skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a basic explanation of the diacritic notion as it applies to Asian scripts.

Thai belongs to a family of scripts known as abugidas. Abugidas include pretty much all South Asian and many Southeast Asian scripts, for example Burmese, Cambodian, Dai, Lao, Thai, etc. They all pretty much derive from Brahmi, which was the proto Indian script. You can see an example of Brahmi over here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi

Abugidas are based upon combining multiple glyphs in to syllables, often allowing glyphs above, below, to the left and to the right of the initial consonant, and often including a closing consonant. Most glyphs tend to be consonants, though some are vowels, and others can be special marks for indicating tone or other notions. Often shorter vowels are excluded (as in Modern Standard Arabic).

In old times, such scripts were handled with wacky font-hacks. However, with Unicode, there are some super complex algorithms that make glyphs combine both visually (when typesetting) and logically (when saving/searching/etc). You can actually type a character and a diacritic and it can sometimes automatically combine to form a single character, if such a beast exists, not just visually but when saving to disk.

What makes it even more confusing is that South Asian scripts in particular have mega-combo characters, where whole chunks of glyphs sort of fold in to flowing short-hand symbols. In the case of Sanskrit, I believe loads of these were used in history but few are used these days.

I think that's a fair pontification - corrections welcome!
Show HN: "Dropbox for Wi-Fi"
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Vimeo video: http://vimeo.com/54228044
Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instabridg...
Blog: http://blog.instabridge.com/
I've had trouble getting d3.js to work in IE, but it's always worked for me in Firefox and Opera. Is there some new addition to d3.js that only works in Chrome and Safari?
Hi, Niklas from Instabridge here. To expand a bit on the "X for Y" description: Instabridge makes it easy to sync wifi credentials across different devices, share credentials with friends, and revoke access. The Dropbox analogy has been proven to be an effective one-sentence way of giving people an idea of what Instabridge is about, but of course there are differences between wifi access and file storage, so that's as far as it can be stretched.

Apart from trying to solve the usability issues with wifi, we also support sharing of hotspots with the entire Instabridge community. This is intended for cafés, restaurants, and so on.

We've had a short beta run in the Nordics, and launched globally a couple of days ago at LAUNCH 2013 (where we won the "Best International Startup" prize. Yay, us!). I'm a long time HN reader and have seen many "Show HN" posts during the years. I'm really eager to read what you guys have to say, both the good and the bad.
According to the video you can clear the code, the example if if the code reports "Loose gas cap".
great sex.
You're also skewing the point, which is it's a nice option but not a necessary requirement for a large percentage of the user base. Unless 35m is a significantly large percentage of Android users, it's still not something that's an essential feature of a smartphone for a large amount of people.
If you load them as an external file, yes. If you embed them, or use something like canvas - no.
If DRM is added to HTML5, then those portions of HTML5 will become like the legacy cruft in HTML 1.0, etc., and won't be used universally. Open alternatives will be designed and will become de-facto standards. More IF's will be required in your web UI code.
That raised my eyebrows too. I can't help but see a lot of false positives from this, maybe even just from accidentally whacking the device.
If the courts fail to uphold the constitution, how exactly are the people supposed to? By armed rebellion? By voting different people in office? I see a problem with that line of reasoning, when candidates and parties cater to the needs of monied corporations rather than the demands of the people...

Rather, the President, elected by the People, has a solemn duty to the Constitution, as evidenced by the oath of office they must take upon taking office: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." (from wikipedia)

Well, if a police officer in a small town violates the Constitutional right of a United States Citizen, does not the President of the Unites States have the right, even the obligation, to come to the aid of such citizen, and counter the actions of the police officer?

Yikes, you guys read your history?
Google: Patent Licensing to Encourage Innovation
Ask HN: Anyone else's Facebook ads not running?
My ads are approved and have reasonable click prices set but none of them appear to be running (it's been like that for about a week now). Anyone else?
XeTeX 0.9999: Moving to HarfBuzz (and lots of other goodies)
Nice. I think it's a pretty elegant way to display sporting events.

The readability of the data is highly affected by color though. The data for teams with light colors or teams that lose often are very washed out. The lack of contrast makes it hard to easily read at a glance.

A switch to show the team on a single side of the x-axis would also be useful for showing trends.
That seems to be moving the goal posts rather far. Men and material get lost in war. That said, carriers are valuable so it's important consider what are acceptable risks.
We're paranoid about not running your car's battery down. When the ignition is off, we consume less than 1 mA. By itself, the Automatic Link would take 3-4 years to drain even a cheap battery.
Where's the difference? I see none, except that the cost of content creation are vastly different between music and movies. But a ordinary user does not care about this.

