skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhh.. couldnt you use make; echo -en "\007" to trigger the terminal bell?

It seems so much less complex.
Thanks, I didn't know that there was an incarnation that was not based off a novelty toy golf ball finder.

James McCormick himself clearly knew that the tool didn't work.
I am often using headphones while I work, so I just use the following

make; say "Make has finished running"
Linner... hmmm...

Oh it's like brunch I get it!

Clever.
side-comment: are you using 'swag' wrong or has now swag apparently become equivalent to merchandise or clothing or something.
Interesting to note that this was built not that long after the end of the Younger Dryas period (also known as the Loch Lomond Re-advance here in the UK) - so the landscape would have been quite different to what can be seen today, in particular this is before the pine forests of Scotland has a chance to re-grow.
Not at all. Just life is greater than competition.
Let's see how this pans out. Maybe this time the UK will not play for the US team, given the outrage there about this issue, but I'm afraid that without a common EU position about this the US will be able to use their usual divide et impera tactics.
Yep, and that's the weakest link -- and the one that the NSA is taking advantage of.

It will be a wonderful day when the RFCs are updated to require TLS for SMTP.
well documented, yes, powerful, could be, but to say about yii that it is well organized is way too much.
A bit of both.

When I had met my cofounder, I knew very little about the wireless industry. I had the naievety of diving in and trying.

I learned quite a bit from reading the book I mentioned and then got more hands on knowledge during the program from both alums and introductions made by YC alums etc..
You don't need a super-dense AP deployment for location tracking of clients to work.

A client that's actively looking for networks to join will occasionally broadcast a probe request frame on all of the channels it can transmit on, trying to get nearby access points to respond. If you have at least three access points that "hear" the same probe request and you know where those access points are located, you can use the position information of the access points combined with the received signal strength of the probe request frame at each access point to compute that client's position.
Linux vs. Linux Users
PS: Brian Chesky of Airbnb came out first with advisig people in doing things that don't scale.
The OpenRC port effort is currently ongoing and been sponsored by this year GSoC:
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/StudentApplications/...
Pseudo anonymity lets people show off their unfettered natures for good and bad. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of bad.

It's not that this racism doesn't exist, it's just that showing it explicitly is not socially acceptable in public settings.
I think I want something along the lines of:

1: I would prefer a mix of management/project management with software engineering. I am not great at maths so I would like to avoid a course heavy on stats and discrete math for example.

Hopefully the outcome of this is to give me options to progress down the management track further. But also give me a reasonable option to move into software development should I want to.

2: Degree/certification to put on my CV. While also still having enough of a basis in software engineering to develop reasonable intermediate programing skills and to keep me interested in the course work.
You can also have iTerm take actions (like ringing a bell) when it finds a match for a regular expression (like username@ in your shell prompt). The advantage here is that you can be alerted even if you're ssh'd into another machine. No growl needed.
I walked among the stones at Stonehenge about a year ago - was a great experience. I was particularly interested to learn that the focus of that famous site was Midwinter not the Summer Solstice. Warren Field, based on this article, seemed to have a similar seasonal focus for resetting the calendar.

At Stonehenge, the reasoning is that a midwinter, inter-tribal celebration brought neighbouring tribes together at a time when they were not planting, harvesting, or warring. The Winter solstice was also, perhaps, a time to honour the dead.

Of course, there's a lot more to Stonehenge and I assume to Warren Field. But I wonder if there are some parallels to be drawn?
> I think all intelligent people should aggressively campaign the idea of absolutist morality to all ends of the earth.

I just noticed this, and it's quite interesting by itself. That we should campaign like this is a moral judgment. Can you explain how absolutist morality arrives at the conclusion that we should campaign for absolutist morality? How is this conclusion informed by science?
It's absolutely not meaningless. The opposite! But it's hard.

And yeah, that means for most people who aren't putting in the unusual effort, most nominally mutual intercourse is somewhere from slightly to heavily contaminated, depending on things like "how abusive is the relationship?". Call that what you will.
Then how unreasonable is $0/month for radio? I'm happy there's people who can look at services like Spotify and Rdio critically, but I don't think appeals to intuition like "that can't be right?!" help us much.
If you make a statement, back it up with some facts. Otherwise it's just an opinion.

My opinion is that 10 bucks a month is reasonable because if you charge any more piracy would become a more attractive option.
Works on any screen with a modern browser. Designed with smart TVs in mind but I use it between my desktop and laptop computers myself. Allows you to fling YouTube and Vimeo videos really easily between screens.
I'm pretty sure it's commonly known nowadays to be merchandise related to a label, yeah: http://swag.atlassian.com/
Instead of firing the person, you could make every effort to find a situation for the person that's a better fit for him/her. Almost all people can add value in some way. If they can't, you probably wouldn't have hired them in the first place.
"The Winter solstice was also, perhaps, a time to honour the dead."

