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What does the actual word "Daesh" mean and why do they hate it?

What especially were you dissatisfied with using Anki and Memrise? And how do CleverDeck do them better?

Link to video: https://d3d73dg4t65dlz.cloudfront.net/videos/customer_tease_... (it was in the source-code)

"set -x" enables debug-mode, for anyone else heading off to Google to investigate.

So given the script:

    #!/bin/bash
    set -x
    echo "Hello World"

The output would be:

    + echo 'Hello World!'
    Hello World!

Where the "+ ..." is the command executed. And it can be disabled with "set +x".

Well, the name is accurate. Oui, I will bounce very quickly once that popup comes.

OmniOutliner is commercial; only for OSX; and a GUI, not a CLI. Just to mention _some_ weaknesses.

Haha, I got a nice overflow when the score reached 68719476736.

Cool, but for each of these properties that knwl.js finds there are done extensive research and none of them are easy to do well. Sure, in the demo you find some interesting properties, but it's content was chosen by the author.

E.g. in the emotion-detection instead of using a data set such as http://sentiwordnet.isti.cnr.it/ the author defines the following data structures:

    this.emotion.negativeWords = ['terrible','horrible','evil','die','dick','bitch','fucked','stupid','idiot','dumb','noob','shit','vain','n00b','dickhead','cocksucker','disgusting','slut'];
    this.emotion.negativeWordsB = ['fuck','shit','kill','rape','hate','hating'];
    this.emotion.positiveWords = ['happy','good','great','amazing','awesome','wonderful','brilliant','smart'];
    this.emotion.positiveWordsB = ['love','like','want',"<3",'kiss'];

Which perhaps functions well, but in a very limited domain. The same can be said for detection of spam, phone numbers (only find American numbers in a certain format atm) etc.

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I recently bought a Linksys 1200. Works beautifully with DD-WRT. Or the Linksys 2500, if you want more power.

I can also recommend Netgear WNDR3700 if you want 5Ghz.

Can I hide the icon from the top bar?

It's available on multiple torrent sites. I just found my self a copy for my newly installed mountain lion.

I worked for Opera the summer of 2010 and I've also been using the browser the last couple of years.

Compared to Google, Apple, Microsoft - it is important to understand that Opera is a small, very small, company.

I'm very happy to see their resources better used to innovating and improve their exiting product, rather than trying to catching up to the other browsers.

A big loss for the general state of rendering platforms though, with now only Webkit, Trident and Gecko as serious contenders.

«The Backbone object now extends Events so that you can use it as a global event bus, if you like.»

This is great, up until now I've extended the app with Backbone.Event like:

   App = {
       view = {},
       model = {},
       collection = {},
       events = {},
    _.extend(App.events, Backbone.events)

Congrats on the soon-to-be 1.0 release :)

I actually have used and are using twitter. It is a horrendous user experience - but I know how to fix it.

My main problem is my diverse interest in different subjects and twitters current inability to let me organize and follow what I like.

I'm following approx. 200 people divided 30% technology, 30% cycling and 30% friends/locals. For me, it would be impossible to imagine following more than 250 or 300 people with todays interface - because they are all thrown into each other and reading the raw feed is a clutter and mess of subjects.

You would think, considering their main goal is to get people following their interest, that they would get this part of the interface right. But the contrary - it is what is worst with twitter.

The solution (and problem) I'm hinting to is of course lists and as Facebook, G+ and virtually every other social network already have found out: people like to organize interests, people and subjects into different "buckets". Facebook had a lame interface for this many years, but does a better job now.

My point is, as an experienced twitter user, I know where the pains are and my first day in office I would make sure that the accessibility of lists were greatly improved.

The second day I would use to fix a decent conversation view and comprehensible reply scheme.

EDIT: To point out the inaccessibility of lists today, here is the general way to read up on a subject: tool-icon > lists > choose list. That's 2 clicks too many. You could also use the shortcut "gl" and spare 2 clicks, but still, it is 1 request too much and way too complex for the regular user.

