skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone who watches this and thinks "But why?" and "People have done this before with a bigger budget and gone faster!" are not looking at it right.

Tom is a one-man frame builder, and he took the resources he had available to him: His old car, his existing skills, his local area. And he's pulled them together to recreate the kind of pioneering that took place 50/60 years ago for setting these records.

He knew from the outset that he wasn't going to get the record, he didn't even get an athlete to ride the bike as he rode it himself.

What he did do was go on this incredible journey of exploring the limits of his own skills as a frame builder, of looking at what it takes to go so fast on a bike, and he did it with virtually nothing.

And he's not the only one. A lot of people I know in the cycling world, in the design world, and in the tech world seem to be shaking off their cynicism and pessimism, and throwing themselves into projects that help them push their own individual talents.

It's the hacker culture of taking something apart, and putting it back together, and sometimes the entire point is "Why the hell not?". It doesn't have corporate backing, or government nods, it's just a few guys doing something they love and letting no obstacle stand in their way.

It's easy to say "Why bother, it's not going to be the record", it can be harder just to recognise and applaud them for their individual effort. But that's what should be done.
"You can do it".

Sounds super lame, but I've always suffered from from self-doubt and anxiety - especially as a young dude. If I knew at 16 that I was just about to fall in love with computers, get into university, travel the world, have a string of great jobs, then become my own boss, AND marry an amazing girl... I would be pretty fricking happy.
> "[...] so what are you suggesting those customers do now?"

> "Hushmail has a fairly secure email service. [...]"

Pretty surprising, coming from a guy like him. A little reminder: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
Fixing the Twitter Timeline in Octopress
How do you feel about using Python generating code just like Vala code is generated?

Doesn't GObject basically mean all the languages supported are compatible and we can write libraries/applications (which are generated into C code) and they are binary compatible with each other without extra code or configuration.

I think that's really interesting and could make very fast, and robust applications very flexible as well.

I am actually watching a talk on PyGObject by the author Tal Liron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QrGmA_RR4E
It doesnt because there are cases when you want that behaviour and the language gives you tools not policy. In a serious project pretty much every table will have a metatable anyway.
> Well, I think you're asking a bit much from a short editorial piece.

Perhaps. I just think it's funny seeing a philosopher trying to apply scientific standards of evidence in his classroom.

> It does remind me, though, of my 2nd favorite Onion headline: http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-38-percent-of-people-...

Yep, that's pretty funny all right, especially the "behavioral science" oxymoron. :)
That link gets UK healthcare wrong. There is private insurance in the UK too, and you can directly buy private treatment. We have a mix of both. Most people do without because the NHS covers everything they need.
This is exactly why HN has guidelines for editing story titles. You can't win as a submitter. I should have left it unedited as "Bike blog: Experiments in Speed [video]" which doesn't tell HN readers much about what the story is about. Someone will always, always complain that the title wasn't descriptive enough or is somehow inaccurate, no matter how long it is. Lesson learned. This is probably the last time I try to edit for clarity.
I've got exactly the opposite opinion: of JS/HTML/CSS, CSS is y far the best standard.

People complain because it doesn't address their specific needs explicitly (e.g. vertical centering) - but that way lies madness; a huge spec that caters for every case explictly, and probably has lots of corner cases and interactions meaning that cross-browser support would be even harder than now.

CSS is limited - and that's a good thing. Would you want to implement complex layout in JS, say? And how that would look when window size changes, or the page is zoomed, or some font isn't available?

The declarative nature of CSS is what makes it work; and the key aspect of declarative here is that it represents a state, not an algorithm - it's not turing complete. You'll never be able to do everything in CSS; and that's by design.
I too have family in LE. All of them have/had major power issues - one joined SWAT, and beat his wife, my aunt, until she left him. Another takes pride in telling tales about shocking abuse of suspects in his custody. Thinks it's funny.

Either way, you're right that Stanford was unrealisticly unbounded, but those upper limits you speak of can be pretty damn high!
I'm pretty sure there are known entities offshore you could sell to who are unlikely to be government fronts. Imagine selling to someone Wikileaks affiliated...
Even without border box you can achieve that quite easily (since the conceptual border-box 100% is the default for blocks); you simply need more wrapper elements.
Zed Shaw has published a good (IMHO) resource to learn C, in the "learn python the hard way" style: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/
I would love to use it on my already existing Ubuntu installation. I see that it's based on Precise, and I have Raring. Is there an apt repo I can put on top of my Ubuntu box to enable this?
I googled it: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/rails-starter-app
I think the worst they can realistically do is 1) threaten contempt if you can comply but don't and 2) threaten to disrupt your business operations by seizing servers. There are gag orders on certain legal requests, but you don't have to talk about it to not comply (if you can't comply).

