skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because you missed the hidden Part 4 where Shan&Thurston finish their solution:

http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber...
Is it actually possible to keep a head/brain alive in a jar?
No? You really want to discuss array starting indexes here, too? WTF? We have the end of 2011, get over it!

ARGHL!
If you want to learn anything on a technical level, learn about big-O bounds on runtimes. This will give you an understanding of why some things can't realistically be done by machines. You don't need to hack things together, but you should be able to talk coherently with your tech founders about issues.
How about a discount for buying it in a way that costs the vendor less?
It met the word count, has 10 references, and appears to be grammatically correct. In some ways it's actually a reasonably well-written article (the paragraphs are the right length, it uses linking phrases for structure, and it seems to have an adult vocabulary), so if you don't actually read it it looks pretty good.
You are absolutely right. And that is what makes the constitution important, to be that "federal guarantee".

I'd like to comfort you that "taxes for crossing state borders" could never happen but I'm not sure I can justify that. I was hoping the Commerce Clause would say something there but I couldn't find anything. Maybe somebody else could find something on this bit of a hole in the libertarian philosophy?
What does a committee have to do with it? Most of C++ was there when Bjarne Stroustrup created the original versions himself.
FEC = Forward Error Correction? Could you expand on that? I'm not familiar with this whole area at all.
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Aren't horrible template errors the compiler's fault and not the language's (or the library's as you suggest)?
Yes the media definitely conspires against him. Just not for reasons you might think, his F#@king nuts !
I tend to think that applications developped in C++ are usually more complex and hence you get the false notion that the complexity stems from the language. While in fact you're just comparing apples to oranges.
I didn't define it. You could have asked for clarification.

We have had three instances degrade within a week. So far, we have had five instance degrade. At current degradation rate, nearly 100% of our production servers would degrade every year.

It took a lot of work to try and get, from Amazon support, the expected degradation rates of their servers. Their response was as I described: implement redundancy. They never did let me know their expected degradation rate.

Admittedly, we have not seen any degradation in a few months. However, this doesn't make me feel any better.
How is this avoided, on a societal level, in terms of law enforcement - other than making a conscious effort to avoid it?
I should've downvoted this link because it omits MongoDB...but I took a Bindle to the knee: http://bindle.me/bindles/304

I love this service, good job!
The original post from Nestoria that this article refers to was already on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392851), but I felt that this quote plays pretty well also into today's discussion about why startups don't use .Net:

Open source allows people to get prototypes up and running for the price of a PC, which is great for trying out ideas with live code. And yet despite these zero-cost origins, open source software scales up to supercomputing levels - the perfect solution for startups that hope to grow.

Today, no startup would consider doing it any other way, which means that the initial competitive advantage of taking the open source route has largely vanished

In my view, the big advantage with OSM is that you get the actual data, not just pretty map pictures. This allows you to do all kinds of rendering changes, but also to use the data for searches, geocoding, and other things.
I feel the same way about this. It makes me sad and I can't even envisage getting a reader. As the obvious target for this kind of gift (techie that loves reading), I have asked all my friends and family to not even think about getting one for me. I dream of having a whole room full of books, a confortable sofa and a fire place in the future!

One of my fears is that digital books will change people's reading habits, by having too much choice available instantly it seems too tempting to start many at once and not finish any. With time this could result in books & stories becoming shorter and this can't be a good thing.

I do however realise that these feelings of mine do not make much sense and that one day, when the book I want to read isn't available in a physical form, I will have to surrender and get the digital version. I agree that that day will be a sad one, but many people felt (and still feel) that way about vinyls, and it hasn't prevented the mass from evolving and embracing the new capabilities of the new formats.

I can imagine a future where the books as we know them now are just one specific (and old fashioned) way to tell a story, in a world full of other formats and possibilities. I believe that change must not be feared and as long as the whole world doesn't go crazy, we should be fine :-)
The guy who runs prgmr.net (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc) more or less says the same, despite running a virtual-server company:

Prgmr.com is no longer offering co-location ... the margin on co-location is such that I can't justify setting aside time and space that could otherwise be used for my xen VPS hosting business at this time. (note what this implies about the relitive pricing of these two commodities; quite often, owning your own hardware and co-locating it saves you money over renting virtual servers, especially once you start approaching 16 or 32GiB ram)

That said, I rent a VPS from him because I just need a small, always-on server in the cloud that I don't have to administer.
It's easy to imagine a world in the not so distant future where the idea of reading just words alone is sneered at as primitive and boring.

