skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously? Those two paths are off by a few hundred KMs, but are nevertheless very very similar.
int mid = (low + high) >>> 1;

I don't get how this fixes anything, the overflow still occurs.

Why not simply

int mid = (low/2) + (high/2) + (low & high & 1);
You can use Mosh + Screen (or Tmux, I suppose) to get a scrollback.
At least a nuclear winter would reverse the effects of the carbon emissions...
It used to be that CPUs were designed with schematics (drawings). Today, they seem to be designed with text (VHDL or Verilog). I wonder why?
I must say that my first impression is beyond positive.

One to one and group chats, group video and audio calls, GIF search built-in, doodles, the best implementation of photos in the message stream that I've seen, poking and playable Spotify and Soundcloud music by just sharing links? All with end-to-end encryption?

I have that "too good to be true" feeling but, still impressed. Just waiting for possible audits and more feedback from the security community.

Edit: It's also Switzerland based, already supports Win10, MacOS, Web, Android and iOS, and to complete has the cleanest design I've seen in a messaging app.
> The biggest downside to the NSA revelations is how quickly people accept conspiracy theories.

Because what Snowden revealed IS a plot against the citizen.
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Such a trip costs money. To secure the legal right to inhabit the island, to make the trip, and to bring enough supplies to survive.

A person either needs to use his parent's cash or to work for a number of years and save before leaving. The "choice" isn't available to him until that happens, so either his parents must work to purchase their child's freedom, or he must work to purchase it himself. In either case this is one of the very definitions of slavery.
I appreciate the context of your argument when you discuss the use of text in by-laws, but it's worth noting that there are lots of examples of by-laws being enforced via non-text mediums:

1) road signs, which are predominantly graphic based

2) public information signs. Eg no smoking. Also usually picture based albeit does often contain text instruction as well

3) beach flags indicating where to swim etc.

All of these are enforcing by-laws yet none specifically text driven. In fact when conveying simple rules to people, it often makes more sense to explain that in meaningful images as that enables anyone to understand the message, even if one doesn't understand the written language (eg tourists).
You're joking right? This was national news when this was revealed.

You obviously didn't read the link: "The PRISM program collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms."
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How will you implement exceptions?
Ubuntu on Linux gives you a decent commandline, not a whole lot more. Still some questions on upgrades etc ("apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" typically fails badly). What about Linux software with GUIs, or ports of such? Homebrew so far beats the stuff for Windows by a far margin. You get timely upgrades, and it can be used to install, run and upgrade most of the ported Linux GUI apps as well. Having said that, Ubuntu on Windows looks like a great start! With some decent package management it could be very cool.
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Edit: I'm being downvoted pretty heavily on this, but I'm not entirely sure why. I didn't even mention Trump's wife.

DNC Leaked emails are not interesting, but a plagiarized paragraph by Trump's wife is interesting?

Hu? The DNC email leaks are much more interesting than the plagiarized paragraph in Melania Trump. Neither are particularly interesting in the scheme of things though.

The plagiarized paragraph shows that the Trump campaign isn't very well organized. I think most knew that.

The DNC emails show that the DNC favored Hillary as a candidate. We knew that too - they did in 2008 when Obama beat her.

Are you saying that politicians and political parties do not wield power and influence and do nothing to influence the media? The main purpose of politics is to wield power and influence, and the media is core to this. Are you saying that media is unbiased despite the fact that they are on record contributing to particular candidates' campaigns, e.g. Time Warner (CNN) being one of Clinton's top contributors?

No I'm not(!!)

I'm saying that reading the malware listing of Wikileaks by Google as some kind of Democratic party conspiracy is wrong.

I'm saying I don't know much about Reddit.

I'm saying that in my professional opinion (I work in area) there are multiple possible explanations for the Twitter hashtag thing.

I'm also (now) saying that the three things are unrelated. It is extremely temping to conflate multiple independent things and see things that aren't there.
Dont see what's wrong with "keep on course".

The point is you dont need to waste fuel changing the orientation when the engines can only power/accelerate you "forward".

Im struck by two things. Firstly the gyroscopic means to change orientation is cool.

Secondly. I'm amazed they aren't using magnetic bearings already.
1. been there, done that. 2. been there, done that. 3. Considered that in a case where multiple systems were hitting the same database but doing inconsistent things - putting the logic in the database would at least make it consistent, but went with REST API instead to solve the problems.

