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Do you think spoken Chinese relies on linking words much more heavily than written Chinese does? My first Chinese teachers kept getting mad when I wanted to begin sentences by linking them to the previous one.
Because for non-US countries nothing has changed. It's been a publicly known fact that the US spies on non-US citizens by monitoring internet traffic for over 20 years. Ask any hacker aged over 24. There's simply hardly anything worth being surprised about as a foreign national.

If you asked anyone in The Netherlands 10 years ago if they thought their e-mail on Hotmail or GMail was monitored by authorities in the U.S. I am sure their answer would have been yes.
Interesting subject. If the question is "to sprawl or not to sprawl" (that is, urban sprawl), like most truly serious questions, there's no good solution.

I live in Oregon, where we have strict urban grown boundaries. Here in Portland, light rail has been developing since the 1970's and still expanding. Bicycling is pushed by city leaders. "In-fill" housing is going up in most every part of town.

Utopia? Not everyone thinks so. Sure "urban sprawl" is mostly avoided, and farmland is preserved. But road traffic is a nightmare, and the toll of increasing population density is palpable.

Now there's talk of the undesirable effects of "vertical sprawl", a reaction to the ever-increasing height of new condo buildings and the like. There's a growing murmur of objection to the "canyon-like" landscape that many feel has a negative impact on urban quality of life.

So here we are again, there are always trade-offs, which is less corrosive, suburban or vertical sprawl? Maybe it just goes to show, we can overdo any good thing.
It'd probably become like SPF/DKIM - somewhat spammy companies who still have a genuine mailing list and will still opt you out if you ask (or even click 'Spam' in gmail etc via FBLs) will go to the effort to implement it, but random viagra spam being pumped out by botnets likely won't.
If it is the former then this is a beautiful example of something being a hilariously unfathomable idea* in the not too distant past ... and then turning out to be sort of true. I like these :)

* = The JD\Dr Cox "shaved the baby" scene in Scrubs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHAAmdskBqU
Thanks, some good points here.
Barcelona and Osaka are also well known for doing a good job at facing the challenges of developing a big city. Nagoya and Taipei have been mentioned to me as examples, too.

Mexico City deals every day with the challenges of having grown very fast to 20 million before it became rich. New subway and BRT lines, infill development, upgrading properties, and progressive transit and construction planning keep the place getting better to live in and easier to get around every year. Phasing in pollution and emission regulations as they became affordable and regulating polluting industries out of the region step by step worked well, too. In spite of the famous chaos of Mexican government, Mexico City will soon mark thirty years of effective governance and planning, so it can be done. If Mexico can do it, China and the USA -- which are usually considered to be only somewhat worse governed than México -- could probably do it, too, someday.
It probably doesn't use the latest version of the HTML5/WebGL plug-in (the entire technology stack is still alpha/beta). I recommend something more sandboxed, like Unity3d plug-in which lets you use proper OpenGL.
Pearltrees would probably be really good for that. I thought about making one myself but never got around to it.
If that doesn't show up on literacy rates, or GDP, or crime rate or... can you really consider it a hindrance?
Of course Mandarin is a written system. Pop music from Hong Kong is usually in what basically amounts to Cantonese-pronounced Mandarin. That's why they sing 是 instead of 系 and it's why people recommend NOT using pop music as a learning tool when learning Cantonese. Written Cantonese also exists: 係唔係佢哋㗎？ vs 是不是他們的？, for a Wikipedia example. The first is what people speaking Cantonese actually say, the second is what they might write if they're trying to be formal or official and it's probably what you're used to seeing.
Literacy rate has not much to do with English speakers, as speaking English does not help people read and write Chinese.
>English spends a lot of characters on structure - words that are required grammatically but don't change the meaning of the sentence. Chinese's famously simple grammar doesn't do that.

I admit that I only got as far as Mandarin I in school, but it seems to me that the existence of classifiers in Chinese languages contradicts that.
The first comment by Mailpile seems to highlight the biggest problem to me:

>Hello! Bjarni from the Mailpile team here.

>This is an interesting proposal and sounds like a significant improvement over the current centralized key-server model.

>The main quibble I have with it, is it seems there's no concern given to the privacy of user's communications - the proposed gossip mechanism seems designed to indiscriminately tell everyone who I am communicating with. That's a pretty severe privacy breach if you ask me, worse even then PGP's web-of-trust because it's real-time, current metadata about who is interacting with whom.

>Am I misunderstanding anything here?

