skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freaky fast bare bones code editing with evil-mode (vim keybindings): http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil

Do stuff in the terminal from inside emacs---I imagine this would be super good for coding C, you can change your code on one side and make/execute it in the other: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AnsiTerm

Light/dark solarized theme: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

Timestamped notes, diaries, and todo lists with org-mode: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/index.html

Might not be relevant to you personally, but... set it up to be EXACTLY like RStudio (with knitR, etc.): http://ess.r-project.org/, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ESSShiftEnter. (Emacs can be RStudio guys! EMACS CAN BE ANYTHING.)

In addition there's a lovely emacs blogosphere.

- Sacha Chua: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3968124/blog.html#sec-1-...

- http://emacsblog.org/

- EmacsWiki (not a blog but still---such great stuff on here): http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap
But you get a collision right on the first element. Alpha leads off both the phonetic alphabet and Greek alphabet. Delta also collides.
Read through my post. It's not about bomb jokes, but innocent jokes about the security procedures, such as them touching you strange places or taking off yor shoes.
It's not obvious to me what the problem is.

Maybe google drive doesn't like the number of hits it got to this one area.

In any case, this is the base directory:

https://googledrive.com/host/0B_Y4OBMHA7qRaTBGbVNaVFlYWWM/im...
"Something about experiencing time in the rear view mirror or something like that."

The future is already here, just unevenly distributed?

The entire species has not triumphed over disease, especially not against virii. Only an unfortunately small percentage of the population who have medical insurance who live in a rich 1st world country and are somewhat lucky have triumphed (temporarily) over microbes, the rest of the species dies like flies from dumb infections. The rest of the list is innovation as defined by minor evolution or profitability or extreme rareness such that is irrelevant. I think that is the wrong definition.

Innovation is a Dr hanging out with the physicists and next thing you know the peculiar optical behavior of ultra-short wavelength xrays passing thru flesh to see bones is applied to patient care. Or resonating the nuclei of hydrogen atoms using unusual shaped magnetic fields to image the hydrogen density of living flesh is applied to patient care. Or blasting a very narrow, moving beam of radiation carves out a 3-d shape of death, surrounded by living tissue, and hopefully that dead tissue was a tumor. That's innovation.

I would contrast that to, now we'll do exactly the same thing we always did exactly the same way (although perhaps slightly faster or slightly more convenient or slightly cheaper) by looking at a pocket sized wireless graphics display instead of using a desktop sized wire connected graphics display. Boring. Maybe profitable, maybe highly profitable, but not innovative or interesting. The world is full of highly profitable completely non-innovative companies, innovation is hardly a universal positive anyway.
Inspiring Photography of Muhammad Ali by Neil Leifer
That's an awesome explanation. Thank you.
[Making obvious reference to how relevant your username is]
Ask HN: I found documents on the backseat of a taxi. Can I legally use them?
I have found some printouts. Assuming they relate to some company on the stock market how can I ensure I do not pollute my Intellectual Property / avoid sentencing for insider trading or use of unauthorized information?

General question - what makes confidential confidential?

Is it enough to write it on sheet of paper? And how about other pages that don't have this clause?

General, open-ended question... Thanks.
Twitter pays SVP of Engineering $10 million as Silicon Valley tussles for talent
> you have to wait for the flash version to load

Isn't that also true of the JS version? It took several minutes to load for me. There's a loading bar in the middle of the screen, which slowly fills up until the demo is ready to run. That could just be due to the server currently being hammered, though.
My (US) 2012 Mazda is 5k for Schedule A and 6.5k for Schedule B. Maybe high end cars have higher intervals?
Sure you can choose your category. There's just no relying on it coming true when you arrive at the counter.

them-> "Here are the keys to your Dodge Durango"

you-> "no, actually I reserved a 4-door sedan"

them-> "I know sir but we don't have any left"

you-> "huh? I reserved one. what does a reservation mean?"

them-> "it's subject to availability sir"

