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   by rspeer 13y ago

   Because people either don't know anything outside of the BMP exists, or they think astral characters are only for dead languages (they haven't had the dawning realization about emoji yet), or they use a programming language like J
2. 1622.▲
   by rspeer 13y ago

   Except most text isn't plain text. HTML pages in CJK are still smaller in UTF-8 than in their respective countries' favorite encodings.
3. 1623.▲
   by rspeer 13y ago

   What happened to sciencebasedmedicine.org? Does anyone else see an auto-generated placeholder spam page linking to "Naturopathic Nutrition", "Faith Healing", and "Homeopathic Treatment" when they go there?
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   Emoji are more common than hyphens(blog.luminoso.com)

   2 points by rspeer 13y ago|0 comments
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   by rspeer 13y ago

   I've never been able to get Readability-the-app to work on most sites. It seems far less useful than the original bookmarklet. I also don't want to send things to my "Reading List" or my imaginary Kindle.
6. 1626.▲
   by rspeer 13y ago

   My impression of Julia is it's what happens when Lisp people decide Python got some things right, and vice versa.
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   Ftfy 3.0 — makes Unicode text less broken(blog.luminoso.com)

   2 points by rspeer 13y ago|0 comments
8. 1628.▲
   by rspeer 13y ago

   Does the "+trace" example work for other people? For me, after it lists the 13 root servers, it pauses for a while and says ";; connection timed out; no servers could be reached". So is someone between me and these serve
9. 1629.▲
   by rspeer 13y ago

   The owner of sex.com got it by taking it over with a nasty lawsuit, not just by paying gazillions. Their lawyer was Charles Carreon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carreon ), who would later be disgraced and make
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    by rspeer 13y ago

    What a bizarrely, unapologetically biased article. There's probably room for debate on which cookies should be blocked by default, but you don't start that debate by insinuating that ad-blocking is illegal and Mozilla enjoys distr
11. 1631.▲
    by rspeer 13y ago

    This is cool. What's the source?
12. 1632.▲
    by rspeer 13y ago

    I'm not sure what the projection is (in particular, what's happening at the map edges), but Greenland appears to be the correct size. It is smaller than Australia, for example.
13. 1633.▲
    by rspeer 13y ago

    I have scrolled through hundreds of apparently dead serious comments to get here. Thank you. I'm just dumbfounded. I can't comprehend what is going on in this comment section. It seems quite clear to me that the HN community is being parodi
14. 1634.▲
    Show HN: Fixing common Unicode mistakes with Python — after they've been made(blog.lumino.so)

    4 points by rspeer 14y ago|0 comments
15. 1635.▲
    by rspeer 14y ago

    Interestingly, you capitalize the same way as the person who submitted the link, and both you and the submitter are new accounts.
16. 1636.▲
    by rspeer 15y ago

    I am, apparently, off by an order of magnitude. The streaming API gives you more like a million tweets per day. So this size of corpus would take you a couple of weeks to acquire if you watch the stream yourself. Which is still apparently n
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    by rspeer 15y ago

    Boston - Luminoso ( http://lumino.so ) We're looking for a Python developer with experience in natural language processing. We're a text understanding research and consulting company, spun out from the MIT Media Lab. Businesses accumulate l
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    by rspeer 15y ago

    Isn't this completely useless? You can download about 10 million tweets a day just by watching Twitter's basic streaming API. You don't have to sign anything, and you probably get them faster because you just keep one HTTP connection open.