skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The illusion could probably be easily tested with a VR headset.

The section entitled "Anisotropy of visual space" is very interesting.
If she really believes the analysis in that piece she is downright incompetent as an IP lawyer. In fact many "copyright experts" predicted the outcome. And it does nothing to threaten copyright in software. All it does is allow for reimplementation of the API.
Especially since there's already an active, well regarded, tackling stigma charity in England already: http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/
Also, couldn't this session-restore feature be triggered for this specific tab _after_ I've started to type text in a box?
Whose fault is it that manufacturers cant turn a profit?
Is Google suppose to give a handout to them when it gives them the source code to Android?
Google provides the patch for the software. It is up the manufacturers to get it to their phones.
Google is being the responsible one here if you ask me. Its the manufacture not providing support for their product who is at fault here.
I had the same use case as you, so I built a similar app except instead of a GUI, it sends me a text message. Right now I have it fire when a new episode of Silicon Valley is posted.

I really should polish it up and release it. This is the second or third thread where other people have mentioned a similar need.
>>By any normal metric, Twitter is a huge success

Revenue - Cost is perhaps the most normal metric
How is that relevant for this discussion?
"The literature on the moon illusion is vast, indicating an obsession with the problem that borders on lunacy"

Nice touch.
Does her fee from Oracle includes "opinion"/PR pieces like that?
Thanks for the response! Some notes:

1. In my benchmarks, I do control for line numbers by either explicitly making it a variable (i.e., when you see `(lines)`) or by making all tools count lines to make the comparison fair. For the most part, this only tends to matter in the single-file benchmarks.

2. For memory maps, you might get very different results depending on your environment. For example, I enabled memory maps on Windows where they seem to do a bit better. (I think my blog post gives enough details that you could reproduce the benchmark environment precisely if you were so inclined. This was important to me, so I spent a lot of time documenting it.)

3. The set of features supported by rg should be very very close to what is supported by ag. Reviewing `ag`'s man page again, probably the only things missing from rg are --ackmate, --depth, some of the color configurability flags (but rg does do coloring), --passthrough, --smart-case and --stats maybe? I might be missing some others. And Mercurial support (but ag's is incomplete). In exchange, rg gives you much better single file performance, better large-repo performance and real Unicode support that doesn't slow way down. I'd say those are pretty decent expectations. :-)

Thanks for ag by the way. It and ack have definitely triggered a new kind of searching. I have some further information retrievalish ideas on evolving the concept, but those will have to wait!
The random link on the sidebar is my go to time waster.
Having read this article it reminds me somewhat of tactics in movies where lawyers deliberately ask an inflammatory question in front of a jury purely for the purpose of planting a seed, and before anyone can yell objection they immediately retract knowing that the damage has been done. The judge may strike it from the record, the judge may tell the jury to disregard it, but you can't unthink or unhear something that's been said. The bell has already been rung.

I don't (or can't, I'm unsure) believe that lawyers of this caliber make mistakes like this. So what was her play by doing this? Did it pay off?
Please don't post unsubstantive comments like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You assume that one's thumb doesn't expand at lower angles.
Thanks. Yes, I agree completely, when it's "directly." The mining devices aren't designed specifically to crack the passwords, but the solutions have the raw processing power and use the same hash algorithm, it's just that somebody would have to adapt the chips for that given task, and for that he could keep most of what's already optimized, namely the fast SHA256 calculations in hardware. It won't be particularly hard to adapt some current solution, and the known speed benefit and power use would approximately remain.
Software modems, you mean. Real modems are attached to serial ports and don't require drivers :-)
Roughly the same: https://github.com/minouye/wikiroulette/blob/master/src/over...

If you didn't see the Chrome extension, it's worth a try - I really like the feeling of serendipity every time I create a new tab. It's a little distracting, but I think in a good way.
While the ideas and implementation are neat, this suffers from the chicken and egg problem[1]. You have to trust server's resources are not tampered with. Adding an event binding to tamper or siphon data before it's encrypted is simple.

[1] https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...
There's an alternate approach. Start a business in a dying industry. Most of the large competition will be exiting because they can't make money, but a small 5-person business doesn't need that much to prosper.

Microsoft might kill off a product that only makes $500k/year, but for 2 guys in a garage, three $500k/year income streams is doing pretty good.
Thank you for posting that. Talking about the human process and story about how things happen help other people going forward. Understanding how people build things is crucial.

Legacy isn't just for novel writers and building architects and big name visual artists - it's for anyone who creates things.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" Isaac Newton 1676
Y Combinator W17 Blank Application
Agreed. I'm from the US but didn't know about that documentary. Now I have something to watch.
Actually yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_cannabinoids

They typically cause more severe side-effects than traditional marijuana. There have been a few rounds of subway ads related to synthetic marijuana.
Yes, I was looking into the whole offline sync setup but I am a big fan of keeping a clean inbox so I just went with the current setup.

