skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because sign language is the most literal thing you can think of. If I look at someone and point to them, then point to someone else, what do you suppose that means? The only issue is local dialect/slang which is easy enough to figure out.

I asked someone who was studying ASL about the differences between sign languages. She pointed out that they do commonly have different signs which might be very abstract and non-literal, often because they arose in different schools for deaf people (or different regions with a very high incidence of deafness) in earlier eras.

However, some of the sign languages have some etymological relationship with one another, especially French Sign Language (LSF)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Sign_Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language#Classification

Those relationships might be something that reinforces the impression that all sign languages are inherently related, but there are also sign language isolates that don't have an etymological relationship to other sign languages (although if they've had later contact with other sign languages, they could have loan vocabulary or other contact influences).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sign_language_isolate...

Edit: I don't mean to suggest that people who know different sign languages couldn't communicate at all, but I expect that someone who knows one wouldn't be able to understand a signed conversation between native signers of an unrelated one.
First of all — no, it's an attention problem. I've used APC40 in a live performance once, but in live perfomance (where you play your own music in more or less pre-determined fashion), unlike the DJ set (where you play other people's music, changing the playlist dynamically according to the crowd), it's easier to manage. Apart from monitoring the crowd, searching the next track, marking it and pre-listening (because unless it's in the hundred or two hundreds of tracks you know by heart, you may not know what's the best point cue it it and how), playing with FX, letting the photographer park his backpack under your table, answering to some random question by the manager, you also should have some amount of your attention on reserve, so that when some unforeseeable shit happens, you won't butcher up the mix and people stay entertained.

Regardless, if you already want to group the "drummish" stems, then why would you want to deal with the separately in the first place?
I wonder if Graham was presented with the same problem today, will he pick a lisp and write everything from scratch or pick up a less "expressive" language because it has a strong and mature ecosystem of libs.
I've had good success around my house with cotton soaked in a combo of sugar, water and borax, then shielded from the pets by containing the cotton within a pair of used jar lids with holes poked in them. If that doesn't work, try peanut butter and borax.

Did this last year. The ants haven't even bounced back this year.
Thanks :)

I wonder if this has actually been implemented correctly...

Sudden revocation of a TLD will probably result in a sudden hammering of the CA's revocation servers too. I imagine an icky failure cascade is happening for some unfortunate user
Ask HN: What software do you use to manage website copy?
We're a team of 10, with 5 non-technical folks, and we need a better way to manage our website's copy (faq pages, feedback language, etc). Currently, we're using Google Docs and it's a nightmare
Good point, thanks! I've removed the footnote, and I'm going to rewrite that paragraph to steer away from Common Lisp a bit.

My point wasn't Clojure > Common Lisp. I was simply anticipating the "but npm has 200k modules" argument against Lisps in general and I wanted to illustrate why it doesn't matter if you're using Clojure.

It does seem like a somewhat valid case against Common Lisp, but I don't care and it detracts from my main point.
Is water really that expensive? has anyone in a developed area ever actually run out of water? Even in California, people are still flushing toilets every day. The obsession with water conservation doesn't seem like it's based on anyone actually ever having run out of water. For example, where does water actually go when it's "wasted?" Does it disappear?
I do get that.

But what if 23andme or Genentech starts selling people's data to health and life insurance firms? And maybe employers will want that data, just as they want credit reports etc.

There ought to be meaningful privacy protection, in my opinion.
I tend to agree. There is so much that SSL/TLS doesn't validate that I don't have a strong security expectation. The web server could be some pre-release accidentally pushed to production. The software I'm talking to on the other end could be bug central. The employees at the company could be untrustworthy. The site could be compromised. Someone could be sniffing traffic between frontends and backends ("SSL added and removed here! :-)")

All the lock icon says is "someone who made a request to the CA controls the other end of the connection". Usually this means you aren't being MITM'd by one of your ISP's or WiFi hotspot's ad insertion proxies. That's about it.

