skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh.., I'll put in the Urban Dictionary's definition, for reference:

literally : used to describe something that actually happens or exists. A much misused adverb, often for emphasis. People often confuse this word with figuratively.

"I literally died of embarrassment."

"Really? How was reincarnation, you illiterate dipshit?"
Your entire argument comes down to "I don't think anyone but me can be right, and further I can't imagine any way this software could have been architected, therefore lavabit must be evil". Or something. It is very hard to follow your argument. You keep claiming various contradictory things....
There's still a chance that Wolfram Alpha is incorrect; I am unable to prove or disprove that, because I don't know aerodynamics.
Could someone rectify the apparent contradictions between yesterday's memo and today's announcement? Was it misread or something? How could they do an about face so quickly?
The proposed Hyperloop's operation is quite different from a pneumatic tube, which forces objects through with air pressure. The design document explicitly describes the limitations of pneumatic tubes:

"At one extreme of the potential solutions is some enlarged version of the old pneumatic tubes used to send mail and packages within and between buildings. You could, in principle, use very powerful fans to push air at high speed
through a tube and propel people-sized pods all the way from LA to San Francisco. However, the friction of a 350 mile long column of air moving at anywhere near sonic velocity against the inside of the tube is so stupendously high that this is impossible for all practical purposes."
I hear you. I never really understood the meaning of "ironic" until the work of Alanis Morissette.
That's 33 cents for ALL of AMC, not just Breaking Bad. That's mad men, he'll on wheels, walking dead and the old movies. And they sell discs. And the sell in iTunes. And they get paid by Netflix, hulu, and amazon.

I hope it continues to work out, I tend to enjoy just about all of their original content and they seem to be hungry enough to not just do the lowest common denominator thing. Probably not as big as hbo but give them some time.
"...Republican congressman Justin Amash, who led a revolt that narrowly failed in its effort to cut NSA funding, tweeted:

"Pres Obama believes man who lied to public in congressional hearing about NSA should lead NSA review process meant to build public trust".

Can anyone wrap their head around that the `Pres' is this oblivious to both DC and public opinion?
Why wouldn't they proactively notify the people whose apps were mistakenly disabled, so that questions didn't have to come to HN and SO in order for people to find out what's going on? I mean, from all indications they know which apps those are, and they have contact info for the developers. Best and brightest!
I know, its a joke, but just the other day, I was thinking about faraday cages and how maybe it wouldn't be terrible to have one around the house and if I could pull it off with tin foil...

I was seriously considering tin foil to stop snooping from government rays. What. A. World.
Well, "figuratively" is an antonym for "literally", and this specific use of literally means figuratively. So they're opposite meanings.

http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/literallygloss.htm

Quote: "For more than a hundred years, critics have remarked on the incoherency of using literally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its primary sense of 'in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words.'"
1. This is a different issue. You can't design a service that doesn't comply with a specific warrant and guarantee this.

2. N-part keys go along way for this. No one employee has the ability to do the things for warrant compliance. Yes still gamable, but so is any system. See 1.

3. Shut down when a non specific warrant is received. Have a big red button that kills everything. Make the system so that it deletes everything if more than N warrant accesses occur in M time units. In the worse case, passive agressive compliance that causes big outages, unintentional security leaks, and so on (while implementing the removal of BRB and N/M scheme) would go a long way in making the paranoid move on before following the world.
well, that's kind of funny, because I made this https://gist.github.com/zalew/6227522 for my work with Foundation. yeah, you should use Foundation, but because it's a better product, not because of class names.
Developing Myanmar's IT Infrastructure After Longest Civil War
I just wrote an article on the topic. It's my first blog post so excuse if the quality of writing is average, I hope the message is useful regardless: http://tinyurl.com/nyvp32j
Artists, can you help? Log4j 2.0 needs a new logo
Not according to dictionary.com - that says that the purpose of the dictionary is to provide information on meaning and correct usage of the word.

Also, Wikipedia refers to two types of dictionary: prescriptive and descriptive. But even the descriptive type should provide information on how the word is used, eg: "sometimes incorrectly used to mean 'figuratively'".
Bootstrap 3 is only in RC? From the way they redirect all inbound links to the BS3 front page rather than the BS2 targets people (like me) thought they were clicking to see, you'd think it went gold.
How to raise money as a first-time founder? Start a company at a time when a first-time founder can write a serious blog post entitled "How to Raise Money as a First Time Founder" that contains the following two sentences back-to-back:

1. "When we went out to raise money, we raised with only a couple thousand dollars in monthly recurring revenue."

2. "But we had a solid product, strong weekly revenue growth (10% week over week), and two distribution/marketing channels that were already paying dividends."
I will say as a former nuclear submariner myself, how appreciative we all were of the work the designers put into the boats. I was on an Ohio-class myself and got to appreciate the design first-hand. I've also heard simply marvelous tales about the Seawolf-class (pity she was so expensive).