>- Bjarni
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Yes, self driving cars make more sense as a service than as a possession. And knowing their limitations helps us see where they might be useful today, so that they can be gradually incorporated into traffic.
Yes, I can write a blog post like "I am examining whether HN is tied to JPMorgan hacking". It's likely not, but the words were used in one sentence.
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Stumbled upon this site by pure accident, but during some investigative research and since I have yet to find the answer, I felt this might be a great place to ask my question.
Setting: I have an iPhone and an iPad mini both running on iOS 7. I have a laptop as well that I am currently logged into Facebook on, my chat is off and I have not commented or liked anything. There is nothing new posted on my timeline. My iPhone and iPad have the Facebook app on them, I am browsing through Facebook when I get a message on my iPhone through the new Messenger app of a message just sent to me, so I get on my iPhone and access the Messenger app to read the message and it states from a friend, "I see your up." So of course I respond by asking "and how did you know that?" he replies "because I see all." I reply, "Damn, I was hiding. Guess it wasn't a very good spot." He says, I have a very special iPad that lets me see everything." because of a bet, he leaves me with that and I am just hanging here. But I am dying for the answer......I have heard stories about the new facebook messenger app and find it interesting to say the least.
Question: How in the hell could he "see" me? I didn't think I left any traces and thought my "hiding spot" was covered well enough. Please tell me.....
I don't know what I'm talking about, but isn't that exactly what he describes? That if you forget how to write the character, you depend on your right brain to draw it which feels uncomfortable and likely comes out wrong?
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nice summary. I believe the billion prices project has become http://www.pricestats.com/us-series Unfortunately It looks like we are going negative again.
This has a similar name but no. You are give 25 spaces with 24 spaces filled with tiles. The goal is to slide the tiles around using the empty space until they are in order from 1 to 24.
You are definitely right, however the way Google became Google and stays ahead of the others is a clear exception of this.

Technology matters, it matters too much that Microsoft with millions of dollars cannot build a better search engine. Microsoft would spend a billion if they knew they can do as good as Google.

There are small companies as well that solely focus technical excellence.

If you are going to rely on technology only then your technology shouldn't be just slightly better it should be way better than the others.
And if you consider that a git commit is actually "proof of work" and find a way to quantify the value of that commit (fixes issue x which was worth y points, passes all regression tests), you would have... gitcoin.
Interesting data, reminds me of that thread a few months ago about work start times by city; I expected a bit more variation on some of the industries here, but I guess most of them are large categories.
Quickly, buy the .in domain name and throw a client up onto github ;)

Edit: Domain already taken; I guess after bitcoin's success people just bought up (word)co.in for every value of word they could think of...
yeah pretty sure you've described the same game with numbered squares instead of a picture
> using UTF-8 to examine the informational properties of Chinese text is absurd.

By the same reasoning, using 8-bit ASCII to examine the informational properties of English text is also absurd. English can be comfortably expressed with only 6 bits per character, after all.

Anyway, I did include a GB-encoded version in my calculations. And once you compress the text, the charset-related difference becomes much smaller anyway.
There are plenty reasons to oppose the natural process of advanced things displacing less advanced ones. Cultural assimilation is not a political reason, it is an emotional reason. Many Chinese people regard calligraphy as art, so naturally they'd be uncomfortable with a newer generation not being able to perform it.

I think western society has the same feeling towards cursive writing, although it is much easier to obtain the basic skill of writing cursive western characters not many people are still able to write it in a beautiful fashion.
The last people in the world you want managing your keys. Why don't you just send them directly to the NSA ?
I wonder if the managed languages "aren't cutting it" because they're not fashionable and seen as stinky old dinosaurs to the generation of developers growing up now?

I mean, some people openly scoff at languages that aren't Python or ECMAScript, and it appears to be very/extremely fashionable/obligatory on HN to aggressively bash C++, even when it appears that many haven't written or maintained anything in it, and casually dismiss it as "complicated" and daft as it has no compulsory garbage collection. "Huh! It allows to you address memory! HOW STUPID. Why would a language even exist anymore that lets you do that?!"

When reading some of the concepts behind C++ and the reasons for decisions, some of them make excellent sense. The 'newer' languages are simpler, primarily because they haven't had decades of existence for people to demand the features that people have demanded in C++.

Where I work we use C and C++ for most things, but that's just the industry we're in. It appeared to become the norm to teach Java at universities now (from the people I have bumped into), so C++ and C are no longer the starting points for development for most graduates, perhaps?
I think the issue is that a lot of people who are informed about CAs don't trust them, but we still don't have anything better that's anywhere even close to wide adoption.
Another thing that could happen if you speak up is that you get hellbanned on HN. It seems a bit ironic to me to see this on HN, which implements more and more mechanisms to ensure consent.

