skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been without syntax highlighting for two years now, and I don't miss it. Have tested using it again, but feelt it distracting. For me the main advantage is that without the colours it is easier to see when a certain part of the code is 'ugly'. With syntax highlighting on, everything is a soup of colors anyway. Also, when highlighting makes comments light gray and almost invisible, it is easy to leave a commented-out mess of old code around. When comments are given the same emphasis as real code I care more about them, and make them tidy too. I don't find the extra information provided by colours useful. I'd rather spend five seconds going back to the declaration of the variable (in my editor, it is a simple right click to jump between usages of a string), which will also remind me of its type and the context it was introduced, since if I am unsure about its scope, chances are there are more aspects of the item which I am unsure of.
As noted by the live commentator, this has the opportunity to be the third revolution of the game of Go, opening again new ways of playing for the whole of humanity.

Imagine what AI, in different fields, means for humanity if it has so much to teach us, just by being able to "think" differently. I sure hope that one day they start writing philosophy and, doing so, potentially legitimize everything that currently makes humans unique and extraordinary.
I work 4-5 hours everyday but everyday on my own project. I wish I could have more time on work since most of the rest time I have is allocated to housework and taking care of two little ones. I guess the key is to control your work pace. When a sprint is needed and you are ready for it, a two-week with 90-100 hours in each week would not be a bad idea. Just like running. Listen to your body, pick your pace and keep going towards your goal.
Way to go humans. (I felt that AlphaGo was unbeatable and a milestone in computing overthrowing organic brains... I gave in the buzz a bit prematurely).
RIP: Helmut Veith
By Moshe Vardi

"He had a very minor surgical procedure, which had accidental complications."
https://www.facebook.com/moshe.vardi.1/posts/10100357627398651
The beauty of Unix
I've found 6 hours to be about the right amount day in and day out.
The part that always bothers me about it is, yes, OK, so there's this other board with twice the hardware and for not much more money that checks all of Richard Stallman's loyalty boxes.

But what the fuck do I do with it? No one's out there writing software for your obscure embedded-systems evaluation board. There's no pre-packaged SD images out there to let me play with different OSes. There's no ecosystem of cool plug-in hardware to play with and do fun things with.

The cool thing about the RPi is not just the card itself or how cheap it is, it's all the stuff around it.

Some guy ranting about how it's not as cool and open as this random board GPX5-3520-V2-a from Hardware Maker In China I've Never Heard Of that I'll have to hand port and code every piece of software for, is the same blind category error that Slashdotter types have been making for years about Linux.

Your magic "open" box doesn't mean shit if there's nothing I can do with it.
Well, they seem to have some opensourced some of their code. But they are far away form being free software although they claim to use the GPL.
If I can't build the software myself, I won't use it.
Yes! Me and my cofounder ask each other two questions each day:

1. What did we learn today?

2. How do we (as a company) want to grow?

The answer to the last one means asking "what type of company do we want to build?" and that in turn means asking the much deeper question "what life do we want to design?".

An old friend said that becoming an entrepreneur is all about taking control of your own life. This is true. As an entrepreneur, you have it in your hand to not only design the way the company you're building will work but also what your own life should be like.
Right, so you found a study that shows there are more accidents at the end of winter when the roads are more icy than they are at the start of spring.

How about we forget the statistics and stop changing our clocks because people don't like losing an hour of sleep and disrupting their sleep schedule?
It's Daylight Saving, not Daylight Savings.
I'd like to see slightly more difficult to read fonts as an isolated experiment in this exploration. http://www.wired.com/2011/01/the-benefit-of-ugly-fonts/
The AlphaGo team has stated that they no longer have the ability to make changes to the AI used for the match. The rules of the exhibition match prohibit that.

They maybe could have anyway, but it would be cheating: just the same as if they'd Mechanical Turk'ed it by e.g. having Ke Jie actually choose the moves to play.
I'm still hoping Jolla and/or Nokia bring back a N900-like device.
Well the first go around they really tried hard to hit a very ambitious price point and they ended up having to cut some corners and they sorta ended up with this chip that everyone seems to think is a bit of a mess...

