skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's examples like this that show the extreme interpretation of the US free speech law. The US doesn't protect all speech and allows some things to be banned. Cases like this should fall under nonprotected speech. The harm that can done time innocent person without any due process of a fair legal trial and with no effective ability to argue your case far outweighs the harm to a newspaper in banning them mentioning the name. You should be allowed report all the rest of the details of this horrific crime, of course, but you should not be legally allowed to identify the accused unless it was very much in the public interest (e.g. if it was a politician who did it).
The is also http://www.scribtex.com/ (unfortunately, going down, but was nice, also supporting Git access), https://www.sharelatex.com/.

And for short LaTeX text, there is http://mathb.in/.

Also, http://www.scigit.com/ looks promising (not working yet, though).

See also: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27549/simultaneous-co...
I have emailed and offered support of $20 per startup, plus use of my manufacturing facility. I think this is a great idea, and since I started my company with a credit card I can relate to the unfunded startup.
Williamsburg Tops List of City's Cheap Apartments on Airbnb Rental Site
This wasn't the issue I replied to otherwise I would agree with you.
Should I write HTML or CSS first?
Is there a production-grade implementation available yet? If so, who is using it, and what are they using it for?

I look into Perl 6 every few years, but there's never a high-quality implementation of it. The ones that do exist end up being esoteric, experimental, or otherwise not really usable like Perl 5 is.
Or perhaps we need to find a filter to replace the traditional publisher's editor/market filters. Completely frictionless publishing of anything will just tend to increase the noise and make the signal harder to find.
As someone who is not a Web Developer I don't get what this is for, but seems it would help me.
Can anyone explain?
When "The Singularity Is Near" was first published, I asked Bill Gates what he thought of the book. He said "I don't know how near the singularity is, but I haven't heard any convincing argument why it won't happen". That seems like a more sensible position than the one offered by Allen in this piece. There is indeed a lot of uncertainty in the rate of progress. But Allen contorts that fact to say that the singularity isn't near. He offers three basic critiques:

First, he points out that Kurzweil is extrapolating, and extrapolations can be wrong. This seems obvious. And it doesn't do much towards Paul's "isn't".

Second, he says that software and hardware will have to keep improving, and that might not happen. Again, this seems intellectually equivalent to saying "you might be wrong". No evidence is provided that progress will slow.

Third, he says that the singularity will require either a bottom-up biologically inspired model, or a non-biologically inspired "AI" system.

The complexity of the former will take a long time to overcome. Since Allen concedes that sufficient computational power is already here, he seems to be arguing that it will take over a hundred years for us to have a detailed model of the human brain. Looking at the progress of science, this seems terribly conservative, yet little justification is offered. Allen's posited "complexity brake" seems positioned tendentiously — why are we going to start hitting it now, instead of fifty years ago?

As for the AI route, he writes: "But when we step back, we can see that overall AI-based capabilities haven’t been exponentially increasing either, at least when measured against the creation of a fully general human intelligence." What does it even mean to be exponential relative to a binary variable? He is right to say that current methods are limited, and don't achieve generalized intelligence, but offers no reason why that won't happen. His argument seems equivalent to simply saying it hasn't happened yet.

This piece offers little intellectual contribution, and the only reason we're reading it piece is because of the author. It reads like he started from the conclusion he wanted, and threw some paragraphs in that direction. His argument, essentially, is that he's betting against continued progress in science, software, and hardware. That just seems crazy.
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Color.Bleu will give a compiler error. "Bleu" will not. And is "White" a valid color? No idea, need to check the docs. Try Color.White and the compiler or editor will tell you.
Eh oh that's strange, I didn't expect it to be under subscriptions so I just glossed over it I guess.
Entrepreneurs are crazy and that's a good thing
Android Malware Still Sneaking Past New Security Feature, Researcher Finds
Yep, you can upload .cls files using the files menu.
I can't really wrap my head around why the list is entitled (final). More like (abandoned). :P
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Yeah we do offer a LaTeX compile api (it's what powers scribtex and sharelatex). Drop us an email team at sharelatex.com and one of us will sort something out for you.
The 2012 Android Developer Survey
The 2nd amendment is 2nd for a reason. banning guns will strip you freedom more than anything else. Every once in a while there is a horrible incident that the government can use to blame the 2nd amendment. A guy in china just stabbed 20 people yesterday so let's ban knifes. Is this logical to you?. Just imagine the power grab that will happen when you won't have access to weapons in order to protect yourself.
Thank you, you made my day. This is really fantastic, I particularly appreciate the nonsensical scales on the graphs (time expressed in dB, number of CPU in Joules) and the hilarious fake reference papers scattered with well known names (Even Erdos :).
Founder here...