In Europe (and we see this all over the world now) we also have what I would call network surveillance, for example the "Data Retention Directive" in EU[0].

The philosophy is: «We are observing you and saving the data, but if you do not do anything illegal no one would ever see what we have recorded. So, you can't really call it surveillance."

These are actual arguments made in this debate, and it reminds me that we are not only under surveillance by cameras, but also online.

What this guy is doing in the videos is (probably) not illegal, just really offensive and obtrusive. Equally disrespectful are the surveillance cameras, only they are hidden away. Out of sight, out of mind.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

Can I see them without getting mail, but by RSS for example?

Two funny insights from Neil deGrasse Tysons twitter:

«The "Edge of Space" jump: A corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.» [1]

«I'm told somebody's jumping out of a perfectly good balloon from 23-miles up. The theory of gravity no longer needs to be tested in this way»[2]

Congrats to Felix and his team anyways - great endurance and a great show.

[1]: https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/257591067833139200 [2]: https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/255691761341587456

Well not really that giant leap, since Joseph Kittinger basically did the same jump 50 years ago [1].

He actually was in freefall longer (4min and 36 seconds), which hence is still the world record. Since Felix "only" fell for 4min and 22 seconds.

Also, as Neil deGrasse Tyson funnily put it: «I'm told somebody's jumping out of a perfectly good balloon from 23-miles up. The theory of gravity no longer needs to be tested in this way» [2]

But still, cool video and congrats to Felix and the Rebull Stratos team.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger [2]: https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/255691761341587456

A great resource in order to learn new key bindings and be more efficient in Vim: https://www.shortcutfoo.com/

Great article by the way. I enabled "hlsearch" and added "map <CR> :noh<cr>" in order to exit the highlighting by pressing return.

Because http://www.apple.com was submitted 600+ days ago and HN does not allow reposts.

Opera 12.02: Reports 0 days old, while it really is 28 days old.

As a computer scientist and an Opera user this actually insults me: http://i.imgur.com/7k0bN.png

Ironically Opera was the one who proposed the <video>-tag which this site uses for it's rotating LP, in 2007. [1] Way to exclude users.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#History_of_.3Cvideo...

Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans, Courier, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana (...)

HN uses Verdana fyi.

Or designers can use fonts which works for all operating systems and browsers.

Je ne comprends pas deux choses: quel est le prix? et pourquoi avez-vous besoin d'avoir Facebook?

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What is the price and why do you have to have Facebook?

With Maxthon I get "We're sorry, but something went wrong" (https://aboutmybrowser.com/398693348)

Also, why are you using (ugly) unofficial icons for some of the browsers (Opera for example)? :)

The Supermicro servers are really really great - one of the best investments I've done so far in 2012.

I bought mine (a Supermicro 2U Dual 3GHz Xeon 4GB 12 Bay Storage Server) for 400$ on eBay, with great service and terms. Recommended if you are ever in the need (or just want) a private server rack unit (1U, 2U or more).

A trend I've been seeing on HN recently is a sixth reason:

  6. Promotion

This is especially from technology firms which wants to get their brand out to their target group and also show off their knowledge in hip new technologies.

It's easy to spot them, since they often have a "Oh, and i forgot to tell you: 'We're hiring!'" at the end of the articles.

You are right, here is an interesting Quora post summing up the competitors: http://www.quora.com/Square-product/Who-are-some-competitors...

Answer-wiki pasted in for convenience:

«US only:

- Paypal Here ( https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader , US)

- Intuit Go Payment (http://gopayment.com/, US)

- Payware Mobile by Verifone ( http://www.paywaremobile.com/en , US)

- Phone Swipe (http://www.phoneswipe.com/, US)

Europe only:

- iZettle (http://izettle.com/ , Sweden, chipcard reader)

- Cellphony (http://www.cellfony.com/, FR, still in beta)

- iPay by PrivatBank (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ipay/id307368715?mt=8 , Ukrainia)»