skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"not sustainable ... or practical"

The thesis is that the publishers pushed for the rule because it was cheaper. Your view is aligned with that thesis.

The author doesn't propose a two-space solution. The author explicitly says that you should feel free to use either one space or two spaces. Instead, the author points out that the older solution was based on having knowledgeable typesetters.
> they would still be paying $4500/week

I don't understand this. If you are paying:

$1500 for a 30 hour week
+$2000 for administration costs
-------------------------------
$3500

Am I missing something on how changing the $2000/week pay to $1500/week makes the price go up by $500/week?
Langauge Complexity
> I think demand-side investment by organizations like YC, 500 Startups, etc. -- many of which seem fairly indifferent to pedigree

They are indifferent to pedigree because they are a new line of pedigree.
SORBS is blocking Twitter servers again, do not use SORBS DNSBL.
Smartcard is the whole computer, minus power supply and the clock. You are right that it's smaller than one x86 and the rest of your notebook or desktop though. Still you'd have to investigate all the hardware and software on your desktop that you use with the smartcard too -- how would you know that the desktop isn't just pretending to use your smartcard? And if you trust the desktop, why do you waste the time with the smartcard, as long as you make the whole setup only for you?
Deregulation of the financial industry lets risk-hungry banks take ever greater risks, causes the financial crisis, costs taxpayer money, causes high unemployment, and leaves the rich back where they started before the crisis while the poor still suffer.

Dismantling of welfare programs in order to cut costs in order to lower taxes on the rich stops critical services to the poor and keeps them trapped in poverty.

Tax liens sold to rich investors lets them practically steal homes (or get them at bargain prices) and evict the owners in order to flip them off what are sometimes ridiculously small amounts of debt compared to the home value owed by the not-well-off (but not ridiculously small compared to their financial situation).

And that's just off the top of my head... I'll give you a hint, most of the laws concerned are related in some way to cutting taxes or letting rich money play more (ie. make more money).
examples are in the how-to guide complete with pretty screenshots.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/physics/research/quantum/qcloud/pro...
Well, even if the employer pays the cost on paper, because the supply of labor is relatively inelastic, realistically, employees, at least in a competitive labor market, eat that cost through lower wages. I’m convinced it’s a way for the government to hide half the cost of insolvent social programs from people who don’t know about the employer share and/or don’t understand that they’re likely paying most of the cost.
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That is arguably a bug in wordpress.

I've, like you, noticed that wordpress seems to change (some? all?) spaces to non-collapsing spaces (not sure exactly what mechanism is used);

this article and your comment makes me curious as to why. Is it an explicit attempt to support two spaces after periods?

If so, there's a way for wordpress to fix the the bug; leave most spaces alone, but convert two spaces after a period or other sentence ending puctuation (and only there) to a &ensp; or &emps;. But it's hard to say for sure this would be an improvement if we don't know what the heck wordpress is trying to do in the first place with it's odd behavior; i've never seen it documented.

I also hadn't known that linotype did/does collapse whitespace (including newlines) too -- the heritage of HTML's similar behavior?
Awesome, now I can DoS your SSH with only 3 requests per minute.
Yes, sorry about the ambiguity.
Cinavia - analog watermarking and steganography
Also it is during such episodes, there are high chances that you will also experience what I call as 'recursive wakeups', several levels (mostly 1 or 2 levels deep) of indirection out of which you are unrolling to wake up like in the movie 'Inception'. I would feel very certain that I am awake, and have come out of my sleep paralysis by doing what ever tricks others have also pointed out (rolling sideways, wiggling toes, sitting up on bed etc), only to suddenly realize that the 'presence' is still there and panicking and eventually realizing I am still not fully awake ! Absolute terror until then :)

In fact, I would not be surprised if the writers who came up with the concept of 'Inception' and 'The adjustment Bureau' movies are probably themselves sufferers of these conditions (lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis) or at the least have heard accounts/experiences from some one in their circle (family, friends) and did further research.
War.. Most of the time I have been alive, the U.S. has almost had a military engagement someplace. What percentage of middle class' taxes are fed to the for-profit machine that in turn feeds the military?