I'm not entirely against code reuse, sure, reuse bits like visual interface if they fit, but the idea that it can solve everything by just sticking existing bits together is a false lead. It takes much longer than expected and it makes an unmaintainable mess.
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Bad title, there's no source code to download...
From what I understand they had front door access, but the NSA wiretapped between datacenters.

Google engineers issue 'fuck you' to NSA over surveillance scandal
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/6/5072924/google-engineers-i...
I agree with this, and I think it's a pretty fair assessment.

I'm not sure if that means that it should or shouldn't be a trending hashtag on Twitter.

I do know that I'm a somewhat wonkish follower of politics and didn't really find them that interesting. I would imagine that "interesting" should be something that trending hashtags should optimize for? I complete concede this is a personal opinion though.
One of the best analyses I read of the original Matrix movie (before the sequels came out) was that the whole thing (Matrix, Zion, machines, etc.) was a virtual reality game run by humans to keep us busy until Earth's biosphere recovered from the rodgering we're currently giving it.
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HN is a liberal safe space. Of course any article that reflects badly on liberal ideas will be removed. that political-story "gravity" is the same thing as reddit's "modified algorithm" to hide /r/The_Donald. There is an enormous push of a certain agenda from all major corporations in US, neither HN, nor reddit or google is an exception.
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They probably mean “It's a Small World (After All)”, from the Disneyland ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LeQogBE9oM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Small_World
Here, too.

"Not dangerous"
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Yes, unfortunately, symbolic AI is not popular in startups...
This is 5 years from now that transistors won't shrink anymore. Computers stopped a while ago having higher clock speeds. More integration, wider data paths compensated to some degree. The discussed alternatives like vertical sound in my ears fairly exotic for an industry that has been shrinking, shrinking and shrinking the nodes as the main mode of technical progress.

The potential impact is game-changing. I really wonder how this is going to shape where investments in IT go.
Interesting. Do you know how they handle identity/usernames/contact discovery without central servers?
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Yeah, especially the beginning of the route, taken to avoid Malaysian airspace. Why would someone do that in the simulator? Also, having practically spent half of my free time flying around in FSX I can tell you, flying over any ocean is boring, it's not something you do for fun. You fly over the ocean to get somewhere.
Yes, but I find a $400M retention package to be highly implausible. We're talking the kind of compensation that Google/Facebook would spend to retain 40 top executives.
I remember seeing some amazing things in a video of a LISP-based shell & 'terminal emulator' many years ago. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called... but as far as I remember, it was full of inline images & animations and listing a directory would include icons to indicate the file type, which could be clicked on to open a file manager, etc.
Is it really professional for the media to be so closely connected to political organizations in the first place?
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Anyone care to elaborate why I'm being downvoted?
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Storage with containers is something that we need to solve properly

...Or you could just use SmartOS zones, and then all these artificial problems go away, as zones natively reside on the ZFS filesystem inside of the zpool underneath them. Why would one want to waste one's time on technology which is clearly not finished and doesn't offer any advantages over zones? As a logical being, I'm genuinely perplexed by the overall insistence on Docker. What is the cause of it?
Ask HN: Managing Twitter lists
I follow a couple hundred users on Twitter and I would really like to use lists. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to manage them with some comfort or ease. Twitter website is cumbersome in the sense that you need to click on a user, then click through again, and then you can select the lists. This is fine if you are disciplined to do this each time you follow someone new, but useless for categorizing a couple of hundred existing accounts.

I use Tweetdeck as desktop app and Plume on Android (although it needs regular clearing of the cache) but I found both equally incapable of editing lists.

Ideally I would like something akin to http://twitlistmanager.com/ where you have a grid with the people you follow and a column for each list. The problem with this interface is that when you scroll down a bit, the column headers (lists) scroll off screen. Another issue is that it only lists twitter account names, not display names, no account description. Not sure about others, but I need to click on about half of them to see who's behind the sometimes rather cryptic usernames.

I would not mind paying a few bucks for a tool that does this properly at all, but the problem is I simply cannot find any. Does anybody have a suggestion? Or should I give up on Twitter lists all together?
Wasn't there an article just the other day about how online advertising is shifting back a bit to TV ads because of ad blockers?
So I think that the story around PRISM specifically is a bit confused. PRISM was initially reported as mass collection of data by the NSA, and Google has repeatedly denied that they took part in that. They do co-operate with targeted national security letter investigations, and with police with warrants, but they are known to challenge both. Quoting the page you linked to:

Google cares deeply about the security of our users' data. We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully. From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'back door' into our systems, but Google does not have a backdoor for the government to access private user data. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users' internet activity on such a scale is completely false.

