skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a side project where you can configure various Linux server setups by answering a few questions. It will automatically generate the proper config files and install the software for you. Similar to AWS Marketplace, but more geared towards single installs for dev or production servers.
Well, you can't expect that, but what I am saying is that it is a blog, and I think a blog author should be free to write for his audience. Parent comment seems to say that you should write every blog post as if it is intended for the general public, which I disagree.
You guys are the best!!! :) now if only you supported wildcard dns so I can protect my Wordpress site as well
Looks like JPL was planning on making recordings with the Mars Polar Lander but we know how that turned out:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/lidar/microphone/mic_found.ht...
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There are limits to just how far Apple can take this, since they still need to be able to open stuff up for official repairs.
There are already lots of pictures of it. Quite sure the DoE doesn't care at all.
This sounds cool but I'm not familiar with it. Why is it called a "flying car"? Is it the price point - is $279K significantly cheaper than most private airplanes? Or is there something in the construction that makes it more "carlike" than most private airplanes?
Knowing nothing about aviation, I find air planes with one engine very scary. Even when I am not traveling in it, since I don't want one to fall on me either. So I am glad we probably won't see millions of these "flying cars" being sold. If I imagine to have one of these fall off the sky as often as I see broken down cars on the side of the freeway...
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To add to this list:

- Being a market leader in your home market is much more important (and usually cost effective) than growing internationally. Stripe still has a huge way to go in terms of 'crossing the chasm' in the US, moving out of SV bubble and in to the main-stream.

- Geographical acquisitions when expanding globally aren't necessarily a negative. Although they feel dirty, a lot of the time they can be a win/win for both players (quick foothold in the market, market leading position, entry certainty, local hires etc).
Yeah, I wasn't trying to focus so much on SSLstrip, but rather that it's possible to get into an account that has Two-Factor enabled, and generate a OTP that will allow for sans Two-Factor logins going down the line.
Be very careful listening to anecdotes. Autism is a delay, so you could do something useless like crystal therapy and have the child get better afterwards, and -- based on standard human biases we all have -- think that the crystal therapy cured him.

If you want to see what happens with an actual double-blind experiment, check out http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20804367
Google Expands Patent Search to Cover The European Patent Office
Certainly this reminds me of many of my past experiences in larger businesses. Analytics using bad methodology, producing untrustworthy statistics for the sake of having statistics. What a waste of money and productivity that is.

However, just because we think we know the answer doesn't mean we actually do, so I would strike that consideration off the list. Often it is good to measure what we already think we know so we can be sure we actually have evidence to back it up.
In reality I generally felt VERY well taken care of by everyone I met in retail or service industries - EXCEPT for the airlines.

One problem might be the scale of the company.

Your examples of service industries are restaurants, bars, shops. Owned by franchises or small business owners. The boss is frequently behind the counter, filling in. Bad apples are noticed. And easily replaced.

Delta / United / American are huge businesses. You just don't see a small airline with one or two airplanes, with the CEO loading baggage and flying the plane. Bad apples get lost in the noise.

If my theory is correct, simply replacing Delta with another company is not going to fix the problem for long.

FWIW the last time I flew Southwest Airlines the staff was courteous, had a sense of humor, efficient. I will choose SWA over the competition when I have the chance.

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No, that's not even remotely close to what I said.

I'm saying it wouldn't hurt his case to write a small blurb about him being one of the designers of SML in the sidebar or to use language like "when we designed SML" or "the choices we took in SML," so it doesn't appear as if it's a wholly objective critique or even subject line.
While I agree about the parent confusing closures and anonymous functions, it is possible to use anonymous inner classes as such if the final variable is a single-element array.
Clearly from the comments there are a lot of reasons for this but I'm going to throw out another that I have some experience with: "living to eat another day"

Sometimes there just isn't any runway, and loosing this deal, customer, etc, really isn't tenable for the company. Features need to be live today.

Did this suck for future me? Yes it did, and to some degree does still. But was it the right business decision? Absolutely.
I'm not sure which patch you're talking about. Maybe it's labelled in one of these images?

(http://www.americaspace.org/?attachment_id=23297)

Scroll down, end of page.

(http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29242)
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That's really cool, thanks for cluing me in.

But it looks like it's just limited support. Does it support all the github things like forks, pull requests, etc? Do you have a link to an SVN repo on github? I'd love to check one out.
It's a less technical solution, but it's been really easy to setup.

Most of my projects from here on out are going to be either utilizing wepay or stripe and staying as far, far away from PayPal as possible.
Understanding how dilution affects you
The author is complaining about two language extensions which are present in GHC. These extensions are not part of the Haskell language, which is defined at http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/ .

