skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say the long words offer the better opportunities. Look at the puzzle that has the encrypted word, PIKODENHFENJIKM. How many English words, when used to make look up table based on this key, generate the word when encoded with this key? Only one.

lookup = {c: d for c, d in zip(pattern, word)}
return "".join(lookup[c] for c in pattern) == word

Now you have a fifteen letter word solved in the puzzle. It's not hard after that.
> proven to be a failure in international law as a result of Afganistan democratically electing the Taliban and Palestine electing Hamas

I'm not trying to condone either government, but why is this a failure? If (I'm assuming this for the argument's sake) they were really elected democratically who are we in other countries to say that's wrong?
Wouldn't that be the same as giving merit to a (hypothetical) North Korea declarations that the US has no legitimate statehood for whatever reason?
Alternatively, just read the first line of Wikipedia's page on psychopathy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
It would make it very difficult to study (or work) overseas, at least.
Does anyone know of programmatic software which can reliably transcode 4k video (prores422, prores444, redcode, photojpeg) to similar or downscaled resolutions of photojpeg or other widely used intra-frame intermediary codecs?

It seems to me like everything out there is targeted to encode to highly compressed super lossy formats like h264 for consumer playback. Would like to run a service which can transcode output to photojpeg.
Just emailed you an example.
Great way to mine a bit of data from the HN crowd - the section on programming languages and so forth.

Unless... I hope my choice of "Java" doesn't make me more psychopathic.
I think the other poster is wrong.

Also, I think you don't understand free speech.

The reason democracies are universally big on free speech is that the citizenry must be able to freely discuss how to run their country.

You appear to be a free-speech fundamentalist. Which is an opinion you're entitled to hold. But personally, I strongly disagree that free speech should privilege those spending millions or billions manipulating the opinion of the voters, especially when that's an attempt to line their own pockets.

If any Fortune 500 CEO would like to stand on the streetcorner and explain his views on an issue, I believe no law should stop him. But I believe the current system is just a fancy form of corruption, and does significant harm to the goals that led to the adoption of the first amendment.
Ray Kurzweil has been discussed several times on HN, I recommend diving in archives to read in-depth conversations about the topic with arguments from both sides.

But to summarize what a lot of smart people say about him– he hasn't produced any original research in the past decade or so, and his latest "revolutionary" book contains a lot of information that neurobiologists consider either plain out wrong or grossly over-simplified. Mitch Kapor called his ideas "intelligent design for the IQ 140 people".

It is also worth noting that the timeframe he lays out for most of his predictions about singularity-style technology ("computers that feel and love", "eternal life") seem to match the boundaries of his natural lifespan (i.e. in the next 30 years). Some have seen here the signs of a man who's getting older, terrified of death, and trying to convince himself and everyone else that he is not doomed to go through the human condition.

As you highlight, he has produced a lot of great things, but it is not unheard of for brilliant minds to become quite kooky in their old age.
Hell, that would even solve the disputes between the USA and Canada [1]. </sarcasm>

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Canad...

Edit: Just adding some context, the disputes mostly deal with islands and areas of the sea. Canada, other 163 countries, and the European Union join the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; but the USA does not.
There are grave injustices every day in this country (or any country, really). It's impossible to give everything the attention it deserves without solving systemic issues. However, that doesn't mean people should ignore any one particular event because other bad events happen in the world too.
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No organization is apolitical.
It said toilet bowl cleaner http://www.theworkscleans.com/toiletcleaner.html and aluminum foil.

Here's the MSDS data sheet for "The Works" http://www.chemtura.com/msd/external/e/result/report.jsp?P_L...

IIRC, that combination should release H2 and a little heat, but not enough heat to ignite anything. So the bottle basically went "fizz" and "pop".

Some of those plastic bottles can make a loud pop.
Ask HN: Feedback on restaurant menu website 
I'm the founder of menutail.com and I am going out on Monday to pitch a website restaurant hosting to a local shaved snow place.

I've mocked up a sample client here:

https://www.menutail.com/public/site/4

With the original website being:

http://www.pepperedup.com/

The value proposition we are pitching is that the hosted website we have is mobile friendly and our menu tools make content editing easier.

If anyone on hn has any feedback or criticism, all would be kindly accepted!

Our company website is http://www.menutail.com
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How about instead of us polling in the money, we make those who sued her to drop the charges, apologize and let the kid continue school like she should. She can also promise to do her science experiments only during science classes.
I think the difference is that:

(1) They only move when you're focusing on them (so they are less distracting)

(2) Because they react to your cursor, the page feels responsive
So are you saying that code quality is not critical elsewhere ? I agree in general that many companies have shitty code but there are many places which actually do care about code quality and code reviews are actually important.

