skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you get that rule here - https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tic-tac-toe2/1747678284
Here, I'll try to deal with the fire, which I admit is impressive.

Night time photography with amateur video equipment usually results in overexposed frames, especially when filming fire. It makes videos of fires appear as though the fire is bigger than it would have appeared in person. Keep that in mind while viewing the video. Try it out some time with your cell phone.

That the car is completely engulfed isn't suspicious. All of the upholstery is flammable. Cars burn quickly once the interior becomes involved because they are usually not starved for fuel (upholstery) or air (windows broken, doors open).

The car should be engineered so that there will not be a fuel tank breach in a non-fatal collision. If we assume this is so, we can assume:

1. Velocity was high enough to breach the tank with impact. Engine/transmission being ejected can help us find the velocity at impact. It continued to travel some distance indicating a high velocity, as most crashes never have the engine/transmission separate from the vehicle.

2. Tank was damaged by the collision with the curb or by collision with the fire hydrant immediately prior to final collision, weakening it, making it more likely for the tank to rupture and spill fuel.

3. Vehicle tampering. The car could have been tampered with to make a fire more likely.

4. Manufacturing defect. (unlikely)

If we assume 1. it doesn't necessarily mean the crash was fatal, just that Hastings was unlucky. Mercedes have lots of safety built in. Hastings was young and fit enough to survive an airbag collision. In any case, this one shouldn't be rejected until the final velocity is calculated. Looks plausible to me.

Personally I lean towards 2, making Hastings very unlucky. Two means that the final collision caused a catastrophic failure of the tank and probably doused fuel all over the car, which later ignited[1], and moments after that caused a secondary ignition of the upholstery, burning him. I hope he was unconscious.

I don't like to think about three, even though it isn't without precedent. Talking about three is even worse. I'd say this is least likely, but I wouldn't rule it out. This whole affair smells, and I don't like it one bit.

[1] The source of ignition was probably the catalytic converter, or an electrical short/spark.
At least the petition is another signal that the public is against what the administration is doing on this one.
Very good piece of writing. Describes a feeling that many people share without admitting, IMHO.
I do find arguments based on strict legality to be just a tad strange.

Just because something is strictly legal doesn't mean that it's right, nor that it's in the spirit that the law originally intended. I mean, it was legal to exterminate Jews in Nazi Germany, send millions to death camps in Soviet Russia and starve 10s of millions to death in Communist China.

Strict legality is particularly low bar to pass. What happened to the spirit of the law? What happened to public discussions of the law? What happened to proportional use of the justice system? What happened to basic human rights?

Maybe I'm just naive, but when people hide behind the "Well it's legal! A secret court said so!" charade, even when they know that that it doesn't follow the spirit of the laws that they currently operate under, it just pisses me off.

It's kind of like when someone cheats a system using a secret loophole that was clearly not intended to be used for that purpose. The person then turns around and says that it's a perfectly legitimate move. They then move forward on the assumption that the mere existence of said loophole gives them carte blanche to just do whatever they hell they want to do.

It appears as though the NSA has hacked the legal system.
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Doesn't sound like the drowning reflex kicked in for you, there.
As someone who (1) runs a SaaS product for UK letting agents and (2) has hunted for a rented property in the last 12 months I think you've done a nice job but as some others have pointed out I can't see why someone who is looking for a property (rent or for sale) would use this over RM/Zoopla.

These aren't necessarily all applicable/useful to you but some observations/niggles I've had, taking in to account my first two points above, are:

- RM charges extortionate fees (I'm not sure about Zoopla) to agents. They're not happy about it, but feel they have no alternative (there's a reason for that - chicken and egg). This is from numerous comments made by my customers.

- By relying on an API from a major property portal I would be worried - How will you have better data than them? If your USP is UX/ease of use then do you think they would let you get that far before they change their T&C's?

- Because RM/Zoopla are expensive there are still a huge amount of properties not advertised on these portals. From my own experience, I wanted to go with a private landlord rather than an agent… I had to personally visit a huge number of properties that didn't fit my requirements (there was no way to tell in advance because they only advertised on classified sites/local paper) - there's an opportunity here - make it is for private landlords to easily list their properties AND make sure those listings are of good quality (interior photos not just exterior, etc)

- Talking of quality ... Ensure all of your listings are accurate, plenty of photos, floor plans, council tax band, etc. Just forget about low quality listings.

- OR, opposite of that, concentrate on properties that aren't adequately advertised elsewhere… does RM/Zoopla have a property with one low quality photo and a one sentence description? Go out of your way to get that extra information and focus on promoting those properties. When everyone else is looking at RM/Zoopla/etc and seeing the same properties you'll have a different inventory set to the rest with more detail.

