skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck learning "spoken" anything without any decent texts to read. You could listen to the radio / watch movies, but you'll find the dialogue is way too fast and not very coherent (dialogue isn't structured very nicely, it's more free form, so you can't follow it as easily).

You won't catch many words.

If you have a tutor, they might be able to gradually build you up, but you won't have the hours with them. Reading at your own pace is a better way to build your vocabulary and grammar.

You're right about the "thousands of characters" thing - a lot of Chinese writing is pretty simple (in terms of character use - simple characters are usually combined to form longer words, the first thousand goes a looong way), as long as you stay clear of classical Chinese literature (at which point, even some Chinese give up).
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No it not Etherpad. If you want some pointers, it is in B2B space, where end users is still internet at large.(Think outbrain/disqus)
Yes. It's also worth noting that while Apple will stop shipping the Obj-C GC, it is also an OSS project that anyone can fork/ship if they really wanted to.
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That only avoids some problems. For example, this is vulnerable to s = MAX_SIZE_T/4 + 1

size_t s = get_size();
int *a = (int *)malloc(s * sizeof(int));
for (size_t i=0; i<s; i++) {
a[i] = get_int();
}

I've gotten in the habit of, when reading array sizes over the wire, explicitly limiting to a reasonable value like 1 million. Occasionally things should be allowed to use all available memory, but it's rare.
I don't think he's saying they wouldn't ask you to leave--especially since they probably found out about by way of a customer complaint. I believe he's just saying that they aren't going to make a big deal about it beyond asking you to leave, i.e. they aren't going to call the cops or issue a trespass warning.
Thank you, for uh, writing this comment. I was, uh, thinking the same thing, uh, myself and how tacky that was.

I'm sure it was intended, as perhaps a "low blow", since it's very easy to quote someone without all the damn "uh"s.

Not very classy IMO.
When I'm on the go, I frequently use Airlock's Hacker News app for Android. Best UX I've found so far.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
Twitter, Facebook, Apple, and Google are not conspiring to kill RSS, but each company wants to lock users into their walled garden. RSS lets users "eat the cheese" without getting caught in a proprietary mousetrap.
Key words being "first wife". Combine that with <blink>, it sounds like it was a bad night all around.
Babies have a unique way to acquire languages that we don't have as adults. However i find that reading newspapers and understanding the basics is quite easy (mostly because you already know most of the facts mentioned). But the stuff written in newspapers is not the language you would use in a normal conversation. The TV subtitles thing really works, especially when watching reruns of shows you like.
Probably the best analogy i've heard yet
This is what happens when I try to learn a language by watching movies.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-cAnFbEXY0&feature=relat...)

This is also pretty much what happens to me when I'm in the US. I think I'm talking real words, but people don't understand me.
Well there's nothing inherently wrong or bad about buying old sites or dropped domains, so it shouldn't raise too much of a red flag
There might be a little bit more to it than that. I think the vibrating subwoofer actually nudges the droplets and shapes them, controls the flow and the way each individual droplet breaks off.

Anyway, I'm definitely going to try this.
I think they want the social aspects of a bunch of people doing the course and having discussions/QA on the course forums. Personally I found visiting the forums during the ML course last year to be pretty depressing. seemed to be a mix of entitled whining and nauseatingly giddy excitement, both of which killed my learning boner. Overall great experience though.
I'm not even sure what the baseline is. What percentage of domains with any relevant content at all are >1 yr old? For it to be surprising that 93% of first results are from >1yo domains, it would have to be the case that >1yo domains make up much less than 93% of the relevant population, so we can conclude that they're actually overrepresented in the top results.
Relevant to my interests, "Hacker News Overload" publishes RSS feeds of HN articles at various score thresholds (20, 50, 100, 150):

http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...
For Arabic I also recommend learning songs. I learned to read and write (but not understand anything) but the phrases I remember best are Wael Kfoury songs.
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Super cool. Maybe think about just cutting those videos into a 30-second montage to drop onto your landing page until you want to do a proper demo-- for live coding, showing beats telling any day of the week.
Once i used a chrome extension to replace web banners with flashcards. Now i 'm bombarded with words.
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Qeorge, completely agree. Those are the two aspects that we should really nail so that others don't have to deal with it. I'll be sure to update you when I've learned more about IE and their Javascript engine then I ever wanted to know.

I'd be curious to pick your brain about what you think would add that additional value.
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:) that was really funny.
I agree, I think it's unfortunate when services get shut down post acquisition.

I also agree with you that all startups should have a clear path to monetization. I would assume that institutional investors would require as much before investing, but I think that would probably be assuming too much these days.