In other words, (like many restaurants, like many airlines, hotels, etc), you can "reserve" anything you like, it doesn't mean it has been set aside for you.

welcome to the nuthouse
Has anyone tried the Voight-Kampff test?
I read a Joel Spolksy article about invalidating bad software patents. He mentioned it was very easy. How about invalidating 30 patents in 30 days ... From each of us?

http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2013/07/22.html
You'll be right ;-)
I might step on a few people's politically correct toes for saying this, but based on my experience with traveling through Africa I'd say that the richer people think you are, the more corruption you have to deal with, and that the "whiter" you look, the richer people presume you are.
Was given an Aztec once. Thought it was the most embarrassing thing in the world to drive around in.

Of course this was before Breaking Bad
Are people still upset because Matches was hellbanned? Wow.
There is until now no mention whatsoever in this thread of Openoffice, and I'm baffled as to why not.
Sadly, they use the MX paradigm rather than improve the UXperience greatly, but, well, it's a start.
The last query I wrote had 6 or 7 joins in it, a union, and calculated the frequency of answer responses for a worldwide survey (tens of thousands of respondents) in 0.04 seconds with a 1 million row table. You can accomplish an awful lot of business logic in a single SQL query, which makes SQL tremendously useful thing to know. On the other hand it is tedious to tweak an object mapper call to give you the result that you want that efficiently.

This is useful for abstracting away some routine SQL queries, but I think people think simple selects and inserts are more routine than they are actually are.. If you structure your data layer in a way that takes advantage of the power of the RDMBS I find that the only query here is truly routine is insertion on a single row...

We already have a language for expressing relational database queries - SQL. Every time you abstract away this language you risk reducing its expressiveness.
It's most likely a troll.
Micro-ORMs were en vogue for a bit in .NET; I'm not sure about their status at present.

All SQL DSLs seem a bit over-the-top to me; you're layering a DSL atop another DSL (SQL), forcing you to understand the former intimately, along with knowing the latter well enough to write decent queries.
Because running it this way, Google, Microsoft and Apple can't exclude browser competition. With EME they can.
Why wouldn't I? I think it's more flattering to ask for help than to splat your head against a wall.
Experience: I disappeared for 30 years
Steve Jobs video: Loneliness, fatigue, emotional frustration
I think we should just skip the number "11" in missions from now on.. ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
guess I missed that part of TFA.

"He requires his students to closely read original texts (in translation) such as Confucius’s Analects, the Mencius, and the Daodejing and then actively put the teachings into practice in their daily lives."
The one that seems to work historically, is take pictures or make it into a book, then lock it in a safe.

I would say the best practice would be don't ignore it for 50 years, every time new technology looks to overtake old, you need to revisit your data and convert it to whatever technology seems robust enough to to work with.
Even

https://www.google.com/search?q=that+chick+from+mit+with+led...

gets you what you want.
That's one extended LSD trip.
Maybe because you want to keep your code base consistent, maybe because there lots of libraries and wrappers in python, maybe because you can run python on nearly all platforms including the jvm, etc.
The biggest advantage of svn over git for non-technical users is that you can never end up with commit that then conflicts with another submit (as submits all happen on the server).

I have had various beginner git users get very confused when dealing with conflicts -- I have got myself quite confused on occasion too.
People are actually starring it! Is this some sort of subtle joke?

Just to emphatically underline ecopoesis' point, this code is completely insecure, open to the most basic SQL injection attacks.