Also, one advantage of this is that changes are real-time which means that if I check the gmail app on my phone messages are correctly moved, marked as read etc.
I tried your example, and observed an error: write /dev/stdout: bad file descriptor

What "next file it opens" are you talking about exactly? How does what you're describing work?
Can we agree as a community to stop comparing every company that is losing money year after year to Amazon.

Amazon was pouring money into infrastructure while growing a massive retail business.

Worlds different than some company that's trying to figure out how to sell ads better.
Look up "app.net". It's been tried. It failed.
I made this for myself so I could use git to keep track of changes and figured some other people might find it useful.

It's view only but anyone can download the document.

Note: Any edits made to this document is just for your sanity, this is nothing more than a copy of the questions.

Good luck!
Not trying to be snarky, but why not use something like Thunderbird (or whatever comes default on the OS of the machine that you're using) that will render out the HTML natively?
If you like mutt, you will really like alot.
https://github.com/pazz/alot
I think he's just convinced me to buy them, not smoke them.
Unclear. Probably you still would. Generally new laws only affect future years though it can depend.
Fireworks was great. I still have a copy somewhere for those tasks that Paint.Net isn't quite good enough for.

Every time I try to use Photoshop or GIMP, it feels like it is just too complicated for what I'm trying to do, and I don't have the time to invest in learning where they've hidden my cheese.
It does?

I guess if you use a rigid fingering system. I never bothered to learn that back in elementary school, so my fingering is ad hoc based on what I'm typing. To type "rg" (using QWERTY), I'd just bring my middle finger up to R while using my index finger for G. This would probably be a little slower than "ag" because my hand is more likely to already be in place to type the latter without movement ("home row"), but not as slow as reusing a finger would be. It's not something I'd have to think about; this is already what I do whenever I have to type "rg" as part of a word.

I'm curious whether an ad-hoc approach is more or less efficient overall. Fingering customized per word clearly has the potential to optimize finger movement, but my error rate is relatively high - mostly timing-related - which might be exacerbated by an ad-hoc system because there are more (and more complex) unfamiliar transitions between words.

Anyway, I upvoted you for mentioning typing. It might seem trivial - well, if you use a lot of custom aliases, it is trivial - but if a command runs fast enough (and ag is already very fast on small source trees), the time spent typing its name can become a significant bottleneck. The author of Pijul, for instance, a version control system meant to compete with Git, seems not to recognize this... the command is 'pijul', which is essentially impossible to type on QWERTY without reusing a finger at least once.
Short answer: The sidebar has a form at the bottom where you can enter a username@domain to follow them. For that method, you have to know the user in advance, realistically atm you can browse the public timelines on quitter.se and quitter.no etc to see who interests you (or ask friends who're using the network, etc).

I'm going to eventually implement a "who to follow" suggestions section to make this process smoother.

Mentioning people in statuses works the same as in Twitter, except if it's a user on the same domain as you (e.g. mastodon.social) you can enter their @username, but if they are somewhere else, you enter @username@domain.

If you are replying to a status on your timeline, the mentions are pre-filled like you would expect from e.g. TweetDeck to save you the typing.

Edit: You can follow me as Gargron@mastodon.social
I did something like this 3-4 years ago, it was in secretdiary.com (or .org), now with different people. The main difference is that the url fragment had two parts:

http://secretdiary.org/#IDENTIFIER-AUTOGENPASSWORD

The autogenerated password was optional (and random) and you could instead require a password. This way it was not GET-cached anywhere unless you wanted it to so you could share the actual URL anywhere with no fear of it leaking the secrets, or you could just share the whole thing similarly to cryptpad.fr

However it was one of my first projects so it didn't even had https.
Not exactly one sentance but basically... after the Cuban revolution all the previously independent cigar brands like Montecristo, H Upman e.t.c. were all forced into a single company called Habanos SA. That company controls all Cuban cigar production, every year they bring out limited edition releases of cigars which are released sometimes in very ornate packaging and typically in very limited quantities these have basically in the past 5 or so years become "investment grade" cigars.

In addition to that, said company, Habanos SA grants regional monopolies to specific companies to distribute their cigars, these companies bring out "Regional Special Editions", which are special edition cigars available for sale only in the country they distribute too. Again the tendency has been towards limited quantities and much higher prices in certain countries.

They've basically become a bit like Modern art or old single malt scotch, they're so expensive that even if you can afford to buy them you think twice about smoking them because you know that next year they'll be worth even more. That and collecting turns into as much of a hobby as smoking them does.
At this stage of the investigation, preliminary review of the data and debris suggests that a large breach in the cryogenic helium system of the second stage liquid oxygen tank took place.

