skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I missed the now-deleted message you replied to, but if it was objecting to the term "Spy", that may be partly my fault. I wrote a Windows program called Spy back in 1987 for a BYTE Magazine article. Spy++ was inspired by this program, and true to its name, Spy++ was much better!

Here's some old-school Windows programming, along with great ads for the hot computer products of the day:

https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1987-12/1987_12_BYT...
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Well to be fair it is a pretty good framework for building shonky code.

Source: Am PHP Developer.
This is definitely the future
This is definitely Eclipse future
There might be plenty of reasons why we don't know of such instances.

For example, those being blackmailed might not know or have any proof that it's FBI who's blackmailing them. The FBI of course has endless opportunities of plausible deniability, starting with "rogue contractor".

It all boils down to incentives: what exactly do you have to win from disclosing? What is the chance that people will believe you given that you have no evidence? And what would you even expect your audience to do about it? And how does that scenario compare to the worst that your blackmailer is willing to do?

It would be fairly easy for someone with the power of the FBI to rig the subject's incentives heavily in their favor, and to only pursue blackmail on subjects where they are fairly certain of success. At some point of proficiency a casual observer might not be able to distinguish it from lobbying!

We don't know if these things happen or not, but they're entirely possible. Stranger things have been leaked and declassified over the years.
A weakening currency is probably aimed to boost exports.

I think in theory, say the US Dollar weakens, everything appears cheaper, exports increase.
US companies will then be able to employ more people within the country and thus improves employability and domestic consumption.

It makes us poor overall, if we consume imported products, travel internationally, and if the economic plan fails in which employability and domestic consumption does not increase. This can happen when other equally competitive countries counter by de-valuing their currency as well.
Fyi, you link to @pinboardin instead of @pinboard on this page... https://pinboard.in/tour/
> boils down to asking "how do I think the person chose?"

I agree, but the operative word is "think". We can't talk about how the opponent chose, only about the player's expectations of how they chose. And talking about how evidence affects expectations is the problem Bayes exists to solve, is my reasoning.

For your second point, that sounds right but assuming a well-formed high-entropy distribution seems like a very arbitrary thing to do. The player might very naturally, say, consider round numbers more or less likely, or at any rate believe that $50 is a more likely value than $50.01, etc, right?

And actually, this point highlights why I think this should be considered as a Bayesian problem. In frequentist terms, one talks about the opponent choosing numbers from some distribution, then the player choosing a strategy based on their expectations about the distribution, then they open their envelope and apply the strategy. If nothing else this approach greatly obscures the most important feature of the puzzle, which is that the player gains new information when they open their envelope. More, it seems somewhat bonkers when considered - if the player chooses a switch value of $10, then opens their envelope and finds $50,000, should they really just apply the strategy they chose based on expectations they now know to have been wildly incorrect? Effectively the player winds up deciding whether to switch based on the fact that they thought $10 was more likely than $20, when one would expect them to reconsider their expectations that they now know to have been wildly off-base.

In contrast, the Bayesian version is straightforward, and we can completely describe the player's strategy without making any assumptions on how it's formed. Specifically, suppose the player starts off with some expectation P(T) that that the total value of both envelopes would be T. Then they open their envelope, find a value of x, and and update their expectations. Then, their strategy depends solely on the ratio between P(1.5x) and P(3x). And we can say all this without even considering whether P is continuous/discrete/etc, or what factors it's based on. All we assume is that it's defined at the two points that are relevant to a given instance of the puzzle - i.e. that the player can form some expectation of how likely one value is compared to twice as much.

I fear I can't describe this very well, but does that make any sense?
Please explain.

Do you feel the same way when they buy a new car? Is this "keeping up with the Joneses"?

Perhaps you should buy an assault rifle for yourself (and another for the wee wifie)!
In my opinion, neocomplete / deoplete are far better than YCM if you can be bothered to configure it.

My nvim init.vim is here:

https://github.com/sielickin/dotfiles_nvim/blob/master/.conf...
Vector operations are already possible in hardware using the fast, well, vector hardware in the cpu.

And ime the speed up from using integers is minor and often not the cost from conversion (to e.g 28.4 fixed or similar), since you often need floats in the end.
Miserable, this kind of stuff is why I don't run my own mail server any more. Happy Fastmail customer since 2006.
Better:

Hi <indication that we're tracking this problem>,

... please do let <contact to avoid fighting back through automated menus and outsourced support> know...

Kind regards,
<person ultimately responsible for failure>
The API documentation screenshot is a default of something. I know I've seen that UI with those colours elsewhere.
Apple certainly isn't alone in this.

