skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a bit tone deaf. He doesn't think he owns his street so it doesn't occur to him that other people feel that way, and that's a pretty fair stance. That mindset is why a lot of people hate the suburbs.
How do you mean The Pirate Bay is set up explicitly for finding pirated material? Where does that come from? They are set up for finding torrents. Torrents can be and often are completely legitimate. Sometimes they contain pirated material, but even that material is never in contact with TPB site.

About the name: Yes, it contains the word "Pirate". It doesn't mean that the actual pirates are there. Also, Amazon is a legitimate online store, not a river with a surrounding jungle. Kayak does not sell kayaks, and Apple is not about apples at all.
Check out this Foursquare talk that goes through how we used to do scheduling -- basically you make jobs dependent on a date - http://www.slideshare.net/OpenAnayticsMeetup/luigi-presentat...
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If we don't develop due process for machines, they're going to be the scapegoat for everything.

...and I'm going to get away with murder.
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Why i have long wanted to see the gTLDs moved to .us to make that overt.
the fact that they enable people to search for things does not remove the honus from individuals as to whether or not they should do illegal acts.

For example, it is not because a dictionnary has a definition of the word "murder" that suddenly it creates murderers.

There is no causality.
The one I suggest goes to 6 Ghz

I can't imagine that pulsed digital transmission on 10Ghz
would not create noise in the lower harmonics bands at all.
The meter also have a sound mode where you eg. can hear the ~8-10Khz modulation of the mobile ~700/900/1900/2100Mhz signal.

You can clearly hear the difference between different transmission types as DECT phones, Wifi, GSM/LTE, and EM noise in general(PC's/HDMI cables/USB3 HD docks)

My central room heater has a small CR battry powered computer (that I had forgot all about) that calculate the bill and transmit the results every 2 minutes on 2.4Ghz

it makes a tiny ~0.5 sec pulse on the display/audio, and I thought for an hour that I had a hidden transmitter in my apartment, since turning the mains fuse off had no effect.

I had to clear the room of all tech to track down the source, felt a bit stupid when I finally found it.

So going down this road has some up's and down's vs staying totally oblivious of ones electromagnetic environment.
Ah, interesting! Thank you for sharing!
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Eh, seems fine, just seems odd to be forced to do that for a three-argument function.
Sounds like a plausible outcome. The RIAA is extremely mad at Google - specifically YouTube - for what they believe is lost revenues. I'd be willing to wager a large sum of money that your postulation is correct, and that would be the next step. Some might think me cynical but I have developed my opinion of RIAA after quite a bit of outside study.
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Shorcan | Toronto, ON | Full-time | Onsite (occasional work from home allowed)

I am a worker there and a fellow Java dev. We are currently hiring Junior Java Developer to expand our small team of four programmers.

Tech we use:

IDEA Ultimate (as an IDE, Eclipse fanboys need not apply)

Java 8 (Server side) and Java 7 (Client side)

Gradle (for deployments and compilation because screw maven and its long ass xmls)

Git (to check in code (did I really have to say that?))

Attlasian (for bug tracking)

MySQL + Hibernate (for database storage thinking of eventually moving out of that into something cooler).*

That is pretty much it. Work is extremely fun, and you will get to do A LOT of things (it is not all about boring finance math calculations (that part has already been done)). This is not a sweatshop and there is no corporate bullshit because the company's awesome CTO will shield you from all of that.
You get to choose what OS and computer you want to work on (mine is top of the line XPS 13 for example).

Only things asked from you is to really love programming and be organized responsible human being, but we will not force you to work more than forty hour weeks since we are super anti burnout and want everyone in the team to be well rested and happy.

Submit your resume to
dtumanov at shorcan.com
Bonus points if you give link to your github, stackoverflow account or overall show off your programming prowess.

Oh and did I mention that we love vim? :D
Shorcan | Toronto, ON | Full-time | Onsite (occasional work from home allowed)

I am a worker there and a fellow Java dev. We are currently hiring Junior Java Developer to expand our small team of four programmers.

Tech we use:

IDEA Ultimate (as an IDE, Eclipse fanboys need not apply)

Java 8 (Server side) and Java 7 (Client side)

Gradle (for deployments and compilation because screw maven and its long ass xmls)

Git (to check in code (did I really have to say that?))

Attlasian (for bug tracking)

MySQL + Hibernate (for database storage thinking of eventually moving out of that into something cooler).*

That is pretty much it. Work is extremely fun, and you will get to do A LOT of things (it is not all about boring finance math calculations (that part has already been done)). This is not a sweatshop and there is no corporate bullshit because the company's awesome CTO will shield you from all of that.
You get to choose what OS and computer you want to work on (mine is top of the line XPS 13 for example).

