skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly it is not necessary for kids that adults play with them. Nor teach them to walk nor correct them when learning to speak.
So if the Air Force starts bombing Germany, you'll say "A military caught killing people, shocking"? How is this intended to sound like a contribution to discussion?
You still could use bitbucket. It allows to create unlimited amount of private repos with max of 5 users.
So you're cool with China finding out American stealth bomber plans, right? That's just their fiduciary duty, so to speak?

You're OK with Russia having a video bug in the Oval Office? Israel tapping the phones of everybody in Congress? Japan listening in on board meetings of the Fortune 500?
I honestly think the EU should make it clear that our friendship with the US cannot be uphold with serious breaches such as this one.

Its your good friend spying on your and your wife having sex, not because he needs to, but because he wants to know everything. With countries or persons, you can only be true friends if you trust that you are told what you need to know, you shouldn't have to acquire information yourself.
I've made good use of Anki myself. In fact, I was an early contributor to it!

I still feel SRS is best used as a supplement instead of primary source, though. In Taiwan I knew a guy who had spent 3 hours a day for a year and a half memorizing Chinese characters and phrases on an SRS. He could write 3000 characters. He wasn't that great in terms of actually communicating with people or reading comprehension, though.

This came up in HN thread on a language teaching app about 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992561
A small thing I've noticed about seeing news from France and Switzerland.

Swiss newsreaders seem to speak more slowly. I don't know if it's a peculiar Swiss behaviour, but I wondered at the time if it was connected to the fact that Switzerland has four official languages, some of them having overlapping linguistic footprints.

To make a Swiss French broadcast accessible to Swiss Germans who have rudimentary French, it would make sense for the presenters to speak more slowly.

Meanwhile, over on France 2, the appallingly videogenic presenters of Le 20 Heures drive a swishy gallic stereotype through the paper thin limits of my understanding.
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Seems like there are two options here:

1. Define laws mathematically

2. Fight corruption

Not sure which one is easier.
"A confidential classification shows that the NSA considered the Federal Republic does as a partner, but also as an attack target. Thus, Germany is one of the so-called third-class partners. Specifically excluded from espionage attacks are Canada, Australia, Britain and New Zealand, which are performed as a second category. "We can attack the signals of most foreign partner third class - and to do so," it said in a presentation."
Something faster, something that didn't require connection to central server, yet still allowed me to access my work on both my home and work computers. Git alone met majority of these requirements, I just needed a remote repository to share and sync my work between computers.

Other DVCS's (Hg, Fossil, Bazaar, Monotone, etc.) did not?
A salmon run.
We were once in a similar situation too. Thousands of signups (site featured on techcrunch, mashable, et al) but the ad money wasn't enough. So I said fuck it and we switched to $5/mo with a 14 day free trial. Lot of people were pissed off, and some sites even put our site in their "hall of shame". But guess what? you have to bear the storm for a few days and then it starts to become okay.

What really paid off for us is that we didn't give up and started working on a totally new version of our software (which we wrote from scratch) and instead of $5 or something, we offered rather big premium packages ($49/mo, $99/mo with 40% discount if ordered yearly) and that is when we really started making some good money.

The users got 1/50th, which was good and bad. Good because the insane # of support tickets also dropped and we were running just fine with a single dedicated server. Bad because our traffic dropped badly, but it didn't die all the way. Being on big sites gave us some really good Google rankings that we still have around 100 new signups per day. We could have put a "So long and thanks for all the fish" blurb and killed our site but good thing we stuck around and kept innovating. It's definitely not our flagship product anymore but the site still makes 6 figures yearly. So what i'm saying is try to create something for your audience and try to sell it hard to them. When you have a ton of traffic, even a small segment of customers in your audience can still make you good money.
#1 is not possible, so....
Yes it's terrible, but I'm amazed that people are surprised at all this NSA stuff. Look at America's history, it's been a global hegemon since the 1940s. I don't think they're likely to stop any time soon.
You could see that from the previously leaked slide, too:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-in...
Maybe not "surprised", but still outraged. Before even if you were outraged about this, there was no one to listen to you, because it would still sound a bit "conspiracy-theory-like".

Plus, I'm not sure if everyone actually thought their e-mail is being collected and could be easily accessed by NSA and others. Maybe they would suspect NSA could do that, but to the bad guys. Not to them. Isn't that what they keep saying in public now? That they only look at the "bad guys' data"? So the outrage, and even surprise to some degree, is very warranted.
What have they ever done to deserve that?

</sarcasm>
There could be many different explanations for that:

1: US foreign intelligence is incompetent. Viewing Germany or France as a military threat to America in 2013 is just nonsense.