All a user sees is "Hey, they charge $10 for a movie and I can't watch it on my iPad because I need to copy and convert it" and "Hey, this site offers the movie for free and I can dump the file on my NAS and watch the movie on my iPad, my TV and my computer without FBI warnings, unskippable ads etc"

I would pay the same amount I'd pay for a DVD, if I were allowed to do whatever the f*ck I want with the content, no matter if the publisher goes bankrupt, has server issues (online "activation" for movies IS possible with BluRay). After all, I could have the exact same movie if I'd just download a BD50 untouched rip instead of buying the BD, reading it and stripping out the DRM/copy protection with AnyDVD HD.
Most of the in-depth codes are proprietary, but at the same time, things like mass airflow sensor info and throttle position sensors are under the standard specs for OBD-II info. So even without paying the many thousands of dollars to Ford, etc for the info, you can usually get a good idea of what's going on.

Also, the check engine light is something that can display things that people would only consider tangentially related to the car's emissions system. Things like misfires, or even occasionally transmission problems, can also trigger this light.
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"To create code you will require expertise; this is readily available on StackOverflow. But without gumption, there can be no code or product." Perfect.
I always point to this article: http://www.jamiebegin.com/why-an-ec2-instance-isnt-a-server/
Thanks for the feedback.

Good point with regard to the trends being hard to spot because the games are laid out by kickoff date/time. I may add a toggle to turn that on/off which should make trends easier to spot.

I didn't test on many displays so it's possible that the losing opacity is too light on some displays.
As one of a handful of product guys on HN, I'd love to hear about the research and decision making that went into this redesign.
How about using a proven high availability solution such as Corosync/Pacemaker instead of rewriting a limited implementation from scratch? http://corosync.org/
> Honda cars that use VTEC often don't have OBD II ports.

i'm a car guy and i've never heard of this before. source?
BitTorrent Premieres New Live Streaming Platform
Neilsen does this all the time. It is usually the crispest one dollar bills i have ever seen. Why return the money? Just keep it and do not fill the form out.
Actually I think this is a very personal matter.

The guy that is saying that he is more productive in the office is probably just as happy with his choice as you are with yours.

Actually going to work and working in group and interacting with eachother makes me happy, I get a lot of satisfaction out of my work and I rather work in a team than by myself. My previous project we were at the office all day every day and even then the level of communication was too low. That was probably the type of people that were in the group.

But still, standing up, talking with people about the business, being able to point at a screen without the hassle of setting up a conference call is pretty easy.

Another thing I like about going to work, when you go home and you had a productive day it's a closed chapter for me. I get in my car, don't think about the project (most of the time) until the next day. It's a good separation between working life and personal life for me.
Okay but the concept of files versus the specific application of a file manager are different things. I completely agree that iOS needs to expose file representations better between applications, but I think the very notion of a file manager is still utterly redundant for a large percentage of new smartphone owners.
Does the onboard computer report that the airbags have deployed?

Sudden deceleration + airbag deploy = 911?
Why do users visit your website?
Off-topic: Excellent use of Bootstrap. Someone should add this to the Bootstrap Expo[1].

[1]: http://expo.getbootstrap.com/
Yes, so what we can certainly say for Dan Brown, if nothing else (and really, there is nothing else), is that his writing style is accessible.
KDE, LightDM and the Mir Kerfuffle
It's a little brash to dismiss published evidence as a conspiracy theory. You may think it flawed but then please at least make an intelligent criticism.

Who gets to decide what is "feeling sad" with a cause and what is idiopathic "chemical malfunction". Care to offer any references? Objective diagnostics?

I included the bit about antidepressants to caution swallowing the prevailing medical model hook line and sinker with out pause for thought as to it's assumptions. Pretty sure that's on topic.
Instead of the 3 points after the fold I would rather put up 3 easy steps.
eg:
1. create your mailing/printout/letter
2. merge the data
3. print and send
pretty much like the "3 easy steps" you mention in the tour.

The current 3 points on the landing page sound rather empty to me.
Two Failed Releases
Sorry about that. Technically it works on Firefox, however, importing SVG from URLs and resizing them, which I do for the club crests, wasn't working in Firefox correctly. So, instead of having a half working project, I decided to force Webkit browsers.
For me, the #1 concern is mobile zooming and retina displays.

No more blurry pixellated edges that suddenly make your site look like total crap. Instead, it's as sharp as a printed page!

