skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only part of this I take exception to is "if you really require references then you haven't been paying attention".

I have been paying attention ... to some of what's going on. I'm aware of certain specific cases of domestic espionage through telecoms and tech.

However, providing concrete references always beats roaming the streets with a tinfoil hat on your head declaring "They're watching! The rays!".

NB: if I take a covert photo of a guy wearing a tinfoil hat, does that make me The Man?
I've always associated "uva" with the university of valladolid, spain (www.uva.es). It wasn't until I read this that the letter being in english finally made sense.
We think into language. We do not think in language.

The former is a more consistent notion than the latter. More consistent with the evidence, etc. cited. Thinking 'in' language implies passivity and representation, thinking into language implies evolutionarily novel linguistic production, autonomy of mind, etc.

Please review The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience.
Valve Picks Up Another Key Linux Developer
I'd love to hear about recent theories that are substantively different. I'm not aware of any.
Oh, ok then. I thought this was a business discussion - cost input vs. benefit output. Instead, it seems like we're arguing for what would give us the perfect energy perpetuum mobile.
This blog has a ton underlying something I think of each time I go into a large presentation - be a rock star!

I realize that's oversimplifying it a bit, but if you think about presenting there are many items that do coincide: know your material in and out, think about your audience, bring the enthusiasm...etc. I realize not every presentation is going to be rock star material, but if nothing else it makes me strive to elevate what I am discussing and has given me something more to strive for whenever delivering material to a larger audience.
Really? "git lg -10" works perfectly for me, exactly as I expect. Did you add a "--" to the end accidentally, maybe?
I know what fonts, colours and relative sizes I want things to be.

This is only tangentially related, but a few years ago I set up my web browser to default to white on black. Big mistake. I promptly found out that about half the websites out there specify a text color, but not a background color.

Customization needs to be actively supported. It rarely comes for free.
'He said Codecademy wasn’t just about teaching people to be programmers, but about helping people learn higher skills. “There are definitely people who become programmers through the site, but there are also people using these courses to level up what they are doing anyway, like someone going from being an administrative assistant, to someone who can write HTML and CSS for email campaigns.”'

Love the concept of 'higher' in this quote. Some become programmers, but some learn 'higher skills' - like writing html. The whole idea of higher (and presumably lower) is fascinating. HTML and CSS is higher than administrative assistant. Does anyone here understand how hard it is to be an admin assistant??? A PA, essentially... Much much harder than hacking a bunch of tweaks on top of bootstrap or whatever.

And, incidentally, this whole higher/lower bullshit is what your "founders"/"funders" arses think about you - you are the bitches with the "lower skills" and one day, if you learn, you'll get your own bitches with the "low skills" who will code your marvellously fantastic idea and if it fails it's because they hired muppets, and if it succeeds, it's because they are the next messiah.
> Do you see people using their tablets at their desk or table?

No--but I do see people wanting to lean back with their laptops on the couch. At which point, they pull off the keyboard, close the kickstand, and treat it, temporarily, like a tablet.
Microsoft IS the most exciting ecosystem for developers (at least to those who tried .NET or WinRT). It's such a better platform to develop for than, let's say, iOS.
The idea is for the light to be definitive, but I am not sure how secure they are. Also, as far as I can tell/remember all Macs have indicator lights on their cameras.
Just wanted to say that this is a terrific project (and experiment). Inspirational for those of us who need a kick in the ass to shut up and get to work on that MVP. Maybe the next product is a $10k bootstrap challenge everyone can take? :)
Would love to hear your comments / feedback
I'll just leave this here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsKKQNZG3rE

I know this thread is not about apple but I don't know of any tech demo that is guaranteed to have a 100% success rate.
I'm using a xmpp transport and chat with my facebook contacts through google talk.
Another observation is that the grammatical structure of language differs between humans and other primates. At some point in human evolution there must have been a transition to a recursively enumerable grammar, which facilitates complex culture and metasystems similar to Wolfram's class 4 automata.
I'm with 'gruseom on that!
If you casually asked a native Chinese speaker "are leaves and the sky the same color?" would they answer differently than if you asked a native English speaker? If so (i.e. if Chinese speakers tend to say Yes while English speakers tend to say No), then I would argue that there's something more going on than simple hue labels, since the labels themselves aren't being asked for or provided.
How I temporarily made $1,566.85 an hour with Google's VRP.
The author uses Twitter as an example, which was actually a spinoff of Evan Williams' second company

Its also a bit disingenuous to completely ignore Jack Dorsey who's founded and working full time for two of the most successful startups around.
What should the people of Iranian origin do to make it easy for Apple Nazis? Put a star of David or a crescent on their clothes before they enter the store?
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Microsoft's tablet moves make Nokia look cunning
Holy levitating Slinky
Exactly. Just as I used to hear people say "Eskimos" have (some double digit number) of words to describe different "snow". Which makes sense if you realize they live in snow. On the other hand, for many purposes, English, as well as other languages, have ways to describe that snow --they just don't have one word nouns fot that. It's not as though we'd be dumfounded finding a way to describe this snow. Now, since it's not everyday we see snow, yeah, we might not at first glance have it apparent that there is a difference between fresh snow and day-old snow (bit of melting, evaporation) snow drift, snowpack, falling snow, fallen snow, etc.