He's saying safety-critical. Like NASA software. As in, if the code hits an NPE or array out-of-bounds or int overflow, people die. They actually use formal methods which is an exhaustive testing of every possible state the program could possibly enter.

We don't do this for business applications because it's extraordinarily expensive--can cost $100's per LoC.

And yeah, I think the several times daily I see "Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close" is evidence that most major software shops have very poor quality control.
The campaign is currently at $1332. That hardly counts as "showering money" upon someone who is facing two felony charges and needing legal representation.

This girl does not deserve a fair trial. She deserves an apology.

The responsible staff at the state attorney's office deserve to be laughed out of office.
I'd definitely put a Sign Up button in your navigation area up top!
That would be nowhere easier.

Many languages have different names across populations. And people strongly identify to a specific nomenclature.

Also, many people speak multiple languages, languages that cross disputed borders, and languages spoken only by populations that want independence from the current states where they're located (e.g. Basque).
Are you including the cost of buying/leasing the equipment, or just the cost of renting time on someone elses?

I imagine CNC mills are easier to rent time on unless you've got a local hackerspace (which quite possibly will not be keen on printing a gun for you). They would also produce a much more practical product, ...and probably be much more expensive to buy outright.

If instead of a CNC mill you just need the equipment to finish an 80% lower receiver, then you need far less money than either of the other two options, and you get a very practical product for your effort.
this is awesome. honestly people. shut up.
He probably 'fixed' it by up voting the comment you accidentally down voted.
By the statistics, every man should feel that way every single day.

I think the key is to stop focusing on individuals, and start focusing on the systems. It isn't about the one woman who wins, it is about the other however-many who get to have a glorious disaster and learn valuable lessons about time management. It is about the men who see those women as peers instead of oddities.

We don't need heroes: we need a better normal.
Curiosity is not a crime.

Court is a resource war. The true cost of a legal defence can easily get into the $100k range

I donated to make sure that their was a fair trial, or else we will have someone pleading to a felony early for a school science experiment.

> Are you guys prepared to contribute to the legal funds of everyone who is expelled and charged with crimes for unfair reasons?

Yes, if I am aware of it & can afford it.
Agree and understand that the bigger issue is property costs (especially politically created costs, from what it sounds like) rather than construction costs. But seeing as this is Hacker News, I feel that it's worthwhile to discuss the technology piece too.
So what do you use? PuTTY?
So you run a build on D', make the necessary fixes, and amend it. Which is exactly what you would have had to do with M anyway, or else M wouldn't build either. I don't see any difference at all.

Merge commits don't magically fix broken builds. All they do is ensure that you've resolved merge conflicts, but rebases do the same thing!
And you reached that conclusion based on what evidence? Good thing we don't need evidence to determine guilt in a court of law, since it sounds like you've got the findings figured out already based on what you've read in the news and in statements.

I'm not saying anybody is lying. There is just usually more to these stories.
Interesting experiments, the question is if this persists - i.e. if you read the 10 commandments at the beginning of the semester and take the test at the end - would the difference still remain.
That is an incredibly bad generalization. Not only are the wants of wealthy people not absolute, but the general trend of housing for the last 20 years are the exact opposite.
As someone who has implemented a couple of mallocs, what on earth are "HA scenarios"?
Yes. Make a great way to get bad guys out of a building.
In terms of communication tools, we've tried several and settled on Skype. We can type back and forth most of the day and immediately jump on a phone call if the discussion gets hairy.
The first thing to do is actually validate that people need your product. If you can't win in the short term then there won't be a long term.
When I blew this whistle on Google, I pissed off a lot of engineers even though I never had a problem with them. And, in that case, it didn't really hurt them at all because a single whistleblower can't take out Google. The worst it has to fear is mild embarrassment.

The lesson I learned is that whistleblowing often angers the wrong people. In a better world, only wrongdoers would suffer, but that doesn't seem to be the world that exists. Google's horrible management is still horrible; its otherwise disinterested engineers (who I'd be inclined to like) seem to be the ones upset about it. Which might suggest that it wasn't the right course of action, since the wrong people feel attacked while the deserving targets don't seem to have changed.

If I blew a whistle on this startup, I'd probably end it (unlike Google, on which I had no real effect). Unfortunately, it'd be engineers who'd suffer (losing jobs, when the company folds) but management would be OK. That's the problem. The good guys are more vulnerable to that sort of thing than the genuine malefactors. The CEO's independently wealthy and has flat-out said he doesn't care if that startup fails (since the investors took it away from his original vision-- to something much better than what he started with). If I blew a whistle on him, I'd just take that firm off his books and he'd move on to some other project.

