skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup - you can download 60 days of ride history from clippercard.com if you register your card. Tracks every tag (so entry only on Muni/AC Transit/VTA, entry/exit on BART and Caltrain).
I can understand Temple's decision to put him on leave, but stripping away his chairman title seems like too far. Either Xi resigns or appoint an interim chairman until the end of the trial would be a better option IMO. So far, I haven't seen statement from Temple.

By the way, there is another charge against another Chinese-born U.S. professor (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3227518/Renowned-U-S...). In this case the "evidences" so far seems very strong against the professor from the public opinion, at least raising suspicious. Of course, his fate remains unknown until the court decides.
My telephone has a nice "hold" button that close the mic and place music to the caller. In similar cases, I just ask "Can you wait me for a minute?" and when they answer "yes" I just put them in hold :) .
Just a note this has ZERO to do with decentralized computing, which is probably a more popular topic nowadays.
I've got a startup idea. We design and build self-driving cars that tirelessly roam the streets to find the self-driving cars of all our competitors and crash into them until all the other self-driving-car companies pay us a ransom to stop all the 'self-driving-car accident' news stories.
> In July it had its best month ever, surpassing $100,000 in monthly revenue for the first time

Is this revenue going to Unbabel or just passing through to the translator?

(See #6 here: http://a16z.com/2015/08/21/16-metrics/)
Any scientific studies to back that claim?

Sure, let me count them... OMG "It's Over 9000!!!"

PS: Ask a dumb question... http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/It's_Over_9000!
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Yeah, but wouldn't it really be a different crime anyway? I mean, state A would charge you for ripping off people in state A, state B would charge you for ripping people off in state B. Two, presumably disjoint, sets of people.
> Separately from the "lining things up" argument, though, there's an argument to be made for characters in any editing situation to be wider, even if they're not all the same width.

Have a look at Input [1]: a TrueType font built for coding, with somewhat-wide I and l and super-wide punctuation marks.

The issue is one of picking the right font, not of monospace vs. not - street signs, for example, have long used different fonts from printed pages, since they demand high accuracy and fast recognition of short chunks of text at long distances, as opposed to the pleasant long-reading experience demanded from most body fonts. Most systems just happen to have built-in variable-width fonts that are terrible for coding.

[1] [http://input.fontbureau.com]
If parts for your prototype are around $150, most conventional electronic product pricing wisdom would put this at around $600-$750 retail.
FYI I've made a set of redux middleware for executing and composing effectful actions:

http://github.com/redux-effects/redux-effects

Which makes it dead simple to write universal apps and keep all your functions pure. Would love to get some feedback on it from people who are into this stuff.
In TXR Lisp:

$ txr -i
1> (defvarl brackets '("(" ")" "[" "]" "<" ">")))
brackets
2> [brackets (range 0 : 2)]
("(" "[" "<")
3> [brackets (range 1 : 2)]
(")" "]" ">")

range generates lazy list of integers with a step size (the colon symbol defaults the second upper bound argument so the list is infinite). A list of integers can be used in the brackets notation to select elements. Put the two together and you have spaced selection.

Regarding defvarl, there is defvar too; defvarl means that the symbol is not marked special and so rebindings are lexical. Often, it is overkill for a global variable to support rebinding. We just pollute the symbol with the special marker and then have to namespace it or put earmuffs on it just in case, even though it is ever used that way.
The Web Is Too Rich
...but since GPU's already exist, they kind of are the "already at large scale production" solution to the problem. For very little money you can get some pretty insane single precision throughput for SIMD calculations.

What you run in to are problems feeding the beast data fast enough.
A torrent of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange for offline access
25 Books Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Other Top CEOs Recommend
FTP is File Transfer Protocol. S3 is not for transferring files and it's not a protocol. It's a file bucket or object store is appropriate. I use S3 to store static content and then use Cloudfront as my CDN. I think comparing it to FTP is rather confusing to say the least. Static content includes things like html, css, javascript not just jpgs or what have you.
Defense in depth works just fine for wild fires. Step 1 is zero trees or flammable brush near structure, step to is active misters to keep place damp.