With regard to grammatical gender, w/re German, I was told that it was futile to try to derive grammatical gender from the attributes of objects --that it was pretty random, for the most part. Mark Twain once remarked "In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has"
That's quite an interesting "debate". Liberman concedes the entire thing in his first sentence!
Microsoft has a surprisingly cohesive ecosystem: xbox gold, xbox music, skydrive, app marketplace. So, I think this is a viable strategy.
Because the UK never extradites anyone to the USA, especially their own citizens...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon
Hm, I think something's missing from the post... Oh, yes, proper attribution.

I saw this months ago in a 2010 blog post: http://www.jukie.net/bart/blog/pimping-out-git-log

It's the exact same alias, sans "--date=relative".

The guy from jukie.net also shares his entire .gitconfig, I built mine from it and highly recommend at least taking a peek: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/conf/gitconfig
According to the people at the New York Times he worked with, he became transformed by his celebrity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/magazine/30Wikileaks-t.htm... goes into their history. I'm tempted to quote a few paragraphs but it wouldn't be fair since there is a very large picture being painted.
I don't get your point - the people who are pissed off are the students and faculty of UVA. There are also many Virginians who have no association with UVA who are pissed off (including myself; I attended Virginia Tech and lived in Virginia for the vast majority of my life).

The fundamental problem, I think, is the Board of Visitors model for running public universities. We had serious problems with this back in 2003 at Virginia Tech (http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/1171/board-of-visitor...).
I think so. In my interview with Emmett of twitch.tv, he mentioned that if he asks customers, "what should I build for you?" the responses are pretty useless.

So instead he teases out what their motivation is (personal expression or making money by broadcasting or something else) and what's keeping them from achieving it (lack of clear stats, or difficulty publishing, etc). That helps him figure out what to build.
Can you possibly throw in more stereotypes? Not everyone in the South is a white, good ol' boy racist. Not anymore than everyone who thinks it's a true is a complete idiot. You're merely ignorant.
Facebook introduces in-app subscriptions
The central limit theorem only applies when random variables are combined linearly. I see no reason to suspect that this is the case with random inputs for testing. (Most functions are nonlinear!)
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It's funny that he concludes the post in celebration. I personally find it a scary suggestion that our core perception and being is decided by idiosyncrasies of language and culture.
For interoperability, I like email. It is well supported across most platforms, and everyone has already adopted it.
I don't think so. I think it would be similar to asking someone if the sky was the same color as the blue angel planes flying around the same sky (on a regularly blue-skies day).
In a perfect world that might happen. Sadly people are not happy, if you point their mistakes at them and they can get very agressive against you, especially when their job or their public reputation might be at stake. Add some age difference of over 20 years and an IT education that started with punching holes into cards and you are fd. Then going to offer them your assistence wouldn't be the smart thing to do, don't u think?
But . . . what is Perka and why should I create an account before I know what it is?

I had to go to the url, delete /signup etc. to find out. You might want to make your logo take you home.
Reminds me of all the fun I had playing with malware on my own computer during the mid-to-late 90's. Being quite ignorant about the whole thing allowed me to look and find things that would not be considered safe. Hacker websites (like the old cult of the dead cow folks), exploits, etc. I remember downloading the LOIC and wondering what the hell it was.

Of course, I wanted to be a "hacker". You know, make ATM's spit out cash so my brother could buy a more powerful engine for his mustang. That kind of thing. Never really meant or even did harm, because my limited knowledge back then kept me out of trouble.

I did however get to do something very important while looking for people to "hack" (not really) on ICQ. I met my wife. Wonderful things happen by serendipity.
Old Microsoft Surface 1.0 tabletop is rebranded "PixelSense"
It's reminding me of Angular. Can you say something about similarities/differences?
This is sometimes theme in science fiction as well. While for example Snow Crash was a bit cheesy in this regard (reprogramming human brains with special words and similar stuff), the language used plays interesting role in The Culture series as well.

EDIT: I would also suggest that Lisp and Java are more different than any two human languages in history. And even then, they are both Turing complete.
What is "transactional email" ?
The difference isn't technically with consumer vs enterprise, but with how big in scope something is.