Only things asked from you is to really love programming and be organized responsible human being, but we will not force you to work more than forty hour weeks since we are super anti burnout and want everyone in the team to be well rested and happy.

Submit your resume to
dtumanov at shorcan.com
Bonus points if you give link to your github, stackoverflow account or overall show off your programming prowess.

Oh and did I mention that we love vim? :D
In my experience, some people routinely believe any statement that takes this form, so it's good to be factually careful when making them.

There have been three major discussions of this story, and two of them spent many hours on the front page, including yesterday. Those were flagged, but not "flagged off the front page".
Why is anybody writing about this monumental fail?
EVs work more like an automatic transmission car, but they actually has no gears to change.
great tool
Time to take down RIAA.
Which is completely irrelevant to the point that this worthless-to-society A-hole gets let into this country and then completely exploits our legal system while providing nothing of value to anybody. This is exactly the type of scum that needs to be kept out of here.
Please explain how a system that saves the average user a ton of bandwidth quota, reduces network congestion, and is trivial to opt out of, is "actually screwing people over". I'm very pleased with their Netflix policy, because it means I don't have to bother with shitty hotel DSL for Netflix while I'm traveling.
> Is it being proposed that all copyrighted material be subjected to compulsory universal licensing?

Personally, I think this would be a far better copyright reform than any we've gotten in the last hundred years. Compulsory licensing for music, which is largely in effect for public performance and broadcast performance (in North America at least), enables all sorts of great things that just aren't possible in the modern copyright environment.

I can think of far worse things in the world for owners of copyrighted works who want to sell that work than for them to have to do so in a fair market.
A flash mob of commuters is going to know whether a stop is 2-way or 4-way (there are signs), and they are going to know what the speed limit is (there are signs). If someone is as attentive as they need to be while driving, it's irrelevant whether the park is a playground or there are three schools nearby or whether there are kids in a given house. I don't know about you, but if I'm somewhere I've never been before because I'm going around a traffic jam, I am even more attentive than normal.

If someone isn't as attentive as they need to be, that's a different problem altogether.
I absolutely would lose my cool in this situation.
> we blasted in turning it upside down searching the apartment for the TV.

Wait, so the occupants hadn't taken your TV, but because they didn't snitch, it was OK to enter their house and turn it upside down??
> It's nothing against you but is this a common opinion in the US? People in neighborhoods "own" the streets?

Yes, but it's nuanced. Own the streets in order to control the environment of our mini-castles (our homes), but know that we don't have a legal basis to stand on.

Neighborhood streets weren't organized in a manner to accommodate high traffic patterns, and it ends up being a real issue for local residents. It's not too much of a stretch to be upset that your once quiet neighborhood is now a major traffic jam because of a mobile app.

> It's like having their cake (single-family home with a parking space) and eating it too (avoiding traffic nuisance which they impose on others).

Multi-family units with multi parking spaces cause significantly more traffic issues than single family home.

> As a Frenchman...and it's my right to use it to cut traffic as I see fit.

Is this why people in Paris don't clean up after their dogs on sidewalks? I know Parisians don't represent all the french, but it definitely was a culture shock seeing all that excrement.
Which is what is supposed to be happening anyways. That's literally what machine learning is about.
And people say there's nothing copyrightable in an API design...
The AK in particular is an interesting weapon in that the controlled part (legislation around guns deals with the concrete part that "is" the firearm, which is the action that houses nearly all of the other parts) is made out of stamped/bent sheet metal.

The harder part in the case of an AK is the parts kit that has all of the other parts that must be actually machined. Step 0 of making an AK from a shovel is "buy a parts kit made from an entire old, previously functional gun minus the sheet metal and wooden furniture". In terms of making a true firearm from scratch an AK would still be fairly difficult. In terms of making a technical "firearm" (the controlled part), the AK is one of the simplest.
The problem with these examples of verbose functions is not that they're verbose, it's either that they encompass too much functionality or poorly describe what they do.
A friend laughed at me once when I said I felt bad about cutting through neighborhood streets when waze routed me that way.
Is it hard to get used to a car with no clutch?
But the private key is (of course) never sent to GitHub, so it's hard for me to imagine what kind of vuln this would help with. I can think of a few, but they're odd:

1. Some sort of remote memory leak that leaks the current private key, I guess.

2. Some sort of relay attack where you can impersonate the legit host.

In both of these cases, it seems like at a minimum you would need to, on the client, set up an ssh config that limits each identity to each host so as to prevent the client from trying each key in sequence (and thus potentially exposing it). That's a huge hassle!

So I guess tl;dr: I can think of a few cases where this might be useful, but if you're always SSH'ing from the same laptop, this step can probably be pretty far down your list of things to do.
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You're right about Python and R having to pass data back and forth to the JVM for certain operations, but also keep in mind that native code still runs in the native interpreter. That means you have access to the full ecosystem of the native language.