It seems like version 2 or version 3 they could have gotten something a little less goofy. They have the clout to be able to make some good deals with any supplier. So you can sorta see why that people are frustrated b/c so much community effort is being spent on something that's sorta.. goofy. I wish there was the same community drive behind the ODROID boards for instance
The suggestion to ignore academic studies of the lives of people in medieval Europe because they contradict your experience of villages in 21st century China does not make sense.
That is hard to prove, and is also not necessarily useful for anyone making a choice of where to invest, if the rare events are pretty unpredictable and "pretty hard to pull off" they may as well be treated as random by investors.

There clearly are strategies that make money at times. The majority off hedge funds do not offer these, and what they offer is hidden by their fees, which do not correspond to results, and even discourage good results as they encourage volatility.
So far only calls were E2EE. Video was added this Thursday and full E2EE switched on for all comms.
It's a new device expected to launch in October, from a company that makes handheld consoles - http://www.gpd.hk.

They launched this well-received (albeit in the sense that all of this is very niche) clamshell Android device last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV80_oiacgs
... wrote the bot trying to hide its identity
I can't help but think some of these statistics are ridiculous fear mongering, particularly the heart attacks.

"Get rid of DST! If you get up an hour earlier than usual, you might die!"
Currently VC backed (Iconical, Skype co-founder Janus Friis), premium services in the future.
I can't recall who, either Pike or Crockford said that syntax highlighting was a regression. I kinda agree that a well balanced comment code ratio, and clear system / design makes up for most editor enhancement.
Perhaps you'd like a shot at explaining why AI is an "amoral field of study", and why it could "delegitimize everything that currently makes humans unique and extraordinary"?

Dolphins are about as intelligent as us, too. Are dolphins amoral? Do they delegitimize Beethoven, Tesla, Gödel, Einstein, and da Vinci?
>> Some guy ranting about how it's not as cool and open as this random board GPX5-3520-V2-a from Hardware Maker In China I've Never Heard Of that I'll have to hand port and code every...

Some guy talking about porting fedora support to it, so no, you wouldn't have to do any of this.
No, I think it's in the roadmap though.
> Lenovo will send a service technician to me who will usually be able to repair the laptop immediately

What is this guarantee called and where is it available?

Here in Russia, I've had experience of giving away my ThinkPad to the service company for 2 months; they didn't call and the call center girl could not provide further information than "it's being worked on" (the law here requires service centers to complete repairs of such equipment in 3 months,). When I finally had enough and went to the service center for the explainations, or to retrieve my laptop back, and asked them what took them so long, they said they have "emailed IBM but they didn't answer back" (it was a while back and my ThinkPad was X60s, from IBM). It even was working, I just had some issues I wanted them to work through (e.g. the cooling system became noisier and hotter, apparently having been clogged with dust; etc.)
Surprise NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing
Bunnie Huang (Novena laptop) talks mention how they reverse engineered ISA by MitM the CPU through the FPGA on the Novena's board. That's as cool as epic.
AVX2 faster than native popcnt instruction on Haswell/Skylake
this, for me, is a frustrating aspect of programming from a user's perspective

when someone builds something they often 'hard code' their own specific interests into the thing

so let's say i am like you, and only want the comments highlighted.. if the highlighter i am using fails to allow me to alter it from the user side of things i'll have to dive into the source

if it is closed then i have to take the time to build my own wheel

if it is is open, but after investigation i find the functionality is hardcoded, piecemeal, and highly specific then i have to take the time to build my own wheel

this is an overly simplistic example of what i am trying to illuminate but from a user's perspective there is a huge difference between these equations:

print(51)

n=3*17
print(n)

a=3
e=17
print(a*e)

a=sys.argv[1]
e=sys.argv[2]
print(a*e)