So thanks for whatever you did in keeping the boats safe (both in design and construction), it was certainly much-appreciated in the Fleet.
did this stuff actually work?
AlleyWatch forgot #6 ... avoid startups that have to create dozens of accounts to spam HN, such as AlleyWatch.
Short answer: Probably okay if you have only a few of them, but you will probably see degradation if you have lots of them in a cluster.

Longer answer: The Shannon–Hartley theorem tells us how much data can be pumped though a communications channel before we get unrecoverable errors. The data capacity for modulating the backscatter will come out of the same "bucket" as the capacity for the active transmitter, meaning it will slightly reduce the channel capacity available to the active transmitter. In practice, the active transmitter is probably not near to the theoretical limit and has a rate much greater than the backscatter transmitter, so it can easily correct the errors caused by the backscatter modulation. Increase the amount of data on the backscatter channel, by upping the rate or number of transmitters, and the active transmitter probably won't be able to recover from the loss of available capacity, and the user will see an increase in bit error rate.

I'd like to see a MIMO version of the backscatter transmitter!
I'd like a "here's how to host your own gmail-equivalent" (I use Kerio for this), or maybe a "here's a service which lets you have your own gmail-equivalent on your own hardware under your own control, which we can DoS but can't do anything else to without you noticing and abandoning" (technically hard).

"Trust us" vs. "trust Google" is kind of a joke, though. Yes, Google is at risk to the USG, but so is any other provider, AND Google is both amazingly technically competent (unlike unknown entities) and well resourced (so, reliable). These guys aren't.
Investors sue Microsoft over Surface tablet
FWIW, you can get an unused Unix layout (Control left of A, Esc left of 1, Backspace directly above Return) Sun Type 6 USB keyboard for around $40.

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/memx_2267_226185665

If you're using X11, you can go nuts with xmodmap and get it functioning at least as well as it did on Solaris.

I think getting a genuine Sun keyboard beats just remapping keys on a 101/104-key PC keyboard. There are 12 additional keys at the left and top-left of the keyboard just begging to be remapped for your own nefarious purposes. You also get meta keys that are separate from the Alt key, as well as Compose and AltGr keys for your åçcéñtêd character needs.

Plus when you look down and see the Sun logo, you can reminisce about the old days and have a good cry at your desk.
Actually, I didn't say "all". Had I said "all", your existence merely forces a modification, and at best your existence doesn't even show incorrectness had I said "vast majority". As it stands my statement could be interpreted as "all", that part was unclear. I merely meant "a lot".

Your statement is a shining example of the fallacy fallacy though... just because one interpretation of what I said on a detail of it is incorrect, that in no way invalidates my statement nor the existence of vocal people like those I describe.
Hipster CEO: New iPhone game to test whether you can really run a business
The 1950 prediction of a vacuum tube train a little closer?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/futur...

The Japanese started dreaming of "high speed trains" in the 1940's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkaid%C5%8D_Shinkansen

Their first "bullet trains" were started in 1959 and finished in 1964. A bullet train in those days was 130 mph (210 km/h).

I guess the world is a lot more complicated these days.
Internet Archive (currently) doesn't want to put their data on any cloud service. We believe it is crucial that people can easily access and analyze the data so we put it on various cloud platforms.
We are talking with a few organizations about getting data donations that we could put in our corpus and make available to everyone, but nothing is settled enough that I can publicly comment on those potential partnerships yet.
DFW-Based Tech Startup Takes Aim at ESPN, CBS & YAHOO
Not "my" company, but why?
The amount of time I spent in Puppet writing modules to install things to a master was ridiculous. I could have not automated and done it manually, but I preferred bootstrapping Puppet with Puppet.

And that time you spend setting up a master? It's hopefully limited. But the joy doesn't end. Once your master is set up, then you get to install Puppet on every client too, and configure the client to point to your puppetmaster.

Ansible is really a data (or as they say, model) driven massively parallel shell scripting system with advanced templating, tailored for configuration management. It does a lot more, and it's design footprint is at the same time far less. ++
Of course the tree falls into the forest literally. The correct question is does it actually [fall in the forest].
I agree that source codes, affiliate ids, landing pages, and the like are necessary to track and reconcile sources from campaigns and third parties.

There are a lot of ways to skin the cat, and the most realistic is to use a single field that can take gift cards or promotional coupons. It's easy to bin GCs and look up coupons and the use of a single field (with {apply} and {add} buttons) also reduces the complexity of the payments page.

It's well known that the web has enabled a whole segment of customer often referred to as "the extreme price shopper," who is a person who only buys the promotional item and generally has a negative lifetime value once margins and acquisition costs are factored into their RFM.

