skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has got to be

1) a decoy outfit whose entire purpose is meant to deflect criticism from China and Russia - who are in all likelihood the biggest receiving parties of American intelligence attention - which often complain about America's far-flung surveillance activities.

2) a conventional operation, by the NSA, involving "listening station" activities for the entire European region ( like at RAF Menwith Hill in the UK )that listens to chatter and helps thwart terrorist threats in conjunction with mainland intelligence agencies.

3) some other unknown listening operation that keeps tabs on primarily homegrown threats from militant Islamists and converts to Islam, in Germany.

a. CIA is said to have recruited Danish agent (and convert to Islam) Morten Storm to find a bride for radical anti-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. Croatian Muslim convert 'Aminah' - born Irena Horek - was recruited on Facebook by Morten Storm who claims he worked with the CIA to infiltrate al-Qaeda and became a matchmaker to the terrorists. )

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/31/article-2255280-16...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/31/article-2255280-16...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/31/article-2255280-16...

b. The members of the Hamburg cell were the key operatives in the 9/11 attacks.
Around 4.3 million Muslims live in Germany, one of the larger compositions in Europe (5.4% of
the population) or in any Western nation.

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

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

Source:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50137988n

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/world/middleeast/danes-wil...

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They have not bought Monsanto as they were supposed to?
My bet is mostly 2 and I have a 4.

4: Germany has more internet traffic than other european countries and therefore the absolute number of monitored connections is higher in Germany than in the other countries.

I don't have hard numbers to back up 4., but

- Frankfurt DECIX overtook Amsterdam as the largest exchange

- Internet Census 2012 [1], Germany lights up like a
Christmas tree, you can almost see the German borders

- Broadband coverage is fairly good [2]

[1] http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images.html

[2] http://point-topic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Studyonbro...
The fact is there are a lot of assholes on the internet. People will insult you no matter what, and in doing so they'll insult you using any way you are different: if you're a girl, if you're gay, if you're not white, if you're younger than average, older than average, from another country, not good at the game (noob), too good at the game (get a life), etc, etc.

Sucks, but in almost every game there is no requirement to identify yourself much.
I checked out your site about the time it was announced on Reddit. I really like the idea although I noticed some problems using it for my target languages (Spanish and Hebrew). For inflected languages like these, you really need a good stemmer/lemmatiser (either one, I'm not an expert, but you get the idea). I haven't tried Readlang recently though, when I do I'll be happy to give you more feedback.
Agreed, I misread. I usually play games where the giveaway is both the name and the character, which I guess most people try to match.

Surely there where a few people who thought I was female and surely they were behaving differently. But I think that's true for a lot of people playing those games regardless of what gender they think they're playing against. It can be nonsense and obscenities through and through.
Yep. If all analysts would target addresses with exactly 51% confidence and no higher, and their confidence is the exact statistical probability they're foreign, that would mean 49% of targets are US citizens.
> One of the best ways to improve your expressing skills is to talk with natives.

Go to the foreign country and don't speak one sentence in your native language. Jump in at the deep end (BTW, I had to look up that phrase because I never lived in an English-speaking county).
I accidentally left my suitcase on the Gatwick Express airport train this morning, containing practically everything I now own save for my passport, ukulele and current Macbook Air, which were all on my person... I only realised 10 minutes later when I got to the check-in desk.

As I was on the shuttle back to the train, I started laughing. Everything I own? That's everything I own?

I realised I didn't need any of it. A bit of a cliché, sure, and I'm a comfortably-off 25-year old single white male, apparently.

When I got to the platform, I found my suitcase sitting on the train, about to trundle off into the morning. I looked at the case, a full 21kg of junk - the last 21kg - and suddenly felt weighed down, as if all these things were a constant restraint. One suitcase.

There is a movement towards casting off our possessions to discover who we are; it's a tired story, as old as the hills. It points to the moon but it's not the moon.

The junk we most want to lose, and most deserve to realise our freedom from, is metaphorical, it's spiritual baggage, attachments to stuff.

My point here: if one suitcase of stuff is enough to be a mental burden, then when will I be happy? When there's nothing left? What about this body? Why not shed that also?

You can have a monk in the Himalayas with more 'stuff' than the executive with a condo full of Ikea furniture. It doesn't matter. Depth and space are created (no, discovered) when we lose the attachments, not when we lose the stuff.

Losing the stuff can be helpful and healthy, but it's not the ultimate truth. In truth, it's even a distraction for many.

So I read this post and my laughter increased. All this stuff: it's all a joke!

Just some thoughts as they come.
Yes. I could see not trusting the competence of the BND on this stuff... but 500 million messages per month?