The first language extension is the function 'unsafePerformIO', defined in the module 'System.IO.Unsafe'. It's not defined in the language spec, and is unsafe by design because it's intended for very rare and specific use cases in performance-critical code.

The second language extension is the 'Data.Typeable' module, which defines a mechanism of dynamic typing. The standard way to use Typeable is to let the compiler define the instance, which is both safe and much easier to type. It's well-known that implementing a Typeable instance manually is unsafe; for example, see Oleg's post from 2007 http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/types.html#unsound-typeable .

Again, these are extensions to the language, implemented as experiments by a particular compiler. A program which uses them is no longer standard Haskell.

His code does not compile when built in standard Haskell mode:

$ ghc --make exc.hs -hide-all-packages -package haskell2010

exc.hs:2:8:
Could not find module `Data.Typeable'
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It's street legal [1] and supposedly fits into your average sized garage[2].
You can't really drive a Cessna down your local neighborhood.

1: http://www.terrafugia.com/images/photogallery/March10_2012%2...

2: http://www.terrafugia.com/images/photogallery/LeavingGarageW...
Internet time passes much slower than real time. It's still 2004 here.
Turning point? 78% of emergency responders have smartphone with data.
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I believe SML doesn't have any issue that Robert Harper cares about. It is nearly perfect in all things Robert Harper cares about. Are you suggesting that Robert Harper should care about more things than what he currently cares about?

I disagree with your opinion that he doesn't criticize SML because he was involved in the design. SML is not perfect, but Robert Harper does not criticize SML because SML is Robert-Harper-perfect. Or nearly so.
Most of my startups drive 40% of their traffic through mobile
Windows really has the potential to shine in this department. Not quite a killer feature but it's definitely something they're capable of getting right.
Fear obscurity, not lending. I'm happy to see my book on BookLending or other lending sites.

Paulo Coelho has interesting thoughts on piracy helping book sales.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/01/paulo-coelho-rea...
Why Absolutely Everyone Needs To Be Software Literate
> the credit card is authed right away... but not charged until the project is funded AND the deadline is reached (up to 60 days).

Do you have a reference for this? I'm under the impression they only charge the cards once the funding goal is reached. Amex in particular only allows pre-authorizations to last up to a week.
Subversion actually records merge metadata in recent versions. In my experience though it often still fails to work when working in branches.
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Good work but I have some issues with the concept. I mean using all the keyboard shortcuts must be a pain. Did they try to make it use the touch interface at all?
BERG's cloud-enabled Little Printer goes up for preorder ($259/£199)
That's the one, thank you for digging it out.
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I know this comes up a lot, but please do consider it, it shouldn't be such a big ask to modernize the HTML and CSS a bit to improve the readability, usability and portability.

Not saying that I think this design is perfect, just that in general a little bit of an update would go a long way.
When he says "Exceptionally" does he mean "very much" or "relating to exceptions"? Or is it a pun and he means both?
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what makes you say C-k (kill-line) is the most useful command ever

A little bit of a joke, but it's based on a bias that the best thing you can do to source code is make it smaller. To its ridiculous conclusion wiping out every line leaves you with a program with no bugs. :)
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Who wants to read a newspaper on a strip of thermal paper? That's what I don't get about this; the resulting form factor is just laughable.
You can easily control your friends' desktops with TeamViewer 6
If you want to help a needy friend and parent who has no idea about how to solve a computer problem, you could try Teamviewer 6, a remote control application which lets you gain access over the desktops of your friends without being a computer savy.
Yeah? That's awesome. Do you mean that the metadata fails to work with branches or that merging itself fails?
This is a fantastic heartwarming story that I think most of us will have something learn from. For me, the takeaway was, as Tolstoy said: "When is a man free? When he recognizes his burden", i.e. a graceful acceptance of circumstances that one cannot change. I have long proposed to have a course "Life Engineering" in schools teaching people metaprinciples of planning and enjoying life, this should definitely be one of the reading assignments (along with DFW's commencement speech, and many others).

Yet ... yet ... while I truly believe that the thoughts expressed here are a major part of individual happiness, if a significant portion of the society behaves/acts according to these principles, I may not want to live in such a society. Unending hunger for new things, although it generally brings about personal unhappiness, takes society forward faster; there are many examples of such personal sacrifices in science, literature, music, e.g. how many great poets/writers do you know who have a happy family life (came to mind, since I recently read an essay by Alexandra Styron).

