skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with an inertial-scrolling trackpad it doesn't scroll well.
Is that VPN setup an "always on"-able setup so that iOS just routes traffic through it without having to manually switch on the VPN client? I run the VPN server bundled with OS X Server and I haven't been able to achieve that.
C++ is not a scripting language. Give me a scripting language that does that so I can research and compare.
Wow, yes, dark theme huge letters, so simple, so nice, how most people get it wrong? And then... white wall of light almost gets me blind.
I'm not sure where you are getting those numbers. It's very difficult to calculate the costs in human lives of all the drugs that won't be invented in the future.

Lots of people are already dying of antibiotic resistant bacteria, for example, and that's a problem likely to get worse over time.
And here are the two discussing it today: https://twitter.com/ChancellorFolt/status/636306368861966341
In the example he listed each note goes either up or down one note to the next chord.
Something that is hard to mention but is worth knowing is that Hawking is not at the leading edge of his field.
You'll have a real hard time with Slavic languages. ;)

Trying to add all the things you missed meanwhile.
Doubling every two years, we will have brain power in a single rack in 13 years, and a brain sized box in less than 20.
And this is relevant to Hacker News because...
And here I thought I was up to date on gamedev-related libs in CL... Thanks for the list!

At first look the list may look very opinionated ("use XYZ and just XYZ, forget about anything else"), but I understand the CL world has a bit of a discovery problem - it's often hard to tell e.g. which library is stable, and which is stabl-ish (e.g. made good enough for basic cases and then abandoned). Promoting top-of-the-line tools seems like something the community needs right now.
I found this bit in your post interesting: "kdbus (which was called “neutered Mach IPC” by Neal Walfield)" - does that mean mach ipc provides typed interface registration / binding between userland processes? I admit, I know very little about mach and thought it was for kernel/user-space communication only (both directions)
True, they really should stop acking when they hit the window limit.
Lisp is magic :). Apparently things related to it also get enchanted.

EDIT: yes please for the easy format. Would gladly read it in Emacs, navigating it with Paredit :).
I don't see how Pharmaceutical companies can exist without IP protections, unless you're willing to publicly fund the entire development cycle.

For the vast majority of drugs the cost of producing the tablet you take is just a few cents, which is dwarfed by the amortized cost of the R&D. Nobody is going to spend on R&D if competitors can skip that part and go right to production.
Netmap is cool (and proves that you don't have to be 100% userspace to get good performance), but it's basically packet I/O. Most programs want sockets, not packets.

IX https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/... and Seastar http://www.seastar-project.org/ have revisited the socket API to provide high-level high-performance networking.
Human non-verbal signals in the wild
It's not just incompetence - the VPN can connect and authenticate, but all actual traffic is blocked.

SSH also works properly, and I can use a SOCKS proxy over that.
> These are not consumer-oriented products.

PC-BSD certainly is. openSUSE arguably is (while it has quite a few enterprise features, it has plenty of consumer features, too, especially when paired with KDE or GNOME). Kubuntu certainly is. KDE certainly is.

And we haven't even gotten into the other consumer-oriented operating systems that don't compromise privacy to the same degree as Ubuntu+Unity, iOS, Android, or (now) Windows. I haven't even mentioned Linux Mint (with Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, or Xfce), which is certainly consumer-oriented (it sure as hell ain't enterprise-oriented, in my experience). Then there's ElementaryOS, PCLinuxOS, Mepis, Vector, GhostBSD, AmigaOS, RISC OS... the list goes on. Said list goes on even further once you factor in some more experimental - yet still designed to be consumer-oriented - systems, like Haiku and ReactOS. As far as I know, zero entries on this here list have fallen into the trap of siphoning user data by default.
I use Verizon pre-paid, and tethering is included free. You can add-on data-packs that roll-over for up to three months as needed, and I use a LittleSnitch profile to curtail things like backup services and other heavy-data use services when I'm tethered.
The $10 billion in that scenario isn't worth any more than ~$3 is today, so it's not actually as lucrative as it sounds. :) Plus because there's hyperinflation happening, the $10 billion you sold your bread for may not be enough to even buy a cup of flour tomorrow, so it's actually worse than owning a bread factory now. It would be better to keep the bread, which will be worth $25 billion tomorrow, except that bread goes bad eventually. So instead of holding bread, you hold assets that don't lose value over time. You don't want to get caught holding this hyperinflating cash because it devalues so quickly. So either you trade your assets directly for other things that you need, or use a different currency that isn't going crazy.
I don't know what you're talking about. When a judge writes his or her findings of fact, it details his justifications for his determinations. If you want his internal thought processes, I don't think a machine can help you there. A machine can't think. It can only decide a flowchart set of rules, something that won't work in a criminal court setting. You can't go lenient on someone who deserves it, or hard one someone who doesn't, which is the whole role of "justice". This is a justice system we have in the US, not a vengeance system.
There are a bunch of contract renewals coming up in a couple months (including mine, which I've been on the fence about, and now I have an excuse to switch carriers).