As long as you can't comply, I don't think there's an uncounterable risk in the US, since we don't have any key disclosure requirements (the exception being CALEA, which only applies to the PSTN; I'd skip CALEA for an interconnected VOIP system and fight them in the courts/media, personally). Presumably they could put other weird pressure on you like threatening to investigate your nanny's immigration status or whatever, but enh.

I still maintain that if you do things properly, you can operate safely in the US while resisting pressure from USG. You can't literally wipe your ass with an NSL in front of the agents, but if you don't have it, and can't get it, they're at worst a DoS. Forcing a provider to implement a huge new logging infrastructure would be an interesting 14A issue, and one could have a system where even that wouldn't recover customer keys.

IANAL of course.
wow, that's just.... painful.

Why the heck would a company stick to IE7? It's not like the compatibility modes of later IE's don't work or something...
> We have an email server monoculture.

The issue goes a lot further: We have a technology monoculture.

Technology has this annoying property to trend towards a monoculture. You can also see this when you count the tech giants who hold 80% of whatever product/service market. Every tech company attempts to lock you in, sometimes using the network effect (i.e. social networks), sometimes using tech integration (i.e. Apple).
Thanks. Appreciate the info.
> We don't need to use GPG to make large-scale surveillance harder, we just need to use more email servers.

We definitely should encrypt everything, whenever possible.
The correct way to do a signed applet or signed extension is to give the signing key to a third party who has responsibility for auditing it, or at least being "out of the subpoena chain" so when bad stuff happens, they suddenly stop signing new versions.

I kind of wish there were a (well armed) organization which did this for other projects.
You can browse the Lua code on Wipkipedia here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Module: - there is a visual editor, test runner and module system.
None. He's talking out of his hat!
All systems put their form of rule on a pedestal worshiping it, saying: "there is none like it".

It will fall apart as all the other systems have and be considered "silly compared to our knew awesome form of rule"
Nice, an open source "Heroku". How about scaling of web processes? I couldn't in the docs about it.
My big hang up is that it's not used much outside of the Cocoa environment.

Beyond that, I'm a really big fan of putting C in the hands of people who want to learn to program on the grounds that it forces you to develop good habits. You don't get awesome, abstract data structures, inheritance, etc. to help manage your project. You kind of have to develop good habits or else you end up with a mess of a project that is unmanageable after a point. Those skills apply to even modern, high-level languages. They are of course applied a little differently, but it forces you to learn good project management skills.
> "There are" is present tense. As is my statement, "is not".

I proved that suicide is a crime, now, as we speak, at present. You lost -- learn to live with it.

>> there are still places where suicide is a crime

> The relevant jurisdiction is Palo Alto, California, USA.

This is the Internet, rocket scientist. By definition it's international. Only a narcissist would try to claim that an Internet post can only apply to where he is personally sitting.

>> Man up

> Apologize for your disgusting sexism.

Precisely how does "Man up" disparage women? Think before answering, and again -- I won't hold my breath for that outcome.

> Your Virginia link is absurd.

That's an interesting way to acknowledge that you have been defeated by readily available evidence. It's a defense typical of narcissists.

> "Common law crime" is flatly unconstitutional and unenforceable.

Suicide is illegal in Virginia. Which word didn't you understand? Or do you believe that (as just one example) common-law marriage isn't an enforceable contract?

> I pointed out a minor error ...

You did no such thing. You were wrong, I was right, I proved it, now you're displaying classic narcissistic hand-waving behavior.

> You were doing a small disservice to society ...

By pointing out that suicide is a crime, and then proving it? Nice distortion of logic.

> I wanted to undo that damage and make the world a little better.

And, according to you, all evidence to the contrary, you're not a narcissist. It's a good thing that, unlike suicide, being a narcissist is not a crime.
The one that you can modify the source and provide patches to, and that you can run in a terminal. And that doesn't cost anything.
But the plugin is OSS and on GitHub. Or are the issues in relation to the IDE itself? (which btw the community edition is also OSS and on GitHub)
You have 10k karma so you can do mod bribes from the secret menu now. That's been the key to my success.
BM-GuDKGJFRhq6o1B6SM7xiHUq7HtQFT2hH

The proposed 'streams' for scalability have not been implemented yet, and there is no clear method to implement them. There is currently some discussion on the BM forum on how to scale without streams.
The Defcon Documentary
> Is democracy overrated?

No.

It's just that we haven't gotten through to eliminating the corrupting elements and anchoring this legally, yet.

Why? Because corruption (= ultimately money) protects itself.
They are claiming it is not personally identifiable. Expecting these to be hacked shortly...
I'm so glad about this.

I think it's pretty ridiculous that whenever a "non crypto" person tries to use crypto the security folks go lambast them, yet there is simply not a truly usable crypto api out there! Please go out and make this the right way; I'm looking forward to it :)
We came up with a lot of new stuff, we have tons of developers with brilliant ideas and innovation has always been present on elementary OS.