2: The US uses its foreign intelligence to gain competitive advantages in businesses. I can't help wondering what kind of information flows the other way, i.e. from US government to US businesses, now that so many US companies have readily granted access to user data to the US government.

3: The US targets Germany and other European countries because it's easy to spy on us. More American government agents know German or French than Arab or Chinese, and a bigger portion of Europeans have internet connection and we host more data in the Cloud than the Chinese or Iraqi population, especially we host more with the American companies that NSA has direct access to.
Germany Minister of Justice demands immediate response to US spying on Germany
I signed up for Fastmail enhanced, really like it so far, only things I don't like are the read only LDAP contacts and the security settings. Specifically on the security settings, I want to see support for a limited alternative login which can access IMAP desktop/mobile clients (such as K9) but not have full unrestricted web access. Tags, I can without those if they can't be implemented well. Thanks for a great product.
Sync is not backup.
> I believe Perl::Critic to be the more powerful of the two tools.

It is quite limited by Perl's quirky syntax, unfortunately ("only Perl can parse Perl"). Last time I checked, it would miss e.g. all warnings for anonymous subs:

# triggers "Subroutine "foo" does not end with "return" at line 5, column 1. See page 197 of PBP. (Severity: 4)"
sub foo {
my $s=shift;
}

# triggers no warnings
my $x = sub {
my $s=shift;
}

This is a bug/limitation in PPI (which otherwise does a great job with the mess that is Perl syntax) ... I'd assume the various JS analysers can do a more thorough job.
It would be nice to see the full task edit options when adding a task too.
Welcome to the fringe.

And please don't lump Paul in with Palin, Beck, et al.
I have a few thoughts after reading this article:

1. This (re: citizens violating classified laws or legal interpretations) is definitely a situation where any sane judge/jury would find against the ignorantia juris non excusat principle, so I don't expect the use of any of this to hold up in any court, ever, not just because its effects are potentially unconstitutional. And any judge worth the wood upon which they sit would dismiss any evidence presented that has been gathered as a result in that it wasn't obtained with a legal warrant, or in any manner that is constitutional.

2. This is massive amounts of ammunition for conspiracy theorists, especially truthers. Let me give it a try: 9/11 was an inside job, orchestrated by the US government under the Bush administration as a false flag operation in order to to get the Patriot Act passed with plans to classify interpretations which would give the government over-reaching powers to violate the constitutional rights of citizens to the point of being able to create a Stasi state.

3. Why don't we demand impeachment if Obama re-authorizes any part of the Patriot Act, obviously knowing about classified secret interpretations which have already been found to be unconstitutional (re: classified findings)? The congress has the ability to decide whether or not the President has committed a "high crime", and I'm fairly certain this fits the historical meaning of that term.. knowingly and willingly violating the constitutional rights of every US citizen, a constitution which the president is sworn to defend (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_Presiden...).
> 1. Java.

I said "modern language".

> 2.

First, the changes are too large, then the changes are too small? What now?

It's bad if new Scala versions don't ship with full-scale library support, but it's also bad if developers start testing their libraries early?

I guess it is impossible to make you happy.
So the US has always been super buddies with Japan? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-in...
I was expecting this to be another sort of hackernews anti-school rant but it ended up being pretty useful and listed some good alternatives. Having just finished art school myself I do see the value in learning from and being around those who see the world in that way and I don't think most people can cut corners on becoming a "trained" artist.

I also wrote a long post on the value of formal education vs. other methods that maybe some people will find useful who are trying to find their way: http://blog.benturner.com/2013/06/08/graduation-from-formal-...

Have gone through the Army, public school, private grad schools, online self-learning, so it's been an expensive look (thank you GI Bill, to some degree) at the state of US education.
I see that you have made up your mind, but I'd still be very happy to see an actual code example, as mentioned earlier (or even better, a link to a bug ticket :-D).
This is awesome. Yes, there are some usability problems, a few bugs, and tonnes of missing features, but I already like it better than Basecamp.
I started dev on a product like this a long time ago, when Basecamp was relatively new, but I didn't complete it. I was going for a Redmine-esque feel and that's what I get out of Ubercamp.

Keep it up. I hope you will stick it out as you have some big competitors.
Would you discuss all this with the team?
Ubuntu is trying it
You do not want bipartisan. That just means the same old same old, simply pretending to be different. If Obama can't or wont repair the damage of the Bush administration, well, he seems hell bent on out Bushing Bush, why turn to their ilk again? Have Americans not been bitten enough? I know the rest of us are tired of suffering at the hands of both American parties. Remember the world wide joy at the election of Obama? Yep, we are all disappointed.