Were you ever in highschool?
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Yes. Simplified: you take a message and break it into n blocks such that any unique subset of k many of those blocks reconstitutes the message, even those k is less than n. Think RAID parity (though it's more complicated than that).

One thing that makes FEC attractive in wide-scale group messaging is that you have knobs to turn, in terms of how many simultaneous blocks you attempt to download to reconstitute the message.

As you can imagine, this is an idea that works really well for ISOs and DVDRips, but is clunky for emails.
Ron Paul wants to allow gold and silver to be used as legal tender. This is not the same thing as returning to the gold standard.
I disagree: the embarrassment of being publicly outed is entirely justified for a plagiarist. It's not a lynching if you tied your own noose!
I don't dispute anything in your first paragraph. The ability to preserve and distribute rare or unique documents and photos is amazing.

I'm not talking about rare books and antiquities, though. I'm talking about something far more common and mundane, and (to me at least) far more special.

The books I've inherited from my grandfather are not precious or valuable to anyone but me. They're precious because I know I'm touching the pages he touched, and when I come across the notes he's made in the margins, they're in his hand, written with the pen I remember watching him use when I was a child.

Most of us can't afford to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on rare books. But most of us can afford a couple dollars for a paperback at the used book store—even those of us who can't spend the $80-$200 that the OP calls "cheap" for a Kindle.

This is one of the reasons I like ebooks for their convenience and ability to be widely distributed, but I would be devastated to see them replace bound books as the only choice.

We're seeing the way that movie and music companies are eager to trample over consumers in the name of protecting their copyrights. Do we really want to turn books into something that can only be read if you have the right device to display them? I don't trust Amazon, Apple, or anyone else to be the gatekeeper of my books. I want the ability to turn my back on them if they start editing, deleting, or censoring books. I want to be able to say "fine, then, I'll just go to the store and get a real book, and your Kindle can suck it."

Some of my worries seem almost silly today, but we've seen too many things go from far-fetched to reality in a generation or less.
"t is one thing to catch someone plagiarizing an already fake essay. In my opinion though, exposing the cheater on the Internet by name is a punishment with far more severe consequences, that does not exactly fit the crime."

Honestly, after seeing the people here on HN crucify the guy here: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/274100/20111229/ocean-market...

I will be surprised if anyone has this same opinion.

"This type of insensitive public lynching is so reminiscent of primary school."

My thoughts exactly..
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It helps resale value, but more importantly, it protects you from rubbing your fingers on a scratch in the glass (nothing dangerous, just irritating) or having an unusable part. Like the plastic covering the rear camera lens.

I got a case for my 4S ($10 on amazon, almost unnoticeably thin) because my 4's camera became increasingly unusable over the course of a year and change since I kept putting it down on tables, while the rest of the iPhone was in good shape for being naked (even considering I drop it at least once a week). I probably noticed the first scratch on the plastic lens cover bit a month into owning the 4, while right now there are no noticeable scratches on my 4S's which was purchased in mid-October.

Compare http://twitpic.com/6n1o1b and http://twitpic.com/6ubjq2 (can't even really see faces anymore, and that was with an attempt to focus and decent lighting) to http://pic.twitter.com/gHK0yi5g or http://pic.twitter.com/7U1lNoA9 (where you see a little too much detail ;) ).
The DX is fantastic for tech books. Code and diagrams look great.
agreed...if you think the kid should be punished, contact the professor or the school. no need for the frenzy in the comments section, with people trying to make this a number-one search result
Right. It's an arbitrary decision. The fact that they made a (arguably silly) decision doesn't prevent that decision from being called out for being silly. It is silly. G+ is certainly entitled to make whatever decisions they want to, provided those decisions are legal. That doesn't make them impervious to criticism.
By having a system of checks and balances in place, that allows due process and impartial review. In the US we have the judicial process in place for this. As an interesting note, SOPA proposes doing away with much of this process in the name of "streamlining."
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The month of December was good for us. We weren't going to launch until Jan but a chef contacted us and wanted to get started right away. We gave an amazing deal on the first event and sold out. We ultimately had 3 events in Dec which increase in price each time and we sold out every one.