Quick and dirty approach is to use a controlled burn to clear brush near property and then just use a sprinkler system.

Granted these are far from 100% effective, but even a 50/50 shot at saving a property is worth a fair amount of effort.
Were you using a UTF-8 locale? (Try running `locale`.)
>My concern is, do heads roll at the FBI and U.S. Attorney's office after a failure like that? Is there accountability?

Who's going to hold them accountable?
Those who fund them have no choice in the matter, so it's naive to expect accountability in the first place.
I'd say you don't really download the file, you render it in a browser via the http protocol. Downloading implies you have a local copy of the html file or js or whatever.
Should I be Tuning GC?
What will your last 10 years look like?
> In Dr. Xi’s case, Mr. Zeidenberg said, the authorities saw emails to scientists in China and assumed the worst.

> About a dozen F.B.I. agents, some with guns drawn, stormed Dr. Xi’s home in the Philadelphia suburbs in May, searching his house just after dawn...

How did they see the emails? Was it mass surveillance or did someone complain to the FBI?

Arrests based on the mass surveillance of millions of people is far scarier than arrests based on sincere accusations from concerned citizens.
From now on I will no longer refer to Canada as the North.

I'll call Harper now and make sure the national anthem is also changed.
Back of the envelope thoughts: Donating money is unlikely to be more efficient.

They have to be electron-juice too, and while it might be cheaper for them to buy it, they also have to pay for hardware on top of it.

Option A) You spend $10 on electricity and give them X MIPS.

Option B) You give them $15, they spend $5 on electricity, and then they have $10 to spend on hardware. I bet that they'd get far less than X MIPS!
The current system (2015): https://github.com/systemd/systemd
https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-1774.html
You would think AirBnB would get more involved in pricing (like Uber). Perhaps, though, it considers stable prices more community-friendly?
Will “decoherence” be the doom of American democracy?
Hi, this is Vasco, I am Unbabel's CEO. We have a margin, of course, that depends on several factors.
Anecdotally, at least, I see a lot of people riding Muni who are fare evading. I've also never seen any fare enforcement on a Muni bus, despite living here for ~6 years.
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Thanks, his videos are quite interesting and even fun.
You can't honestly think that the department will continue doing the same caliber of research immediately after losing 50 of its members. It will take years to regain the amount of know-how that just vacated the premises.
The trick is that they don't combine apples and peaches in the same tree. They combine peaches with apricots and red apples with green apples. (I expected apples and pears, I'm slightly disappointed.)

Grafting is an standard technique in agriculture and I think there are a lot of grafted trees in commercial production, so I guess this is not a hoax.

Anyway, I agree that it's very probable that the combination may provide suboptimal fruits.
In case helping to advance science isn't enough of a reward for you, there's also Gridcoin[0], the cryptocurrency that you mine by contributing processing power to BOINC.

[0] https://gridcoin.us/
Outstanding reporting...and shame on all the so-called serious news outlets that pushed this bullshit meme.
> the security hole: HWP files can be exploited and pwn your PC. obscure minor format, no problem … except that if you get a HWP file with a .DOC extension - say, what appears to be a MS Word file emailed you by anyone - you can get pwned by that.

> they’ve known about this since april 2015 and haven’t fixed it. they have distributed over 8 million known-vulnerable copies of AOO since 27 april. (and the 143 million vulnerable before that.)

> the fix is, literally, remove one file from the installer. they haven’t got it together to do this in five months.