- DONT be like everyone else and focus on the entire housing market in the UK (a few other commenters have said the same). Focus on rented, or for sale, or quality listings, unique listings… focus on something you can do better than the rest.

- There have been many competitors to RM/Zoopla. Most of them fail because, in my opinion, they can't solve the chicken and egg problem (either no visitors or poor quality property data) and end up launching an RM/Zoopla clone with a different UI.

None of this is to say it can't be done or you're doing it the wrong way… it can be and I'd love to see someone succeed, but it won't be done just on UI/UX.
The Left started the protests to attack the gov. of Sao Paulo one of largest city in Brazil that is in the hands of 'right' wing.
After the middle class joined the protest things changed because the middle class only see political 'right' or 'left' as:

which hand is stealing? If it is 'center' is both...

As the protest backfired agains the left and the president (left too) they are trying to get over the protest..

But it is a long way to put all sardines back in the can.
Or just create a really simple OCR substitution cipher to translate them.
I wrote on these very same points recently, but argued differently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804423
Seems like they're using an optical cable to transmit the video feed back to the ship, then transmit back to the internet through satellite communication.

Congrats to around 110k people who are currently diving :D
There is also a black box (electronic data recorder) on that Mercedes. If something manipulated the system, you'd assume the EDR would record it.

Not to mention it'd be a terrible place to try to kill someone, with cameras everywhere. And there's a ton of disinterested parties, from Mercedes, to the LAPD to voracious friends/fans to investigate the story.
Yes, but honestly that's OK. It's a small step, but for the president to have to come out and say, "I recognize that a significant number of the American people support this man who is convicted of espionage, but..." is a pretty novel thing.
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You really think that he's pulling the strings? That it's his
call?
No need to find whatever font was used; statistical analysis of the message already does the trick.
Oh yeah, this is better. Fyi note that the AI is totally evil. Its first priority is to send you to a square that's already been won (does not matter who won) effectively rendering your move useless while you give it map mobility. It prioritizes that over making a move at winning a table even! Also, if you think that the AI will play to win the specific board and you can use that knowledge to your advantage... you're wrong, you're so wrong. The only way to make the AI do what you want is to pigeonhole it into a board where there's only one square left.
It doesn't become unconstitutional when a court says so. From its inception either it is, or it isn't. The issue simply isn't decided until the court says so.
Regardless of who started it, attacking peaceful demonstrators and journalists with that much tear gas is just wrong. When you add that those they attacked where chanting no violence and where running away, the police should have done nothing at all.
As much as there ever was, yes. Look at the range of estimates in the chart your article cites. There's never been a consensus on the actual number, only that it's going to be significant. And so far, that consensus has been correct, as the chart shows.
From the article:

They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA.
Rather, he views them as an awareness-raising measure.
It's better described as a craft than an art. Crafts produce something functional and require being pieced together with special knowledge. There is crossover between craft and art, but programmers are closer to the members of guilds, not galleries.
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I use f.lux, and it's great, but it doesn't affect brightness.

I don't want to turn down the brightness because then I've turned down the maximum brightness. My brightness tolerance runs on a curve - at one end, there's the brightness I'm okay with for the page as a whole; on the other end, there's the brightness that's okay for a single pixel, and they're nowhere near each other.

Logically, then, you should never use #FFF for large areas.
Your link isn't working for some reason.

Keep in mind that it's common for governments and other political organizations to insert agitators for the purposes of attempting to discredit or change the message of a protest. Happens very frequently.

Also there is a large contingent of people that just like rioting. IE: "Now could be your only chance to torch a police car"
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I think the different sensory methods are somewhat waning these days, but the instruct / assess parts (in combination with something like Bloom's taxonomy) i think are used in combination with many other tools / methods these days.

In short, I don't think anybody is going 100% differentiated. I think it's just another tool in the tool box.
This petition would only be effective at all if this 100k people announced they started using Bitcoin for at least saving money. This is when they shit bricks.
That's what I was thinking. I was clicking between German and English and was surprised how readable the translation was. Bonus points for use of "whopping" it captured the meaning of the German original colloquial "sage und schreibe" quite well.

It's also striking how poorly the literal quote was translated - Germans are prone to speaking in overly complex sentence structures and using bigger words than necessary.
The petition is not evidence of the public being against what the administration is doing, as it only represents the people who want Edward Snowden pardoned, not the "opposite" view, if such a view exists.
I am not looking for shortcuts, but then I do not want to be researcher. My goals are simple, learn which shall be able to fetch me revenue.