Op you need to delete the repo asap.
"He and his then wife..." - sure, why not?
1. The texts are subject to copyright. You have to treat them as you would any other copyrighted text.
2. You can trade on the information in the capital markets. The information was disclosed to you inadvertently. You are not an insider, you did not conspire with anyone to to violate the law.
3. The physical papers still belong to the owner. You may have custody of them, but you do not own them.
With respect to trading, this is no different than walking down the street and hearing someone say that "Company X is a good buy."
4. You have a duty to return the documents, but you have no duty not to read them. In fact, you have to read them in order to be able to return them.
Evon Latrail???
The Author of " A Children's Book".<p>Who is Evon Latrail? She has written/recorded a few gospel songs. She had an abortion, but believes "Abortion Is Murder" she even wrote a "Pro-life song! Lol! She wrote a book for kids to help them cope with death. The book is entitled "When Mommy Went to Heaven". And, now here she is posing in a photo....is she trying to be the next "Playmate Of The Month"? I went to Google and YouTube and did a search on this, Evon Latrail. And, I'm still trying to figure out, Who is Evon Latrail?
I'm not trolling at all, I'm serious and I don't understand how all of you can deny what I'm saying. I'm not proposing a theory I'm just laying out verifiable facts.

First of all, there exist people with similar genetics, like twins, but there aren't two people exactly identical, biologically speaking. We call people individuals because everyone is unique. Take actors Shawn Ashmore and Aaron Ashmore: the former is 1.83m the twin is 1.80m. Why can you accept that kind of difference in height but you can't accept that kind of difference (or higher) in any other trait? Like intelligence.

The last point you make is rather moot. There's no doubt nutrition impacts weight as well as general development in a living being, but given that changes spawned by biological processes are immutable and directly related to one's genetic makeup (think immune system or metabolism) those too have to be put on the same level as genetic mutations.
Or worse, joke about bringing shampoo on flights.
I don't know, can you think of a situation where it's easier to complicate things needlessly with millions of superfluous variables? There's a reason we no longer program in assembly languages -- abstraction is helpful, and many useful abstractions can be simplified to a few core concepts. Personality types are abstract frameworks that simplify the modeling of human behavior. The reason they seem like dichotomies is because that's just more practical; we don't go around saying we're only 75% right-handed for example, we just say we're either "right-handed" or "left-handed", and that conveys just about all the useful information we need. Abstractions don't have to follow a lossy compression algorithm, but compression is nonetheless helpful when dealing with overwhelming amounts of information. Just go ask any economist...

I'm not exactly sure what idea/agenda you're trying to push by debating this, it's just another tool and another set of descriptions that can be added on to what is already there, not a replacement for what is there. Just because an app gives a user an ID number doesn't mean that the authors believe their users to be nothing but serial numbers. Simplification helps convey information efficiently. So assuming the larger data set still remains at you're disposal, I really don't understand what there is to disagree with.
By the way, if you are at all interested in this subject, even in the slightest, I highly recommend reading Music of the Primes.
It's not strictly accurate to say that "virtually all domestic firearm ownership" is banned in the UK - it's just highly controlled and restricted. There's roughly 800,000 people in Great Britain (Northern Ireland has it's own, separate, firearms laws) with firearms licences about 80% of which are for shotguns.

In practical terms, firearm ownership is restricted to shotguns and rifles and you've got to be able to demonstrate why you wish to own a firearm - i.e. pest control, sports shooting, etc - and you've got to have a clean criminal record and pass a background check by the police. It's also at the discretion of your local police force to grant you the licence or not, which is likely to depend on things like how suitable the choice of firearm is to it's stated purpose - you'd be unlikely to get a licence for .50 calibre rifle if your stated purpose is hunting rabbits for example.

While the UK doesn't have a huge gun-culture, they're far from banned - as evidenced by there being roughly 1 legally held gun for every 70 people in Great Britain (GB - The UK less Northern Ireland, as noted above NI has different licensing laws).

- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firearms-law-guid...
You might want to check with a biology professor or, even better, a geneticist. You might find out you were wrong all along.