---

If the state of OpenOffice is really as bad as this person says, it would probably be a good time to try to roll LibreOffice back under the banner as the mainline (ala iojs -> node). IMHO one reason Libre never took off on Windows as much as Linux is the strange brand name, at least to non-participants in the great free software nomenclature war.
South+Dakota+tourism+officials+upbeat+after+successful+summer
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I believe what the comment you're replying to is implying multiple instances of indentation on the same line. Such as:

if	( $test[0] )	func1()
elseif	( $test[1] )	func2()
elseif	( $test[2] )	func3()
I try to waste as much of their time as possible. Usually they call when I'm just watching TV and messing with them is more fun.
Apple claims the new A9x faster than an intel core i5 mobile chip
I don't have experience with Ada, but I suspect, all its cool modular features can be expressed in Java (and sure in Scala).

Could you give examples of features that you would like to have in modern OO languages which are available in Ada?
IIRC, refund was mentioned but absolutely no mechanism (legal nor financial) was in place to ensure it happened, relying on the failing company's obligations to suffice. That doesn't work too well when the whole point is the one entity tasked with performing the refunds doesn't have any money (anymore) or means to do so.

I'm wondering myself, having payed into a project which keeps promising "almost there" and nearly a year late shows little more than a video of a lame prototype unlike what most backers expect. Trying to stay optimistic, but resigned to it falling thru - and there being no money remaining to refund.
It's a bit ironic that the original author's website's favicon looks a lot like a Microsoft Windows 95 icon.
"The north" is an actual area

What is the area? Do you have a source for this?
Very interesting article! I too have noticed this phenomenon. Feynman was noted for playing bongo drums. And it's worth pointing out that Edward Witten (generally considered to be the smartest living physicist by other physicists) started out with a BA in history and a minor in linguistics. He wrote magazine articles, worked for a presidential campaign, tried economics for a while, switched to applied math, and then finally gave theoretical physics a shot, at which point he made numerous contributions to string theory, quantum gravity, and quantum field theory. He's also the only physicist to win the Fields Medal.
You ought to point out that this paper is 6 years old.
It does not help that some of their maintenance staff is on 200K/y salary. Last time I have checked their wages it was pretty obvious that some of the staff is overpaid greatly. I also know some anecdotal stories about how employees exploiting the company.
Oh, nice ... it might be worth having Brython too, since it and Skulpt both cover different areas of python (and use different methodologies).
This is not a Clojure problem, it's a JVM problem--no tail call optimization. Armed Bear Common Lisp has the exact same limitation.
This should be an important topic of conversation in technology. Similar to other real threats to U.S. companies and citizens, Chinese espionage is the real deal.

It's unfortunate that Mr Xi was caught in the crossfire. But, it's not like he was held in prison without justice. In this case, the justice system worked itself out, and Xi was shown to be innocent. He was not, as far as I can tell from reading the article, deemed guilty until proven innocent. He was suspected of a crime, the evidence showed that he had not committed a crime, and the charges were dropped.

But, generally, I think the U.S. is much too lax in its patrolling of Chinese espionage. Things have been out of control for many years, at least for the couple decades that I've worked in research and development. Too often, at conferences and trade shows, have I seen the roving groups of Chinese with their video cameras and notebooks, blatantly stealing ideas and IP. Several times, I've witnessed suspicious Chinese citizens coming to work for tech companies, straight from China, being overly interested in details of IP, then mysteriously quitting, without a trace. It's a real problem.
There is no "current Unix init system" by very definition. Nor even Linux.
JKL Museum of Telephony lost in fire
>Most of my colleagues in my English program went on to law school, which dovetails nicely with that analytical type of mind but as you say, endless dissection robs the work of what attracted me to it in the first place.

My favorite introduction to a book is the one Tolkien wrote for The Fellowship of the Ring. I can't find the exact quote, but basically he says the book is meant purely for the enjoyment of the reader and shouldn't be interpreted.

