skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it as being more on Boeing to initiate official correspondence if they want the help. Elon is just casually letting them know that they would be receptive to such a request.
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I feel we're not benefitting enough from this sorting process, really! I wish our education would try to give a more comprehensive perspective on what human nature can potentially achieve – that is useful and meaningful!
It's a tin foil hat conspiracy, on a par with claiming 9/11 was an inside job.
In that case I can't figure out what your point was, but this is all sort of incidental anyway.
Yes we decided on making a parallax scroll. I will make some design changes to ask people to scroll down to get more information.

Thank you for the input
Think about that one for a second. An encrypted block is essentially supposed to look like random data. I.e. if two people encrypt the same file with different keys, you shouldn't be able to tell that they're the same file (or your encryption sucks). So your block-level de-duping then depends on incidental matches between random data.

What's the probability of two 4KB (or whatever) blocks of random data being identical? Basically zero even with petabytes of data.
Ask HN: How to not lose yourself in perfectionism creating a developer profile?
I guess I'm doing what most people did before the rise of blogs, github and social media. Stuff whatever I wrote in some folder, have code rot on some hard drive and receive mail to my yahoo address ending in four numbers and just hope the interviewer solely relies on employment history.

That doesn't fly these days. Maybe I'm taking everything too serious, but leaving some kind of mark on the internet seems so complicated and doesn't allow for experimentation. Everything is connected somehow and often it's impossible to change things you're not so happy about.

I did a lot of commits and bug reports with throwaway accounts and mails. Contributing things anonymous is still a good thing, but somehow feels wrong and doesn't add anything to how people perceive my skill or character.

Here's one chain of thought:

"I should really put my code online. I set the maila dress in my git repository to "<>" but I can still change that now, but not later. Well I can't use tomatonose384@yahoo.com but every good name is already in use, so what to do? Maybe I should get a domain first. Damn, every good name is already in use. But I can't commit now because people might end up relying on my commit history or even fork it before I can change it, if I ever come up with something better. Forget about that first, what about my writings? Static pages on github are cheap, oh wait we run into the same problem. And what if we ever move to our own webspace, urls will be doomed! Well, could get some webspace, need a domain anyway. hundred cups of coffee later that domain sounds dumb, that one's taken...
Think of a user name instead. That's what people might end up calling you and you need one on github. Damn that's even harder! Screw the whole thing, I'd rather write more code."

I don't know whether I end up as the artist who's parents find a lot of paintings in the attic after his dead and finds universal praise, or the one who's work just end up in the trash can. But that whole attic thing will definitely happen. It sounds crazy in a way.

Has anyone else had that problem, or still has? What to do?
Small correction: Boeing outsourced the power design to Thales, and they chose Yuasa as the battery provider. So there are 3 companies involved in the investigation so far.

http://www.gsyuasa-lp.com/content/thales-selects-gs-yuasa-li...
It's a good thing this was written. Otherwise I would have NO idea about how terrible college students must be. Now I have proof, so let's all take steps to keep them unemployed, shun and criticize them.

And I'll continue to watch a heavy heavy amount of fox news in order to properly evaluate the things I'm unfamiliar with. How else will I maintain a moral compass?
Google Glass API available now in SF and NY
Ah, sorry I don't know how I missed this comment. Thanks for the link man. I had no idea but that's genius :)

I could probably get enough of my friends to interact with it but I guess but I feel that I somehow need to test both groups in order to truly understand it's viability.
Dart is basically Java Script. It's not called that because some language completely unrelated to Java called itself that already :)

To reply to some of your points:

The syntax is designed to look like Java. It's there for Java programmers, not to be the best syntax ever. (new is important, however, because you can also create objects with const.) Yeah, it's not Python.

Production and development mode are a common optimization in other languages. Remember: type annotations in Dart cannot, by design, change the behavior of the application. So in production mode, that part of the language spec is enforced. Static analysis tools, etc., are free to do whatever they want, however. I'd rather catch type errors at code review time rather than at runtime in production anyway.

The constructors make sense to me. They work like Java, and there is better syntax for initializing fields (which is all I ever do in constructors anyway).

Ultimately, it's Java in client-side form. Compare it to GWT, not Python or Haskell.
Even after all those delays and teething issues the Dreamliner was passed under a very compressed schedule, said Mann. "And there was an electrical failure and an emergency landing during the test-flight programme," he said. "That was blamed on a 'foreign object'."

The whole aircraft apparently. And there lies the solution to this riddle. Boeing went too far outsourcing engineering. Is Boeing trying to copy Airbus, and If so, why?
I'm sorry, it shouldn't sound narcissistic. I don't think I'm doing that great myself, and I'm a bit embarassed by that. Which is why I'm looking for smart people all the time, so I can stay motivated to work.
I bought two $40 upgrades of Windows 8 Pro, haven't installed them yet. I figure my son and I might need them in the future sometime. Mostly for video games. I switched to Ubuntu 12.10 for myself and my son still uses Windows 7.

