skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a polyglot (English, several dialects of Chinese, Spanish, German, Russian), languages are still one of the most important tenets of culture and individualism.

Trying to understand or think like an American is a completely different experience from trying to think like a Chinese which, respectively, is completely different from thinking like a German. These modes of thinking not only make each culture/country/peoples unique, it actually facilitates various strengths.

Primarily, the Chinese language actually allows humans to remember and store more information in short term memory when compared to more Western/romantic languages. Most humans can store 7 (+- 2) bits of information (bits being defined as one contextual idea: 25 + 23 are 3 bits, Picasso's Mona Lisa is 1 bit).

The Chinese language actually facilitates math/short-term memory because many things are spoken/read/written as one contextual idea. When remembering a large number (602-112-5097 for example), English speakers tend to remember this number as:
Area code = 1 contextual bits
Each individual number = 7 contextual bits
This happens because the English language separates non-related digits into individual ideas.

In Chinese however, masses of digits are written and spoken as one long contextual idea. Similarly, in memory, these long numbers are more easily stored as one contextual bit and take up "less" space.

Conversely, English (and to some degree romantic languages) happen to have lots of descriptors (what we call adjectives and adverbs). This, respectively, is one of the reasons why English speakers tend to be more creative with how they express themselves.

Does this mean that we'll eventually tend towards an universal language that implements all the good points of current languages? Perhaps.

Personally, I enjoy the uniqueness of each language by itself.
I agree with the rest, but it's not that unusual to get several points without comments.

(e.g. as an extreme case: I recently submitted one that made it to 50 before the first comment, and dropped off the front page at ~60 with just that comment.)
Check an electoral map. Urban centers are democratic strongholds. In fact they are the only part of the map that matters for dems. The black belt has no impact on the presidential election. I have no idea why the author is calling sparsely populated, poor minority counties a "secret weapon."

I guess nancy pelosi has the formation of gold in northern California to thank for her success?
That's really bad news for Expedia. When you book a hotel room directly on Kayak, over 90% of the bookings go through expedia and hotels is where these travel agencies make most of their money. (Not airfares, they have become a commodity, thanks to Kayak :) )
Wow... I can think of few ways to completely destroy goodwill with users than that. If someone has decided that they aren't interested in listening to an ad, enough so to spend the time to lower the volume, you sure as hell are not going to elicit warm fuzzy feelings by actively ignoring their wishes.
Reverse-engineering legacy ANSI C codebases
To indulge you just a little bit, I think it most likely result in an a rapid expansion of forensic industries. While I have no legitimate experience in signal processing, I imagine there would be ways to deduce whether or not such impersonations were credible to some degree. Whether or not that would stop tech-savvy marketers and con artists out of scamming grandma, I don't know. We'll have to wait and see what 21st century holds for future firewalls. Of course, if someone with any knowledge on the subject would like to step in and point out how stupid my response sounds to them, I'd be glad to become more informed!
Kayak, Hipmunk, Google Flights, Orbitz, and almost every other aggregator licenses ITA Software's system, actually. And most major airlines use it internally. It's good enough that it's pretty much the de facto standard and framework.
Crayon Physics Deluxe silently closes on startup after showing the Kloonigames logo on my Nexus 7. Runs fine on my Galaxy Nexus, however. A shame, would love to play this on a tablet.
Oh! I was just there! That place is a lot of fun. Unfortunately a bit smaller than I would have liked; it doesn't take long to get through it all, but still, lots of cool stuff to look at.

Plus, they sell "Communist mints" in the gift shop, which are pretty awesome. I also picked up my girlfriend a pair of fatman and littleboy earrings, which are equally awesome.
http://www.google.com/flights/?hl=en&gl=us#search;f=LAX;...

versus

http://www.hipmunk.com/flights/LAX-to-SFO#!dates=Nov09,Nov16...

I respect what Hipmunk is trying to do, but I really doubt they are filling voids outside of "this" community. I find it much harder to scan, slower to load, and having lower quality tools for finding alternate (or cheaper) fares.
It's interesting to me that Kerr cells were invented so early. I wonder what they were first used for? I know in the '60's and later they were used in lasers for Q-switching, but I'm trying to think what else they would have been used for in the 1940's...

Also, I wonder if it is more difficult to create a nanosecond pulse using only vacuum tubes...
Wow, that's an impressive first project, congratulations on finishing it! I definitely agree that the developer community for a language makes a big difference in how easy it is to use.

We are really into StarCraft II, so she's thinking of building a build order identification game for her first bigger project. We'll probably go ahead and use JQuery Mobile + PhoneGap to make it a free Android app we can give to our friends. Not quite as complex, but it should be fun!