If we back up for a bit and think why corporations exist in the first place, why society allows and facilitates rather than criminalizes corporate endeavors, it becomes clear the idea is that they fulfill a useful social function. And that function is the development, production and distribution of goods and services.

But they have to operate within a framework of rules which ensure (to some extent) they fulfill these functions without impacting society negatively (excessively so at least) and that their net benefit to society is a plus. These rules change from time to time.

There isn't a reason that long term externalized costs should be allowed to be pushed onto society as a whole in the interests of these entities realizing short term profits. That happens far too often and will be the death of capitalism as we know it if left unchecked. We as a society should demand better. Unfortunately, government all too often isn't the solution to the problem and the cures it provides are sometimes worse than what was attempting to be cured. But we need to keep the proper role of corporations in mind and demand a level of accountability. Not doing so leads to a very bad place.
I actually don't use emacs -- sorry! I found that site recently when I was trying to memorize terminal commands, and I happened to remember that they had quizzes for emacs and other editors, too.
To prevent abuse it would pretty much have to be pull based. Your area would be a website you own and control, which would have a process that on some activation polled feeds from your friends and aggregated it together for your use. Your friends might be able to hit your wall and see you do that for others; you'd control what you shared via that action.

The reason that will not happen is because the average user doesn't understand their privacy, can't easily get a location they own setup like that, and doesn't exist within a web of trust (which you could roll out with this via a public key system).

Maybe those problems will be solved someday when server time is so cheep that it's a shock if someone doesn't own a VM which the law would treat similarly to an apartment.
This seems to be a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10409979.
It might power 20% of all domains, but that doesn't equate to 20% of mindshare. Individual Facebook pages should be counted individually in this context.

Wordpress also is not really a federated system, because the individual sites are not interconnected.
Ask HN: What is your favorite thing about working for a startup?
Thinking about joining a start-up and was wondering what people enjoy about them.
> This mindset is precisely why native mobile applications continue to exist on the market

And long live them because there is little about the mobile experience that's more infuriating than a web app that should have been made as native. The assumption of being always on-line is baked too deep into the web stack; I have yet to see a well-made web app that could not be made significantly better UX-wise by simply going native.
USN-2821-1: GnuTLS vulnerability
also we have a bug in description:)
You need to load "cl-fad" lib
just type in:
(ql:quickload "cl-fad")
It's not really the spying that bothers people. Nearly every country is constantly spying on every other country. What is different is that Chinese hacking goes beyond snooping for national security reasons in a few ways.

They actively engage in corporate espionage (in a massive way) to aid their homegrown companies and directly harm US companies. As far as we know, the NSA isn't stealing trade secrets from BMW and giving them to GM.

They directly attack civilians for hosting content they don't like, e.g., the recent DDoS attack on github.
Assuming it's anything like regular eclipse the UI probably is highly customizable.

It's more like a tiling window manager

You can choose how many of those panels you have and which tabs are in each panel and which buttons you have in your toolbars.

> The actual code takes up like 40% of the screen.

considering that many projects still have guidelines regarding line-length (something around 80-120 characters) there's only so much horizontal space you can utilize. I can easily fit two source files side by side on my monitor and still have room for additional panels.

> Is this actually what programmers want from an IDE, or just what they have come to expect?

The more you can have on the screen at the same time the fewer permutations of arrangements you need for different tasks.

If we are to extend the desktop analogy, it's a work bench with a wall of tools hanging in front of you, every individual tool within grasping distance.
Obviously electricity doesn't necessarily come from a clean source, but it at least has the potential to.
One thing I don't understand about this article is, it talks about groups assisting in surveillance while acting as if they are opposing it, and questioning whether current companies might be doing the same.

This could be a valid concern, but if it is, I do not know how to address it, and it seems like an accusation which doesn't have much of a way to defend against. What standards of evidence would it want, to conclude that a company was not secretly assisting in surveillance?

"Yes, they might look like a well adjusted person, but so did <person that was secretly a serial killer>! So maybe they are one!" Is not sufficient to conclude that a random, seemingly well adjusted person is likely to be a serial killer. Thats not really quite whats going on here, but it seems possible that it isn't /entirely/ unlike it?

This seems to be sort of a wink-nudge thing accusing greenwald of being a pawn of the govt, and I don't think it provides sufficient evidence to justify making that accusation.

Even if Greenwald's claim about what the prime motivations of the nsa et all are is false, that would not necessarily mean that it is deceptive.

And then it ends with a "oh he probably wont respond to this because he is a TOOL OF THE POWERS THAT BE" type thing.