I wonder whose bright idea it was to roll this out now.
People always think that, and it's rarely true. I don't see any indication it's true now.
New editor brings option to add attachments and inline images
Ask HN: Process Echecks?
Hi HN,

I know platforms like braintree and stripe let you process credit cards with ease. Does anyone know any companies doing the same thing for echecks?
love it

feature request: allow me to set the period length, or an on off button

sometimes i wanted to really bathe in the sounds
'Tinfoil hat' and 'conspiracy theorist' are just debate-stopping names thrown around.

This is obviously true because anyone who tries to introduce an idea typically feels compelled to put a disclaimer 'I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but' as a leader.

The same pattern appears whenever whole topics of discussion are regarded as not allowed. It's the unmistakable signature of a move by someone to shut down debate using labels over arguments.
Yeah, actually. Though, I'd still include the cast to int, because I need to sort numerically, not lexicographically.

I suppose the lesson is that if you want to preserve line order, you need to use -raw to prevent Get-Content (cat) from splitting the file into multiple lines. That still ruins the output text from Compare-Object (diff), but it's cleaner than fc.exe.

Thanks.
The laws of physics conserve information in that sense that two initially distinct states will always remain, at least in principle, distinguishable for all times, i.e. two distinguishable states A and B will never evolve into the same state C. This is equivalent to the statement that the laws of physics are time reversible, i.e. if you would end up in state C you could not tell whether the system came from state A or B.

If you, for example, start a pendulum with different initial displacements the pendulum will always end up at rest due to friction but if you could take into account the exact states of all the molecules in the air and the joint and so on you could in principle figure out in which exact positions you started the pendulum.

You could actually just very precisely measure the temperature of a pendulum in a box and infer the initial displacement from that because different initial displacements imply different initial (potential) energies and therefore different final temperatures after all the energy became thermal energy and everything in the box had time to reach the equilibrium temperature. You just couldn't figure out whether the pendulum was started to the left or to the right of the rest position with this method.
serious question - now that github natively supports ipython is there any reason to link to nbviewer ?
It also means that eventually the courts will throw the book at him XD
I often quarrel over the term "real life" and prefer "offline" for much the same reasons. There is offline/online but both are "real life".
I stand corrected! I do recall the other exchanges being about $200 below Mt. Gox ... though they still tracked its blatantly fraudulent prices.
where are you based out of?
>just how much you've been brainwashed

A lot. Some examples are readily available in the comments.

Still, the seeds found fertile soil of people whose whole life was a failure so now their standards are drastically lowered. I'm not sure this is fixable, imagine the whole country of people with childhood trauma, this is not much different but followed by adulthood trauma as well.
A Simple Proposal for Improving Security for the Internet of Things
What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure?
Yes, there's even examples that are very recent or still ongoing: Ukraine (Right Sector/Svoboda/Azov being the extremists, Poroshenko the 'moderate'), and Syria - although that one backfired.
The GitHub rendering engine for Ipython notebooks does not support mobile devices (oddly) and it does not support custom CSS/plugins, although this notebook does not utilize any of the latter.
When J Dilla Said “Fuck the Police”
Free markets are about freedom of choice in participation - freedom to create a business, take or leave a job, freedom to product or buy the products you want. It's about economic freedom.

That the CIA interfered with things doesn't change the fact that people are still free to do those things. You could argue about whether people really free to not buy a diamond ring to announce an engagement or not, in the same way the CIA has been influencing and financing operations. But the fact of the matter is there is no state actors forcing you to do such things.
A friend of mine had been asking for me to build something like this for a while so I pointed him to it. It looks great, the one additional feature that my friend was interested in (and really is an edge use case) is to do perfect pitch training with multiple arbitrary notes. He does a lot of jazz improvisation and so being able to identify multiple arbitrary notes in unison is pretty important for him.

Great work!
Unfortunately, not available for all devices. That is incredibly weird, any idea why that might be the case?

