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by vincvinc 12y ago
For that extra sense of perspective, trying opening one of the many cargo tracking apps and make them display all the ships in the world. http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml http://www.marin
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The No Man’s Land Between Like and Dislike(fundamentalinguist.wordpress.com)
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Over $57M Paid Out to Steam Workshop Creators(rockpapershotgun.com)
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How Chinese exchange students respond to criticism of their country (study)(insidehighered.com)
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by vincvinc 12y ago
Here's a start of what you need to know; http://paulmillr.com/posts/the-story-of-telegram/
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by vincvinc 12y ago
> not needing to keep grabbing my phone to see what's been said, is a great change for me. One that I was complaining about just the other day without realising this was around the corner. Just try, with some friends, to switch to
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by vincvinc 12y ago
They already are; French muslims made it the subject of the friday prayer and are all over the media condemning these actions as anti-islamic. https://twitter.com/StephaneArnaud_/status/55356335633938432...
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Hacked emails reveal China’s Internet propaganda machine(qz.com)
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The Sony and Charlie Hebdo attacks redefine who is doing the fighting(theatlantic.com)
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How Hollywood’s addiction to franchises changed movies in 2014(grantland.com)
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by vincvinc 12y ago
I submitted a very interesting Grantland article a few days ago that goes into exactly that (it failed getting HN attention, unfortunately). Just one look at those lists of upcoming releases and you can see what is happening to Hollwood rig
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How Hollywood’s toxic addiction to franchises changed movies forever in 2014(grantland.com)
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Google Just Took Its First Step Back into China(time.com)
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Why So Many Chinese Children Wear Glasses(businessinsider.com)
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by vincvinc 12y ago
Spotting the particulars of what people native to a different script do when using another is one of my hobbies. - East-asian students will have a hard time spotting typos even in important words as their own name - Even on designs with the
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by vincvinc 12y ago
Are you using Bing for the translations?
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by vincvinc 12y ago
inovo.nl > the startup developing this "in-egg" (in ovo) scan tech in the Netherlands (home of Unilever HQ)
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by vincvinc 12y ago
Additionally, Reddit's crowdsourced liveblog has more sources but no map. http://www.reddit.com/live/3rgnbke2rai6hen7ciytwcxadi
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Live map of Russia advancing into Ukraine(liveuamap.com)
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How One Woman Hid Her Pregnancy From Big Data(mashable.com)
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by vincvinc 13y ago
Here's hoping "who's hiring"-type of recurring threads get popular, they bring a new sense of community and value to HN IMO. They could all be organised on the same day, saving lots of time for those who don't want
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by vincvinc 13y ago
I agree with the you on the builder/construction pit and the air control examples. But don't underestimate what natural language can do for humans interfacing with computer systems. The file system example: "Computer, show me
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A word game to communicate in any language(youtube.com)
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by vincvinc 13y ago
This is maybe not obvious from the US, but the buzz in the EU media is staggering. Anecdata: I live in the Netherlands, and half of my whatsapp contacts switched to Telegram since yesterday. Lots of talk about privacy and discussions surrou
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4.95 million people signed up for Telegram today(twitter.com)
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China’s war on thought is being waged in Western universities(theconversation.com)
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by vincvinc 13y ago
> suggest it is doomed for failure Wait, I think we are missing his point. Last sentence of the article: "So let’s talk both about whether BitCoin is a bubble and whether it’s a good thing — in part to make sure that we don’t confu
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by vincvinc 13y ago
This is what I was thinking. I would totally get treatment to 're-open' my critical period and get cracking on some tonal languages!!
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by vincvinc 13y ago
Let me add a short side-note from the 'Natural Language' side of the table. TLDR: Comparing programming languages and human languages is a dangerous thing, not just because people differ from machines when being told to do somethi
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by vincvinc 13y ago
http://en.cookpad.com/ is looking for recipe translators.

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