I do wonder if some of the points it makes at the beginning might be good, but I got a sort of, feel from it, reminiscent of either tabloids or , well, I hesitate to use the term "conspiracy theory", because a prediction that there is a conspiracy about something is not necessarily incorrect or unjustified. So, I don't mean "conspiracy theory" in the literal sense, but in the figurative sense of, /relatively unjustified/ idea of a group being involved in a bad conspiracy.
This is what I am referring to (sorry to have used such layman's terms, I am in fact: not a scientist) :

https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch2s2-2...
This is awesome, finally we can get a decent java develop environment in emacs.
Why is using the Internet synonymous with not being able to remember. I find that I search for things I don't know and then retain the memory.
Good point, but we don't have commercial fuel-cell planes either. Swap "electric" with "clean fuel".
Utterly surprised not yet to see a reference here to Peter Watt's Blindsight [1], which integrated Chernoff's faces as a data visualization. If you haven't read it yet, go read it. You'll thank me.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
If you have limited screen real estate almost all panels seem to be collapsible, making them open-on-hover or open-on-keypress.

And things go both ways: Some of us do have multiple 30"+ monitors and appreciate UIs that manage to utilize all that space.

Remember that responsive design doesn't just mean scaling down to tiny mobile devices, it also means scaling up to large screens.
oh jeesus god stfu.
It's the easiest thing in the world to shake your head and laugh at "crazy" valuations. It's incredibly tired at this point, maybe it was less so in 2007, but it's not an interesting activity in my opinion. And of course there's never any pressure to walk any of it back, this is the Internet, down the memory hole it goes.

Talking about the structural reasons for the crazy valuations may be slightly more stimulating.
It's difficult for the FBI to use mass surveillance techniques to blackmail anybody. Sure they can make allegations, even true ones, but if they present evidence it would be pretty clear where it came from. Only so many entities have the ability to gather the kind of data necessary to separate fact from rumor.

In terms of incentives, blackmail is generally a lower tier crime in terms of likelihood of success. Think about if someone tried to blackmail you. There's a good chance you'd think "Sure I can give in to their demands now, but they'll just ask for something else later and they never have to stop asking". Unless the crime being covered up involves significant jail time, most people would rather face the consequences than live the rest of their lives under someone else's control. Many former politicians have successful careers even after mundane scandals (Weiner and Spitzer come to mind).

And depending on the nature of the secret, most politicians would get some slack from the public for having the courage to standup to FBI blackmail. They might even be able to spin themselves as a flawed hero. In fact, having a three letter agency try to blackmail you right now is kind of a get out of jail free card.

As tptacek said, this is really fascinating fiction but it's just wildly impractical in real life. Blackmail is messy and has a lot of moving parts that are difficult to control. The FBI is better off doing exactly what they do now: asking Congress for money and getting it.
Russ Tice. Sibel Edmonds. Thomas Drake. William Binney. Jesselyn Radack. John Kiriakou. Take your pick.

No doubt these people have all felt the wrath of the federal government.
I think a large source of the variability in those numbers is the (active travelers) per vehicle. It surprises me how carpooling is actually more effective than buses, but then I realize that it's a point transfer without a driver.

I wonder what automated route pooling and 'johnny cab' style self driving cars would do to those numbers?
Flow doesn't run on Windows and isn't written in Javascript.
Exactly; it shows just how wildly faster sqrt(n) grows than log(n).
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Filling a 30" screen with crap for the sake of filling it is hardly good "utilisation".
I would use a service that sent me one bin that I could fill and send in. No questions asked just like basically do with Goodwill.
Is It Pokemon or Big Data?
https://www.free-invoice-generator.com/

http://invoiceatonce.com/

http://mrzool.cc/tex-boilerplates/

http://invoiceomatic.io/
Both Larry Page and Sergey Brin went to public high school and then to public universities for undergrad (University of Michigan and University of Maryland). They went to Stanford for grad, but they still fit your query of not going to private prep schools.
Unconstitutional to ban homeless from sleeping outside, says federal government
A curated list of awesome lists of interview questions
Data Binding in AngularJS (2012)
+1 for Zoho. I've been using it for a few months and really like it. Their iOS app is also pretty good for viewing time sheets and logging time.
New version (2.3) of miniDBA for SQL Server
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The article missed the mother of all Lists that turned into billion dollar business during last dotcom boom - Yahoo! Directory. It is unfortunate that Yahoo! shut down a service with lot of potential specially in the mobile world.

Just think of possibility if you were starting with the Yahoo! Directory, making it mobile friendly, location aware, and providing users the ability to favorite, specific entry, add to the directory, comment on entries and directories.

