skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way to be subtle with that last paragraph. :P

I'd actually approach the issue from the other end (that is, frontend) - There is a slight pain point in the strong binding between vim and terminals in that, as this video points out, the UI is limited by a character grid. This makes many features uglier and less usable, such as autocomplete, file viewers, the command line, the gutter, etc. It also limits your choices for fonts.

If I were to design a "modern" vim from the ground up, I'd probably arrive at something a lot like Sublime Text 2 with vim at the core.
I find that most E-readers are mainly sequential access, with random access as a feature to be explicitly called. Whereas physical books or codexes are usually read sequentially, but are easier to use for random access.
From the video, it looks to me like they used MATLAB.

There are a few open-source databases of physiological signals like the ECG used in the video. One is PhysioBank:

http://www.physionet.org/physiobank/
One simple rule of thumb -- get enough plants to produce 100% of the food you consume. Your body converts food into co2, and plants convert co2 into food (yeah, a bunch of details are left out, but that is the simple version).
I felt that full-screen mode in OS X was in part a response to avoiding distraction.

Also, in social settings, I've noticed I'll check my phone if I'm alone, or near people where conversation has ended. Part of that is a mini-escape, and another part is caused by insecurity/peer pressure. If you're all alone doing nothing, you have less perceived worth than if you're all alone doing something.
Ask HN: Does anyone have any experience with Automatic Documentation creators?
I've been reading about software like doxygen, ROBODoc, TwinText, etc. that go through your code and automatically create documentation. I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with software of this type and could share some thoughts. Ideally what I'd like is something that can go through a code base and create a sort of wiki that will show me dependencies, inheritance, etc on the functions, classes, variables, and all that fun stuff. Obviously visualizations are a plus. Thanks!
I used Google Drive for about 5 minutes then went back to Dropbox and haven't looked back. Firstly, finding where the hell the Google drive folder was located was a pain - then discovering it's odd internal hierarchy and the fact that trying to open files in there launched Google Docs rather than the local application default drove me mad.

Dropbox gives me exactly what I want and need: a simple folder that does sync across all my devices and opens files using the local default application.
Right and those office like apps are toys. Not a real productivity application. There were touch screen phones before iPhone and search engines before Google. I am not saying Office running on ARM is in the same league but there is no denying the first class engineering there.
http://flickmail.nicholasblee.com/ - Get a daily email listing all the newly added movies to Netflix's instant watch catalog.
The "time warp" aspect is very interesting.

There is another algorithm for computing similarity between time series, which could still be very useful: cross-correlation (also called "coherence" in signals processing). Cross-correlation is O(n log n), so it's perfect for big data applications.

An illustration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(signal_processing)#E...
TL;DR: IBM found a way to place nanotubes on silicon chips with some precision. Not yet perfect, but it's the best we got so far.
Heh, never stopped to even consider this. A quick look at the activity monitor on my MBP:

Dropbox: 38.5MB

Google Drive: 68.0MB
Very interesting! Although as the other reply points out only some of the photosynthetic reactions take place at night. However I assume (but it's not exactly clear from scanning the article linked) that the actual emission of oxygen is likely also happening at night as this would require stomata to be open, although the actual production of oxygen is one of the light-dependent reactions in the photosynthetic chain. Is this correct?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I am a Vim user who can't stand Emacs. I just think that Emacs was engineered better. ;)

I think that re-engineering Vim to be more like Emacs under the surface would lend itself well to other things, like what you are suggesting.
Choosing Medical School over Competitive Sports
At least uploading into Google Drive did not created hundreds of thousands of duplicates [1] [2] [3].
I still did not get any official answer from Google support.

[1] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/drive/Yjmkd4nbhw...

[2] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3910363?start=0&tst...

[3] https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/d...
The notability guideline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability) is closely related to the verifiability policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability) — from Wikipedia's perspective, if a subject has not been covered by multiple reasonably reliable secondary sources (in other words, if it isn't "notable"), we can't write a reasonably verifiable article about that subject. Every article has to include secondary sources as references, so that editors and readers can quickly fact-check.

There are plenty of thoughtful discussions elsewhere about why these notability and verifiability rules are flawed, but I wanted to point out this connection because it shows that the notability guideline is possibly not as arbitrary as it seems at first. I wish I could figure out a way to help Wikipedia explain this better. Maybe "notability" is the wrong name for this guideline.
You're close but not quite there. The build up is VI-natural VII-I-VI-natural VII-V7b9. So you have the chords right but the root note wrong.

The major I for the third chord is the really key piece of that chord progression. Shifting up and down chords by step is pretty common in pop music, but shifting into major I the first time then the flat 9 dominant the second time (especially with the natural 7 right before it!) is a powerful harmonic one-two punch.