However, I don't think that all startups should "turn on" the monetization immediately. For those us trying to build two-sided platforms, we need to get one side of the platform on first. Typically this will be the users as brands and retailers are still very much focused on reach and are very slow to make decisions.
I think many people would think that's a good set of benchmarks.

Personally, numerical computing is more important to me. So the 7 benchmarks listed at julialang.org seem great to me.
I think the idea was to have a vibrating subwoofer and a strobe light, where the strobe light would simulate the synchronized framerate.

It should work. I would try it but strobelights give me a headache.
> Google has to prove and convince the jury that they obtained a license or a legally binding agreement to use Java

Their contention is that they don't need one. Besides, they don't use Java- They use Dalvik and a JVM bytecode-to-Dalvik translator.
>You asked if canceling the charge would be fraud in this case. I explained why it wouldn't be.

Problem is I disagree with your premise, namely that an "attempt" to return something is good enough in the face of a policy that says "no returns". And then you come back and take my money anyways. WTF dude?

I'd love to see something that backs that up.

You're beyond negotiation at that point anyways - Money has changed hands and the transaction is complete.
The chicken came first; not the egg
zoetropes on bicycle wheels: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/17851/bike-wheel...
Didn't read the article, but did it say "first and only"? ;)
hahaha, nice :)
Why don't you think you are qualified to choose a domain name from one of the available ones you find on Lean Domain Search? Is there anything I can do to make it easier?
Yes it's mind-boggling, e.g.: Bayern Munich is valued at $1.2 billion

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17769654

What I don't get: couldn't you build something like Evernote for let's say $500mm from scratch? It's not a company, it's a smartphone app!
Hypothetical situation:

Two domains with identical volume/quality of content and equally good back links, Site A being 10 years old, Site B 1 year old. ( IE remove all considerations other than time )

My money is on site B showing higher in the serps.
No, Microsoft wrote a 'different book' -- .NET

What Google did was remove a chapter here and there and add a couple of their own chapters -- in this book analogy, clearly copyright infringement.

The actual quotes used in the slides is "you form an API using those parts of speech in the same way I'd write a technical paper using, you know, nouns, verbs, objects, so on." In other words, you couldn't copyright java.lang package name itself (an adjective say) but you could copyright the collection of everything in it (as like technical paper).

I'm astounded that this is in Google's slides. Slide 12 basically says the Java API, taken as a whole, is copyrightable.
Pretty cheap R&D by the FBI for anonymized communications techniques.
Quite a few people who were familiar with software (one works at HP, one at Cisco) were excused from the jury, because they would already have her own interpretation of the law — opinions you cannot set aside, as the judge put it.

Here's a lot more detail about the jury selection; five people were excused by the judge, then three more by each party: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120416085550303

I was rather surprised by the demographics, there were a lot of engineers and lawyers, and for some reason I though jury duty was a statistically unbiased sample of major citizens. I guess I should be glad the trial takes place in San Francisco rather than East Texas: http://www.thejuryexpert.com/2010/03/east-texas-jurors-and-p...
On my MacBook : Sparrow
On my Linux box: Firefox, because Thunderbird is really bad at handling Gmail&Google App IMAP accounts (well, it's not Thunderbird fault, but still...)
how about slide 52.

Dick Wall: Can we demonstrate the tooling, emulator, dev environment, etc.?

Andy Rubin: Yes, one-on-one only please, where you know exactly who you are talking to. Please don’t demonstrate to any sun employees or lawyers.

yikes.
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I was referring to scraping Google/Yahoo. They have disclaimers on their sites that the information is N minutes old at best.

EDIT: I guess a few of them are actually realtime now. Here's the list: http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlefinance/disclaimer/
Oh, I read your post as opposite of that, so instead of snarky response I'm retconning it to snarky reinforcement :)
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Looking through their site it looks like a Splunk search (or a query) can include a large set of non-trivial, CPU intensive operations. Therefore, perhaps, it is a process that does not lending itself well to multithreading: http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/12027/singlemulti-thre...
I do not understand the sledgehammer approach the FBI 'cybercrimes' division deals with things with.

The FBI are not police, are not detectives, and are not competent in these matters. I'm sorry but covert monitoring of a server is going to be vastly more beneficial for an operation than taking the server and is going to net more targets and more evidence.

I remember stories of the FBI sitting on a known front for organized crime and waiting until they got someone worth catching before making a move.