for highly configurable designs just pulling flags from the command line will get out of hand quickly but it would be superficial to have a function that allows the user to see the programs state and alter it to their needs
Artificial intelligence: Go master Lee Se-dol wins against AlphaGo program
ProMail for Android – Get name[at]lastname.com email addresses
The Little Book of Semaphores [pdf]
C++ in Competitive Programming: I/O
The scalability nightmare of the SXSW superstar apps
It could also be that human-looking moves are already close to the best possible. Neither AlphaGo nor human players can play god's hand, but they're approaching the same location.
Ask HN: Have there been any successful localized HN clones?
Some countries have particular or explicit set of laws that make the entrepreneurial process unique in itself.

Ex: I live in Brazil, where labour laws and tax regulations are one of a kind.
Why... can't there be alternatives?
>I have yet to find someone, even among the "privacy aware" people to chat on Facebook using Pidgin's OTR plugin.

That's because the "privacy aware" folks don't use Facebook. And if they did (likely a damn good reason) they would. Makes it all the less likely for you to have met them
Software Development 101 for Non Technical Founders
The author remarked in his Snapchat post from 2013 that the Matasano Crypto Challenges have been helpful. So I guess he made it past set 2. :-)
> But the game was already won for Lee Sedol after that middle exchange.

Myungwan Kim in his commentary, estimated the game to be worse for white even after 79 if Black had not destroyed it's opportunity for fighting the ko at M-13 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMqjGNqfU6I&t=1h40m1s
Correction: for a more risky outcome should be for a less risky outcome
Probably Goobuntu. ;-)
Mostly savings with a bit of freelancing on the side. The upshot of no life is it's at least compatible with cheap living.
It would be interesting to see if ABP has improved since this benchmark was done.

They seemed to be making honest strides to improve it.
I know--mine texted me the night after my filling, to see how it was coming along.

She does that for everybody, along with a number of other practices that do her and (would) her profession great credit.
Sanders Voters Who Will Vote Trump Over Clinton
Netflix crackdown on border hoppers could kill some unblocking companies
True, they're still deadlines. But, since they are BS, that might be fixed somehow, no?
[Security – AdminSys] Test DROWN Security on Server Side
Definitely not anything close to gigawatts: ALL of Google (not DeepMind, but the entire company) uses only about 260 megawatts.

Probably on the order of one megawatt or so.

http://inhabitat.com/infographic-how-much-energy-does-google...
I stopped looking when I saw it doesn't check for malloc failure. I am going to say space flight is a no-go.
Could this be overcome by throwing more hardware?
Or keep changing them because people like more light on summer evenings. :-)

[EDIT: And I would be perfectly fine with DST year-round but I understand why people in northern cities have issues with an extra hour of morning darkness for kids going to school and people driving to work.]
A 25% increase of a really low number is also a really low number, and quite frankly these numbers are low enough that it's all probably within a margin of error.
> Changing DST now doesn't change that, your business is still setting hours arbitrarilly based around an archaic model of "wake up at 7 work 9-5 go to bed at 11" no matter where you are on the planet. It just makes no sense, and is simply culturally normative so people expect it and structure their internal model of time around it.

It actually makes a certain amount of sense. There are people who have to work in the daytime, e.g. because they work outside. Farmers, construction workers, etc. Then their administrative staff needs to work at the same time as the outside workers, and their customers and suppliers need to work at the same time as the administrative staff, etc. So everybody works 9-5, where "9-5" is some approximation to daylight hours.

