skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Could that be used to outlaw open source implementations? It's not strictly necessary after all...
And there's also tons of people who don't necessarily like using the service, but somewhat forced to for a number of reasons. I, for one, don't find the service that useful, however, most employers find it particularly odd if you don't have one.

So, you're kind of put into an odd position by electing to go against the service in this day and age. Granted, no one is putting a gun to your head and telling you to use LinkedIn. Yet societal pressures (specifically in professional circles) have somewhat made it difficult to go against the grain.
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i'm new to java web app development but i don't really know the book to start with. Any help will do me good. Thanks.
Your comment about the Ewoks sent me to Google because I can't believe that Ewoks were Kasdan's idea

I found this interesting story about Kasdan petitioning for an "evil Ewok": http://www.kinnemaniac.com/2012/04/01/no-evil-ewoks-the-stra...

Edit: and I just noticed the date of the story. Blah, why did Google have it as the first result for Kasdan and Ewoks?
Yes Quarterdeck (DESQview) was awesome for multitasking. I used it to run a multi-node BBS (two phone lines) on a 286! Multiplayer games, split-screen chat. Though for games Galacticom was so much more awesome at multitasking--I actually interviewed there in high school.

And don't forget Microsoft took a big crap on the Internet with free copies of Frontpage ;-)
I think a solution for this would be to have the "self driving" speed limit be 10-15mph faster then the normal limit on highways. Since driverless cars can react faster this wouldn't cause more accidents and it would allow driverless cars to keep up with traffic. Plus, if traffic slows there's nothing stopping the driverless car from slowing down as well.
Err. here in Australia thats what a taxi is now.
When Taxi adoption rate is high, one minute should be enough. Available cars are everywhere.
There's no reason for a self-driving car to prioritise adhering to the speed limit over avoiding a collision though.

Any sufficiently advanced self-driving AI will try to avoid being rear-ended like that. Even better, when a collision is unavoidable, an AI has a much better chance at making the 'right' decision as to how to crash.
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Computers DO get cheaper every year. That Core 2 Duo machine you bought in 2006 might have cost $2000, but those components (if you can even find a place to buy them) would likely cost about $300 today.

It's unfair to say that they don't get cheaper considering that a Mac Mini is an entirely different class of machine from an Apple II, in so many ways that it's ridiculous to even try to list them here.

As for your statement about $570 vs $200... what do you base that on?
Why condom use rate is so low in the third developing countries?
There are many organization s that deliver condoms to the third worlds and developing countries. But, especially in Africa, the recipients are going to be so used to getting condoms for free, that once a project is over they will refuse to pay money for themselves. So, the condom use rate is low after the project is being done. Our team is trying so hard to focus on this problem for now.
I think it will be less. 20. I think in 50 years it will be illegal to drive manually on a public road.
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We can't even implement NFC payments because carriers are interested in the percentage of the revenue.
Sadly judging from this, there's no way self-driving are going to be in mainstream reality. With all the insurance, oil and other companies in the way....
I hope I'm proven wrong.
Google had a blind man try out one of their cars a while back.

http://youtu.be/cdgQpa1pUUE
Obviously angersock! Why would one not use the free unlimited luxury of spaces in ones own marketing material? :)
I managed to squeeze into the 2000 characters limit, didn't know it would beat the formatting out. Should have blogged and posted the link here instead. My mistake!
The number of accidents has perhaps stayed roughly the same but there's a hell of a lot more planes flying every day now. So it's highly likely that the accident rate per flight has dropped dramatically. (Though I don't have the data handy to support either hypothesis).
Please don't start on that, because it's very misleading. Everyone involved settled that dispute years ago (2009): http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10357665-54.html?tag=mncol

Others had crucial roles as well, but without Musk providing the funding and management, Tesla would have just been another dead electric car company.
You straightaway want it to overtake lemans and lamborghini's did i not mention that it is still in the development phase?? all i can say is be patient and hope for a better product.
The second part might be true, but human-driven cars are going to be on the road for a very long time. As long as they are here, accidents will happen, and insurance companies will find a way to charge you for it. Geico et al will never stop existing, so long as there is the possibility of human error.
Thats exactly that they are looking for.
What about self driving bicycles? You just need to peddle, and the integrated road traffic system removed the error prone human element completely from the equation.
People will still want and demand car insurance. Stuff still happens, and I want my car and injuries paid for. So they'll still be around. It may be a smaller industry, but it won't kill them.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6609496
This is extremely cool. For anyone curious what the various compression levels of gzip do, the full explanation is here: http://www.gzip.org/algorithm.txt. Basically the higher the compression level, the more times it spends searching for the longest possible matching string to point to.
I really hope you're right about them not being his idea.
Can someone explain why 7 and 13 (max 91) with 5 as public key, gives 29 as the private key for RSA? I wish he had explained that bit too.
It was only 60 years between the Wright brothers and the moon landing. And considering the rate of technological advance is increasing, I think autonomous vehicles will take much less time. I can't even imagine what things will be like in 50 years.
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Found some more interesting stuff into the rabbit hole:

http://pastebin.com/w8RLk3iq
When you execute a command that takes a long time to run and you want to send it to the background you can do:

ctrl + z

then, to send it to the background:

bg

and, to get it back from the background:

fg

Also, I really like to use "for", like:

// get the size of each file or directory in the current directory

for i in `ls -1`; do du -hs $i; done;
We've heard recently of HR departments saying that, because a study showed that sociopaths are (obviously) less likely to have Facebook accounts, people without Facebook accounts are bad hires. There is no personal data that corporate America will not find some way to use for evil.
Ah, the heady days when merely having an ISO mounter on windows caused cheat-detection software to ban you.
Ask HN: Why don't most startups use Oracle?
There was an article a while back where Marc Andreessen said that none of the startups that he invested in use Oracle hardware. The link is: http://www.businessinsider.com/boxnet-2011-9

My question is: why not? I understand that the best way for a two-person team to get a prototype up is by bringing up 3 EC2 machines with PostgreSQL on one, MongoDB on another, and the Rails stack on the third. This is when you have no money; but it seems that even when a company has closed a post-Series A round and has plenty of money, there is still resistance to buying a huge Oracle/Sun box with terabytes of RAM and petabytes of storage on a SAN, and instead there's usually a team of engineers doing life support on a Mongo or Cassandra cluster. It's worth pointing out that three engineers at $100K each is probably the amount one would pay for a few huge boxes.
Sad that the user is being lost in these discussions. I get that people are worried about a slippery slope and boundaries, but this is clearly a better user experience for someone who searched for Southwest Airlines. Put yourself in the position of a human being who just performed a search for Southwest Airlines, would you honestly be angry with that result? No, of course not.

It's ironic that every time one of these "omg, google is pushing organic search results off the page" posts comes up, it's the general public who's obsessed with dollars, whereas Google seems to be concerned for the user. Google makes a ton of money off of advertising because they know how to provide useful user experience. Which isn't surprising really, they have a lot more vested interest in making sure they provide such an experience than arstechnica do.

Sure they want to find ways to align their incentives with the user's incentives, but come on people: think of the people they saved clicking through to www.cheapair.com and www.insanelycheapflights.com
Ask HN: Which SaaS products have saved you the most money?
Looking at this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608956
there seems to be a variety of points of view about SaaS products and product types.
Although it's possibly subjective and hard to quantify, what has saved you the most money (and/or time if you prefer)?
I was excited for about five seconds, and then I realized that this thing is way the hell more complicated than I need.

All I want is a way to put the current weather on my lockscreen under the time, and to put immediate access to camera, flashlight, and Google Now there. Everything else I'm perfectly comfortable doing myself. Any suggestions for an app that does that?
Sometimes you have to take a risk. The Segway could have panned out much more differently than it did, there was a chance that it could have succeeded big.

Also, most startups fail.
The difference is only a few inches!
Abrams: I love you.
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fantastic. Thanks for this
Is it "later in November" yet?
Chargebacks don't exist in the Dwolla universe. Its not a credit card.
Bravo, EFF.

Seriously, that is one heck of a broad warrant, namely the private key used to decrypt all business records of all customers.
Why would the premium be higher than what it is right now?
Number of miles don't matter much if the driving conditions are similar.

I'd rather have them say, we can encountered 100,000 different conditions (and combinations) and we know how to react to them.
We have disputes though.

You can read about them here: http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/1203299-how-...

and here:
http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/87923-file-a...
Like airlines. Few own a private plane, but airlines front the capital and operations, just like mobility companies of tomorrow will be the bulk of self-driving car purchasers.
I am the author of this post and quoted in the title is the first thing I heard when I told someone I wanted to start up. It's been more than 2 years now and I have a great product to show the world. I would love for you guys to share your stories with the HN community as well.
Also, you could take a train and a self drive taxi would efficiently handle getting you to and from the train station. This is a huge enabler for public transit that can focus on more efficient high capacity routes.
Wow, this is a incredible visualization of how compression works. I never understood how it worked before, but the simple mentioning of pointers and then that video was all it took for me.