My main Laptop runs Ubuntu and my custom built PC runs a dual-boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I need Windows 7 for Turbo Tax and some other software that won't run under WINE.

BTW I got Windows 7 Ultimate from a Microsoft Developer event for free. No such deals for developers when Windows 8 came out, or maybe I missed it?
Can you help me understand why you believe that my example was a poor choice?

I offered a sentence in English and made the claims that (1) it was powerful and (2) not admitted by the grammars that govern such constructions. I thought that these were necessary and sufficient to make my point.

Do you believe that either of these claims is false (or somehow depends on what's true or false for Latin)?

Thanks for your help!
So never mind that there are other studies which point to different findings. More importantly: the study finds that money above $75k has no impact on "Emotional Well Being = the quality of a person’s everyday experience such as joy, fascination, anxiety, sadness, anger, and affection" however at all levels more money improves "Life Evaluation = a person’s thoughts about his or her life (on a longer time scale)." How have we decided to call the first one "happiness" and not the second one? Maybe that's how the psychologists define happiness, but it's not the everyday meaning of the word as I perceive it. Granted, English is not my first language but I would say "happiness" includes both "emotional well being" and "life evaluation", and maybe even with more emphasis on the latter when contrasted with, say, "joy" which is the one that pertains more to the short-term states, isn't that right?

As a concrete not money-related example, parents of young children probably typically don't have very good "emotional well being" as defined above, but nevertheless by every account I've heard they're usually very happy, which means precisely their "life evaluation" is high.
> Once you're in the SF/NYC scene with your job, you are kind of stuck because there are no houses to buy for $380k anywhere around you.

There are lots of things available in NY outside of Manhattan. As for SF, there obviously isn't much in the city (28 foreclosures), but a quick search gives me 233 results inside of 45 minutes, and 940 inside of 60.

> Also, where did you get the $95k+closing costs=$115k cash down to get that $380k mortgage if you're making $75k or less?

1. You don't have to have 20% down to buy a house (maybe you should, but it definitely isn't a requirement.

2. I wasn't even considering downpayment, the houses I was talking about were < 380k total, so mortgage would actually be even less factoring in any downpayment.

3. That's the point. If you are making 75k you shouldn't be spending 1700 a month on rent either. If you want to live in Manhattan, get yourself an awesome job paying 250k+. Otherwise it's to me it seems pretty stupid to live in Manhattan. 1700 a month for 180 sq ft just seems bizarre and absurd. That's not a good deal.
"then language becomes an arbitrary construct subject to everyone's whims"

ding ding ding, you're starting to get it!

More seriously, language can be thought of as a middle ground between production of an external symbol as a realization of thought, and interpretation of that symbol in another mind.

Even using language adhering to the strictest of grammars, there can be room for misunderstanding in the mind of the interpreter as they will be decoding your symbol expressions through a lens of their own understanding. Adhering to the model you think best does not guarantee clarity of communication!

You adjust the production model you use in order to better suit the interpretation model your audience is using. If your use of language is skillful enough, you can even help the audience select from several competing language models in order to add nuance -- you can speak in a vernacular or in a formal mode.
It seems like most of the 'failure' you are experiencing is emotional baggage. Just let it go - it doesn't matter. You're already on to the next thing.

You talk about having gained a 'reputation' of failure - is there a person you are especially feeling like you failed? An investor or advisor, or just your self? Consider having a chat with them, or addressing this.

There are thousands of examples of failures followed by blazing successes, nothing new. Just keep doing what you love.
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Cassandra by itself is definitely complex.

But if you're a Java developer then PlayORM/Astyanax abstracts away almost all of the complexity and allow you to focus on your data model and not worry about the columns. Likewise for the preferences the defaults make sense and are pretty straightforward to change if you do need.
Guys, what you are calling "Sarkanas", the Goenka tradition is calling "Sankhara".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra

Nothing woo-woo about "conditioned phenomena". And it's not really a "Vipassana" term as much as a philosophical term in general. That's just the Pali name for it.
Why not? We don't live in 1992 anymore.
Yes, seriously.

Are you bringing up something from 2005 to kick dirt over the rightness of Senator Cornyn's current actions? Whatever could be the point of this, besides counter-productive partisanship? Can a right action be taken only by people with pasts you deem fully worthy?
I think by "Sarkanas" you really mean "Sankharas".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra

Nothing woo-woo about "conditioned phenomena".
The good news is that some good questions have been asked, and the reply will be available for scrutiny.