A million literature teachers cried out and were suddenly silenced.
The entry-level 16GB model is still practical if you rely on cloud services for the storage and retrieval of media files. 16GB is still enough room for iOS, bundled apps, and a moderate number of third-party apps. That said, I think it's likely that the 2016 iPhone will start at 32GB.
Yep, it was Github rather than git. Rails being hosted on Github early on was a big factor too. The rest of the Ruby community followed. Then came about 3/4s of the Python community (some big holdouts still on hg though), then the fast growing Javascript community etc. The network effect of Github collaboration snowballed it in a way a standalone source control tool couldn't.

In those early Github days the Rails community had the most effective evangelism and hipster clout. The "modern git" vs "crufty svn" narrative back then closely paralleled the "modern Ruby/Rails" vs "crufty Java" narrative too.

The Linux kernel community was never going to drive widespread git adoption by itself - the average coder would never do any kernel coding. At the time, the core Linux devs only cared about making a tool for themselves, and they still don't like the way Github works.
You must have never done anything like -say- use the 38 to connect to CalTrain shortly before or shortly after rush hour. :)

I made the 38->30/45->CalTrain or 47->CalTrain ride every single day for nearly a year. It seemed like once a month or once every other month, MTA fare inspectors would board the 38, 47, or -far more rarely- 30/45 I was riding and check everyone's proof of payment. On the 38 and the 47, it always took about five minutes and was a... fairly irritating delay on top of a really irritating commute.
Curious what demand based adjustment you would suggest. It seems hard to do since people set their own rates
I have wondered why don't we use only exponent in floating point numbers as a representation. If the exponent is close to 1 then you can represent mantissa of any size with it. It seems that the article is suggesting something similar.
It is! UofT Comp Eng.
Ask HN: What should you ask for in an employment contract when being acquihired?
What terms and conditions are important to consider in your employment contract / exec services agreement after you've agreed a headline valuation and earn out terms for the buy out? What about non-financial 'soft-benefits'? If you've been through the process, what do you wish you'd done differently when contract details were being agreed?
I took the 27 to work occasionally, and because it stops right outside the police station, fare enforcement occurred like 30% of the time
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They might be able to save up money and get more efficient hardware that eventually beats the science/electricity cost of distributed computing.
You're thinking of Lucy v. Zehmer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_v._Zehmer
I'm guessing that since he was a) Chinese-American and b) working on a high-tech research project involving classified information, the FBI was already suspicious of him and monitored his email and other communications.
And didn't tail call optimization only become standard in Lisps with the advent of Scheme?

In any case, at Standard Chartered we didn't have tail call optimization with our Haskell dialect either. It didn't matter too much in practice, because you should be using combinators anyway. And when you are calling foldr or map, you do not care that somewhere hidden away they are implemented with a loop in C++, as long as they behave right.
"Then took the other, as just as fair, /
And having perhaps the better claim, /
Because it was grassy and wanted wear"
This is pretty nice! I've been doing the same for Verilog module declarations (which can easily have 100 arguments):

module fred(
a,
b,
c
);
...
endmodule

I've not tried it for function calls, but it's not a bad idea...

How does it look for the case of an indented block after a while or a for? Let's see:

while (
a &&
b && c
) {
a = a + 1;
b = b - 1;
}

Hmm, maybe better than what I do now...

while (a &&
b && c) {
a = a + 1;
b = b - 1;
}
For all the gripes surrounding the lack of TCO on the JVM, Clojure really does provide a great set of tools to deal with iteration in a functional way. It's a rare thing when I need to fall back to using loop & recur.
Twitter is not a valid or secure (and not a verifiable) means of determining the actual customer wants 2fa disabled. This could have come from any twitter account, and just posting some other email address.
This is why I call Clojure a "Lisp", whereas I somewhat pedantically refer to previous languages in this family as "LISPs", as originally coined from "LISt Processor".

But it's still a Lisp, I went straight from old half-remembered mainline LISP and Scheme to Clojure in a recent small web server project without difficultly. The dynamic style of development is the same as is the typing, if you're not using lists, then the OPs problems don't come up (idiomatic Clojure web programming uses maps, key value pairs), the syntax is still s-expressions, albeit polluted by arrays denoted with square brackets where it makes sense.

