skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend Cygwin, which will give you a "proper" bash shell in Windows.

Also, Console2 makes working with the cmd prompt slightly more bearable (easier copy and paste etc).
Yeah, I have to agree. Reading his blog post, and then the documentation on the site, I got the image of some great new designs to manage the "Information Architecture" of an online persistent discussion (a thread). But instead when I actually logged in and browsed around, all I got was reddit with nicer formatting.

Weak.
Good point, repeatable read is a pretty useful guarantee, though I would be loathe to give up global integrity constraints. Read committed seems to put a lot of work on the application developer's plate, though, and it's not clear to me what impact the different isolation levels have on system performance.
It seems to be working with Java...with almost all the functionality eclipse's autocomplete has, as far as I can tell.
Pepper Flash is re-enabled automatically after the user manually disables it
Can this story be substantiated anywhere credible?
So this implies that it would be delivered over Google CDN, e.g. from a network close to requesting location?
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"yes, all of Microsoft"

No, not all of Microsoft.
Serious question (no seriously!)...

Given that you will always have to deal with service providers not supporting your browser, why do you choose to continue using it?

Usually there is an idealogical reason for this sort of stance, but Opera isn't FOSS, and that's the only reason I can think of that someone would choose to put up with an inferior software experience.

Why not switch to Chrome or Firefox?
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Occam's razor in its simplest form and applied to math is something like this:

Proof 1: assumptions (i), (ii) imply that there are infinitely many Mersenne primes.

Proof 2: assumptions (i), (ii), (iii) imply that there are infinitely many Mersenne primes.

Both make the same "predictions", which in math it means they prove the "same" theorem. Then we choose Proof 1, because its assumptions are simpler. That's all.

Occam's razor doesn't apply when we are choosing between different theories that lead to different predictions.

Of course one can always conjecture that there are infinitely many Mersenne primes based on "intuition", and then go on to prove other results which rely on that assumption. People do that for P=?NP, for instance. But there's no point in invoking Occam's razor for that.
A international treaty would probably not work well, since military drones are actually useful for combat. Unlike biological weapons, were the victim has two weeks of incubation period to defeat you, or chemical weapons, which are quite useless against hardened targets. ( And since WWII there was no conflict which came close to the nuclear threshold.) Therefore an AI arms control regime would be a lot harder to construct than a WMD one.

Having said that, I am actually not very pessimistic about drones. I think that they are similar to cars, which enable a quick get away for the perpetrators of a crime, but are in fact more dangerous in accidents than as means of a crime. ( And similar, if there are thousands of pizza delivery drones then some of them will fall out of the sky by pure statistics.)
Nothing like money to motivate entrepreneurs!
I'll be first in line!
Thanks for sharing.

You'll probably like this essay¹, which made it big on HN²
a few weeks ago.

¹: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/07/23/a-self-made-man-looks-...

²: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4965041
And no assets.
Nah, I have a fake gps location app. Just use that and set your location to where ever you wish. The best campaign again those that seek to collect data is to feed them incorrect information.
Did you post on their forums, or decide it would suit you better to broadcast your issue to people who aren't in a position to fix it?
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The current pricing for the different size batteries that Tesla offers implies a cost of ~$500 per kWh (the cost differential between the 40 kWh, 60 kWh and 85 kWh packs is $10k). I read "somewhere" (random stranger on the Internet alert) that the cost of raw materials is in the ballpark of $80 per kWh. Now, I'd think that the current scale of battery production (certainly at least millions of units in the 18650 form factor that Tesla uses) doesn't leave much room to handwave the magic "scale effect" wand. On the other hand, it does seem like there is quite a bit of headroom between $80 (if that is realistic) and $500.

If a large chunk of the delivered cost of a battery is attributable to fixed costs, like R&D, rather than the process of turning the raw materials into a finished battery, then maybe it isn't too implausible that the price could drop by a factor of two (or four). You might be able to glean some that information about that from carefully reading the SEC reports from public battery manufacturers.
(It was a broken mailing list, not an explicit list of addresses.)
Your word parsing isn't helping your case. According to AHED, privilege is defined as:

a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people

Believe me. These advantages were not universally available. I got lucky.
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I use HN Notify: it sends me an email notification every time someone replies to one of my submissions or comments.

http://hnnotify.com/
I'll say this... I'm going to Exec's site now because of your redesign. Kudos.
Social news != forum.
Reminds me of this story that happened just a few months ago:

http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2012/11/27/replyallcalypse-201...
I'm not sure what makes them say that DOS is dead. There are and there will always be plenty of command line tools on Windows, so there's no way Microsoft is going to completely remove the shell.
And that's why I don't contribute anything online
It isn't a trade off at all. It is legislation that favors the interests of those who purchased the legislation.
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Most people used canned packages in Rails with something like Devise. Looking at the source it looks like the token is pulled right off the params:

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/app/cont...