If the CAs start wanting to verify organization software engineering practices and issue different certificates based on the outcome of the audit, that's fine. But that's not my current expectation.
For everybody else who was wondering, .pw is Palau, a tiny island nation (pop. 17k) in Micronesia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pw

And apparently its sole decent hotel is smart enough to use a .com instead:

http://www.palauppr.com/default-en.html
There are in fact bad outcomes of continued memory growth - firstly there is a catastrophic performance degradation when processes start getting swapped to disk, then when swap space runs out Linux's OOM killer starts killing processes in an attempt to free up memory. Kind of surprised you didn't know this.
The form of the vaccine that allowed us to undertake global eradication was much newer:

"
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Leslie Collier, an English microbiologist working at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, developed a method for producing a heat-stable freeze-dried vaccine in powdered form.[50][51] Collier added 0.5% phenol to the vaccine to reduce the number of bacterial contaminants but the key stage was to add 5% peptone to the liquid vaccine before it was dispensed into ampoules. This protected the virus during the freeze drying process. After drying the ampoules were sealed under nitrogen. Like other vaccines, once reconstituted it became ineffective after 1–2 days at ambient temperatures. However, the dried vaccine was 100% effective when reconstituted after 6 months storage at 37 °C (99 °F) allowing it to be transported to, and stored in, remote tropical areas. Collier's method was increasingly used and, with minor modifications, became the standard for vaccine production adopted by the WHO Smallpox Eradication Unit when it initiated its global Smallpox Eradication Campaign in 1967
" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine
But depending on the language you intend to use, you may approach the problem from a different angle. A Lisp solution may look very different from a Python or C solution.
Orbitz tackled a hard technical problem with Common Lisp. I don't know if it was the "secret weapon", but it must have been fairly critical. They needed efficiency.

http://www.paulgraham.com/carl.html
Dolphins found a way to con a similar system:

"When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give to the trainer. After a fish reward, she goes back down, tears off another piece of paper, gets another fish, and so on."

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.scie...
"Petit began by recording pulses from a commercial Ibeo Lux Lidar unit. Discovering the pulses weren’t encoded or encrypted, he could simply use them at a later time to fool the unit into believing objects were there when they weren’t."

That appears to answer my longstanding question as to what might happen when multiple vehicles using lidar are on the road at the same time. (Pulse timing notwithstanding of course, but given enough cars and enough time it could be periodically problematic.)

However, regarding stopping a car with fake laser generated obstacles - that's nothing that can't be done with real "obstacles". A roll of paper or aluminium foil stretched across the road can't be discriminated from a solid object, and a a few empty cardboard boxes are as good as concrete blocks to a self driving car.

Or even just standing in the road yourself if you have sufficient faith in the technology.
There is also zippers
Wow, 1997... what the hell happened :-)
Sadly, I didn't have Remzi at UW although I heard he was a great professor. Our OS class used his book and I'd vouch for it in a heartbeat. Worth a read if you want digestible CS. I remember being most interested in the 'free' part as a broke college kid, but it turned out to be one of my favorite CS books.
A: Seems like they got it wrong here if that was indeed their reason. That alone is good enough to say no.

B: Criminal for who? I certainly don't want Geotrust deciding what's allowed. Does that mean they can e.g. block sites donating to Wikileaks?
Funny how the break through in AI is always 10 years ahead just like Nuclear Fusion.

And if you think POIs throwaway line in season 1 oh Shannon's law I found a way round that isn't as out there as warp drive you need to have a think.
Check out an actual lecture made by the same guy:

http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

It's amazing and I really wish all future science educational materials are like this.

His framework MathBox is a really great step in the right direction and I hope it's picked up for some future material. Imagine learning calculus or physics from this? It would be a snap! It really solves the visualization problem in math education. Now imagine building interactivity into it---the possibilities are endless.
I don't know, the HoloLens looks like the future...
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The Refugee Project: Interactive map of Refugee migrations since 1975
You don't need the Raspberry Pi to disable a human-driven one.
I love this inference from the data.

An examination of the histogram shows significant seasonal variations. The months July - October show higher than expected births and March - May show the most significant decline in births. Perhaps the most reasonable explanation is that conceptions are up in the months of October through January and down in June through August. You be the judge.