I'm pretty sure we'll keep innovating and I'm pretty sure OS X's updates won't contribute to our failure in any way possible.
>so you'd probably do well to ignore the negative feedback and keep doing what you're doing.

That's us, thank you.
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." — Winston Churchill
Agreed. I'm studying statistics at the moment and I'm continually reminded of how easy it is to choose the wrong model / distribution and be incorrect because of some non-obvious and technical reason. For example, just the other day, I wanted to use the binomial distribution to solve a problem. To use this distribution, the trials must be independent of one another. In that particular problem, there was a subtle condition that made the trials non-independent. I arrived at correct-appearing answers (0 <= P <= 1) that were actually all wrong. Statistics is way too easy to break to be used naively.
Just like javascript, building an inheritance-based object system in Lua is pretty much the sign that you are fighting the language, rather than using it as it is.
That's our goal at least. Personally I feel if you use our higher level API and get something wrong, then that's a bug in our code that allowed you to do that.

The lower level APIs we are exposing will hopefully be more easy to use as well, but they will not offer the same protections against mistakes the same as the higher level API would.
Because instead of buying two e-books while traveling, you buy one then go on Facebook/HN/Angry Birds.
It does not trigger repaint on each iteration.
Lulzily, a browser trusted CA can actually fuck a customer of that CA slightly less than a non-customer, since you'd at least be vaguely aware of multiple certs issued for the same site from the same CA with different keys (maybe). No one would know if Iran were using a pet CA to go after specific users going to sites which normally used a cert from another CA.
Even worse, in Germany the election turnout is less than 50% on average, getting even worse every year.

Most people are literally not interested in everything around them and get mad when you start talking about politics. With people like this, democracies will fail. A living democracy needs involved and civilized people.
But it makes insurance harder to claim.
From the comments I see here so far, I don't see evidence that people have read the article (which is a transcript of part one of a radio talk that just went out over the air on the UK's Radio 4). It seems people are responding to the title.

Here are some quotes:

The totalitarian system, I learned, endures not simply by getting rid of democratic elections and imposing a one-party state. It endures by abolishing the distinction between civil society and the state, and by allowing nothing significant to occur which is not controlled by the Party.

...

In the underground universities of communist Europe, my friends and colleagues studied those things, and prepared themselves for the hoped-for day when the Communist Party, having starved itself of every rational input, would finally give up the ghost. And the lessons that they learned need to be learned again today, as our politicians lead us forth under the banner of democracy, without pausing to examine what democracy actually requires.
It seems very misleading to me to just calculate average revenue by "money paid/downloads". At least a while ago a popular model on Android was to publish the app free and make money with advertising. So the average payout per app is probably much higher.

Although I also suspect it follows a power law, so a few apps make lots of money and most apps make little to no money (on all platforms).
> Statistics is way too easy to break to be used naively.

Fair enough, but the same argument could be made about using an unskewed standard distribution on non-symmetrical datasets, a common error even among people who should know better.

I think binomial functions should be included, on the ground that they're very useful and their probability of misuse is only equal to the continuous statistical forms, not more so.
Whew, when I saw the Wikipedia page for Ted Nelson posted to HN, apropos of nothing (that I know of), I feared he was dead or something.

Happily, the pages says he 'is' blah blah blah and not 'was'.

So it isn't yet necessary to figure out the proper way to commemorate the man who added 'teledildonics' to the lexicon (yeah yeah, and 'hypertext').
The PEP suggests that the functionality would be comparable to that in a high school calculator or in Excel/LibreOffice/Gnumeric. The existence of that functionality suggests to me that a stats package can be useful even if it doesn't handle things like missing data.

Similarly, Excel/etc. support these functions without a "semester course in statistics." Instead, you'll find that there are many web pages from semester courses in statistics which end up teaching how to use Excel. The same would no doubt happen with Python.

I don't why a statistics standard library module needs to provide a "good explanation of when they're appropriate" to a higher standard than any other module. Python provides trigonometric and hyperbolic functions without teaching trigonometry. It provides complex numbers and cmath without teaching people about complex numbers. It provides several different random distribution functions without teaching anything about Pareto, Weibull, or von Mises distributions.

For that matter, data structures is a semester course as well, but the Python documentation doesn't teach those differences in its documentation of deque, stack, hash table, etc., nor describe algorithms like heapq and bisect.

"whether to do online or batch modes which can give different results". The PEP says it will prefer batch mode:

Concentrate on data in sequences, allowing two-passes over the data,
rather than potentially compromise on accuracy for the sake of a one-pass
algorithm
That's also a massive opportunity though, since whomever could capture the attention of that 50% and get them to vote could become the biggest party overnight.