I know it's hard to accept the fact that we're biologically limited in our capabilities and people have a knee-jerk reaction when put in front of their own boundaries, but that doesn't make you right, and it sure as hell doesn't change the impact of genes on our lives or the meaning of words.
For anyone looking for this actually done properly, there's already the SQLAlchemy query-builder layer.
You didn't reserve a car, you reserved a rate along with a minimum standard of car, for some ordering of cars as determined by the company.
I think the numbers given are relative to total effort|movement, not speed, so it applies to anyone, but touch-typing should give you less strain.
A researcher in my field did this (not 52 weeks unfortunately). He basically made his blog into a giant review article [1]. He was a celebrity at the biophysical society conference last year because of all the students that discovered his blog on Google while looking for papers.

[1] http://lettsscience.com/
The author is arguing innovation has slowed to a crawl. Many of the advances you've listed have their origins in breakthroughs made some time ago.

I'd also debate the degree to which many of those are genuine advances. What seems like a great shiny achievement now may be considered foolish or irrelevant in hindsight.

Progress is indeed amazing. But how do you know it is progress, or a greater or lesser progress than before?
This is pretty normal in Australia. I remember seeing quite a few signs and announcements that you were not allowed to joke about the security. Knowing that I couldn't joke around made me actually want to say a joke.
define()'s were expensive in PHP
Car rental companies buy many cars from surplus dealer inventories, often towards the end of a model year. That's where they can get new reliable cars in bulk, and they don't care about color or particular models. So when you get an orange Aztek at the rental counter, that's because nobody bought it on the lot and Hertz scooped it up cheap.
I think a lot of the emotion here comes not only from empathizing with Meem's plight, but the twin realizations that a) the problem is much wider than Meem, and b) individuals are largely powerless to do anything about the wider issue of poverty.

It can be difficult to accept your own powerlessness in the face of large scale social problems. Our instinct is to want to confer the same quality of life we have on those who, through no fault or failing of their own, live in a much poorer society with much poorer prospects for virtually everyone born there. Clearly "society" is to blame, but how do you change a society, from top to bottom? Does Bangaldesh need a Lee Kuan Yew[1]?

So no, it's not tourism. It's a howl of pain when confronted with newly realized powerlessness. And personally, I prefer it to cool indifference.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/From-Third-World-First-Singapore/dp/00...
"When was the last time in living memory that a person could read most works of science fiction and say "Yeah, with the right kind of funding, we can have that in 10 years""

Depends on which works you are reading. Iain M. Banks' Culture is probably several centuries or more out of our lifetimes...
And it surely doesn't stop you from making patently absurd pronouncements.

"Impact" and "decided by" imply very different concepts.
The thing is, all those huge innovations only look huge in retrospect. At the time they were happening it was just a slow schlep from one thing to another.

For instance, Watt is now known as the bringer of the steam age and its accompanied industrial revolution. But at the time, all he did was a really really tiny improvement on the already existing steam engine.

Or Edison is credited with inventing the light bulb. But all he really did was find a half decent way of bringing already existing electricity into homes to power already existing light bulbs. He didn't even do that very well, but it worked.

And what did either of those improve, really? Watt's engine made it possible for miners to work manually a bit longer and slightly safer from flooding. Edison did nothing a candle couldn't. Lightbulbs weren't particularly good back then.

History is littered with Huge Innovations (tm) that were super tiny and incremental when looked at from the context of the time.
Nothing wrong with that, in theory. In practice they're the "demo tape" concept from performing arts but lacking the follow thru that comes with performing arts demo tapes. If you watch a voiceover announcer or actor's demo tape and want more, there is a whole infrastructure revolving around hiring them and contracts and paying scale or whatever. With a TED talk if you hear an interesting talk, you might get, at most, some self promotion or promote an org's website? "If you'd like to hear more, follow me on twitter" isn't worth including.

The other problem varies extremely widely from presenter to presenter, but an example is "here's three graphs, now listen to me spend 18 minutes making the obvious analysis you just did in 15 or so seconds each, as I steal 17:15 of your lifespan". Its the old documentary regret disease; would I have been better served, quicker, by replacing the video monologue (or documentary) with a simple wikipedia URL or a quarter page abstract of a paper?

