skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have listserve here. Sounds like a good service.

I'm sorry for the pawnshop buyer. Why didn't police follow the thread? I suppose pawnshop owner should have compensate her.
I don't understand the map part.
I hope every one knows that I meant *broken its just a typo on my phone. Although it gives it character
There are few, if any, languages where that would be guaranteed to work. For example:

in C

#include <studio.h>#include <stdlib.h>

won't work. In perl, strings with literal new lines or here docs will break (terminator must be on a line by itself)

Any language with 'comment till end of line' would break.

Any language that does not use semicolons as statement terminator or separator such as Forth, Postscript, and XML-based languages wouldn't like the inserted semicolons.

Even pascal would break, as it has a few places where repeated semicolons are illegal, as in the third line of

type
T = record
a : integer;
end;

Algol has a problem changing

if x=4 then y:=5
else y:=6;

into

if x=4 then y:=5;else y:=6;

Because a semicolon is a statement separator in Algol (I think pascal has this problem, too)

So, can anybody suggest a language where this would work?
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I use it because I closed my Facebook account 9month ago and I most of the people I want to talk to have whatsapp
From June 2012, and:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4165150

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4164798
It is really sad that most of the comments here on HN would rather attack the author (or I guess SF in this case) than make better arguments against the author's comments. Not saying I agree with all of it, and honestly not even sure if the author is shining SF in that great of a light. But I guess the tone or topic of the article struck a deep chord in a lot of people.
You're using Unity wrong. Super+w will display all open windows to you.
Quick question: Do you live here (SF)?
Using Firefox, I see a very grainy Tux, and a faded GNU logo in the background. When I take a screenshot of it using Firefox, and view the screenshot in Chrome, I see the grainy Tux/faded GNU logo, identical to my viewing of it in Firefox. Is this how it's supposed to work?

http://i.imgur.com/hTauClg.jpg (screenshot of what I see in firefox)

I apologize if this is a dumb question.
The cool thing about a lot of the mods is that they don't just add more content to the game, but they add whole new ways that the game can be played. In vanilla minecraft you can build all sorts of structures, and that's very cool and has a lot of room for a creative mind to explore. But then there are mods that add the ability to build automated factories. Or robots that you can program to do almost anything the player can, like gather resources. Or movable structures which allow you to build bases that can fly around the world. Or bees that you can selectively breed or even genetically engineer, which will produce useful resources for you.
Also wikipedia, stack overflow, multicore processors (no more having your system lock up on most heavy tasks), git versus svn/cvs. Lots of technological advances that improved things greatly. Just takes some additional thinking to recall what those things are.

I still recall going from a single core AMD to an Intel q6600 quad core CPU and thinking how amazing it was that I did not have to worry about my entire CPU locking up on one bad app going bonkers and eating 100% of the CPU. It became possible to have an app crash and max out a core and not even notice it immediately. Even when OSs and apps did not do mult-core processing overly well, I still manually set the affinity to most heavy apps so they were isolated to their own cores.
I'm guessing they did that because most kids don't carry ids with them? Otherwise requesting an id seems simpler?
A friend of mine found his bike being ridden by the thief a week later and retrieved it. In London, not a small town...
How Geektips made this Desktop
$10 million is cheap. True, it only does discrete optimization problems, but I think you could make your money back in a few years years renting it out at $5k/hour and consulting on translating problems to that domain.

Will some clients be wildly overpaying for something they could do equally well on regular computers? Sure, and they'll love every $ of it because of the bragging rights. Is this an efficient use of the hardware? Certainly not, it'll probably be exploiting <1% of the system's potential. Doesn't matter. People will frequently pay more for novelty than actual utility. If their vanity subsidizes the tiny subset of research computation that would have serious economic benefits, I call that a win-win.
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I can believe it, especially if Ubuntu becomes more mainstream on PC's thanks to its (relative) popularity on mobile, and to Valve's Steam Box. Plus, unlike Windows RT, Linux can run most x86 apps. So the switch to ARM won't feel like such a dramatic shift in the short term.
Is there some kind of reason there is not a big uprise against this kind of practice in the US? It seems that airport officials and border guards have some kind of uber human power which everyone complains about but no-one does anything about? It's sad this happened but why didn't he take her name and complain, or just put her in the article? She'll surely lose her job? And get her house egged? These people shouldn't be something to be scared off; they are sad little people who happen to wear a uniform.