Let me know what and how much, and I shall put in efforts.
This is the most interesting fact. There's video cameras everywhere and he had to know that. The reasonable answer seems to be a medical issue.
They won't ignore it, they'll just respond with a total non-answer.
> assumed constitutional and legal

Wrongly assumed.
I'm sorry, but I've spent about twenty years trying to deal with digital versions of texts written before 1900, and I think that's just bullshit.

This problem is still really, really fucking hard, and still really, really unsolved. If there's an existing OCR program that you can just "train" using, say, clean scans nineteenth-century newspapers, and have it have a success rate anywhere above "completely sucks," then I'd like to see it (Tesseract, certainly, is reduced to tears by such things -- in fact, Tesseract is reduced to tears by the typeface used in the Federal Reporter). I've used every OCR program ever written. None of them come remotely close to doing the job.

I agree that this is theoretically solvable, but it's a little precious to hear people say over and over how "do-able" something is when no one has actually done it.
What kind of data centers do the NSA use? The best circumvention should take advantage of that. For example, if they have a lot of low-end mainstream machines equipped with 4 GB RAM each, you just embed a JavaScript Scrypt-implementation in your email and encrypt the content with a configuration that would require too long to decrypt with 4 GB RAM, but not with 8 GB RAM.
Better off geting 100k people to donate $10 and use that $1m to lobby congress.
Regardless of the purpose of this or whether it's an art project or ironic or whatever, it's universally idiotic to say the least.

The message is bad, the idea is bad and it gets a lot of attention.
Anything humans can do is theoretically solvable, isn't it?
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Perhaps it would be better if these fonts were created on a daily basis, or if people created their own independently. It could significantly add to the processing load of the OCR process.
This has been a very depressing week. Regardless of the many fair causes being taken by the protesters to the street, as a Brazilian living in São Paulo, I was worried since the beginning that the whole thing would turn into the mess we can see now. And while I sympathize what many of these causes, the lack of a proper, unified list of demands makes the whole thing completely worthless in the best case, and quite dangerous in the worst.

On the bright side, it was funny the watch the national and foreign media trying to understand what was going on. And then my own friends and coworkers who supported the whole thing trying to explain what they thought it was about (each one with a different explanation).
My God, the public understanding of cryptography. Bruce Schneier is spinning in his grave and he's not even dead.
About the AI sending us to already won square - won't we do the same? So this is a smart AI :P
Sure. Just like making a relevant point is way different to supporting the broken end of a dead tangent (NSA/GCHQ/etc. don't just spy on governments, they spy on anyone they feel like, and everyone by default, and this is very much confirmed now)... without presenting any evidence.
"global internet routes shifting away from the UK/US"

What's the point? Wherever data is routed or stored, it will eventually be tapped. There is no government that can be trusted not to do this.

Encryption of everything, all the time. That's what we need.
On the other hand, it's barly 0.03% of the popluation - which I'm sure many policy makers will call 'irrelevant'
Daily isn't often enough to defeat statistical analysis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Rej...
I expect one more like this, these days:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat...

That is, still no response at all, 4 months later.
And if they upgrade?
I was reading the European Convention on Human Rights recently and I was surprised to see that Article 2 explicitly allows for states to kill people to quell rioting or insurrection:

Article 2 – Right to life
:
2. Deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this
article when it results from the use of force which is no more than
absolutely necessary:
:
c. in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_2_of_the_European_Conve...
Why would someone even consider creating a law to protect an industry that technological and business model "innovations" are threatening to replace.

Is that not how the free-market is suppose to keep the whole system efficient?

It just sounds absurd:

"I'm going to jail Hun"

- what did you do?

"I made a car... and then I sold it... directly to those who wanted it"

- .......

ridiculous
As silly as it sounds, rot13 probably is a better option, if you're just trying to avoid automatic detections triggered by certain words you say. Obviously it will be of no help if an analyst is directly reading things you've written though.
Programming is an art, but as you get older and more experienced, you become less able to express yourself in a way that doesn't seem both rote and belabored.

It is closer to making furniture than painting or sculpture, as it tends to need to be practical in some way. But if it were furniture making, you'd continually be presented with new designs, new types of wood and other materials, and new tools to make your furniture with, so you'd never know exactly how long it would take to make a couch or a bedroom set.
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Sorry, but I call bs on this blog: "Feel Free To Kill Protesters", who said this? The author doesn't point any reference to confirm this quote, and I could not find it nowhere else.
Or we could just all start handwriting again, lol
guys, Apple has always operated with the ethos that design matters. Clearly there are a lot of people who don't care about design, who don't care about the way things look. Apple does and it has made the bet that there are a lot of people out there who do too, and who are willing to pay for good design. I would say Apple's bet has paid off, wouldn't you?