But changing clocks twice a year is still stupid.
We are living in the times of horse races.
You're acting like following arbitrary sets of rules to maximize a value function isn't something that computers excel at. The only thing that was holding up computers for Go was simply time; there were too many possibilities to consider. Humans are really, really good at heuristically trimming possibilities, but sometimes to the detriment of finding maxima.
No life? You work on what you love, I would say thats pretty good.
Unless international scheduling and communication are plunged into eternal flames and tortured by demons, DST can't really be said to make them literally hell.
You don't have to change your clock for that. Just leave it on DST the whole year.
All old games have good things and bad things about them. The great things about old games were the challenge. The bad thing about them was that the industry was still learning and hence many games won't age well in terms of some dimension because many lessons had yet to be learned.
I'm from Montreal where there's already income to families not making enough money. This is great but obviously some people abuse the system and use it to drink beer all day so some Montrealers don't like the idea of using their taxes to give them money.

But one very important point that people don't know is that giving basic income like that, even if abused, reduce criminality. When you have no money and are desperate, you're more likely to start doing illegal actions. Economically speaking, when you start thinking about the cost of more criminality, you realize that it's a pretty good deal to give basic income.

Not everyone here agrees with what I just said - most people don't even know that - but I think that in itself is a great reason.
Zaurus [1] handhelds of the SL-C3(0|1|2)00 models occasionally come up on eBay and support OpenBSD [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus

[2] http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html
"Easy", "automatic", bah humbug! I take it you have never seen the hoops any date library needs to jump through because of DST. (An example: your scheduled task is at 2:30. When does it run on DST change, and how many times? 0? 1? 2? Guess what: no right answer, just a lot of wrong ones. And that's one of the simplest examples.)
For me, it really helps to have code and comments the same colour. That way I give comments the attention they deserve, and I can resist the temptation to comment out code.
There is only one way to get more physicists into Congress
Ask HN: I own military.info and marines.info – what should i do with them?
i want to develop them, but came only up with the idea to create a military news aggregator or directory.

Any other project suggestions ideas?

Thanks!
How about we split the difference and be done with it. Spring forward 30 mins and leave it.
Perhaps rest should be the fourth leg of that platform, made explicit.
I've been using Mithril a bit, and I like how it's just a library, not a big framework pushing you to use a particular set of components. It's very light and very well documented.

There are these "Mithril" libraries for Bootstrap and Material with 1 contributor and not updated for years, not appearing official at all. In my experience they don't really work.

I'd say it's more in line with Mithril's design to use UI components that are also loosely coupled, like these:
http://topcoat.io/
http://purecss.io/
Automating data leak detection
I wish I had a time machine to change the decisions that I have made, but in that specific time and place with the information that I had at hand, I think I have made the right decisions. I think post people do. Cliché "Hindsight is 20/20"
I think Daylight Saving Time is a bad idea in the same sense that (abusing) global variables is a bad idea in programming.

In programming, changing a global state in order to achieve something is almost always a bad practice because it affects everywhere and sometimes in unpredictable ways. Instead of abusing global states, we invented object-oriented programming, which I consider as a way to keep states locally (inside objects).

So if someone wants to save daylight, that should be achieved locally for example by changing school schedules.
Six: one for Alaska and one for Hawaii, and four continental ones.
In Semantic UI we include two distinct header types that sized using either REM or EM. Page headings which are generally consistent across a site and usually specified with H1-H5, are sized using REMs so they display consistently. Sizing variations, (tiny, small, large, huge etc) however use EM to allow them to be sized relative to its content container.
All the more reason it should have been shorter.
Interestingly enough, the author of the article notes that it has become easier for him to jump around different languages.
Blame Congress. They set the tax law; the IRS implements it.

(This is not intended to be pedantic, but practical. You can vote on who sets the tax law. [at least most of us can])
Split the difference (30 mins) and be done with it. Please.
It sounds like the app itself is closed though. Skype probably used openssl (open source crypto) on Linux but that didn't make it secure.
Leap seconds sort of exist to keep UTC in sync with reality (UTC may have 86400 seconds per normal day, which is not the same interval during which the planet completes a single rotation - and worse, the real interval is wobbly).
You can make a vault that destroys the contents and is perfectly secure except for the implementation. That is basically the iPhone "problem" the FBI are complaining about.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8017041/MI6-Q...