You need a NEW party. A party that relies on and represents humanity. If The US wants to regain its status as leader of the free world, first it need to embrace that world and all human beings as equals. Get that right and the rest should follow.
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Don't forget that the 9/11 attacks were planned out of Hamburg and that some of the WTC bombers of 1993 were living and captured in Germany.
> I like Java. I am able to be quite productive with it along with Spring and Guava. Hibernate, though somewhat finicky, makes dealing with databases almost trivial.

Spring and Hibernate made me abandon Java.
I still recall my reaction when I started to learn and program with it: "If this is the way I'm supposed to solve issues and ship software, the tool (Java) is obviously not doing its job."
Show HN: an API to extract text from a PDF
The protocol is patented [0]. If you want to offer your product in the US (and other places that care about software patents), you need a license.

Also note that Z-Push is AGPLv3 software. Unless you can get it under another license from Zarafa, you have to release your product with an AGPL-compatible license.

[0] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/IP...
All mainstream German parties (CDU/CSU, FDP, SPD, Gruene) are strongly "atlanticist", lack "Zivilcourage" and would rather defer to the US than work for the privacy interests of their German voters. In the light of this, it's unlikely that we will see more than luke-warm, fig-leaf protest
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From the comments section:

"Og there’s plenty you can do, problem is, people are convinced that nothing will be done, so they never bother with reporting the offenders."
Rather than encrypting 'our' data, we could also strive to make 'their' data as accessible to us as our's is to them. Aka transparency.
Like I've said in other posts, spy on people and they start to react. In this case they start using encryption more and more. No, such people are not 100% secure, but if there is a secure option, they take it. This increases encrypted traffic and of course government paranoia. More of us are hiding stuff, there for more of us must be guilty, so government needs to spy more.

Mean while, real criminals will simply avoid electronic communications.
And why did they hold back these slides from the original story when some of the content is contradicting?
Nonsense, a lot of male players play with female characters. No one who played such games for longer than a week would even assume you're female based on your character.
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence of what works for some individuals.

However, pointing out the common problems, shared by everybody, is also informative. Here are some:

* The factors in learning a new language are age (adolescence is a threshold), innate skill, motivation (and guilt), effort and similarity of the languages.

* Sounds are not listener-independent: your Chinese friend does not hear the same sounds as you do, so don't expect that they know which sounds you are correcting in their English when you repeat the word for the tenth time. Same the other way around. I have seen this leading again, again and again to absurd "are you deaf?" situations between otherwise attentive friends and teachers.

* It might be helpful to discuss metalanguage: direct objects, word order, verb transitivity, nouns vs verbs, parsing, etc. This is something you learn in school in France, Spain, Germany, some Arab countries, etc, and if you studied Latin. But if you went through a standard English-speaking school system you might want to catch up with that.
That's my experience, too.

Of course there are things which are not quite simple in both languages, but in Scala those things are features which actually enable me to solve issues, not some language design failures from 1995 with which we have to live now for the rest of Java's life.
Most applicants are not accepted by European art schools, though.
How is that even relevant? How does that justify the interception of 500 million messages per month?
Seriously, what has Germany done to harm America after the war?
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That headline is blatant editorialising and whether or not you consider what the NSA is apparently doing as an indication they view Germany as an enemy, the text of the article does not in any way support that the NSA itself sees it that way.

(in case it is modified, this is the headline as of writing: "NSA: Germany considered an enemy. Intercepting 500mill messages per month")
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"As a consequence students must bear the vast majority of the cost of their university education starting somewhere in the 00s."

Then by supply and demand, prices would have imploded since 2000. Either that or most schools went our of business. Right?
What does Germany have to hide......?

In fact, hello US gov, what do you have to hide?
I completely agree with this.

I've created the site Readlang (http://readlang.com) to allow learning vocabulary in context by reading uploaded content, translating, and using SRS flashcards which include the original context.

It's in public beta and would love to get feedback if anyone tries it out.
That reads like you have simply bought in to the media smearing. Sound familiar?

See here in the UK, our media represent the whole of the EU like that.

Don't give up, get involved.
Female gamertag, not character. There are far fewer males running around with female tags, not that it doesn't happen.
I agree. Germany was more of a "target", and considering involvements of the German muslim minority in 9/11 this isn't very surprising either.

Still I really don't like what the NSA is doing to us...
> F-cisco

Get off my lawn! Back in my day, us cool cats called it Sanfran.
I always have respect for people using Python to make a living. But it seems that you don't use the language as your main tool (maybe as a toy). Please, do respect all other's work even if you don't use (or hate) it.
"Aus einer vertraulichen Klassifizierung geht hervor, dass die NSA die Bundesrepublik zwar als Partner, zugleich aber auch als Angriffsziel betrachtet"

... sees Germany as a "military target".