I've always wondered if this is true: If we approach infinite computational power, does the amount of information we need to represent data decrease? (Excuse any incorrect use of my terminology here.) I think about a number like pi that, as far as we know, has an infinite number of digits, and theoretically speaking every message is contained in that number. So if we just get the pointer of where that message is contained in the number and then calculate the number up to that pointer then we'll have ourselves the message. Hence, more computational power, less information needed.
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Try Twilight. Its reason for existence is to redshift and dim your screen in the evening hours so the excess blue light doesn't impact sleep quite so much, but if you don't like the red shift you can disable it and it'll just auto-dim.
That's what an auth step is, like nahname mentioned. Many (most?) credit card charges come in two parts: the auth, which appears on your statement and kind of verifies that your payment won't be rejected, and the settlement, which actually finalizes the charge. When you buy something from a large online retailer like amazon, they immediately do an auth, and then only settle when the item is shipped. At least I think that's how it works.
Go all the way! Tune the traffic signals preferentially for these electric taxis. Configure them to pick up multiple fares going the same direction. To use train tracks for long distance.
Being driverless doesn't mean this kind of thing is necessarily going to be economically viable. You need density to optimize taxi operation and keep it affordable. There would need to be a lot of taxis driving themselves around for them to be so readily available in this kind of setting, and for that you need widespread adoption.
(Its not a Huffman tree. When you replace a fragment with a reference to previous content, its termed 'dictionary coding'. Huffman trees are what you use for `entropy coding`, which is how you compress the bits you didn't zap with the dictionary.)
Unfortunately this is true, much like all the news about the Model S fire. Plus many people have an inherent distrust of technology. I would go so far as to think many people would see an accident caused by an autonomous vehicle to be somehow worse than a "normal" accident.

That said, it does seem inevitable; just a matter of time (perhaps a lot of it).

Finally, I suspect it will be necessary (more for PR than technical reasons) to require a capable driver ready to take over in case the autopilot were to fail, much like with commercial airliners, at least during the initial adoption period. And if so, it also seems inevitable that the majority of crashes ostensibly caused by these vehicles will in fact be due to drivers taking control and making poor decisions at inopportune times. You know when people complain about GPS because it led them astray, but it turns out the real problem was they didn't trust it in the first place, so ignored its directions?
why would premiums be higher than they are now? Premiums for automatic should be lower. No reason for current premiums to go up. With all other automatic cars on the road, even a man driven car is less likely to be in an accident than currently. Premiums all around should go down.
And there is still doubt we live in a police state?
This is the beauty of an open protocol. No matter how much market share one client gets, if it screw up everyone just move to the next.

Imagine if everyone were using gshare and the company decided everyone had to use gshare+ and all the data was dependent on their servers/network. Good luck trying to keep an older version or trying an alternative after one company dominated the majority of the market.
May be cause buying boxes do not reduce the need in engineers to take care those boxes. So you pay twice.
Yes, more likely it would be lower for the autonomous vehicles once their enhanced safety was proven, as opposed to higher for other vehicles.
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Your risk pool becomes much smaller.
ctrl + l

to clear the screen, instead of typing "clear" is pretty useful too.
Hofstadter and the rest of the field, Jeff Hawkins for example, are collaborating, just indirectly. The "Pentti Kanerva" described in the article as an "old friend of Hofstadter" and his first wife, Carol, was the originator of the "sparse distributed memory" idea that appears to be what NuPIC is based on and, I believe, either co-founded Redwood Neuroscience / Numenta with Hawkins or soon joined it. (I'm sorry, I'm fuzzy on the details.)

Researchers such as Hawkins are well aware of Hofstadter's ideas, and Hofstadter's grad students take his ideas out into the world of AI research with no real need for Hofstadter himself to personally attend conferences. Every one of them would love to use any idea that has been overlooked by the rest of the field to make a name for himself/herself with some career-making breakthrough that can do what humans can do but other AI systems can't.

Hofstadter himself spoke here at Stanford a few years ago to a standing room only audience. I don't dispute the notion that mindsets and political agendas can delay the acceptance (or work on, or resources to) a good idea for years, but anything of use in his work will eventually be put to use. He can keep doing what he's doing, and brainstorming with his grad students, and anything useful they find will be disseminated.
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Yes, uTorrent has long been spyware/malware.

There was a case where the application started downloading some strange 5GB file that users did not add: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=728504

Other times it threw open a window from the application to a webpage with shady screensaver installers.

Using a closed-source torrent client in this climate is dangerous.
Watch for an ELF/COFF/PE/etc. header.
Thank you for sharing your stat. I will try to follow your blog to see how you manages to get new users.
> Intro breaks secure mail.

If it's modifying the message, it likely breaks DKIM too. meaning your messages will be more likely to be flagged as spam.

