skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you are correct, however that's a different sort of straight line: it is the shortest distance between two points, but it isn't the most easily navigable line. The navigable ones are lines of constant bearing, since a ship could/can set their compass and make adjustments to hold it "straight" rather than having to do the computations required to follow a great circle.
Actually… I didn't really beat myself up about the downtime. I am totally over beating myself up for things… it just makes it harder to fix them and it's not as if my guilt would help anyone else feel better!

It was upsetting, though, on an intellectual level. I wanted to do it better.
I name all my computers after Tolkien characters, I have a friend who names all of his after breakfast foods, my alma mater named their servers after Norse gods, all the computers where my wife worked were named after sci-fi starships. If you can't find a theme you all like, naming them something boring like `file` `print` `db`, etc. would probably work too.
There's actually a little more to the story than that. On 2007-01-09, I
wrote to David Tilbrook:

Hi David .. I came across a web page
(http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247) investigating the source of the
following quotation:

"Whenever faced with a problem, some people say `Lets use _____.'
Now, they have two problems."

The author of the site seems to have gone through a lot of trouble to
hunt down the original author of the quote. The best he was able to do
was discover a Usenet sig from 1988 attributed to "D. Tilbrook."

I was wondering if this was you -- if so, I think you should contact the
author to set the record straight. His post was recently linked from the
news aggregator site Reddit, at
http://programming.reddit.com/info/xlov/comments and quite a few people
have been reading the story and discussing the quote.

He wrote back:

I can lay claim to being the author, but I cannot remember when or where
I first used it.

Zalman Stern worked for me at CMU so may have quoted me, hence the
attribution to him.

Actually one of the funnier incidents regarding my "famous" quotes was:

"Software is the only business in which adding extra lanes to the
Golden Gate bridge would be called maintenance" -- David Tilbrook -
circa 1981

I was at a meeting when the speaker used this quote and attributed it to
David Parnas -- I was appropriately indignant.

-- david

P.S.: Do we know each other?

The answer to his postscript was no. :)

And he later replied again to add:

By the way, I think I coined the phrase at a European conference in
Dublin circa 1985.

I was talking about the difficulty maintaining portable software when
supposedly "standard" tools (e.g., awk(1)) differed from system to
system.

Then later someone pointed out to me that it was appearing in various
signature lines which I suppose led to its being spread.

I forwarded it all to Jeffrey Friedl (the author of the linked post), but I
guess he figured the comments already did a good job covering the story, or
maybe he wanted to get explicit permission from David to repost the emails
but never got it. But I think David's reply is interesting and compuhistoric
enough that I don't want it to die in my GMail archives -- and so I'm
posting it again here.
There's a long explanation of the ruling here:

http://echrblog.blogspot.in/2013/01/copyright-vs-freedom-of-...
Look at the white block on the far right side about one-third of the way down.

edit: And the white block on the top, far right a little in. <3

And just right of the left hand side black border, about halfway down.

And the white block to the left of the F on the bottom right serial.

And the white block in the top of his hair.
It appears to be this product: http://www.teampostgresql.com/product.jsp

Not sure why OP simply pointed to the login screen (unless there's a demo user/passwd which was meant to be included).
It's because Congress hasn't appropriated any other funds to pay for it. Does your DMV give you a free driver's license every time you visit the office? If so, great, but that's because your state funded it (I've never lived in a state that did so).

Now, can you argue that the documents from PACER should be available to all citizens without cost on their part? Sure, but that's not what has happened up to this point, so until then someone has to pay for PACER.

TL;DR: Show them the money. You'll get what you want.
October 26, 2009
Most of the stupid ideas like semicolon insertion are not major deal breakers [1]. Yes, they are annoying, but nothing that can't be fixed with a lint program. You can treat your lint program as a stricter replacement for a syntax error checker.

Class-based OO is implementable with prototype-based OO (with some exceptions such as "protected" which are mostly unnecessary when first class functions are available). In practice, this means you need to learn how to use it (unfortunately the quirky way its implemented in JS doesn't help this at all)

CommonJS provides quite excellent namespacing and modularity - its only a hack because it doesn't work in browsers [2]

The standard library is admittedly lacking but there are many libraries that cover this gap, some of them being de facto standard.

Development environment support is pretty good for a dynamic language, with multiple IDEs doing some form of static analysis and completion

Debugging is pretty good, with modern browsers supporting breakpoints, watch expressions, live code editing, logging with object inspection etc. For node you have the v8 debugger and node-inspector providing pretty much the same.

There are far more pressing issues with JS than the ones you mentioned, like the verbose function syntax (mostly fixed in Harmony), lack of coroutines (mostly fixed with Harmony generators), lack of something like ruby's method_missing or python's __getattr__ (fixed with Harmony proxies)...