I'm not sure Cornyn was the best member of Congress to write this sort of letter. Yes, he is on the Committee of the Judiciary, but his political leanings might result in posturing that obfuscates the issues we care about. That being said, I'm glad someone asked.
Deleting the file also deletes the stream (in as much as deleting a file marks it as OK to overwite). Scott Hanselman blogged several ways to remove streams in 2007 (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/RemovingSecurityFromDownloaded...).
It is the cheapest way to buy a legit version of Windows 8 Pro for now. Provided you didn't buy a new laptop with Windows 7 between June 2012 and now for that cheaper upgrade.

Even if you have no future plans to upgrade/migrate to Windows 8 Pro yet, you may change your mind in the future. If you do it will cost more to upgrade after January. I bought two upgrades just in case, haven't installed them yet.

When I switched I went to Ubuntu 12.10 instead of Windows 8. Windows 8 is awful and lacks a lot of software support, that could change in a few years if Microsoft gets their act together.
On a practical level, both HN and TPB track users and have karma systems. If you click on links from established users, you are unlikely to experience malware on both sites.
I am not disputing that Cassandra has a learning curve but I just disagree that it is any different to every other database available today.

They ALL have issues and eventual consistency is a fundamental part of a distributed database so its something you have to learn either way.
If you think sankharas are non-physical, you missed the point. They are entirely physical and experienced as "vedana", bodily sensations. Nothing woo-woo. You just feel your body objectively.
Well, you know, give it time. I'm just happy that we've progressed to the point that any Indian cuisine has become common in my part of the world.
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I can't tell if this is a markov generator trolling me or not. All I can tell you is: I'm glad the questions are being asked, but don't go assuming John Cornyn is a friend to hackers.
A tale of two dinosaurs: Polaroid and Technicolor struggle to stay relevant
Failure? I can't see they failing in the long run. They have a monopoly in mind share and bundles with virtually all new laptops (apart from Macs and some Ubuntu machines).

They took this route with Xbox and all went well in the end. Secret, keep iterating the damn product.
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The problem is that his implementation is essentially a test of how he's using libc versus how Haskell is using it.

The pointer arithmetic he's using shouldn't need to be optimized, since the page sizes he's malloc'ing and pulling from memory are small enough that they should stay in the L1/L2 cache for the entire run(he's using 1k blocks of data, most processors use 4k pages). There's almost no optimization to be done there.

The biggest performance hit is actually the single character puts versus a block read or write.

Haskell is probably implemented to read a large block of the file(or perhaps the entire file) into memory, then parse after. That would be a minimal number of system fread calls over the entire run. Versus the C code, where 1 block's parse could be 1024 getc and putc calls.
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Paymill involves a lot of paperwork and is not as straightforward as they would lead you to believe.

My advice: do not spend time integrating with their API before they authorise you to do real payments.
Is there something really wrong with that? I won't spend $10 to go see a movie with bad reviews. Why would I want to spend $40 and quite a bit of time and effort on an OS that most people think is bad?
Then you're proud to have as a senator someone who compared gay marriage to marrying a box turtle.
I did a Windows 8 Beta Test and Windows 8 Developer test and had Windows 8 Enterprise RTM for a 90 day demo. It didn't seem to want to run half the software that worked with Windows 7, and the Windows Store didn't seem to have a lot of apps worth the purchase price. I've tried Windows 8 and I have family and friends who bought a Windows 8 Machine and now regret it.

I think the youtube videos are based on that.

Windows 8 is the New Coke of Windows operating systems, worse than Windows Vista and Windows ME combined.
And then once you have your domain name, there's the cycle of, "Okay, what should I put here? Static HTML pages? A blog? Blogs seem like the most popular way of publishing on the web today, but I really don't think the blog format fits what I want to write, but would people actually come to my site if it's not a blog, and who is my target audience anyway? And..."

The point being, there are lots of cycles we as creators can get sucked into. I don't know that the answers to these questions don't matter at all, but it's easy to think they matter a lot, and try to answer them perfectly rather than making real progress.
I don't know why they don't do this to MPAA and whatnot.
I'm still not sure how you (or Facebook) is meant to be able to tell the difference between a genuine like and a 10% discount like.
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Quick question, without searching - what's the driving "Must Have" feature in Windows 8 for you?

My OS X Lion System finally (finally!) stabilized around 10.7.5, stopped kernel panicking, beach balling, and just outright hanging. I'm going to wait at least a year from now on before upgrading my OS, and then, only if there is some "Must Have" feature in the new platform.

I've got a Windows XP Desktop to the left of me, on a January 2004 Precision 650 - it runs pretty much flawlessly; no blue screens/hangs or other problems in two+ years. I use it mostly for outlook+lookout, Microsoft Visio, VMware Workstation - Zero need to upgrade - So I've been able to skip Vista, Windows 7 and now, apparently, Windows 8. About the only thing I've done is go through two monitor upgrades (Started with a 45 Pound 21" CRT, went to a (considered extravagant back then) 21" LCD - it's now sporting a Dell 30".

