skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In that time he learned to read and write 3000 characters in context.

Well actually he didn't learn them in context! That's the thing. He absolutely could not read a newspaper if by read you mean understand the content of the articles. He could mostly sound out sentences, with poor pronunciation and often using the wrong reading for various characters (e.g. pronouncing 行 as háng when it should be xíng or vice versa).

He could write many, many characters based on English keywords and pinyin associated with them in his deck. But as I've been trying to explain, words don't map one to one across languages and learning a language isn't simply a matter of memorizing words. The case of using a deck for isolated Chinese characters is even worse since a character is a syllable as opposed to a word. In modern Chinese, the vast vast majority of words are poly syllabic (i.e. multi-character compounds).

FYI, he had been studying some Chinese for a couple of years before going on the SRS craze. And he didn't take weekends off. He put even more time into study, fortunately including some things other than decontextualized SRS-based study. During the time I knew him, he largely backed off the SRS in favor of getting loads of comprehensible input in the form of media, talking to parents of his English students and his girlfriend's friends. Over time the input did lead to a better ear for the language, better pronunciation and the ability to read and actually understand. It's possible the first couple of years with the SRS gave him a good foundation that helped for the next three years of working with the language in context. I still think it would have been a better bet to focus on listening and reading from year one.
I think that's where constitutional "scholars" go wrong. The "rights" do not exist in the absence of a secular social contract.

What they mean is that there's no reasonable, fair social contract they can imagine that lacks those rights. It's perfectly possible for a social contract to lack certain "inalienable" rights, though. All you need is a pure, unconstrained democracy to see that.

Unfortunately, interpreting the Constitution as a living document and reading new rights (like the "right to privacy") into the Bill of Rights and/or the 14th Amendment -- "because of course the founders would ideologically agree with us that individuals have new rights A B and C" -- leaves the door open not only to good interpretations of rights, but bad interpretations of rights dictated by the majority against minorities, or dictated by powerful minorities against a disinterested majority.
How about this: do go to art school†, and do study programming as well‡. I went to school for design—interactive media, specifically—because I was already experienced enough with programming and wanted to learn something different. Even though I took on some nontrivial debt, ultimately it didn’t matter because programming pays the bills. All you have to do is accept the golden handcuffs for a year or two. And you know what? I gained an immense amount of cross-disciplinary knowledge and experience, and had a lot of fun to boot. There is just as much value in being “an X who can program” as there is being “a programmer who can X”.

† though preferably one less expensive than RISD

‡ on your own time, not in a college setting
Of course! The government will go as far (and only as far) as it takes to quell the dissatisfaction brewing among the people. If that goes as far as real action, that's what will happen.
I think it is quite likely that after discovering mind uploading technology (assuming such a thing is possible), advanced civilizations lose interest in the "boring" and "dangerous" space-time world. This idea would probably fall into the "Simulation Argument" you mentioned. But in sll honesty, I don't think humanity will ever have a satisfying answer to Fermi's paradox.
If you make 400k, you only take home around 240k (in the us, depending on the state you live in it could be less). It would take about two years. Depending on the format of the debt, it can be a better decision to delay paying it off.
Yes and no. While our solar system is sufficiently metal rich, we're not especially early. There are systems of comparable generation that are younger than ours. This depends more on where you are in the galaxy than when you are.
Six Reasons Your Best Employees Quit You
Have you forgotten yes we can...this is the guy, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard no less, that accepted the peace prize, while running two wars and with a 'kill list' in his pocket, so don't worry Obama can balance anything.

I hope they give him another Nobel for just being so awesome.
RISD has several departments: http://www.risd.edu/Academics/
I mean, I always figured spying was a form of warfare.

Here is the problem - you are starting from a bad assumption.
I expect to see more from a UI library, instead of a bunch of "would be cool to add" modules. When you use a UI library in your project you somehow get married to it. For everything that UI library doesn't provide you have to use other libraries, then it becomes a mess.

For this reason I refuse to use a non-complete library (where as lots of UI elements are missing such as this one). If I'll have to fill the missing parts with other frameworks I won't use it at the very beginning.
Locket is hiring an Android architect/developer
We are looking for an experienced Android architect that can tackle development that Google doesn’t directly support. You will push Android development to its furthest limits.

You will be working for Locket, a small advertising tech startup located in Manhattan and currently in stealth mode. It has acquired venture funding and is backed by some of the forefront players in the advertising and financial services spaces.