How many phone calls, e-mails and SMS does Germany generate per month in total, by the way? I would assume corporations generate a lot more than individuals, but it seems fucking bad either way.
Oh, yes, the Liferay UI library built on top of YUI. I avoided it like the plague when I had to work with Liferay.
I have a language learning site[1] which started out as text translation, but I'm also experimenting with videos, the idea being it's helpful to see captions in both languages simultaneously as the video plays.

Examples here[2], here[3], and here[4].

[1] http://www.macaronics.com/

[2] http://www.macaronics.com/article/6e9812608f0b4dcdba8cfab3e6...

[3] http://www.macaronics.com/article/9540f24d080241dd9b27f7939c...

[4] http://www.macaronics.com/article/a6ab2c3d8c364ad38401d6dba3...
> the first thing I hear over the headphones was: “Oh great.. a girl player? F*ck. Are you serious? Let’s kick her and hope we get someone else.”

The first thing I hear when I log into games is not "Oh great... a boy player? Fuck. Are you serious? Let's kick her and hope we get someone else."

> Wouldn't it be sexist for gamers to tone down the trash talk simply because a woman is playing?

Did you seriously just ask if it would be sexist to not be sexist?
That comment simply shows that while the lights may be on, there is nobody home.
Do the keyboard controls not work in the example or are they not the same as Google Reader? Was trying to use j/k to switch between articles.

I quite like your design by the way. No wasted space showing a list of subscriptions, no social crap, and ~99% of the page dedicated to showing the actual content of your subscriptions instead of flashy UI.
How is using the term "raped" sexist? Are you also offended by the words "dominated", "murdered", "owned"?
Can you grow a startup only from organic traffic?
Same here, at the time they hardly had any documentation, not sure how the situation improved.

We ended up using basic JSPs or servlets, depending on the portlet use case, with the bulk of UI done with jQuery and custom components provided by a designer company.
"watch it on some cramped computer screen"

Why is your computer screen cramped? My livelihood and several hobbies depend on my computer keyboard and screen, I've designed and decorated appropriately.

My experience with the whole "throw away your TV" thing is that it works better as an effect, not a cause. What I mean is I don't watch much TV. Its boring, all hyper formulaic, narrowcasted while I'm not the narrow audience, seen it all before to the point of being sick of it. Its also way too passive for my personality... I'm supposed to sit here and watch other people do stuff, for endless hours? No way, is not happening. Then the effect kicks in... Oh I'd like another tropical fish tank, maybe if I get rid of that thing I never use...

My wife and kids are somewhat addicted to TV so I'm stuck with it now.
No, the pirate party in Germany is a fucking mess. Unelectable. (This opinion is based on reading the parties’ own writing and discussions, not on anything the media wrote.)
So I guess us, the innocent people, are collateral damage in the interception business?

These terrorist cell must be quite chatty if they intercept 500M messages per month.
That would be wrong. Target is simply Ziel. Angriffsziel is attack target which has a military connotation. The translation is sound in that regard, though the real headline indeed is only "secret documents: NSA monitors 500 million connections in germany".
Nevermind, Im opting to see this out until the end.
I may be a bit too paranoid, but this seems like a decoy similar to the iMessage decoy earlier this year.

This is a quote from the government so surely there will be multiple -- perhaps even conflicting -- interpretations and definitions of the terms encryption, foiled, and wiretaps.
> The problem I have with Play is that even their tutorial seems to me to try to brainwash you into getting into Scala

The problem with Grails is using Groovy is virtually mandatory. At least Play gives you a choice.
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Interesting that Germany seems to be the only place where there is real outrage over the situation. Go Germany.
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totally agree with sheldon's here.
1) During the game yeah. Not just while logging in. I bet nobody just tried to kick you out of a game because of your nametag.
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And you think Eich, Matz, Guido, Gosling, Pike, Ritchie, Wall, Kay, Wadler, Steele, Gabriel, Anders, Syme, Roberto, Stroustrup all understood the role of programming language in business development projects, whereas Martin didn't? All successful programming languages are designed by people passionate about programming, not software development! The people passionate about software development give us crap like UML. Maybe there is something special and different about Rich Hickey's background that he gave you a language that you prefer, but I'm guess its just a different background driving him to make different trade offs that suit you better than other trade offs that could have been made.

Part of the problem you are probably hitting is Scala's attempt to be statically typed while also being flexible, not really its attempt at marrying OO and FP; this tends to require lots of advanced typing concepts that many people are not yet comfortable with, and perhaps they never will be. Dynamic languages save a lot by pooing away the static type system; but of course there is then a lot they can't provide. I am a big critique of this also, we've had our disagreements, but really...at the end of the day it was a design decision made that is no less valid than other design decisions that could have been made.

So don't use Scala if it doesn't suit you, this is reasonable, your criticisms are reasonable, but I don't think it is fair at all to say that the designer was stupid or somehow misguided. There are more CTOs who are misguided than successful language designers.
There are wide swathes of the video game community which are absolutely toxic, in every possible way you can imagine and some which people of good will would have difficulty imagining. I wish game companies did a better job of market-based approaches to limiting this.