When going to the US I always go via Canada; I find the highway border homeland security (or whatever) far less of demeaning than flying anywhere in the US where I get handled like i'm nothing or worse, a suspected criminal.

So, is it really that bad or is it just the news? Stories like this would be frontpage news here and the person doing it would be fired automatically.
There is no need to keep them there. You can just ssh to some qbits from your pocket.
> It seems weird that large features like dictionary comprehensions and syntax changes like set literals are making it int0 2.7.x

They made it into 2.7.0, that happened 3 years ago...
Not when you could have sold the TV for $10K. This is the shoplifting issue; the shop loses both the product and the potential profit on the product.

It gets a bit existential e.g. can you lose what you never really had? But even if you fall on the NO side of that, the cost of re-obtaining a product is not zero.
So it's worth like 1/10th a Google employee.
How Google News Sort News By Relevance
I am interested to know How Google News Sort News By Relevance. and is there any open algorithm for the same purpose ?
I think I speak for both San Franciscans and Silicon Valley denizens when I say that it's time to stop conflating both regions as if they were the same thing.
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It's from "Monads and Gonads", a talk delivered at YUIConf 2012. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d...
I will use this trick on all of my online published images - the IE version will say:

"GET A REAL BROWSER"
Formally speaking, solving integrals requires brute force. It is only after many such brute force samples your starting to get an intuition. But I won't call this creativity.
Do you think you're underpaid compared to your co-workers? That's been more important to me than general industry trends.
Kind of tired of this emo bullshit.

If you can learn something new, you can work in many growing sectors in many cities. New York and LA have many more opportunities to grow in many more fields than SF.

And if you're really adventurous, move to the mid-east or northern africa, where you can be very successful doing an arbitrage play between successful business models in first world countries and third world developing countries.

If you're bitching about SF and Austin, you're a bozo and are not anywhere close to being a true risk taker.
There's one other way to complete this puzzle that isn't mentioned in most walkthroughs:

1. Go back to Kennedy space center

2. In the museum, go to the third room, containing the "first monkey in space" exhibit

3. Wait about 30 seconds until the big hawaiian shirt guy and his family leaves

4. Pick up the taxidermied monkey

5. Go to Seaworld

6. On the screen to the left, pick up the electric eel from the aquarium and place it in the giant water flask you bought from the guy at the beach

7. Return to Disney World

8. Remove the eel from the water flask, and place it behind the guard's chair. He'll be distracted by the eel's thrashing about and start panicking about what to do

9. Use the taxidermied monkey with the fingerprint scanner. Your ticket will be marked as "validated"

10. When the commotion dies down, show your ticket to the guard, and he'll let you in
Set a guest account.
But less efficient as it probably takes more time to check an id…
After trying to find follow-ups on this story I'm amazed at the fact that not a single news source I could find even bothered to do one.

There seems to have a been a release from TSA citing 'inconsistencies' in Gross' story. They claimed having launched an investigation the results of which don't appear to have been reported anywhere, including on their own website.

Someone purporting to be a flight attendant commented on one of these news sites that there is no way the TSA couldn't find camera footage of such a highly secured area in an airport like MCO. I'd be curious to know if that's accurate.

From some more thorough reports, the TSA seem to have reached Gross to apologize (despite attempting to discredit his claims).

What a fucking mess.
Old python video from 2005
There's also Mozilla's own "Are we slim yet?" interface to track their progress in memory usage.

https://areweslimyet.com/

You can even see the bugs that lead to memory regressions there.
I have been building something similar for iOS called RESTMagic that does this automatically using the URL structure of your API.

http://RESTMagic.org
http://github.com/RESTMagic/RESTMagic

If you build a twitter app (such as the example one with the project) and try and open a URL, the app handles it and opens the right view controller, if it doesn't exist it tries to get the json and match it with an HTML template. If the server just returns HTML is presents that. Magic.

The app even looks at your obj-c class prefix and looks if you made a subclass of the main view used for presenting HTML and uses that instead system wide.

Haven't posted it here yet but would love feedback, email address is on the RESTMagic page.
Far as I am aware form previous visits and discussions Disney delete the fingerprint record when the ticket expires.

Also the level of fingerprint scanner we are talking about is not even close to say the one UCIS use when you come into the US. UCIS having my fingerprint is actually pretty handy as it speeds up border processing with new passports etc.