On a different thread, (overgeneralizing, but only a bit) being content and acceptance is very common in "the East" and not just Buddhism's influence either, it is a common theme in many streams of Islamic thought. Something can be said about the effect of this in why these countries couldn't catch up with the pace of the "materialistic West" (yes, yes, there were a ton of other factors, but I think this may have been one of the major influences).
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The core of this is 'find X' such that

md5(md5(...10,000 times...(md5(X + salt)...)) = hash

where salt and hash are known. X is derived from the names of programs existing on a Windows machine with a particular format.

Or, find a way to calculate

md5(md5(...10,000 times...(md5(X + salt')...))

given that hash is known and salt' but X is not.

Or alternatively, attempt a known plain text attack against RC4. Given that a certain amount of plain text is known (4 bytes) at the start of the RC4 payload then it's likely that the first few bytes of the keystream are known and an attack could be mounted via weakness in the RC4 key schedule.
I was just talking about this with my roommate last week. I picked up a Nexus 7 when it launched and I leave it out for anyone to play around with when they're over, and my roommate uses it to check his facebook and stuff too. Our solution is that I use the native twitter, facebook, etc apps and he just logs in through chrome (it's a shitty solution really).

I would love the option to login as myself and have basically just my account keychain applied to all installed apps. I can't imagine that would really be that hard for Apple or Google to do, and it would really take Tablets to a better spot in the market as they aren't really phones at all.
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There's certainly a relativistic limit - i.e. if the mean velocity of randomly oscillating particles in the gas / liquid approaches c. (I leave aside the question of what is used to confine such highly energetic matter)
But it's not just shared media, I also want shared metadata including ratings and play counts.
Hey everyone, this is one of the makers - great feedback so far just wanted to say thank you.
Can you imagine the youthful hijinks if anybody ever tried walking one of these down a populated public street?
I'd always thought that the application specific passwords would allow for a loophole, although I hadn't come up with a mechanism.

Surely the fix from Google would be pretty simple? Just make sure that any and all access to the 'Two Factor Authentication Settings' page required a two factor token.
I thought it already did, but I've just tried it and the OP is right, you just need a password.
That's less than 0.1 percent. I guess most people would accept higher tranfer fees to speed up the process :)
To the browser, unless you have a pre-populated list, the autocomplete URLs are just a list of strings. How should it know if penisland.com is a website that sells pens or otherwise? Also, where do draw the line really? therapistfinder.com? expertsexchange.com?
Well, he does disclose his SML relation at http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/about/

I think that is enough for a blog. In my opinion he is not trying to mislead the public. He is simply not writing for the public.
Reality check:

The average American teenager spends six hours a day
texting, 90 minutes a day on Facebook, and more than
three hours a day watching TV on the computer

That's 10.5 hours. Assume they sleep for 8 and go to school for 6, that's 24.5 hours a day.

Probably they spend some of their school time on Facebook, or texting, but even so, do they do nothing else?

really?
It is all fun can games until a teenager drives their car into the side of this and the $300K flying car needs to be replaced.
The response points out several specific considerations that OP failed to take into account. Based on these it is not unreasonable to conclude that OP was making broad judgement about a field he had little knowledge of based on one news report. Making a broad generalization may represent an attempt to be constructive, but when that attempt is based on a number of faulty assumptions, I think that pointing out what those assumptions are and why they are faulty is equally as constructive, if not more so. The implicit assumption in OPs comparison is that the farmer who grew hay is a Bad Farmer and the farmer who grew sorghum is a Good Farmer, and so the Bad Farmer should give up farming or at least apprentice himself to the Good Farmer, so he can learn how to grow sorghum instead of hay. Never mind that the farmer growing hay no doubt took into consideration many, many factors that the OP clearly knows nothing about, and that a crop failure based on an unexpected drought could happen to anyone give that there is currently no way to predict what the weather will be several months from now.
Bears the question, why is Amazon Payment still US-only? We in Europe need stuff like that so badly. Hell even a lot of options that Paypal offers is not available in mainstream European countries.
There is really a huge opportunity and need of Stripe / Wepay / competitors that work in Europe.
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> Does that affect the validity of his arguments?

His argument can be valid and still be pointless for 99% of people. Granted we all must make these decisions for ourselves, but if someone smirks and says "screw Haskell" because the exception system is unsound and then goes back to using Perl or Java, they have missed the point.

> I would be more sympathetic except that I am constantly seeing a certain subset of Haskell programmers engaged in the same kind of advocacy. Should they all disclose a conflict of interest because they like Haskell?