War serves another purpose, too - wealth transfer, and that helps keep the work week at 40 hours.
Definitely agree with you on the space/volume issue, but I don't think most of that weight gain comes from modularity. Because 400 grams is a lot of weight. I think it's probably mostly the hard drive weight.
The new Kinect for the XboxOne seems to have vastly improved on the limitations of the Xbox360 Kinect. The PrioVR seems to be too ahead of its time. We don't have the battery tech to power all the tech you would be carrying on your body to play any immersive games for an extended period of time. Therefore, you would more than likely be tethered to a power source. If you need to stay in one location, might as well use a Kinect where you can be entirely free of wires. Powering just a visor would seem more feasible than a whole gaming rig. In addition, the current get-up seems cumbersome. I don't imagine that most consumers want to spend time strapping a multitude of sensors to their body just to play a quick game. The sensors themselves are great, but until we can shrink them down enough to embed them in actual clothing, I don't think we'll see them in commonplace usage.
So does InDesign, which uses the TeX algorithm, QuarkXPress, and just about any other application that lays out text. Even Word! Think of that! A program far more suited to laying out a visual medium (i.e., a visual program) could be as good or better than a 35 year old programming language that has a default typeface that's pretty much the most hideous ever designed by humankind (Knuth couldn't have done a worse job on Computer Modern).
Newton's Post
...or is it concern mixed with fear?
Colourful Texture
That isn't the fault of double spacing[1], it's the fault of HTML for being a shit system for typography and Wordpress for trying to fix that in a broken way (using a space followed by nbsp rather than an en-space (or whatever value of wider space you prefer)).

[1] I think double is the wrong term here since most people don't actually want two full spaces, but creating anything else is too hard most of the time (or impossible on a typewriter).
Can an optical physicist comment on how the phase-shifting is accomplished? What do they mean by "phase"? (I would have expected this to mean polarization phase, but this chip seems to be based not on polarization but on relative phase shift?)

Also, that CNOT gate is… weird. How can post-selecting scale, if each CNOT gate in the circuit reduces the chance of a successful run by 89%?

Another also, the interpretation of the CNOT gate given in the tutorial seems reversed – photon mode 1 corresponds to control input 1; mode 2 corresponds to control input 0, at least according to the simulator.
There is however a problem with interactive devices: any type-setting is doomed because the setter has no control on the output.

Knuth could do TeX because the aim is to produce fixed-typed text (barring proportionality). Not so on the Internet. It is not that the web standards despise typography: it is that the web is not a place in which to SET (which implies "fix") types. And that is why it is so hard to get a compelling, attractive web page.
Nope. Not more than they do now.

Look, the point isn't the specific protocol, the point is that it's possible.
Oh, I know. I wasn't going for a solid experiment. I was curious to know where these guys came from and noticed the pattern in the process, one that I'd noticed before.
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For Developers, a Downside to a Public Twitter
Typography is complex and Word is quite inadequate for that.

For example, take the simple subject of rivers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

LaTex knows about those and will try to avoid them.

Latex provides end results which are acceptable, typography-wise. Word is merely a word processor and cannot be trusted to produce the actual end result.
What are you talking about? Word does not manage spacing (and other layout) on the level LaTeX does. Word processors usually allow you to type multiple adjacent spaces, which does not make any typographic sense. Instead, LaTeX uses spaces of different variable widths and heights. In some configurations, it will follow the double-width space after a sentence-convention.
That appears to be his platform replacing the space+space he typed with space+nbsp.

As a fan of double spacing after sentences, in my own systems I replace space+space with nbsp+space. Attaching the non-breaking space to the previous word (opposed to the next) avoids that odd indentation behavior you've cited. Instead, it means in edge cases, the last word of a sentence might be wrapped to the next line when its width alone doesn't merit the wrap, but most readers' eyes cannot perceive that.

I've found it disappointing that HTML/CSS has no ability to specify preservation of two inter-sentence spaces while retaining conventional word-wrap semantics. I suppose in some ideal world, it would not be simply "preserve" what is typed, but "detect sentences and apply my preferred spacing," allowing adjustment by the reader in a user style-sheet.
Is this guy an anti-proportional representation activist? Because his post sure reads like it. The goal of the system is to have the proportions in the Bundestag match the proportion of the vote. There may be some math involved in getting the right mix from the right areas, but the goal is quite simple and easy to understand, as is the result.

I think proportional representation would improve many of the democratic systems in the Western world.
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In every discipline, there are those who care too much about such pointless trivialities. I just hope that the author leaves the correct pause at the end of every spoken sentence, too. But I pray that I am not caught up in that conversation!
huh? is that china is just like this? or not?
Yes, not to mention that it simply means people that don't fit their pedigree filter are available. I have met brilliant hackers from MIT/Berkeley/et al, I have also met average hackers from those schools, and brilliant hackers from other schools. My experience leads me to believe the correlation between brilliant hacker and school (if any) is positive, but not dominating. The again maybe that is just me hoping, not having come from their vaunted halls :)
Looks like there is no CORS support: an OPTIONS calls result in a 403 Forbidden, and 'Origin' headers don’t get us 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' response headers.

