skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very informative thread for people trying to streamline their daily shell experience. I'm looking forward to experimenting with the utilities mentioned here. I spend a significant amount of time in, and moving between CVS sandboxes. All my sandboxes have the same internal directory structure, but the root of the path changes. To speed up navigation time I created a tool to replace directory names with aliases. The aliases are persistent. They can also be "stacked", which allows you to specify a sandbox as an alias, then reuse your existing aliases to navigate within the sandbox. Auto-completion in the shell is an excellent companion as well. More information on "stacked.aliases", as well as the source can be found here: https://github.com/ttomaino/stacked_aliases/wiki. I include one example to illustrate:

As an example, the following two sandboxes contain the Broadcom Ethernet driver:

/build/username/sandbox_a/software/vendors/linux/linux-2.6.35.7/drivers/ethernet/broadcom
/build/username/sandbox_b/software/vendors/linux/linux-2.6.35.7/drivers/ethernet/broadcom

Use the add alias command aa <alias name> <directory> to create aliases for the sandboxes:

aa a /build/username/sandbox_a
aa b /build/username/sandbox_b

Then create an alias for the Broadcom directory:

aa brcm software/vendors/linux/linux-2.6.35.7/drivers/ethernet/broadcom

To change to the Broadcom directory in sandbox_a, just stack the appropriate aliases using the ua command. Stacking is done by stringing the aliases together with a period delimiter:

ua a.brcm

To change to the Broadcom directory in sandbox_b:

ua b.brcm
A 30 minute window of operation severely limits the usefulness of the idea. I think Musk did the idea a disservice by focusing too much on SF-LA and the comparison with the California HSR project. Which made the Hyperloop come off as romantic as a 30 minute elevator ride, rather than something revolutionary.
I realise this is important for people that isn't a bit colour blind like me, but if I cared enough about prettiness to install this then I wouldn't be an Emacs user. :-)

Edit: It is worth reading as nice elisp code.
What incentive does the engineer have to look deeper, and more holistically at the situation? None, especially if he doesn't want to create friction within the company - he can just sit comfortably having followed written protocol. A human with compassion can make compromises, someone following orders can't.
cletus, thanks for the wonderful post. It has lots of information and i will read it multiple times to soak it all in.
Regarding location, I would definitely prefer a place where people can walk/use public transport heavily/etc rather than rely on cars. Not only it saves money, but i personally feel that seeing fellow people and having a good level of interaction with different people is really the KEY to a happy life. You would never feel isolated and when in stress, it lets you see things in the correct perspective.

for now i have some queries regarding your comment, please indulge me if you can spare few minutes:
- not sure about the terminology, but by sublet you mean a very temporary accommodation before moving into a rented place?
- can you please clarify a bit more on why 2 years is preferable than 1 year? does re contracting every year has a recurring expense?
- Is it possible to get H1B visa while having a L1B visa as you have suggested? I thought that would not be possible? In case it is, will the H1B sponsor be the same company that is my L1B?

Also, your last point is entirely valid and it makes perfect sense. Thanks for that.
it's been pretty apparent to me for some time now that "the war on drugs" is actually a mechanism to drive _up_ the price of street drugs, and i would go so far as to claim this is done intentionally.

without ridiculously stiff penalties for drug crimes, the sky-high premium placed on the drugs themselves would be unreasonable. a higher price on street drugs leads to a similar near-linear relationship with the amount of USD exported outside the US. in this way "the war on drugs" is actually a mechanism to increase demand and circulation of the USD.

softening the penalties for drug "crimes" makes a lot of sense, just look at portugal and other areas that have decriminalized/legalized possession of small amounts of drugs. i hope the US continues along the current vector of softening its approach with drug "crimes".
Goodnight room/goodnight Zune/goodnight management over the moon
SVG and image tag tricks
Judge says Chubby Checker can pursue lawsuit against HP
I believe you're comprehending his actions wrongly. He stated before he'd be able to post even onto M.Z.'s timeline, to announce that this isn't a narrow scope issue, and that it was to gain attention. I see no malicious or angered. If of course M.Z. all of a sudden sees some guy, who isn't a friend, posting to his wall - you think he might actually look into it, right?

