skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, that's OK. But shouldn't that command be explicit?
On the other hand, you can shut up anyone by accusing them of sexual assault /rape. Almost nothing else matters, an allegation is enough to make that person radioactive.

I do not know Michael, nor do I care for his personality. Just saying that sometimes there is another side of the story. If woman x accused you of raping her 4 years ago at a hotel, how are you going to defend yourself?
Five years of Mir development and they are still working on maximize and minimize support.

I think Canonical has a point there.
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As somebody in the area, I've been annoyed at how despite Apple, Google, and a number of other tech companies are clustered together in the Cupertino/Mountain View area, I still go home to shitty AT&T internet.
Actually it sounds a lot like Microsoft IAS. It also sounds like something having the right router and configuration would make unnecessary.
Looks lovely!

Though I would appreciate non-Mac shortcuts too (I am guessing ctrl- can be used instead of cmd-)
He follows RMS religion.
Oddly enough the Apple repair center near my home refused to give me something that I could work with till they repaired my dying hard disk.
Thinking about it tripzilch could well be right about what happened.

Speaking for myself; if MI5 (to pick an example) contacted me as a public and relatively high profile UK editor/sysop and asked me to come in and, say, advise them I probably would.

I keep forgetting we are reading a lot of translated text here; so "summons" might not be the right word in this context. I perhaps jumped to conclusions given the stuff that happened once he'd attended the meeting :)
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Or maybe it's about testing the service and gaining expertise in smaller markets where there is less competition before committing a huge amont of risk in order to roll out to a very large market... Pretty much par for the course for telecom rollouts.
It's nice to know things have improved. Apparently they will also remove the stupid "matching" default on push in version 2. But I think that pull and push still will not do exactly the same in choice what to pull and push even in version 2, as I understand it. Which still is bad.
exactly !
if not, is a must have.. excelent idea!
I added some optimizations to the Rust compiler on my branch, added inlining attributes to match the C version, removed I/O (we have performance problems there that are under active development) and reduced the integer sizes to 32 bit to match the C version more closely (see [1]) and got the time down to within 50%:

C version: 0m1.305s

Rust version: 0m1.871s

I think the remaining time may be attributed to the fact that you used smaller integer widths for the various internal arrays in the C version and larger integer widths in the Rust version. Remember that Rust `int` types are the size of a register (like Go 1.1), so they're 64 bit on x86-64. You can use `i8`, `i16`, etc. for smaller integer widths.

Bounds checks may also have some effect; we should add methods to allow them to be avoided.

Finally, thanks for trying out Rust. Do you mind if we add this benchmark to our test suite?

Edit: Updated the gist to use smaller integer widths, like the C version. Now Rust is within 33% of the C version:

C version: 0m1.205s

Rust version: 0m1.613s

[1]: https://gist.github.com/pcwalton/5327090
I'll confirm this. When I make scripts for some SCADA recipe handling, I make sure to output with at least 7 sig-figs and ETA in DDD HH:MM:SS.###. (Properly formatted, though.)

It's not useful, but it's technically true, the overhead and development is negligible, and it amuses me. "See? It's super sophisticated just like that progress bar in the movies!" Incidentally, it also makes it easier for operators to accept the computer is busy and just wait a minute.
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"I have been fired because I was working remotely and UK law doesn’t allow to do that so easily any more."

Can someone give a brief summary why is this so? Thanks!
Yup thanks! Just a pre-coffee brain fart.
Your comments beg the question. The "experimental results" you reference are meaningless if they are not properly disclosed and utilized.

In fact, seems to me that an investigation is in order as to how these supposedly stringent regulatory processes gave us pesticides that were purportedly safe for bees and other beneficial insects, while we now know that they are clearly lethal to bees. They specifically stated that their chemicals do not do something that they clearly do, and that something is ecologically and agriculturally devastating. I find it very difficult to believe that this was completely unknown prior to approval. If you are telling me that you believe it was unknown after utilizing the best processes we have to test and model, then I would say that we clearly need to ban these pesticides and approve nothing else until we are better at determining outcomes.

Beyond that, what I would trust is a regulatory process that does not involve revolving doors between government bureaucrats on the regulatory side and industry. That and a true democracy wherein politicians are not bought by the highest bidder. Those are just starting points.

So, no, I would not trust more experiments performed by the same people, processes, and "oversight" that brought us the last round. You would?
I do sometimes wonder if this "PhD is a waste of time" is being pushed so heavily to get a glut of the best computer science grads, who would otherwise consider a PhD, onto the engineer job market. A cute little trick to drive down the salaries a bit, cut back on the perks...

I mean, people posting links like this, on this board, don't really have English lit grads in mind, do they?