If you don't care about design, about the way things look, if you don't believe that form can facilitate function, then that's OK dude. You don't have to buy their stuff. Just stop criticizing others who do. Lots of people care about form and function, lots of people are willing to pay for good design. It doesn't make them naive or stupid or sheep or shallow... it just makes them happy.

If you don't believe in the premise that good design, well-thought out form+function can have an impact on mood, emotion, workplace (or home) atmosphere, etc, then dude, I have to say, you are mistaken.

Also remember that Apple is a for-profit business, and they are not selling "computers" any more than BMW is selling "personal transportation devices".

and that's OK.
Oh totally. I didn't look at the code though but I'm impressed if that isn't a hardcoded behaviour.
Donald Knuth makes a much more compelling argument. [1]

[1] - http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1290000/1283929/a1974-knuth....
This is something that I always saw as 'English syntactic sugar' as a non-native speaker.

When I realized that a plural form of the third person could be used in a gender-neutral way for the singular form, I was in awe.

* * *

Trivia:

In French, the common rule is "le masculin l'emporte"[1], which means the "male form wins"; if you talk about a group of 100 females and a single male, you must use the male form "ils" instead of the female form "elles".

[1]: [...] on abrège parfois cette règle en "le masculin l'emporte sur le féminin", alors qu'il serait correct de dire : seul les groupes exclusivement féminin sont féminins, les autres utilisent le genre non marqué.

Roughly translated to : It is more correct to say that groups exclusively composed of females are accorded using the female form, while the other groups use the 'unmarked' form (which is the male form).
Of course it will never give you real security if the key is public. But it seems people are too lazy to exchange public keys.
The only option is for the creation of a user-friendly and encrypted alternative that people can transition to.

Right now that doesn't exist.
I think it's cute. Mac Pro "poubelle" edition.
I'm sure he does realize it already, as does the DoJ and NSA. It doesn't matter to them. If you leak Top Secret material it better be something as damning as the assassination of a politician or anything along those lines, else you won't be shown any mercy by the government.

It's really just a matter of "50 years, or life without parole" at this point.
Is 100K really the threshold for the government to respond? It seems like such a minor number.
> You really think that he's pulling the strings?

I have absolutely no idea. How could I, if everything is kept in secret?

What I can do, is asking Obama, if he likes what he is doing. If his daughters like what he is doing. If he still believes in "change". If he wants to appear in history books in a row with Bush jr., McCarthy and Soviet leaders. I don't expect answers from Obama, but I can say, that I would not like it, if I were him.
The point, for their spying purposes, is that it's significantly more hassle to gain access to bulk communications that don't physically flow through your country. The point for us is that greater decentralization of internet infrastructure is confirmed - from the horse's mouth - as an actionable and reasonable, albeit partial, measure of resistance.

You are right, though. That's more like buying time than actually solving the problem.
It doesn't sound like the author of the font intends for anyone to actually use this to try to prevent any snooping, but instead it's just meant to be used to convey a political message.

The article however seems to want to play at least a little bit off of the idea that it has some amount of practical value, which is what all these comments are reacting to.
Yep.

I understand this as a humorous remark, no doubt, but there are certain positions of power from which I do not appreciate joking.
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That's like saying you don't want to eat the eggs in your fridge because there are too many ways to cook them, and you're certain, despite the fact that you don't have any experience cooking them, that cooking eggs needs to be rethought.
You don't actually mention anything that's wrong with any of the libraries. Most of them seem well written. So why would the web need a fresh start?
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I wish they could use the same (or similar) font than github for code snippets, I really don't like the one they use, but overall it's a good improvement!
Are there instances where this has been applied with commentary? That would be interesting to read; just based on the raw text, it seems to me this is closer to "if you have an allergic reaction to the legal application of tear gas while rioting and die, it's not our fault" and less like "if you're protesting and we don't like it, we can and will shoot you, and it's legal."
Beautiful? It's a tragicomedy! Even the most minimal stylesheet shows how unintuitive CSS is: To center content, your don't use the word "center"!
See the video! It's has interesting information in spite of the informal format.

Back of the envelope calculations at 5:15 (I checked them and look legit)

Experimental measures at 2:06 and 4:07.
You might have some trouble convincing people to actually read your email when they need 8GB RAM and enable JavaScript just to be able to read them.

The real answer is proper encryption, not silly DIY tricks trying to be clever against one specific possible attack.
Exactly. Which is why the petition matters - it forces a response from the White House. (Obama promised to respond to each petition that reaches 100,000 signatures)