I don't want to be 'that guy', but the other guy responding to you has it totally wrong. Try to plunk out chords on the piano with the music and see for yourself.
A lot of neuroscience research has pointed to the fact that people often don't make decisions entirely rationally or consciously. This applies to highly logical people as well.
Ask HN: Where do you (programmers) find freelancing gigs?
How dare he make something that was already possible, more easier to do!
The effect of photorespiration is that some of the oxygen is transformed back to carbon dioxide. It reduces the efficiency of the photosynthesis, so you would need more light. But it doesn't change the global amount of oxygen produced form the carbon dioxide.
Office XP was a "toy"? Office 2003? The SoC in the Surface is as capable (and in many ways more capable) than the commodity computers of that era.

At what point exactly do you believe office stopped being a toy?
The site appears to be down. More information here:

http://www.radtastical.com/stories/nu
"YCrejects.org is made of 12 completely fake steps to recovery,"

Where are the 12 steps? Or is what makes them fake the fact that they don't exist?
Could this be a lesson in not shipping?

Nice design though!
Google Drive does appear to have performance issues with big data sets. I too have a lot of data (20GB +) in the service and whenever I restart my machine, it does churn the CPU "scanning the web" for changes. Memory usage is also rather high at 600MB.

I have never really used dropbox so I don't know if that is really any better from a resource standpoint although from the author of this post indicates like that's the case.

I'm still sticking with Google Drive since I only restart my machine about once a month, so this is not too much of a problem for me.

In any case, I hope that these issues would get addressed in a future update to the client.
"It has RTM'ed so it should get updated with the final version pretty soon."

This update is already available and will be pushed out automatically in November.
form a terminal? you might like to try vim.
Ask PG: Will Y Combinator extend the app deadline b/c of Hurricane Sandy?
When I minimize the window, the music becomes choppy. Anyone else has this?
The problem here is the "evacuated" part. It's hard to hold a vacuum in a large vessel: think of how few giant vacuum chambers exist. Most of them were built for the Apollo program, and just get maintained. How hard is it to maintain a meaningful vacuum in thousands of kilometers of tubing? Every weld, every seal, have to be spaceship-quality.

Then there's the tube itself. To hold off sea-level collapse pressure, you'll need a relatively stout tube, probably with ring-stiffeners every so often to keep any buckling from ruinging a continent-long length of tubing.

So, pumping the tube system, the tubes themselves and the valves, seals, and welds, plus ongoing intensive inspections. This is like jetpacks, helicopter taxis and fusion power: always at least 10 years in the future.
Very cool. I really like the graphical representation. As a 'visual' person that help quite a bit.

One suggestion though:

Don't use x and y for vectors as those are typically used for individual coordinates in the Cartesian plane. So saying x=(0.75 \ 0.25) is a bit confusing as the intended audience is probably used to thinking of x=0.75 and y=0.25. Or say they would think of translating point p into point q where p would have coordinates (0.75,0.25) and q some other pair of x,y coordinates.
Web Design gigs were easy for me to find on Craiglist/Kijiji, but Rails app development doesn't cut it there.
> It's almost like saying the jury is still out on evolution or global warming.

No, it is nothing like that at all.

Set up a side-by-side A/B test (such as setting up Safari on Windows to use Mac-rendering) and then ask a bunch of Mac users which they prefer and they will say Mac, ask a bunch of Windows users which they prefer and they will say Windows. There are pros and cons to grid-fitting or not grid-fitting, but ultimately those pros and cons are trumped by what you're used to seeing.

My guess is you're surrounded by a bunch of Mac users and suffering from the same bubble effect you are attributing to "HN".
Because they don't do the same thing. The Haskell code tests if that last char was a space and returns b or toupper(b). The C code checks if the current char is an alpha, then checks if word is set. That's a two branch algorithm. What mystifies me is why the C programmer didn't use the Haskell coder's algorithm, which is much more obvious. In my own tests, if you modify the C program to use the one-branch algorithm (just maintain a char called "last" instead of the bool "word"), the two run at the same speed.
I'm a resident in Internal Medicine and actually it is not surprising that a lot physicians tested got this wrong. The good news is that this topic, also known as "lead time bias", is actually being taught pretty regularly now (in at least my experience). So when I read this I knew exactly what the catch was going to be with screening "A". So there is hope.
This is covered in "color", already posted in this thread.
So we hear, "we got access to the hardware a bit late" and "the pre-release version is bad, it's already considerably better now and will be even better soon", and conclude that Microsoft doesn't care?
Sorry, no links, typing quickly:

* F-Secure's blog and some other AV companies' blogs

* Ramond Chen's The Old New Thing

* Anything written by Mark Russinovich

* Slightly off topic, but http://www.devttys0.com/ manages
some crazy reverse engineering feats, which I feel are similar to this story.
Aren't we talking about the architecture here? Surface and the software on it is ARM architecture. Something that Office never ran on before. These are significantly different architectures and just because the graphics or processing capabilities are same does not mean it will run right?