Now, if they have a huge success, then that changes. In that case, engineers get their payoff no matter what I do, but managers risk personal embarrassment (as they deserve, because that company's whole management team is unethical). So, then it might make sense to divulge. Right now, though, I'm just nervous that it would hurt the wrong people.
I'm far from a legal expert, but here's why I'd do it:

I don't like to see this kind of abuse by people like the school administrators, etc. If this case is well-funded and successful, it might become precedent for many others, and thus weaken the whole concept of "zero-tolerance" by providing a relevant case for future victims to use in their defense. If she loses, then the opposite will be the case (there will be precedent for draconian punishment) and it'll grease the skids for future convictions.

That's my (possibly ill-informed) reason, I'd be interested to hear if other people here think it is valid or not.
That wouldn't solve or even sidestep any political issues. You've still got problems like:
* ip geocoding to decide which language to serve the UI in
* what do you call the languages? Chinese vs Traditional vs Simplified, or Farsi vs Parsi vs Persian, as mentioned elsewhere

And while political boundaries are messy, language boundaries are even more so. How do you decide dialect boundaries? And once you do, how do you decide which dialects get separate domains?
Big Data: How Mike Flowers revolutionized New York’s building inspections.
There was ad by NeXT -- "In the 90's we'll probably see only ten real breakthroughs in computers. Here are seven of them." that lists making Unix usable as one of them. I have this poster framed in my office.

A copy and someones review of those seven here: http://wemmick.net/writings/next-predictions/

Optical storage maybe not. But others like Unix, multimedia email and "programmer productivity" faired fairly well.
So you voted down my comment because you couldn't find a citation on Google? First link :-> http://www.edengene.co.uk/article/how-the-world-learnt-from-... using https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#...
In fairness, they all founded Justin.TV. It's significantly easier to get a third startup if your second startup was a success, and I think the OP was talking about having two failures in a row.
It's true that we don't have enough information to tell what was really going on, but I donated anyway. What the kid appears to have done—mixed stuff together to see what would happen—falls in the "moderate" part of the spectrum of things that curious teenagers do. A lot of significant contributors to society, not to mention a lot of people on this site, have similar episodes in their past. I figure the least we can give her is the benefit of the doubt, and we live in a system where the benefit of the doubt has a price: adequate legal representation. Let her have a good lawyer and let's see how long those felony charges last.

One thing's for sure, that lawyer will be able to call on a long list of prestigious expert witnesses.
Yep, someone's performance review is not going to go very well.
Isn't that pretty close to how HTTP Live Streaming works?
Oh, I can easily see possible scenarios. For example: have a functionality when you add a contact to the list of contacts, send her a message welcoming her, after asking the user if it's OK. Reuse the same code in the part of the application where you initialize the database from existing contacts. Put wrong defaults there so that the code does not ask "send welcome message?" (because that'd be stupid - of course you don't want to ask somebody 200 times for each of the entries in initial import) but still sends one. Boom! - initial import causes 200 welcome messages to be sent. Happens more than you'd like. Something like that happened to me too, in different form and was caught in testing, nowhere near production, but still.
Throw a USB wifi module on it, and permanently mount it in your car. Then, at night, when it is in range of your home network, have it rsync your backups to it from a primary backup server. I'm sure that the board itself is low power enough that it won't run down your car battery overnight, not sure about a USB hard drive though (or just configure the drive to auto spin down when not in use).
Lots to love about NeXT. I got a kick out of the display PostScript screen. Very few other computers or workstations ever took that route. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript tells a bit more about how it evolved into PDFish displays in Mac OSX.
He was not paid enough to afford shoes. This is Nepal remember, not Palo Alto.

The Sherpa are an ethnic group known for being skilled mountaineers, and it is also a way some of them make a living. It's not like they're a climber helping cast.
Apologies, email is:

Contact@[mydomain].co.uk
It's not unusual for a 30-year-old in tech in SV to have half a million banked, even without a previous acquisition or acqui-hire. How do you think companies like YouTube and GitHub get founded?
And the bankers.... O yah nothing happens to them. 28 million wasn't enough apparently
Did anyone else catch Ray Kurzweil's supposed twitter account in the article?

https://twitter.com/raykurzweil2035
Based on the police report and media interviews with the school officials.

