skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Not quite. A time series' purpose is to record the change in value of some quantity over time, while this ties with the notion of persistent data structures and Hickey's philosophy of value and state which is at the heart of Clojure.

The purpose is not to follow a changing quantity, but to formalize state and value. The idea is that any entity's state, at any given moment in time, is an immutable value. You can query the state at time t0, get a value, and examine it or process it for as long as you like. You can then query it again at time t1, and get another, immutable value.

I guess this is a dual way of looking at time series data, with a different emphasis. The time series is intended to help with processing change, while a persistent data structure is intended to help working with a snapshot of the world as it existed in a specific instant.
I wish there where campaigns against exploitative child labor in US and western world. So if a given country's minimum wages are low and they seem to be exporting a lot, the campaign could call for Boycott of products from the country until they raise minimum wages. May be there should be a kickstarter of sorts for launching such campaigns (Money to cover for marketing and other expenses).
a supervisor should need to agree that the person poses a smuggling or other threat

Just a "threat?" How about evidence?
Agreed, but I think it's a pretty big multiplier.
I'm not asking you to doubt Apple. All I'm giving is an opinion based on my own recent data, a small amount of which is privy to me (and for purposes of tact will remain so).

If it's just me, then I'm an anomaly and I should be soundly ignored. Time will tell.

That said, I flirt with dumping Android for IOS every time my contract comes up for renewal. Given the reports of 5S performance relative to everything else out there, I was enthusiastically looking forward to getting one. Now, not so much, and I'm considering sticking with the devil I know yet again.

Yes, both these first world problems will be addressed - I spent many years doing driver work so I know that's a given - but it seems like a real step down given that IOS 7 was in the hands of testers for at least 7 months prior to release (according to friends who revealed themselves as such post-release).
If you application is built on top of Win32 (or some other proprietary API)?
Why has google docs stopped being developed?
If you never vote for a politician that is "tough on crime" by imprisoning kids that decided to smoke a joint, and so do everyone you know - and if you will treat anyone who says it's OK to do this as dangerously insane individual - you have a good chance to take it back. American society has undergone a lot of changes in the last 100 years with regard to many freedoms of many people who were persecuted by the government or denied their rights because of various government restrictions with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual conduct, etc. - and when people realized it is wrong the government eventually had to cave and clean up their act. It is time US realized as a society what horrendous wrong "war on drugs" is. Once they do, no prison industry would be able to resist.
Two .gr / Greek links on HN in a day, nice.
Look, you can walk around those places and come back the same conclusion for Alcohol. If you walk around those places, you'll find more uneducated people, more addicts, more violence, more decay, and so on. It's very easy to conclude 'it must be the drugs', or 'these people are more violent', or 'dumber', but those would be very shallow conclusions. Drugs are a very simple way to hide from ones bleak reality. Getting rid of drugs to deal with this problem would be the same as building more houses to eliminate homelessness.

Louis Ck bit, very funny and sad for it's truth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agVmmw2C0Hw
I second this. It's a big enough issue for me that if Mavericks doesn't fix it, I'll be switching back to Linux.
Excel is used extensively in the financial and trading fields because for many situations (predominantly RAD and prototyping) it IS the best tool for the job. We are talking about companies with serious amounts of cash to throw around at anything that gives them the slightest edge and with some of the smartest people to work for them. They use Excel because for many situations there is nothing better.

Of course the particular use case I mentioned was probably pushing Excel right to the edge of the envelope and the company was actively developing a .NET replacement for it because everyone recognized this. I have no idea how that turned out but I can say that the Excel system was very impressive and very functional.
> I would be happy to give up half my income if I knew it was being used to support students trying to learn engineering or new technology, or help a small family through a rough time, or pay for some fresh grad to get a broken bone set--especially if I knew that that safety net existed for me as well.

You can do this right now, without having to set up any controversial and potentially corruptible political programs, and have a greater certainty that the funds you supply are actually going to the purposes you support.

I don't understand the mindset that these goals should only be pursued through coercive politics.
"local maxima"? The commenter never said that progress was finished, and that nothing more should or could be done. He was merely describing it as better than the prior state, from a utilitarian perspective.

Relative to standards of living in America today, the situation described in the article is abhorrent. But social/cultural progress is not fast, direct, pretty, or easy. America struggled through many stages of oppressive, inhumane periods. Even today's society may be described by future generations as barbaric (e.g. wage slavery, government surveillance, etc etc).
I am unexperienced when it comes to such matters, but:

1. Quitting means you are no longer making money, and if that was an acceptable endgame then you likely wouldn't be employed in such conditions in the first place;

2. I find it extremely unlikely that such factory owners would have a dearth of prospective (eager, even) employees.
Steve Wozniak: Snowden is a hero
I think LaTeX simply doesn't live up to its promise. Yes, its a big improvement over Word, but I still find myself manually adding \newpages, rewriting paragraphs and shuffling text around because figures are placed in completely awkward places or you have pages with just one line of text and a sea of white.