For me, improving page loading speeds are a secondary concern -- and as long as symbol fonts don't make the page noticeably slower to load, all is good.
If you are targeting multiple platforms, that's not always an option. PhoneGap gives you the option to target 10 platforms w/ an HTML/JS codebase. Native will always yield better performance and have best access to device APIs, but will also be more expensive to develop & maintain. PhoneGap gives broader reach at lower cost.
Caution --

"Request access to the prototype" yielded an immediate email: "Thank you for signing up for a New York Times newsletter!"
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My girlfriend, who on the whole loves her iPad, absolutely hates iTunes for and photo and video syncing. She would be much happier simply dragging her nicely organized folders over to the iPad rather than fighting iTunes.
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The 115 Men Who Will Choose the Next Pope
Does the onboard computer report that the airbags have deployed?

Yes the ECU has a state that detects airbag deployment but even the airbags can have a false deploy (see the most recent episode of Top Gear for a prime example).
I know several systems administrators who have spent a lot of sleepless nights dealing with SoftLayer networking outages over the last few months.

Sure, the original AWS sales pitch was a bit disingenuous, but it should be obvious to anyone with deployment experience that everything breaks all the time.

It's not about the "quality" (by what metric?) brand IMO - it's about about evaluating a provider, understanding the failure modes, and choosing whether you're going to try to engineer around them, accept some downtime/customer-facing failure, or find a provider with failure modes you like better.

This article is about picking AWS and understanding the EBS failure case, just like how if I picked SoftLayer I'd be trying to understand their network topology and power setup to see where failures might coordinate and try to understand what to do about it.
Chrome on Win7 64-bit here; it does not crash as I scroll down.
The older Combat Mission games did this.
Corporations "souls" are only as good as their current leadership and "legal" obligations allow them to be. Mostly they are amoral, since the purpose of mostly all corporations is to make money. (Not books or widgets or software...)
The grand battle plan went something like Miles claims some things excluded by paleo diet did not cause fatness when other ethnic groups ate them (also missing the point that starvation traditionally killed a fraction of the population on a pretty regular basis. Given an infinite qty of rice for a lifetime, they very well might get fat on rice. Only in America do we have infinite qty of food). My explanation was the standard American diet almost exclusively combines those "banned" ingredients with (things my son happens to be allergic to, so at home I have to eat mostly paleo for medical reasons) and also a huge amount of sugar and HFCS. Your response is technically correct that there exists a very small subset of junk food that does not contain legumes, etc, and also fits his allergies. That all is true. However, I don't think rice eating Asians are skinny because american convenience stores sell Jolly Ranchers.

I think paleo diet food is mostly very enjoyable. Don't need HFCS to smile. Or wheat or soy or dairy. I fully acknowledge a bad cook could make paleo-type food nearly inedible, but a bad cook could ruin a traditional american pizza just as well... I think its almost physically impossible not to smile when eating blueberries...

Strange gluten free fact: Some licorice candy contains wheat, some does not. Very weird but true.
Not even Canada, which shares a lot of the available car line up with the US.
It depends on the level of risk you can accept. 9-5 is not romantic, not heroic and maybe dull - but it gives you stable income (we won't go into cases if employer doesn't pay you). And when there is no back up plan (OP mentioned that parents are not really able to support him financially and 2 months of savings are well...) it is a good option.

In case of freelancing, OP already mentioned that he is not good at getting clients. In addition, the delayed payments and etc are quite likely. Given the savings would last for 2 months - not an option.

And finally, even if the bootstrap business takes off... Let's say you need a month for launching. You have one months savings left. What are the chances that your first startup will generate enough revenue to make a basic living after a month, while about 90% of startups fail?

It sounds romantic and all but when you compare potential outcomes... I really don't want to say that, I am trying to find a different word for that... But it's very naive.
I think what he meant was, can't the device shut itself off in software to appear as though it is unplugged. Not having the user unplug it himself.
Are there really that many dev teams that use Mercurial and git at the same time? Honest question....
Scroll down and there's a bookmarklet that you can drag to your Bookmarks Bar, allowing you to turn the current URL into a word tree.
I have a hard time believing anything is the 'future' of version control if it doesn't have a free, public open-source plan. GitHub and BitBucket have huge amounts of inertia, and hence dominate in mindshare.
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Will the cloud replace the PC?
Choice is great, my argument wasn't that choice is bad because that's silly. My argument was saying that a feature that a lot of people have no use for is a really big negative against a platform is an incredibly bad point. It's a feature that has inherent personal usefulness for the user, if there's a strong majority that don't have need of that then it's not a negative against a platform when it's functionality for functionality sake.
Let me rephrase then. Let's assume the check engine light is on due to a fault in the fuel pump. You can clear the code but you aren't clearing the problem. As soon as the problem occurs again, the light returns. In most cases the faults that trigger 'check engine' lights are in a constant state of fault until the part is repaired or replaced meaning the light will return essentially as soon as you press the accelerator.
I really enjoyed using Meteor. I'm looking forward to the author's book, and would recommend to anyone who wants to very quickly jump in and start playing around to check out this book:
Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework by Isaac Strack

Strack's book doesn't get deep at all, but it certainly gets you pretty familiar with what Meteor does on the surface as you build apps with it.