Anyway, I think this just highlights the importance of anonymity on the internet.
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Pretty much nails it on the head. Overselling is a large part of online services overall, like web hosting.

You think HostGator can actually give you unlimited disk space for a few dollars a month? People don't use anywhere even remotely near their quotas, but it's a compelling marketing/sales tactic for sure.
Great graph, though I was a bit confused by the categories - I ended up picking "Computer and mathematical", which seemed to be a strange way to describe what I do (but hey, I'm not American either).
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Well, unfortunately feudalism lasted for quite some time...
As much as I generally distrust google with privacy when it comes to actually handing over data, in this case it's an open protocol that has just been drafted by google; anyone can run a server or make their own implementation. It also never touches private keys, only public. If you want a public key to have limited distribution, you don't put it on a keyserver, and instead only exchange it with the people you would like to in person or over some other verified and secure channel.

It does have a somewhat anti-privacy feature in that if I understand it correctly, it keeps a record of messages between participants (in the sense of a record existing that a message was exchanged although not the content), but that level of data is already accessible to NSA/GCHQ anyway.
If all flying cars had autopilot I don't think itd be that hard. They'd all follow the same autopilot guidlines. Ground cars will forever have to deal with the millions of "legacy" systems like lights, manual cars, stop signs, pedestrians.

A flying car system would be totally networked from day one. Id imagine it being like the cars from the minority report.
I think that radical simplification is just a joke. It is not possible to replace logograms like Chinese completely with phonograms like Hanyu Pinyin or English without considering the grammar and the culture. Chinese has its own flexibility for writing/speaking/thinking.
couple of reasons:

.. This is a Mac only project, therefore it's not a hard requirement to choose a cross platform language.

.. Consider how it would be used in production. Two possibilities: a) output as .ai, .jpg, .png to be used as imagery assets. in this case the choice of language makes no difference. b) codes reuse in mac program. in this case, Swift is a better choice b/c it's Apple's choice.

This project to me, a programmer, is somewhat connected to the PaintCode App. The idea of using Swift is not a tech argument (e.g. Swift rocks, Python sucks), rather, it's a result of reasoning.
I guess it helps that one of the major transit operators in Tokyo is also a land developer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyu_Corporation
You think google can write a proposal like this without the NSA getting involved ? The fact that they are preserving metadata is revealing and meaningful. Its another PR stunt.

Google can never never be trusted again. They publicly lied about PRISM, and they got caught. These people have no business making security protocols for us.
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If I had some copyright on software that I sold, would you be happy copying and dismissing my copyright then?

You may say that copyright is a loss to society, but as an individual that is part of the society, I would be losing out from your infringement of my copyright. That would mean that my individual loss would equate to a loss within that society.

Or am I not part of society? Does my copyright mean nothing to you?
The way this data is normalized destroys any comparison of offsets between mobile/server (and other) scenarios. Whats wrong with using the unit of measure, like Watts?
What is it you believe was misinterpreted? That mites were passed over rather than staying through the process of evolution?
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This narrative openly stretches to the top. See: every Presidential speech on the matter.

But the worst part isn't that it's offensive to foreigners (which nobody cares about), it's that people so easily ignore that history knows no such thing as a unidirectional spy camera.
It's not really any more power than they should have. If you're in business it should be fine for you to say where you will and won't sell your stuff.
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This is a great product, easy to set-up and then you don't even notice it there (but those snooping on your e-mails do!)
Thanks for reading the article! To answer your question, a 3 year old wooden ultimaker prints stuff compared to which printing on a makerbot looks like printing with a shovel. :)

The question of why I suggest avoiding makerbot is complex and not just about open vs. closed source. I will elaborate that in a future article in detail, since it raised quite a lot of questions.
It's true that the average random person doesn't need a lock by Abloy/EVVA/etc. just because it's (as close as possible to)unpickable, but I would always avoid bumpable locks as well as ones that are (more)vulnerable to destructive attacks, two categories which include quite a lot of 'high security' locks including UL 437 rated ones. Bumping is still rarer than breaking a window, crowbarring a weak door frame, or kicking at the spot of a weak lock, but is definitely increasing in popularity as it's significantly less obtrusive and doesn't leave visible damage that may alert passers by while the crime is still in progress.