I've often thought, in League of Legends, that I'd pay $100 for access to a special queue which matched me up with other people who had paid $100 to access it. If you earn an account ban, you can probably find a new credit card, level up again, and pay $100, but it should cut down on casual sociopathy. (Yes, that's classist as heck, but after a bad day of LoL I'm pretty OK with that as long as it means that I can play a relaxing game with people who are capable of meeting the absolute minimal norms of civilized society.)
Eavesdropping or even "hacking" attacks don't have to be military in nature.
Meanwhile the EU thinks it's a good idea to negotiate a new EU - US trade agreement. And it's a good idea, but not when one side is spying on the other.
They should place it on hold.
Germans still have a recent experience of a surveillance+police state
qq moar. uninstall and go play tetris, n00b!
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Ziel is literally a target, but in truth it translates as "destination". "Angriffsziel" could be translated as "target" in this sense, so Stephan is not wrong - but perhaps soft-pedaling a little. Where you're right is that "Angriff" ("attack") makes "Angriffsziel" sufficiently explicit in its connotation of a military target. I'd consider "target of attack" in that "Angriff" doesn't necessarily connote a military attack, but could also imply, say, a hacking attack.

Maybe "country of interest"?
You can also use ATS with a few patches to the compiler:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=290363...

Quite a few languages are available for Android development now that the NDK allows native code.
Cool idea!
But you could do easily the same with the Neo4j database.
The most interesting - to make it working with facebook data.
Building such graph you may be wondered that have some connection to B. Obama or T. Cruze :)
The theory of six handshakes in action.
Graphs are amazing!
That is correct. But in case of the US Internet War, it is. Hacking done by the NSA on a foreign country is not not military in nature.
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"There is a movement towards casting off our possessions to discover who we are"

That doesn't work if who you authentically are is an artisan, or at least for some arts.

Some artisans/craftsman/hobbyists/makers/whatever are incredibly lucky WRT fitting the whole "throw your stuff away" meme. Your ukulele fits in your arms. Good for you. I need a forklift to move my larger metalworking machines.

If I threw away all my tools, it wouldn't really help me as a tool creator/user.

"Losing the stuff can be helpful and healthy, but it's not the ultimate truth."

I'm convinced a lot of the push for it comes from profit seeking intermediaries. Sell you a hammer every year, so you use it once and throw it out. I occasionally still use some of my grandfathers inherited tools, which must put those people into fits.
Could part of the problem actually be the widespread use of financial aid and student loans? If there was no assistance and everyone had to pay out of pocket, only the very top universities could charge $30,000+ a semester since almost nobody could afford to go at that price. It's kind of like healthcare costs; most people are insured so the hospital can charge 8 dollars for a single aspirin and almost nobody complains.
I'm a guy and a gamer... I've opened my eyes on this issue for some time now.

Yes we trash talk a lot in games, and yeah we don't see it as a big deal for the most part, because there's a part of creativity in trash talking in some ways so we can ignore all but the more original (and often laughable) insults.

But when someone is revealed as a woman, some people really go nuts. It activates some really ugly beta part in their brain, they can't help it, they need to harass, tediously, methodically reduce the other player to her gender, whatever she is doing or however she performs, whether she's in his team or not is irrelevant. That wouldn't be an issue in itself, there are crazy and stupid people everywhere. The problem is, the proportion of obnoxious and sexually insecure male gamers is through the roof, maybe something as high as 5% of the gamers are like that, and they are very vocal, and they don't quit.
Such people don't rage quit on girls like they would on guys, when they get beaten or when they're ignored, for some reason they need to keep harrassing forever, it's a matter of virile pride you know. It's either that or they fall in love, which sometimes is even worse.

Girls have to deal with them every single day.

People really need to wake up on these issues. They add up and pile on each other. They span a very large spectrum of the industry, from day to day community interactions to elements of storytelling and character design.

If you want to wake up to these issues in pictures and with a good laugh, check out these two blogs:

http://womenfighters.tumblr.com/ (a more constructive take on the issue of character design, specifically female armor)

http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/ (a hilarious take on the issue of objectification of women, this time in comics)
No, it doesn't stand at all.

Forgive the brief reply, but I'm entering this on a smartphone.

This is an important matter, and you clearly haven't got it yet. Think about it for a while. If, after some reflection, you still don't see why your point doesn't stand, post a reply, and I'll explain when I'm sitting at a keyboard.
Ziel is both, it can mean target and destination. In that case, it is more of a target (attack destination? na, the NSA is not currently in an airplane flying into battle).

> Maybe "country of interest"?