> When forty spectators assembled for an outdoor trial, they reported that the safe seemed to be “on the point of explosion” and the gas issuing out of holes in the bottom of the safe meant it was “lifted some inches off the ground” forcing observes to retire to a “place of safety behind the building.”

Nothing really prevents you from having a safe that after N failed attempts from destroying the contents with explosives.
As far as ATMs go it varies wildly. I've never hit the limit on ones attached to banks though I've never gone above 700. The free standing one like you might see in a 7-11 or a mall often have a limit in the low hundreds to make sure they don't run out.

But I just withdrew 3000 from the window last week, as far as I know there is no limit beyond what they have in the bank as far as that goes.
I'm talking about a few million in after tax profit, not revenue.
That "balance" doesn't seem to be contributing much to the economies of Muslim-majority countries, and their living standards, though, does it?

Except for those nations sitting on abundant oil reserves, the Muslim world is chaotic, unproductive and has terrible human rights / freedom of expression.
Where did the author talk bad about "their entire work"? He is (IMHO understandably) disappointed with a specific aspect of it and recognized that "They are of course correct for their use case". He says nothing bad about 1) bringing out the boards at all, 2) the community work, 3) ...
Start using arenas wherever you can. Makes memory management in C programs substantially simpler.
Have you ever tried cheap generic inserts?
They've declared AlphaGo's code and network frozen for the purposes of this competition, in part to avoid the PR issues that Deep Blue got for doing exactly that.
Doesn't help that the community around it is kind of toxic. They have a history of blaming end-users for problems caused by the Pi itself (like the keyboard and mouse issues and the SD card compatibility issues), insulting users who can't figure out how to get it working (which is incredibly difficult for non-technical users), promoting it to non-technical users for purposes like media playback and then blaming them for trying to use it like that and failing because obviously it's their fault for using it for something it's not designed for, etc.
If you mean startup in the sense of VC-backed with the goal of maximum growth and market penetration: Probably yes.

If you rather want to do your own thing, I always liked the rule of thumb from the book "Start Small Stay Small". Put 100 hours into the product and 100 hours into marketing. You can do this in a month or two and then you'll see if it works or not – and more importantly: You will see if you like working on this thing or not.
If developments in AI can delegitimise human intelligence, then it was never "legitimate" in the first place (whatever that means).
I have two Yubikeys, each with a separate SSH key that's been generated/signed by an offline master that resides on a USB key in a safe. In the event I lose one, I simply revoke/expire the key on keyservers and generate another using the offline key.

If you don't have your Yubikey at your parents house, maybe you should just enjoy spending time with them, instead of working on things that need an SSH key?
Some payment gateways offer "gateway recurring billing" where the credit card data is stored at the gateway not on your most likely less secure servers. Ashley Madison could have done that and avoided some of the damage from the breach.
In my experience, those "some guys" do a lot of just that: talking. If they get code out to the public, it's utterly undocumented, the source code is unintelligible, and fails to compile or install most of the time, but everything's fine according to him because "it works on my hardware."
I agree, this would be good. Intel's ParallelAccelerator.jl [1] is making some progress in this area.

[1] http://julialang.org/blog/2016/03/parallelaccelerator
I wonder why you think it's an issue. I cannot imagine passive investors would be required to vote their shares, any more than anyone else is.
Mame is fantastic for this reason. Although, I'm not sure how I played a lot of those games, they're much more difficult than I remember. I guess when you had only $5 in quarters you had to make them last. Getting a $20 for games at the big arcade or Chuck E Cheese/Crystals as a kid was like winning the lottery.
Why did Ellie Goulding change her dress up sense?
Java Library of Networking Protocols: PCEP, RSVP-TE, OSPF, BGP-LS
It's also assuming that people get up an hour earlier. I'm sure a lot of people don't set alarms on Sunday and get a full night's sleep.
OpenBSD vmm/vmd Update [pdf]
Depends on how much capital you have and how paranoid you are about failure. So, yes.