Even if you assume she did everything in the most damning interpretation of all accounts, she is guilty of enclosing toilet bowl cleaner and bits of aluminum foil in a small plastic bottle and observing that the slowly released gases cause the bottle to rupture.
Can anyone give me 5 sentence argument about why this is useful for getting to space? My understanding is that the whole idea should be to get out of the atmosphere asap since it's so thick. This only gets you to, what, Mach 10? While LEO speed is Mach 25ish? So what's the point?
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'Charge Notifications' do exist. Your bank may/may not offer them.
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To put this in perspective, she's charged with possessing and discharging a weapon on school property. That is a class 3 felony in Florida, if she is tried as an adult then she could receive up to 5 years in prison. Compare that to the Steubenville rapists who received sentences of one to two years. And here nobody was harmed nor was there even a high likelihood of anyone being harmed. It's just ridiculous.
robg, I'm seeing your comment marked [dead], even though you are not hellbanned and there's no reason for anyone to downvote it. Perhaps it's a bug.
Bitcoin (BTC) is a peer-to-peer digital cloud currency
I'm not sure where you pulled that number from. I've successfully defended against multiple charges in my life, unsuccessfully others, and the only money I was out was a couple forms and bail, which I got back. The charges I got out of involved a public defender. When I hired a lawyer, I was convicted.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about the criminal system from people that have never been through it and, by the very nature of how the criminal system works -- especially if you end up in front of a jury -- it's impossible to predict how anything will play out.

I'm more concerned that people are donating to a legal fund after reading news statements and, possibly, the police report.
>>> Why does this girl deserve attention?

Because injustice is being done to her and we know about it.

>>> Why did she get it?

No idea. Luck?

>>> Are you guys prepared to contribute to the legal funds of everyone who is expelled and charged with crimes for unfair reasons?

Not all of them. But probably some of them.

>>> she deserves a fair trial

Actually she doesn't deserve any trial. What she deserves is a talk with her science teacher about how to conduct experiments safely and maybe two-day suspension for scaring the crap out of couple of adults and wasting police's time. And a subscription to a couple of science magazines from her parents.
EFun's aPen Touch8 makes non-touch laptops extremely friendly with Windows 8
The MD5 hash of the null string is not null
It turned out to be important today that the MD5 of a null string is d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.

(Googling for that is interesting, too.)

MySQL has an MD5 function that emits NULL, but this is defined away rather than being computed. Apparently this is fairly common.
NeXT got a second chance handed to it, and then took advantage of it to build the world's most valuable company.

It's similar to the break Microsoft got when IBM inadvertently handed it the PC OS business. It was a great opportunity, but not every company would have leveraged that opportunity to dominate computing for two decades.

If Jean Louis Gassee got the same opportunity for BeOS that Jobs got for NeXT, do you think he would have gone on to create the world's most valuable corporation?
They will, once they feel that their thermostat is satisfactory enough.
That link suggests a total loss of about 750 million over 11 years from start of development to discontinuation. That's an order of magnitude less than the 1 billion annual loss you originally claimed.
This technology utilizes GPUs which are like super computers on your video card.
You are right, it's mostly orthogonal to space launch technology. But what would the public know?

It's mostly useful for weapons at this point.
And you have all the facts, then?
> I'm not sure where you pulled that number from.

I have never been convicted. I have been through 5 court cases in my life time, including reaching the Supreme Court both as a plaintiff and as a defendant. I am 26.
Defining MOOC on Chronicle is like defining software on HN.
So one's civil -- a completely different ballgame -- since you don't reach the Supreme Court as a plaintiff for a criminal case. Is the other civil or criminal?
Good point. But "writes" are very fast, in our tests write latency is less than half read latency, so we can easily do master to slave replication within the SLA. But you point is correct, a Dynamo system is faster to achieve the same replication factor.
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I also think that the charges here are too severe, and the Steubenville rape sentences were too light. But they are not comparable. The rapists could have received far more than two years and Kiera Wilmot will probably receive less than five.
In middle school, I brought firecrackers to school and set them off deliberately in some other kids locker. There was no scientific motive or youthful curiosity. It was pure mischeif.

My punishment? I was suspended for a half day. And get this: I learned my lesson.
Gmail got where it is because it offered a 2GB inbox when everyone else offered 25MB. It basically created a whole new market and got first mover advantage.
Safety is important during science experiments but accidents happen.
Hunting feral hogs. At night. With drones
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1. They aren't going for "faithful NeXT", they are going for modern Cocoa.

2. Holly cow, I didn't know it could look nice (screenshot on the link). I mean I did, but all of the screenshots in the RSS/email announcements on gnu lists have a theme that looks like the screenshots in the article!
Good advice. I actually can't relate with highly technical terms that are used by tech people and this article is just right.
I think it has potential but it needs to be quite a bit more subtle. It seems too distracting the way it is right now. I find myself trying to just keep track of the animations and not really appreciating the attention to detail.