Yeah, rules that don't take into account reason are inhumane. Similarly why we don't just give everyone 10 years in prison because they committed a crime - you take into account all aspects - and not just apply "oh but he committed a crime, so this is the result."
We are moving across country right now. We are going from a 1500 sq ft 4 bedroom house with a full basement and shed to a two bedroom 800 sq ft apartment with a 5x5 storage unit. We don't have much choice but to purge 50-75% of our stuff. It's been one of the greatest things I've ever done for myself. The focus it's allowed on the really important part of our lives is amazing.
We've sold well over $5000 of our stuff. We are fairly young so maybe our stuff is in general more desirable but if you work at you can sell a lot of stuff I think. That said we have also given away more than we sold. We put out a free sign and put it in the front yard and it went incredibly quickly.
sadly people will always be ready to sell snake oil that promises the impossble.

great example i saw floating around here the other day: http://privatecore.com/
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
― Mel Brooks
Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3448754
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858
And that's the answer to everyone refusing to call Snowden a whistle blower because he left the country rather than face the legal consequences. The consequences involved were anything but legal.
They are both.
Well, since you seem to have a top comment there - you don't see an error in the way the initial security responses were? Why didn't they guide him into providing the information they needed, to ask him specifically? Or point him out to the whitehat program, etc? They have no responsibility there - is that what you're implying?
That's what I thought. You are not against threatening somebodies life to compel him to improve someones situation in general. You are perfectly fine with that when it's done to protect the right to do whatever you like with the things you own.

There are a lot of people such as you that think that right to own things and do whatever you like with the things you own trumps pretty much every other right. Including the right not to get killed of the people who'd try to steal your stuff. Fortunately lawmakers in lots of first world countries got passed that barbaric notion. In my country for example you can't hurt the thief. You can try to hold him until the police comes, but if you beat the shit out of him or set a booby trap to harm him you will be prosecuted because you endangered his life and health, a value more important than your petty stuff. Same way you can smash the window of a car parked in the sun on a hot day if you see dog left inside. You are violating less important right to protect higher value.
Rather that those who themselves use marijuana is much more likely to comment and be in favor of legalization. It doesn't tell you anything about the "silent majority." Then HN:s up & down-vote system means your comments are likely to be downvoted in spite if you voice concerns.
Wouldn't it? It would also be nice if I could get a foot massage and a Jägerbomb.
Why can't you just enjoy the fact that you have Internet access and not complain about how you find the content annoying, after all it could be taken from you at any moment. Annoying idle-reading-time content is such a first world problem wow. :|
The centering looks off by around 5px
I was disappointed that the article didn't address the issue of jealousy and conflict between those who receive the grants and those who don't. To me that seems like one of the biggest struggles in a scheme like this.
Also, let's keep in mind that Obama has lied to the public when he said that there was no abuse by the NSA.

(Not that we can expect different behavior from any of the future Presidents, nor from the recent ones.)
Care to explain to the rest of us who don't see it why your link is an example of "snake oil"? I'm familiar with the metaphor, but I don't see the deception yet.
> If they turn your water off unreasonably, they risk losing clients

No, they risk getting sued. If my water company decided one day to turn off my water based on some bullshit claim of one of my neighbours, I would sue the shit out of them.

There are such things as contracts and consumer protection laws you know.

As a disclaimer, I live in Romania, Europe and what you're describing wouldn't be possible here. But it's funny how we've got less problems with drugs, even though Europe on the whole is more relaxed about drug usage than you are. More than 50% of incarcerations in your federal prisons are for drug offences and you've got the highest incarceration rates of all countries. To me that's a sign that you've been fixing the symptoms, rather than the real disease, making it worse in the process.

And really, I don't think that placing such power in your insurance companies would do any good. In theory abuse would be prevented by competition. In practice however, monopolies / oligopolies happen and insurance companies are primarily focused on minimizing risk, so you'd better have a good story when going from one insurer to the next.
Some seriously impressive numbers. Hope they take this further :)
Links to the actual upstream posts by Doctorow:

http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-p...

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
Originals are not hugely expensive eg http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=811432778...
No, mobile Safari.
I'm surprised you see a rigid policy as more important than the awareness. It might be nice to have both the kayaks and the bicycles if you end up on the right lake...
What non-legal consequences did the counterexamples in this article face? I'm not sure what you mean.
Here's my story, for what it is worth.

I'm an American. I don't normally go into places like Starbucks. I recently went to a "juice bar" and was one of only two customers there. I paid with cash as I always do nowadays because of Visa/MC/etc data-mining. The one and only person behind the counter asked for my name. It really got my hackles up, I involuntarily scowled and I said I pay cash so I won't have to tell you my name. The poor girl said they only ask for names so orders won't get mixed up - which makes sense from a rote point of view, but was ridiculous given that there were only two customers in the entire place.

I guess if I were used to places asking for my name, I would have simply just made one up on the spot and things would have gone smoothly -- although I dislike being 'forced' to lie on a casual basis like that, if I have a choice I simply won't frequent a business that puts me in that position. I haven't been back to that juice bar since, despite it being only a few blocks from my house.