To me that just sounds like an underserved market waiting to be addressed.
TiddlyWiki is an awesome experiment in self-editing, cross-platform files. A while back, it led me on search to find the best self-editing, encrypted file to store personal info in, that could be accessible anywhere. I eventually came across Message Vault [0]. It seemed to be abandoned by its creator though. The original domain name for it was available, so I scooped it up for the purpose of hosting the file. I'm not big on crypto, so I don't know how secure it is. It's on my to do list someday to analyze it more carefully.

[0] http://messagevault.org/
The Next Smallest Step Problem
Unlike in javascript, it's possible to build an inheritance-based object system that works almost exactly like Python's in Lua. It's actually a bit trivial. Considering that the language is generally not opinionated even regarding the features it ships with ("you can use 0-based arrays if you want"), this doesn't seem all that bad.
The state doesn't actually spend that much on R&D, most of it goes to various welfare programs and the military. Getting into the whole internet, GPS stuff, we should just spend lots of money on the military because they fund a whole tonne of innovation, oddly enough because they receive a whole tonne of money.

R&D is a byproduct of massively wasteful state spending, putting more money into government will not result in more R&D spending...

I'd hope that an entity that spends 20 to 30 percent of a nations GDP was responsible for at least a little bit of innovation.
Your need to buy some particular e-book shouldn't depend on whether you need to access HN or not. So I don't see any relation there.
And what are the reasons that led people to lose interest?

Maybe one answer is "because we don't feel enough pain yet". In this case, don't worry, the pendulum will swing back soon enough.

The concept of real democracy is still the best one we can get.
Real democracy doesn't exists in any country. Except from e-democracy experiments like in Rio Grande do Sul(Brasil). Instead we are in a tight controlled Particracy.

Thanks to internet we are getting closer to a new Era where citizens will have direct control on the governments. This is yet to be achieved but there are already thousands of people working silently on this.

We will have the first real democracy in Europe at the end of 2015 and it will spread quickly.

We are citizens, we are real democracy.
Does someone use Lua for system scripting? Replacing bash and perl script on the server looks like a good fit. If so, can you share your experience?
I'm really, really impressed with the responsiveness of the UI. The only OS I recall using that was that responsive was BeOS.

Unfortunately, Elementary OS seems to have fallen victim to the aesthetics-over-functionality trend that's currently plaguing the software world. The user interface is just too simplistic for this to be a productive OS for day-to-day work. None of the applications specific to this distro seem to have menus or configuration options. I can't put files or directories on the desktop. I tried to use what it came with, but it ended up being to frustrating; I had to install Firefox, Thunar, and Thunderbird instead of using the out-of-box browser, file manager, and email client.

I really like some of the basic work that's gone into this OS, but it just doesn't seem like it can be a viable substitute for more full-featured distros.
360mg is a lot

I think this in terms of Red Bulls, a can is around 80mg, so this is 4.5 RBs

I wouldn't drink more than one RB per day (but I can get caffeine elsewhere)

For me going cold turkey is bad as well, sometimes (usually in trips) I forget drinking coffee and the lack of energy and headache is visible

I accidentally got cold turkey the other day, by not knowing how "decaffeinated" is written in the language of the country I'm in, not very nice!
Those are good reasons for rejecting any addition to the standard library. However, new libraries are sometimes added to the standard library, which means the reasons you listed can be overcome by even better reasons for inclusion.

What are those reasons for why a new library can be included, and why aren't those reasons appropriate justification for including this proposed statistics package?
Where could those of us with a bit deeper magick in ARM hacking follow along the process? I'd love to get this running on my samsung ARM chromebook :)
Oops, don't know how I missed that. Thanks :)
Agda by Example: λ-calculus
I would say, yes. Theoretically, an all-knowing Philosopher King would be the best form of government. In reality, that's extremely hard to achieve. Modern day democracies, like in the US, are intentionally designed to move slowly, so that no single person or group of people can radically change how it affects it's citizens. That also means it is slow to reform.
Ancillary question: What would be the motivation behind making a domain for something like this?
I think I'll do that, because the karma on the top right is like looking into your pocket every time you donate.

There are so many HN extensions, tools, apps and scripts, somebody should compile a list of them.
Iphone could launch on september 10th
I would say your loss. The film is about a guy who had an idea, used the resources around him to make that idea a reality while relying on his friends and people in the industry he works in to come to together and make it a reality. The only reason this happened is pretty much expressed in the film. He had immense respect of his peers and they supported him.

Yes he ended up, head down, doing 80mph right up against the bumper of a car inside a shed, but what an amazing journey to get there.

You have to respect somebody who achieves the crazy using the limited resources available to him with the help of his peers and friends.

I saw the bike at the Bristol Bespoke Cycle show earlier this year. I have to say until I saw this film I had no idea what had gone into it.