skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologise for my country's idiotic and rude behaviour. I will make sure that I vote for none of the political parties that currently run the country, nor the previous one, as none of them can be trusted.

Again, sorry. Our country is being run by fuckwits. We keep voting for different parties but it doesn't seem to make a difference.... Hang on a sec....
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An explicit "extinguish" policy would be stupid on several levels. Practical enforcement would be very difficult, it would create a lot of bad blood with speakers of minority languages, it would establish a precedent for forcible eradication of minority cultures, and it's not even necessary if languages are extinguishing themselves. By all means archive languages for science and posterity, and certainly protect minority groups from general cultural oppression; other than that, allow languages to grow or die organically as they always have.

The world is slowly moving towards fewer, broader languages, and that's a good thing as it dissolves cultural barriers, improves communication, and makes it easier to see your neighbors as people like yourself. Trying to force the process to move faster would be disastrous.
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If it's a parental control thing, then one of its main uses will be increasing the number of computers on which someone has covertly installed Firefox.
Frankly, I don't think this has got beyond the "dinner table" stage anywhere, outside of a very few activists. It's early days yet, though.
Usecase 2 could be better, but cool product over all.
As a north Indian, I can assure you that is not the case. Several decades of living there has not gotten in the way of my butchering Hindi sentences much worse than I butcher English.

PS: Good to know that your sample set for passing judgement on India is a handful of programmers you met in Bangalore.
Not sure about that, but we know approximately how many people have changed to a Linux desktop, and it has always been near 1%.
"The Five Eyes Alliance" is a good moniker for that: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/is-the-f...
You wouldn't if the whole house is metallic would you?
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This, svantana.

My dentist's ultrasonic dental plaque removing tool produces audible squeals reminiscent of analog tuning of an AM radio. That's one possible example of probable nonlinearities (in my gums an teeth) producing detectible audible power from ultrasonic energy transmission. No reference -- it's just what I hear every time I have my teeth cleaned.

Granted an ultrasonic water stream (dental application) has different physical characteristics than an ultrasonic air pressure wave (ultrasound).
> If you love Hindi, use it, but don't try to shove it under our ass.

FYI I don't speak Hindi. The only languages I speak are English and Malayalam. I've lived outside India most of my life (was born in the UAE), so Hindi is something I never got a chance to learn.

But I do think India would benefit if her people spoke one common language rather than the dozen or so they do today. I just think Standard/New Hindi would be an ideal single language for the nation (just as Gandhi did), esp. since 400+ million people already speak it.
But a movie isn't just a movie. Every movie has a narrative that makes a point, and that makes it valuable.

If what we are hoping to learn from 'Jobs' or The Social Network is "How did this guy do it? What personal qualities can I emulate, what situations can I apply the same approach in", then it is only valuable if it is accurate.

After all, if the narrative is something the writer more or less made up (i.e. he's missed out the bit where Jobs goes into the wilderness and comes back another person), then what the movie teaches us is coming from the writers head. The writer didn't build a leading company, so I am not really interested in what he thinks about how to do it.
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The conservative base in the UK? If not then how do you see the link, he was held in the UK, not the US?
Neither the BBC, Independent, The Sun nor Daily Mail report on it; q.e.d., the "general public" doesn't care.

Edit: The Sun does, however, have boobs on its homepage, the Daily Mail talks about celebrities and the BBC's international site talks about Syria, Gibraltar and Usain Bolt, with its England page concerned with assisted suicide, a rider who died after a horse accident, something about climate activists and this gem: "Leicester Globe pub closes over anti-military rumours"...

Edit 2: Colour me impressed, the Telegraph not only reports on it on its frontpage, it also has an additional quote by an Amnesty International spokesperson. That's at least something, I suppose?
I'm curious exactly what you have to do in transit through the UK if detained and questioned. I'd presumably identify myself, and comply politely for a few minutes, but once it became pretty clear I was going to miss my flight, I'd want to know the various options. I have zero interest in being in the UK if in transit, so "we're going to send you back to Germany" "do it, then" is fine. Or, "you're an asshole, we're going to put you on the next flight to Brazil and never let you enter the UK" is also fine. The risk would be that "actively non-cooperative" is a sign of "is a terrorist" and then you get the free flight to Cuba.

It seems obvious that a targeted person should travel with a lot of older/disposable devices full of lightly encrypted but legal "NSFL" material, like medical/battlefield/surgery photos or, depending on the country, various types of legal porn. Or perhaps Slavoj Zizek books sans title information.
Writing an article is a much, much better idea.
Is there any plans to work hardware transactional memory into the mix?
Yes, it is by far the biggest bang for you buck upgrade you can do to a PC or laptop.
Current HTM implementations limit the size of a transaction to the L1 cache, so for the time being, no.
KDE at least the versions I have used have a bunch of little annoyances that just break usage for me.