Majority of businesses today have online presence. Starting from scratch is difficult. Getting users to build a list from scratch is difficult. Offer them a pre-built list/entries based on location and let them refine it.
I'm not looking down on anything or anyone. I'm just analyzing the state of SO today versus the first few years when it started.

As for the question, you obviously didn't read what I wrote carefully. I get served a full page of such questions every time I open the site. Finding an interesting question has became a tedious job and that's why I don't even bother to visit the site anymore.

Once again, I'm not even sorry about that. It freed a lot of my time - I rarely visit the site, but I'm still ranked in top 2% users, so you can guess how active I was before.
LibreOffice

It's pretty trivial to set up a template, a data source, and have the mail merge feature generate your reports for you. If you F4 in Writer, pick a data source you can drag&drop fields or queries directly into the document where you want them. The rest is just a case of trivial document editing which you're more than likely already familiar with.

Your data source can be anything from a csv (spreadsheet), an .odb or an external data connection to a database (eg, postgres).
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Has anyone tried this? Is there any improvements in performance/code sense intelligence? Is is anywhere closer to Intellij IDEA?
Galaxy Developer Edition is coming
Agreed. Saying "sorry" brings out the worst in some people. If you pay attention, you'll sense a shift in the power dynamic, and some jerks out there will become more hostile, belittling, and demanding. It's better to just focus on what can be done to move things forward.
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You know how Americans feel about Iran getting nuclear weapons? That's how I feel about my neighbours acquiring weapons intended for war zones.
I'd get one in a heartbeat if it had a full hd screen and an old thinkpad like keyboard with a nub. Seriously, ready to give up on the wintel boxes as of yesterday.
You may want to consider Mary Flanagan's "[phage]"[0], which did something like this. I had downloaded the Shockwave program once in the early '00s, but I can't find a link for it now.

[0] http://maryflanagan.com/work/phage/
This finally confirms I'm not a human. I sort of always suspected I have problems recognizing and remembering faces, but looking at Chernoff's ones makes it obvious. My intuition is completely unable to compare those faces; I feel uncomfortable even looking at them. I guess I'll stick to small multiples of colored scatterplots or something.
Indeed. If the smallest element is deleted, then we are removing the singleton element of the first heap. We need to find the second-smallest element, which will be in the next heap after it, but it could be any of the leaves. That means we need to traverse O(heapsize) elements.

And since we started with the smallest element, this will cascade through each of the heaps, in order to keep them all (but the last) at full size. All together, that's O(N).
Thanks for this feedback. Was still evaluating the cost.
This is very interesting; a human would OCR the page and the pick the region with many less than / greater than signs. I wonder whether that would work here -- you need to OCR after finding the region anyways.
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You need to give us a chance to be friendly. If you a drop a patch in a queue which has 10K other patches and then, as you said, move on then the chances of this patch being picked up is quite low.
I did a Debian Jessie install on a macbook pro last night. The only friction was setting up wifi, but I eventually figured that out with an ethernet connection and the wiki pages [1][2] and (particularly for my mid-2010 MBP/Broadcom BCM43224 adapter) [3].

I was slightly surprised at the setup needed, but once I understood why Debian don't want the default install to source non-free packages, it makes sense that you have to jump through that extra hoop.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook/Wireless
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211
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The documentation is HTML, but it's linked directly in the app, so you can get relevant information and tutorials about the function you're using.

Most of the time these inquiries are related to "can it do X", rather than "how do I do X" - my best guess is that they want something in writing (therefore passing the responsibility for making the claim to us), rather than doing their own reading and confirmation. It still takes a fair bit of effort to answer all of these.
ok, its a lot of fun.
I agree with you on several parts,And there have actually been some decent attempts which i regularly use [1],[2].
I find it fascinating how people use Github to maintain curated lists.
But I find list-making as an art in itself.It requires the curator to be able assimilate information in bite sized packets which are informative enough. As a rule,I feel that the size of each list item should inversely proportional to the size of the list.
Collaborated and community curated lists are a god-send.
Stack-Overflow also maintains really good lists/community articles.

But then think about the lists which are a single person's hardwork or maybe a group of people being paid to do so. A list need not necessarily be objective and can also provide the curator's views.
This can be good or bad dependent on breadth of the curators knowledge.
Lists(like really well written articles) are often the result of extensive data analysis which is why lists like those provided by WSJ and WGSN[3] are paid/exclusive services.

[1]:https://github.com/wasabeef/awesome-android-ui
[2]:https://github.com/vsouza/awesome-ios
[3]:http://www.wgsn.com/en/
Except your description only applies to desktop class machines.

I am not missing the point, as 99% of the WebGL demos I see being thrown around don't run out of the box on mobile devices that most people have, as you imply.