The reset routine uses Rails finder mechanism to do just what the OP discusses:

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/blob/master/lib/devi...

I don't use MySQL because for reasons just like this - so I'm not all that surprised. That said - it would be interesting to see Devise put to the test to see if it is indeed a problem for Devise.

This is not, however, a Rails issue.
cuda comes pre installed with gpu instances. but you can install sotware as well.
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The safe harbor provision of the DMCA exists entirely to take away power from copyright holders. It creates an entire class of businesses (internet service providers) who can't be sued for infringing copyrights if they follow certain rules. It makes copyright holders that abuse the provision pay both damages and legal fees of the victim. It enables the legal existence of sites like YouTube despite rampant copyright infringement.

Meanwhile, other provisions of the same act directly benefit copyright holders: prohibiting breaking of anti-circumvention measures, for example. This gives DRM its legal teeth beyond simple breach of contract.

How does this fit into your conspiracy theory? There isn't one single group that this act represents the interests of.
What was the point of this dog pod grid? It sounds like a cross between a surveillance network ("Royal Security") and a simulation of biology (mating, nursing, etc.).
Have to agree. Looking at a nice real world app has really pushed me into investing time with Ember.js.
Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? My goodness, it's like this is the MIT fan club.

Why is this being posted here? It's a notice from MIT to the MIT community about network problems they have been having. I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? I'm so sick of this mindless worshiping of a school just because it is a great university.

There are plenty of other higher-education institutions that offer excellent programs. Yet somehow "MIT", "Stanford", "Carnegie Mellon", etc are the only names people want to hear of engineering universities, all other institutions are just "schools".
They don't manufacture their own cells (why would they?) but the battery pack is their own design [1] and what sets them apart from other EVs:

The battery pack in the Tesla Roadster is the result of
innovative systems engineering and 20 years of advances in
Lithium-ion cell technology. Tesla's ingenious battery
pack architecture enables world-class acceleration,
safety, range, and reliability. The non-toxic pack is
built at Tesla’s Headquarters in Northern California.

[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/roadster/technology/battery
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The patent was filed in 2009. I wrote a podcast fetcher for an obscure Archos device in 2005. It was hardly the first app like that. But just based on my own personal experience, the things that this patent covers were in wide use at least 4 years before it was filed.

I can't say I've read any of this in detail, but on the surface it might be the most ridiculous one of these patent stories I've seen in a long time.

My thing was a fetcher, not a distribution system, but if there hadn't already been a well established standard for distribution (RSS), I wouldn't have had any reason to write it.
Privacy issues aside isn't this going to reduce battery life dramatically?
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If you write code that you know because of the data that it uses has the ability to generate libel about a famous figure on a public site, then you could be charged. The likelihood of being charged is much less than having written it yourself clearly and perhaps linking to the page and promoting it as valid news, but the possibility of being charged is there.
Urk. After using this awhile I don't like the context spam and have disabled it.

Interesting idea, I can see how people in .net who want to look up a little-used Windows API might like to use it being automatic, but the annoyance of the feature outweighs any benefit for my environment.

vi + console + syntax highlighting = my preference. Mind remains uninterrupted, focused, instantly aware of syntax errors, code structure. :)
PBS is not owned by the public, and only 15% of its funding comes from government programs.
At some point in the future I think technology advances enough to where it makes sense to have fairly beefy client apps for discussions. Modern forums are based off of the idea that basically everyone sees the same views all the time. This is why you have to invent various tricks (like pagination "last read" state, quoting, and threading) to try to manage information density so that conversations don't become unwieldy too quickly. Although most such techniques are only slightly effective compared to the tried and true techniques of the good old days of usenet.
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This is precisely why I purchased a large chunk of TSLA a month ago, and I suggest that all of you do the same.
A privilege is something like being Kim Jong Un instead of most other North Koreans. The advantage in that privilege definition is confusing here since it means an explicitly granted one but no rule-making power intervened in your life in that way.