Mostly having to do with things like KWallet integration or other little pieces not working properly. I've used workstations that still run Windows 95/2000 for machines and they work great but KDE 4 leaves me missing its 3.x variant.

XFCE could probably be a viable replacement though, it is familiar and easy to use it just has its little gotchas as well (which are more annoying on a laptop than a desktop though).
Medium provides the illusion that anyone can be a longform article writer, and that anyone can read a deep article. In other words, it provides writers who have a deeper need to be perceived as good writers than to be good writers with an audience who have a deeper need to be perceived as reading good writing than to actually read good writing.
Amnesty International on the detention of Greenwald's partner
While it is possible that for speakers of Indo-Aryan languages hindi is probably easier to pick up, that says nothing of the ease of learning the language for the majority of Dravidian language speakers.

The only reason that you advocate learning hindi over English is the ease of picking up the language, which I believe is just plain wrong. The English language is structurally much more free, and easy to pick up than a language such as hindi.

That being said, your premise of standardizing one language seems to be resting on the rather flimsy idea that if the majority of people spoke one language, they would speak it well.

A language is (usually) only spoken well when introduced at a very young age, and that seems to be the only determining factor as to whether one particular language should become an Indian standard.
(If anything that language should be Sanskrit since it's the most structurally sound language among almost all the Indian languages)
There is no market for desktop linux. The only people there in substantial quantities are technical workers, where menus have worked just fine for thirty years.
A new formula for starting a startup?
A trend I've noticed:

1) Come up with a grand vision; something sci-fi-ish.
2) Create an amazing video campaign showing the possibilities (optional: have the start of a prototype).
3) Raise money on Kickstarter; also navigate the VC world to raise money (I reckon the crowdfunding first really helps).
4) Hire an army of engineers and start building the thing. Pray that you can deliver on all promises on time.

First of all, does anyone agree with my basic premise that this startup strategy is becoming more prevelant? And perhaps more effective due to better video editing and crowdfunding as a platform for this.

Next, what do you guys think? Is this an ideal way to create great things? If you look at step 1, and then step 4, it seems that what really is trying to be accomplished is for a visionary to acquire an army of engineers, and everything in between are stepping stones. Though perhaps this is probably too naive of a viewpoint to have.

Would love to hear HN's thoughts.
I have a personal and a corporate Gmail account, and I want to keep them separate, with their own bookmarks and extensions.

I also don't want to shutdown all of my running applications just to switch.
Quick question: Do businesses expect phone support if one is selling/onboarding by phone? My gut is that they would, but wondering if I'm missing something.
I think you have this thread confused with some other thread.
Pretty awesome. I eventually shelved a somewhat similar idea, of a more modular, minimal desk for hackers that could be customized [1] (the original concept included an open ecosystem for the modular components). I found that all the work going into manufacturing and distribution were just a huge time sink and I didn't have the drive for this particular project. Maybe a service like this would allow me to resurrect my concept in the future.

[1] https://vimeo.com/23515020
But why? All that does is handicap the people who don't speak more than 2 dialects, even though they may be more productive in terms of work than the people who speak 22 dialects.

At age 21, I have already immigrated twice to countries with different languages, and I have always considered language as the major barrier in everything I always did (because past a certain age, no matter how hard I try, I keep the accent).

I dream of a world where language is a concern of the past. It just makes no sense to keep this hindrance around when there are important things to do.
Your comment strikes me as hilarious because I don't speak or understand Hindi. I'm from South (probably like you), and the only languages I speak/understand are English and Malayalam.

I was merely stating that Hindi would be an ideal language for the whole nation, and that we'd be better off without the Tower of Babel situation we have now. I'd be happy to pick up Hindi if there was some serious drive towards making it the lingua franca of the nation.

Also FYI, I have a difficult time communicating with the average Indian if I'm anywhere outside Kerala - would be nice if there was one language we could all learn, and use to communicate with each other.
Voting for a very small set of preselected candidates, endorsed by either wing of the elite party and mass media has zero chance of changing anything.
Ok, a huge market that has 0% interest in a new Linux desktop.
Obviously, but in my experience, at least, normal non geek home users want a computer that just turns on, they don't want to be logging on to different accounts, let alone managing them. Even I gave that lark up. With 6 kids it almost became an unpaid support role.

Yes, of course there would be some of that for the browser, but managing browser logins, and what not, is less overwhelming for mum and dad.

Also, given all the integration we now have, I guess that a chrome login account will transfer from device to device. So, perhaps the setting on the home PC's chrome, will still apply on say the tablet's chrome.
Intuitive Means Familiar
This is crime. The people who authorized this should be put in jail and the officers present should at least be fired.