Great to see this on HN! Feedback much appreciated. Happy to answer questions...
Is It Sad I Want An Android Tablet Clearly Designed for Tweens?
> I believe it is for the government to be afraid of its people, not the other way around.

A country where government is afraid of people because of guns is not a country where you want to live. Trust me. I'm fine with guns, but don't believe you're doing anything useful.
Don't worry we are working hard to get all the functionality of ScribTeX fully incorporated into ShareLaTeX (git push & pull). We also have no long term plans on turning off scribtex while people still use it, but the focus is sharelatex.
Sensible supervision is definitely the best way. When friends have asked for the best way to stop their kids looking at nefarious things on the Internet, my answer is usually to put computers in a communal room and not to give the kids smartphones until they're grown up enough.

I'm not sure how many kids pre-puberty are looking for porn - I know until a certain age I had absolutely no interest whatsoever. And for kids that are old enough to be curious about porn - you could probably argue that social networks and SMS and whatever else are just as dangerous.
Nine Ways to Improve User Experience in Mobile Design
Always interesting, although the design could have been better. It just can't be picked in a single day despite its visual "simplification". After a while I always want to come back to text-based programming. The visual interface should have been closer to what Gamemaker proposes: loops, conditions are represented as bitmaps and text that can be dragged and dropped in listboxes. In PWCT there are a lot of repetitive steps that have to be accomplished in order to write/configure some logic. And the size of this download...
Interesting. Are we supposed to bring any kits of our own?

And the schedule doesn't say much about the specific talks.
Wow, it even works with tikz! If it becomes popular, I bet you'll need some CPUs.
We're bringing up some more capacity now...
Hi glomph - the other writeLaTeX founder here - we were preparing for an update this weekend, weren't anticipating being posted on HN again! Should be running faster shortly.
I don't accept the premise that whatever man touches is somehow automatically tainted or corrupted. Nor do I accept the premise that man is somehow unnatural. All things, including men, obey the laws of thermodynamics.

There is no problem with man changing the course of nature. Why not release some white tigers and actually see how they evolve, instead of simply assuming that they won't thrive?
1. I hope.

2. It doesn't matter; the galaxy can be completely converted to computronium in around 10M years even at 1% of the speed of light.

3. Exponential growth is bigger than space.

4. ...or in a simulation.
Demo: New CSS export from Photoshop CS6
That is so cool. I wonder how much they are selling.
Where is the assumption? How will a tiger that can be easily spotted, is cross eyed and has problems including kidney failure supposed to survive in the wild?
OSX userland is a wild mix of outdated GNU and BSD tools.
I bet there are several clauses in these books the protects him from a legal perspective similar to all of the evergreen products out there.
No sign-in is nice as an option, but the fact that you can't sign in is a negative for me - I'd like to be able to manage multiple documents and projects within an account like on ScribTeX.

Oh, and ShareLaTeX looks really good; thanks for sharing! I'm going to try it out now.
On the other hand this would be far easier to do with software than with hardware. I'm not a fan of this approach.

I much prefer banning software patents entirely and invalidating all existing ones, as draconian as that may be.
After reading this, I googled to confirm that white elephants, which I thought to be natural too, are indeed natural. They are.
Is that an insult towards the C programming language? ;-)
Thanks for the comments beck5 - good luck to you guys too - as you say, lots of challenges but we keep making progress.
In further defense of Google, "I need to meet up with him" translates as 我需要与他见面.

If someone wants to attack Google's Chinese translation, it should be over snippets like 8十多万 or its failure to recognize many personal and place names which could easily be handled by a pre-processor. Google has never been competent in China in part because of their hiring decisions, but this isn't Franz Och's fault.
ScribTeX is going down? What happened?
Sure, guerrilla warface can be very potent, but I don't realistically see not 10% but even 1/1000 of the US population resorting to it.

>That being said, there is still a need for the government to be balanced by fear of the people, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia is not that far in the rear view mirror

Yes, but those are countries were the leaders were elected BY the people. I mean, Hitler was elected into office and had huge support even throughout the war, and the USSR come into being by a popular revolt, and it too had mass popular support, at least in the first years.

>and the evils that lurked in the hearts of those men is not confined to Europe, they walk among all nations and desire the same darkness.

True. After all it was the US that dropped 2 nuclear bombs on civillians, conducted medical experiments on unknowing people, had segregation and racism issues until at least the 70's and that has invaded more countries than any modern post-colonial western country. And it's one of the few western countries that still has the death penalty, I mean, what's with that?
Did you read the article? It clearly states that the "species" is unstable, prone to health problems and has major reproductive issues. What do you expect is going to happen if they are in the wild?
Hi StevenXC - thanks for the comments - we've now developed a sign in option which is planned as part of our next release - we were planning to push tomorrow, looking to see if we can do it now!
If you assume that a breakthrough is possible, and desire its occurrence, then you've got a subjective bias to find a way to logically predict it will happen within the bounds of your lifetime.
You can do that far better by applying it to itself ("Can any headline which ends in a question mark be answered by the word no?") or with a question requiring a non-yes/no answer ("How many Higgs bosons has ATLAS really found?").
nuff said http://cdn.pbh2.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/inb...
From an evolutionary standpoint, all that matters is that the tiger is able to reproduce. If it isn't, an attempt to introduce the breed somewhere will fail. No big deal.