It seems the "marketing types" really don't get me - walmart greeters disturb me, makes me feel bad for them rather than "welcome" by reminding me how much better off I am than the person who has to take such a dreary and unproductive job. Bathroom attendants totally creep me out with pervo vibes rather than make me feel like I'm in a high-class establishment. My gym forces the people at the front-desk to say goodbye when you leave, which makes me feel like I have to choose between being an asshole and ignoring them or being fake and responding to their corporate-enforced fakeness.

I would really like to know what percentages of the population actually likes this stuff versus simply tolerates it or like myself feels put on the spot by it.
It's true that evacuation here is likely easier than the plane or car journey, solely because you're in a pipe that gets where you need to be really quickly. I wonder whether it has its own unique evacuation concerns though, a car or plane has more room for dealing with a medical emergency immediately, and travelling 800mph might have its own set of complications for an emergency.
Obama could have been special. The symbol, the icon for an America forgiven of its past and now authoring hope for future people of all races. Perhaps it was power that corrupted him or maybe it was his close advisors that stymied his original purer motives.

I remember feeling so proud that we had a black President. I knew he was human, I know that skin color does not matter, but it was hard to not hope that given what his race has been through - he could understand what was wrong with the world ... and maybe fix it.

For reasons he only knows, he choose to side with abuse. He has perverted himself with something so addictive that perhaps the best course of action maybe for him to take a seat at the back of the bus.
Ask HN:What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?
Are there any product tour libraries that can detect interaction with the application being presented?
>Gene therapy has been a failure for decades, and we've been repeatedly going at it to try and get it to work. It's not as though this is the first clinical trial for a gene therapy: it's just one of the first to be worth anything.

Glybera is a gene therapy which has been approved for medical use.
If I remember correctly he said it would be feasible for long distance (>1000miles) but fast air travel would probably be more efficient at that point.

Found the quote (http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf):

"The Hyperloop (or something similar) is, in my opinion, the right solution for the specific case of high traffic city pairs that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart. Around that inflection point, I suspect that supersonic air travel ends up being faster and cheaper"
Looks very impressive; I only do CSS occasionally so an easy tool like this is of value to me. Will try it.

A couple of things: I don't think the dot-org TLD is appropriate for a commercial venture. Your app store link takes me to an itunes web page on the Japanese app store, rather than launching App Store itself.
Your media clutter isn't gone, it's just out of sight.

What's on your digital storage and how tidy, and necessary is it all?
If it doesn't make the copper radioactive, then of what significance is it that the copper has been irradiated? I understand that irradiation of food kills bacteria, but with a metal I don't see why it matters.
Just purchased the full version for 21.99 on the Mac App Store. Is there an email address to give feedback to? I assume OP wanted feedback?
I hope this is not yet another project that holds a ton of promises and never end up delivering cause it looks absolutely awesome on paper.
Three nails in the coffin of peak oil
And even the Cancer drugs that "work" and are registered only improve stuff like PFS and OS (overall survival) a couple of months in most cases. Cancer treatments tend to work for some time until the illness finds a new pathway rendering the treatment ineffective. It's frankly pretty depressing to look at the survival curves with and without a new drug. You don't save many people anyway.
What does this do that codekit and a browser cant?
Why medium.com?
Why are people going there, how are people getting attracted to medium?
I don't think there's any sort of real limit at 30 mins. Pushing it up to an hour is still fine without having to seriously address the 'what about the bathroom!" issue. And you can go quite a way in an hour at that sort of speed.
There's also the 'passenger plus' variant. If it can take 3 cars it can certainly fit a bathroom :)

But again, I'm pretty sure they if we can surmount the rest of the barriers we can solve the toilet one...
Judicial process is a subset of due process. You'll notice the comment I was responding to mentioned judicial process. If a US citizen takes up arms with an enemy whom the US is at war with, then the process which he is due does not extend past accurate sighting before the trigger is pulled.

Of course it's a tragedy if a citizen is killed in time of war if it turns out they were not actually engaged in combat alongside the enemy, but war is tragic in general.
Yes, but there may be some non-dev designers that do not yet know how to set it up, or haven't heard of Grunt.
Definitely an interesting project.

It would be interesting to compare this to parrot[1], which had similar goals.

Javascript and the JVM are currently occupying this niche to a certain degree, although neither were originally designed for this niche.

1: http://www.parrot.org/
Sounds good. When the hyperloop starts being used for many hours long rides, we can add in toilets then.