Busch Gardens use a hand size device which is just weird.
Just to add to siblings, I'd propose a rule of thumb of at most 2 sentences per "page" of code, where a page is about as much code is on your screen at a readable size.

It's a rule of thumb, and snark will put you over that easily, but IME, it can suggest you're getting overzealous about commenting when you've got more than that.
> They scan everyone, from newborns to grandparents.

I was there last month. My young children in strollers were NOT scanned.

> We had a 1-day pass, and got scanned.

The parks are open until 9 or 10pm. If you leave at 5pm, Disney doesn't want you selling your ticket in the parking lot on your way out.

I used to see this at ski mountains. People with wire cutters would ask to 'clip' your lift ticket in the parking lot for a few bucks if you were leaving the mountain early.
Stop living in an academic silo?
" is harping on all the benefits this will bring startups"

Google giveth, Google taketh when they want to. Don't be the sucker to base your start-up on the idea that a 1 GB pipe is going to be there and or at $80 /month.

Google is just trying to pressure TW, Verizon, Comcast etc to increase the speed (Youtube, G Play and all)
Wtf is with the only two animal experiments being on dogs and chimps? I am ok with animal research, but on dogs? Or chimps which are closer to humans than any other animal? This research isn't even necessary. Everyone already knew going into the vacuum of space was bad.
Excuse a flippant answer, but I have to say 'poorly.' It's a hobbyhorse of mine, but GN has gotten progressively worse over the last 2 years, thanks to a mixture of SEO and slow development. Considering the legal costs of news delivery (settlements and ongoing litigation with publishers) I think more is being spent on keeping it functional than on development.
Any chance they could render textures, geometry, bullets and blood spray really fast?
I have been meaning to make a Google Voice client with the only feature being T9. If you add google voice support to this (just for making calls and sending a new message) I will send you a gift.
Krishna Bharat Creator of Google News Used His own fork of The Hilltop algorithm is an algorithm. I don't know it work but if you are going to create a relevance for some news site remember this quote by Mark

"A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa."
What was interesting to me was that in Chrome, if you scroll the page you can see a faint version of the apple until you stop scrolling, at which point all you see if the pear.
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Firefox SHOULD be showing the GNU logo. For some reason, when a color profile is included in the image, Firefox ignores the gamma correction information. Or at least, that's what seems to be happening. Viewing the original image in Chrome should correctly show the GNU logo.

The reason the screenshot doesn't appear different in Chrome is because no gamma correction is attached to it.

Anyway, check this new link:
http://i.imgur.com/vYBIZ0R.png

This is the same image with the color profile removed. It should show the GNU logo in both Firefox in Chrome, but show Tux in browsers which ignore the gamma correction.

I apologize if my explanations are confusing... I'm very new to this stuff.
Are there any sources you know of that discuss what kinds of problems can be solved faster with quantum computing? I'm curious about them.
> Just buy Draytek. Playtime is over.

I went to their website (draytek.us) and got this:

> Database connection error (2): Could not connect to MySQL.
Knuth Asking for verification of solutions to problems in 4B prefascicle
That's an interesting idea. I'll look into it.
This is the second one LMT has purchased. Which means they liked it enough to buy the upgraded model.
Perl still leads the pack on indeed.com. And I keep getting requests for Perl training. It is always interesting to see the disconnect between what is popular with programmers, and what is actually popular in the industry.
Some details are provided in this old article from 2006:

http://newsinitiative.org/story/2006/08/14/walt_disney_world...

> But Disney's Prunty downplayed privacy issues, saying the scanned information is stored "independent of all of our other systems," and "the system purges it 30 days after the ticket expires or is fully utilized." Visitors who object to the readers can provide photo identification instead – although the option is not advertised at the park entrance.
Sync as many pictures as you want—there's no limit^1.

1. Everpix reserves the right to limit excessive use and the unlimited photos offer pertains to your personal, non-commercial use only.

Cut that shit out!

Advertising "unlimited" but having limits is illegal here and probably where you are too. Having fine print that contradicts large print is also illegal here.
How was this vigilantism? The only people who applied a sanction to the thief were cops; he never used force or meted out any kind of extralegal punishment.
Wikipedia has a fairly decent list of quantum algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm Shor's algorithm being one of the standard examples of where quantum computing completely crushes classical computing.
All thats missing is .PNG's instead of "0123456789". Not much difference beyond that, when comparing such style of games of the 80's with similar games of the 21st Century, to be honest.
And you better know that. Once I had to do this and comment out a "winsocks workaround" in RTS because it would hang ruby process from time to time. 100% core use per process is bad for production systems.
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How good are stories of recovery.