Besides the version that was tested with was a beta. The final version of office runs smoothly on the device. So what is your point? RTFA!
Why not learn Haskell and contribute, instead of being nasty?

On second thought, people this rude should stay away from Haskell.
Not really helpful.

Basically it's a GNU/Linux commercial.

The article does not much in terms of explaining anything about Windows 8, it just bashes the upgrading process (maybe rightfully, that isn't the point) and then goes on to tell us about some major improvement in Ubuntu and why he is happier with it.

As for A Linux User's Perspective Of this Phoronix Article:

-) not worth an article

-) misleading title

How about "Painful Windows 8 Upgrade process and why the time for Linux might arise" or something like that. Not saying it's a great title, but it certainly fits better.
Let's rephrase this problem as not something that people will defend, e.g. anti-DRM, but something people will not defend; let's go straight for the big guns and use child pornography. Clearly, child pornography is illegal, and yet the images are just a series of 0s and 1s; these could potentially be re-interpreted as a single number, giving rise to the problem here. Or maybe each triplet of bytes of the JPEG's data could be represented as an RGB colour, and you could have a "child pornography flag" analogous to the free speech flag here, albeit a lot longer. Does this make it ok to distribute this number or this flag, because it's just a number/sequence of colours?
You can "escape" the loop the by clicking on any of the cubes if you get sick of the segment.
Office being offered for free for the RT tablet doesn't show that Office's value is zero, it shows that Office has enough value to sell someone on a Microsoft tablet. Also I think Microsoft putting more emphasis on their services which are truly baked into the new OS.
That's the extreme end of the spectrum; a similar issue that is less obvious is whether the sale of human organs should be legal. Some claim that a legitimate market for organs would result in more saved lives, and less black-market violence; on the other hand, there is obvious potential for dehumanization and perverse incentives, to say the least.

> So we might as well have phones that can run free software too. Not everything is about "business opportunities"; human rights come first.

I agree with this on paper, but on a long timeline, human rights are best served by technological progress, which tends to be accelerated through well-balanced profit motives. (Note that this may or may not involve greed; sometimes a profit motive is simply "now I can afford to pay the 500 people needed to get this thing off the ground".)

All told, I agree with you; I'm deeply frustrated that democratic socialism is so thoroughly demonized in the US, and that corporate profits come first, with human rights as a distant second (or worse). But humans trading with one another has been an incredibly potent wealth generation machine, usually benefitting even the very poor. And trade cannot happen without ownership. I want Star Trek Communism as much as anybody, but we're not there yet.
Ask HN: How do you hack vacation planning?
I'd like to setup a vacation and after a little searching, I'm interested in seeing if anyone has an effective shortcut for planning / booking an all-in vacation, preferably online, but maybe a travel agent is the best way to go. There's just so much between airlines, hotels, activities, meals, etc, planning has become a great big pain in the @ss.

Any tips or resources would be greatly appreciated.

And advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.
> The fact that you have an ability to run a program like office on a tablet class hardware

This is an extremely misleading statement. "Tablet class hardware" today is vastly more powerful than PC's several years ago which were quite happily running the Office of their day.

Furthermore, there is plenty of Office-like equivalents happily running on Android and iOS tablets today so the suggestion that "Office on a tablet" is some kind of revolution seems to lack substance.
I didn't notice this about SF, at least compared to Britain. Perhaps on Market St, but then generally they weren't smoking tobacco... :-/
Hamster: Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby
The number one reason I see to pick Surface over an iPad is that it has Office. Many other reviews and commentaries seem to agree, and Microsoft has certainly made no secret of Office.

The idea of shipping a new platform, where Office is included and a core feature, with an unfinished copy of Office is crazy to me.

Bugs will be found, and I would fully expect that patches would come out in short order to address those issues. Bit allowing the device to ship with something labeled "preview" (Microsoft for beta) is a very odd decision.

I agree with other commenters that running office on ARM isn't an amazing feat. I ran Office 95 on a ~33Mhz 386DX. Office has have advanced since then, but still.

It seems quite probable the original article's author ran into some odd bug since I haven't seen that type-ahead compliant elsewhere. But the fact that bits of the out of the box experience seem to suffer so much on day one tells you a lot about where Surface was in its development cycle.

Why is Office (and some system settings) the only things that need/use the desktop in RT? Since 3rd party apps can't use it why not jut eliminate it? It's so odd that the flagship software doesn't it in with the Metro environment, often using classic controls like the touch unfriendly save dialog.

Surface needed to be Microsoft putting their best foot forward. It sounds more like it was rushed to meet some kind of ship target when it could have used at least a bit more polish.
Hmmm you should really try skydrive in that case. Much more reliable and friendly to use.
"And: No matter if an update was available on the first day. For a major release like that it shouldn't have come to this in the first place."

