skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vim users, don't forget the included vimgrep. It greps your file. But the nice thing is, it puts the results in the quickfix window (where your compiler errors go, for example).

I keep a project log file in restructured text. My entry headers look like this:

2013.03.17 Sunday, Set up base box
==================================

When you filter that file with rst2html, your output file can have a table of contents, but not your source file where you probably spend more time.

Use vimgrep to find all your headers:

:vimgrep /^20[0-9][0-9]/gj %

Nothing happens, but the result is in the quickfix window.

:copen

And now you have a second window with entries like the following:

log.rst|1559 col 1| 2013.03.17 Sunday, Set up base box
log.rst|1624 col 1| 2013.03.14 Thursday, configured widgets

In the quickfix window, enter on any line and it brings you back to the main window, at that location.

:help vimgrep
:help quickfix
:help copen
:help cc
:help cn
I believe his experience was authentic. I don't think he's any kind of con man. Sometimes I don't like some of the details of his writing, or the spin he puts on things. I think the Zen traditions have the most highly developed methods of teaching along the lines he's talking about. Talking about deep spiritual truth in a direct manner doesn't really work. Explaining how to fly a hang glider will get you very little traction when it comes time to actually fly a hang glider. So, to me, there's this huge separation between spiritual truth and the ability and methods of teaching it. Tolle's right, and paying attention to your body and such is good, but it just falls short.

I'd recommend the Zen Teaching of Huang Po, and the practices of Zen in general, Rinzai zen in particular, especially koans, which are easy to neglect and were a brilliant stroke of insight. That's really skillful teaching. If you can wrap your head around Huang Po, you'll be closer to what Tolle is talking about. Huang Po is dead-on like nothing else I ever read, but it didn't make any real sense to me until I didn't need it anymore. And I believe Hakuin was right in his belief that the most effective way for a student to achieve insight is through koan practice. Rinzai zen is most on the mark.

The main problem with Zen is that it's not well packaged for a modern Western audience, but it's the best we've got.
I can't help but feel like these brothers are also victims here. Of course, their victimhood is nothing like what they inflicted on the people of Boston and the marathoners, but they're victims nonetheless. Humans are glorified chemical reaction vessels; somehow, they ended up going down a path that led them here. Was there any alternative? Was it the education system? Social circumstances? I'm sure the magnitude of what he's done must be setting in on Dzhozkar now. Provided that this case is how it appears, his life is over; he's committed terrible crimes. But provided that he's not a biologically-determined sociopath, somewhere down the road he become subject to forces that ended up with him hiding from FBI HRT in someone's backyard after a prolonged shootout-chase with his brother dead. Even if this is justice, it seems tragic.

EDIT: I'm not denying agency or free will, I'm just expressing the belief that you are the product of your environment. I like the saying that an individual will tend towards being the average of their friends. If all of your friends are into running, you'll probably end up being into running. If all of your friends are into music, you'll probably end up interested in music. Certain books, movies, or other cultural experiences can affect individuals in differing, significant ways. All of these forces act on people to create who they are tomorrow.

There's no statement about free will, in a strong sense, in there. It's all about social and cultural context, and brownian motion. He's still responsible for his actions. I would reserve the term "human monster" for measurable psychopaths. Those do exist, and are a different matter entirely.
FAA Approves Boeing’s Battery Fix for 787
At the time of his death, he had turned around a company that was about 90 days from death and turned it into one of biggest companies in the world, which made products used by hundreds of millions of people.

Now, I could go on debating what I thought he was but that would be pointless. Steve changed the world, with whatever combination of qualities and abilities that he had.

You know what doesn't accomplish anything? Debating on Hacker News if it's better to be like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, Steve's design ability, which of the ideas from Apple were his, why he listened to music on vinyl, etc.

If you can't understand why Steve Jobs was a household name and Dennis Richie wasn't, well, sorry... I guess you don't understand life. There really isn't any use in whining about it though. In 200 years, most of us will probably be forgotten, including Steve.
Most importantly get in writing who owns the IP as that matters most down the road.
Because they literally can't believe it.
Its the stages of grief. Something you've invested a considerable amount of your life in was revealed to you in the last 24 hours to be not what you believed it to be. That causes grief and causes denial.
Don't you worry about devaluing the term "hatred" by throwing it around so lightly?
we had 15 views, and 5 demo views. rejected.
I don't understand what this is an image of. The quality is very poor, is this because its a crop of a much larger image?
Parts of it maybe. But as a whole not likely. Much like SRI we are hoping that we will license the tech to companies. We could build full products, but we think that the way this can be best applied is as enhancements to other products. Search, Technical and Customer Support, Content Authoring, News Aggregation.