Yeah maybe, but that sounds a bit harmless, doesn't it?
Saying "rape" is just a part of gaming culture is hardly a defense.
Little update at:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/steinbrueck-forder...

Politicians of all major parties are pressuring chancellor Merkel to react. One party is proposing to question the American ambassador.
Some of them were living in New York as well. The 9/11 attackers trained in the United States, but as Saudi nationals they were protected by the Bush Administration.

While the Germans used regular police work to find their own terrorists, we decided to spend more money attacking an unrelated nation than the United States had ever spent on a war before.

So who do you trust more in finding and stopping terrorists? I'll take Germany and competence over America's war profiteering on flimsy pretext any day, thanks.
Wow, that was light on details.
Do you have _nomap in your SSID?
Let's assume he took weekends off, so he had 3 x (365 + 183 - 150) = 1194 hours of study. In that time he learned to read and write 3000 characters in context.

How is this a bad example of language aqcuisition? It sounds to me like the guy learned what he was studying, and learned it very efficiently.

If I remember correctly, most school curricular will have you learn 3000 characters in 3 years, and most students won't be proficient in them when finishing.

Ofcourse, if his goal was to chit-chat about the weather, then obviously he wouldn't learn that since he didn't practice it, but it sounds like he could read a newspaper after only 1.5 years of study, which I for one find rather impressive.
That's what we would call "moral majority".

You should avoid places where "moral majority" tends to gather.

I've played quite a bit of Diablo III hardcore last year on Europe, and people were mostly friendly. Altough you should not take everything being said in game chat at its face value - it's game after all.
They're making money that could be made by Americans?
Also:

- https://bitbucket.org/tghw/django-feedreader

- https://github.com/ahernp/django-feedreader

Now I need some time to test them all and pick one as my private self-hosted feed reader.
I would disagree with much of this article. While Duolingo in particular is popular, its main focus is on teaching translation. It's hip, but it's not about teaching how to speak and understand a language. Similarly, the focus on vocabulary study in the other tools has similar limitations.

Self study needs to be augmented or driven by spoken conversation practice in the least. Your brain is a neural network to learn language as audio input. While challenging, it's the most effective way. Google doesn't support this due to the link popularity of a lot of software-driven methods.

Disclaimer: My business in the online language learning space.
you need a repetitive stream of natural language. then brain automatically analyzes it.

usually, you pick one 30 minute to 60 minute video, and watch it every day, 6 days a week. make sure you take a break every week. you watch it to the point where you can mimic what they are saying as the video is playing. you don't have to know exact meaning of your utterance. but you already have some sense. then, you transcribe it on paper (you need to learn writing system by this time). maybe use dictionary to learn actual words. rehearse with the video. if have friends, rehearse with them. memorize it. move on to the next video.

start with sitcoms then maybe news broadcast, reality shows (court shows are great), movies...

video is just one example. if you're learning a language where you can't find suitable videos (there might be no production in the language), make friends who speak the language. record their conversations. play repetitively until you can follow along with a loud voice. transcribe.. etc.
Online games are a form of competition. Competition of any sort usually has a physical aspect, and a psychological aspect.

If Competitor A can use insults to get Competitor B flustered to the point that it affects Competitor B's ability to play the game, then Competitor A has given himself or herself an advantage.

If Competitor A's insults get Competitor B to quit playing altogether, then it's even more of an advantage for Competitor A.

Once you realize this, the insults become irrelevant. Just ignore them. It's not difficult, and they really have no impact unless you let them bother you.
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What "internet war" are you talking about? And although the NSA is an agency of the US DoD, I don't think they would consider all targets of their eavesdropping measures as "military" targets.
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"800 got junk" is a 20 year old franchise operation using more or less the business model above with hundreds of franchise locations.

A 150 year old non-profit with a nearly identical business model is the Salvation Army, although they only do donations and don't pay for junk other than kind of optimistic tax donation forms. They do have the model down WRT truck rolls up to house and junk disappears to be sold at a resale store, however no money officially changes hands at junk acquisition time.

There are also innumerable decade or so old ebay resale operations which frankly are shoveling junk. Yes I'm sure there are some, but not many, specializing in "non-junk".
How is using the term "raped" sexist?

Because when it comes from people spraying porn on any surface they come in contact with, or who address females (whom they don't happen to suck up to) as "bitch" on principle, or any male they don't like as "fag", it's rather obvious how this all connects, and that it's basically insecure dumb male chauvinism letting the hair down. At this point it doesn't even matter if some females parrot the language as well, the source is still obvious.

Are you also offended by the words "dominated", "murdered", "owned"?

Not offended, but I pity the fools, yes. These concepts have one thing in common to me; I understand how they would seem desirable to people who can't make women laugh nor orgasm. Of course, just because every Volvo is a car, doesn't mean every car is a Volvo. But still.