Derby is certainly much friendlier to the Node ecosystem, but I don't see a problem with Meteor's approach. If the goal is to make an app as customizable and modular as possible, then Meteor isn't the tool for the job. If the goal is to get an app with reactive data capability, user registration/login functionality up and running as fast as possible, then Meteor is certainly a great option.
All cars produced after 1996 will have it. A lot of cars produced before 1996 will have it too.

So if your car is newer than 1996 then you're good to go. Just assume you have it. If it is any older then check.
If the service turns out to actually be usefil, I hope they will consider charging money for it in lieu of spiriting away my personal information as you suggest.
What a huge missed opportunity. Think of the data a government could gather on its citizens with an enlightened app policy! Or the tax app that sends you rude push messages when you're late with your return. And what better way to report you neighbor for letting their dog poop in the park than an Instagram-style feedback app?

Jesting aside, there are reasons to be happy about their no-app policy
Isn't the question more 'how many dev teams contain frustrated devs that would be happier using git/mercurial but are forced to use git/mercurial?',
Why is Android the bad actor for people writing non-portable software that relies on non-standard GNU extensions?
First draft of the Wordpress Twenty Thirteen theme posted
+1 same for me,

(to me it looks like some kind of particle accelerator experiment happening in your browser, where ก็็็็็ emits some kind of unknown radiation. After closer examination [zoom to +300%]: maybe it just shows the escaping life spirits of the toppled latin small letter «u» after being shot in right side.)
I know this is going to sound stupid, but I wrote a pretty detailed business plan for this exact same idea. Glad that these guys decide to run with it. An interesting link from the past:

http://37signals.com/better/motors/index
More of an individual developer preference, vs entire team's preference.

I prefer git, but my team opted for mercurial. Now(since we use kiln) I get to use git and my teammates can continue to use merc.
Do Paid Search Ads Work?
Except exercise _does_ make biochemical changes in the brain. One example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3311131/
HP Cloud - is it a player? PlanForCloud adds HP to the cost forecasting tool
The New York Times is redesigning its Web site
Measure of Entrepreneurial Tendencies and Abilities (META)
Processes blocked in system calls can be unkillable. In the Linux kernel, what typically happens is that the process is blocked on a wait queue (what userspace usually call a "condition variable" or "monitor") in one of the wait_event() family of functions. Because the kernel doesn't implement any kind of exception handling, there is no way to automatically break out of this; you have to wait for some other task to call wake_up().

It's possible to wait in a "interruptible" way, and many subsystems do. But that's hard, because it means that the resources you would otherwise be responsible for clean up need to be detected and cleaned up by someone else (or alternatively that someone else needs to pick up and finish what you started, or you need to be able to roll back a partially completed action, etc...). Userspace usually ignoes this problem (because the task got killed, right?), but in the kernel a leak is a huge bug.

So the default is that waiting in the kernel means that the kernel can't allow the process to be terminated (or otherwise be delivered a signal that would invalidate the stack). And the side effect is that userspace sees an unkillable process in the "D" state.
Oh I see what you mean.

I bet it could. But how would it ever turn its self back on? I mean if it is receiving OBD-II information then it knows when the car is running, but if it isn't (which it wouldn't be if it is "off") then it couldn't know to switch its self on.

Kind of a chick/egg problem.
I have an ODB-II reader (ScanGauge II) and I am able to clear all sorts of check engine lights that appear. I got it because my second car is an old beat up work truck that commonly has malfunctions that trip the light. If this can or cannot, I don't know, but you can clear codes from an OBD-II reader.
i have learned the thai alphabet and that "mega-combo character" comment just made my day. Reading thai pretty much feels like reading regexps. Anditdoesntmakeitanyeasierthattheydontusespaces
Is there a reason for not selling in Canada?
Maybe this will help someone: A lot of times suicidal thoughts are not about a death wish but about a wish for silence in your head. I think realizing this can make a difference. Whatever the case: don't be ashamed, get help.