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I like the way the translations are at a sentence-by-sentence level. I think it makes you more of a language learning tool, rather than a social translation site like Yeeyan where the major goal is just making a translation of the whole article.

Being able to show the whole translation history of a sentence as soon as you click on it is also a good idea (is that what you're doing? I didn't notice any sentences with more than one previous translation, so I can't confirm it).

Here are some changes I would make if it was my site (just some ideas, they might not be particularly good):

* A bilingual/comparison mode, like Yeeyan's 左右对照 view, so you can see both the original and the translated articles at the same time

* Default to the latest translation when you click 'translate' on a sentence that's already been translated, instead of a blank textbox (I think most changes will be relatively minor corrections rather than re-translating the sentence from scratch)

* Continue to show the edit history of a sentence even when you've clicked 'translate'; also have a way to copy an old translation to the translation textbox for editing (just click on it?)

* Edit summaries for translations (optional, of course), so you can see why the translator thinks the new translation is an improvement over the old one

Also, I haven't really studied Japanese much so I might be wrong about this, but might it be better to show the kana as ruby instead of as a big long string below the sentence? That way it's easier to know what pronunciation maps to what word. Or perhaps highlight the appropriate kana when you mouseover a word. And is it normal to convert katakana to hiragana in that section, that seems a bit weird to me.

I created an account, but my Japanese isn't good enough to take part in this sort of project. I'll definitely be interested when you launch the Chinese version.
Tesla Announces Model S Price Increase
November 28, 2012

Dear xxxxx,

We will be announcing a price increase for Model S in the next few days.

This is our first price increase since the introduction of Model S and it is very important that we implement this in a way that recognizes those who already have a Model S reservation. This price increase will not apply to anyone with an existing reservation... as long as they finalize their order within a reasonable, predefined timeframe after receiving their "Invitation to Configure."

You will likely receive your invitation to configure between now and the end of January depending upon when you made your reservation. If you configure your car and finalize your order within four weeks after receiving your invitation, you will not be subject to the price increase.

Customers most often want to know if they will be invited to configure in the order in which they placed their reservation. The answer is 100% yes. However, we are finding that some customers finalize their order quickly while others take longer to complete their design and submit final paperwork. As a result, those invited later with "higher" sequence numbers are moving ahead of those with "lower" sequence numbers on a weekly basis.

To be fair, we fill all open production slots with the lowest sequence number reservations that have finalized their order. We need to do this in order to fill all production slots each week. This means the sooner you finalize your order, the sooner your Model S will be headed your way.

Keep an eye out for your Invitation to Configure your Model S!
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Why is it then that the US cellular providers are the only ones that charge for incoming texts? This doesn't seem like a case where if they didn't charge for it, their entire business model would collapse.

At least for US cellular providers, it's very clearly a tactic to push people towards paying monthly for 'unlimited text messaging' by attempting to make the per-message pricing prohibitively expensive. The "illusion of options" so to speak. Providing you with multiple options, but making sure that only one of the options makes economic sense (ensuring that the majority of people choose it).
Maybe he wants to beat the morning rush on his daily drive to the data-center~?
Yeah I see what you and mattmaroon mean. Thanks. I used SMS a fair bit when it was 20c/NZ a message - but that never seemed to be a big deal for anyone.

Interestingly, although running out of prepaid credit was highly inconvenient, it never really lead to people trying to conserve TXTs. As of today I am slightly ashamed to admit that I actually have no idea what an SMS costs me...
I'm a web developer, but keeping with these seems like a cat-laser scenario.

These APIs change every day, and knowing about them before they are usable in the wild feels like a waste of time and brain space.

Anybody feels the same way too?
Nice, I used to work for MS too :).

I actually went the JS route because of my skillset. I was was web-dev before I joined MS and never got into XAML much.

The JS platform was pretty stable from the initial public release, I guess that's because it is built on top of IE which has been around much before Win8 came along.
This is turning into thread soup. But for arguments sake; Surely someone with low-grade aging symptoms living an additional 30 years is going to be a greater burden on society than someone dying from complications 30 years earlier?
Just received this email, hasn't been posted to their website yet.
I'd:
- made more research and findout what potential buyers want to save development time (build MVP).
- find who wants to use it before building the project
As far as I understood the article, this is about a second download of a book purchased some time ago. I think in this case, it's not as clear-cut as the article makes it out to be.

To stay with the real world analogy: while the article is right that nothing will glue the pages of a physical book together once the credit card expires, it is also the case that purchasing a book once doesn't entitle you to go to the bookstore and demand another copy of the book because you lost your initial one.