I'd definitely like to use an app like this, and couldn't find any info via searching as to why it's not available on all devices.
Works fine for me in Firefox on OSX, scrolling with a macbook trackpad. Maybe it's using something that doesn't work well cross-platform?
Hawking has done public outreach, he also has worked on an origin of the universe that doesn't involve God that has the universe create itself based on his atheism.

I speak about the Higgs Boson and it creating matter and energy out of nothing, which violates the laws of thermodynamics. The so called God Particle. The one they are trying to find at CERN in the super collider, and have only found Higgs impostors instead. Hawking argues in the early universe it was possible to create something out of nothing. But can't explain what created the Higgs Bosons that created the Big Bang and all matter and energy in the universe.

This all goes back to Einstein arguing with quantum mechanics scientists. General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are incompatible. When you combine the two you get a lot of singularities. The standard model of Physics is broken until both sides can be made compatible. But neither side will admit to anything being wrong.

From the way it was explained to me a black hole is a wormhole where one of the sides is zero in diameter, going nowhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole

I think Einstein argued that the diameter cannot be zero. If true then black holes don't exist as we think they do, and matter and energy from the singularity slowly leaks out the smaller end that is not zero but infinitesimal and located somewhere else in space/time so we cannot observe it. All Hawking can observe is the evaporation of the black hole into nothing, in this theory he cannot see the leak at another part in space/time that could be in the past or future where the information, matter, and energy leaks out.

Remember that science is about the observable universe and what we can observe. Once something goes into a black hole, we cannot observe it anymore. That is why math models are made and theories are made about what happens.

Hawking did a great amount of work, but some of his theories violate the laws of thermodynamics which makes them controversial. It is why he has critics, and it is why he has to make corrections about his theories when proven wrong.
One of the most recent corporate mishaps I've learned of is Microsoft Nokia calling their phone "Lumia", when in Spain "lumi" or "lumia" is an informal word to mean "prostitute".

Your app doesn't reflect that. I was going to say that you need to source slang dictionaries, but this one is in the Diccionario de la Real Academia:

http://buscon.rae.es/drae/srv/search?val=lumia

And even in the first random online bilingual dictionary Google threw up:

http://diccionario.sensagent.com/lumi/es-en/

So maybe do a bit of scraping/spidering of multilingual dictionaries, starting with your collected list of bad words?
That Coursera link should be https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

The first course happens regularly, while "part 2" has been "2 months away" for at least a year now.
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good to know - thank you!
What do you mean "networks disconnect" and "hardware fails"? I have no idea what you're talking about.
Then just don't go to those meetings. Problem solved.
I took Lexapro (Escitalopram) around 2010, for 6 months. It's an SSRI, like Prozac, Zoloft or Paxil.

My experience was an "evening out" of my emotions. If my normal emotional range was 1-10, Lexapro put me between 3 and 8 all the time. Gone were the 1's and 2's (the very low/depressed feelings) but so were the 9's and 10's (the elation / joy). Everything in my life was "okay". Not great, not terrible, just okay.

I don't think it effected my productivity at all, one way or the other. The only drawback I experienced (besides losing joy), was that it somehow screwed up my ability to sense fullness/satiety, so I gained a bunch of weight.

If you think you might be depressed, definitely talk to a professional. Remember (and this is key): the drugs don't actually solve anything. You're still going to have to learn how to deal with whatever issues you have. The drugs just stabilize you so that it's possible for that hard work to begin; but that's really just the beginning of the journey. They're not a long term solution.
What I could find:

https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/issues/3311

http://blog.ionic.io/angular-2-ionic/

It will happen but no solid ETA. Would be nice to find the code.
When it comes to people overstaying their visas, I think the government wants them to leave. But they get barred from coming back, so the government wants to know about it, and they also want to track people leaving on time so they can know who's staying too long and hasn't left yet.
I imagine it might come down to how much money the airline is willing to put into the necessary infrastructure. Paranoid security changes after 2001 might also have shut that sort of thing down.
No, we got popup blocking built into browsers about a decade ago. Similarly, intrusive advertising is driving flashblocking and indeed total ad-blocking.

(Currenltly struggling with the fact that Plume for Android is nice to use - except when ads bounce you out of the app without being clicked on, sometimes over and over again)
A Pessimist, an Optimist and an Ad-man are standing around a new born infant. The Optimist says "Two more hands to work". The Pessimist says "One more mouth to feed". The Ad-guy says "Eyeballs"
i initially thought this was an article about vice shutting down. then i imagined a universe where it was gawker shutting down, and for one brief moment i knew true joy.
Startup Wants Better IoT Radios
Aw, they were about to show a close-up of the bar!
here you go: https://www.crypto101.io/
does that mean mach ipc provides typed interface registration / binding between userland processes?