The ~5000 year old Maeshowe on Orkney is a great example of this - only around the Winter solstice does the sun shine down the entrance passage and illuminate the central chamber:

http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/

http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/propertyresults/property...

Page with videos of the setting sun shining into Maeshowe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeshowe
> which of the dozens of times it's gotten in my way on a new image

What was one recent example?

> an already-secure environment

Not possible.

> has the fundamental incompatibility between SELinux's design and traditional Unix permissions and tools been suddenly corrected

You mean labels? No, that's pretty fundamental to SELinux.

> Has tooling been created to allow us mere mortal sysadmins and engineers to understand and manipulate the byzantine SELinux configuration?

Try setroubleshoot.
That's why the screening process is so important, and should not be rushed.
"fresh" means recent, but not "I want to be a tester" :-) From the developer handbook:

> The purpose of ~arch is for testing new packages added to Portage. ... The use of ~arch denotes an ebuild requires testing.

Most original developers don't release broken packages so in general new versions tend to be stable.

This covers the moving from ~arch to arch:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?p...

The guideline there is about a month and no outstanding bug reports. That would be perfect, but unfortunately packages lag because it is easier for the maintainer to not mark them stable. It has probably been discussed before, but the inertia being towards things going stable with inaction rather than the other way around would help.
Yes, really interesting! And Good Luck!!
Ironically if you're the only guy with a ski mask you're not hard to track.
Because radio is not a substitute for recorded music. The inability to choose what you're listening to was always the stick that compelled listeners to purchase a recording. If you have Spotify, there is no reason to ever purchase that music in a download store.
On the off chance you haven't already done so and aren't aware - try Avebury. I liked it even more. When I was in the UK, any place I was at for more than about a week I bought an ordinance survey map of (think that's what they are called). I saw so many small stone circles, cemetery's, churches, roman walls and building, ruins, canals, etc, it was like a world existed just outside the everyday one. Most memorable was biking to an old american airbase. Ruined buildings, lampposts, but all the ground was grass with sheep wondering around. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury
Pong, but better.
Why would the legal department itemize that? If there is such a program I'm sure the NSA has figured out a way to get the courts to keep everyone who knows about it gagged.

How do you know what they're compelled to do? You're operating on the same principle as rsync.net with their warrant canary, as if that will actually work. I doubt it. In this case, the NSA would go to the FISA court, ask them to order Google to say that the program doesn't exist, and for good reason... not doing that could disclose the program, the existence of which is classified.

The idea that you can't be compelled to lie is some Kantian ideal of a justice system. I don't see why the justice system that routinely puts people to death would be squeamish about telling people they have to lie.

It might be too difficult, and too many people or resources might be involved to make it feasible to hide such a program, but that's different from saying that, as a matter of principle, you can't be ordered to lie by a court. Of course, the court order wouldn't say "you have to lie." It would say something to the effect of: "Your public statements must not mention, imply, insinuate, etc. the existence or potential existence of program X."

No court is going to have trouble figuring out that failure to keep updating a warrant canary implies receipt of a secret warrant.
If you have some time, this debate as a whole is interesting. I would watch the videos in order though.
'New artists' always had it hard, I don't think it was easy to get your record printed and distributed all over the world, at least now people can find them easier with youtube, spotify and other services without a big risk (investment). If an artist is good, they will probably get viral (see Justin Bieber) and then earn all the big bucks like Thom and Nigel. Maybe I'm missing something else since I haven't read anything related to spotify in the last few weeks.
Right. Because one "blueprint" can defeat a multi-billion dollar security agency. I call this bullshit.
We have no services in UNIX-like systems, we have daemons and it is perfectly OK to use a templated shell script to start/stop restart it, modified according to the nature of a daemon, as needed.

That other operating system from which the concept of a "service" came from (along with lots of other crap) have different philosophy and founded on different design decisions, so blindly trying to bring stuff from it here is not always reasonable.

And, of course, shell scripts are OK when well-written - there are other UNIX-like systems beside Linux.)
* http://hackage.haskell.org/package/network-bitcoin

* Pure coin , https://github.com/laanwj/Purecoin

* haskoin, https://github.com/bitcoin-spec/haskoin
I've used Gentoo since 2007ish on three separate machines, installed it on a couple more I didn't own, and on my own devices have totally broken it a few times in the earlier years forcing a complete reinstall. (One time I saved it after I had killed /bin et al. by bootstrapping with busybox...) The feeling of control and having essentially everything the way I want is seductive and easy to miss when I work with Windows or any other Linux. And for some reason fixing the system when it goes wrong gives me a bit of pleasure, which not many other things do. This year I swapped out my nVidia GTX260 for a Radeon HD 7950, so of course X wouldn't start. It's a simple issue though, about 10-20 minutes later I had graphics again and my dual monitors setup with my vertical one rotated properly. Huzzah!