Not that I disagree with the sentiment entirely, but it seems to be getting a lot of mileage the past few months.
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I think it's subjective based on personal experience, I jsut edited out my comment. :)
> Well, I'm not really advancing an opinion as to whether the article is a problem or not. But looked at it, it is a fairly mundane description of a radio station right in the heart of France. I struggle to see how any interpretation of the content could be a direct threat to soldier or civilian lives... so your rhetoric there doesn't sit comfortably.

Yeah, and I'm not really condoning the French govt actions, nor do I really want to defend them, but there was one thing I wondered reading about this incident. The intelligence agency obviously didn't want to tell the Wikimedia Foundation which part(s) of the WP article were sensitive, because doing so would also divulge sensitive information, namely hints of what could have been so sensitive about this article in the first place. This obviously put them in a tight spot as well.

I still don't think it's OK how they handled these matters, but having no idea what it is/was they actually wanted to hide, I can't really say what they should have done instead, either. It's probably really complicated. Having a "secret wikimedia council" who can be trusted with sensitive info, would also need to have power to delete content from WP without having to explain why, and that sounds like a really really bad idea as well.
I want more information, obviously.

But even a single rape allegation is serious: this case appears, at least to me, to be a history of sexual assault on multiple different people.

If you had a friend and every single woman who knew him told you "stay away from him, he's tried to rape me before," I think you would, appropriately, stay away from that friend.
Just curious, are you factoring in the VM warmup time for Java?
I, too, switched to the RT-N16 after my WRT54GL died unceremoniously one day. The RT-N16 is a pretty good router but I want to caution any one who, like me, was awestruck by its 128MB RAM without considering NVRAM.

The short version is that, depending on your usage, you may run out of NVRAM before RAM and may lose your settings. For reference see [1] and [2].

[1] http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16#Current_Kno...
[2] http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=506126
No, git is not hard because it's powerful. It's hard because it's defaults are non-sensical, and it's user interface are neither close enough to how it's internal mechanics to be predictable, but not far enough from the internal mechanics to provide understandable abstractions.

The result is that it behaves unpredictably and confusingly. And that's a bad UI, no matter how powerful things are below.

"Git developers don't care about newbie users who can't even bother to RTFM."

This is probably true.

"There is just no reason they should."

Yes there is.
I didn't say it's better. I just like it more.
Ask HN: Am I doing anything illegal by publishing code from a book?
Finally started going through K&R C using a github repo to save source code from the book.
After an interesting chapter, I find it useful to implement the exercise and run it to get a better feel for the language. After publishing a few exercises on my public github repo, I realized that I may be breaking some copyright law. Googling around a bit didn't help. Maybe someone here on HN can help answer the question:

What is the policy on publishing source code from books? Is there a general answer to that question or does it differ with every book? Am I doing anything illegal or immoral by publishing code from a book on my github repo?
It already exists: https://openhatch.org/
Results oriented development? We're conditioned against it.
Good point -- I don't know the efficient way to do that.
You can read and listen along manually to every lunar surface operation at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html. This is dozens of hours of audio (unfortunately in 12ish-minute segments). The transcript is annotated with helpful things, too - interviews with the astronauts in question to gain more understanding of what was happening, technical explanations and photos to explain what a particular device is, etc. There are a scattered few video clips as well for the most visually interesting moments.

The companion Apollo Flight Journal covers the rest of the missions - but doesn't contain audio, and is missing 13, 14, and 17 (but has 7-10, which of course aren't in the surface journal). It's still full of interesting annotations though.
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See my reply to waterlesscloud below. In short, I understand how the process is supposed to work, but like much else in government, the revolving door between regulatory agencies and industry, combined with paid-for politicians, undermines the integrity of the process.
wow 320kg warhead. thats lots of explosive power, and speed... that is a heavy duty missile. Good luck to Phalanx and sea sparrow stopping a a half dozen of these (apparently china bought them)...
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The problem is everyone in our government is completely corrupt/evil. Perhaps wars could be averted in the first place if we knew what was going on in real time.

One thing for sure... we'd know if 9/11 was an inside job ;)
Yeah, I'm running in bridged mode, it works great. I used to run it like your current setup, but now I can finally run the Tomato router as my main one, and QoS is just too amazing to pass up on...
tiny tiny tiny leftovers + distortion from atmosphere.

best bet is to fire a giant laser at the moon and hope you get a disproportionate number of photons back from the retro reflectors. That doesn't convince many of knuckledraggers though.
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that is one ugly sob
Back in 1999 the common knowledge among geeks was actually 'buy Dell'.