It's a universal truth that any action has a reaction. If the FBI shut down a money laundering front, then the Mob would get wise and get more sophisticated and you won't hurt their operation. If you wait until you can link someone important to the Mob infrastructure and then make a move, then you've seriously effected crime in a city.

The FBI does shit like this and Megaupload before they appear to have their ducks in a row. They don't know what they're doing, and don't know what they're looking for so they consistently appear to jump the gun.

My only thoughts with this are that someone with a lot of power and influence is making this happen. What I wonder is what politician or presidential candidate/whatever has a lot vested and a lot to lose from someone finding out they/their kids/their family is pirating, or running anonymous operations, etc. Seriously, it's the only reason I can think of other than incompetency as to why the FBI is consistently jumping the gun.
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One thing that I dislike about reading in RSS readers is that it's getting somewhat more common to include interactive things in blog posts, and I'd like to see those (and encourage that trend). Things like having a running example of a code snippet, or interactive statistics/data-viz stuff. Sometimes JS/canvas/SVG stuff works in Google Reader, but often it's broken, and non-browser-based readers usually don't even try.
I can understand the need to stop the bomb threats, but the FBI also should have respected the other users of the seized server and not removed it. And besides, nothing is stoping the person from using other anonymous email hosts.
The main advantage is that it's very easy to measure and it sums up the demonstrated beliefs of a lot of participants. Anybody actually trying to buy the company will do a much more complicated calculation than the one you describe.

For what it's worth, when acquisitions happen it's almost always above the shares x price number, so I think it's reasonable to call Evernote a $1bn company if the shares x price number works out that way.
America's online law enforcement shaping up to be pretty much like the war on drugs.
Good point. Unfortunately, we don't have any realistic means to collect that data so we can't really accommodate such an analysis. We're working with what our product has collected and doing our best to share that and apply our own SEO-based interpretation of the data.

There are a handful of unsubstantiated claims that float through the SEO world that we're trying to provide some actual numbers for. If we could without a doubt show you what works in SEO we'd be sipping pina coladas on an island somewhere :). All we're saying with this series of posts is "out of all of the keywords people have analyzed using serpIQ, this is what we make of this specific assertion/data point/metric"
It's very good at iterating on a name that I'm already thing about, but not very good at going beyond what I've already considered.

Consider if I were writing a new Email package.
I might tell your tool "Mail" or "Message"

As great as LDS is, it's going to give me "GetMessage.com" or "HiveMail.com" not anything like Pegasus Mail, Cyrus, or Hermes.

Those are much more creative names!

These are all stories about mail delivery, to an extent, but any computerized system is going to have a hard time with it.

The best that I suspect could easily do would by synonyms - If I give it Dark, it could suggest Black and Dusk, and give me names using those..

But I'd love to see something with a less direct connection.
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In total, over 300 email accounts, between 50-80 email lists, and several other websites have been taken off the Internet by this action.

I hope Riseup posts a list of those 300 e-mail accounts that were taken offline, so the owners know that they are now on an FBI watch list.
When I heard about the instagram acquisition I did wonder if Facebook partly made that purchase with that timing and an insane valuation in order to ramp the value of their own IPO shortly afterward. This is not sustainable, and it's going to make it very difficult for startups to get funding in a few years when it all goes sour. But the best insurance, as ever, is to try to build a great company, not try to build something that some VC will want to buy with borrowed money.
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This video calling service is the best on the market with proprietary assets that could prove value to the search giant.
It's not like Mixmaster (and presumably everything else running on that host) isn't FOSS. This isn't R&D; it's swatting a fly with a thermobaric device.
I have friends involved in Riseup, and I know they do good work. Software projects like monkeysphere and backupninja. Didn't realize they hosted so many mailing lists, apparently 14,000.

This is a good time to https://help.riseup.net/en/donate
.. lots of options, including bitcoin and flattr.
This seizure is especially chilling because Riseup is used primarily by activists.
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With this rash of seize-servers-first-ask-questions-later, sounds like we're heading for a reprise of the glorious Steve Jackson Games era of blunt-weapon policing tactics when it comes to technology.
It's also quite possibly from Sun's open-source code, which they surely couldn't be held liable for.
An answer from a guy '
Matthew Kane' at Quora - http://www.quora.com/Startups/Copying-an-acquired-closed-Sta...