Portage is my favorite package manager, but it's not without its problems. I occasionally get frustrated by dependency conflicts. One thing I think the submission should have mentioned is the `eix` tool, which is to Portage's `emerge` as `slocate` is to `find`. It's a much better experience for finding out what packages are available or a description of a package.

Another feature I like about Gentoo is 'rolling releases'. I don't ever have to do a dist-upgrade, I just update the packages I want to update when they have updates. And I'm still happily using gnome2.

Some people are offended by the installation process. I think that's a good enough litmus-test for whether they would enjoy Gentoo or not.
This is extremely shallow. This guy deliberately focuses on the most tabloid-style reporting of the HoTT book he could find, a New Scientist piece, and then uses it to attack the book itself for having unsubstantiated grandiose claims. Well, guess what -- you're reading a New Scientist article, what did you expect?

Perhaps it would be more befitting to a person in his position (a CS professor, it appears) to actually critique the book itself. Judging by his rant, it's doubtful he even read it. Otherwise he would have known that the most controversial thing about it is a preference of constructive proof, when possible, as they are generally both more illuminating and rely on fewer assumptions.
You're asking for a level of certainty that is just not possible here. As mentioned you can see with the total resources invested towards getting him, the press reports, and total coverage there is actually something going on here with the total inertia of the entire situation and he is not lying.

Your demand for more evidence clearly contradicts a plan he has already made. I'm sorry your craving and addiction for something new day by day can't be satiated, but he has to leverage the evidence he has with his safety. He is a potential political prisoner.
"The feedback you get from engaging directly with your earliest users will be the best you ever get..."

This is probably the most important PG essay I've read per my passion for getting startups to start thinking about solving problems that potential customers actually have by engaging with them, listening, building solutions based on their needs..... etc.

PG:

"The initial user serves as the form for your mold; keep tweaking till you fit their needs perfectly, and you'll usually find you've made something other users want too."

We are starting to see more startups actually do this... but still the bulk of them, when asked if they'd like to work with a brand on a particular dev challenge there's still a lot of push back... typical comebacks are: we're heads down, can't get distracted right now as we build our product.... Do you have customers? No. But we know what they "need"...

It's insane.... Please, let me know other reasons not to engage with a potential customer. What's wrong working for a week or more trying to solve their problem? (which is most likely a huge industry pain point).

Case in point, I know one startup from the LBS deal/coupon era (problem the only one)thriving today who basically used the consulting method PG describes in his essay with a very big brand and built a product that solves industries problems for both retailers and cpg.

I want to see more startups embrace a model of collaboration to solve problems and produce amazing solutions. It can't happen fast enough.... imagine for a second, you're startup with a real paying customer, a big one... your valuation goes up, word of mouth spreads... you become a real company.
This is hilarious. That was the original definition of the term, before 2010.
I've always used swag to mean 'stuff' or 'gear', based on the Australian "swag-man" who carried all his belongings in a swag (prototypical backpack). Here the word also sometimes specifically refers to a light sleeping mattress that formed part of a swaggies essential kit.

So for me, the #yolo application of swag to mean "has his shit together man" derived as a metaphorical application of the literal "has his gear together". And the OP's use to refer to swag as gear a band sells makes sense in the original definition.
Contrast[1] is too low for me as well, and text should not be justified[2] IMO.

I too appreciate your effort, but keep in mind the differences between print- and web- layout design. Most scientific papers are published in PDF, using Latex. These two work great for the print. Correct hyphenation, good justified text, etc. Browsers are not that far yet, unfortunately.

[1] http://contrastrebellion.com/

[2] http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/articl...
Because you don't have control over what the radio plays, or when ads play, you can't skip over ads (apart from changing channel, etc).
lol, title was supposed to be "Fling just about anything with a URL, from any screen to any screen."
Emulos - Record video of your beta users
That's nice :)

And just so people know without having to check the site:

> git-annex users may sign up for our full featured offsite filesystem at a rate of 10 cents per GB, per month. An annual payment is required, and the minimum account size is 50 GB. There are no usage/bandwidth charges, no signup fee, and no contract to sign.
> A huge amount of it simply comes from having parents that make you do homework, etc.

That's not something exclusive to rich people. I got a lot of encouragement as a kid from my parents to learn stuff and read books, without them being rich (grew up in Romania).
Money isn't the big factor in your argument, quality parenting is (which I agree is important).
we should go the route of the Three Amigos' Amigos Amigos Amigos strategy
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Cassandra – bulk insert with bound statements using the Datastax Java API
In this article, we will see how we can bulk insert some data, with bound statements, using the brand new Datastax Java API and Cassandra.