That is in addition to the horrors you unleash once something stops working and you need to dig deeper. dvi2pdf..
How to get kids to eat healthy-tips for parents
I wonder if the newer commits would be along the lines of "Shit! XYZ had massive bug, we have done a hacky workaround for the moment" which might not do their company image much good.
It's not that simple. If you pay more than the next factory over for the same work, you become uncompetitive with that factory, and you start losing contracts. If that becomes bad enough, that will drive you under. This is why minimum wages are important - to make it so your neighbor also has to pay the better rate as well. This breaks down somewhat when your factory is competing with another factory in another country, unless your factory is much more efficient.

Short of world government with universally strong rule of law, there's not an easy solution that I can see.
I'm pretty sure UCI Rule 49 banning small wheels long preexisted 1996. There's little information on the web, but The Spaceframe Moultons describes the ban existing in at least the 1994 pamphlet (it's on google book search if you want to hunt: chapter 9). And certainly there's lots of stuff on the web claiming a near immediate ban, though with no specific date. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
There are many of us who do empathise. While I see a lot of morons who have either outright or subtly blamed the victim, the vast majority have not and in fact for every comment that does blame a rape victim, there are two or three replies which categorically state the opinion is not acceptable.

Have heart :-)
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Wish I was there to shake his hand.
Microsoft Word was never designed to be an ideal tool for creative writing, programming, or any such thing.

Then indeed, its influence over those fields should be allowed to wane.

LibreOffice? Call me again when it gets the Review function right.

I was required to use the Review feature as a sort of half-assed collaborative editing system for tech specs on a couple of projects around 2008-2010. I found it to be a buggy, work-destroying trap of a feature. Things would actually have gone more smoothly for my project Microsoft had never implemented this feature.

I haven't tried any similar features in LibreOffice. If it doesn't do anything totally crazy (like randomly duplicating blocks of text in odd places) it's probably better.

I read an interview with some high-muckety-muck in the MS Office group years ago. He actually said, in response to a question about features vs. bug fixes, that he was sure users preferred new features to bug fixes for old ones. That features got people excited and no one really cared if they lost a little work every few hours.

He didn't say he'd asked any users. He was just sure.

I wish I could link to it, but I don't recall where I read it.
I'd have to agree with pekk's reply in general about trusting what you've written to the filesystem.

That being said, it's easy to securely unpickle builtin or whitelisted types:

1. Use a cPickle.Unpickler instance, and set its "find_global" attribute to None to disable importing any modules (thus restricting loading to builtin types such as dict, int, list, string, etc).

2. Use a cPickle.Unpickler instance, and set its "find_global" attribute to a function that only allows importing of modules and names from a whitelist.

3. Use something like the itsdangerous package to authenticate the data before unpickling it if you're loading it from an untrusted source.

Anyway, this whole issue is largely tangential from what the OP was discussing.
New California Law Protects Online Account Information
If you think that Android doesn't crash, you must have never used it. My Samsung Android phone crashed on me so consistently on a daily basis - I couldn't even use apps like Google Maps or WhatsApp because they ALWAYS crash the system. Trust me, it isn't any better.
I'm getting this feeling that globalization works for everybody but the working man.

If borders were open to labor migration as they are to capital/corporations I bet the situation would be much better.

Borders nowadays exist only for the lowest of classes. In a globalized economy borders seem like a mechanism of opression.

Just my 2c.
As of now, there is no other solution that bars you from Facebook on all of your devices, can last for more than several weeks and gives you a badge to share with your friends, notifying them that you're taking a break.
I would be more accepting of what Snowden did, had he turned over the collected documents to a reputable news organization rather than multiple foreign governments.
The +1 button announcement specifically says "share recommendations with the world" and the messaging around +1's has always been clear that they are public and associated with your identity.

> Today we’re taking that a step further, enabling you to share recommendations with the world right in Google’s search results. It’s called +1—the digital shorthand for “this is pretty cool.” To recommend something, all you have to do is click +1 on a webpage or ad you find useful. These +1’s will then start appearing in Google’s search results.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/1s-right-recommendati...

