skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His point is that insurance cost for an 85k car with a potential design flaw is (1) likely to go up; and (2) likely to be perceived as a red flag by potential buyers. Insurance companies are often accused of over-reacting to recent data (eg, a recent hurricane will jump up insurance next year). That being said, the insurance companies are also likely to actually look at the data and dis-regard pr spin when they are on the hook for the damages. By removing the insurance co's scrutiny from the data as well, it kills two birds with a single stone.
Fokirtor
Microhobby FTW. I have the exact same feeling, but more generally about the Spectrum.
True. It is a nitpick on my part, regardless.
I'm sorry, but every detail of what I do or my family does within the privacy of our own home is personal. I do not expect my TV to be spying on me in any form.
Eric Schmidt's fund Innovation Endeavours invests in retail tech
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I don't think this is a problem. In the email vs OTR debate, signed emails are not forgeable because you are not supposed to give away your private signing key - to claim that someone forged a signed email, you must convince that your private signing key was compromised at that time.

However, in this case you don't hold the private signing key, so Google can make whatever signatures it wants, even of things you didn't say, and there is no cryptography that links it back to you - because as a Google chat user, you don't have a private signing key.
For those who thought (like me) that this was a programming language detection service, you can take a look at github/linguist.
Mining difficulty has been rising exponentially for months.

http://bitcoindifficulty.com/
I'd be surprised. Linux is great, but it's not the best choice for something like the control system for a self-adjusting automobile suspension. Much more likely they're using VXWorks or some other embedded RTOS.
In the UK the correct term is "police officer". Using the term policeman is gender specific.
Totally agree with this comment. The whole Slow Web thing is a nice philosophy, but you have to outweigh that principle with the principle of making this website maximise its functionality, the function that rationalises its existence in the first place.

Now, I can understand that it's not great for Mike to have to filter through all these requests, which is why your solution offers the best hope: let other users do the filtering by upvoting/downvoting from the list. In fact, you could just create a pile and let the top request be somewhat bigger than the others.

If you play this out properly, it could be done much better than impossible.com
I was interested in this as well and found this commit[1] by Russ Cox. README has details on running it inside bochs.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=ffbf0900a2
For very small datasets, Whoosh is fine. For anything larger than 'site search' on a website that has no UGC, you're much better off with SOLR (or ES, Xapian or Sphinx - whatever your poison).

When document counts get into the hundreds you see orders of magnitude faster queries with SOLR (etc), not to mention much more sophisticated querying options.
I don't think people from third world will think the same way. Even with all the issues United States is still a very coveted country to immigrate to from say India.
Why does Google use the term "Off the record" when there is a product called Off the record[1] that has been used for end-to-end encryption of IM that pre-dates Google Talk?

Google does many good things, but it would be unreasonable for anyone to expect that they wouldn't store all your chat messages. "Chats that have been taken off the record aren't stored in your Gmail chat history, or in the Gmail chat history of the person you're chatting with. "[2]

[1] https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
[2] https://support.google.com/talk/answer/29291?hl=en
It seems like an interesting experiment, but I disagree with the conclusions of "I was getting better, I was happy". This is not sustainable and by all psychological/physical measurements this should be very bad for the person.

Can we kill the Cult of the Workaholic already?
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When I clicked through the link to this article, a window popped up asking me to sign a petition to reinstate Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Given her recent vote in favor of the Patriot Act, that was an interesting warm-up act for the main article.
DOH! Fixed the download link. Thanks :-)
Anyone can call out 'bubble!' on a market. It's the people that correctly predict when the bubble bursts that have any skill. Markets can stay irrational for a very long time...
Google Webmaster Tools will show you most of the links they have found.
If you are going to try to figure out which links caused a problem, you'll want to use ahrefs and majesticseo to compile a list of your backlinks, then either start sorting through them manually or use something like LinkResearchTools as a starting point.

Keep in mind that removing links will probably not return your previous rankings, since the links that once caused you to rank well may now be the ones causing the problem. Removing them may restore your ability to rank well again.

Also, not every ranking drop means that you were penalized. If you know you had built lots of spammy links, and your traffic dropped off at the same time Penguin was updated, then it is more likely a Penguin problem. Otherwise, there are hundreds of reasons that would need to be examined.
If you are not sure, consider hiring a reputable SEO consultant to help. It won't be cheap. Cheap is probably what got you in trouble in the first place.
Or, channeling Ken Thompson: Unless the tentacles extend to the compiler you use to compile the compiler you use to compile the free software.

(Lather. Rinse. Repeat.)
You're right, I glanced over that part of the statement, and thought he was just trying to assure owners that they "are covered" in case their car bursts into flames.
Laying the Groundwork for Extensibility
I was asking myself the same thing, anybody knows about obfuscated JavaScript contests?
Perhaps they want prevent competitors to implement their protocol? XMPP is too much open to fit into walled garden.
A nice write up for the Information Commissioner would probably be a good idea.

