skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After rereading your contribution, I realize you were agreeing. therefore, I had become for a moment the "Internet Fuckwad" you warned me of. Sorry. Dis acknowledge previous post. ... I've been drinking...
I still haven't figured out if the general trend is up/down for LaTeX (I have a vested interest, CTO of SpanDeX.io, but I'm not sure).

My argument against "give it another 10-20 years" is that LaTeX has already been around forever. I know people even in math, physics, and CS that never use LaTeX (in favor of Word). Which I find silly and strange, but it is what it is.

Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors like SpanDeX.io and LaTeXTemplates are the adrenaline shot that LaTeX needs for wider adoption.
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Please see any of the very many recent in-depth discussions about the security of webapp-based cryptography. Sure, it "works" in the sense that it's very easy to use, but it is by no means secure.

I'm sure all of those other "online wallet" services that lost or disappeared with everyone's BTC also had plenty of users.
It's a subtly but critically different idea: unless you're nice to people, they will be distinctly not nice to you. This is a unfortunate fact in general: even if somebody is not particularly nice to you, you should still be nice in return. However, it is only a real problem if the distinctly not-nice person is in a position of power as in this example.
Is there any support in Intellij or Eclipse for their templating language yet? This has been holding me back from using Play.
It can always be transcribed later, the main thing is to get it digitized.
Switching from Android to iPhone
yeah ! , why not ? it's a cool thing to code imho.
Barry Schwartz laments the same kind of problem in his TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdo...
So I was pulled over while driving a few months ago.

I was trying to keep up with a friend, I got behind and I made a really stupid, illegal and probably dangerous maneuver in trying to keep up. Happened to be a cop at that intersection who pulled me over.

Officer comes to the car, and asks about what I just did. I pretty much immediately admit to doing it, and tell him that it was a terrible lapse of judgement on my part. He takes me license/reg back and runs it, then comes back and just asks me how long I've been driving. I told him about 5 hours or so, and he says he meant how many years. I tell him 15 or so.

He comments that he can't find any tickets or things on my record, and I tell him I've never had one. He just tells me to not do it again and to move on. I apologized again and told him I appreciated him keeping an eye out for the public safety.

Now I know that you're supposed to be super defensive, and next to an asshole to the cop in citing all your rights and admitting to nothing. But really, I messed up. It was better for me to admit what I did and accept responsibility.

So... this might be the kissing up that the prior post is talking about. Did I technically 'have' to do it? No. But I'm pretty sure if I had done otherwise, I would have left with a ticket.
Attack the Code, Not the Developer
Was that running bitcoind on a server somewhere, or on a consumer laptop with a home internet connection?

Even if it "only took about 2 hours," we're living in a world where companies are living and dying by shaving 30ms off page load times and a/b testing the color of their signup buttons.
Is there any case though of a Supreme Court justice facing any consequences for insisting on a non-standard citation style? What are they going to do, impeach for writing clearly?
Fermi's Paradox: A Real Howler
A boat makes you happy twice: when you buy it, and when you sell it.
> Nestled deep within this fucked up situation is an asymmetry of information that gives the flunky incredible power over someone who is, in almost every other context, perceived to be better than they are (especially in this case involving a young rich kid with an expensive toy). Most human beings, when confronted with such an imbalance of power, are not going to be able to resist abusing their power.

This is self-congratulatory pop psychology claptrap. But it will probably sell well to a certain (shall we say Randian) subset of the HN readership.

> "If you can at least pretend that I'm a good person, just doing my job, then you won't have to suffer.

Yes, yes, isn't so unreasonable the way those "flunkies" expect to be treated like worthwhile human beings?
Im talking about both. They should put it as a nice tech or whatever but not as something never done before.

"One of the favorite features in Play" is being able to show errors in the browser and not in a log? What year is this? 1995?
To clear up some confusion:

> Wordpress won inter alia because ...

"inter alia" is a short hand that roughly means "amongst other things, which I won't list here because it would obscure the point I am trying to make".

"Amongst other things" is the literal translation.
I'll describe my setup for writing academic publications in LaTeX.

I use Papers which is available for Windows and OS X. Their software is quite easy to use. Papers can export your library to BibTeX, so I simply export it to the directory of the document I'm writing, include it as usual.