"My advice would be to reach out to the team who had the startup which was acquired and get their feedback. They will be able to tell you if what you are doing is worth pursuing, if there is still a need in the market, if there are any legal/IP issues etc. I wouldn't waste anymore time on the project until you have spoken to them. They should be more than happy to help especially considering they already have exited their investment and are locked up at Google"
Mark Dowd found this bug and described it in The Art of Software Security Assessment (TAOSSA) in 2006. lawl.

https://twitter.com/#!/mdowd/status/192986878138523648

Here's the actual page: http://i.imgur.com/vPjOR.jpg
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I'm with you on the bombardment method. In terms of fluency, my Portuguese is 95%, my Spanish is 85%, my Italian is 50% and my French is probably 20%. Of course, these percentages would be best if broken down into reading, writing, etc, in order to get a clearer picture.

I don't consider myself to be a quick language learner (ie, with a 'gift' for it) but I do believe that being passionate goes a long, long way and that bombardment and immersion are key. It's not about the time it takes, it's about your drive to reach the right level for you. Being a language lover, I never just want to "get by", I'm looking for near-fluency or fluency. It took me a good decade and a lot of commitment to reach the levels I've reached in the languages mentioned.

Btw, the OP is right about getting the accent down. To me this is just as important as any other aspect of the language.
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In five months - no way. I went as an exchange student to the US with virtually zero spoken English. I met noone speaking my language for first few months, so it was as immersive as it gets (save getting an English-speaking girlfriend), and yet it took me 3 months to just start conversing. No way in hell one can learn to C1 fluency in 5 month even if it's an 24/7 effort.
Again? Didn't they get all their servers seized back in the late 90s early 00's too?
Is the greatest source of your pain at the data storage end (ETL, RDBMS), aggregations (OLAP cube), or presentation (reports, visualizations)?

I ask because other than issues with the traditional RDBMS+cube approach, mentioned by some in this thread as outdated, one of the issues I find is that open source ETL and BI tools do not have the maturity of open source databases.

Having moved from all-Microsoft shops (SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS), to PostgreSQL for data, and a mix of OSS and commercial ETL and presentation tools, my greatest source of frustration is the effort in working with tools that feel "unfinished". Cumbersome processes to accomplish what should be simple tasks can make any project frustrating.

This is not to say that the folks working on OSS OLAP / BI tools are not doing good work. But these tools have not been in development as long as something like PostgreSQL, so they simply don't have the maturity.

Another issue is that many of those who are consumers of open source OLAP tools are data people, not as adept in languages like Java or C. Thus non-developers can't contribute back to the projects at the same rate that developers can.

None of these points solve your issue, but as it stands, I find a mix of mature open source with commercial front ends suitable. I am mixing PostgreSQL with Tableau with some success. Tableau means license costs and Windows, but from an ease of development perspective, I have not found a suitable open source replacement. Saiku is one that has my interest.
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"Sorry, but need to ask - are you trying to troll here?"

No more than GIMP has trolled me. : )

First, look at the toolbar. Instead of folding the tools into categories as PS does, they throw it all out there. This is clunky and dumb. There is no reason to have 30+ icons on the toolbar. Photoshop has many more features, and yet doesn't manage to clutter up the interface with them ( see http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/wp-content/uploads/... ).

Second, if I close the toolbox pallette, GIMP closes. What the hell is this?

Third, right-clicking on the canvas gives me the same tools as the menubar. This tells me that one of the two is superfluous. Oh, and some of the options are duplicated yet again on the toolbox pallette. So, make that three. Huh. I can also click the upper-lefthand corner of the canvas to get the same menu. Four. Four ways.

Fourth, at least the tool options are layed out--oh, no, no they aren't. There isn't a fast-access tool menu along the top of the screen, and the dialog is coded to not reflow reasonably when positioned there.

Fifth, the goofy mascot is leering at me over the top of the toolbox pallette, as if to dare me and try to make sense of the tool.

Sixth, the scrollwheel doesn't seem to be used, so why not have it zoom in and out? Nope, not done. Instead, it scrolls up and down. Useless. The devs let us drag the canvas with middle-click, but no scroll zoom.

Seventh, color tools are duplicated (yet again) between the Colors menu and the Tools->Color tools menu. Derp.

Eigth, there is both a Layer->Transform menu and a Image->Transform menu. Acessible from something like three different places. So, six redundant menus? I don't even know what the fuck.

Ninth, why are Edit and Select different menus? Even PS doesn't do this.

Tenth, why do Colors->Map and Filters->Map have different mapping options? They're the same? I think they used to be together?

I could go on, but it's giving me brain cancer.

~

I'm not just trolling. The GIMP is an accidentally useful sprawl of bad design. The fact that you have managed for a decade to use it for anything is much more a credit to your skill/persistence/stubborness than any redeeming qualities it has.

It's had a good run, but now we need to move on.