skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We expect to release the technology in the next five years. In what form it gets released is still to be determined.”

You're talking, what, another 2-5 years of testing and adaptation from car manufacturers, if they choose to go with Google? Almost all of them have their own projects and, IMO, are unlikely to be tied to Google and their likely demands.
I think the technique of having language A which is homomorphic to language B is a powerful tool which deserves more recognition.

For one thing, Apple should realize the power in this technique and welcome languages other than Objective-C targeting their runtime, provided that there is an automatic facility for ensuring feature-completeness of the environment to the SDK. Such homomorphic languages would let Apple retain all of its control of the environment/ecosystem while giving developers choices.

Also, that's just one example of the power of this technique.
I'm not trying to impress you, I'm trying to make you (and anyone else reading who might trust you) see how ridiculous you are sounding. If Microsoft gave you what is included in 7.8 but called it 8, you would be happy. That's what you're saying. No arguments, that's literally what you're saying.

What you want is for Microsoft to lie to you just like Apple does. And until they do, you won't consider them credible.
GitHub's network graph still sucks
I'm calling bullshit on this.

Violent crime in the UK peaked in 1995 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent-crime-rates-UK-198...). Various types of gun bans were passed in 1988 and an even stricter one in 1997 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_(Amendment)_Act_1997).
As he points out in his introduction, the first rule of monads is that everyone else's description of monads is wrong.

It appears that all you can do is share the mathematical description of a monad (and not the way it is declared in Haskell which also appears to be universally accepted to be wrong). All further abstraction, description, and communication are approximately equivalent to debates on religion.

I have a deep suspicion that this quality makes Haskell essentially write-only at scale.
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His question was to why "small dinosaurs" did not have the same chances as mammals.

Large dinosaurs(there were no large mammals, but if there were it would apply the same to them) had different issues then the rest, mainly two different things, food and oxygen.

The first reason food, is the main reason. These large animals required huge amounts of food to survive. As the ecosystems collapsed the available food supplies dropped to almost nothing.

The second reason and the same that animals grew to be so large during this time period is predominantly because the oxygen levels were much much higher then they are now. As the ecosystem collapsed so did the oxygen levels. This is why we do not have larger animals now.
I appreciate the input, it helps me gauge what people are looking for. I rephrased the question to be more concise and better catered to the needs of this community, if you could let me know your thoughts on this post it would really help, thanks for your time:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186131
Jeff Atwood's new product Discourse is heavily based on Ember, so that's at least one major user.
All of your submissions for the last week have been autokilled. Something must have triggered a spam detector. Or maybe the Youtube submission (brilliant video) did it. Your comments are still visible, though. Writing polite email to PG is probably your best recourse.
Don't forget to keep us posted :)
I was about to post the exact same thing. It is the best means to ensure breaks. Plus, to counter all the ill effects of sitting, you have to stand up!
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Drawbridge engineer spills guts of awesome Adserving tech for public perusal
font-weight is indeed the main problem, but regardless I hate this new trend of not making text black. What would a bookmarklet look like to set the body color to black?
If you remove the cost of going to a station, so that a fill up is basically free, you could get away with driving on a quarter tank all the time. Assuming the service would allow it of course.
That broken link in the article is working fine for me. Did Google repair the issues with the Deja News archive?
A mild case of borderitis
That's signatures needed - the amount remaining before in theory it gets a response from the White House.

It means people have been signing the petition like gangbusters. Probably thanks to BoingBoing.
No I didn't argue. It's just my perspective.
Or people who have broadband, but keep paying for AOL's dialup service because they don't realize they think they need to in order to keep their AOL email and instant messaging accounts.

That said, I'd like to have a closer look at the numbers before jumping to any conclusions. Nowadays the situation might be complicated a bit by the fact that AOL bundles "backup dial-up" service in with their packages of paid services that are primarily intended for broadband users.
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What "Grade A browsers" don't support pushState()?
One thing that you need to keep in mind -- if you back-off from CDN loading to loading a local copy, you'll almost never be testing that scenario so be careful that a massive influx of local requests in a CDN-is-down scenario doesn't melt things. It brings up a broader topic of reliability testing.. every one of these branches inserted into the code creates another point at which performance/load metrics change. Testing all the various combinations can be difficult.
Headline, and article, is sensationalist.

The article states "that its Membership Group — the division that includes its dial-up Internet business — still generates most of the company's revenue".

According to the Yahoo! report[1] it includes every membership service (such as Mail):

"The Membership Group, which consists of offerings that serve AOL’s registered account holders, both free and paid, and are focused on delivering world-class experiences to AOL’s loyal users who rely on these AOL products and properties every day. The results for this segment include AOL’s subscription offerings and advertising offerings on Membership Group properties, such as AOL Mail, as well as from performance compensation for marketing third party products and services."