We also have tech that could vastly improve book and movie reccomendations based on the content and themes of books, not just "did someone like you like this" kinds of systems.
PHP is was/is used heavily at Yahoo, sounds like a great hire to me.
He's the Daft Punk of the Ruby world.
Why not just fire people who don't produce? If they are on the clock bullshitting, remote or at the office, ax em and leave perks in place for good employees. If you have logs of them charging the company and not doing anything, fire them.
I wonder how they'll find a jury that doesn't already think he's guilty.
I can see where you're coming from and we probably won't know until he gives a statement. Whether it was a religious, nationalist or anarchist attack, it will be interesting to see why he thought he needed to do what he did.
Earlier I was reading through the Twitter account of the now apprehended suspect and what is most striking is just how normal he is. Every one of his tweets could have been attributed to a completely normal teenager, he couldn't be more generic. It's strange how Twitter offers an insight into his life... but really it doesn't show anything. When someone blew people up in the 90s the news would report they're crazy, we'd all accept it and move on but now with platforms like Twitter we can see how this could be any one of us, maybe we're all one shitty situation away from doing terrible things. Unnerving.
So who gets to be his lawyer?
To akavlie's Ram limit comment: We run on Google AppEngine. It gives us great scalability, but it limits us to about 512 Megs of ram.

We made this choice because with a small team it gave us the most freedom to focus on the code, rather than the scalability and the infrastructure. We don't manage servers, or routers, or load balancers.
The big question is to what degree it was organized, or whether the older brother's social problems (inability to connect etc.) so alienated him that he just seized on the most empowering role model he could think of, an Islamic rebel. Chechnya is a country that has been ruled pretty poorly by Russia at it's not so long ago that Chechen Muslims were seen as heroic freedom fighters in the west.

In short, it's unclear whether they were actually involved with any organized jihad groups or just developed a personal obsession with the ideas and copied the methods.
* they shut down a large portion of New England*

No, "they" really didn't. Life was pretty much normal outside of 128.
Now that the full audio[1] transcript of the police scanner is available, I'd be interested in whether police ever actually mentioned the the two other individuals that everyone seemed to think had done it.

[1]https://soundcloud.com/producermatthew/scanner-audio-from-wa...
Did they ever figure out the motive of James Holmes?

I'm wondering what ever happened with that.. any reason WHY?
I tend to see him as a great product manager.
Some of the people I regularly follow on Twitter were literally in disbelief over hearing this about someone they thought they knew - "please take him alive" they pleaded.

It was awful to see someone be so wrong about a person, as it became more and more certain that he was indeed one of the people involved in the bombing.
Errr no. His proposal is that intelligence is a process that maximizes the number of available future histories. Just capturing future histories is meaningless. The example he gives of an upright rod clearly illustrates the difference. Really what he's saying is that intelligence seeks to maintain maximum possibilities for the future.
I'm assuming from the long white dress that this is a photo of a wedding.
Twitter account of Boston bombing suspect uncovered
It looks like a crop of an image in a park where a bride and her bridal party are having their picture taken while the groomsmen wait off to the side.
A wedding.
For comparison, the link below [1] is for the Harvard Entrance Exam in 1899. "Write only as much as you can revise carefully."

[1] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvarde...
Hmm, I wonder if the Amish do jury duty...
Alan Dershowitz?
To add to that -- Visual Studio still has woeful support for C99. I keep hoping that when (if?) they get full C++11 support, the C11 support will just fall out of that. Pipe dream, I know...
Sun-powered plane completes California test flight
I had a random curiosity recently wondering if PG would ever reduce his responsibilities with YC. Or maybe take a break one semester.

It seems to be a very intensive thing to keep doing twice annually, year after year.

But it also must be very exciting and constantly motivating.
This kind of thinking is very dangerous and can be used to excuse all sorts of terrible behavior. We are all responsible for our actions. I can't prove that we have free will, but I feel it's important to believe it.
Many people join the military and kill others, for example. Context matters.
Sometimes they hold a trial outside the area where the crime occurred for that very reason. Since he'll be facing federal charges I think they have fairly broad latitude on where the trial is held. Doubtless the government will go into court with a mountain of evidence. Considering how easily they were IDed and caught I'm guessing they left a lot of forensic evidence.