Which is a shame because a Web-only client would have been fun - and easy as the API is wide open and doesn’t require registration.
The reason this is happening at all in the first place is because html / css / js is the only platform agnostic toolkit. Everything else lacks support somewhere, and the big businesses behind technologies will actively avoid supporting someone elses otherwise cross platform framework.

Same thing with dynamic languages. You cannot write a Java, Python, or Ruby app and expect it to run on any device. Just doesn't work when you need to also distribute the runtime framework on a per platform basis.

Similarly, you have semi-portable C# and C++ through Mono and Qt that reach pretty much every major platform (the primary limiter is ios being so locked down) but they both need to do ugly repackaging of their entire toolkit runtime and framework that has to somehow jump through hoops to get installed locally whenever you try to install such a program.

But you can expect html, css, and js on everything. And that is why everyone tries to stick completely tangential computing techologies (html is not a widget toolkit) and hope for the best. Because it is the only write once, run everywhere where the run everywhere actually happens, even if your site ends up being double in size for mobile and desktop versions or reactive with tons of overhead in element scaling, plus all the conditionals for old versions of IE, having to import require.js or something to check for feature compatability, etc.

But you can work with that. You can write megabytes of JS to try to weasel around the mess. There is literally nothing you can do to get a python app running on average joes iphone.

I really hope qml can take off in a big way, and become a standard of some sort. It is in my experience the portable ui toolkit for actual applications that is portable and looks native since 5.2, and it even lets you script it in js so you never have to compile anything with a qmlscene binary. And it is designed ground up to have any resource local or networked.
why, God, why?
I think LaTeX is overprescribed. It's great for academic papers, but a lot of the output from canned styles I see is lacking. Don't expect to get perfect typography if you don't understand the desired proportions between type size and spacing (see for example Bringhurst). LaTex is difficult to use if you are new to it or trying to do something custom.

Personally, I'd much rather use commercial software like InDesign/QuarkXPress and never touch LaTeX again. With that software, you can manually and visually tweak things like word spacing for particular paragraphs to solve problems like rivers. Of course InDesign will not automatically make documents look nice either, but it's easier to do if you know what you're trying to achieve. This is the kind of software used for modern magazine layout.

edit: smalltalk below also posted a similar reply as I was typing this, but is hellbanned
If Sleep apnea were the cause (see my comment elsewhere above), then it would explain why rolling of tongue would lift it. Since tongue falling back on your throat is one of the causes of obstructive sleep apnea.
Working part-time at minimum wage is viable?
I wonder if this deal was staged from the beginning. Stephen Elop leaves Microsoft to become CEO of Nokia. He can't turn things around there (and/or may not have had any intention to do so), does his due diligence and shops the company back to his former employer, and is back at Microsoft. Sounds a bit too convenient, doesn't it? I know similar things happen elsewhere, but this is all I could think about throughout this--a super easy and convenient acquisition.
Word does just fine, thanks very much. My evidence: the millions of satisfied (or uncaring) Word users.
>Are you serious? What about sales tax? that is 10% in California. Throw that on top. What about property tax? Car Tax?...

Wtf? That's not how taxes work, guy.
Press Release from the City of London Police with more information: http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/Departments/ECD...
actually it makes perfect sense.
How sure are you of this?

I was thinking about getting into a top school at this age, although I was thinking CalTech and MIT for science instead of the Ivies, and while they were a special case (as in, not really planning on spending anything to speak of on our educations), my rich parents were very much not. Of course, one of the reasons for that was I'd been told for as long as I could remember that I had to study and make good grades or I'd end up "digging ditches" as a career.

Heinlein wrote a book, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that you tend to read at about that age which has a hidden sub-agenda of telling you exactly what you need to do to get into one of those schools. Hmmm, his first juvenile also touches on it, but its much more of an aside.
The core problem is basic math: X+Y > X. (For positive values, of course.)

Modern phones are marvels of stripping away everything not completely necessary, with the result that they're the size they are. Adding modularity means adding enclosures around the modules, which adds size and weight - and for something as small as a phone, practical physical limits of enclosures add up to a non-trivial increase in size. Separability between two components means adding shielding, casing, air gaps, etc for each module, to just (say) have a removable battery means at least 2mm greater size - not trivial when the whole device is less than 10mm thick.

Should you accept that additional volume & mass (and cost) required to implement any degree of modularity, you're faced with the tradeoff: would you rather have significantly greater performance instead? You could apply that aforementioned 2mm to 50% more battery, or quadrupling storage, or etc.; which is more desirable, a replaceable battery or a longer lasting one? Most customers would prefer more performance.