It takes time after Win8 RTM to get the image created and the hardware manufactured for the launch, and the Windows and Office teams obviously have different schedules.
This is very nice! love the different displays.

It'd be nice if you could click the element and information would display.
Thanks for the comment and an appropriate precursor.

what if locked-down devices can open up new businesses that would not exist otherwise?

My personal opinion is that business should be based on needs not the other way around. I understand it's a very fine line but more often than I follow a thumb rule - if it is simple to explain I'm doing it right.
Check out vundle

http://lepture.com/work/vundle-vs-pathogen/
https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Sublime Text 2 has Vintage mode which supports Vim-like commands, is a native app, and is elegant.

However, HappyEdit has one significant advantage over ST2, in that it is open source. While I love ST2, I feel like for it to really be embraced as a great editor, it needs to be open source.
You hit the nail on the head. :)
I was referring to ARM as the architecture. Should have been clearer
Celemony Melodyne does some interesting things with audio as well. Ableton Live 9 has some nifty features where it converts Audio to Midi, which you can then assign to any other sound. Nifty
The only way to produce such a pair of numbers is by using the restricted material as a source -- therefore the numbers would be a derivative work. This is already covered under copyright law.

Now there is a twist to this concept -- plausible deny-ability. Let's say Bob posts a non-infringing work encrypted with a one time pad (randomly generated), and also posts the one time pad too. Both files would appear to be random text until put together. Further, someone else, Bill, produces a "random" number by XORing the Bob's one-time pad with an infringing work, and uses the result as a one-time pad to encrypt another non-infringing work, and posts both of those files. The two one-time pads can recreate the infringing work by XORing them together. But you can't prove who's "random" file was actually randomly created, and which one was produced as a derivative work. Who do you send the take-down notice to?
I had the same typing performance issue when using the preview version of Office 2013 that shipped with my Surface RT, updated to the RTM version today, and the typing performance is fine now. The characters even appear with a quick reveal-from-left-to-right animation now, that keeps up with my fastest typing speed.
In the first comment on the linked page, a guy says rightly that the number of missing articles is still enormous, but in parts of knowledge that are further from that of the median Wikipedian.

In a comment here someone says the foundation has the goal to find and purpose interesting things to write on Wikipedia to new editors.

The sum of these the interesting problem of crossing culture barriers. How to get the regular geek interested in the many kings and warlords of China's Warring States?
I quit smoking after I wrote my master's thesis in 2007, but the scenario described certainly describes a conscious decision.

I'm more impressed by the number of tech nerds and investors that go completely balls out at Burning Man. It must be like 20% of YC companies represented.
So we now have a Wikileaks for Wikileaks? Inception!
Any know what the theoretical frequency of CPU made of nanotubes would be?
Not sure why you got downvoted. I rarely see people smoking in SF especially compared to other cities I've visited (Paris, London, Hong Kong)
The ship the device with a dummy application that downloads the latest update, or at least force updates on day one.

If the schedules are different, you plan for that. Shipping with a buggy core feature is not a good sign.
We used to use GhostDoc, which is slightly different, but if you code have reasonable naming of methods/classes etc, using some configuration, you can get pretty descent results.
However reason to use it was requirement to have comment coverage and documentation of something like 85 per cent for audit.
A non-lawyerly devil's advocate:

I would argue that a secret key by itself does not qualify as a circumvention tool and thus should not be banned by the DMCA. Unfortunately, by my reading the law does not agree with me and specifically bans distribution of a circumvention "device, component, or part thereof"; it seems like a key is a part of a circumvention device.

Looking at circumvention code itself, I would argue that such code should have no artistic or political expression when boiled down to its functional essence, in which case there is no meaningful free speech issue. If the code did have artistic or political aspects, arguably those aspects could be separated from the part of the code which performs circumvention. For example, the political opinion of being opposed to the DMCA can be easily expressed without using any code.
Yeah, but I feel the fact that culture shifts this fast is also a bit of a new thing. For most of the entire rest of human history, technology didn't change as much in a 10 year period, let alone in 1-3 generations. Hence elders were held in great regards in most societies, probably because their accumulated knowledge never became obsolete in their lifetimes.
Sorry, but I still dont understand your point. Dual/Quad-core ARM chips of today running at 1.5Ghz blow away x86 based PC's from several years ago (I don't know exactly at what point) that ran Office XP quite happily.

To give you an idea, the system requirements of Office XP was "a Pentium processor with a clock speed of at least 133 megahertz (MHz)".

Besides, tablets are doing amazing things today, are we really saying an Office suite represents the pinnacle of computing power?
No one else noticed that this doesn't work on Firefox?

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