I can see a technical reason which prevents the redownload by locked accounts. Or rather, I can imagine the additional work such a feature could require - work that obviously isn't going to be paid for by anybody (or rather paid for by customers who do have valid accounts and buy more media) - the card of the affected account is expired after all.

IMHO, if we want to demand that an electronic media purchase is a traditional sale, then we can't rurn around and demand that it also isn't and that we should have right to infinitely ask for additional copies - however cheap it might be to create them.
... a completely pointless metric because no one really cares about it

Bullshit. I care that they charge for text messages at all. I want my phone service to be mere plumbing and leave the services on the phone to me and third parties. They should only charge for raw data usage, and that means that text messaging should be virtually free.
More like FPGAs and ASICs.
It strikes me a little odd that twitter doesn't want to have a larger hand in their data distribution. Having some one else handle it seems like something a non-tech company would do. Scaling and automating the distribution to subscribers doesn't strike me as a problem twitter would have a hard time solving and I hardly doubt they need any one else to sell it for them from a marketing standpoint. What, from a business perspective, do you suppose is driving their decision to only work with three companies?
The resources united states government would be even less.
I don't think it's DRM related or a publisher requirement. I think it's of B&N own initiative to keep your credit card on file in order to facilitate potentially future purchases. Either way, it's misguided & customer hostile. as long as this policy is in effect, I'll never buy an ebook from them again.
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The 20 cents per incoming message is the bogus part. Especially when you get spammed, and have to pay to receive an unsolicited advertisement (and the fact that telcos don't do much to curb this because they just pull in the money off of it).
> Why is it then that the US cellular providers are the only ones that charge for incoming texts?

Why would anyone care how their bill is sliced? Why do you care about anything beyond the total cost of owning a (smart)phone per month or year?

Incoming texts, outgoing texts, network upkeep... it's a meaningless line on the bill. Sure, some configurations will be a little better for you, some will be a little better for someone else depending on your usage pattern but in the end telcos have to pay their own bills, and have something on top for their investors, so they'll charge you somehow for something.
sadly, due to construction and safety laws, it's officially uninhabitable. it can only serve a purpose of being an artistic instalation where one can stay temporarily, but it won't be qualified as a house.

the first concepts were a bit different looking http://warszawa.gazeta.pl/warszawa/51,34885,12670651.html?i=...
Worse, he's conflated merit with value-at-market.

Hayek taught us to be smarter than that, dammit. I'd expect a good MBA to know that.
"Mindfulness in plain english" is very good: http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
Great list. People here may also be interested in a GitHub gist I put together for myself (and which I'm constantly updating). https://gist.github.com/1718200
Are you sure that Twitter is a tech company?
Maybe he/she meant to say "I don't pay per text," or maybe he/she got a "free unlimited texts" deal, where they are just paying for the other services.
I fail to see how Onity should be expected to replace circuit boards in 4 million locks that take a deliberate effort to bypass. Mechanical locks can be picked with similar or less effort. Hotel customers should never leave valuables in the rooms, and when in the room should use the additional mechanical locks inside the door. The articles' author is unrealistic.
> ...then we can't rurn around and demand that it also isn't and that we should have right to infinitely ask for additional copies - however cheap it might be to create them.

oh Yes, We can. The reason we're entitled to it is the fact that DRM stands in the way of us customers backing up our purchases. If my eBook were in a format devoid of DRM & I could back it up by saving it in Droppbox or my external hard drive, then your argument would carry some weight.
(US GDP) / (World GDP) is only interesting if the world economy is a zero sum game, which it isn't.

I for one am happy that people in developing nations are doing better.
Back in the day had a prepaid phone that cost 25c/US to send and receive. I don't miss it.
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I think you may be confusing liquid chromatography and gas chromatography, gas chromatography afaik can't distinguish between the left handed and the right handed form of a molecule but liquid chromatography mass spectrometry can (and that's not the most sensitive / efficient way to do it either).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality
Amen to #2. Who gives a shit about features of a single browser? That isn't going to "transform the Web." If those features became widespread, it would represent a major regression.