They had better internal cabling than the competition, and have been leveraging 1999 since then.
I always go here to get demos: http://www.pouet.net/
So why not put the article back up? if its already public knowledge? and Just lock it to teach them a lesson?
I will always treasure the fact that I grew up with the internet during these times. Yes, even the old geocities pages. It truly was a "new frontier," and not everyone gets to experience something like that. It was all so exciting. People would come over and we'd just sit around and "play on the internet," trying out different things. Or we'd get some "warez" and think we were "hackers" because we could "punt" people off of AOL...
Are paper maps illegal too? What about having someone in the passenger seat check the map and then tell me what to do? Can they hold the phone in front of my face for me so I can see the map?

I honestly just wish they'd settle for a simple, concrete description of what's acceptable while driving and what isn't. Like, you must always keep your eyes on the road, or you must always have both hands on the wheel, or whatever. Of course, this would have collateral damage - reaching over to change the radio station becomes illegal. But that's a distraction too, isn't it?

I think about this occasionally since I use my phone to play music in the car. When I reach over to tap 'next track' on the incredibly broken Bluetooth hands-free kit (that CA law requires me to have) to change tracks, I'm technically distracted. Is it any different from reaching over and tapping the next track button on my phone? If anything, it's more distracting because Bluetooth (at least for cars) is a complete nonfunctional clusterfuck of a spec that never, ever works right and when it breaks in new and exciting ways I end up more distracted than I would have been if I just tapped a button on my phone's screen.
Last U.S. Tank leaves Germany 68-Years after VE-Day
The government WILL be monitoring everything we slaves do on Google Glass. They already monitor everything we do on the Internet - our email, Facebook/Twitter posts, photos, videos, web sites we visit, search history, GPS locations, phone calls and on and on.

If they are going to monitor the crap out of us, it's time to turn the tables.

That is... unless they have something to hide? Nahhh
I can't help but think that they should have left some of those tanks in, say, Poland, just to keep Putin honest. Just' sayin.
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Cool - no problem, and thanks for the reply.
Silicon Valley Poverty Is Often Ignored By The Tech Hub's Elite
It might be about time for a chargeback.
I like the human friendly approach.. very smart!

i also think that maybe it must have something to young folks entering in the world of technology.. they maybe dont even know any specific computer language..

Something more passion focused.. like "how about to build the nextgen mobile os?" then point to boot2gecko..

Then map some sort of profile.. like if the guy is more focused in system programming, or more visual programming.. or more artistic focused..

After profiling the user will be more easy to point him to the projects he is more likelly to contribute..

anyway, very cool and inspiring initiative.
Uh, in case you can't read it right now, here's what you predicted:

A judge would throw this out...and the prosecutor who brought it forward would end his career.

Nothing about it never happening, and no reasons besides. So, I asked, "when has a judge thrown it out and the prosecutor's career ended?" To which you replied to the effect of, "Duh! I just told you!"
Seconded. I've got one for my office (20+ computers and a number of BYODs) and I've had to power it off once - when we were moving. It is solid, stable, has not crashed or frozen for me even once.

Setup can be quite complicated, though, compared to a consumer router.
Great notes! Thanks for sharing.
The 'Lunar Surface Journal' I link to earlier has audio starting at 102:15:02 for Apollo 11, (in fact, has the descent audio for several if not all of the missions). It continues through the EVA prep and the first excursion, etc.

You can't quite experience it in real time, as the occasional long comm break (10 minutes to several hours) are often not included in the mp3s. But you can get pretty durn close.

As mertd notes, though, it's several hours between touchdown and EVA.

The relevant pages would be 'The First Lunar Landing', 'Post-landing Activities', 'EVA Preparations' and of course 'One Small Step' from the bottom of http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11j.html. It can be difficult to navigate because of the sheer amount of extra pages that they have.
Just ban "reckless driving" and be done with it.

Oh wait.
Tomi Ahonen in his analyses.
Horse tracking app for the Grand National
Used this during the race and it was damn impressive, think it dropped out about 3 times. I would say 95% of the race it was accurate.

But I can't get my head around how it was all done.

As soon as my horse fell, the app said DNF.

I presume it's a mix of internet data (horses carry tracking devices or pass markers and have tags on them) and also signals from the TV.

Any better explanation appreciated.

Dave
I think this is just a continuation of the old "College is a waste of time" thought, but I have noticed a _lot_ of people -- especially from China and India -- enrolling in CS PhD programs the last few years. I talked to a few of them from my college, and an exceedingly common theme seems to be family and peer pressure, so personally, I'd really like to understand more about this topic.
I wonder when the first article was written claiming that doing a PhD was a waste of time? I'll bet it was in the 19th century. And we'll no doubt keep seeing such articles until such time as the PhD fades from history.