My bike was stolen from the hospital where I'm a student. 3 years of going there and never a problem, this night I walked outside and my bike was gone.. The thief had kindly left the chain lying ont be ground where he had cut it.

2 months later and I still hadn't given up on my beautiful 3 yr old trek road bike, Red Lightning. On a whim I checked eBay about 3am (late night studying) and listed all bikes in Sydney.

At 100 per page you can get through them fairly quickly.

Red was on the 6th page with my custom parts still attached.
Called he police who came around at 3.30 in the morning- gave them the website, emailed them my serial number and other photos and they went around the next day and recovered it for me-

Such a win!

Unfortunately still took another 2 months to get it back from the police, but it came back and is still with me to this day
In 2.7.3, you can create a buffer which is the "old" buffer interface: http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#buffer

And you can create a memoryview which is the "new" and more flexible buffer interface: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#typememoryvie...

You can get a buffer of a string:

>>> buffer("foo")
<read-only buffer for 0x1005a5ee0, size -1, offset 0 at 0x10054f270>

and a view of a string:

>>> memoryview("foo")
<memory at 0x100574d60>

but when you get this unhelpful and really stupid result:

>>> memoryview(buffer("foo"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: cannot make memory view because object does not have the buffer interface

2.7.4 fixed this so it actually works and you can get a memoryview out of an old buffer.
PyPy 2.0 beta 2 released
People tend to equate asymmetric crypto with the likes of RSA; systems where the efficient factoring of large numbers is a death sentence. But there's a whole slew of other asymmetric cryptosystems without such properties, e.g. elliptic-curve cryptography.
VMware tools is a pain to recompile every damn kernel drop whereas Debian ships and installs VirtualBox guest stuff automatically.

Also it's heavier, more expensive and slower from a UI perspective.
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That's always the case outside of startup culture, which is why despite being a Unix/Linux guy, I end up in Visual C++ quite often and deal with all sorts of esoteric languages and tools. It's quite a bit more fun that sitting in front of say Python or Ruby only all day.
Is Amazon Redshift a Game-Changer for Big Data Analysis?
See http://bugs.python.org/issue10211

Basically, Python has the "buffer" object which is a 0-copy view of some memory area (lets an object expose itself as a bytes array of sorts). It's always been plagued with a number of issues.

In Python 3, `buffer` was removed and replaced with `memoryview`, which was backported to Python 2.7. But in said Python 2.7, `buffer` and `memoryview` both exist and fill very similar need so e.g. older libraries will likely return a buffer which newer code will want to use as a memoryview. No such luck, they're not compatible.

2.7.4 fixes that so you can get a memoryview from a buffer.
I think most users probably don't particularly care about the hot air and ecosystem thing on the Internet - they're too busy using it to get stuff done.

These are the guys who if you Google their email address, it will show one or two posts to usenet between 1995 and 2013 and nothing else. No Twitter account, no Facebook profile, no prolific profile on Reddit or HN. Just silent work and go home.
Interesting. When I do some searches on the Dutch version of Indeed.com, I get very different results: Perl (421 hits), PHP (2397 hits), Python (493 hits), Java (3173 hits). The top of the Perl listings seem to be for system administrators, and are not a required skill. Contrasting that to PHP, where the top are all specifically asking for PHP.

I personally haven't spotted Perl in the wild as a serious programming language for a long time. Again, it seems Perl is mostly popular with system administrators without much programming experience. But that might very well be just my little corner of the world, which happens to be a hosting company.
In addition to the Wikipedia site http://www.scottaaronson.com/ has a bunch of useful stuff on his blog.
> Reducing the number of lines isn't important.

This is statistically false. It is the ONLY thing, we know, in CS, that is relevant to accuracy. The confounding effect of class size on the validity of object-oriented metrics -
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I'm pretty sure this would be illegal in the EU. Most people are disgusted enough by the practice of being fingerprinted upon entering the US.
Most people are pretty sad when their family members commit suicide.
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Considering a big chunk of 3.x is the same as 2.6... hmm.
Well, the thief was arrested; in a decent system, that would mean that possible mental illnesses would be identified and (s)he would be offered help.

Of course, I realize this is mostly wishful thinking.