For example, if I want to convert an RDD of JSON strings into Python dictionaries:

import json
rdd_dict = rdd.map(lambda x: json.loads(x))

Same goes for any external Python libraries I install on the cluster and want to use in my Spark job. You can even run your Python code on PyPy [4]!

For me, working in Python generally feels like a first class experience on Spark. There are areas -- like GraphX [0], certain niche features [1] -- where Scala is definitely easier to work with, but with time that is becoming less [2] and less [3] true thanks to the DataFrame API.

[0] https://spark.apache.org/graphx/

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/23995040/877069

[2] https://github.com/graphframes/graphframes

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/a/37150604/877069

[4] https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2144
>in both housing and in education, we've subsidized it, there is more of it and it costs more.

What about all of Europe that has almost free education?
I rarely use Craigslist, as it's a cesspool of fraud. But when I sell used stuff online, I lost the terms as "As is" and don't make representations as to working condition.
This is despicable and lazy and heartless and I'll make full use of it!
Checkout the Neighborhood App for examples.
One factor is that in Europe cities are older and roads are narrower, so there is a natural disincentive to cutting and speeding through many residential streets. Having lived in London I can tell you that people speeding through narrow residential streets to avoid traffic was a significant local issue in my borough (Wandsworth).
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The vertical height of characters was dictated by the number of scan lines in the display. It was impractical to use displays that weren't compatible with TV standards, so that meant 240 non-interlaced scan lines. 10 pixels is about the smallest height you can make a font including line spacing, so that's how you get 24 rows.

Once you have the number of rows, you want the number of columns to have a good balance. 80 columns gives you well proportioned characters, where other alternatives e.g. 132 do not. Add that to the historic precedence and you have the makings of a standard.

Teletypes were in common use on the first time-sharing systems, and those were only 72 columns wide. Consider yourself lucky to have those extra 8 characters.
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"The existence of an armed, trained civilian population prevents the current government from going completely insane with the vast power they've thus far been allowed to take and selectively abuse."

Yes, that's why basically all Europe lives in a dictatorship now-a-days due to our gun control laws.
Just because something is a creative act doesn't mean it's covered by copyright. If your functional creation is useful and novel, get a patent on it.
I suppose 10 minutes is for hovering rather than 100 mph. I wonder what the range is then?

In principle you could add a lot of range by attaching wings, but maybe it's not worth the weight.
The last interaction resulted in my then-girlfriend's next door neighbor banging on her door and literally screaming at her. I'm not exaggerating. I've never seen a grown man foam at the mouth, but yeah, that apparently did it.

Never, ever, ever buy a house without off-street parking. I don't even care if you don't have a car. Just don't. I would hate to live that man's life.

I will say that I have seen the kind of people bitching about this Waze thing, and... sigh. The suburbs, man. People are funny.
> For me types make prototyping WAY faster

Agreed. I can prototype an idea almost entirely in types, and if the types make sense, then the implementation often follows naturally.
I disagree. At this point the neighbors have effectively privatized a public facility. They should have to pay 100%.

(I'm a U.S. suburban Dad with 2 young kids who do stupid things on their bikes.)
What coordination? There is no coordination.
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Hello Ryan,
Does Ford hire F1 Visa candidates? If yes, I am interested to talk more. Please provide your direct contact.

Thank you.
I think there entire thing is looked at backwards by city planers. Instead of having one major road you force everyone on to, make all the side streets viable. Parallel works great when you can't speed up the serial speeds.
Ask HN: README.tex and math formulas for GitHub?
GitHub discussion is here: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/898

The two main questions here are:

1) Have you ever needed formulas or technical markup in your GitHub README file?

2) Would you be receptive of TeX making an entrance in the supported README languages, now that there are good tools to support converting it to HTML?
I don't know their exact involvement, but they were involved. Did they help carry it out? I don't have the play by play. It wasn't a court case and I didn't care. The guys who drove off with it it were staying at their place that night. I knew it was one of two groups of folks or all of them at the house that evening. So I knew damn well I had the right people who could get the situation resolved in an efficient manner.