We will only use java methods provided by the Datastax API, without writing any CQL3 statements (except to create the keyspace and the column family at the very beginning).
The minimization function is indeed "as a fact"; in the sense that it is (somewhat) the formulation of Cortes and Vapnik (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00994018), which is the main formulation for Support Vector Machines.

The value of 'b' is minimized and the value if found in the first constraint. The value "b\||w||" determines the offset of the hyperplane to the origin and 'w' is the normal vector of that plane.
I think today's entrepreneurs are chasing hot trends too much. So the article was pretty refreshing.
I'd appreciate an invite as well. Email in profile.

Edit: Thanks!
And yet the first president was a military leader. Checks and balances twisted from the start.
i'm an avid spotify user (~4+ hours a day) and honestly have no idea how this is a sustainable business. how much are the 20+ artists a day that I listen to making from my $10 a month? genuinely don't understand how this is working. there are so many artists that come out with new albums that I would buy except for the fact that I can get them free on spotify. It's saving me probably 100-200/year and that's being conservative. That means it's costing artists that much * users.

Why don't more artists take the Jay-Z approach? Build an app for your album, make people buy it, or sell it in bulk to a big brand like Samsung. This seems like a way for artists to take back the industry. Pirating music from a Jay-Z app seems much much harder than from a desktop. I think we're on the verge of a total shift back to the world of pre-CD burners where you simply had to pay 10-20 to listen to an album.

What am I missing?
Pigs poop a lot. They don't really handle getting in and out of cars or going up stairs well either. Their hooves tear up lawns.

Ever tried to get a 150 pound pig into a minivan?....

(it's not fun, alcohol helps)
Probably it is that very Russian obsession with the naive notion that most things in the world are "not right".)
I agree - the article refers to it as such (or rather, says "if you want to know why you shouldn't use hidden volumes, watch this", which is crazy - I sat through an hour of obvious stuff for the one argument I wanted to hear! :/
Stonehenge was literally our last day living in London - and also the day I learned about Avebury! Would love to explore that part of British history more next time I'm in that part of the world.
The Zero Gravity Coffee Cup
Interesting. I sometimes wonder if the invention of timekeeping didn't do more harm than good in the world, along the lines of: Humanity's first mistake was counting time. I wonder if anthropologists have found societies without significant temporal verbosity and linked the absence of this property to other cultural features. No research library access :(
The two are easily done in part of a day too. Grab the Wikipedia page and read it as you wander around or find somewhere to sit. Stonehenge is a far more touristy experience, but more concentrated and quite impressive. Avebury is good fun to walk around, across roads, through gates, around buildings, etc.
Two of those (Storm and Cascalog) created by the incredibly talented Nathan Marz. Just shows how much a few talented early adopters can push a programming language forward.
Thank you for your nice reply; currently I don't have time to look at your suggestions in depth, but I can give a (short) notion of my interpretation of 'change detection' in this context.

I will consider a signal from accelerometers in a smartphone. There are already many algorithms to determine the activity an user is currently performing (such as walking, jogging, biking, sitting, etc). Often these methods take windows of time (1-2 seconds) and compare characteristics with learned models. This way the time series data is clustered/classified into models. An additional result from this is an (implicit) segmentation of the time series arises.

My theory is that when the segmentation of the time series is first performed explicitly, the (bigger) chucks of data can be better characterized. So my goal is to find the change points in the time series; and a change points means that the underlying process (being the user carrying the phone) has changed (e.g. from walking to running).

I want to detect the change point using novelty-detection techniques; so roughly speaking: when a certain number of data points are considered "new"/"outlier", I assume there is a change in the signal and report that moment of time. Then the model adapts to the new distribution of data and watches again for a change point.
Yes, this is more correct, and I was also imagining the category being something like "space-delimited strings." I realize that'd require redefining things like string concatenation to be "space-delimited concatenation" and other such bits.

Anyhow, I was playing loose and I know it. If I were writing in a more serious context I'd cross all the t's and dot all the i's. To me the more important thing was this slow gnawing in my gut, seeing hints of natural transformations and adjoint functors here and there and thinking, "Oh come on, there has to be a way to connect these dots."

Non-functional languages like Ruby don't think in this way, so there are hole all over the language.
Sky service status page hacked? Showing some strange statuses...
I base the premise of this action to maximization of humanity's well-being.

Would the woman who gets killed by her father in an act of 'honor killing' because she was raped be well-served by their society being educated that it's wrong -- despite what their local morality has to say about it? Of course. It means she might have not been killed if her local community didn't have a corrupt sense of morality.
I'd be interested to try it out. I think this NSA stuff has sent HN on a path over the brink.