Now the best part, for referencing as I'm writing... Papers comes with this overlay when you press Control+M in OS X. This overlay consists of just a box to type in, you type the title of the paper or author names and it comes up with a search result, select the paper you want and press enter, you can then press enter again to add a LaTeX citation into your document or add more papers to cite multiple papers at once. Since you've exported the library to BibTeX using Papers, the citekey matches. I can't imagine how any solution could be easier than this.
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Noisy URIs
> That is not a practical solution. It sounds almost like a bribe.

I would say that, for better or worse (worse, obviously), it is both.
and you weren't sneaky about it, then it's the bureacrats' problem instead of yours.

Actually it's your problem. They took his boat, ruined his week and it might cost him tens of thousands in lawyer fees. Other can miss flights to important meeting, bury their mom etc etc. Either way, you lose.

Do you think the agent will be punished? I doubt it, blue wall of silence, union protection and all.
It’ll end by me bending over at some point.

Karma for this: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-hel...
I never suggested it's not a great machine.
JQuery Mobile is horrible for mobile applications, IMO.

The intrinsic stylesheet, with its rounded corners, box shadows and text shadows results in extremely poor rendering performance in mobile browsers. This can be rectified with work, but it demonstrates to me that their contributors are not at all concerned with performance. Its markup is node heavy (a single LI turns in to 5 elements). Considerations are made for desktop browsers, yet it is proselytized as a mobile framework.

Developing with it is cumbersome; the selectors you thought would work do not, because your element has been munged and wrapped with numerous other elements. Triggering "create" more than once sometimes wraps elements a second time because some widgets don't check their classes properly to know they've already been marked up. The only way to know the widget has been created is either checking for known classes or attempting to access one of its methods in a try/catch.

Some widgets respond to "refresh" - some don't. Some parts of widgets respond to it, some don't. This makes partial view updates almost, or completely, impossible. I have been slowly replacing JQM's functionality with backbone views and it is working much, much better.

If you use jQuery Mobile in your mobile application, I advise you do so with an exit strategy in mind.
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Yes I agree with what you are saying. But maybe this is just the beginning.
When I was a teenager, there were a number of abandoned multistory office buildings in suburban Atlanta where I lived. Maybe 7-8 within 10 miles of my house, and a couple of cool abandoned restaurants too. There had been a commercial real estate boom, followed by the inevitable bust.

Anyway, we got in to all of them at one time or another, sometimes via ridiculously elaborate plans.

What finally put an end to it for most of us was returning to one of our favorite buildings and finding someone had set up a wire tied to the inner doorknob that went off somewhere in to the dark hvac room. Our imaginations about what might be at the other end of that wire convinced us that maybe we weren't as invincible as we thought. You never know who else is going in those places.

There was also this weird abandoned castle out in the woods. It was like a funhouse castle, wooden walls, but with fake stone on the outside. Turrets, fake drawbridge, the whole thing. No clue whatsoever how it got there. Must have been some old amusement park? But no one ever found any info on it.

Anyway, it involved parking on the side of this long stretch of country road, then walking a couple hundred yards through some woods. One night as we pulled over to park, this fat redneck dude comes out of the dark woods over to our car. Our windows are down and I'm in the passenger seat.

He points a MAC-10 right at my chest and tells us we need to be leaving.

For one time in my life I have literally nothing to say.

We drive off at a crazy rate of speed and never go back.

Being the south, there's a lot of things that could have been going on there that night, but the place was a few miles from where a crazy mercenary type had his commando training compound, so our theory was his people were using the place that night.

This guy, who also made suppressors for the MAC-10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Werbell_III

So yeah, things happen in abandoned places.
Google could probably help with that if they give them access to all those books, too.
Bush/Obama shoved everything in there because people it was a national outrage after 9/11 that we had different departments for these things. We got what we goddamned asked for. It's not Bush's fault, or Obama's fault, but your fault and my fault.
Just a nitpick: I had to look at the source for "professional table" and was surprised to see the booktabs package used because, to quote their documentation

> You will not go far wrong if you remember two simple guidelines at all times:

> 1. Never, ever use vertical rules.

> 2. Never use double rules.