[1]: an example of a major deal breaker is not having first class functions

[2]: actually, it kind-of does - https://github.com/substack/node-browserify https://github.com/azer/onejs etc.
Possibly, but I think the more likely explanation is that they are obfuscating the fact that the green bar for the Mac 128 is significantly longer than the bar for the Surface 128.
Mammals are more adept to adapting to climate change. Reptiles on the other hand have a very hard time dealing with even a few degrees of temperature change from there norm.
I'm doing this now as a side-project. I need quite a lot of data, unfortunately, and Scikit-Learn is giving me some trouble, but hopefully I'll have something I can show you guys soon.
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I don't know about the video, but there is a tool named Homura[1] that snapshots a file in Vim every so and often, and is able to generate a HTML file with interactive playback. Maybe it can be of some help. I found a sample online too[2]

[1]: http://uguu-archive.appspot.com/homura/manual.html

[2]: http://uguu-archive.appspot.com/nyaruko/edit.html
Planets of the starwars universe, or knights of the round table.
Death of the Daleks actually features the 'Marine Space Corps' and not the 'Space Marine Corps' according to Wikipedia, my bad ;)
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This is pretty cool! I wish other apps (I'm looking at you, to-do list apps) had the same "easy migration" philosophy.
Having access to EIP means you have full control. From there it is very simple to do return to libc or ROP attacks. EIP is the holy grail, control that and you win.
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This is very odd. Just today an article was published in Science that reinforces the theory that the Chicxulub impact was responsible (although the system was "under stress" before):

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/684
The scientists didn't use that word, the journalist did.
Everyone is an asshole in someone's mind. You'll never please all people, and when you don't, they'll think you're an asshole. That's life. Don't let what they think bother you.
For systems consisting of "many" (5+) servers all providing more or less the same functionality, I usually just go with numbering them (s1 .. sN).

For fewer and more specialised machines I'll think of something I like, my private machines are named after the deities of the Cthulhu Mythos (azathoth, cthulhu, shub, hastur, lloygor, nyarlathotep), while some of our Office servers get their names based on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
This idea was punted around for a long time and gained momentum during the “dinosaur renaissance” of the 1970s. By 1996, paleontologists had begun to find fuzzy, fluffy, feathery dinosaurs that confirmed what had been proposed on skeletal grounds—birds are just an offshoot of the dinosaur family tree.

There is a part of me that wants this to be the result of a mischievous entity watching from on high and thinking "oooh, I should probably hide some bones to match that theory, why didn't I think of it when I put the dinosaurs there in the first place..."
If you're looking for something a little less nerdy than some of those suggestions, why not names of streets or neighbourhoods in your city? The main key is that you want a theme with some headroom (you don't want to run out of names at five or six), and you want names that are fairly short and aren't easily misspelled.
Piracy illustrates the fact that it's not possible to regulate 3D printing, but even if it were possible, it would be 100% wrong.

I don't know how it ever became generally accepted that every possible object and action must be regulated by the nanny state. Pretty soon that idea will be dead forever.
Why do you find it interesting that this theory arose in the age of nuclear weapons? The "age of nuclear weapons" has been some 60 years now, a lot of new information has come within these past 60 years. Unless your implying that nuclear weapons somehow lead them to this idea. I would argue that the 110 mile crater would be a bigger influence but that's just me.
Cool! Can I be a beta-tester?
Regardless of how you feel about the matter, you must be aware that a large amount of the world feels that children should be sheltered from sex & nudity in general.

Also there are a lot more offensive / graphic things on the internet than simple nudity. No parent, no matter how liberal, wants their child to see 2 girls 1 cup.
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5 year logs of Danish Internet surfing: police cannot read format
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It's boilerplate art installation talk. The more profound sounding the higher the chances of getting someone to exhibit the work.
Common words like "face" and "book"? "My" and "space"? "You" and "tube"? "Fox" and "news"? "Seven" and "eleven"? "Virgin" and "records"/"atlantic"/ ... ?
At Netgem (http://www.netgem.com/) I guess.
Using the term inside a work might be less dangerous than using it in the title. IANAL, but GW might be able to argue that using it in a title is going to trick consumers into think it is an officially sanctioned GW book.
I could be wrong, but I think the sentence is really meant to convey:

The project explores the circumstances we live in: a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.

(a colon instead of the first comma.)
Am I misunderstanding something? I tried starting it thusly: http://alrt.io/3%20hours%2022%20minutes

Is the point not that it can handle a variety of input?
GPL is not just stuck with hobbyists. It also can rely on college students, of which there is a seemingly never-ending supply.

Eventually the students will either have to find a job (assuming they are not being perpetually subsidized by Mom and Dad), or become leaders in the GPL community and make money by writing books and doing speaking engagements; and since there is only room for so many leaders, only the most fervent ideologues will rise to the challenge.
Hm, I left all the admin options available for the demo and of course first thing someone locked down the app.

