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This is it! Thank you!

Tangentially related: Does anyone remember the name of this startup/service that was on HN (I believe), that enables you to infer actions from plaintext.

Eg: "Switch on the lights" becomes

{"action": "switch_on", "thing" : "lights" }

etc.. I'm trying really hard to remember the name but it escapes me.

Speech recognition and <above service> will go very well together.

That sounds pretty cool! Do you happen to remember the name of this app?

This looks really great. I just wanted to point out that the "Write a Post" feature doesn't seem to work. I wrote a test entry and clicked save, it says:

    Sorry, something went wrong. Please try again.

I apologize if it sounded that way, but I wasn't insinuating that I'm going to get into trouble.

I'm just saying that it could get someone into trouble.

As far as the "logging" goes, it had more to do with the word porn in the title of the page, because many content-filters just parse the title for blacklisted words.

I appreciate the effort the mods take in curating titles, I really do - but please spare articles like this at least?

I clicked on this link at work (part-time at grad-school) and now I have a "how to run a pornographic website faster" link logged in my name.

This looks really awesome. Also, you should check out Republia Times, one of the author's other games - you're the editor of the major newspaper in some country, and the pieces you put on the front page determine the mood of the people etc. It's a really cool game : http://dukope.com/play.php?g=trt

This is OT: I've always wanted to take a crack at a couple of problems/semi-thought-experiments I came up with:

1) Find the verified Twitter account followed by minimum number of users - This is easy, since Twitter maintains an official list of verified accounts at https://twitter.com/verified/following . We could iterate over this list, and find the minimum.

2) Find the maximum-followed non-verified Twitter account. Now this is a harder problem. Does anyone have any ideas apart from brute-forcing Twitter handles?

Hi pattle - I know exactly what/how you're feeling - I stutter as well, and am currently interviewing.

The biggest problem of stuttering during interviews is not the stuttering itself, but rather the break in the train of thought while brainstorming answers to interview questions.

First off - phone interviews are a nightmare for me - and I almost always fail to make an impression - because of the several ticks I produce while trying not to stammer.

I used to think I would do better at face-to-face interviews, since I can at least write on the whiteboard. Every piece of interview advice I've read says that one should keep speaking while thinking during an interview, and not just be silent and think - which is how I work best, because my brain is freed from the burden of speaking correctly.

When I 'speak while thinking of solutions', my brain automatically starts focusing on being careful about not stammering, and that really hurts my ability to focus on solving the questions - which are quite difficult in the first place.

One solution that's partially helped: I know that many stutterers are much better off when saying something semi-rehearsed, whether it be a phrase like, "So the brute force solution is _____ " or whatever. My brain goes into mechanical mode while saying this phrase, giving it more time to actually think.

I've never revealed to interviewers that I have a stutter (even though they would probably suspect that by the end of the interview), but I guess you should consider what edw519 says in the top comment.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions.

This is aside the point of your blog post, but IMO it is entirely unreasonable to assume that you'll receive a digital download when you've bought a software on DVD.

I'm a huge proponent of DRM-free and open software. But think about this: It just happened to be that you were dealing with Adobe, who have the resources to make huge digital downloads available. What if the software on your DVD was made by a small company who can't afford to host multi-gigabyte downloads? When you bought the DVD, it was with an explicit assumption that you could use the DVD in a DVD drive.

Finally, yes, customer-service chats suck (except for Amazon - I continue to be amazed by how awesome their service is), and calling a company up is almost always more effective.

What do you mean by "may exist"?

     Failed! "asdjoiqndiqnw09d21eh09n20dnqdqddqw" may exist, try another name 

Nobody will believe me, but I just came to post this. Experienced programmers have so much to offer to young programmers.

I even came up with a name for it - progrAMA

The OP has said that he doesn't want to be outed publicly just yet - it would be great if you could remove this.

I replied to @steveklabnik's tweet saying (https://twitter.com/hardikr/status/293819210965082113)

    "There's also a search command. It's like grep, but with replace's syntax, and slower!" Wow - I'm sold!