Email contact@getlocket.com with your resume and information about what projects you’ve worked on. Feel free to include your Github account, your Stack Overflow account, or anything else you think will be helpful.

We want someone who:

• Knows Android better than anyone in the world
• Has experience in architecting ad-tech server solutions (ad servers, mediation layers, ad exchanges, real time bidding platforms, etc.)
• Is driven by an unknown force to change the way people use their phones for the better
I would have thought that going on a catch-all-you-can fishing expedition with the world as your pool is pretty rude as well.
Neither do "we"?

I know the IRS 15-A rules have a carve out for "computer programmers, etc" that limits how such employees can function as 1-person LLC's for the purpose of 1099 employment with a corporation. (That is, the IRS says in such cases we're employees and a 1-man business won't save you from that, so we should be W2'd). But that doesn't affect double taxation?

LLCs pass through the tax burden to the individual partner so whether that's RE or software engineering, there won't be double taxation on the partnerships profits.

Am I missing something else that affects this?
Maybe they want to make the PATRIOT Act look like a good thing?
> And I don't want that to happen. Is that too much to ask for?

civilization and government are way more nuanced than this. the answer to your question is yes, yes it is too much to ask for. you probably don't want to pay taxes, receive speeding tickets, or be subject to laws but you are...
This is how you monkeypatch support for IP binding into Python Requests.
The genealogically related 'notmuch' can do that: by default it syncs certain notmuch tags (like read/unread) with Maildir flags, and then you can sync Maildir with IMAP using something like offlineimap.
I've used that in the past actually, but the purpose of this post is to get a feel for what actual XMPP clients are out there. Thanks though.
I'll repeat a comment I just made in another thread but find to be fitting here too. For the sake of awareness:

It's funny to see all this railing up against NSA and PRISM, while tomorrow, the first of July 2013, the "Bestandsdatenauskunft" will be implemented as law in Germany. A commentator from Die Zeit newspaper tersely summed up the intentionally abstruse wording of the new rules. The law means, “that police and intelligence services will in the future be allowed to obtain extremely personal information about mobile phone users, and do so with the press of a button and without having to face any major legal hurdles”.

Crudely translated it would mean something similar to "Inventory Data Information Act". Parts of the new law are the following:

> With respect to the obligations of the access providers, ISPs with more than 100,000 customers are now required to maintain a “secure electronic interface” in order to minimise the time needed for certain agencies to retrieve information.

The innocuous sounding term, “inventory data”, should not detract from the fact that the issue involves direct access to people’s private lives. “Not only names, addresses and bank account details will be sent to the police. But also the PINs of the mobile phones, and passwords blocking e-mail inboxes and accessing services like Dropbox and dynamic IP addresses”, warned Die Zeit .

Proper english article (I don't know about this source in general, but this one is accurate): https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/11/germ-a11.html

Google translated german articles:

Die Zeit: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_...

Der Spiegel: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...

Netzpolitik.org: http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...

The debate about this is astonishing mute on its own, but compared to the NSA, PRISM and TEMPORA public outcry, the debate about the Bestandsdatenauskunft is basically non-existent at the moment.
The government may publicly take a stance against the NSA programs but in reality it not only wishes to, but is actually implementing simmilar programs in Germany (see "Bestandsdatenauskunft"). I doubt that any real action will be taken.
Yup. I do this since I'm used to za in Vim for toggling folds:

# Collapse all threads by default, except if
# there's new mail in one.
unset collapse_unread
folder-hook . "exec collapse-all"
# Toggle collapsed threads with za, like in vim.
bind index za collapse-thread
You're framing the question in a Bitcoin positive way.

I guarantee a dollar is more useful than Bitcoin, simply because it's far more popular and most people don't care enough about the benefits of Bitcoin to outweigh its downsides.

Even if you grant that Bitcoin is based on sound principles, I expect it to remain of limited popularity for the same reason than Plan 9 didn't replace Unix: "the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing [thing] that is just good enough."
http://cybione.org/~irssi-xmpp/ << XMPP-Plugin for Irssi
http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html << bitlbee "An IRC to Other Chat Networks gateway. Needs a setup and can be used with irssi IIRC
Well of course it was initially passed by Congress. However, because of the nature of the checks and balances between parts of our government, all 3 are equally guilty here since the Executive has enforced the law, and the Judicial since it has not summarily found it unconstitutional and overreaching, and thus killed it with fire. Further, and more to the point, I find that the Executive is more guilty here than any other, because it has classified interpretations which allow for the mass violation of constitutional rights. This isn't something that is up to Congress, and this is where the current President comes into play.