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/aol-reports-revenue-growth-fir...
Noted, thanks for your input.

Your English is not bad at all, you conveyed your thoughts in a manner that most importantly is unambiguous. I know exactly what you're saying and that's what is most important.
https://www.quora.com/AOL/Did-AOL-make-it-hard-to-cancel-in-...
we've learned how to science a lot harder these days
Well most of the people I know in the real world that are casual home computer users get a lot more use out of apps like iPhoto and iMovie than word. Especially because most of them just use Google docs for writing letters.
When I first started learning dvorak, my passwords consisted of a,m, the numbers and ~ (these keys are in the same positions as they are on QWERTY).
I agree. They facilitate evaporation cooling of causes and movements.

Let the less dedicated participants feel that they have done their part, and numbers will dwindle. As numbers dwindle only the extreme remain, and in few enough numbers that the entire cause is then written off as fringe.

It is a phenomena usually seen when cults start ejecting their more moderate members, but in this case it is harnessed by a separate party.
That's very cute. But the pedant in me will not let this pass without noting that many of what you've found are in fact gloves. Mittens do not have fingers. I'm sorry to have to point that out :) On the other hand (groan) you are helping the semi-gloveless too, so well done for that.
Last time I checked, intersango[1] and mtgox[2] already supported SEPA transactions.

[1] https://intersango.com/fees.php

[2] https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20490576-Withdrawals-and-D...
The bottom line is that it's not the customer service reps place to get involved. Giving private user information out every time it is requested would be reckless. For every stolen device, there's at least one that was lost, given away, or sold.

A car that costs thousands of dollars is a little different. That's why cars have titles. You don't officially transfer anything when you sell a phone or a Kindle, other than a bit of cash and the device itself.

You're also confusing the situation by brining up LoJack or OnStar. A major part of those services is providing location data. Similar to Find my iPhone. If you want to argue why doesn't Amazon have a "Find my Kindle" feature, then I wouldn't disagree. If you're arguing that Amazon should trust anyone who asks for private user information with a compelling story, well...
Second sentence of the paragraph that follows the one you pasted.
You just described me exactly. I could see how I might have been enticed to just buy bigger and better things as my income increased, but somehow I went the same direction you did. And I feel I could not be happier.

I would much rather live simply and have my few things (laptop, camera, smartphone) and be able to help others with my excess funds.
Well said. But I have to point out that buying experiences gives far more happiness and satisfaction than buying things. Sure he might have had great times with friends and family through those video games, but that's still a lot of stuff.
Phoronix have basically reported on Valve's work on "Steam for Linux" since 2008, usually backed up with some kind of evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix

It is possible Windows 8/RT was the deciding factor in making Steam for Linux a product, but the interest in Linux is not a new thing.
First of all, these people preemptively forked Open Office on September 28, 2011 after Oracle purchased Sun "over concerns that Oracle would either discontinue OpenOffice.org". They didn't wait until Oracle announced a discontinuation.

Then Oracle discontinued support because of the fork. That was in April, 2012. So, it wasn't 2 years - more like 6 or 7 months.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Initial_release

IMO, had the Libre Office crowd played their cards right, they could have saved a ton of work and had a better name.
By this logic, every user is "programming" when they change their facebook account settings or configure the appearance of their desktop. Call it what you want, but configuration via "config files" of some sort (perhaps managed by a GUI) is a totally different beast from modifying 'main'.
You can filter out the noise easily e.g. whitelist desired senders, other messages go to secondary inbox. That way you don't have to make separation by sender type but by preference.
Here is (another) nice video about monads: http://vimeo.com/album/2206951/video/20717301
I'm really excited about this. While it is not the Knuth and Plass algorithm, it takes one of the nice features of it and proposes a simple algorithm to implement it. Implementing it should only be a minor adjustment to the text layout algorithms of browser rendering engines, and if implemented correctly it should not cause any reflows, only a repaint.
Seems OS X 10.8.2 is unaffected.

curl --version

Gives me 7.24 or so.
I finally created an account so I could sign this. I didn't sign for Ortiz because I thought she may have had a distant relationship to the case. However, as Heymann's direct supervisor, I thought she erred in that role. Heymann, on the other hand, really does sound like he has a history of throw-the-book-at-them antics, and I think there's a strong need for greater scrutiny of his career and trajectory.
I like the backhanded comment jwz pays Perl in the comments. To paraphrase: “Perl; it’s not as bad as sed.”

Could really apply to everything. “Php; It's not as bad as Perl” (maybe). “Java; It's not as bad as C++”, etc.