Here is some details about the hack the NSA did on Google's infrastructure: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...

You should also disclose that you work in the National Security industry, at a Palantir equivalent in Australia.

Wow! This made me laugh. We fund (and sometimes work on ourselves!) research on things like contagious disease prediction, and things like trying to understand mass social actions like elections. Yes, it is national security related, but not exactly that kind of national security! Sometimes the same agencies are involved though - for example, the same agency provides disease alert advice to government as provides political instability advice. So I guess maybe that makes me untrustworthy or something?

I can talk to you at great depth about Dengue Fever modelling and possible ways to try to derive parameters for mosquito breeding models if you like - it's pretty interesting, and maybe that would help some?
This site begs for a IMDB rating import function... I've rated hundreds on movies on there, but I'm not prepared to do it all again on a different site while all the data is already for the grabs..!
BTW, loving the idea and already found some promising new movies to watch!
On iOS an app can ask to access the GPS from the background. You can allow or deny that request, and if you go into the settings you can set its GPS permissions to never, always, only when running
I highly doubt it. Unredacted SSN and Cc numbers aren't "dangerous" to the reader by any stretch of the imagination. It's much more likely that it's malware or something, in the email attachments.
But not always - my parents own land in Australia and one of their borders is defined as meeting a river (since the river is publicly-owned so anyone can get water from it). When the river changes, they gain or lose land.
At the point you’re citing Tufte, I’m pretty sure we essentially agree.

Note, this is what I was responding to: “[...] people naturally communicate using language. In your head you may think in symbols and spatial relationships, but if you want to get a concept out of your head and into someone else's head you have to use language.”
Related side note:

George Hotz from Comma.ai was interviewed by Jason Calacanis for this week in startups and he trashed the Cruise Automation deal. He said they were too secretive and hinted they did not have very good technology.

http://thisweekinstartups.com/george-hotz-commaai/
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In this case, the algorithm is open, so there's no guesswork:

http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.h...

HN has normally been transparent whenever they modify something manually.
That is clear: voice over network, I don't care about some loss of fidelity, but for my audio collection, I absolutely do care.
More expensive.

Here's another approach: represent the range as a (low, length) pair instead of (low, high). The update becomes either length /= 2 or low += length/2, length -= length/2. IIRC this was what I did when I adapted Bentley's code to C 25 years ago, mainly because of overflow. It never occurred to me to check if standard libraries got it wrong.
And slow. For some reason all commands I execute through cygwin seem to be taking a little more than if executed through a normal windows command prompt.

This really breaks the cygwin experience for me :/
> If you compile to Python, well, your program will probably run pretty slowly and you lose any static typing guarantees.

What? The static typing guarantees should be checked (statically!) by the compiler, so the choice of language you emit doesn't need to affect what kind of type system you can design your input language to accept.
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Don't think you need one. The motor isn't actually driving anything directly - it's using conservation of angular momentum to cause the spacecraft to spin in the opposite direction to the motor. No output shaft required.
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How much memory does a 500m row data set use in data.table?
I also got an odroid XU4. As a replacement for a sheeva plug I was using as a home server. I was hoping to use the HDMI out into my TV and use it for browsing and streaming media. Unfortunately none of the distros produced by hardkernel fully work. There is always something broken in each distro. It's a complete pain. I don't know why they cant just produce a distro that has all of the hardware working at install time.
If you or someone could track down the Prolog/Type System post, I'd be interested!
Could you elaborate? I've been surrounded by regular drug users for at least a decade at this point, and I've see dependency/addiction to all sorts of drugs, including those that are often considered non-addictive. And that's not even counting addiction to gaming, food, sex, and so on.

I have not encountered a single case where someone appeared to be dependent on or addicted to acid. Sure, some people used it a little more than I'd consider healthy, but calling that an addiction or even a dependency would be stretching it.
> Basically, I wonder what would a shell look like if it was designed today without any concern for compatibility

The TempleOS shell is pretty innovative in this regard.
Funny coincidence - In Taipei, this tone means the garbage truck is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs5FekrLO7o

Quite fitting though. Since the tune starts playing, left powered-on, the PC is going to turn into a hunk of junk soon. :) :)
Why not just use the good old python windows installer? I am using it for many years on various systems for both pytgon 2x and 3x and never had any problem or thought that it was difficult.