I'm honestly interested in knowing how long I'll be able to keep this desktop running. (Clearly, the $40 to $200 jump is having no impact on me)
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His constituents also wanted him to try to ban the NYC "ground zero mosque". He was happy to oblige.
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"The Pirate Bay: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
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COINTELPRO (1956-1971) literally included attempts to get "subversive" Americans such as MLK to commit suicide.
This year, standalone social business software will die
On a practical level you're also less likely to catch a computer virus if you stay off the Internet. Does that mean you should stop using the Internet?
The XBox 360 still sucks and has the red ring of death problem, and if bumped some models even scratch the disk in the drive ruining it.

The XBox is a success because of exclusive video game titles on it. Plus gamers have to keep getting their XBox repaired or replaced to keep playing games.

Some stupid Internet advice tell people to reset the XBox when it has a red ring of death by throwing a towel or blanket over it. That causes overheating, and in some cases fries the CPU or other parts and then they have to buy a new XBox. I don't know why, when the main problem of the XBox overheating is a bad heat sink and poor quality in cooling the equipment, for a solution to that is to apply more heat so the system resets the red ring of death?
I think the problem nollidge is having with your assertion is that language is likely better described as "probabilistic" rather than "logical".

"The method must be logical in its formation because otherwise it can't be sure it is understood by both parties."

Isn't true in any description of language. You can't be 0/1 sure that language will be understood by both parties. You can only make a guess that probably the way I'm producing communication symbols will probably be understood by the receiver. If the probabilities align, then communication has succeeded...but a 1:1 production-to-understanding ratio almost never happens.

Receivers of communication understand some percentage less than 100% every time. But it's their own internal models of the language that let's them fill in the gaps. You as a communication producer hope that they are filling in the gaps with a model that's close enough to your model that everything works. And for the most part it does, we're pretty good at it, but miscommunication occurs dozens of times a day, every day for every daily set of communication events.
> It may come down to the team adding a small camera on the outside – along with a possible push button – that allows the user to pause the game and see the feed without forcing the user to take the goggles completely off their head.

The idea of a camera to let you see the actual world is pretty nifty. It even comes pre-built with philosophical questions (which is the actual world?).

On the other hand, I can't help but think that the camera could also be used to prevent people from smacking their head into real, physical objects.

Stick a few distance sensors and overlay portions of the camera when an object is too close? It would interrupt the game, sure, but less so than you headbutting your monitor or a wall. Just a thought.
It's pretty sad that we have so many talented individuals devote so many man hours to completely free operating systems, and yet corporations like Microsoft still get away with dangling carrots in front of us like this.

The free software movement needs to get its act together.
Yes. This chart goes along perfectly with MMM's math.
Continuity of practice is the secret of success.

http://www.dhamma.org/en/qanda.shtml
Thbthbthbthbthbththbthtbhtbhthbt! I say to POSIX. This convention is practically universal.
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HS had nothing to do with the battery, and their power load calculations were correct. Personal sources (HS is huge in my city.)
Yeah, I was just meandering. The parent post had argued that this was little more than a hypocritical political ploy. I was saying, 'probably', because there's not much to politically gain from it other than to give the DOJ a black eye and because, I guess I just see Swartz as still being a "niche" issue to most people outside of the tech/academic senator.

But I thought it was fair to point out that Cornyn is no fairweather public-records fan. But of course, Swartz's JSTOR incident was not just a case of open-access (as it was in the PACER case). There's enough nuance here that I would've just assumed that a senator of Conryn's level would leave it be as there are many other political shitstorms going on (gun control, debt ceiling, etc etc)
The other commenter on this thread is right - this is classic poisoning the well.

When a politician does something right - and Cornyn's letter asks far more pointed and on-point questions than I expected - the correct response is not to bring up everything you feel the politician has ever done wrong.

My views, your views, and Cornyn's views about gay marriage aren't particularly relevant here.
Basing your movie opinions on random youtube videos would be equally foolish. The reviews of professional critics are somewhat different.
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Isn't enabling Turbo just saying "now the content will run through our servers and be compressed"? Amazon's Silk browser can switch between the 2 modes, too, as far as I know, although it uses the server compression by default.
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Nexus 4 demand 10 times higher than Google expected
I'm happy for you!

>> practically the whole notion of "intellect figuring out and resolving issues", seems now completely a misguided process"

Makes me feel like all the book learning I ever did was all for naught (aside from technical learning that helps me do my job).
I filled in the form twice, just for info... ?
I have multiple keys available through my MSDN subscription. Only 2 are being used for VM test machines. I have no desired to actually use Windows 8 as a primary OS, (yes, I tried running it for a couple of weeks), Windows 7 and Ubuntu fill that role.