As for impeachment, it's much easier to try to punish a single person, or demand such, than it is to demand the punishment of hundreds. I don't think we should cry foul when a bad law is passed -- it's bound to happen. Rather, when both of the other branches fail to do their duty to balance power, or worse, exacerbate the problem.
awesome... its time move away from proprietary, snooping services such as gmail. Hopefully setting up such a service should become easier ( may be less than 5 steps ) with better cloud VMs. Then even non-tech savvy people can have their emails away from snooping.
This condescending mollifying paternal tone is a case study of an arrogant recklessly dangerous fool equating the vast resources he directs as equivalent to his own intelligence and competence. An intelligent reflective director would be humbled and pained by this awful responsibility, contrast Alexander with leader models we do respect: iconic Dwight Eisenhower, Abe Lincoln, or General George Washington.
Without some sort of technology that renders them truly immune to the "dangerous" space-time world, they won't be able to ignore it, because if their sun burps they all die if their simulators get destroyed. Even if they "all" happily charge into simulated bliss, a residual caretaking system should be visible as it performs the necessary cosmic-scale engineering to ensure that the simulated ones don't get wiped out by a cosmological crisis, such as a supernova. Further, any such society will still end up wanting more and more energy, so we ought to be seeing Dyson shells or something pop up, in the continuing absence of any apparently way of converting mass directly into energy.

We don't see any of these things. And the amount of "space" left in physics for some sort of true escape hatch that might let us escape fully into an impregnable universe of our own devising or something keeps going down and down.

I consider the lack of cosmic-scale engineering to be a much bigger problem than mere inability to detect signals. A lot of it isn't even that "hard" per se, because what's impossible on the year or century scale becomes feasible with only very realistic projections of what self-replicating technology can do if you can put in millions of years of continuous effort. And a lot of this stuff would both be visible, and essentially necessary; if life is so inevitable and intelligent civilizations so likely, quite a few of them will find themselves dangerously close to an incipient supernova on an uncomfortable time frame, and they ought to be doing things about that. Very visible things. It's just too perfectly quiet out there.
> Just last week they put out a warning to US service members stating that confirming the leaks is against the law. Now we have the guy at the top saying the stuff in the news is accurate.

The decision to declassify would come from the top.
Thanks for the reply, but as I mentioned in the post I'm more curious about actual XMPP clients than plugins ontop of IRSSI (or IRC gateways). Hopefully someone else will find these useful though (I've used both of these in the past, and they're not bad; just not what I'm looking for currently).
There is always the Nobel of Literature... Do not despair. They are really putting a lot of effort into it.
Julian Assange: Edward Snowden is ‘marooned in Russia’
Start by implementing https on Reddit then. The only page using https is the login page, but only if you load reddit.com/login directly. If you use the main form (which doesn't even mention the dedicated and secured login page), sslstrip (there's an app for that, literally) can intercept the credentials.
We see on full display the "ends justify the means" attitude that the NSA argues. It is not an invalid argument, but it is one that I'm sure the vast majority of the HN audience would disagree with. Hopefully this attitude is debated in the national spotlight alongside the validity of the programs themselves.

I do think that the "ends justifying the means" will resonate with most of the US population. And I think that's one reason it won't be a big deal in this country over the long haul. As it is, even among my less technically sophisticated senior-citizen in-laws the attitude is really, "Why is this news? Of course we're doing this!"

I think there is a bit of naivete with a lot of the HN crowd. It's sort of the same naivete that the RIAA has. You can't stop the flow of information. The information will find its way into the hands of the determined. You can't transmit data over virtually public networks and not expect it to be observed.

This all goes together with the discussion between on-site and cloud storage. If you want your data to be private, don't hand it to a 3rd party. That 3rd party includes Google, Verizon, ATT, or Comcast. Once you hand your data to a 3rd party, all bets are off.

This needs to be the way we think about data. We should learn the lesson from the RIAA that fighting a losing battle, just puts us in worse shape when we come to our senses. We should start teaching people that their data over these networks isn't private. Even if the gov't didn't look at it, someone from Google/Facebook/Verizon can do the same -- and is potentially more likely to sell to foreign nations.