Nick - Congrats on finishing a game - that's the biggest hurdle most developers face. It's great that you have such an awesome headstart. Keep at it and you should be a pretty good programmer by the time you get into college.

EDIT: Obviously, not to say you're not good right now.

Congratulations! It's always great to read about new programmers.

I knew it was an ad. But, I wouldn't be surprised if a professional soccer player could pull that off. Also, could you tell me why you think it is "obviously fake"?

I'm more of a soccer fan, and there's this video of a famous soccer player Ronaldinho doing the "crossbar challenge" - from about 30-40 yards out, he repeatedly hits the crossbar with a soccer ball, only to have it come back to him. The precision required to pull of such a feat is just mind boggling. http://youtu.be/KNwLn85I75Y?t=1m25s

The MPEG-4 facial animation standard is quite bandwidth-efficient. I don't think any apps currently use it.

This is a great recap! A really useful addition would be the inclusion of the discussion threads of the articles.

I've always used the words "I don't know". My mother kept telling me she hated hearing those words. I can imagine that she was pissed that I didn't take a guess, but guess what? I hate guessing! I hate making decisions and jumping to conclusions based on partial knowledge.

Almost every environment I've been in - whether it be high-school or grad-school, a corporate setup, a startup,; I've found that "I don't know"/"I didn't get you" goes a long way. The other person in the picture usually goes out of their way to make me understand what I'm missing.

This may not be a popular decision, but I chose to attend grad school. I now think that was the best decision I ever made.

This is fantastic news. I think this qualifies Github as a complete blogging engine now, with the plethora of static site generators available.

Thanks. That clarifies it up a bit. So could this summit result in a real threat to net neutrality?

I'm pretty sure I'm exposing my extreme ignorance on the matter, but how does the ITU have the authority to take decisions like this? Shouldn't W3 have a say? Or somebody else?

I personally use Jekyll for my own blog - because I spent a lot of hours setting it up, and now it just works.

However, for my homepage[0], I use Asciiweb[1], a - As a fan of ASCII art, I'm really happy with it. It's great for a static homepage, though not that great for blogging.

It uses a custom markup language that supports a couple of great features: optional per-page configuration, executing scripts through a nifty <exec> tag, and the script's output is placed in the web page. I use this to run a BSD fortune script[2]!

[0] http://www.hardikr.com

[1] http://tastytronic.net/asciiweb/aw.cgi

[2] http://www.hardikr.com/aw.cgi?main=fortune.rfk

Disclaimer: I am not a security expert.

2fa is a great tool to have, but it is what it says it is - just a second factor. And if your password is weak, your GMail account is just as secure as your second factor is. What if your phone is stolen, and the adversary manages to get hold of your Google password? Having a second factor should not encourage you to use easy/weak passwords.

Also, regarding your quest for a more memorable password, there has been a huge debate about this, but your password can be strong and memorable at the same time. As this xkcd comic[1] explains, and further discussions on Security.Stackexchange[2] and MetaFilter[3], such long passwords such as "correct battery horse staples" are good (although a smaller key space - but you could increase that by substituting e with 3, 1 with ! etc, although this technique is common enough to be known by adversaries), and are about as strong as something like h@CK3RZ@(!@WP*

Personally, my passwords use the above technique, with a combination of pop-culture references and something about the account to which the password belongs, with a few special characters here and there. And since you say you only need to remember only the password to your Google account, it should be relatively easy to remember just one very complex password.

[1] http://xkcd.com/936/

[2] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/xkcd-936-sh...

[3] http://ask.metafilter.com/193052/Oh-Randall-you-do-confound-...

Pardon my stupidity, but how would one go about getting an IP address for a server installed at home? Is it a static IP address provided by my ISP, or something else ?

I finally got mine. When you have successfully added the phone to your cart, use this

    var j = 0;var i = setInterval(function(){document.forms[1][1].click();j++;j>600 && clearInterval(i)}, 1000);

I love this feature, and have been using it for a while.

Off topic, but a similar feature exists in Pinboard (https://pinboard.in). You can select some text on the page before clicking bookmark, and that gets set as the description of the page in the bookmark. It's a pretty handy feature if the page title is not enough to describe what the page is about.