You're right, I should've used "military target" instead of enemy
How does this differ from the normal male experience in video games? "Go get butt-raped" would hardly be an uncommon thing for a male player to hear.

Wouldn't it be sexist for gamers to tone down the trash talk simply because a woman is playing?
"Angriffsziel" in general is not synonymous with "military target". I'd translate it simply as "target".
Here's a better translation of a passage that made me particularly irate: "On Christmas Eve 2012, the NSA eavesdropped and stored about 13 million telephone connections"

Merry Christmas, German friends.
Yes, but calling yourself Dizzy Lizzy instead of Lord of Death Pain Master is a dead giveaway to pro gamers.

Also, nonsense what? You never encountered sexism when playing online? Just consider how it's actually considered perfectly fine by many to call a decisive win "rape" :/
1) As a guy, I've had horrible stuff said to me as well. I've heard N-word, "fag", etc... These are 12 year olds we're dealing with.

2) There seems something deeply ironic that the big strong man was signing on to unlock things for the poor wife here...
Install compilers on one machine, build Ruby, package it up as a deb/rpm/whatever, distribute to other machines.
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Ubuntu/Debian does not ship with Ruby 1.9.1. They ship with Ruby 1.9.3 under the name of "ruby-1.9.1" because they are ABI compatible.
Or like POWs in WW2 devise language that will have hidden meaning.
I've heard of a few parents who have gone TV free but allow their kids phones, iPads and laptops for homework, etc. End result, they see less of their kids because they're all in their rooms watching streaming TV or videos.
Results may vary of course
Have got it recommended from a consultant who seems to know what he is doing.

Also I think in kolab it is only used for optional webmail.
Probably a reference to the Hamburg Cell:

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

NB From what I can see most of the members of this group were not German nationals
Anki (or any other SRS) doesn't have to be about learning words out of context. I've learned a lot with Anki plus sentences off of Tatoeba, which has a large amount of sentences translated into many languages. And I did that while being familiar with the basics of Krashen's ideas. I think there's no contradiction. Learning words and not forgetting them helps me to focus on getting a lot of input on my target language, without the drudge of (re-)looking up the dictionary for every other word.

http://tatoeba.org/eng/

By the way, (for the benefit of other people reading this) the website you link to has many other interesting articles about language learning vs. acquisition.
That's why I tend to use gender neutral names for my accounts. On the internet, no one knows who you are (except for the NSA.)
> I'm amazed that people are surprised at all this NSA stuff

Me too. People who could put two and two together knew what Snowden 'leaked' to the mass media.
Some of the attackers previously lived as engineering students in Germany.
The normal male experience involves that kind of talk in reaction to what you do. It's the reaction to your actions in the game, or to your own comments.

The normal female experience involves that kind of talk in reaction to what you are. Being female. Doesn't matter what you do, or what you say; you get a constant barrage of abuse, hatred, and threat of rape. For being female and daring to play a game.
War on terror my a∗∗

It's a "spy-on-everyone including our own citizens under whatever excuse we can get away with".
It simply shows that there had been ongoing planning activities by terrorist cells in Germany.
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It's far from too late, if you identify your goals and focus on them.

Get involved with your local tech communities. Spend a few evenings with local tech groups. You'll find a broad cross section of technologists at your local hackerspace [1] who will be happy to talk shop. Check Meetup for local groups related to your favourite languages. If there isn't one, start it.

Hotdesking at a local business incubator is a way to make connections, advertise your presence and concentrate on $project while you seek out opportunities.

If money is your primary concern, then sacrificing a few days a week to balance the books will pay off in peace of mind as you prepare for your final year.

[1] http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
Oh, I misread. Well, my point still stands in other games were the sex is only given away by the character.
This case might just be a thing with random matchmaking too.

In my times playing Counter-Strike (and Source), you'd frequently be playing on the same server, and so a community would build; everyone was generally very cool to both girl and guy. But there are bad/trolly servers of course. WoW probably fits somewhere in this model too.

I guess I'll give a shout-out to the AHP custom map server (on cs source), as that is probably one of the best examples of good.
Art school is no different than any other academic institutions; you get an assignment sheet with a breakdown of what you're supposed to do and if you don't follow those guidelines you get an F. The hardest part of this for most artists is the artist statement (the concept of the piece) and the defense thereof in critique. This is likely where your granddad struggled.
I remember 3 tar incantations (to created a compressed archive, list, or uncompress one) that I treat pretty much as unchangeable commands. Probably should just alias them. Everything else I'll look up..