...unless you hold the tiger in your mind in the same way you would your own house cat. But that's warped, because a house cat can't and won't eat you.

I still think the claims of all these problems with captive tigers are overblown. Animals in the wild have plenty of health problems. The difference is that there aren't nearly as many people scrutinizing and treating them.
Why you should probably stop eating wheat
> Interesting. Are we supposed to bring any kits of our own?

If you have an idea beforehand, and if there is any specific need of a tool for the implementation of the idea that is sparsely available, you have to bring it yourselves. Otherwise, the necessary tools will be provided in the venue

> And the schedule doesn't say much about the specific talks.

There are just five 'tracks' and each track will focus on that specific field. All talks and activities will remain within the scope of that track's description
Ask HN: Is Hulu screwing this up?
I was trying to show someone what Hulu is about. I had them use their iPad and go to Hulu.com. Well, the only thing one seems to be able to get on an iPad is a page that allows you to singn-up for a free trial period. You have to enter your credit card and all your personal info. There seems to be no way to learn more about the service at all. This does not seem like a good pattern to me. I wonder how many people are bouncing right off never to come back.
No, it sounds like you are just an introvert. Since introverts are a smaller percentage of society, and they communicate less with others, it can easily seem like there is no one else like you out there.

" Introverts are easily overwhelmed by too much stimulation from social gatherings and engagement, introversion having even been defined by some in terms of a preference for a quiet, more minimally stimulating environment. "

That's why going out in to society seems like a job to you.
tikz is a great package! Re the CPUs - we're working on some neat ways to get round this :-)
I've developed iMaciej, a PIC-PC interview simulator. It can help you prepare for your interview by asking you the same sort of hard-hitting questions Maciej has been known to ask in previous batch interviews such as "What?" and "I don't understand" and "Where's the tea?".
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4895372
no linux, android, ipad support
Have you considered the popular front-end languages like Markdown, org-mode or any of the plethora of formats that have translators to LaTeX?
From this, it looks like Redis inherited some of Tcl's syntax. I never would have put that together before reading this.
On Heroku, you don't even need to manually run a cronjob or set up something that feels like you're consciously trying to game the system. If you sign up for the free tier of NewRelic that Heroku offers, it'll automatically ping your dyno often enough to prevent it being spun down.
This is awesome! Great work. One must have for me is auto complete, I use LaTeXila and its hard to move away from auto complete. Spell checking would also be amazing, I have yet to find a good LaTeX IDE with spell check.
Well, that's true of a lot of dog breeds, especially ones with very long or very short noses. Massive reproductive issues and would not survive in the wild.

French bulldogs have to be almost exclusively birthed by C-section, because their heads are so big, and the females typically need to be inseminated by artificial insemination, because the males have a very hard time mounting females.

But they're very popular and widespread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Bulldog#Health
I built a remote deployment/testing gizmo for Mono in college (admittedly crap, but I was a Summer of Code student, I was as terrible as advertised!). While not nearly as complex as remote building, I'm pretty sure it can be done.

I'd pay for MonoTouch like-right-now, even though the project I really want it for isn't near ready for it, if I could write in VS, press a button, and have it build and deploy on my Mac.
A pistol is no more an assault weapon than a knife.

There are far more dangerous types of guns than a 9mm pistol.

I'm a gun owner, former Army, and gun rights advocate, but I'm not crazy, and I do recognize the need for change. I just want to discuss it with level head, outside of the gun/anti-gun lobby confines.
Not as bad as it sounds. That works out to approx 180 packets of Ramen noodles. In theory you could survive for 90 days like with any other incubator, though you might come down with high blood pressure from all the excess sodium.
This is awesome! I'd also like to share one of my local Wisconsin startups tackling the same problem: http://spandex.io/
Chinese Probe snaps close-ups of asteroid Toutatis
It's not going down, we've just started pointing new users at ShareLaTeX, since that's where our development efforts are focused. If you have an account with ScribTeX you'll still be able to use if for the foreseeable future.
New Public Media Accelerator
Sweet. Is there a provision for delegates to talk about their hacks?
I wasn't referring to this very sad incident only but to this stat http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/files/2012/07...