(Nothing against the article in question, which is a better-than-usual discussion of the issue.)
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I decided to learn JavaScript, again…
I understand. I'm not American, but if I was (or even if I wasn't), if a similar US agency would "summon" me, I'd be scared as hell. And in that situation I'd think "let me talk to a lawyer first" a lot sooner than I would here (even though it might be smart here, too).

ErrantX also brings up a good point about translation, "summon" could mean something as simple as a phonecall asking for a meeting, without any implication that one may be in trouble. Probably not something one would expect to find themselves being threatened with jailtime.
Well apparently it was a military installation, not just a radio station, and even if it was in the heart of France that doesn't negate the risk as we know targets, civilian and military have been hit on a nation's home soil before. As others have said yeah, the problem of explaining why some of the information is sensitive is a catch-22. After all, I wouldn't be surprised if a media outlet decided to publish that information as well 'This is the sensitive information that required us to remove the content'. The precedent for that has already been set a la wikileaks. And yes, the gov't is made up of individuals and this particular gov't happens to be a republic so I agree, my assumption is that those in the intelligence community within the elected gov't have more knowledge than either the foundation or the sysop as to whether this information is benign or not. I'll stick with that assumption, of course who knows, it could all be a conspiracy =).
Agreed. I got excited, because it looked like a way to get Sublime-friendly features in a remote terminal, but all the macvim-centric bindings look like a blocker. Still, it's a great reference for Vim plugins that can bring Vim closer to Sublime.
A computer science Ph.D. is nothing like what is described in this article. For various reasons
(other opportunities, generous industry grants, minimal financial overhead to run a lab), students
in computer science are comparatively well paid and free to work at their own pace. YMMV based on advisor.

It's been exhaustively shown that stopping after undergrad or masters degrees will
be more financially lucrative, so some reasons to go on:

- you want one of the specialized researchy positions that
are typically filled by Ph.D. holders
- you have a genuine interest in some specialized field and
want to work purely on learning/investigating that field
- you want to be a professor
Telecom is quite a different world. There are a number of small ISPs in North Bay that are trying to make a dent; see Sonic.net in sebastapol. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120506/BUSINESS/12050...
These valuations are just absurd. Shades of a decade ago.
As far as I'm concerned, that's not the distressing part.

Once the authorities concluded a crime was being committed by organisation X, they found someone involved with that organisation and forced them to stop.

They clearly correctly identified that person as a) being a member, and b) having the means to delete the article.

That's not a new precedent, that's perfectly normal. The only real issue is the ridiculous attempt to make the information "disappear" in the first place.
I guess this invalidates what I've been used to for the last 4 years about using phone mapping. [1] I've always wondered what would happen if a police officer thought you were texting but you were actually using a GPS, or changing a song on your iPod (does it matter if it has cellular connection or not?) Presumably we would need to exclude dash-mounted or built-in GPS manipulation as well. This makes everything with phone use more consistent (and restrictive), which may be the right thing to do.

[1] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/12/illegal-a...
I see your point.

I guess I failed to go into the fact my various purchasing practices were just how I was raised. My father, mother and grandmother would do the same thing as I would. Of course, you're still right in a larger sense: that doesn't help those that weren't raised by my parents.

This is a perfect opportunity for consumer advocate groups to step in and inform people. I don't see how each of us being critical of such a move does anything to help those that would otherwise not have the education about potential privacy issues. I do what I can when friends and family ask me for purchasing advice and I take it very seriously. I keep myself informed in a way that others may not.

I don't want to say I'm changing the world, but really, technology is going to progress, this Launcher is extremely unique and could see quite a few copy cats going the same route (most likely without the support of a major hardware manufacturer) - this is an extremely good potential teaching moment for those that would otherwise not know. I'm just doing what I can to help those that ask for it.

We can't trust the sales people because frankly, they seem less informed than even the average consumer - they just want to sell you the latest phone and renew that 2-year contract. But there are quite a few organizations out there that could probably use more support and increase the proper awareness.

I'm just always of the school that the responsibility is ultimately on the individual, so anything to help that individual make the best and most educated decision is something I think will always lead towards the best results.

> So yeah, good for you. But really, this discussion isn't about you, do you really think the people in this thread are getting upset because they fear they themselves cannot avoid this? No, this bothers me because my mom is on Facebook and uses it on her mobile phone, my less-technical friends are on Facebook, the children that I teach and their definitely-not-technical parents are on Facebook!

Not sure why you need to take this sort of tone, and I also don't see what's inherently wrong with people using Facebook in the first place. If people want quicker access to an App they use all the time in a pretty slick looking interface then then let them consume. Do your part and answer any potential questions they may have and perhaps even interject some technical opinion (without going over the line into lecturing, of course) to help raise their awareness.