If you see someone engage in misleading advocacy you should call them out for it. A big problem with Haskell is that it is so weird and different that new users are always blogging about how great it is. When they make a small realization they blog it, and their misconceptions come along with it. I've been using Haskell for a while, and I find it very hard to stomach it when this happens, so I don't usually follow the comments closely when I see it happen. I doubt I'm alone in that. But there's a world of difference between newbie love babble and a calculated PR stunt by a PL expert.
I believe the limit is energy density. As the mass of the particle gets high enough (e=mc^2), its gravity gets stronger until it becomes a black hole and then explodes in a puff of Hawking radiation.
Hey, this looks really interesting. Does it need root access?

EDIT - Nevermind, it does. Dang.
is there a real upper limit on temperature?

Technical limitations aside, not really. However, there's the Planck temperature of 1.42×10^32 K where our physical models break down.
This was my view on why people should know how to code, not because I love it and you should love it too, but because, my god man, you use a computer for like at least 6 hours a day if you're in any modern country.

Not knowing how hardware works in one thing, but software is becoming even more proliferate. Not understanding something that will encompass so much of the economy, your leisure, and not to mention something so powerful, is ridiculous and infantile.

Maybe it's just me, but I always wanted to know how things worked, and it still baffles me how people don't want to know how software works. It's quite easy for the most part after a few years of torturous study:

Databases, Queries, Logic Conditionals, Data Structures, Inheritance/Polymorphism, Graphics, and your done. You basically understand software, and can marvel over it with another perspective...

NOTE: I obviously missed your favourite specialization and I'm sorry, but only a basic understanding is necessary, and is achievable with understanding a few of each of the concepts I've listed.
At first I thought this was a joke due to some of the copy, but after reading through the tutorial a bit, it seems pretty interesting. Less hyperbole would be nice though. From the FAQ, ANI (the language, anic is the reference compiler) is faster than C because it is automatically parallel code. Not exactly what I think of when someone says "faster than C".

Nevertheless, for a modern take on a dataflow language, ANI is intriguing. If nothing else, the paradigm is probably different enough from imperative/OOP/functional that it is worthwhile to learn even if ANI doesn't take off.
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There was an error, iPhone 4 was listed as not having a retina display. But I've fixed it now.
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While what you say is true, GHC is the de facto Haskell standard. At least the last time I looked, most widely used and well respected Haskell code would only work in GHC using various extensions. That's the actual state of Haskell: GHC with non-standard extensions is the effective standard.
* Full support for platform use case including the easiest possible merchant onboarding and ability to charge "app fee" for services.

* Support for all experience levels from hosted pages to payment buttons to iFrame solution (full PCI compliance) to Credit Card Tokenization (PCI compliance required).

* Simpler Credit Card Tokenization API that allows you to immediately charge the user and store the credit card for later use.
Keyword is average. The average IQ is 90 to 100 (Not saying I agree with IQs). The average is generally not something to aspire to.
> The response doesn't actually demonstrate that the parent is incorrect or propose a complete alternative.

There is inadequate evidence here to come to any conclusion.

It would be irresponsible of me to claim that I knew all the farmer's capabilities, costs, risks, weather forecasts, crop options, crop rotation requirements, etc. If I did that, I'd be guilty of exactly the same mistake as OP.

Noise is not signal. Noise is the enemy.
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15.6" EliteBooks have 16:9 screens, the max configuration being 1920x1080.

Similarly, 15.6" Thinkpads use 16:9 screens and max out at 1920x1080.

Also, Thinkpads are generally less expensive than EliteBooks. And if you want to beat the quality, get a Panasonic laptop.
Anyone know how this compares to the NIF in terms of temperature? They talk about terawatts and megajoules versus degrees, and as a non-physics geek I can't equate the two.

NIF press release, 522.6TW and 1.855MJ - https://lasers.llnl.gov/newsroom/project_status/index.php
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042122

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898573

sigh I still can't get past the syntax..
That's not what I mean.

I'm talking about overall experience - the plane being on time, the agents being clueful, the air crew being competent and accommodating, etc.

I might have accepted your hypothesis about the merger, if it wasn't for the fact that my experience with united for YEARS before the merger had been dismal, whereas my experience with Continental was top notch.

In the last two years, my experience with continental degraded visibly (though not to the pre-merger united levels), and the very little united experience I did have was not really improved.

Note: My dichotomy might be wrong - I used to use continental mostly for international flights (with a few domestic), and only flew united domestically. It's possible that Continental/United is paying more attention to international flights than they do domestic, rather than the "pre merger" status of a flight or terminal.
Front page claims there's a Pascal dining philosopher's implementation on the Wikipedia page. Except there isn't. There's a link to the article about Rosetta Code. After following that link, and then clicking around some more, I still haven't found this Pascal version to compare....

Anyway, the reason I ask is because I wanted to know what this line does:

=;
as opposed to the 500k cars that exist now?? your point is?
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