BTW, the fact that it's the second amendment doesn't mean it can't be changed it just means it will get more people to agree to be able to change it and the solution is probably more complicated than a simple ban anyway. I'm just advocating using empirical evidence derived from a real life test to drive this debate.
Stephen Hawking pushes for posthumous pardon for Alan Turing
A white tiger that has already been born does not have a vote in the matter and cannot apologize for existing. Humanity has a collective responsibility to care for the two-headed calves and white tigers that we create for our own entertainment, but do we really need to be creating more of the genetic disasters that pull resources away from truly endangered species? There is no good reason to breed another white tiger.

I'm trying to understand the moral implications here. The author paints a very heart-touching and grim picture, and it's tempting to agree. But what happens when you apply this to humans?
The real crime is misinformation. If everyone read this article the problem would go away.
I have a cheap XEN VPS in the Netherlands from http://inceptionhosting.com/

Never had any problems since I got it, 7 or 8 months ago.
Suitable habitat is a limited resource. It might be a big deal wasting it on white tigers (or it might be a big deal wasting the political energy required to do the reintroduction on doomed animals).
Thanks sonier :-) auto-complete is on our development list, I agree it makes things easier once you're used to it!
Show HN: New approach to advertising - through Captchas
This is going to have a very interesting effect on the console market if it becomes reality. For one, it'll destroy the used games market. But also, it will make the impulse purchase of games much easier, and it'll drastically reduce the aging process for games. No longer will a game's sales be tied to shelf space. The focus on sales right after a game has been released will decrease, which I think is a good thing in the long run.

I think that with the shift of the Wii and Wii U towards the casual gaming market, there's definitely space for a third competitor in the "serious" gaming market. It'll be interesting to see how this actually manifests itself.
"As a result of this intensive modeling effort, the researchers say they've discovered that a carefully designed combination of renewable sources – wind and solar – with batteries and fuel-cell electricity-storage systems could by 2030 supply enough power to keep a large electrical grid fired up 99.9 per cent of the time, and do so at a cost comparable to today's not-so-renewable energy grid."

The one thing that worries me is the word 'comparable'. With no prices listed one Congress's 'comparable' is another Congress's 'unaffordable'. Granted prices for renewable energy sources should trend downward, as has been the case, but I'm not sure if lower costs in the future have been accounted for.

More than anything I want this to be true and enough to convince governments to invest in these technologies. More than that I want people advocating for renewable energies to speak with more confidence. The article says, "could provide," why not "CAN provide"? If the ultimate issue is swaying public opinion why are such things not discussed with more confidence? Granted I know this seems a little nitpicky but I believe every word counts. Additionally I'm curious what other people have to say about this.
Parent(s) are talking about the websites that get data from Facebook, not Facebook itself.
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I'd love to see what kinds of silly assumptions they're making about costs for buildout, solar efficiency improvements, magical new energy storage technology, etc...
While I generally agree with what you are saying, it is very important to understand that built-in types are not magical. This is where coming from a low-level embedded C or assembly background can be very useful.

As an example, there are a number of sites showing the performance hit you take if you use some of the NS types in Objective-C. If I remember correctly, in some cases you are talking about NS types running 400 times slower than alternative code.

In my mind, the question of data representation could also include this very choice: Do I use an NSArray or do I do it "by hand", allocate memory and use a "simple" array?
From what I saw in IIS logs on an Exchange server and in MAPI stores, every EAS client registers with the Exchange server and creates a folder there to track its's state somehow.

So Google can surely change their EAS implementation to not register new clients.
Government seeks to shut down NSA wiretapping lawsuit
It is peer to peer when possible (>90% of the time). Otherwise it is relayed.
The Happy Mask
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I have been using Emacs for quite a while now. It offers (via AucTeX/RefTeX) a brilliant solution for bibtex files, references, writing LaTeX, autocompletion etc. And if you use it in conjunction with either ispell or flyspell (on-the-fly spell-checking), you basically can use both at the same time.[1] However, this might be daunting, especially when this means starting and dealing with Emacs for the first time.

[1]: It might however be necessary to redefine one of the shortcuts for either flyspell or autocompletion, since they both use the same keys by default.
Did you even read the article? The tigers were intentionally inbred to spread this mutation. There is no analog of this in humans; inbreeding is unnecessary and does no tiger a favor by continuing it.
This guy is a part of the problem. The 2nd amendment links the right to keep and bear arms with the need for a "well regulated militia". Congress and the courts have never actually enforced this linkage and indeed pretend that it doesn't exist -- which is the basis of our current problems with gun nuts insisting that the general population be heavily armed. This guy may never go nutso and shoot up a classroom (even though his paranoia about the "govenrment" seems to indicate some degree of mental illness) but some other deluded soul could use the weapon to kill innocents. As long as gun nuts run the government we are truly and thoroughly screwed. (just my humble opinion).