Violating half the 'nevers'!! But, more seriously, the documentation for some LaTeX packages is breathtakingly good (booktabs, amsmath, beamer, tikz, to name a few off the top of my head) and it would be really helpful if the site pointed newcomers to some of it. Especially in the case I mentioned, where the template is just a demonstration of one package.
[edit: removed baseless cheap shot]

I bet they understand a lot more about life than you do.
Translating your original question into a google search returns a relevant result at position #2:

buy small quadcopter site:news.ycombinator.com
What I would be interested in is a demographic analysis of who made comments.

1. Whether the comments are mostly made by people who are frequently adding to discussions.

2. Whether the comments are mostly made by people who have a high level of karma.

Likewise analyses for the votes. OP makes a lot of assumptions that these analyses would answer.
> Yes, yes, isn't so unreasonable the way those "flunkies" expect to be treated like worthwhile human beings?

It is unreasonable for them to use their power to coerce the sort of treatment from people that they mistakenly believe they are entitled to.

This is the case whether you consider them flunkies or community heroes.
It'll matter when the blog guy wants an iOS app and has to call it "LP MAKER PLUS" or something dumb.
Nice to have you back Ed. Stick around. :)
> [T]he procedure is, for the normal person, a once-in-a-lifetime event. But the flunky on the other side of the desk does it every day.

I just had a TV delivered. And then a replacement delivered, but they were unauthorized to pick up the original, so the same two delivery guys had to come back a third time.

All three times, the delivery guys tried to force me to sign an incomplete form. They clearly wanted me to sign for whatever condition it was in and they would check all the boxes on my behalf to cover their own asses. The tactic was plainly obvious.

> The other solution is to be really, really nice. To be incredibly accommodating.

That's what I usually try to do in this sort of situation. However, it simply was impossible because the delivery guys 1) were rather large and intimidating 2) in my home, where I'm still unpacking and 3) spoke very poor english. Charm simply does not work on underpaid meatheads who don't understand the words your using. Any attempt to communicate clearly resulted in them becoming impatient and visibly annoyed, which resulted in me becoming uncomfortable (in my own home!). So each of the first two times, I just didn't sign my name. I just made an X that is in no way similar to my normal signature. The last time, for the pickup, I wrote "PERFECT CONDITION" over the whole form and then signed my name to that. The delivery guys were clearly pissed that last time because they didn't have another form and that if they dropped the TV, then they couldn't blame damage on me.
I agree. Dogfooding whilst ensuring their productivity won't suffer. Something to replace all those MacBookPros being used at Google ..
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Awesome. Thanks for the info, and congrats on winning.
Re: RedBus Continues To Dominate In India
Ask PG: What happened to the "no idea" application?
I've been freelancing forever so I know the space well. My blog has an audience of freelance developers/designers that continues to grow 11% every month. Employers and founders who are looking to hire those freelancers are also starting to appear.

I don't have a concrete idea of how to build a business out of this yet, but I know it will organically happen. For example, employers are reaching out to post job listings -- something we don't do but maybe we should. So I thought applying with no idea would be good.
Confiscating boats has never required the same procedures as confiscating real property. It's a distinction literally older than the republic.
As a history amateur, it is painful to force myself never to probe into south indian history [of which I've heard so much, growing up there] simply because I've learned by experience that it only leads to frustration and disappointment at the lack of information and research. This work is incredible.
>In a society where no limit seems to be placed on the earnings of sports stars and others in their early twenties, why should doctors be expected to restrict themselves to less than their market can bear?

Because setting a price for maximum profitability means that whoever can't afford medical treatment dies

People not dying is probably more important than profit/free market/ensuring people can buy mercs or giant yachts or whatever, socially/politically/morally speaking. though if your opinion differs and you have a good argument for it, I'm happy to hear it.
>>It was no more helpful than what I was reading on Web MD on my iPhone.

This kind of thing is what makes automation in the medical industry ripe for disruption. In fact close 80% of the information any doctor can give you in case of first 2-3 visits is what you would get by doing simple google search or reading WebMD or even looking up the Merck's manual.

Unless you have serious problem, automation can solve most of the problems people have.

>> If he had told us ahead of time that his unnecessary analysis was going to cost $1000 (even if it was paid by insurance) I would have thrown a shoe at him and told him to get lost. Healthcare is not a marketplace.

Exactly why we need automation. A while back CA's were considered accounting and auditing geniuses. Most of them are out of job today as accounting software got more automation and intelligence.