Of course, he may decide to confess and plead guilty. There'll be an avalanche of detail either way, books ad nauseam and so on..
Here in Canada one of our party leaders is under fire for having an ounce of concern about what led these men to this point. For asking how a person gets so disconnected from society that they can wage war against it like this. The right-wing backlash against these questions has been immense.
> Just look at the yacht he designed without Jonathan Ive's collaboration.

Philippe Starck designed the yacht.
Silicon Valley Has Nation's Highest Rents
I see this argument boiling down to two trains of thought. One is that people are fundamentally good and only external forces make them do bad things. That appears to be the opinion you have expressed.

The second is that people are fundamentally bad and that external forces are required to keep them from doing bad things. I think the more you look at the world the more you find this second postulate is the right one, and your looking in the wrong direction for justification.
Well, look at the currently top comment (http://tf-575.com/images/renders/), they are victims, see... A jury is possible, yes.
Agreed, but the slight difference is that Dorner was specifically targeting officers and their families. These two brothers were cop killers, however it was more "collateral damage" than their main goal.
The only C features to be added to VS, unless something changes in the management, are features that map directly to C++.

http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and...
Unlikely. He is very much against Islamic terrorism, and this is apparently just that case.
Third viewpoint- that people make choices about their reactions to external forces and they are responsible for those choices.
"200,000 words. Ha! 400K words. I laugh. 3.2 Million words. I still know I am missing stuff. Single word nouns in just the singular form exceeds 150k. 40k verbs and conjugates. 37k adjectives. 10K adverbs. I know I am still missing things."

I was all set to hate this post, but I found I ended up largely agreeing with it, especially the quoted bit above. I remember working on a very focused NLP tool a few years ago and needed a comprehensive English Lexicon. No problem, I'll just scrape WordNet or similar, not even close. Then you start dealing with stemming and conjugations and such and realize that almost all of the algorithms for dealing with this kind of thing would barely even be hacks in software terms, yet there they sit, regurgitated in countless libraries, generating garbage stems all over the place. It ends up just being easier collecting all the stemmed forms as well and just building some smart in-memory indexes and data structures for searching millions of words.

Vector space models? Why do they work? Nobody really seems to know! Just jam all your words into some matrixes and run some simple calculations and voila you get something seems to kind of like it sorta works some of the time.

Sentence tokenization is stupid hard, but shouldn't be, parantheses have all kinds of different meanings, commas are a mess...English is stupid.

The worst bit though really is that most of the research->turned into software assumes astonishingly brittle models about the language which almost never seems to describe any actual usage of the language which always means very frustrating almost right results out of NLP systems. My previous sentence, for example, would cause most NLP software to blow a gasket.
Before you fly on a 787, please note that the battery fires aren't the only early problem to hit that aircraft; it seems they have a problem with cracked windshields, which (unlike on conventional non-composite airliners) are bonded to the composite airframe rather than bolted into metal frames:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...
Would be way cooler if he rooted 2600 servers ;)
>without Steve Jobs, someone else could have taken the spot

You could easily say that about the "true" inventors.

The point is Steve Jobs _was_ heavily involved in all of these major breakthroughs, spanning decades, industries, and personnel. He is an incredibly important and influential figure in the history of technology. Not sure why people feel the need to downplay his role when the very people he is supposedly stealing the spotlight from will attest to his genius (with the exception of Jef Raskin of course, who was a bit of a Svengali himself).
Who was it (which party)? I'm canadian too but haven't kept up with our local press.
If you lose superuser, you've almost certainly lost your kernel, at which point your only hope for Tripwire-type scans actually working is an attacker that doesn't know where to download a good rootkit from.

You should still run the scans, just be aware of the limitations.
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him." -Dostoevsky

On twitter a lot of people are essentially saying "Good, now we'll get answers." I'm sorry to say I don't believe there is typically anything satisfying about the answers of people who become deranged. Maybe this time, but if reading about madmen past is any guide, its very unlikely that we will be enlightened by any testimony.
Even inside. I live in, uh, 10 minutes' drive up north from the Charles river, and my life was not disrupted at all.
I don't know what 128 is, but I know of people who were taking Amtrak to Connecticut but had to get off at NYC and travel uptown to Grand Central Station to get on a commuter train. They weren't going to Boston. Amtrak service was halted north of NYC because of this manhunt.