Yes, practically all Mach subsystems other than virtual memory have ports implicitly created for them. This includes tasks (address spaces) and threads (units of CPU time), which together form processes.
The National Socialists were socialists in that they wished to control the means of production. State takeover was not part of that (as in the Soviets case) but new state-run industries (e.g. Volkswagen) were very much a part of that. The National Socialists controlled the economy through price setting and out put setting. Ostensibly the businesses were still privately owned - but if you can't control your prices, your output, or enter a new market, how much ownership do you really have? The same went for Labour unions - independent Labour unions were undermined to promote nationalised Labour unions, for the same purposes. The purpose is to centralise control of the entire nation for the purposes of planning the economic direction and output.

The big difference between National Socialists and International Socialists was that the former wished to strengthen their economy/people through careful curation of the economy and nation, whereas international socialists wished to replace private ownership everywhere (communism), and most promoted revolution as a means to that end.

I agree with you entirely that most people fall back on the 'no true scotsman' fallacy to disassociate their ideology with Hitler and the Nazis. What has always been curious to me is that people still identify with USSR socialism despite Stalin and the Soviets being equally as abhorrent as Hitler and the Nazis.
It is true that this is an artificial test, but it seems to me that doing well at this is a necessary prerequisite to do well at more complex scenarios.

It's worth noting that these tests were introduced by Jason Weston[1] as "A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks"[2]

Also, they didn't report the accuracy on any of the other 18 tasks. That makes me believe that they did pretty badly on those.

Weston's work on Memory Networks has "solved" (or at least shown a good way forward) on 16 of those other tasks. These were the two that were furthest away from being solved (See [2], again). The remaining 2 look like they will fall to Memory Networks with some work.

[1] http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05698
Heh. Two immediate comments:

- It's not as bad as that. Chebyshev approximation + other techniques for evaluating mathematical functions are pretty easy to learn.

- You're absolutely right. Welcome to mathematics! The mountain goes infinitely high. There are tons of technical papers I'll never be able to digest simply because they've compressed lots of thoughts into cryptic-looking but standard notation.
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That was the first thing I attempted to search for and the output from the site is:

Spanish: did you know that the popular anecdote about the Chevrolet Nova is an urban legend? Google for "snopes nova".

It's a nice detail.
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I think Wiktionary is a great and underutilized resource. Fairly good coverage, free, and easily amendable. There is in fact an entry for lumia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lumia#Spanish

It's actually the basis for a site called The Alternative Dictionaries which features "colorful extracts": http://www.alternative-dictionaries.net/
> That is still a large enough number to matter for a startup where those make or break growth & retention numbers matter.

I disagree. I work at one of said startups, and we have dropped support for IE9 and below. We figure the 50+% increase in productivity (directly translated into new features, speed improvements, etc.) is well worth it.
This is an underappreciated concern regarding spy agencies. What difference do laws that prohibit domestic surveillance make if spy agencies can just enter reciprocal agreements to share data?

If you're running an agency in the US that can't spy on Americans, you can make a deal with a similarly bound agency in the UK - they get your UK data, you get their US data, and you have all the US data you want even if you didn't collect it.
Nuremberg: A Fair Trial? A Dangerous Precedent (1946)
Don't get me wrong, this is kinda fun. But... I don't think a Blue Moropho butterfly is mimicking a chunk of bismuth.
A funny page that might be support for point ⑥ is

https://web.archive.org/web/20071112172929/http://members.ao...

If you can take an arbitrary word and find a coincidental homophonous synonym (or antonym) in some other language, you can probably find a coincidental homophonous expletive or sexual reference in some other language too!

(These coincidences are not cognates -- that's part of what "coincidence" means here.)
You'd have to say that - yes, there is such a thing.

But gaining momentum and power requires money and leadership. Unless a grassroots movement can create those things themselves - which would be quite rare - inevitably a true grassroots movement is going to be co-opted by someone seeking to use their popularity. Thus the origins of the movement are always likely to be questioned by the opponents, because plenty of evidence of funding and leadership are going to appear. Placing them in a chronological order to determine the 'grassrootedness' of the movement is going to be tricky, unless someone kept very careful notes. Which is also very unlikely.
I heard that on Facebook, more people "liked" a pickle than the band Nickleback. So maybe an iron bar for President isn't so far fetched...