You're right they didn't snitch, amazingly. They thought they were tough guys. Maybe even as they were beaten to their knees? For the record, they weren't harmed until they pulled a gun out. But they were going to snitch eventually whether they thought they were going to or not.
I want Waze to add new features:
1. Crowd source bad roads. Some interstates are atrocious, I'd happily turn on [X] avoid potholes and uneven pavement. Maybe use the motion sensors to do this automatically.
2. Get me know altitude. This would made planning trips through the mountains way better - avoiding high mountain passes would be very helpful.
3. Overlay radar when thunderstorms are hopscotching across the land.
I have nothing but props for that one. A true, full-stack or whole-system coder in the way the term should be used. He's also about halfway to Frenchgeek's grand challenge. Maybe we need to take up funding for him to put it all on an ASIC at 0.35 micron.
It's all about the intent. They're doing this so they can target and harass these people. If it was merely some sort of educational tool which identified names and provided historical origins of those names, I'm sure there would be no issue. But this tool exists so neo-Nazis can harass people with Jewish names.
He represents himself, there is no lawyer to punish.
That DVD/Blu-Ray would be region locked to the Americas...
My civpro prof loved Rule11 and told us many tales of nefarious attorneys being humiliated by judges as punishment for this sort of behavior. It can happen even to the pro se as a party.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_11
Studies have shown that traffic is slower on roads without lines. If your goal is to slow down traffic you don't want a line.
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I had never heard the term postpaid. If I'm prepaying my bill why isn't that more worthy of extras, after all they've got use of my cash? Why isn't this better than simply paying after I get the bill also known as postpaid?
This is correct--I've had conflicts and a second kdbx file is created with conflicted copy and the date of the conflict in the filename.

It's a small pain to go through and figure out which item is out of sync, but doable.
> Not by anyone who understands how roads are paid for.

Interestingly enough, WAZE does not pay for those roads.
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I don't think either of these are true, but now I understand where you're coming from.
Appreciate the extra info. Might look into getting one. Lmao on the mystery of spying heater.
If you mean typeclasses, Elm doesn't have them.

Regarding hardcoded messages, there's been at some point talk in the community regarding allowing library authors to have some sort of hook to compiler that would make it possible to customize specific error messages along with a package.
Oddly enough, my PhD thesis was on the same subject, and the solutions also seem to have something in common. Look for example at figure 5.1 on page 95 of http://akkartik.name/akkartik-phd07.pdf.

I haven't fully internalized OP's approach yet (and this was many years ago, so I'm no longer very knowledgeable), but they seem to be making more assumptions about what the data structure looks like, where I had a compiler distilling arbitrary pointer traversals out of large programs.
I did discuss this, but maybe I wasn't clear.

Every EU company does not currently have to sell their products in every EU country. Neither does every American entertainment company.

The proposals, so far as I can tell, advocate a change in EU legislation such that digital goods cannot be sold to some EU countries and not others, or that EU consumers cannot be prevented from purchasing goods offered in another member state. Any such legislation will almost certainly apply to both EU and international companies. This is an idea that is very in-line with the single market goals of the EU, and I'm surprised that you seem to think otherwise.
Agreed. I often ignore it -- Waze really over-optimizes; you end up going left-right-left-right down narrow streets just to save a minute.

Mostly, I'd rather sit in the traffic on the main thoroughfare and just chill out listening to music or the radio. Not to mention, the increased mileage, wear and tear and fuel consumption from the back roads and constant turns (and disrupting otherwise quiet neighborhoods).

Waze also doesn't seem to grasp the "cost" of a left turn, particularly at a busy intersection when there's a fair bit of traffic (and no traffic control). I know Waze monitors the transit time for road segments, but I don't think it includes time waiting to turn or maybe it averages it over the day and thus ends up underestimating.
1Password relies upon a single, strong password for your "vault", which is vulnerable to sniffers and intermittent surveillance.

I don't understand why they don't offer (at least) 2-factor key for the vault.

Also, they support TouchID on iOS devices, very useful. But in the US, at least one case of someone being legally required to unlock via TouchID, whereas offering up a passcode is still debatable.

So at least offer a short PIN-and-TouchID, and support some 2-factor like Googly Authenticator.

They must have at least considered these things. I don't understand any security issues with this. Implementation is work, and perhaps a support hassle for them.

What are the technical reasons?
Portraying this as a sense of "owning" the street is unneccessarily perjorative, IMHO. I don't think that many people would argue with the idea that, all else being equal, having less traffic on the street in front of your house is a good thing. Less noise, less polution, less risk of pets and children getting hit by cars. So it shouldn't be surprising that people dislike it when traffic in front of their houses increases, and I also think it's pretty uncharitable to assume that this is because they're NIMBYs or otherwise have bad motivations.

In the broader sense, I think this relates to the tragedy of the commons. There are certain societal conventions that tend to make life better on the whole. Keeping traffic to main streets is one of them. Yes, I might gain a minute or two by cutting through your neighborhood, and you might make up a little time cutting through mine. But I don't take that shortcut, because I know it's determintal to the neighborhood and my benefit will be very small. Part of that comes with the expectation that others will in turn do the same for me.

Maybe this is a USAian way of thinking, but I believe that if everyone behaves in the most selfish possible way ("you don't own the street, so you don't get to complain if I use it to save 15 seconds"), life becomes worse for everyone.