Thinkgeek, are you listening? Would make an awesome geek coffeecup/T-shirt set.
You actually don't pay for failed auth attempts with Stripe, but you do with most other gateways.
A summer of freedom with KDE
If one drinks caffeine, alternate with coffee and water. Both will guarantee to get you up at least once an hour and the water replenishes water lost from the caffeine.
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Pretty much any video site your can think of (Youtube, Vimeo, DailyMotion...) is possible via FFmpeg (which re-encodes the videos).
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PHP frameworks: Which would you pick and why?
Can't post this on SE/SO because it'd get shut down in a second.

I need to adopt a PHP MVC framework. I've done a bunch of PHP MVC work myself. Now I want to break away from reinventing everything and take advantage of a framework. This, of course, is for more than just MVC. Frameworks can offer solutions to such things as user authentication, forms, etc. that might be of value.

In addition to this, I need to get a mid-complexity MVP done in about ten to fifteen days for a presentation. I'm a quick study and already have chunks of the project coded, so part of it will be refactoring.

I've been looking at ZF2 primarily but Yii keeps coming-up here and there. Interested to learn what HN might have to say about these and the other choices out there.

Context without letting the cat out of the bag: A site where members place orders (and pay) for services and service providers sign-up to offer these services. Free and paid memberships. Ratings system for both service buyers and providers. Lightweight chat and maybe forum/s. English only at first but i18n will probably be a must later-on.
Other people were using the term though.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Space+Marine...
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"In short, a timing attack uses statistical analysis of how long it takes your application to do something in order to learn something about the data it’s operating on" -- great read.. my mind is blown for today...
Counting .. seems like a terrible way to solve this. Why not do a prefix match between the root of the public folder and File.expand_path(requested_path)?
Twitter Bug: You Tweeted Really Embarrassing Things About Celebrities?
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Actually in the US, which is relevant because the claim was on an Amazon US hosted product and against a US writer, Games Workshop only has the following trademarks for "SPACE MARINE":

1. Registration Number 2100767
- Goods and Services IC 028. US 022. G & S: board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith. FIRST USE: 19870900. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19871000

2. Registration Number 1922180
- Goods and Services: IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: video computer games; computer software for playing games.

There are no rights for these trademarks on books or ebooks. The reference to "extended to published works" in the BBC article refers to Europe only. In fact, the referenced lawyer even mentioned an additional high burden in the US of challenges stemming from the First Amendment.

Source: USPTO Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS), http://tess2.uspto.gov

Additional points from the author herself,

<quote>

1. Trademark rights are limited to the territory of the government that grants them. A European trademark cannot be enforced in the US. GW can make claims in the US based on their US trademark, but their US trademark does not include Class 16, the class upon which they told me they were making their claim.

2. My e-book is not "printed matter." There is a trademark class recommended for covering e-books and other forms of entertainment like radio and television. Games Workshop’s trademarks in the US, UK and Europe do not include this class.

3. The paperback version of Spots isn’t being sold in Europe; I would have to toggle a specific distribution channel to approve Createspace’s distribution to Europe and that toggle is currently off.

</quote>

Source: http://mcahogarth.org/?p=9999
It's still generally considered the root cause.

Consider, it's hard to see how sea level changes could be a cause of such a wide spread extinction event. (~75% or more of all species were wiped out) However, it's possible that an asteroid impact could lead to both volcanic activity AND sea level change. That's not to say sea level change was not a contributing factor, just it's most likely part of the overall cascade caused by the impact.

PS: People have caused a significant die-off in what is almost a geologic instant. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Extinctions_since_1500) However, while habitat destruction is often blamed for man of those extinctions that's just another name for human intervention.
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Can it pass the same driving test as every person passes? If so, why would it be considered less capable than a human who passes the same test?

I mean, realistically that is the only barrier between a human being and driving. Jay walkers get hit by humans. Cars running red lights get hit by humans. Sometimes they don't even brake because they were looking in their mirrors or fiddling with the radio.

The risk of your car being hacked is the one area that I find really scary. It can already happen to an extent - but this could be a lot lot worse.
You don't need to buy or sell from just other Coinbase users. It can be anyone. Coinbase doesn't have a huge market share yet, so it's even less likely.

I think a fair way to read it is that $1M worth of transactions occurred of which Coinbase made some money.
I'd love to, raimonds. You can download Stylebot here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...