And CSS gimmicks like blurs and warps are just more sad lipstick on the pig that is HTML. The Web needs an entirely new presentation language, not more band-aids on what has become a laughable hack.
> if we want to demand that an electronic media
> purchase is a traditional sale

Were these ebooks really treated as traditional sales? While we might want to get to a place where they are, if they are currently not treated as such, then why shouldn't we get the supposed benefits of the current model? If part of the agreement terms of the purchase are that you can download from B&N indefinitely once you purchase the ebook, then they should honor that, regardless of the state of your credit card.
As someone who I assume has a deep understanding of Mathematica, any chance you can recommend the best tutorial/resource to get going with effective Mathematica use?

I've been trying to plug Mathematica into my workflow in place of a number of tools I'm more familiar with and I keep running into issues where I either try to do things in a very un-Mathematica way or the default behaviors I assume of the program are wildly incorrect (e.g. Thread operates in the reverse order I would expect, importing an extracting a column from a csv file seems clunky, wrote up a worksheet with a number of E variables with subscripts only to find out its treated like Exp[], etc.)

There seems to be a wonderfully large amount of available training and tutorials all over the web but I don't know where to start to most effectively acclimate to Mathematica.
>How many people really want the services they use to be priced like AWS and pay separately a few cents for each time they use any tiny component?

Please correct me if I'm reading this incorrectly, but you're suggesting that most people don't want to pay for exactly how much they use a service?
Hopefully with Chrome and Firefox auto-upgrading in the background, browser compatibility will become less and less of an issue. Also, most of those APIs are decorative (like CSS filters) and shouldn't entirely destroy the experience for browsers that don't support them (it just won't look as good).
If Twitter hadn't been acting like a jerk to their developer community for the last 2 years, I would completely side with Twitter on this.

However, given Twitter's recent behavior of backpedalling on expectations they set for developing on their platform, and their disrespect for developers who've been cheerleading and building apps for them the last 6 years, I'm glad to see someone fight back the best they can. If for no other reason than to illustrate that they're acting like jerks. Unfortunately, given Twitter's response and hand waving dismissal, I don't think they received the message. They could have at least paid a little lip-service. Ya' know, act like they give a damn.

Humbug!
Almost totally and utterly nonsensical sensationalist link bait, in the fact that languages are far more complicated than just those simple examples.

I am English (from near Anglo-Cornish/Somerset area), have lived in Norway (Bergen where they speak mainly Bokmål) and now live in Stockholm (obviously in Sweden, where they speak Swedish), and live with and understand the differences, plus I have spent some time learning the history of my mother tongue and the history of those countries.

Lets face it the the grammer structure is different, its the first thing an English person has to learn when learning Scandinavian languages. English heavily borrows from other languages. Swedish heavily borrows from French - there was a King who was obsessed with France and everything french, some Norwegian words are from Sweden. English borrows French words heavily for obvious reasons.

Bokmål adopted words from those countries that they traded with and he doesn't even expand into the different languages and dialects that used to be in the Norway that Nynorsk tried to consolidate.

The fact is that these languages have changed and are constantly changing based on trade, fashion, rule and migration and to singly say that English is a Scandinavian Language is at best trying to make a name for yourself and at worst ignorance of history.
I only scroll to read very dense text, like technical docs - and those tend to have the kind of paragraphs that take pages to scroll past.

On the other hand I most often select text at the bottom of the page before hitting Space to advance the page. If you could place a line of highlight across the page before it starts spinning (or jumps) and fade it out gently after - that would definitely be of use.

Or you could think about splitting chubby paragraphs into predictably behaving chunks.

Very nice plugin, thank you.
As somebody who made dismissive comments about the victim in this case: No, I'm not saying he could have avoided a nation state attack with better security knowledge.

I'm saying that - at least the way TFA describes it - the victim doesn't have enough security knowledge to tell if he's been attacked by script kiddies, a nation state, or a roll of toilet paper.

I'm sure the real story is a bit more nuanced, but nothing about the description gives me any confidence that the allegations are even broadly aimed in the right direction.

Is China a major vector of security attacks? Yes. Does that mean it has anything to do with this particular incident? I wouldn't bet serious money either way, and pocket money against.
It matters because not all users use all the services.

The ones who use the services that bear the burden of 'paying the bills for the carriers' are the ones who are subsidizing other services for you.
I would rather see an APL video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmT80OseAGs
The simple fact is that the ebook experience sucks all the way around. I gave it a shot with the Nook Touch, and I really dislike it, even if DRM wasn't an issue.

Over the years my subconcious has grown used to indexing the story according to certain physical properties of the book. "Oh yes, that happend about a cm in on the right side page, like halfway down" is something I might think- but this coordinate system doesn't work with an e-reader. Seeing the cover art each time counts, too. I also rather like (and miss) the small stains, tears and incidental damage that normal books get. There's also the matter of distraction - now that my book is a device I can't help but fiddle with it. Finally, even though the quality is very good on my Nook Touch, I can see the pixels and I find it distracting.