An advantage is like having a secret television in North Korea or living near the northern Chinese border. The rules for escape and censure apply exactly the same as they do to others, but the situation one randomly finds oneself in makes beating the game easier. That's your situation.
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Hasn't Microsoft already moved on to Power Shell? Irrespective, I agree, DOS is not dead.
> Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7?

In the recent times, MIT has come under the scanner after Swartz death. Therefore, people are interested in follow ups.

> Why is this being posted here?

I think this is relevant and hence being posted. It is interesting and people are voting up. I'm not an MIT alumnus and I don't see a reason for "MIT fan club" collusion as you may be referring to.
So a bit of looking into it and it looks like we may both be onto something.

According to the internet the Dyson company was founded in 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_(company)

but he came up with the idea in the early 80s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dyson

More importantly, it turns out I was definitely thinking of cleaners that don't use a disposable bag, and weren't a Dyson cyclone design...but it turns out that they just use a permanent filter that simply replaces the bag in the design. Those are what I remember growing up with since my mother hated having to spend all that money on bags. Are they pre-dyson "bagless"? I don't know, I think that's how they were marketed but I honestly can't remember.
I think Google already does that. There's a Google Map process which runs on Android in the background. It comes back even if you turn it off.
Preventing users from pouring water into coffee machine beans compartment
As much as I don't want to, I think I need to point out that Cygwin has been so much of a bother to me that I now find it more convenient to just install Linux inside Virtual Box as a better free alternative. Cygwin was good before all these virtualization tools became so available, but now I find it incredibly frustrating and lacking compared to a traditional Linux OS, which is easily accessible now from a Windows environment.

EDIT: Console2 is nice, though. I can get behind that.
That list doesn't really contain many privileges in the "unpacking the knapsack" sense, in that they aren't advantages you have just because of your race/class/gender. If anything it shows that these opportunities/advantages are available to those to who pursue them whether it be you or your parents or your country.

Perhaps you are underestimating the impact that hard work has had on your life and over-estimating the impact of "privileges" you list. Certainly, you were born into such favorable circumstances (although your parents/family seemed to have been very intentional in creating that for you) but you wouldn't be successful in tech without the hard work part. I wonder what motivates you to emphasize the former and not the latter?
PALs and the START tamper sensors are some of the most amazing implementations of tamper resistance in the history of mankind. They are what got me interested in the stuff in the mid 1990s, followed by the weirdness of DRM schemes for anti piracy.
What you may be missing is that values must be taught.

And not everyone gets that tutelage. The values may be universal, but the opportunity to learn them is less so.
Wow, 2 hours of concentrated work in the morning sounds exceptional to me. With open plan offices -- the norm in Brazil and Japan -- it's damn near impossible to have 20 straight minutes of uninterrupted work: phones ringing, people talking to each other from afar, people interrupting you, etc.
Nobody here has made what I thought to be the biggest point in this article. The reputation management company...

Given the situation and the details mentioned in the article. It seems the reputation management company is hiring people to re-post content and send DMCAs. What other explanation is there for why somebody would rip off blog posts. Obviously this sort of thing would be a last resort for the reputation management company. But in some cases, there may be no other way to remove / push down the unwanted content.

I would bet this is a common tactic of reputation management companies. Can anybody here confirm or offer insight about how these companies work?
That would be something in the range of a 20 W at the drone. So something like a modified microwave oven should do it. ( The drone flies into the oven, recharges in flight, flies out when charged.) That has the additional advantage that no 200 W radio emitters are jamming all cell phones in the neighborhood.
I spent ~7 hours a day when I was learning C++. I basically had to do this in order to be able to take my course the next semester in college. I went from knowing absolutely nothing about programming, to having a very firm grasp on the subject, and actually being one of the best in my class.

I would have learned a lot with 4 hours a day, but I think the extra 90 hours I put in that month really helped me out.
To execute both sides, the fetch unit needs to have multiple program counters which is essentially a form of SMT.
> Bring more structure than linear comments, but less complexity than threaded comments.

Definitely. I basically want a forum that looks like gitk (but flipped, obviously). Clear replies, multiple parents, but sorted chronologically and without indentation. Higher or lower rated posts could be marked typographically.