I'll post a link later.
Small-molecule drug drives cancer cells to suicide
Sure, as soon as I have something that works! I'll probably give it another stab over the weekend and see if it can predict any better than chance.

If you want to do something useful on this for yourself, save the post IDs you liked and ones you didn't like. I don't currently have an interface for that (I use the command line to vote), but I can import them very easily from a list of IDs into your account later on.
Just paste the binary into the clipboard using base64 or something along those lines, then base64 decode it, and go ahead and compile it =)
It doesn't even have to that high of an entity - there was the Archaeoraptor scandal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoraptor
Implementing Network Protocols in User Space
Oh, I only really think about the "lower-touch" aspect of it, especially while walking or jogging. I was referring to the apparent interest of marketers and the population at large.
That's the saddest paper I've ever seen. Some student did a paper review, tacked on a hypothesis, did no research on it, and came up with something that looks more like a homework assignment than a research paper. Dose Response must have a negative impact factor!

Anyway, South America was colonized by humans around 15 millennia ago. Does that look like a reasonable time frame for humans to evolve a positive reaction to the specific blend of chemicals in the mate plant? Does that sound like it would have any impact at all on a white North American child with no indigenous American ancestry? Of course not.
> Seriously, how the hell can someone be so talented and amazing and above all remain such a nice guy?

There are a lot of those kind of people, from all walks of life. They're just not on HN.
How do you get started with this?
The problem with using generic terms is that the trademark doesn't trump the generic use.

As you can have books about anything, and you're free to label your book accordingly (ie in a desciptive manner), trademarks on book titles are probably hard to enforce as long as the author is not actively deceptive by choice of artwork, book design etc (ask the trademark lawyer of your choice for a definitive answer).

Having a book called 'The Life of Harry Potter' about an actual person with that name should be fine (this is not legal advice ;)). Having a book about a fictuous sorcerer of that name is a problem if you're not associated with JKR. At that point, copyright law might come into play as well.
Perhaps they're just keeping an eye on their competitor?
I was there. Jeremy's talk was very inspiring. Among the top three of the day, easily.

Fat's talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDb6VBO9os) was the funniest and Mathias Bynen's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_5xDN7KUA) was the most instructive.
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In addition to Roel_v's very cogent dismantling of the article, I'd like to point out a separate issue: European copyright law is generally based on a different premise than American copyright law. European copyright law is generally based on the moral right of an author to control access to his original work. If you look at the history of copyright, the U.S. has in an number of cases expanded copyright domestically to match broader protections under international treaties reflecting European laws.
As the already registered Kindle owner, I would expect Amazon to ask me for a confirmation – similar to the change of my mail address:

'[Name/address/…] registered your Kindle. Please confirm […].'
You generally can't use deadly force against someone who is not threatening your life.
>There's no reason to expect that the people currently employed at Games Workshop know that the company had borrowed the term in the first place.

You say that like sticking two generic words next to each other is somehow novel or noteworthy. I wouldn't call it borrowing or infringing when the thing in question is utterly mundane.
Backbone yes, Ember, likely not. Ember is so new and the core changes so often that it's unlikely that a large number of developers are using it.
If one person calls you a jackass, ignore him. If two people call you a jackass, think about it. If three people call you a jackass, buy yourself a saddle.
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I assume you also believe governments can spend their way out of debt?
The anthropic principle, and this type of stochastic lottery argument, are terribly unsatisfying. They may be right, but then again, they may not. They're eminently unfalsifiable, and shouldn't be given any more credence than a typical appeal to divinity.
how were people "legally" breaking contract doing this? It would seem more like an insurance scam.

Unless mobile contracts have since changed, of course.
Look at the link I gave:

""" Noting the inherent weakness of plaintiff's title, the court commented that the words chosen by Random House [the defendant] were an apt description of its book, and therefore in the public domain. Rejecting plaintiff's unfair competition claim, the court further noted that because of the weakness of plaintiff's title, combined with the differences in the overall look and feel of the two books (including Random House's prominent use of its distinctive logo on the spine and back jacket) there was no likelihood of confusion. McGraw-Hill Book Company v. Random House, Inc., 32 Misc. 2nd 704, 225 N.Y.S.2d 646, 132 U.S.P.Q. 530 (1962). """
Great article, thanks to the author for chasing down and cataloguing another entertaining and fine piece of geek lore.
Flip side: don't feel tiny in comparison to this guy's achievements.

Did he bang out LZEXE the first time he sat down at a terminal? Probably not. But over time, through pursuit of a passion and hard work, his skill has progressed incredibly.

We can get there too, with persistence. And we can have fun on the way.