Wait till the time when most doctors go out of job as software automation sweeps health care industry.
Pretty sure Square disagrees, and they know what they're talking about when it comes to XCode. See PonyDebugger, a tool they wrote to pipe iOS apps' network connections and debug information through Chrome to take advantage of the developer tools: https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger

Now, you'd never write code in the Chrome Developer Tools (except maybe the occasional one-liner in the REPL). But the Chrome Developer Tools are great — best in class even — for profiling, visualizing, and debugging.
Yup. Play is built on top of Netty and adds value so my point is why not build it as a re-usable library (or set of libs) vs a Framework, it's really not any more difficult.
The biggest, and in my opinion, terrifying problem with bureaucracies is the lack of humanity; when humans stop treating each other like humans and use common sense, yet I feel like both parties in this story lacked humanity. Yes, the DHS employee went ahead and followed procedure even though it was going to seriously inconvenience Arrington, and that sucks. But Arrington's pedantry also inconvenienced the employee since it no doubt would have let to a long string of seldom used contingencies, much like making a fast food employee make you a special request. There was a moment where both parties could have just looked at the system for what it was - imperfect and inhuman - and knowingly nodded in agreement at the path of least resistance; in this case, the path of least resistance was Arrington signing the damn form and getting on with his day.

Sure, technically he saw the error and his signing the form would mean he was somehow not acknowledging it. But what are the consequences really going to be? I mean, what are the chances some other bureaucrat up the chain o' command would notice the mistake and contact Arrington on trumped up charges of lying on a routine customs form. Slim to nil. But it's the "principle" Arrington is worried about in this case. Well, there's principled, and there's downright ridiculous. I doubt Arrington reads every TOS on every website he's ever signed up for, and I doubt very much he would truly lose sleep at night knowing he signed that form.

Arrington tried to out bureaucrat a bureaucrat and go burned. Lessoned learned, I suppose.
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Why is it mistaken to expect to be treated nicely? When did it become ok to be an asshole to fellow citizens?

When I go to the convenience store to buy a donut, I am nice to the clerk behind the counter. When I go through customs, I am nice to the agent behind the counter. How are those mistakes?
Since this uses an explicit model of the world, Rodney-Brooks-style robotics is now officially dead.
Thanks for clarifying, still extremely impressive!

I wonder if you'll receive any fun comments from Intel/AMD/etc. :)
Being meanies to Heroku, basically.
The boat in question[1] would appear to be a Coastal Craft 400 IPS[2]. Roughly, $1M CAD (roughly, $1M USD at today's rate). I don't have that kind of money lying around for anything, much less a boat, but I suppose I'd be a little pissed myself if all of it was in the hands of someone else due to red tape.

1. https://twitter.com/BrianKrantz/status/279015063661199360/ph...

2. http://coastalcraft.com/coastal-craft-400-ips/boat-specs-400...
Ever been in the WU tunnels (not just the big one between Duncker & January halls)? Pretty expansive system right under students feet that most have no idea about :)

I've not been in the tunnels, but in my undergrad I spent a lot of time up on the roof of the library (I was the KWUR engineer and our transmitter rack and antenna lived on the roof). Pretty awesome view from up there.
Thanks for sharing that. RefTeX is about that easy: "Ctrl-[" then choose a citation style, then regexp search of the bibtex database with the option to choose multiple papers.

If you update a paper's citation details (say someone's working paper gets published, so you have to add a journal, etc.) how do you make that change across directories? Do you re-export from papers for each one?
Take photographs. 'perfect condition' on a form is not as powerful as 'here are your guys and my TV'. Certainly if you're a renter, take pictures before you move in. Same as landlords, too. Pictures are free and can potentially save a lot of heartache.
The price is insane.
How fast (slow) is this relative to the host CPU?
Some tactics that may or may not work depending on jurisdiction and circumstances:

1. Mark the correction on the form. Sign underneath the correction, or mark with your initials, in addition to the correct place to sign.

2. When signing, write "Under Duress" underneath.

IANAL, TINLA.
This is what happens when an employee KNOWS he/she can't be fired. The USA needs to seriously look at how they handle government employees. They get away with too much bs because it's hard for them to get fired.
>3,28,268
>1,84,321

That's an odd way to represent a number.