To your thoughtful point of solving the problem instead of complaining at it, consider that the phones are reaching the limits of physical and computational need/usability: with continued miniaturization of all components, we can free up enough space within the device to apply it to lower-priority use such as modularity and optical interconnections.
Has anyone done a Kinect + Oculus demo yet? Perhaps the last gen Kinect wasn't high enough resolution to get it right, but the next gen may be enough to do a somewhat convincing in-body effect.
>I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly worried about that happening to the point where I want to take guns, tear gas, and helicopters away from the police.

If we were to learn that they found it to be acceptable practice to use these weapons indiscriminately on innocent people in their efforts to catch the bad guys, I might want to take away their guns, tear gas, and helicopters.
It is just too expensive. I would like to see stats which shows it as 'the top foundry', perhaps only companies which raised $1M qualify?
Encarta, Britannica and Citizendium have already proved many other approaches and/or management styles substandard.

Getting rid of notability: Are you talking about something like Wikia? Currently the largest network of gaming sites (30M unique views/mo.), but overall progress has been surprisingly slow since the start in 2004. Jimmy Wales as a founder and 11M raised less than a year ago.
Last time that I flew SouthWest, they had specific "charging seats" (that had power outlets and USB sockets for charging) in their terminal. (Note: this was maybe 2008 ~ 2009)
The problem is trying to mix a proportional system with a representative one where each district elects one member of parliament, which then has to fit in with the results from the proportional system. In theory, this would allow for all districts to elect members of party A directly (first vote in Germany) and vote for party B in the second vote. You would then be faced with the impossible problem of fitting the 299 members of party A into a parliament that is – by the outcome of the proportional vote – supposed to be 100% party B.

In my opinion, the best way to combine direct election of members of parliament with a somewhat proportional representation is preferential voting, attempted in the UK as ‘Alternative Vote’.
http://csunplugged.org/

"Computer Science Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around."

Definitely worth a mention.
In addition, LaTeX is clear that the preferred separation after a sentence is 1.5 spaces. The End.
> Germany's best-selling PC magazine
c't periodically distributes "Bankix"
on their CD.

>I believe that quite a few people
actually use it.

That sounds like a great attack vector. How secure are factories where discs are pressed? Even without access to the factory you could buy a bunch of magazines and repackage them with compromised CDs.
I think HN took the API down about 10 min ago.

Before people start iterating every code variation to hit the API and fill their DBs, I think you can download the data from here: http://www.bls.gov/data/
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That's a pretty poor analogy.

A better one would be 'Would a judge give a warrant to allow the FBI to place a GPS tracker automatically on everyone who visited a store that was known to sell child porn?'

The answer to that might be yes.
contact like calendar management is a massively Unsolved problem online. however this approach (a sort of yellow pages for everyone) barely scratches the surface.

there are many very good reasons for me to keep a copy (perhaps a local cache) of my own contacts details, but the big one for me is what did I contact them about, when and why. there are a few services attacking these - writethatname, ActiveInbox - but it's all a bit over the place. for example I am struggling to co-ordinate call logs on iPhone and Skype - hell I cannot even get my call logs off iPhone.

this is not a solution I fear to the main issue - logging contact events, not updating contact details
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PR gives disproportionate influence to fringe parties. Some people like this (especially when it's currently their fringe that is kingmaker) and some don't.

People discussing election systems need to understand Arrow's theorem and then understand what they're trading off with particular systems.
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From the article> The customers who are in the position to perform grand feats of copyright infringement are actually the exact same customers who would be filing the copyright infringement lawsuits. As long as the open recording and sharing of full broadcast-resolution TV stays in the realm of the media production companies making the TV in the first place, no one gets upset.

And this is exactly what the "media production companies" just don't get. The hypocritical "do as I say, not as I do" mentality when it comes to their customers goes a long way towards creating the environment they now find themselves in, rampant piracy of their works.
This is great. BLS was a huge help to me in my last year of university when I was freaking out trying to figure out what to do with my life. Just seeing what professions most people have, and which ones are growing vs. shrinking, was very illuminating. Methinks more people need to see this data.
I think there are a lot of people nowadays who care about privacy and all these NSA related topics, but in the end there are far more people who actually don't care. Maybe they don't understand, maybe they are just too lazy.

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Why do you equate lack of population growth with a bad future?

USA was a perfectly fine country back in 1990 when it had 250m people; and it would be a perfectly fine country if it'd have 250m people today instead of the current 315m.

In fact (contrary to "nothing that increases happiness half as much as having a child") I'd say that the Earth might be a happier place if the future had, say, 1-2 billion people instead of the current 7b or expected 10b - as everybody would have a larger share of the fundamentally limited natural resources, freshwater and space.

If the current resources were distributed somewhat fairly, then noone could have a lifestyle approaching even the "first world" working class - quality life is possible either for an unfairly small part of population, or if there is less population in the first place; and low-by-choice fertility is the most reasonable way to achieve that.