For those of you that don't play StarCraft: A build order is like an opening in chess: it sets up the rest of the game, and recognizing/responding to a build order is key to being a good player. The game she wants to build would help train people to recognize build orders by showing them a quiz with pictures.
Great startups work like this too. The best and most successful teams invariably exhibit these characteristics and failing companies almost never do. It’s an emotional and personal attachment that a team has to the end result of their work.

If you're in a competitive space, obsessing over details is a great way to differentiate. The "product market fit" theory better predicts startup success:

http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-star...
I'm tired of people misusing the concept of a strawman (or other equivalent concepts). Just because someone pointed out something weird or bad about an argument doesn't make it a strawman.

The OP comment was not misrepresented. He started from "black people historically lived in greater proportion where soil was good for cotton." He ended with "affirmative action is still needed". Yes, the OP said more than that, but those statements as given are correct.
I see Hipmunk still doesn't track budget airlines in Europe (eg, EasyJet).

Which makes it fairly useless to me, and absolutely not a replacement for Kayak.
Any tool can crap out code that serves a business need. That's a "product", fine. But it takes someone with a bit finer sense of competence to produce code that can work over a longer term and doesn't drag down the business in years to come.
no it doesn't, not for me or anyone I know at least. I can elaborate.
Do you accept that black people are two and a half times more likely to live poverty? From that, wouldn't if follow that a black person is two and a half more times likely to reap some sort of benefit from affirmative action, even if it wasn't based on race? What if affirmative action was based purely on the statistic of being part of a single parent family in poverty?

Do you accept that the median salary if you are black is less that 2/3 of that if you are white?

You comment on the stats of single mothers in poverty, say we need to turn it around, then and pretend it's an easy problem to solve when these communities don't have the money to fund programs at a local level (since they, you know, live in poverty), coupled with a history of racism and neglect at the state level, and you just say "well it's not really a problem because more white people are poor and we should end affirmative action"

Affirmative action seems pretty targeted to me. Sure white people don't really get affirmative action (that's not really true because there's all sorts of advantages you for just being poor), but life's not always exactly fair.
How did Twitter handle election tweets? Less Ruby, more Java
May be, on the other hand it's DRMed. Those who avoid DRM probably don't prefer it.
But does "kurczak z kaszą" mean anything?
Maybe 2-3 years ago, but nowadays Hacker News is just as commonly used as many news services. It's also not only about the correct use of English, many people can use English correctly but do not bother" capitalizing or punctuating since it's "annoying" to do on mobile devices - and since the people who do use Hacker News tend to be more forward-moving with technology, they tend to read and make posts on Hacker News from their phones and mobile devices which they do not bother correcting themselves on.
I haven't tried playing it since the experience will differ based on device. But I did have a look at the application package.

It is 170MB in size. Internally it is using Adobe Air which is a Flash container/runtime. The .swf file is only 24kb (yes really). There is a tiny amount of Java code basically just to get the AIR framework started. (Most Android apps have a bazillion libraries to do analytics, marketplaces, ads, social etc.)

Other than the 18MB Air runtime, the rest of the package is made up of 175 files for the game itself. These consist of a lot of audio in mp3 format, images (png and jpeg) and a handful of files whose format is not identifiable.
Jill Of The Jungle
cmd-f steve: 0 results

We've come a long way!
Mirror's Edge
I think this article must come from a point of incredible ignorance about most of what science has been up to. Across the board there have been incredible advances in chemistry, physics, quantum physics (which allows us our tiny powerful processors in things like cellphones and laptops and tablets), commercial aerospace, normal aerospace (jet-set lifestyle was a term for rich in the 60s because you could afford to fly, now EVERYONE flies, we just haven't increased the speed for a bunch of well laid out elsewhere reasons[1]). Also, we're on the verge of self driving cars. Further it misunderstands progress in general. It seems to think progress in all fields must be linear so big advancements in new fields of days of yore should still be advancing at such rates today ignoring rapidly growing complexity as the field matures. Computers, the newest field, has advanced the most recently because it is still relatively new.

This kind of thinking is just wrong and somewhat old fashioned. Just because we didn't get the future that star trek and pulp 60's sci-fi promised us doesn't mean we collectively screwed up somehow. The refrain "where's my flying car" or "where's my jetpack" is just misguided. We are living in the future, just not one predicted. Transportation speeds stopped increasing rapidly and went from exponential back to linear to nearly stalled, but as mentioned they scaled from a few rich to all. And there are good reasons for this, not cowardice etc. Meanwhile unexpectedly computation and communication technology exploded. I can video chat with everyone I know anywhere in the world for effectively free. I carry around a better than star trek communicator.

This is old man thinking, stuck in one view of how the world was going to be and ignoring how the world is. It's ignorant and offensive and misguided. There is very little merit in this and it's ironic he's accusing the candidates of ignoring reality.