Myself, when I am able to own my own house, I am definitely fitting upgraded (unbumpable) locks as part of basic diligence with regards to security, along with fixing any easily breakable windows.

It's also worth noting that windows can always be reinforced/refitted with laminated glass or even protective films that provide enough protection that the random opportunistic crackhead will probably give up when it doesn't break straight away so as not to get caught. Burglaries that take longer than 30 seconds or so to get in will often be aborted because of the risk of getting caught, especially when there are so many houses with no or insufficient alarms, windows that can server as an easy entry point without a motion sensor behind them, and weak locks that can easily be bumped/pulled[1].

If you have big breakable windows, always invest in a good alarm with motion and/or glass-break sensors though.

[1]Pulling/snapping is gradually becoming the new bumping - some lock designs are physically weak enough that they can be either broken inside the door or physically pulled out with hand tools. Example news article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-17075027
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Easy to download and works. All good things if you want extra privacy sending mails. Great app!!
I guess you could say that.
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I'm behind two NAT myself and it's impossible to traverse them :O
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You are looking in the wrong places.
Try places like edaboard.
Just the microcontroller subforum has over 200,000 posts.
As I just posted as a comment to the proposal:

In the EU, e-mail addresses are personally identifiable information. It's not clear that an append-only log with no expiration or means for individuals to delete the content will even be legal in many EU countries.
You don't need the three-party handshake.

A sends packet to B, which gets dropped by B's stateful firewall.
B sends packet to A, which gets interpreted as response and accepted.
A sends packet to B, which gets interpreted as response and accepted.

The third party is only necessary for telling B about the outgoing port chosen by A's NAT. With IPv6 where there's a stateful firewall but no NAT, a direct connection on a well-known port is possible.

Although in practice, you still need some third party to exchange each other's IP addresses.
no matter the style of governance or how markets deal with housing, it seems like people converge on the same poor urban planning

Actually, the USA is known for its soviet style command and control urban planning. China is known for direct state control as well. In either country you can expect to be told what you can build, how big it can be, setbacks, parking, street access, and lot sizes. USA cities are laid out with some of the worst urban planning practices in the world and markets have nothing to do with the rules and regulations imposed.

So recent bad Chinese practice and the USA are two examples of the same model. Neither is liberalized.

Does the liberalization of housing law lead to sprawl?

Actually, market oriented building doesn't lead to much sprawl anywhere. Sprawl must be imposed by law or central direction of development or it isn't economically viable.

Nobody has figured out modern living in an efficient way, I think.

Of the world's eight big (10MM+) first world cities, half of them are famous for housing and transportation that is affordable to the middle class. And each of them has found its own way to achieve that happy situation, so there are a lot of models for efficient modern living, even under the stress of a large population. All of them have medium density (150/hectare or 40k/mi^2), more than SF but less than Brooklyn, big subway systems, high rates of home ownership and low rates of personal car driving, but the differences are substantial.

Seoul has lots of apartments and high rises mixed into its tightly packed single family homes with a variety of street widths. Tokyo has very narrow streets and small blocks with mostly new single family homes on small lots. Mexico City is more European with low rise flats and apartments and mews townhouses mixed with small lot single family tiny homes in the suburbs that are expanded with new floors and extensions on the lot as the family grows. Osaka has a mix of those.

Each of those cities is nice and and reasonably low stress place to buy a home and get around the city.

The other four large first world cities are driving out their middle class. London and New York are famously unaffordable, possibly with prices driven by sprawl and water or a greenbelt. Los Angeles is choked with sprawl and traffic. I don't know what's going on in Paris but I hear it's expensive.

So some places have figured it out. And some haven't.
"...until the requirements change..." - nothing to do with Erlang per se. Let's move on.
I'm only half joking :) Gitcoin is much looser than bitcoin when it comes to verifying proof of work. However, there is a (practical) sense in which it exists. Fixes are submitted, accepted, merged, pulled until they are part of all users' "blockchains". gitcoin is the quantization of this karma. The lack of a hard definition of work means that it is perhaps easier to bootstrap in a centralized ecosystem like Github. Like Quora credits for code.

In much the same way as Quora credits are used to power A2As, gitcoin would enable you to ask J Random Coder on github for a fix and pay him in karma. The GPL is effectively a no-freeloaders mechanism, gitcoin could be another.
Which further down all merely protons and neutrons? If we could go further there maybe only 1 matter, or even Null? You see where I'm going with this. Arguing spiritual culture with physics theory is really comparing hot chicks with debugging assembly.