
Swiss understand High German, because it is basically the language they write, but somebody from Hannover will have a hard time trying to understand somebody from Bern.

You get used to it after a while and Swiss people will try to meet you halfway and speak a bit less dialect (which then sounds strange to other Swiss people). They have some words that are different but Germans normally get. As with AE and BE, it gets funny when the same words have totally different meanings.

On that note: Swiss-German is one form of Alemannic, a dialect also spoken in South-Western Germany, varying from region to region as it does in Switzerland, but do not call it a dialect, they see it as a separate language.
WHOIS to identify companies is good, WHOIS to identify people can be dangerous.
"I heard about the Apple Watch recently and was going to check it out—but not now. It can't even transmit or input data. ☯93JAN"

Prescient.
British English: "A source for that? I would be surprised it was actually 99%."

American English: "A source for that? I would be surprised it was actually 99%."

Maybe if you count spelling, it might be less, but it's not like 'colour' and 'color' are different words in functional terms.
The Doctor Who writers would often use "constellation" when they probably meant "galaxy". Annoys me more than it really should.
Fencepost error, you're off by one century (and one first name) ...

P.S.

A cursory search hooked me up with this most scrumptious page of Spectator archives, featuring OCR text and zoomable images of the original pages for a June 1853 issue: http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/25th-june-1853/1/the-...

Besides the arch deriding of a Russian '"circular note," which professes to be condescendingly frank, is equivocatingly dishonest, and cannot help being arrogantly insolent' , on the image of page 2 there's a concise report on a House of Lord's debate on the introduction of an income tax, expected to be abolished in 1860 ...
Relevant WTF post: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
Sorry but Apple keyboards just suck for programming.

Apple once the steward of ergonomic keyboards now has nothing that could match either Microsoft or Logitech offerings.
The accepted English demonym for inhabitants of the United States of America is American. It has been this way for 200 years. We call ourselves American, and every English speaking country calls us American.

The only measure of correctness for language is use, and when speaking in English, American is only commonly used in one way--in English, American is almost universally unambiguous. No other country name contains the word America, and no one else commonly refers to themselves as American in English.

I don't go around telling Colombians they can't call themselves Colombians because Columbia is another name for the Americas. It's also not a problem here because we don't recognize one American continent.

Who refers to themselves by continent anyway? In what sense is it useful to identify to yourself as someone who lives somewhere in the entire western hemisphere?
There is also no common language, race, ethnicity, or culture that unifies North and South America.
For the same reason that Argentinian, Mexican, Colombian, Canadian, Ghanaian, Singaporean, Australian, Ivorycoastian, Nigerian, Brazilian, etc are not languages, but dialects.

Regardless of what Max Weinreich may have said (which was more of a political/philosophical statement than an academic one, and he didn't even coin the phrase), the variation between english dialects is not enough to call it a language.

Some pidgins are considered languages: they're spoken as lingua franca by large populations and is quite different from English.
I wonder if the accuracy varies based on ethnicity. The results have been suboptimal for all the asians I tried. My 80 year old grandma showed up as 55. My 6 year old son is categorized as 20.

Perhaps the OP should consider asking for feedback to to correct the model.
The LDS Church takes a very dim view of publishing genealogical information about living people. It is forbidden by church policy on any church-related site, many potential customers of a genealogy site are Mormon, and most of them know this policy, support it, and would take a VERY dim view of a website that intentionally violated it. I once consulted on an online genealogy system for the LDS Church, and being able to prevent this sort of privacy invasion was explicitly part of the spec as part of longtime, standing policy. As I very vaguely recall, the spec required a death date in the data for anything other than `(Living Person)` to be displayed (even the name was blocked), and in the absence of a death date, the data would not be displayed unless the birth date was more than a century earlier (which I think was later extended to more than a century, but I'm not sure.)

Unfortunately, the site you mention has no connection to the church, but if the CEO was interviewed on a site called "mormonentrepreneur.net", he might in fact be very receptive to an email that simply claimed that someone had posted personal genealogical information about living people, you and your family, on his site, that you are "sure his policies (like other legitimate genealogy websites) would not allow this", and you would like it removed.

You should at least start that way for the reasons I mentioned and for the fact that, like Reddit, these businesses mostly host huge piles of data contributed by non-staff members, and it is often too much data for their few staff members to have any hope of proactively moderating. You might need to be a squeaky wheel just because of the logistics.

I hope that just pointing out that these are indisputably living people will be enough, but it's possible they will require some proof of your identity, because these sites are the targets of lots of data disputes between family members who try to modify each other's data as well as plain ol' vandalism.
LED Strip Aurora Alerts
Being pretty disingenuous to compare IE6 with WebKit in terms of implemented features. Many websites had to be specifically coded for IE as it wouldn't render correctly many basic parts of HTML/CSS. WebKit is deficient mainly in the newer, less popular features.

Also Microsoft would unilaterally add proprietary features and tie their software to it e.g. Outlook/Sharepoint which then encouraged corporations to do the same as well. Apple actively participates in standards organisations eg. one for Web Components:

http://www.w3.org/2015/04/24-webapps-minutes.html
Yeah, there were quite a few errors for me too. I uploaded that recent meme (Dam Son kid) and it said he was a 16 year old female.
First advice is to run anything you think of doing past whoever you need to based on any policies you may or may not have. Don't get yourself fired.
FWIW, I intentionally didn't implement a "/list" feature for it, as it was originally designed to be an in-house sorta ephemeral chat thing... not many requests for a public "IRC-style" ssh chat server, if there is by all means adding the feature for a "/list" wouldn't take long
There's also the fact that, due AE being all the time in the TV, the average Brit can understand it much better than the other way around. A lot of americanisms are favoured by not-so-young people.

They were complains of American fans not understanding Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor, as he has a (VERY understandable) Scottish accent.
All devices have Google apps on them, and phones without these are considered "lesser" and won't sell. (When's the last time your Android phone from a "big name" seller came without Google Play market?).

If so, they have access to a central repository - Google. Google could just refuse to give them the OS with Google apps unless the manufacturer/carrier pushed out updates. It would be in both party's interests to agree to do this - Google because it would stem the tide of insecure phones and the stench of dodgy apps being prevalent even in the official market; and for the phone manufacturer, updates and apps, and happy customers.

At this rate I am not going to get another Sony, that's for sure.
> it takes twice as much evidence to be 99% sure as it is to be 98% sure.

Not twice as much evidence. Evidence needs to be measured logarithmically. (Otherwise you'd say it takes twice as much evidence to be 67% sure as 50% sure (2:1 versus 1:1), but the second takes no evidence at all for a binary proposition.)

It takes twice as much evidence to be 99% sure as 91% sure. 98% to 99% is 17 decibels to 20 decibels, which is less than 20% more evidence.
They have different letters. It's the equivalent of British English lacking the letter "h" and American English not having "ng" as a digraph.
The byline in that obituary is the same, Robert F. Worth, but it does have some other details on Villier's life.
Yes, crazy. I think that most of the people don't think that are dealing with humans through computers. They just deal with machines, so they can try to fool them.

It's also part of the being really rude on the Internet behind the anonimity that we have.
Rust: A type system you didn't know you wanted [video]
Community code reviews for the greater good