Maybe we can have an option - double ticket price with toilet, or half price without? I have a feeling the double ticket price cars will be empty.
The sad and complex state of video out on smartphones
For those of you who are interested: http://tinyhouseblog.com/

Most of the people featured in the Tiny House Blog are also looking for "simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness," but do so in tiny houses (some of which are built on top of trailers, instead of "caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops."
The lesson should be not to elect slippery lawyers in future, the UK made that mistake with Tony Blair too.
As an example, cigarette smokers as a group were horribly inconsiderate and often aggressively rude. They littered the ground and the air. The tar and the smell gets in your hair and clothes. They walked around burning people and things with their cigarettes. It was terrible. I don't miss it, even though I am sad that it took a broad law restraining everyone's behavior. That being said, even the possibility that pot smokers might become as obnoxious as tobacco smokers were before they were shunned en masse, it isn't a good argument against legalization.
A few months after the group sent out its second round of payments to Omondi’s village, I spent two days walking around the area in Siaya where GiveDirectly is working.

One hell of a co-incidence.
Trash Into Gas, Efficiently? An Army Test May Tell
It looks like they're sold out (985 sold). Does anyone know if they are selling any more? I couldn't find any information on the Firefox OS official site.
I recommend everyone to watch this "Enemies of the State" video. Thomas Drake speech starts at minute 24. Jesselyn Radack and William Binney also have speeches in it. Drake and Binney talk about how the government treated them even when they went through the "proper channels".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBp-1Br_OEs
I am pretty sure the OP should be able to negotiate with his company some relocation package, including the bank finding for him a temporary accommodation for some times (one month would be the minimum, maybe the OP could have this up to 6 months).
General purpose computers will be available for a long time. But they will have the significance of a home computer in the 1980s.
I went out of my way to say that this person wasn't deliberately harming anyone.

Saying someone fucked with another person's account implies otherwise.
"I can't wait to defend the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange"
//when I wrote it only GOD and I knew what it does. Now only GOD knows.
>Fair enough, but I wonder if the best use of AI research is to get computers to solve problems that a person could easily solve.

I don't know about "best", but solving problems that a person can solve will increase the standard of living and create immense economic growth, because solving problems that only humans can solve means that more human work can be automated.
You can downmod comments (and flag them too!), but you can only flag submissions no matter how much karma you have, which is why you've never seen a story with <= 0 points!
Another explanation that I sadly believe to be much more realistic is that Obama never had pure motives. He was just playing the game (as any candidate must to win the support of either establishment party), and he took many millions of hopeful people along for the ride.

It's important for people who believed in Obama's rhetoric to stop making excuses and realize that they were conned. Fool me once, shame on you...
>What I want to know is why governments support all illegal drug dealing, and dont get a cut of the action themselves

They do get a cut. Property forfeiture, among other things. Right now I am reading Balko's "The Rise of the Warrior Cop" and McCoy's "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade" You'd probably be amazed. I am.
"Misled" the public? No. He lied to the public.
Just 2 years ago there was a massive backlash against KISSmetrics, Hulu and a few others for using this very trick.

Can't find the HN story now, but it was a recurring story for a few days as people argued back and forth whether it was ethical.
Why does technicality matter? It's not like being 'legal' or 'non-legal' even matters when it's a pliable circumstance (which is really the problem exposed here) crafted by the law makers that are at work doing their best to serve themselves over the rights of the people (which is kinda the purpose of laws).

Edit: this comment is not specific to your question alone, it's a comment on this specific thread.
The bot can use only 1 guess per website.
Well the good news is that in the end he'll probably get something because of all the ruckus we've made! So good job peeps!
As it turns out, he simply uses your IP and User Agent string. See https://github.com/lucb1e/cookielesscookies/blob/master/inde...

No E-Tag tracking is taking place, since the E-Tag is never send to the server for the index.php request (only for the image request). In theory he could update the session after your IP changed, but he does not seem to do that (the image requests hold on to the old E-Tag).

So, basically, to me it seems like the whole point/post is invalid. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Could you elaborate?
Financial ruin, stress put on family and friends, etc.
Why not start with a smaller country like Luxembourg. We are currently running in elections and want to make of Luxembourg a privacy save heaven. We have a pretty good chance of making it into parliament and every support helps!

Look we even made a video ;) https://donate.piraten.lu/
It is a fairly well documented theory. See: "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade" by Alfred McCoy.

See also: Iran Contra
Doesn't the weak link seem to be the leadership council? Any form of power being held can lead to abuse and misapplication of funds vs direct funding.
How do I get that timeline editing feature in CodeKit and Chrome? Oh, and automating the vendor prefixing. That would be nice as well.

Thanks!
just got a reply - "At this time there are no plans for another edition." :o(