I don't know how well this would scale, though.
As far as we know, it is. The update process takes place over a Car<->Tesla VPN, so owners have no visibility into the software update process at all.
Thanks for sharing! I loved the way you sum up everything

So I stand upon the shoulders of giants. Holding a
winning lottery ticket.

It made me realize the "giant shoulders" I stood on to make me reach where I am today. It is a humbling experience to put life in perspective.
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There are penalties.

Sure, just like there's a 4th Amendment right to not be the target of unreasonable search and seizure, and a constitutional right (Section 9) to "a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time". Oh, there's also a 5th amendment right to be indicted by a grand jury for a capital or infamous crime.

But you're also almost certainly snooped on every telecomm session, and the US Government has a program for assassinating US citizens.

The US government doesn't enforce laws strictly, or by what the obvious wording says, nor does it enforce laws uniformly. In practice there's a "high court" for large corporations and rich people, and a "low court" for commoners and other smaller personhoods.
You have to frame your rate in terms that demonstrate the value you'll be providing.

Eg you could say you'll only be working 20 billable hours per week and suddenly it sounds like they will be getting some of your time for free.

The rest of the time is actually taken up with marketing, administration, training etc.
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The portion of funds of funds that come from the federal government is smaller than you think, and conservatives are constantly posturing to take even that away. (Recall the Big Bird meme that came out of the presidential debates?). The lions share of federal funds go to keeping stations broadcasting, not towards content creation.

It's unlikely that any given piece of content was wholly funded by the public.

http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadcas...
I'm in the same boat. Brazilian born to a Brazilian father and British mother. Lived in the US since 4 years of age. I also pass as a white American (but still have to deal with DHS and immigration bullshit because bureaucratic red tape has delayed my ability to apply for citizenship).

Like Danilo said, there is no replacement for having lived and grown up in the United States. I'm a native English speaker, but Portuguese was my first language. I'm fully fluent in Portuguese, but I wish I spoke at native fluency. However I would not trade my native English fluency for native Portuguese fluency. English is simply way too valuable.
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We have already done the culture fit interviews. We only extend the opportunity to work on the project to people we want to hire if their technical skills meet our expectations.

If that isn't clear to a candidate when they are offered the project, or if they still are reluctant, then they aren't a good fit for us anyways.
Sounds like its time to start using Yammer.
I've done Hartl, as well as several Code School courses and a couple other tutorials, yet I still don't feel confident enough in my skills or knowledge to begin my own project or contribute to an open source one. I feel like something is missing from these education sites.
> in that they aren't advantages you have just because of your race/class/gender.

Clearly not – they are advantages that are atypical to my race and starting class, but entirely typical to a great many of the people I've encountered in my work. That's what was interesting to me about the exploration.

> but you wouldn't be successful in tech without the hard work part.

I completely agree. I'll put it to you like this: I may have run in the race, and that was all my effort, but someone needed to first put me on plane for me to even compete.
I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN?

No, but if you're looking for something to post, how about how RPI is basically a CIA farm school and what it's like to experience that as a student? HN'ers might be interested to read something like that.
The risk of outsourcing is that there aren't a lot of suppliers who can build the parts they need. If they outsource key components, they can get into a situation where the supplier can name a punitive price for parts.
>I saw breathtaking houses that gave me pole stars for what I could achieve in my life.

Geez Louise. I sure hope you will use all your advantages in life for better purposes than acquiring a fancy mansion. There are so many difficult, but worthwhile problems out there.
Hey, I don't know you at all, and I'm truly only pulling your chain, and maybe I am missing your natural humor but shortly before you write of the privilege of values, and how you knew Anthony was wrong in thieving candy, you were using "a pirated copy of Photoshop".
I think another item to add to this is that some days that 4 hour day is going to be your ceiling and anything which creates yet more cognitive exhaustion is going to erode that further. For example, serious stress from having to hit a deadline or being overloaded could bust that 4 hours worth of reserves down to 2 or 3. If you try to force it, you might just end up sitting at your workstation all day idling at brainless tasks such as browsing the internet or half attempting to create some sort of structure out of the mess of the task list your clients have sent you.

It's interesting that we see so many articles posted on hacker news on how to be more productive, beat procrastination and be more motivated when really this article the OP posted explains it all. In most cases you probably don't have a problem with procrastination and motivation, it's simply that you are over-extending yourself. Cut back your commitments and you fix your problem.
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