Companies do not like ESPs. Abandoned cart processing, which any viable ecommerce system supports, will be able to salvage a number of those transactions as well as indicate where the user exited.

The other option is using third party cookies for sourcing and attribution, which is sloppy, unreliable, and generally creates more affiliate unhappiness (although, honestly, affiliates are generally more trouble than they're worth).
This reminds me of a spark-gap transmitter but without the spark.
It's totally true about NYC, you picked an extreme case of the SI express bus. And if you're sick the bus driver will drop you off.

> (and you're a long trek from a bathroom at either end).

And that's total BS. The long trek is less than 5 minutes on either side.
Good points. I am a bit of a power user and you shouldn't ever market toward power users. Unless you are something like Thinkgeek or HN.
> Not according to dictionary.com - that says that the purpose of the dictionary is to provide information on meaning and correct usage of the word.

Wait, think a minute. That description exactly corresponds with what I said. The "correct" usage of a word is precisely, exactly what the speaker thinks it means, at that moment in time.

If a dictionary listed a definition that was not in use by anyone, that would be different -- that would be incorrect.

> Also, Wikipedia refers to two types of dictionary: prescriptive and descriptive.

Yes, and there are no prescriptive dictionaries, at least not in English. The French have one, created by the Académie française:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise

Apart from the French example, it seems telling people how to use words has fallen out of fashion, giving way to another example of evolution by natural selection.
I'm guessing the department store vacuum tube systems used to send items to different areas of the store was the inspiration for this.
What do you call predictions whose sum is not predictive?
What's worse, it's not really RC. More like Beta. They keep adding/removing features, and even changing fundamentals like the grid system. I'm glad I didn't start using RC1, I imagined something like this could happen. Now I'm in doubt of using Bootstrap at all.
On the other end are us visual thinkers. I could do all of that proficiently just fine. In fact I do plenty of macros and scripts and so on. But at the end of the day, I think in pictures. I end up using a lot of editor short cuts and "lots of keypresses" style refactoring while I work out the shape I really want. Then, when I get that, fire off some macros to deal with the rest, cleanup, etc.
It would, if it were something that got documented well. Grand jury investigations are secret, so we mostly hear about the results rather than the how, and on the rare occasions something like this happens, it's almost always small town.

The highest-profile case I can point you to is somewhat disappointing. A few years ago, a grand jury in Harris County (Houston), Texas kicked the prosecutors out and proceeded to run its own investigation into issues surrounding BAT vans. They didn't return criminal indictments before disbanding, but made clear there were ethical violations.

Last I heard, though, the DA's office had succeeded in thoroughly pissing off some local judges and was under investigation by a special prosecutor and yet another grand jury for intimidation of jurors and other misconduct involving the first grand jury. I don't know what's happened since.
With all due respect to Elon Musk (and he deserves a lot of respect) and acknowledging the truly positive and altruistic motivations (those I assume) -- his idea is good, but not new. It's fine with me if he has resurrected the notion of a "pneumatic" vehicle. Perhaps it's simply a fact that now is finally the time to do this.
> clang's website attempts to demonstrate the superiority of clang by comparing against the error messages from gcc 4.2, a version of gcc that wasn't even the most current when that comparison was published.

This is the latest version available by default on MacOS and FreeBSD (for licensing reasons; subsequent versions are GPLv3), the two operating systems where clang sees most use.
I almost made the mistake of joining a calorie counting startup that didn't grasp this. Luckily I scared them.
node + clojurescript. you can do better than promises.

http://swannodette.github.io/2013/07/12/communicating-sequen...
It 'selects' all the section nodes. That's what .only() is for.
In a word - no. FreeBSD has been around a lot longer than Apple's switch to Darwin. FreeBSD has a long history of preferring BSD licensed code to GPL licensed code. Apple has just financed clang/llvm. Apple has their reasons for using clang, and FreeBSD has theirs. FreeBSD didn't need any pressure from Apple to make the switch.
What people say and what people pay are not strongly correlated. :-)

Coupons can give a 100-10,000% lift very easily, enabling web merchants to be less dependent on black Friday/cyber Monday/etc. They can shift demand earlier in the year to even out fulfillment stress and reduce the uncertainty in sales projections.

In the face of realized revenue vs. some perception of unhappiness, sales and marketing will take the buck eleven times out of ten.
Great question, IMO, but nope, TV was entirely a family event that happened in the living room. I did, however, spend many hours in my room reading books.

edit: And didn't have computers until I was in my teens. I think my first computer was when I was in 9th grade or so, and they were like 3,000 bucks, so no chance of us having one of our own in our room, lol.
He put his money in at the beginning, the govt. put it in after they had a production car and the Model S R&D well underway. They're not at all equivalent in terms of level of risk.