On the other hand, installing a different than the default version of python on a linux system is not something that a newbie can do (since it involves getting the sjc, compiling it and making an altinstall).
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Appears I reached the end of all the movies. Says theres only 1715 movies. Either thats incorrect or there's a very tiny amount of movies imported.
(Disclaimer: PPC Yellowdog Linux on PlayStation 3 used to be my primary development system.)

I'd prefer SmartOS, but that only works on intel, as PPC support was removed from the illumos kernel a long, long time ago. Nevertheless, reverting those changesets and getting it running again would be cool.

Next on the list, then, would be AIX, an operating system developed on POWER for POWER.

I also read that FreeBSD has some POWER support, but unlike AIX, it's nowhere near production quality material yet. FreeBSD would have been my next choice.
What do you consider to be massive government intervention?

A carbon tax, as long as it is in put into place before the problem gets out of hand, would probably solve the problem, but I would not consider that "massive" government intervention.

The kind of climate change caused by our greenhouse gas emissions is bad for the country as a whole. In an ideal free market, normal market forces would cause us to move away from causing this kind of climate change. Real markets are not ideal free markets. A carbon tax, by making greenhouse gas produces pay some of the costs that otherwise would be externalities shifted to others, brings the real market closer to an ideal free market.

If we wait too long then a carbon tax won't be enough and massive government intervention could become necessary. By "massive" I mean the government stepping in and making decisions like what fuels you must use, setting specific emission caps on specific emitters, and things like that.
I routinely do my data munging in SQL/Hive/Pig. I think R is more of a complement to that. Mainly for more data munging that needs some programmatic manipulation and of course advanced statistical analysis.
> 7:15 PM UTC-8

Fixed that for you. Not everyone know every timezone ever, but we don't need to because with UTC it's very simple arithmetic.
> hacked into their private API

an unpublished api is not the same thing. I think there needs to be more clarification on this, but if its just an unpublished api they've done nothing wrong.
I've been using it for a while just with 1 other friend who has it, and it's without a doubt my favourite IM as far as interface/functionality/etc.

As usual it's just the matter of getting other people to use it. Everyone I know just uses FB Messenger or Telegram now.
>in spite of its draconian business regulations.

California is the most populous state, contains more people than the 21 least populous states combined. [1]

Taking China and India as a reference, I believe population is a big reason for its growth.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
One way to get R more production worthy is to use things like PMML to scale up models.
They fit 12 billion transistors on their latest die, that's even more than a top-end Xeon. You can bitch all day from your comfortable arm chair, but they're leading the industry in counts and that alone can't be easy. They're not silk screening t-shirts here, they're pushing their process to the limits.

If they were falling behind in transistor counts you might have a case, but they're not.
Are there any plans to add a 'report' feature to HN? It would be much more obvious, as I was not aware that I should email hn@ycombinator.com before today.
Looking them up on zefix.ch shows that they appear to be only registered in Switzerland, with Luxembourg ownership and non-Swiss management.

Alan, their CTO and (co-?)founder is Swedish.
For a lot of network types that will do the job. 2x the performance is often better than 2x the fidelity. You can get higher accuracy with more nodes.
Yes, it does work on Windows. Not anywhere else.
This theory could go a long way in explaining the slow death of World of Warcraft. Blizzard can make as much end-game content as they want but the fact remains that the average new player starting out is faced with 12 years worth of content that is so ridiculously easy that there's a very real chance they will go through it all without dying once.
So if I email malware with Gmail, should Google label Gmail as dangerous?
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Let me provide a different perspective: In my early years I did not miss a single fight. I argued hard, enjoyed it a lot, and usually won. At 40, I started to hate what that habit had turned me into.

Fast forward: these days I try to resolve any conflict immediately and I value harmony indefinitely higher than being right. There is so much more to life than fighting!

Of course, knowing that you are able to fight hard might be necessary in order to avoid conflict. So I'm not saying, don't fight -- just keep an eye on the greater picture while you do!
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I really like it too but after extended testing I found it was incompatible with NoScript's Application Boundaries Enforcer because pi-hole replaces ad requests with an empty HTML 'page', rather than simply dropping or blocking ads like a browser ad-blocker would.

I don't know enough about how this works to figure out how to work around it so I reverted to blocking ads at the router with a hosts file. NoScript provides too many other benefits so I had to keep it and stop using pi-hole.