This early start caused us hack together the unfinished bits of the site very quickly and helped us find and squash a ton of bugs in the code and actually parts of the UX. We even had a chef from another country try to start using our site. (we're still trying to determine if it was the right thing to do to support another country since we initially planned to focus on NYC and keep it small right now Thoughts?)

We're still doing the "official" launch in Jan where we'll roll out our actual roster of chefs but it's encouraging that our service got picked up by word of mouth and attracted chefs and diners pretty much on its own, especially considering we've had zero press to date. Also it's nice to see revenue a month prior to launch since we planned for the worse and didn't expect revenue until March at the earliest.

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For general reference while working I just crack open the desktop app.
As an iOS developer, Parse is the thing I'm most excited about working with this year. It's been really great to not have to worry about building a whole web service to handle shared data. Thanks guys!
I doubt the universal optimality, but various works contain fictitious entries. Like trap streets or phantom settlements in maps, or ghosts in telephone books.
This whole exercise confirms that schools are rapidly becoming sorting institutions rather than learning institutions.
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Canada also has significant rare earth deposits, including one of the world's largest deposits of indium in New Brunswick. China has a stranglehold on rare earth production because their labour is cheap and environmental standards are, shall we say "flexible".
The killer feature for me is the highlighting. I can fully review a book (technical) in minutes.

Wife appreciates the shelf space.
I accept this argument, but please don't claim that it has anything to do with a misunderstanding of economic theory.

Thank you.
Mission Accomplished.

Now they'll get what they want: fearful, alert users who can't quit VZ (due to lack of competitor coverage) will move their payments towards ACH/autopay. Everyone else is blissfully unaware.
I also like contributing to projects if the vision and implementation are not too far off from what I would build myself. Otherwise, I find it hard to contribute to a project that is just too far off but might be able to do the same.
> Most of Boost is a horrible templated mess.

Are you just saying you find the implementation distasteful? I don't find using the templated boost stuff problematic. Most of the time you just cargo cult examples from the documentation and all's good, but then you have great flexibility should you need it.
I can't Stand the weight of a hardback book anymore
This problem rings a bell: With Midgard you traditionally kept all your website (PHP) code inside a database. This made web-based remote editing easy, and allowed us to use exactly same ACLs, versioning, and deployment rules for code as for the content.

But at the same time, this meant that collaboration between users was hard, and that people were locked out of their favorite editors and VCSs.
maybe announcing it to the rest of his class would be a justified "public outting." or announcing it in a campus publication. but this goes way, way beyond that.

i think it's kind of scary how quick people are nowadays to froth at the mouth and go crazy with the big-scale internet public shaming. one of the downsides of the rise of social-media, i guess
> Dasher was one of the inspirations for KType actually. When I came across it years ago, I tried to make it work for my cousin but it requires a lot of dexterity and timing, even when configured properly.

Dasher does not necessarily require dexterity or timing. You don't have to run it in "continuous" mode, where it moves to the right constantly or relies on something pointing to the right for speed. You can put Dasher into a mode where it has a single binary input: go up-right one step, or go down-right one step. Effectively, you enter one bit of information at a time, and Dasher's arithmetic coding makes the number of bits you have to enter as efficient as possible. In a mode like that, you don't need either dexterity or timing. You can still enter any possible text, but you'll find that it takes far fewer bits to enter common English text than random gibberish. Without arithmetic coding, you'd have to enter an average of log base 2 of 26, or 4.7 bits per letter, ignoring capitalization or punctuation. With arithmetic coding, you can easily get to a few bits per word, even with Dasher's simplifying constraint of keeping things alphabetically sorted (so it won't offer you vowels versus consonants even though that might require fewer bits of information than a partition of the sorted dictionary, because the sorted dictionary provides a simpler mental model).

> And when I looked at it last, it did not support a high-level of word-completion / finishing sentences. On KType, if the user wants to type 'GIVE ME SOME FOOD', they type 'GV', select 'GIVE' on screen, then 'ME' on screen, then type 'S' and select 'SOME' and so on.