This battle is over. Most Americans know this. The tech sector ironically seems to be the ones who are having the most trouble seeing how this plays out.
I don't believe so. I think the parent comment was more concerned about the message itself being sent in the clear.
Indentured servant is probably a better term to describe what the OP was intending. They agree to enter into a period of service, during which they give up control of most aspects of their lives that civilians take for granted, e.g., they face jail time if they leave.
I agree, plus the subtle background color change was really neat.
Similar application (more game oriented) released few weeks ago for the Jamendo Apps Contest: http://developer.jamendo.com/v3.0/app/4
Slavery could, historically, be entered into voluntarily. John Stuart Mill wrote some interesting things about this.

But clearly, this isn't the basis of my comparison. A soldier is completely subject to the arbitrary will of his superiors, without any real legal protections.

See also: Ratio of reported rapes vs. prosecuted rapes, scandals of enforcement agents.
Except that WWII and the Vietnam War both involved mandatory drafts in the US, and as a result, almost all US citizens of our age are barely two generations descended from a veteran of the US military. Even if your father didn't serve, your father's father probably did, taught him with a perspective colored by having been a slave in the military, and he likely raised you with a perspective colored thereby also.
This is a nice list, thanks for sharing. Here is another which many of you probably know but isn't linked at the bottom of the article: http://paulbourke.net/fun/

I do wish the comments were hidden by default.
Correct, but that is why it is in a sense. I think if you expand this thought it is similar to how many people buy into their own company's bullshit while you stand on the outside and just shake your head.
No, you're right. It's so much better to have old, ugly military guys take all the important decision, spy on, detain and torture people they don't like, without any courts. This is why North Korea is the engine of the world progress.
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German ally here. Note to Keith Alexander: we are prepared to defend ourselves and to decide ourselves how we want to be defended.

Best Regards,

Germany
We clever primates rose to dominance out of the ashes of 75% of the species on the planet. It seems entirely possible that we never would have achieved this sort of reach if not for the K/T event.
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Another TV-free household reporting in, here. When my family and I want to watch a movie, we do indeed cramp around my 17" laptop and watch it. Its quite comfortable, four of us on the couch, and the screen propped up properly in front of us. We all see it, we're all quite comfortable.

I feel I must define TV-free, though. We have iPads and other tablets, and ample computer resources throughout the house, where its not really fair to say we don't "do the vegetable video brainwash thing", because we do. Its just that its not per some broadcast schedule and we choose, entirely, what we want to watch instead of having it imposed upon us by a Programming Director.

We never pay for video, though. Maybe once in a few moons my wife and I might go to the cinema, but unless the movie is really good, we don't bother. I have absolutely no problem with the idea of bankrupting "Hollywood", which I see as a disastrous cult that must be de-funded. Both of us have sort of made up our mind that mainstream entertainment is mindlessly boring, and so we do try to get involved a little more in the process of discovering new things. We do pay for art where we know the author of it, or have a way to pay them directly without having a Brand engine in the way.
the initial plan wasn't about text extraction but text modification. We noticed we already have something to "give" and created this service. Following the lean methodology, we hope we are going to get some insights about the next step.
Mine.

http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=hhkkg5josk6rbuwqd7ri...
Thanks for the tip; I should check out Portal 2 sometime. If it's anything like Portal 1, it achieves the balance by constraining the dynamic gameplay to discrete puzzles, each of which, when solved, moves the player along the storyline.
Gnome Shell vs Ubuntu Unity? DIY with Cairo-Dock Session
What's the fiber situation in Germany? Seems like a good opportunity for the sub-100,000 customer ISP market to light up (despite the other challenges one assumes would come with running any small/regional ISP). Is there any incentive for large or midsize ISPs to divide themselves up or does the law account for that as well?
Funny enough, as a continental European, I am not allowed to pay for streaming access to the great programs (programmes?) produced by the BBC.

Ridiculousness of the same sort is happening with the publicly financed broadcasts over here in Germany. Somehow, almost every EU country manages to completely mess up the transition of its publicly financed broadcasts into the internet age, always because of some nonsense regarding the private competition. I hope the EU gets going with the single market for audiovisual content, fixing this once and for all.
we have our own parser for more complicated task and use xpdf when speed is key because it's much faster.
What you are describing is persisting a command; the parent article describes a caching technique.

Caching a name for a command, as you issue it, makes it easier to retrieve later if you decide you want it as a proper script or alias. Among other things.
Just because there are two sides to an argument does not mean they are both equally valid, and that the argument itself is debatable.

Stupid false choice BS spread by modern media. You can have safety, privacy and security all at the same time.
Why not just system(pdf2html) - I don't see the point since this level of functionality is trivially achieved. If it did something over and above that it might be useful, like OCR, but even that's not hard to add.