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For a news organization that can be taken as a complement.

I criticize the Indian government all the time. But I find it strange that for my criticisms to be taken seriously I also have to criticize all other countries equally. I may be the most anti Indian p…

I notice that your comment has been downvoted, so lest you think so, it is not me. I followed your links, and what I found is this: A media corporation refuses to disclose a report on an internal inve…

From what I remember from posts on HN by Israeli citizens, but of ethnically non-Jewish background its not quite the clear picture you paint. Leaving aside Palestinian civilians who do not have recour…

True, but pick any notion and there would be some people who believe that. The question is whether the belief is correct or not. Correctness is hard to determine in the absolutes. It is a skill that a…

Not only that. Jewish people are not the only Semites. Arabs are Semites too. The word anti-semitic has totally lost all of its literal meaning, much like the word hacker.

Very nice discussion there. It surprises me that a non-trivial piece of code written in C can be verified. It might be of interest that BitC http://www.bitc-lang.org/ is being developed as a flexibl…

A less highlighted contribution of Turing is the Good-Turing estimator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%E2%80%93Turing_frequency_e... It is used for predicting the probability of occurrence of obj…

Oh its a minor quibble. I can text without looking at the keypad but here I would have to look at the screen. I probably should take back my confusing comment about drawbacks. About your other comment…

I am almost deaf, but only on one side. I was about to suggest the recent discussion on deafness on HN, then I realized you have commented there. I really loved that thread. Thanks for commenting on i…

Oh ! dont worry about that link, I guess the researchers let it expire and someone else grabbed it. This link would have more details http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ One can try it in one…

This is yet another post on text entry system targeted to (area) limited devices. Rather than posting it as a comment on an old thread I decided to make it into a standalone post. The video is long, b…

If one is interested in doing this optimally, it should be better to compile python code to javascript directly. Given similarities between the language, it is a doable proposition. For some construct…

Oh awesome, this must have been it. I conditioned myself for about 3 minutes and it is working now. Let me see how long that lasts.

This reminded me of a story about a course in MIT were the prof taught about visual perception. Maybe other HN'ers will be able to fill in the details. What was striking to me was how quickly the brai…

I think you nailed it in the last paragraph. Saving it for use later (with proper credits, ofcourse).

This http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html I think turns it on its head. Its trajectory was quite the opposite of Singh's libel lawsuit. Zenger side of Atlantic isn't any rosier. It was es…

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/mf_qa_singh/ Wired article about how the British Chiropractic Association went after Singh. Simon Singh: It would have meant that whenever somebody typed …

What I find quite ironic is that traffic lights happen to lie right in the centre of the most common form of color blindness: red-green color blindness.