I still watch them anyway. If 90% of most "stuff" is junk, maybe TED is excellent because its only 80% junk and the good stuff is really good. Best thing out there, can still be mostly junk.
TL;DR: the "creativity" label has been grabbed by the ruling classes to justify their own social position, and has little to do with what used to be called creativity. (This may be an interesting insight, but I'm not sure this argument is well supported by the article.)
Well, I doubt we will scrap it altogether. There is still value in Newton despite Einstein.
Thanks for that. So, one of the question I have before contributing is to ensure that the money gets to the right people. What sort of assurances does this organization make - what, in general, can an organization do to ensure it's not just spent on Foundation "salaries"?
Of course I'm not saying this code is suitable for production. It's just a toy "ORM". How you could possibly think I'm trying to replace something like sqlalchemy with 50 lines of code? Please guys, I'm not gonna delete the repo. It's just for fun. I'll add a warning about the sql injection problems and explicitly tell that this code is NOT for production. Event when I think that is obvious.
Even worse is soft sci fi masquerading as hard sci fi. What you write is correct about hard sci fi but something ultra-soft like "stranger in a strange land" doesn't even involve technology.
All over the world? Really?

I've never been directly threatened via loudspeaker announcement anywhere - other than in Half Life
I don't know what your academic studies are, but you're showing a profound illiteracy in even the most basic concepts of biology. The real problem here lies in the complete misunderstanding of biology and related terms by people, fuelled by flawed media depictions.
Portland, OR is actually pretty nice in that you don't need to leave the airport to rent your car. They're in the parking garage opposite the main terminal.
As someone who has been both upvoted and downvoted much for humor on HN, I'd say this isn't quite accurate.

HN polices itself diligently to keep comments from filling up with one-liners like many other forums. Its a point of pride. No "First", or "welcoming overlords" and all that non-sense here. HN does appreciate sophisticated wit when applied appropriately and moderately.

I've found a simple way to determine if I'm about to collect downvotes is to ask myself "is this joke more like 'that's what she said' than 'In the morning, I shall be sober'?"
That's actually pretty normal. For most car rental companies, the weekly rate is equal to 5 days. So the two extra days likely weren't supposed to cost any more.

(It's a form of price discrimination: business travelers insensitive to cost typically rent for 4-5 days at a time, while personal users can get a better deal on a weekly rental.)
WHSmith take down their website over pornographic e-books
> What seems like a great shiny achievement now may be considered foolish or irrelevant in hindsight

The inverse holds true as well. The Romans invented a steam engine and used it to entertain random passers-by in the square with a wheel that can move in circles on its own.

As for the slowing of innovation. No. I am fairly positive the rate of innovation is increasing at an exponential rate just like it's always been.

But you have to look at the nascent tiny scientific breakthroughs to see the everyday technology we're going to lament as "Based on old innovations" thirty years from now.

I mean, what use is a shaky three-wheel car that can hardly go any faster than a walking human could? You'd be better off using a horse, what a stupid invention and utterly useless innovation.
The better to understand your reply, I have a few questions:

1. Are you a lawyer?

2. If so, in what jurisdiction is your qualification valid?

3. What if the taxi in question is in Zurich, say?

4. Are you going to qualify your answer in any way, or is it absolute?
You're wilfully misinterpreting what I wrote.

Yes, some government employees do bad things. And suspicion of government is widespread. But the response has not been to try and get better government, it's been to hamstring and hobble government instead.

This wilful incompetence in governance is a peculiarly American institution. (I'd have said "unique", but I'm sure there must be at least one other nation out of the 160-odd on this planet that shares it.) And it's hugely detrimental because it contributes to low expectations which in turn lead to poor outcomes.
Based on my experiences of being an undergrad during the first tech boom, the reasoning runs as follows:

You know what's cool? A billion dollars.
Currently doing web and backend stuff with it.
Works very well.

Also put my money in there as a consortium member.

Really a great feel and awesome community.
Why use Draftable when you can use google docs? That keeps version history automatically.