This is as much a reminder for me as anyone, I have a tendency to compare myself to amazingly talented and productive people and get discouraged with where I am now. But you know what? I'm farther along than I was a few years ago, and that ain't nothing. :-)

One of my favorite quotes on the subject:

"Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle."
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Isn't it bad form to add 7 functions to the jQuery plugin 'namespace' in a single plugin?
Nice jacket :)
Iterating a NodeList isn't so bad:

Array.prototype.forEach.call(
document.querySelectorAll('a'), function(el){
console.log(el);
});

But, I agree with the point. If the NodeList isn't live, like it is for the other DOM querying methods, then what is the point in returning a NodeList instead of an array?
They did, they're called birds. Small mammals just grew into more large animal locations.
The comment thread, by the way, is fantastic. Entertaining seeing what a relatively non-tech crowd (with a few nuts sprinkled in for good measure) has to say about all this.
Didn't FreeBSD have some problem with fundraising recently?

Apple used FreeBSD to create Darwin, OS X and iOS. Did they end up contributing back?
Aisle50 (YC S11) is hiring devs in Chicago 
What we do: we sell manufacturer-sponsored grocery and drug deals to consumers and load the deals directly to loyalty cards.

We're looking to add to what is an exceptional dev team here at Aisle50. We work primarily in Ruby, but we know that great devs can quickly adjust to new frameworks - so you needn't be a Ruby blackbelt (you will become one).

The best candidate will have experience touching all pieces of the stack. This person will be instrumental in helping us build new functionalities - like a shopping cart that allows users to checkout with more than one deal - and knitting in new integrations between our app and the APIs belonging to the largest retailers in the world.

We are a small, efficient team; our devs carve off new projects each week and tackle them one-on-one, consulting with other devs as they go. Everybody learns, everybody builds.

About us:

+ We’re the only major grocery brands deal site that exists; it’s hard to do and we do it well

+ We’re in Chicago and so is the job

+ $2.6M VC funded - August Capital is our lead investor

+ We have sales relationships with more than ten companies with revs of $1B+

+ We eat free, healthyish lunch together every day

+ Competitive salary, generous equity awards and full benefits and great people

About you:

+ Agile generalist

+ Entrepreneurial

+ Ruby experience preferred, not required

To apply, email your resume and a few sentences. Github profiles and personal webapps – or examples of anything you’ve built – also appreciated.

Email: corbetscouloir@aisle50.com
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I think it's odd that a post about readability has grey text (#686868) on a white background. Next to the black screen grabs the text is very light.
Really like this -- good job.

Do you have "not" syntax? I would love to have a skim feed that removes certain news items that overload the front page.
Facebook Connect bug redirects all logged-in users to Facebook.com
The really absurd thing about the issue is how it is possible that someone gave they the exclusive right to use what in the end is just two standard english words stuck together.
The one part of a firearms system which can't be relatively easily made by an individual in a decentralized way is primer (it's super sensitive and also toxic chemicals). Propellant/powder is also difficult to make cheaply and well.

It's not really an issue as long as some firearms (and thus some ammunition) is relatively unregulated; you could easily have a world where only single-shot hunting weapons are available, then use the ammunition from those (either intact or by disassembling and reloading) for other weapons.

Still, I aspire to owning an ammunition company; I wish ATK were for sale.
I'm getting off topic, but I'm amazed that you don't actually know some of the passwords you are typing. Also, if your passwords are becoming muscle memory, isn't it time to change them?

> Anyway, this tool won't work for me, and it looks a lot like addiction to me if you can't walk away when someone or something tells you to.

That's an interesting thought because people actually do go thru working addictions (aka workaholics). However, I don't know any workaholics that install this kind of software or monitor when they should take breaks. Perhaps this could apply to a recovering workaholic though.
Yeah, it's still not the best way to put it, it's kind of tautological in itself. Maybe the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy fits better.
>But how to do this in real life?

Mormonism prescribes an entire system for this called "The United Order", if you're really interested in a unique answer to that question. Happy to field your questions about it.
isn't that why they ask for details of the police case? (so it's not just at the whim of the owner; it has to be associated with an official investigation)
I like that the piece for Australia starts above Greenland. That really puts everything into perspective right away.
I guess I'm thinking specific interventions, whether botanical or otherwise.
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In that specific case you are right.

But in the case of (for instance) the Linksys NSLU2 (or various WRT and WAG models), the whole community around them was possible because the code was available and people could mess around with it. In this case it was to Linksys advantage to use GPL firmware, to the users advantage that more could be done with the device, and to the community's advantage because changes and improvements could be fed back to the general linux ecosystem.
I'm doing juggling breaks every time, when I'm stuck or need a time to think. Not sure why it works for me, timers were not working, i just ignored them.
Metadata overhead is proportional to the size of the disk, as is flash reserve space. Also, Apple might have sensibly left some stuff out of the 64GB image.