> 1 is as simple on the rest of the web as it is on Google search. With a single click you can recommend that raincoat, news article or favorite sci-fi movie to friends, contacts and the rest of the world.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/1-button-for-websites...
The Dutch language can do this too ... For example:

hottentottententententoonstelling
To my very great shame I am aware that there is an entire literature on the topic and I have barely even skimmed the surface of it.

Snodgrass, a leading researcher on temporal databases, wrote a book in 90s about it which is available for free from his website[1].

It's good because it was written before some temporal extensions were added in SQL:2003 (I think). The problem is that almost nobody has implemented those extensions (I believe some versions of DB2 have them), so you are left with doing things by hand. The Snodgrass book goes into amazing detail as to why you'd do such a thing and how to do it.

[1] http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/tdbbook.pdf
>>> and sign a mortgage or two before appreciating the meaning of compound interest.

Signing a mortgage is not that easy nowdays, you have to show appropriate income. Though yes, basics of economics, finance and statistics should be taught in every school right after arithmetic. There's not many things that are as important in modern world and as widely being ignored.

>>> House loan, car loan, a child or two, and your life is over

I know a lot of people who have houses, cars and children, and their life is far from over. Unless, of course, you understand by "life" the things you did as a freshman in college - but there's more to life than that.

>>> married people with these kinds of obligations have no political power

Married people with obligations have vast political power in any democratic society. That's why we have mortgage interest tax deductions and healthcare tax deductions - try to mess with those and your political ass would be kicked out faster than you can say "my words were taken out of context".

>>> if you run a perpetual balance on a card

If you do it, you constantly make irresponsible behavioral choices. That's the point - it's all about behavior. The chasm doesn't widen by itself - it's because you keep digging!
This is for personal reasons.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsi...
so what should I use?
One of main contributors to Erlang is Kostis Sagonas from Athens National Technical University. He is one of the main contributors to HiPE (the native code compiler), and creator of PropEr (property based tester).
I think a large factor in the lack of change in payment security (In the US anyway, I can't speak for anywhere else) is the rise of the "protected" card. I have no incentive to protect anything about my Amex.

Card got skimmed a few years ago somehow, Amex called, asked if I was in Nicaragua (I wasn't) they apologized, removed the $200 or so in charges and next-day aired me a new card. Almost zero hassle.

I'd hate to have my debit card skimmed but as far as a credit card... I'm not too worried. The risk isn't mine.
agreed. tldr as I read it: "lol look at these long words I found in the German dictionary"
http://b.vimeocdn.com/us/vod_poster/781/7816_275.jpg -- but I cannot find a large sized one. Try asking @wikileaks (https://twitter.com/wikileaks)
(bow)

Couldn't have put it better.

Sometimes I wonder who is producing the real STUFF, since we are all working in the non-productive tertiary sector.
One way or another, you have to achieve product-market fit.
autossh is great, too if mosh doesn't fit your needs.
I think the analogy also breaks down with regard the opportunity gap that exists in the real world between those born into at least some level of affluence and those born into poverty.

In some ways, you could say being gifted $500k is more like inheriting money versus those who've had to earn it themselves.
The most mesmerizing "Hummm" I know. :)
Did you try to send them just the pdf-file? That worked for me.
The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath
Fascinating exploration of the massive divergence in costs of identical medicine in different countries and how re-patenting and the bigger "system" affects pricing.
How is that anti-Manning?

The greatness in what Manning did is that she knew that she was breaking a law and she knew that there was no way she'd be able to avoid punishment and she did so anyway. To say "she broke a law" and "I don't see why Obama should grant a pardon" is not anti-Manning in any way. If anything, it recognizes that she knew what the consequences are when deciding on her actions.

Also, quoting from the first comment by GuardianMod:

> In a note sent to the Guardian after publication of this story, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

> > "I feel my views have been misrepresented. Do I think Manning should be pardoned? Yes. Do I think that's likely to happen? Sadly no. Re Snowdon I said in the interview that the use of threats to life as a reason to erode civil liberties through intrusive government surveillance can also be as dangerous to democracy as the terrorism such actions claim to be preventing. This wasn't printed for some reason."

So I think we're either positing a massive conspiracy where Benedict Cumberbatch appears to be very pro-Manning/Snowden/Assange but isn't, and employs a PR manager (with a distinctive writing style) to keep up that appearance for some reason, or the state of the world in which he actually is.
When you are young, "Do stuff that's hard."