I do know that much of Boston had no choice but to take a day off on Friday. I know the Bruins game was cancelled, and that Comic Con was "postponed" and likely cancelled because of the difficulty of re-booking the conference center anytime before next year.

Not even considering the salaries and overtime of the officers involved, it is not wrong to say that this manhunt may have cost hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars in economic losses. For example, some of the speculation from The Washington Post this afternoon:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/19/t...

This is as if an entire city went into anaphylaxis.
The kind of thinking that is dangerous is the line that we deserve to have these things happen - those people deserved to have their limbs blown off - because America's foreign policy is "bad." At that point, you are agreeing with people like Bin Laden and you are just about set to contribute to these kinds of attacks yourself, because you agree with the reasons.

Acknowledging that we live in a material world and there are multiple causes for things is incredibly minor by comparison, and isn't an ideological basis for carrying out terror attacks. Causes aren't the same as reasons.
I'm not sure I get what you're saying about traditional media. It's a well-accepted trope about mass murderers and serial killers that whenever their neighbors and family interviewed them it would be said that they we're quiet and kept to themselves.
I'm aware of that, which is why I was hoping C11 would just fall out of the C++11 implementation. The people working on the C++11/C11 standards did so specifically to bring the languages closer together.

If you fully implement C++11, then C11 comes along for relatively little cost.

I keep hoping that Microsoft will wake up and realise that just as HTML5 was important, so is language support for the lingua-franca of the computing world.
He's defended MEK, which seems to be both Marxist and Islamist, although admittedly also anti-Iranian-Government.
It appears that the elder brother got disillusioned/pissed-off (I guess he came here in his late teens, so didn't get the chance to adjust). He got angry. Maybe he felt that he belonged in the Olympic team and didn't make it. Whatever. But this provided the kindling; and some religious nut turned this anger into a weapon.

The younger brother was just too much under the influence of the elder, it appears from what I've read. Maybe he looked up to him, and just followed him blindly. Who knows.

As long as we keep figuring out ways to hate each other, we'll keep figuring out ways to kill each other.
I've been looking at stremor.com to find some justification for your bold claims. I'm still looking; these are some ancillary points:

-The copy throughout the site does not inspire confidence. Your point that many texts are written poorly is valid. That does not require you to also write poorly. I've seen far too many sentence fragments on your site. You site also includes some embarrassing misuses of words, like "Some may believe using heuristic science in language analysis infers it
is a learning system." These incidents discredit your claims about your technology.

-I am having difficulty finding specific information about how your technology works.

-The people responsible for your graphics, visual design, and the video about the summarization app should not have those responsibilities. Summly had nice a aesthetic; your aesthetic is jeopardizing your credibility.

I apologize if my comments sound hostile. When you make claims as bold as yours you should prepare for scrutiny. The problems you are addressing are interesting; I wish you good luck.
If the allegations are true (they murdered women and a child and blew off the limbs of innocent men women and children) then they are not victims, they are criminals.

Saying they are victims and suggesting that pity be given them is wrong. It insults the real victims in this tragedy.
link: https://twitter.com/J_tsar
I think that's looking at it backwards. I'm not saying that he should be given any kind of leniency or have anything be "excused" because of this. I'm just wondering what a society would look like that started with the hypothesis that this was a failure in developing a citizen as opposed to a failure in preventing a crime.

Obviously when you've gotten to this point, it's time to apply the law, not justify things away.
It's important to ask how this happened, because of course our choices are themselves brought about by external reasons. We can, in many cases, do something about it. We can teach people how to make better choices, too.

But I agree, it's important not to lose sight of the fact that he did make the choice to be here today.
Why does murdering children imply you should receive no sympathy? Is sympathy only an emotion for the morally clean?
What the heck did you link to? :-D
(cut-n-paste gone wild!)
2700 servers all on the same network makes for far less of a DDoS attack then 2700 similar servers on different networks - and it's far easier to detect and block too.

They would be more valuable for bitcoin mining most likely.
What I was most pleased with is Colonel Timothy Alben.

He would get in front of the podium, say only what he wanted the police to say, then refused questions and immediately ended the conference. With as much misinformation that the media had already spread that evening, and over the previous week, I was pleased to see the, "...now STFU we'll BBL" stance of the Boston Police.