And I believe the article is wrong in one sense, the JVM treats non-tail recursion like other languages, growing the stack. It's tail call optimization (TCO) that's the issue: mandatory in Scheme, don't know about its prevalence in Common Lisp implementations, and it's awkward in Clojure but wasn't much of a jump from SICP for the typical cases. And I think it might be a good idea to require signaling when you intend to tail recurse, it's easier and much quicker to find in compilation than when you blow the stack running it.
Yup. The CL spec does not require TCO. Some implementations only do TCO on self calls, so no mutual recursion.

And really i think the "Classic" lisp way to loop is loop, not recursion.

Scheme forces the point and requires full TCO.
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I know a bit more about this than I can say, but I advised someone to not be involved with this project. It sounded more like a resume builder than something sustainable.
Hacker News and Reddit and StackOverflow use CloudFlare too. So they must be doing something right.
That's awesome, I'm going to keep an eye on this.
Over year i can't hack that profile
...Also a cautionary tale for proper locking, because what would happen if k people arrived at the intersection at the same time and all chose the path that was less traveled then.
"Northern Canada, colloquially the North, is the vast northernmost region of Canada variously defined by geography and politics."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Canada
The type of science that's pursued by a person with a penchant for making things that can be showcased to others is perhaps the sort of science that's good material for a Nobel prize.
isn't the raison d'etre of foundations such as Apache to see to it that this sort of thing doesn't happen to its products?
I'm glad this got voted up. I've been tossing up on whether to use and recommend OpenOffice or LibreOffice, and now I know which one to choose.

Its too bad there's so much FUD and arguments going back and forth between the LibreOffice and OpenOffice communities. I wish the OpenOffice devs would just support LibreOffice and make it a much better product and really competing with MS Office.
Jason Calacanis needs a list of top 100 startups to invite to Launch Festival
Indeed, and as far as I know Scheme JVM implementations, which I haven't looked at in a long while, either do it per the spec and are slow, SISC reputedly, died about the time I might have started using it, or go through contortions like Kawa to do the best you can. Don't know about JScheme, it was dead before then, and I just noticed Bigloo will compile to the JVM, adding one to the list of 4.
"Of course the problem this will cause is that if USgov arrests you... they will try their hardest to find any kind of violation on you."

No the problem with that is tax payers are punished for shitty government official decisions. The officers and officials don't have to pay, they have "endless" funds. Individual actors need to be held accountable. The DoJ is now focusing on criminally charging executives at companies, not just the companies themselves, for breaking laws. Government officers and officials should also be held accountable.
Anyone knows what's the RAM size in the forthcoming ipad pro? It was rumored to carry 4GB DDR4 RAM (which would be really awesome), but since then the source of the rumor (e.g. an Adobe blog post) has been redacted for the part talking about the RAM size...

It's understandable that Apple always tries to conceal certain hardware configuration details for their products, possibly out of the worry that consumers might compare those configurations across devices built on different platforms...But I just wish I could at least mentally compare a certain Apple device to its predecessors, then I could know if some apps will freeze again when I switch tasks...
A poet's death. (Edit: nope, fiction.)

On Easter Monday, 1917, the first day of the Arras Offensive, he paused for a moment to fill his pipe. A shell passed so close to him that the blast of air stopped his heart; he died without a mark on his body.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/edward-thomas

Thomas was an astonishing thing, an established literary critic who suddenly morphed into a great poet. All his poems were written in the three years before he died, and he kept getting better. The Other is hauntingly good: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/239754. WWI famously killed many poets, but I wish Thomas hadn't been one of them. He had pure English in his veins, and I like him better than Frost.
I'll definitely check it out! Sounds like fun.
>maybe no /etc/fstab yet

Not in that repo https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix-jun72/search?utf8=%E2%9C%9... (github mirror picked at random).

I'm not sure what the easiest way to find out when fstab was added would be.
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