Don't cash in.
Leaving aside issues not regarding adults (as underage consumption of many things is regulated now, there's nothing new here to be brought into the discussion), do you really think it's up to you to decide what is good and bad for everyone? Especially as you seem to be vastly misinformed on both personal and societal tolerances of both amphetamines and opiates. While both can be dangerously abused, so can be many common chemicals - like alcohol. There are ways beside prohibitionism to deal with it.
I doubt they even know what fraktur is.
On my previous '09 MBP with a 5400rpm drive disabling the pager meant it went from a really slow crappy experience to amazingly fast. I had periodic hangs when I used too much memory, but I would put up with those to have general performance not suck.

I eventually bought a 2012 Air (got sick of carting a 17" laptop around) and so haven't seen any issues (yay for ssd!).

Looking forward to seeing if this is fixed - I've always found page management decisions made by OSX to be less awesome than linux.
Yes but companies like Apple will not allow to run it as a host or guest. Windows mobile and Android are the only candidates.
For safety in nuclear reactors, company thinks small
I wonder if at the end of the coming console cycle there will actually be no need for new "consoles" per se. That is, effectively a "steambox" which will likely just be a well designed, well integrated PC will be cheap enough and powerful enough to compete directly with whatever new console comes out.

Essentially the PC eats the console market?

Removing windows from the equation would be a necessary step in bringing down the price of such a device and would allow Valve to squeeze every last drop of performance out of a device in the same way that Sony and Microsoft do with their respective console OS's.
Ask HN: Your favourite programming related screencasts?
We had an awesome thread about books, would be great if you could share your favourite programming screencasts/videos.
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Two words: Personal Responsibility. The fact she admit she froze up would in my mind maybe give the person the benefit of the doubt that he was not trying to be purposely malicious. That is the real issue here when we want to throw around terms like "sexual assault". What matters is the intent of the person when they commit these acts not that technical some sexual contact was made that was not invited when two adults in a bar that are drunk are engaging in personal contact. Nothing in this article tells us the Joe intended to assault her, only that he made a very bad decision in making a move like that before being invited to. Maybe he felt that was were it was leading from the fact that she never pulled away during 3 personal contacts that were progressive. Maybe she froze or maybe she was just too drunk to be fully aware. You have to evaluate both sides to see if the evidence points to specific motives. That is the real issue here.
I like the variable naming in the code. It's good that they didn't use one/two letter variables that span more than five lines of code. Short, meaningless variables names--used for things other than index values is one of my big pet peeves. I had to use somebody else's code as the base for a project and it was full of two letter variables that didn't mean anything. Gave me a big headache working on it.
> Most of these billionaires have epic mining or extraction concessions from the government of Russia, concessions that are the result of political favoritism and crony and nepotism.

The article is pretty terse, and doesn't go into detail on how anyone in particular acquired their wealth. It doesn't enumerate the particular 110 people and attempt to sort the ones who acquired their wealth via illegitimate methods from those who didn't.

It simply implies that there was some unified pool of wealth owned by an abstract aggregation called "Russia", and these 110 people have claimed tremendously disproportionate shares of this wealth, without any substantive evidence being offered that this is what actually happened.

Sure, perhaps the Soviet state controlled most of the wealth within its territory while it existed, but the Soviet state acquired control of that wealth by simply seizing it from its previous owners; can we be absolutely sure that none of those 110 were simply using the corrupt institutions of the subsequent Russian state to reclaim wealth that was properly theirs in the first place?

I'm not making any apologies for the Russian government here; it's entirely possible and quite probable that many people in Russia do indeed manipulate a corrupt political system in order to capture other people's wealth for themselves. What I'm criticizing here is the article, which presumes, without arguing the case, that people owning large amounts of wealth is somehow itself evidence that abuse has occurred, and which implies through its wording that wealth originates, initially unowned, in some kind of aggregation.
What I learnt bootstrapping my startup from Thailand for six months
My key issue with Lyx has been that the document interface is not in fully human format. References and tags show up as fields visible to the user. To create a cross-reference, user must insert tags at the target location first (Microsoft Word keeps track of headings, captions, etc. by itself for cross-referencing). Also, hyperlinks are not clickable (the last time I checked).

Edit: I did not downvote, and cannot explain why you got them.
Semi-OT: For e-book reader owners: you can use pandoc to convert from HTML to ePub.
Because society needs you and who are you thinking you can take decisions for yourself not asking the government for permission? Get in line, you dangerous anarchist hippy, and be a good cog. And if you try to harm yourself again, we will put you in the cage with most violent and sociopathic people we could find and keep there until you understand we're doing this for your own good. That provided we don't kill you while trying to take from you dangerous chemicals that aren't good for you.
Long-lived Salamanders Offer Clues to Aging
Haven't we been hearing similar statements for YEARS now? Yes, yes we have.