...

Pending the results of the investigation, we anticipate returning to flight as early as the November timeframe.
Can the Public Beat GM, Google and Uber on Self-Driving Cars?
Drats, you're totally right. It's easy to mess up that kind of thing.

Thankfully, it looks like my analysis remains mostly unchanged. I don't see any AVX2 in there (and indeed, I didn't when I looked at the profile either, in contrast to Go's implementation).

I updated the blog, thanks again for the clarification.
OTOH, if you only care about cash flow and not the total amount you'll pay over time, taking 10+ years to pay it off can be a good approach that leaves you with a longer runway.
I use the iPhone app Big Day Lite for trips like that.

http://bigdayapp.com
Are you sure? http://fortune.com/2016/03/20/twitter-algorithm-social-marke...

If you don't even notice it, the algo has got you...
I'm not the OP, but here a few issues that they could've meant:

* the increasing dominance of Mandarin, rather than the native Cantonese (see [1] for details and background).

* the (attempted) imposition of a "moral and national education curriculum" [2] in schools in 2012, teaching better appreciation of the motherland. (This was mostly defeated by a public outcry. Some groups that opposed it, e.g. Scholarism, played a major role in the umbrella movement later.)

* creeping erosion of press freedom and other civil liberties, such as the Article 23 anti-subversion bill that was introduced in 2003, but rejected after massive protests, or the so-called "Internet Article 23" bill introduced in 2015.

* integration and China-focus at any cost, leading to projects such as the high-speed railway to Guangzhou (Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link) or the 50 km bridge to Zhuhai.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/07/language?zid...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_and_national_education
Been using on my system ever since I started running everything from my USB drive... to prevent excessive freezing twice a minute. On NixOS, add the following two lines to your configuration.nix:

services.psd.enable = true;
services.psd.users = ["your-user-name"];
had a similar thing happen first time seeing: lol

thought it was a plate with knife and fork..
Cultural Revolution is another topic I haven't touched on -- many of our previous generation are those who fled it, and the exact same people they fled from (ie. the actual persons who might have flogged them in Struggle Sessions[1]) are now becoming the rulers of PRC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
I thought they meant that working with open source causes mental illness.

Which is something somebody should really look into.
The web used to be like this. We expected a lot more from the audience.
The thing about smoking cigars is that you smoke them however the hell you want to smoke them. It's your cigar, you inhale if you want. Do you like ice in your scotch? Have ice in your scotch. Do you like to chew on your cigars and never light them? Have at it. You're supposed to enjoy them, and nobody can tell you how to enjoy something.
They are publicly-owned companies too. That's surprising to me as well.
My theory is that this is related to an illusion I experience looking through a window at hills several miles away. When directly in front of the window, the hills look a long ways off. When I'm 50 feet or so from the window, the hills look like they're right there, immediately outside the window. By narrowing the field of view, the hills appear much closer.

Maybe when the moon is close to the horizon, the sky looks less big because local terrain encroaches on its boundaries, and so the moon in turn looks bigger in a seemingly-smaller sky.
Three exercises to unlock your creativity
So there's no way it could be retroactively applied, then. Bummer!
I'm not super rigid with all keys but I do seem to have "R with index finger" ingrained. R with the middle finger does work nicely in this case if I think about it and force myself to do it.
My issue is with the term "news aggregator". The idea is that is a news aggregator is hosting copywriten data. So would mearly using the headline and linking to the site count? What about the Tl;DR bots that places like reddit has thanks to their users. Would their users be infringing, the site infringing for hosting the link with the copy written headline as a link? Are these news outlets so out of pocket by leading users to their content?

For me (using my phone ATM as I never hardly ever use Google News anyway) all news.google.co.uk gives me as a brief summary of an article to basically get me to click the link. They only neg side I can see if that under the "more" fold there are links to other websites covering the same thing, so while I stay away from lets say the Daily Mail google will offer me links to say BBC or Sky News as well. So maybe instead of DM getting my traffic BBC will instead. But personally I wouldn't of clicked the DM link anyway and not clicked more and scrolled down till I found something of interest to me, I would of just kept scrolling.

If Google were copying major parts of the article so users not having the need to click though to the whole then I can see their point but that has not been the experience I've had from news aggregators (inc Google). They have just given me the headline and maybe the paragraph below the headline and then I've decided if I want to click or not. Which would of been on their home page anyway.

If a news site becomes so click baity to earn a click just for me to back out seconds later they never should of earnt that click in the first place, so in my eyes they are actually the ones ripping off their ad networks for baiting clicks to earn ad impressions and not Google and the like for pointing users to those links.