Further reference:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/the_myth...

http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/92053.html

http://www.doktorsleepless.com/index.php/You_Will_Never_Own_...
Breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits are very common for all major acquisitions. For the law firm it's high potential reward with relatively little downside. The mere fact of one or two being filed means pretty much nothing.
I tried the Google tool...

"Sorry, flights from Germany are not currently supported."

"Sorry, flights from Italy are not currently supported."

"Sorry, flights from United Kingdom are not currently supported."

Wonderful. I can find flights from New York to London, but not vice versa.
Multilingualization
If you like that pic, there's a wonderful coffee table book full of them:

http://www.michaellight.net/work100suns.html

I got it for xmas from the girlfiend a few years back, she knows exactly he sort of combination of beautiful and eerie that I like...
The one way in which web apps still cannot compete effectively on mobile and which gets no attention is access to a user's contacts/address book.

Right now on the web Facebook and convoluted non-standard APIs to your email provider are pretty the only way to get access to contacts. This is the number one barrier to allowing web apps to spread easily when a user wants to share the app or something in the app with a friend.
Some/many (I wouldn't know) economists think the fiscal cliff, if handled incorrectly, will put the world into a recession.

So, the election may affect Dutch economy. Doubly so because the economy of the Netherlands is highly dependent on foreign trade. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...:

- GDP : $840 billion

- Imports: $492 billion (5.9% from the USA)

- Exports: $550 billion

(some economists joke that it isn't necessary to have a Dutch minister of economics, as there is no way local policy can compensate for the effect of foreign economies on that of the Netherlands)
His body looks almost like an engineering mistake ..
wow google flights is super fast!
Absolutely. r509 (which this tutorial uses) is fundamentally a wrapper around the OpenSSL bindings of Ruby. It doesn't do anything that you can't do without it; it just tries to present certificate generation/revocation/management in a simpler manner.

This is most evident in the OCSP responder, which leverages sections of the Ruby OpenSSL code that have...limited documentation (see: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/Ope...)
Just adding to what others said, you won't miss your music collection if you use Google Music and have good enough internet. In my use case, I have found that although I have GBs of music collected over years, at any particular movement, I am listening to only very small subset of it. So what I have uploaded all my music to Google Music, and then made offline all the music I frequently listen; essentially the new albums I purchase and the older, favorite songs.

It works well because T-mobile data speeds are fast enough, and only time I remember missing my music was when I was on a long 12 hour flight, and really wanted to listen to that one song, and taking out my laptop wasn't worth the effort.
Please Hurry Up And Compromise Because If You Don't This Country Is Screwed
Do any flight search tools track budget airlines?
This echoes TGS and such. OK. You've convinced me. But the article concludes without giving any constructive suggestion, other than some vague notion that youngsters today should really innovate.

Give me some more concrete advice. What do?
A federal budget does not include how you're going to raise the money to pay for it. The thing that Romney was vague about was which tax loopholes he was going to close to pay for his budget. No Democratic senator proposed a budget in the last 3.5 years because their President did that for them, as is customary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process).Also, only the House has "the power of the purse", i.e. the right to propose spending bills. And of course Democratic senators voted on budgets during the last 3.5 years. All spending bills have to pass the Senate. Here is the Senate roll call for one of the FY 2012 appropriations bills, which passed the Senate on Nov 1, 2011: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_c... . Note that most Democrats voted "yea", and most Republicans voted "nay". Also, the article in question was not a "fact-check". It was article about fact-checking.
I had the same idea, but it looks like Google translate needs a TON of work. For example:

English: "I hope you enjoy the rest of the presentations today"
http://translate.google.com/#en/zh-TW/I%20hope%20you%20enjoy...
Translated into Chinese: "I hope you enjoy rest (as in take a break)/resting introduction/presentation"

Bing translator is much better using the same English input: http://www.bing.com/translator, the Chinese that comes out is grammatically correct in Chinese. The reverse translation comes out correct as well.

But yes, seems that if the translator is good enough, it would be simple to reproduce the process from the video.
Thanks! The quality of the speaking is definitely not something I can judge, not knowing Chinese.

Are Chinese computer voices just flat-out worse than English ones, or is there something specific?
WikiLeaks Case Defendant Offers Partial Guilty Plea
These are not hypothetical comics. If the characters are primarly tools to entice male audiences, then they are unlikely to also serve as good role models.
Thanks for another great example why 'HTML5' is not (yet) an alternative to Flash when it comes to vector performance and games.
Startups/Meetups/Taquerias - Our experience after a month in San Francisco
You act like we have a choice in the matter.