It should not be allowed that power is so easily abused, nor should written laws be so easily twisted without fear of consequence.

I believe a civil disruption of the airport specifically targeting the security apparatus would be an appropriate response.

To the cynics, yes, I am idealistic and, yes I'm pretty much just venting, but damn, this is just going too far. Suggestions for constructive frustration welcome.
I still find it hard to accept that FIFA is now better than Pro Evo. Not that I was a die hard fan of the latter, but I honestly never thought EA would make so much efforts to polish their game and topple Konami by the same occasion.
Here's a news article on the Cyprus program for those curious:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2013/07/26/president-announces-guaran...
Hehe, oops. Thank you, have an upvote.
I find this so hard to deal with. There's party of me screaming at the screen saying what is happening is so so so wrong more, but another part of me fears for my family. The fact I fear for my family feels like my head is above the parapet. The problem more than anything is that nobody around me seems to be that bothered about this. WTF do I do?
Um, call me ignorant of the facts, but don't US courts tend to award higher damages than UK courts?
Right, because here we love the president.
Good for them. While I consider UK to be a sane country, I don't want US companies to be subject to the whims of local little kangaroo courts. Perhaps they should be subject to billion dollar fines for not having Robert Mugabe's picture on their home page when viewed by Zimbabwean residents?

It's not my intent to compare UK to Zimbabwe, but to illustrate that holding local companies to foreign standards is kind of insane. Let's turn that around: you can bet that some UK companies are violating the US's insane IP laws. Should American companies be able to sue them for doing things that are legal in their own home country?

I'm not remotely a Google fanboy, but fair is fair. They're subject to US laws, but I don't think Google US should be liable for every regulation everywhere.
This works until one of that "stable selection of apps" tells the user that the version of their OS is not supported anymore, and that they would have to update.

Oh, I entirely agree; I've been bitten by this myself (and on desktops/laptops, not on mobile devices), and it's one of the main reasons I don't have an iDevice and don't use many apps on my Android tablet.

I'm just saying that you and I are outliers; most users appear not to care that their device is locked down and they will sooner or later be forced to upgrade. (Many of them are used to upgrading every time their phone carrier comes out with a shiny new toy anyway.)
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Whether it will backfire or not is up to the citizens to decide. But I suspect it won't backfire enough to cause a dent.

Maybe in the US, but this is unlikely to make a ripple in the British public sphere.

The Snowden story has not been a big deal here and today's news has not had much airtime either (it's not even on the BBC News front page). The majority of Brits don't know about this story, nor are likely to have the context to care if they did.

Issues of UK-US cooperation, even over matters as worrying as extraditing Brits to the US for trial, rarely stir up great feelings amongst everyday folk. Being on Twitter and HN, I do know about this story and I still don't care for it much (in terms of how I consider British policy).
I agree with what you're saying, but these were anti-terrorism laws. I see how you can play devil's advocate and make an argument of legitimacy as you have, but that doesn't legitimise using anti-terrorism laws for counter-intelligence.
No, this is Special Branch. David's passport is on a stop list. SB have a database that is outside the usual police records that contains information that you won't get by making an FOI request. They know exactly who is coming through and when. They will have had specific instructions on what to do, and those instructions come directly from the Home Office. Even HMIC don't get to look at this stuff. Stopping someone in transit is pretty unusual.

Any tech they seized is now being foresically analysed. He is unlikely to get it back.

They probably thought that it was highly likely he was a data mule between Greenwald and Poitras. I'd guess that they were probably right in that assumption.

I know a man, who knows a dog. I'll leave it at that.
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Well, I'm happy with app engine so far, but it would be nice to have an insurance plan in case Google decide to do something which changes that. Possibilities include retiring app engine, changing the pricing significantly, introducing unpalatable restrictions, etc.
Interestingly, the US apparently reconstituted the Mafia (which had been destroyed by Mussolini) to undermine WWII resistance, labor unions and leftist movements. The stuff they don't teach in school...

(http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/200205--.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_between_the_Unit...)
O'Leary Total Soccer kind of fit in both camps - statistical management and live gameplay. It was pretty successful at the time, though I haven't heard of any follow-up.
Non tech people don't use multiple accounts on their home (windows ?) computer. Yes they should but they don't and from what I see they don't even fully understand the concept (why are my programs not there ? I want to start skype !), so here we are solving the same problem at another more limited level.
I'm dying with laughter here. 'Controversial' describes this statement as well as it describes "I think the best way to cure cancer is to swallow large quantities of Drano".