For example, it's likely that something as big and successful as facebook is due to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and idea, but a neighborhood pizza shop can be more likely to be successful due to experience, skill, and non-luck factors.

Consumer startups just happen to usually need to be big in scope in order to succeed.

So outliers like Facebook, apple, etc may actually depend on luck to become as big as they are, but smaller scope enterprises may be more formulaic and repeatable.
Female Catholic President. Bit of a risk that she doesn't like people who have (admitted in court in the UK) some pretty dubious sexual acts. Acts which the UK court have said would constitute offences in the UK.
"More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason — including blind stupidity." — W.A. Wulf

As an alumnus of the University of Virginia in Computer Engineering, kudos Professor Wulf.
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The lack of "strategic dynamism" part is hilarious:

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-co...
Language is very much not a choice. I would love to be able to speak English without making it obvious that English is not my native language – but I can’t. It’s very, very hard to be able to do that. People will always know that I didn’t grow up with English. People will always suspect that I wasn’t born in any English-speaking country.

Other characteristics that serve for racial profiling might be harder to change (some might not be changeable at all) but they are still in principle the same. (Someone wearing clothing that is more typical elsewhere could much easier change his or her clothing than I can get rid of my accent. That doesn’t, however, exclude the possibility of racial profiling based on clothing.)
best public speaking advice that has made me a 10x better presenter: "a presentation is about the audience, not about you."
Seems to me Assange isn't so much afraid of being extradited to US (there is a truckload of ways to fight that if it ever comes to that) but of actually being convicted in Sweden.

The Piratebay trials have shown how corrupted the Swedish justice system can be, with both police, prosecution and judges having proven private connections with the copyright industry (which in itself is not only organized and financed by the US, but also actively backed up by the US government).

Being extradited to the US would make him a martyr, but being convicted for rape in Sweden would damage his reputation beyond repair. I doubt if the US even wants to deal with the whole circus of getting Assange extradited if there's an easier way to take him out of play.
Hasil Skor Pertandingan Inggris vs Ukraina
Doesn't work for me.

https://mightytext.net/app ->
" Error in GetUserInfo: timeout"
whether I'm logged into Google or not.

Too bad. I like DeskSMS and I'd prefer something like it only free.
Great post.
I used to often speak publicly. Last week I gave my first talk in years, to a large crowd. I was nervous because of how long has passed since I've last done it, but then I remembered my old habit. Before my talks I used to spend time with the conference goers in the hall, just chatting with them about whatever comes up. This seems to play a trick on the mind, making me feel like I'm speaking to friends rather than a faceless crowd. It worked last week as well. I highly recommend trying it out.
He's also been bailed by the British courts for the purposes of the extradition process. So he may be committing offences in terms of that. Concrete offences that a normal extradition treaty might cover but that the Swedish "we want to question" warrant may not outside the EU.
>All that Wikileaks has done could be done without having a public figurehead, right?

I say no.

Taking a feather from Rock 'n Roll, you need a front-man.
The Maturing of JavaScript
You don't think he'll be arrested the minute he sets foot out of the Ecuadorian?
I can't understand the relation to CLT. When using an RNG you basically sample from the same distribution (thus have only 1 random variable) plus the CLT comes into play when you add (sum, average) different random variables. In the case of the queue, it has nothing to do with the number of cases missed.
And now they would like him back to ask some more questions.

Assange cannot have his cake and eat it. It is somewhat hypocritical for Assange to seek asylum on the grounds of human rights whilst denying the women who are accusing him of obtaining due process through the law (most countries agree that due process is in itself a fundamental right).
I think most people are afraid to admit how much of their success is attributable to luck and being the right man in the wrong place.
For an individual to be unwilling to face the law in a country they are not a citizen sounds completely rational to me. Even in the US, with a pretty "fair and balanced" legal system by international standards, innocent people still end up in prison for decades, are executed, etc.

Then again, Julian Assange could very well be safe in a Swedish prison, relatively impervious to a drone strike.
I hope all this recent talk of language and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis spurs interest in lojban. Perhaps it can be further tuned to reduce color/gender bias.

http://lojban.org/publications/level0/lojbanLevel0.pdf
The service seems to be kind of expensive for what it is.
Tried it, for some reason isn't working on my system.