"Sorry, I can't look into your emergency production problem, I'm adding features to a blog."
Amazing: Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice
System requirements and incomplete list of supported android devices: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/812...
My young son loves Studio Ghibli films. Nearly all the main characters Kiki, Chihiro, Ponyo, Arrietty, Satsuke and Mei etc are girls. He is a bit young for Mononoke and hasn't seen Nausicaä. About the only one he doesn't like is Porco Rosso. Role models are important but I don't know that all our kids heroes and game characters have to be same sex.
The margin of error of a poll is the margin of error at the 95% confidence level (two sigma). The standard "margin of error" when you are talking about polls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_of_error#Different_confi...

In reality, you should apply a finite population correction, which would make the "margin of error" a bit smaller if you get a substantial percentage of the population voting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_population_correction#Co...
You are incredibly immature if you think the only way to not be "boring" is too smoke weed and drink alcohol.
My interview with Google is tomorrow, any advice?
It will be a technical interview, by the way.
Insider trading sends important price signals to the market. The alternative is LESS information.
Nah, you're just on HN.
When You Are Stuck
The creepiest sight in China? Tiananmen anti-self-immolator firefighters
I don't know where you're getting any of this. My objection was to asking the question and then assuming that it could not be answered before even giving the other guy a chance to respond.
Probably my absolute favorite book series are The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. The protagonist is a princess who grows up hating all the typical princess things she's being taught so she convinces people to teach her swordfighting, magic, Latin, and other things princes are taught. When she gets fed up she runs away to be a dragon's princess and has all sorts of great adventures.

Those books are so refreshing and brilliant that I still reread them to this day.
You can't be certain a single toss is going to capture all the angles you need (inside a closet, under the covers of a bed, etc). It also still gives you a static 'snapshot' of the space. You really need a dynamic view to get an idea of what the fire is doing, distinguish victims from other blobby heat signatures, etc.

The UI would be tricky as well... Consider the conditions the user is operating in... Extremely poor visibility (no hi-res display (potentially solved by project on the facepiece directly)), bulky gloves (no touch interface), heavy gear (every extra pound matters), significantly restricted movement (tough to throw the thing in the first place).

I think there's a lot of progress to be made in this field in the near future, but I'm not sure this is it... Things like helment mounted TICs, and HUDs projected directly on the SCBA facepiece seem like they would be far more useable, and easy to implement..
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The video shows a mockup panorama. You can tell because the perspective is from 5-6 foot, not 2-3 inches.
The Stats Behind 2012 Election Night’s Visual Story
Might just be trying to expand the meaning of private / more privacy..
I started that last week! I believe the new official site is www.edx.org
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How HTML 5 Web-Apps Will Dominate The Entire 2013 Year
Australian government scraps Internet filter plan
gang violence
The gangs were white, but the contours of the violence would probably be familiar to contemporary observers.

intense poverty
Sociocultural hurdles that limited property ownership, the inability to meaningfully advocate for fair wages, and the lack of the suffrage required to change this reality meant that intense poverty was the status quo.

substance abuse
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/jamdoi.html

"William Henry James and Stephen Lloyd Johnson document the role of alcohol and other drugs in traditional African cultures, among African slaves before the American Civil War, and in contemporary African American society, which has experienced the epidemics of marijuana, heroin, crack cocaine, and gangs since the beginning of this century. The authors zero in on the interplay of addiction and race to uncover the social and psychological factors that underlie addiction."

neglect
see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#History;
see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JimCrowCar2.jpg

trauma
Subjective, based on who you ask, but I'd say yes.
Somehow, an Incredible Robotic Dragonfly is Now on Indiegogo
Safari looks good so far
On the campuses of Google and Apple, high-design bathrooms or espresso bars might look very different from the average non-tech company but their balance sheets show the same vast piles of idle cash you’ll find at Pfizer or Chevron. If we were living in an era of accelerating technological progress, Apple could reinvest its returns in new projects instead of fighting patent battles over old ones while moonlighting as the world’s biggest hedge fund.

-- Insiders with idle cash: The sound of silence speaking a thousand words.
Couldn't you always clone a git repo too? But the ability to "fork" (clone plus some setup) on github is still very useful.
Shouldn't such an extralegal system make them into a publisher exercising editorial control over the content?

Wouldn't this then disqualify them for safe harbor?
Don't call semi-officially government sanctioned antisemitism with stupid euphemisms. It's plain insulting.
> different languages emerged because of physical separation.

Not always.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diglossia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_change
Beyond Good and Evil

American McGee's Alice

Resident Evil

Perfect Dark

Old NES Games based on the Alien movies (Ripley)

Donkey Kong Country 3 (Diddy Kong is the main character)

Chrono Trigger's main hero is a male, but 3 of the other 6 playables are strong females (2 of the others are a Frog and a Robot)

There are definitely more games with male protagonists than female, but there are enough to list.