That said, the interest was low, but it was meant as a public good. Without Tesla, I very much doubt the big car companies would be pushing out their own EVs on nearly as aggressive a timescale.
Also from the design document:
Another extreme is the approach, advocated by Rand and ET3, of drawing a
hard or near hard vacuum in the tube and then using an electromagnetic
suspension. The problem with this approach is that it is incredibly hard to
maintain a near vacuum in a room, let alone 700 miles (round trip) of large
tube with dozens of station gateways and thousands of pods entering and
exiting every day. All it takes is one leaky seal or a small crack somewhere in
the hundreds of miles of tube and the whole system stops working.
On my way home yesterday, I thought I'd invent a new natural language.

The definition of what is valid, legal would be simple: if 80% of English speaking population understands it, then it's legal. So typos and stuff like this would not be considered a mistake. THere fore the FolloWing wouldz bee valid alsoo.

But then I'd have to define what it means to speak English, which would require a lot of complex rules, etc. Then I thought it would be pointless, as it wouldn't matter if I wrote this down or not. People would still understand each other and go on about their lives.
What on earth does this have to do with Clang? You realise that Apple adopting GPLv3 GCC wouldn't require all iOS software to be licensed under GPLv3, right?
If properly addressed, I think the latter would be a good filter for companies that aren't impressive or committed enough.

It's more than that, though. You can be terribly impressive and committed and still decide that raising money isn't right for you, at a given moment in time. Raising money is just a tool, not the end... that, to me, is the point more people should focus on.

I think it's also important to realize that "failing to raise money" isn't the same thing as "failing at a startup" unless you're at a point where you absolutely cannot proceed without more money.
>It is that the best available information on what the price of the company should be is already integrated into the current company price.

My point is that there hasn't been any news in the last year big enough to warrant a several hundred billion dollar swing. There simply hasn't been. Just changing emotions.
Perl 5 isn't magic fairy dust you can sprinkle over a project with no deadlines, no pressure to produce anything, and no idea what it's eventually going to be. It's a language for people who want to get something done and who know what that something is.

You are probably thinking of Ruby. Wait, Haskell. Hold up, Erlang. Sorry, Node.js.
The problem is that atmospheric Mach numbers don't follow from first principles, and the Wolfram Alpha values emanate from an empirically derived approximation. An analytical relationship between the speed of sound and air pressure arising from first principles would require a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, for which solution a million dollar prize lies unclaimed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations

Quote: "The Navier–Stokes equations are also of great interest in a purely mathematical sense. Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of practical uses, mathematicians have not yet proven that, in three dimensions, solutions always exist (existence), or that if they do exist, then they do not contain any singularity (smoothness). These are called the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problems. The Clay Mathematics Institute has called this one of the seven most important open problems in mathematics and has offered a US$1,000,000 prize for a solution or a counter-example."

> There's still a chance that Wolfram Alpha is incorrect ...

At the moment there is no "correct". It's all based on field observations, numerical modeling, and estimation.
We do think it is worth it to avoid duplicative efforts.

Suppose you crawl 3 million pages and you pay for the compute and storage costs. Then the next person who wants crawl data goes through the same effort and pays the same costs. Doesn't it make much more sense to have a common pool of open data that everyone can use? Even if the effort and costs are low, they are not zero.

For the smaller frequent crawl, we are working with Mozilla and we are will do the top pages (top according to Alexa).
Grid power is in the proposal as a backup source for cloudy days. I think the main point of covering it with solar aside from his stake in the solar sector was to show that you could do so and still come out cheaper than the high-speed rail proposal.

I agree about the air bearing tolerances seeming like a big problem.
Exactly. Many people think that the cost of movie production is absurd. WHat could they possibly be spending $200m on?! Salaries.
> they can pressure FreeBSD to stay away from GPL3

Yes; Apple can pressure the FreeBSD project to stay away from GPLv3, through their evil Apple magic. In fact, they are presumably pressuring the whole world to stay away from GPLv3, as it has seen almost no adoption outside the FSF! Naughty, naughty Apple. If not for mean ol' Apple, the FreeBSD project would no doubt rush to embrace GPLv3, discarding their horrible old BSD license!
It's actually quiet nice to be able to rename the file and wget -c it.

I don't know if .crdownload has a header, but it doesn't seem to work the same way.
It's a Facebook end-user support issue, not a programming question. What else would you expect from Stack Overflow? Closing it as off-topic is appropriate.
Ask HN: Would you like a medium.com meets markdown writing tool? #mvp
Whenever I generated an html from markdown, I have the urge to do some final touch on page (adjusting line hight, making first letter bigger...), instead of just relying on the built-in theme that tool provided.

I was wondering would you favor a round-trip markdown/html editing experience, where you can focus on writing in markdown, and visually style the page as in medium.com then generate the final html page ?

Something like this: http://www.visual-marks.com/en/demo

Disclosure: I created this MVP, trying to verify if the above-mentioned tool does have value to you all.