You've essentially described a plan akin to converting everything in the US to New Metric (a system that is similar to metric but has 2.7182 as the scaling factor for centi, mega, and tera but 3.141 for kilo, 10 for giga, and the unit of length will be the new metre which corresponds to 0.707 of a mile). Everyone will be on the same system. It'll be great.
I use it to manage multiple gmail accounts (personal/business). They put an icon in the top right corner of the browser which makes it really easy to switch profiles. Apart from this though I can't think of any other reasons to need multiple profiles.
sorry.

http://www.murple.net/gallery/v/what/informationage/img_0030...
I saw pirates of silicon valley a few years ago. I'd say that was the only movie to really get me excited about being in tech/silicon valley. The Social Network didn't even have close to the same effect for me.
K. I won't point out to you why you're mistaken.
> 1) A test to see how the journalist will react and to
> flush out more information. I.e. force him to disclose
> more information so they know what he has.

I think they already know through a post event review of MicroSoft's built in auditing logs. My understanding is that Snowden was a low level Windows admin that copied stuff that was either 1) in transit through a Microsoft Sharepoint server 2) anything he could find by roaming around the intranet. The NSA disclosed that he started grabbing documents when he was working as a contractor under Dell. They said he was aggressively exploring the limits of his network access and announced that 1) documents on their intranet would from now on be encrypted 2) that they would drastically reduce the number of system and network (as in Microsoft misuse of the term) administrators.

Plus, Wikileaks leaked an AES256 encrypted insurance file that presumably is everything that have from Snowden. Wikileaks has some of the shittiest OPSEC ever (as the Manning events showed). So, we know that they probably used openssl for the encryption and that the STK string is probably a sentence, or a few sentences, from a seminal published book about liberty/privacy. The NSA has probably already cracked the insurance file key. So, if they don't have the Manning portfolio from audit logs, they probably have it from Wikileaks.

There's an ex-NSA NWC guy that is putting out a lot of excellent information on this whole thing: 20committee

https://twitter.com/20committee
The movie kind of confirms the fact that steve jobs actually lived for 150 years.

http://fakevalley.com/steve-jobs-actually-lived-for-150-year...
So if I'm in mountain view, what is the differential (public) transit time to the HSR termini/stations in Bay area, versus Hayward? How about Berkeley? Vallejo? I guess part of my point also that I'm not articulating well, is that if you're not on the HSR line (which most of the bay area isn't) you have to spend non-zero time commuting to the HSR station, too. Even if you are relatively close, say, cupertino or mountain view (closest stations: Palo Alto or San Jose) there is a commuting time-cost, too.
Someone asked (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230807) in the discussion of 507 Mechanical Movements for a tool that could simulate those movements. This is such a tool. You could pick an interesting mechanical movement (http://507movements.com/index23.html) and try building it.
China is a good counterexample to this. China had a huge number of "dialects" -- mutually un-intelligible dialects (and being mutually unintelligible is generally what distinguishes a language from a dialect). The Chinese government has sort-of successfully driven Mandarin as the lingua franca of the nation, and I can't imagine the Chinese having been anything but better off for it. Perhaps, there was some loss of cultural/linguistic heritage in the case of China, but that's why I said India should "archive" before extinguish.

Languages evolve all the time. If everyone were to hang on to the languages and identities that were present and predominant at the end of the twentieth century, I don't think we'd get anywhere closer to a more global society. As a nation, there's much more of a reason to have a common language.
It goes deeper than that. You are suggesting that intellectual, free thinking and Google can't coexist, or to work AT or WITH Google is to be not intellectual nor free thinking. It's ludicrous to label Google employees and users. You would suggest that Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and those Google employees that publicly deny your FUD [0] can't be intelligent, free-thinking hackers. Crazy.

[0] https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13qvvpjivahzpnbo04... (Yonatan Zunger [Chief Architect, Google+] denies PRISM wholesale)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DA-Notice
I hope the lib dems move for a no confidence vote. At least that could cause an election about these absurdities in west.
Fortunately, an act such as this oftentimes is enough to start getting celebrities involved and prompting them to be outspoken to their fans. We don't always need to make Americans care directly. It can be enough to make the people who Americans listen to to care.
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I do, though not as much as I used to.
It seems to me like it wasn't so much the American company as the Canadian dev team.
My god. The responses are basically saying that they agree with the government kidnapping and robbing the family of a journalist in retaliation for the journalist's legal news coverage.
Upgrade to chrome canary. It has that feature.

Yeah, I've been meaning to try that Chrome feature out. I'm still on FF22 at the moment.

Do you automatically switch tabs after loading it and then get confused which tab has your video?

Typically I'll middle-click links to open them in separate tabs without switching to them, then read the tabs later when I have time, sometimes even the next day. So I end up faced with a row of dozens of tabs, one of which is making unsolicited racket.