After installing the extension, just open Stylebot and copy the following design for skimhn.com: http://pastebin.com/5Nupsm3B. it's still rough, but it's a start :)

The design is using Lato as typeface. You can download it here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/lato

PS: I've been also working on a redesign for Instapaper and Hacker News:

Instapaper Articles: http://cl.ly/image/1r1T420S042P
Instapaper Features: http://cl.ly/image/172h0b3P2u3D
Hacker News: http://cl.ly/image/3y3F1v060v1N
Definitely this. The average car sits in the drive way 22 hours a day. It may not seem like it at first, but an all-taxi economy will be much cheaper for the riders (think about paying for 1 millionth the cost of maintaining 1 million cars at once, as opposed to 100% of the cost of maintaining one car).
Many famous composers and writers produced their finest works in their later years. Surely we can do the same!
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The death of Aaron Swartz is a loss to his family, his friends, and to society. The focus on the prosecutors, however, makes me uneasy. I can support a review of the conduct of the prosecutors but I can't call for their firing. From what I have read, the conduct of the prosecutors was close to standard procedure. If it was wrong of the prosecutors to make an example out of Aaron, it is equally wrong to make an example of the prosecutors. This should not be about revenge although such feelings are understandable. However, it is the whole judicial system that needs review (and reform).

The focus on the prosecutors takes the focus away from other discussion we should be having such as the following.

Why should these cases linger for so long?

Why is our justice system so dependent on plea bargaining?

Why can't we create have a hacker legal defense fund that would keep cases like this from bankrupting defendants?

Why should expert legal advice be only available to those who can afford it?

What should we tell a friend who is planning to commit a crime on behalf of a cause?

Was Aaron's cause worth anyone's life? This should be a question for everyone, not just prosecutors.

Is any middle ground possible in the conflict between rights holders and advocates of free information?
> I'll play with that and see. I can't think of any other language where this might matter.

CoffeeScript as well, if I recall the indentation rules correctly.
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A Visa payment card or are you referring to sponsoring immigration visas?
until my grandparents passed away their entire use for "the internet" was AOL and that only to receive pictures of their grandchildren. I think I may have some other older relatives who use the net and/or AOL simply for email.
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No offense, but you've managed to wrap up a perfectly decent thought with a wording that makes you look like an asshole.
I wonder - is a mitten a type of glove, or is a glove a type of mitten? Or is it neither, or both, or does it depend on where you live?

To me, a mitten is a type of glove. But I'd be willing to believe that where the author lives the semantic relationship is commonly understood to be the other way around.
We'll still have to deal with industrious but stupid ones.
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Yeah, me too... TI-51 III (aka TI-55 in US) in the late 70s - belonging to my father, who had it for his job but never got to use it much because I was always playing with it. He later got me a copy of this book - http://books.google.ca/books?id=ySZhMJrzhw4C&pg=PT48&... - and that's really where my computing career began.
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Hey, I recognized Alpha Waves! But I have to agree that the open approach seems to be a better career move...and maybe increasingly so these days since there are so many programmers around that if you don't open something, someone else will immediately start cloning it.
The idea of skipping Rails and learning Backbone instead makes no sense unless you just wanted to be a front-end guy all along. You still need a backend. Whether you like Rails' style of backend or prefer something like Sinatra is up to you, but you need something on the backend, and Rails is still a very strong contender.
I see this more frequently, sites are adding dependencies on third-party Javascript for tracking, and when they are unresponsive (or blocked with something like Ghostery) the site's functionality breaks.

This is especially worrying for e-commerce sites, you don't want to prevent people adding things to the cart and losing orders.
That's sort of what I suspected; too bad!
So I just bought 2 bitcoins on Coinbase (my first purchase congrats to me!) but it's been pending for 5 days and says it will clear today.

My question, is how can they lock in the price 5 days ago for me. Are they selling me the coins 5 days ago and buying it on the market today? It seems like there would be a lot of risk in doing that.
One thing I've always wondered about is what would remain of anything humanity built in 65 Myrs. If there had been a species of very smart dinosaurs populating the Earth for, say 100kyrs, and having a nuclear-capable civilization for say 200yrs... would we even see it?

I keep toying writing a book around the idea that a spaceship full of dinosaurs returns to Earth, having aged very little (Langevin's paradox), and find the planet populated by the offsprings of these pesky tiny egg eaters. Kind of like Planet of the Apes in reverse.

Oh well, if only I had time to write more than HN comments ;-)
fwiw I agree that Bitcoin is a useful prototype but I seriously question its long-term viability outside of a niche. That niche, however, may be sufficient to continue to sustain high values for a while to come.

Bitcoin shows us some cool stuff, but it's not sufficient for real-world everyday use. It will be an ancestor to a truly disruptive online currency imo. The network has too many fundamental inaccessibilities to make it plausible outside the elite nerd and/or money laundering sector.
How is the government going to referee without at least the threat of violence?
Aswath is getting pretty deep in the weeds of academic semantics here, but the article is otherwise pretty solid.