Maybe some or all of these concerns will go away in time, but then there's also the (rather stunning) fact that ebooks are MORE expensive than the paperback - this, even though the cost of production is negligible, and typically you can't share or bequeath your e-library, etc.

And then on top of all these objections B&N does something asinine like this...let's just say that I'll be perfectly happy reading paper books for a long long time.
At the same time, a physical bookstore doesn't force me into storing my copy of their book in one specific bookcase by making it impossible to move my books from my loungeroom bookcase to my bedroom bookcase.

If you're going to put DRM hurdles in my way to make it difficult to move a book I "bought" from you between my phone, my tablet, my ereader, and my laptop; then yeah - I'll get outraged at you when you refuse to allow me to redownload it. I never asked for "infinite additional copies", B&N are forcing that requirement on people who need to move DRMed files between devices.
Quite often the Swedes have problems with Norwegian dialects or even their own Skåne dialect.

Its quite amusing to see two Swedish people that don't understand each other only to drop in to English to ask for directions.
It helps that you learnt a germanic based language with French because English is 2 thirds of a mix of both.
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That's at least 22 cm wider than this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagatell/128061040/

And that one is inhabited. I wonder how the inhabitants schedule their days, I can imagine they have to plan their evening ahead before getting into the house to determine who goes first :)
Doesn't Middle English differ enough from both lineages that it could have been a creol of old norse and old english, that then later developed into a language proper?
That's exactly what I'm saying. Most people, regardless of what they claim, want to buy the feeling of safety that comes with the assurance that they'll be able to use the service when they need to. Obviously, for as little as possible.

That's the secret of those "unlimited", and heavily oversubscribed, plans, hosting services, all you can eat buffets, medical insurance that includes a subscription to $8/mo birth-control pills... All those companies capitalize on "being there for you".
Actually its still not 100% understood and still being studied
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That's pretty neat, but even though it is not quite as narrow, I think the Richardson spite house is still my favorite narrow house: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON005.htm
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To stay with the real world analogy: you also can't back up your book. You have that one copy and once it breaks, you are out of luck and have to buy a new one.

I compare the ebook readers as a physical object with the books (also physical objects). If I can read books on that device even when my credit card has expired or other things have disabled my account, then IMHO the parity to the real world exists: I have that one physical object which represents the content on it. If I lose it and don't have my account any more, well, too bad.

Of course, by centralizing many books to one physical object, you risk losing much more content as you lose that physical object. But the advantage is that, in case it breaks, it can be repaired (which might be impossible with a physical book)

Now. I know for a fact that this is how Kindle works: even if your account is gone, your books stay on your Kindle and you can continue to read them. I would assume it works the same for B&N in this case.

Being able to infinitely redownload the books is a nice convenience that goes far beyond what a physical book would allow.

Also, I haven't tried it, but these DRMed books are just files after all. It might be possible to back them up and later read them on the same device (again the physical book analogy) even if the account has been terminated.
I'm curious, I'm absolutely no expert in the field of linguistics, but it appears that linguists insist that the hierarchy of language families is a strict tree [1]. In OO terms, that there's no multiple inheritance.

Really, how unlikely could that be? Why can't English be both North and West Germanic?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family "A family is a monogenetic unit; that is, all its members derive from a common ancestor, and all attested descendants of that ancestor are included in the family."
This article says it's only the facade being that narrow, the other side is somewhat wider:
http://www.holland.com/global/tourism/Article/the-narrowest-...
You can put the DRMed files on Dropbox and then copy them to your Nook. This isn't a DRM issue, just dumb business practices.
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Its an interesting twist, if you reason that part of Twitter's enterprise value is its Firehose data then unwinding these contracts is in Twitter's best interest. However I have experienced first hand problems with contracts written "pre-success" that didn't anticipate what success would look like. Depending on the players those have generally been amended amicably. On the other hand it does seem like it will damage Peoplebrowsr's product to lose access. Perhaps its just a money question?
my CS department chair at San Jose State recently 'reply all' on an email and ended up sending all currently enrolled CS students information about GPA, address, phone number, and expected graduation date. All we got back was an apology letter... At least everyone has my address and I have theirs :P
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There are plenty of examples that are not similar as well. But I thank you for reminding me for hygge/fika.