More generally, this is the catalyst for me leaving LinkedIn. They've never generated any new business (not even a single lead), and if I'm honest the only reason I use it is more about my ego than anything useful.
One of the Deluge feature I appreciate is its ability to run a Deluge service on a machine and being able to connect to it from any Deluge client (there is a GUI and a terminal client). In my experience it's less tedious than transmission service to set up.

You can use a remote connection to connect to uTorrent but it goes through uTorrent's server for authentication if my memory serves me well.
I also imagine that some sort of centralized routing could significantly improve traffic and avoid major traffic jams. Networking protocols, but in the real world :P.
Right. Speed limited are for humans. A computer could be allowed to objectively select a safe speed to travel.
Because profit.
Or even better, just set speed limits at realistic levels (around the 85th percentile of natural traffic flow) for everyone. That said, I assume the driverless vehicles would at least be programmed to exceed the speed limit if necessary for an emergency maneuver.
Usually it is because the startup folks do not have the experience to even know about Oracle servers. And there is a strong tendency for younger people to choose technology by imitation, in other words use what your friends and acquaintances use. From a business viewpoint, making a tech decision that way is better than picking at random, but even better is having someone with grey hair around who can weigh the pros and cons of different tools and match them up better to what the startup is doing.
The new version runs ten ad networks' code.. I'd bet the 93k one is safer
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beyond star wars he also wrote raiders of the lost arc and body heat. the man can tell a story. the only worrying part is that he hasn't made anything good in over 20 years
It's possible that for many messages, the pointer of the message into the representation of pi may actually be larger than the message itself.
for development, i think they're all the same. I prefer the 13" because its more portable, or the Air for better battery life

For design, the 15" would be nice
Since I always partially upgrade my machine, I can tell. But the oldest piece (aside from the case) is the Radeon HD6870. Rest is FX8320, 16GiB ram, SSD.

The oldest thing I use is probably my "travel laptop" Thinkpad T43.
There is a flaw in your random sequence approach; lets see if you can find it? Its a fun thinking exercise.

You can estimate the minimum bound on compression using Shannon's estimate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

An excellent problem for hobby coders is the Hutter Prize. Even if you don't win - and that'd be front page HN news if you did - its a really fun challenge and an excellent introduction to compression: http://prize.hutter1.net/

Also worth googling is Kolmogorov complexity.
I think it's possible that introducing reserve banking on top of Bitcoin could solve the lending problem for a while, just like it solved the lending problem on top of gold - for a while.

In the end, though, the same problems would crop up again after a while: bank runs, the attempt to deal with bank runs via a central bank, the tendency for downward spirals in countries with a trade deficit, and so on. Eventually, countries would have the same incentives to get out of a "Bitcoin standard" as they had with the gold standard.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Sometimes an argument is stronger motivation than money. Also sometimes better than money: knowledge, friendship, one-upping random comments, passion, aspiration, etc. Linus wrote Linux basically for reasons you say wouldn't motivate anyone to write code.
It's an odd reference in the context of reduced need for special pre-war II non-irradiated steel.

From the article if looks like the most important factor for that would be atmospheric concentration of Cobalt-60 (in ppm or ppb).
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Another excellent source is Matt Mahoney's Data Compression Explained:
http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
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Agreed.

Recently i lost my htpc so i looked for one client for the tablet.

Of the dozen available, one supported 'only encrypted' mode. One/12
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Why speeding up when being tailgated? I usually just lift my foot from the gas pedal. If you think I'm too slow, then fucking pass, don't try to bully me into driving faster.
Opportunity time... are there any more scrupulous alternatives to LinkedIn?
Yea, guys can buy people out of their league, but their wives are usually misserable, and cheat. Women have a hard time doing the same. Actually, the whole success thing works in reverse for women. They become less attractive with money, unless they earned that money with their mind.
Even then the men these women want still don't want want them. I was trying to soften the blows I will get for this thread.

In Marin, I see so many attractive women who settled for some fugly dude just because he has money. Maybe, that's what keeps guy's striving for the next Facebook?

I could go on and on about this subject, but I'll get
clobbered.
Um....Not trying to be negative or put the partnership down, but sort of logically, isn't this a guy who one one hand (co)wrote the best of the original trilogy, but didn't see the coming evil of the worst of the trilogy? Which a naughty person might suggest he was basically lucky?

Cheekiness aside, it has to be a good thing that Abrams is smart enough to included a creative flavor from the originals. Kind of ego-less as well.

Have to say, I personally really like what he did to Star Trek, I like what he does in movies, so Im very interested to see what he does with Star Wars.
I'm curious why you didn't try UML or SysML instead?
It's against card brand rules, most definitely not illegal.
What about Amazon instead of Google.