Dasher has supported high-level language models for a long time. You can feed it a giant corpus of text, and it'll extract not just letter models but word models as well. Once you steer into 'G', you'll find 'i' much more common than 'h' or 'j', so 'i' will have a larger region to aim for (but you can still steer into the smaller 'h' if you want to spell "ghost", or the even smaller 'j' if you want to talk about the GNOME Javascript framework "gjs"). Once you write 'Gi', 've' will have a visible region all its own. Once you write 'Give', you'll already see a visible region for 'me', and so on. When you write common phrases, you very quickly start writing significant fractions of a sentence at once.

To use one of the other examples from your twitter corpus, if you typed "hulk", you'd likely see a visible region for "smash". :)

So, yes, Dasher has very strong predictive models.

Dasher also avoids the "modal" approach of switching between typing individual letters and selecting completions; they all use the same input mechanism. I also like their philosophy that as long as you can cause your body to output one bit of information, Dasher can work for you.
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What is the Chinese language?
Forget the essay, he listed the course as "Hist203L:Dimentions of History Lab"...
Yes. And that's what puts vigilantes in a morally dangerous position; by definition they're not answerable to anyone. Or at least not answerable to anything more specific than the law and public opinion.
I will go as far as to say (from experience) that releasing a library in C++ to others is completely foolish due to the major problems it can create when design changes are inevitably needed. Other languages do APIs better.

C++ is useful for implementing the guts of things. And when implementing, having your own library of shared C++ code is useful, as long as you completely control it and always compile it with your project from scratch (a library of templates, for instance). The last thing you want is to link to someone else's compiled C++ library because that's where the pain begins.

To expose a C++ implementation, use a plain C interface; the C application binary interface works very well across compilers. If you feel it absolutely necessary to expose something like the inheritance scheme of an object-oriented design, you had better do it in a language like Objective-C that can at least implement objects in a very forward-compatible way (or use tricks like exposing pointer parameters in C functions).
I agree. They lost me as a customer, forever for the same reasons. Fool me once...
I can't imagine in what world plagiarism in college should be treated as some private affair that should be kept secret.

College students are adults. Plagiarism in order to achieve a college degree fraudulently is worthy of public attention.

Edit: note, "public attention" != "mob of ruthless assholes destroying someone's life".
Ah, good call. Very easy to miss that link.
I think he's taking a widely-accepted idea -- that the C++ language is a complicated language -- and making the unfounded leap that most C++ code is just as complicated.

For starters, the standard C++ string type is reference-counted, something that leans more toward convenience and simplicity than maximum performance. Well-designed C++ libraries that don't need to push the performance envelope are often pleasant to use.

Maybe the author wants things to be even simpler, but he's gotta provide examples. Or at least describe what his ideal Top C++ would consist of. That's the hard part. Simply saying "we should make a simple version of C++ that still lets you do low-level stuff when you want" seems vacuous.
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Yes, they will coexist. Physical books will always exist just like film cameras and ham radio, for both nostalgia and timeless quality. Bookshelves have their virtual counterparts. Movies haven't killed books and video games haven't killed movies. Libraries may largely become museums.

Pure information like a book has to go the digital route--there are too many advantages, practically, economically, environmentally. And many would cite the lack of chrome and physical presence of a Kindle an aesthetic advantage over books.
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> There is no threat of violence, workers' rights are a civil matter, penalties are financial.

And if you don't pay the financial penalties? You go to jail... Ultimately, the government derives all its power from having a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
The website for the course, linked in the article, see here

http://dimensionsofhistory.homestead.com/2008L.html

is written just as poorly.
I'm not sure why this is posted here (ChinesePod linked to it recently as well). It seems to be nothing more than a very long thread of heated arguments from people who are mostly undeterred by their profound ignorance of linguistics. If you're interested in this subject, there's a much better discussion here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1211
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Ah, ok. Swift uses merkle hash trees for error detection which scales down quite nicely. Packets which don't match the hash are just dropped. They seem to be trying to avoid long request-response chains - most messages just cause a state transition and don't require a direct response.

I've only just started working on understanding swift so I can't speak for its suitability for small content. It is much simpler than bittorrent at least.
If you watched the second video and thought "wait, I want to see those two black and white slides!"

Here's the same guy, same-ish lecture on a different day, and you get to see the pay off:

The Wonder and Beauty of Teaching Physics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVvtOy-ukE
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