Wonder if HN has an explanation as to why :)
This project is using the phrase "system call" idiosyncratically / incorrectly: by it they mean "calls to the system() function", not "low-level OS facilities". POCO and ACE seem to be about actual system calls (network programming, threads, pipes, etc.) They're for very different purposes.

libcox is for when your existing code would do something like system("uname") or system("ls") (... except not even with system(), with popen() or something), and you want it portable to Windows.
In case you didn't see my edit, this behavior (revoke key pin if cert was revoked) is not in the standards, only proposed. The standards say the opposite.
You can have your cake and eat it. It's possible for Lisps to use library code in less expressive languages, such as C, via a variety of mechanisms (foreign function interface, extending the virtual machine, ...). If you want access to Java libraries, you can use Kawa, Clojure, or Armed Bear Common Lisp.
One checkbox equals non-UTC fun
Right, Martin Luther is probably a Mormon now ;)

To me, it's just funny. But maybe not to Lutherans?
Interactive Perceptron Training Toy
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this is super cool! but how do you track the position of the hand (like how far it is from the screen?).
Eh. We still know about people who didn't survive.

Survivorship bias is when you are only seeing the successes.
B: criminal in that country. If donating to Wikileaks was declared illegal in the US (it hasn't), then I'd be fine with Geotrust revoking certs for websites blatantly violating that.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]
Characterising a well know language as a "secret weapon" seems a little odd to me.
Who did the industrial design on these cars? What's the target market?

I love the tech, and I love the goal, but I might refuse to ride in one of these just because they look too retarded.

EDIT> This may seem frivolous, but I see it as a huge barrier to adoption. At least make them look cool, not like preschool toys.
Be careful with which Exchange servers you try offlineimap with. There was a severely bad interaction in Exchange with how offlineimap operates. Exchange used a global database with a small limit (I want to say 2^16) for unique message headers. Offlineimap injected unique headers for synchronization purposes. This quickly led to resource exhaustion and essentially blocked the server.
I think you're forgetting the 99% of internet users who are nowhere near computer-literate enough to make anything approaching not-insane decisions about who to trust. I'm not a fan of the CAs either, but trust is a really hard problem and surfacing it to people who would just as easily try to run viagra.exe on their Macs is unlikely to make the situation better.
In Australia, the standard is 20 days paid vacation per year.

There is usually a set amount of paid sick leave as well (think it various across industries, but there are legal minimums.) Most places do not require a doctor's certificate for two or less days sick, unless they are adjacent to a public holiday.

(I've never heard of anyone being able to substitute sick days while on vacation though.)
Doesn't Libya already have the keys? They can redelgate the zone and get a domain controlled cert. Or probably something more subtle with selective who is responses.
I think yours is the best response to these sorts of painful-to-read HN threads.
FYI, the main project is now located and maintained at [1]. Avery let someone else take over since he no longer had time for it [2].

[1] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sshuttle/jdTzJGjTDMg/IcQkCzb...
There's a solid trend to do that, Norvig wrote a lot of recent articles in python, colleges are replacing Java with it too. Lisp genes have spread so it's not as alternative as it used to be. That said, SBCL seems to have possibilities and performance unmatched by all the tiny trendy languages of the day (except for v8 maybe and lua maybe).
Randomly pointing lasers at vehicles is a good way to get shot. Just sayin' ;)
Not sure what the fusion reference is supposed to convey. ITER is making slow but forward progress, and novel reactor designs are still being actively investigated worldwide. Fusion is clearly possible and will surely be the primary power source for humanity one day.

I'm not really interested in what some random tv show has to say about AGI. Why would that be relevant?
That movie had a terrible marketing campaign but I thought it was a really good sci-fi movie.
The presentation worked better in Opera (Chromium) for me. I got a laptop with Intel HD 3000 graphics.
Unfortunately convergence is dead for 4 years now with no updates. Do you know if that's just enthusiasm running out, or was there some serious issue with the service?
Watch how presidential motorcade doubles a neighborhood’s traffic in an instant
You can disable a human driven car the same way, and you don't even need the Raspberry Pi.
Human-driven cars can also be disabled with a laser pointer to the eye of the driver.

http://www.livescience.com/21707-lasers-eye-damage.html
Not necessarily. Average wage in India is Rs 3000/mo (~$44) and you can get a perfectly decent single room at a guesthouse for under Rs 500 ($7) -- although at this price range the quality of the room will be a total crapshoot, which is precisely why this is such a great idea.

On the other hand, if you want a 100% guaranteed Western branded hotel experience, you'll pay through the nose for it. Back when I was working in Delhi, 4-star-ish hotels charged $400/night and up and the Trident Hilton in Gurgaon was $700.
I doubt this. Looking at some stuff done in C - a ton of time is simply wasted shuffling bytes around and fixing the resulting memory issues.