Then found this: http://volnitsky.com/project/git-prompt/ and I'm loving it!
Or UvA. (University of Amsterdam, http://www.uva.nl/)
Same here with the Universiteit van Amsterdam (www.uva.nl); and I guess there are more...
There's not just one Optimus implementation, there are many ways to wire Optimus. My colleague bought an Optimus laptop (can't remember which one now) that absolutely doesn't have the nVidia part of Optimus working. See here for details: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Optimus
Facebook to Scale Back Payments System
engineers, a lot to rebuild, or bad politicians?
Fool, he shoud come to Brazil, best land to any foreign person escaping law.
Where could I learn more about that stack ?
I knew about Virtuoso and DBPedia not about a Freebase cartridge.
Well, just learn ruby and read the source code of snappy, then write your own camera activation code -> no problem.
If you don't trust your link, go to the well known github website and search for the project yourself.

"With growing wish for self responsibility comes growing need for power."
The modular, factory-produced nature of the construction here makes a given level of quality a lot faster and cheaper. They can automate production of things that ordinarily would need to be constructed on site, they can do easier quality control, and they can devote more engineering effort to modules that get used many times.

(Note that this only applies to the parts that they can actually factory-build. For example, it doesn't apply to the concrete work for the foundations.)
That's a good point. You have to wonder if they considered innovating in that area as well. Perhaps a system that diffuses light through the ceiling of each floor? That would be quite impressive.
I'd go so far as to say you absolutely don't want to memorize your speech, unless you're at the level of Important Remarks for Important People like the State of the Union.

Instead, you want to memorize all the key features, jokes, and wry remarks.

You can write out your speech, if it helps. But read it. Out loud. To a wall. About ten or fifteen times. Read it, without looking at the paper (except when you forget what goes next), and without trying to duplicate it verbatim. You'll learn what phrasings come naturally to your tongue rather than your hand, and it'll flow a lot better when you give the speech itself.
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Am I the only one who sees this as something far too easily abused? I just signed up my brother (HNer/ programmer) for text alerts for imgur.com which is posted to reddit every minute.
If the prosecution is politically motivated then seeking asylum is appropriate. How do we resolve this question? There are some circumstantial reasons to believe that it is politically motivated. However, we just don't know.
A new way to experience Twitter profiles: with or without replies
I was disoriented a little at first. I think side strut is a little useless and confusing to the average user. I would replace the controls with: front/back => walk forwards/backwards, and left/right => turn left/right. Pretty cool concept though -- I like it. Keep mouse clicks for interacting with stuff (scrolling through the pages on the ad at the end of the hallway was pretty cool)
Most of the debate going on in comments here is about selling to a hypothetical Iranian visiting the US.

But that's not what actually happened here -- the customer is a US citizen. I am pretty confident that it is Apple policy to sell equipment to US citizens in US stores regardless of their ancestry.
Petition to EFF to support abolishing software patents
And I though of this: http://uva.onlinejudge.org/
I don't remember a huge amount of discredit on the hotel in two weeks?

I would expect that hotel is still standing strong for years to come; I think China really are the world leaders when it comes to construction these days (I heard somewhere that they're putting up some insane number of coal power-plants every month?!). What I'd really like to see is an entire prefab, skyscraper filled city built in a year.
I hope they aren't as awful as he makes them out to be. I was aspiring to work for them someday :|
He presented himself for questioning before he left Sweden. They told him he was free to leave. My understanding is that also Sweden will sometimes conduct such questioning via remote video link, but they have declined to do that in this case. It's been well over a year, it's not like they couldn't charge him without questioning if they wanted to.

I'm not really sure what's going down here, except it seems the least likely possibility is that Sweden wants to give him a fair trial for the sex allegations.
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How absurd. Going to profile people speaking a foreign language or looking non-white?

I don't need a birth certificate or passport to buy an ipad and neither should any other American citizen.
Do not let this dictate your perception towards your project. Maybe he changed his mind. People do that. Move on, keep working, and forget about it.

Good luck.
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What's your proposition? Fly to Ecquador, kick in the embassy doors and abduct a man seeking asylum?

It'd make for one heck of a news day, but I don't think it's that easy.
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This www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/transcript/ is a fascinating hour long podcast all about language and words. They show how thought and language _are_ linked. For example, imagine a rectangular room with entirely white walls and an item placed in one corner. Your chances are 50-50 of finding it.

Then colour one of the side walls blue. You can then use that as a reference to always choose the correct corner to go to. However, if your language goes to "the white wall" or "the blue wall" you can't do it. Not until you can say/think "left of the blue wall" can you do it.

Anyway, podcast explains it far better than I can, well worth a listen. (Radiolab in general is excellent)
Nice work, I had this idea a while ago and actually owned (not sure if expired right now or still in my posession) hnalerts.com to do the same thing.
Climate skeptics know their stuff
I just stumbled across these just a few hours ago:

http://www.lgdb.org/games/all?tid[]=8&tid_4[]=90&tid...