What me to click the link and give you ad impressions? Write content I want to read and I will come visit you directly anyway after I've found your site from Search Engines like Google as well as the clicks news aggregators create for you.

If I'm completely missing the point please let me know. I've seen this go on for a couple of years now and I still don't understand why they wouldn't want their content listed on the likes of Google OR are they just trying to double dip (get rev from ads and get the likes to Google to pony up for linking to them? If that's the case then I'm not sure where I would stand on Google jut delisting them. Sure they ovb feel the traffic Google create isn't worth it, but I also don't want Google "censoring" content I may be interested in just because Google have to pay to list it. If they (they people asking for this) were really pissed about it then surely they can just ask their dev teams to update robots.txt so Google doesn't scrape their site in the first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80niKBTm0mg
It would be cool if Wolfram Alpha had knowledge of TV show releases. I tried a few but no dice.
at the moment i'm uninterested in the arc of economic studies in acadamia so the opencourseware reading lists seem the wrong place to start for me

can anyone suggest reading to understand how contemporary banks function, where can i get an understanding of a bank or credit union from a software engineer's perspective: dependencies, steps to start, challenges of running, protections from common problems, interesting emerging disruptions;
It's very hard lesson to imbibe, as I've recently learned from interactions with people I'd worked closely with. What do you do when being nice only results in the person getting worse? Some people don't respond to kindness. Some take advantage of the fact that they are physically stronger. What do you do in those situations?
>There is tons of money in science!

Yep, it goes to the cost of doing research, paying the CEO and VPs, marketing, etc. Industry positions pay vastly better than academia, but still quite poorly relative to the amount of work and expertise needed.
you can run git annotate instead (although the format looks a bit different), but blame is shorter and easier (for me) to type and remember.
Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in all highly educated fields except for computer science/development/sysadmin.

We're very much the exception not the norm. As much as my mother believed I could be anything I would not be able to drag myself through university even without external factors pushing me down and throwing me around like a sack of meat.. for years..
The last time I used Spotlight (no mac at the moment), it was so slow that I had to disable it globally. The metadata integration in BeOS was different. For example media and email storage in BeOS.
An "implied" solution isn't a solution because it was never suggested.

And your now stated solution is easier said than done, and certainly not immune to the same kind of biases a naive solution may be subject to.
Yup and those people of hong kong are for more economic productive than the 2.3 million of the PLA.

It's economics thats more powerful than a bullet these days. It's a sort of suicide destroying HK.
Just compared to other industry metrics.
OH: "Twitter is a Friendster whose Facebook hasn't appeared yet."

From Jessica Livingston yesterday: https://twitter.com/jesslivingston/status/778948962724315136
Obviously I didn't choose right - the first two startups I worked for both failed. And then I was like "Never again" - I was the voice on HN saying that early employees get screwed, c. 2008 - and that blanket prohibition made me miss out on being employee #2 at DropBox (along with 10 or so other startups that went nowhere).

More to the point, though - I don't think that the point of a career should be to minimize risk. Or rather, you certainly can choose to minimize apparent risk - but that usually means that whoever owns the least risky option (probably Google, today) will use that as a lever to get you to accept whatever terms they give you, which is its own form of risk. Ironically, very few of the senior software engineers I knew at Google actually had "Work at Google" as a career goal - most of them were ex-startup-founders, or Ph.D dropouts, or had toured in a punk rock band decided they want an office job, or washed out of law school and figured programming looked more interesting. You gain a lot of confidence by failing at something you thought was important to you, and that helps you focus on the next thing that's important to you.

I think that your goal, when you're a 20-something with few connections and little savings, should be to gain experience as quickly as possible. That's what lets you take prudent risks when you do have the means to do so. If you've never failed at something or gotten screwed over when you're 40, you're probably about to start, and your failures will be much more visible, painful, and harder to recover from than if you fail when you're 22.
GPL is fine for this use case. AGPL might be considered too aggressive for some people.

Don't let people bully you here though. Choose the license that makes sense for you. I think you want GPL, but that's not for me to say.
I wish Slack would somehow take over Twitter. Expertly adding in custom channels would save the social platform.
Can confirm. Long-term mutt-er who frequently switches between wired and wireless networks. I basically just ctrl+z any frozen mutt instance and start over. 'fg 1' brings up the first when back on the first network...

But overall love mutt and think aerc is a great initiative. Nice to have an inbuilt sidebar too! Beats recompiling mutt with sidebar patches.

How's aerc with gpg, search, offline storage?
This is a great explanation... could also be titled, "Why taking a picture of the moon with your smartphone never looks as amazing as in real life."
A lot of people in California (and NY, NJ, etc) hit AMT every year. Two incomes, with very large deductions for state income tax, mortgage interest, and property taxes paid.