If your point is that language alone isn't gonna decide much, that's probably mostly right. FB used/uses PHP. Harry Potter was written on pen and paper. I don't think either is much of an argument about tools.
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Fun article, but it was missing a little bit that took me a minute to get. So if you're already familiar with fourier transforms, this might be the missing piece to this article:

Multiplication of polynomials when expressed in the domain of "array of coefficients" is a convolution operation: really you're summing (AB)_k = sum_{i=0}^k A_i B_{k-i} to find the kth coefficient of the result. The indices for B go backwards to those of A and they add up to the fixed quantity k, so we're just looking at a discrete convolution of these two arrays.

And what does Fourier Transform do? It turns convolutions into point-wise multiplication in the 'time' domain. The convolution started as an n^2 operation but the point-wise multiplication is n, so we're left with the FFT time of n log n. So this is another instance of the "formulate problem as a convolution, FFT, perform point-wise multiplication in the time domain, inverse FFT, done" class of algorithms.

(I got stuck a while trying to figure out how polynomial multiplication is convolution. Literally it's point-wise multiplication of two functions, not a convolution, so everything seemed backwards.)
"Google, Uber and even Apple’s potential self-driving car can all be foiled..."

So two cars that haven't even been seen in public yet - one of which might not even exist - can be foiled by this technique?

Might be true, might not be - no way for anyone involved in this story to know though. Is this really what passes for journalism now?

In fact, according to the article, this was never even tested on an actual autonomous car's software - he just spoofed a commercial LIDAR system and extrapolated from there.
I suspect that the lidar signals could be modulated in the same way that cell phone signals are, so that a population of cars can share a single laser wavelength without confusing one another.
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/xzhg3v/the-colbert-report-meet...
This is approach is great for greenfield development, but when it comes to software maintenance I find myself having to think in terms of the target language so that I can formulate the right long-term solution for the codebase in question.
The design is very much intentional. A huge barrier to adoption for self driving cars is perception of safety; Google wanted a car that looks safe not dangerous.
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What if it is declared illegal by the DOJ and declared legal by one of the lower level courts, and there is an appeal by the DOJ? Is it legal or illegal then?
Does Geotrust then accept full legal responsibility of guaranteeing that the contents of a site is legal in the US? If we find cp on a site with a Geotrust SSL certificates, will we send the Geotrust board to prison for it? If the answer is no, then they cannot do what you said.
The car pictured is one that drives Google employees from the parking garage to the front door, if memory serves. It's not for sale to consumers.
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That statement jumped out at me as ridiculous. Of course conceptions are up in those months if there is increased frequency of births 9 months later. That's not an "reasonable explanation" of the data so much as a restatement of it...
No, there are (rare) devs who are not assholes about their IP, and will overlook small-scale non-profit work or at least act like humans instead of robo-lawyers when they approach "infringing" developers.

Blizzard has a legal right to be dicks about their IP, but that doesn't make it morally correct. We've refused to let IP holders set the narrative with regard to DRM; let's not do it here.
So use F#'s dynamic typing parts? Or make everything obj and cast away? Unless most solutions don't work with types then it seems that you're better off having them in the language and using escape hatches as necessary.
Let's encrypt it's starting to issue the first certificates[1].

Hopefully dealing with bad CAs will be a thing of the past.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/2015/08/07/updated-lets-encrypt-laun...
GINA prohibits them from selling it to health insurance firms or employers.

Not life insurance firms, yet, though.
I'm not worried because I don't see how the replication part would work without us noticing.

Imagine the first singular computer: lots of custom hardware hooked up together in a datacenter. We'll be able to control it and notice if it's trying to play tricks on us.

I'll worry about the singularity once we detect one super-computer trying to trick us. Then we can start treating it like a virus and contain it.
This wasn't even a single site - it was an entire TLD that got revoked. There's no excuse for that kind of action unless the private key for that TLD was compromised.

Breach notification in 3..2..1...
>Who did the industrial design on these cars? What's the target market?

No one did the industrial design. It isn't a product, it is a prototype to test a technology.
I remember reading about this:
http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/13/snabb-switch-skip-...
Last Halloween on my commute home, someone on a hill had one of those super strong green laser pointers and got me right in the face. Can confirm.
It looks like a kindergarten toy. Perhaps they should have made it look like an Escalade if they were going for the perception of safety?