I'd suggest doing a short cover letter, a simple-English write-up, with a detailed technical appendix.

I'd ask if LG are registered to collect data, and if their registration covers this data. And if any of this information leave the EU etc.

Thanks for the write up! It's interesting. I wonder if rooting the telly to replace this functionality is legal? I never know what the laws are about reverse engineering stuff now.
Random cards could be comforting, but the sad thing is that you would hope you would get cards from friends and family. Those seem to be a thing of the past (except from grandparents). Even thank you cards have gotten pretty rare. This is the age of the wall post... :(
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I keep two passports; one gets stamps from interesting countries, and the other one is used for going to places where being well-travelled is considered suspicious (such as, it seems, the U.S.).

Edit: To expand, in the UK it used to be as easy as writing a letter explaining why you needed a second (maybe it still is; haven't tried for a while). I've also got a third passport, from a different country, but so far not needed it.
Solr, Sphinx and ElasticSearch are all reliable search-at-scale options for those of us without petabyte problems.

Whoosh is fine for very small datasets (megabytes) and low loads, just watch out for file permission issues.
> So the Chinese plan is to make the West poor

Certainly not.. how about "net exporters west or east are increasingly uneasy about USD exorbitant privilegue" (to whit, trade deficits / imbalances).
sounds like the upper bound of a data type to me.
Judaism has traditionally defined Jewishness as being matrilineal; i.e. you're Jewish if your mother is Jewish. Reform Judaism accepts bilineal ancestry, but on the condition that one has been raised as a Jew.

So, yes, he was completely right to deny being Jewish.
Hightail (formally yousendit) secures $34m in funding
Blog Comments Link Building – Google Just Opened a Can of Worms
The recent Google webmaster video series where Matt Cutts gave clarity on a question about blog commenting as a link building method raises a lot of questions about the state of link building in 2013 and Google’s efforts to get rid of spammers.<p>Read more: http://techjunk.co.za/blog-comments-link-building-google-just-opened-a-can-of-worms/#ixzz2l5vwpkaA
I agree. I hope once the haze has settled he has to maintain this code.
Having had nothing but extremely negative experiences with production JVM deployments, anything being not-JVM-based is a huge selling point for me. Furthermore, "pure python" itself means that I can run it in any Python implementation I want, including pypy, without worrying about any C modules.
Ok, but Sweden has its own problems, no? Didn't they have massive riots recently? So, let's rephrase

country X has political support for some sort of bad thing Y, therefore I will never visit country X.
Looks interesting. Why not have a input on the landing page where someone can try it out without even signing up? I think then people could give it a spin before they give away their email address. Otherwise, the user just has to trust your 99% figure, which it might be helpful to give some data around, even if it is a footnote (on a corpus of x, over x period of time, etc.)

Also, I think it would be clearer if it said "A simple and scalable way to automatically classify text by language" instead of "A simple and scalable way to classify automatically text by language".

Design looks very clean though. Nice work.

EDIT: Also, your social media links at the bottom aren't hooked up yet.
OpenSUSE seems like best KDE distro just after Kubuntu.
We are trying to make a better task list
Nope this is a so-called anarchist setting up a murder-for-hire site. The date-encrypted file is supposed to prove you did it, because you knew the date.
Why does Google use the term "Off the record" when there is a product called Off the record[1] that has been used for end-to-end encryption of IM that pre-dates Google Talk?

Because "Off the record" was a common term way before either was created?
US's relationship with its immigrants has, I think, always been strained.

I think the Navaho and others have been somewhat annoyed by all the pesky foreigners with their exotic christian outlook.
What? How are you supposed to assess the safety of electric vs gasoline cars by comparing electric vs electric?
(I work for Disconnect, awesome to see support on HN!)

What webmail provider are you having issues with? Feel free to shoot me an email with that or anything else you noticed at eason@disconnect.me
Given that Jewishness is 'inherited' maternally, he's actually not Jewish. He is not a follower of the Jewish religion and even Jews would not consider him a Jew. Why would he say otherwise?
This seems to be solving a problem of information being hidden by overlapping windows - but that's also solved by tiling window managers, like Amethyst and osxmonad.

https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

On the whole I think I prefer the Amethyst approach - the snappy overlays themselves obscure information beneath them.
U.S. Immigration agents are trained to look for certain traits in visitors: nervousness, unusual or inconsistent answers to questions, history of visiting certain countries. Any of these characteristics trigger an automatic escalation in the interrogation process. This individual, albeit sounding perfectly innocent, unfortunately triggered several hot buttons and the hapless agents were too unimaginative, uninformed, and inflexible to give him benefit of the doubt and let him pass.

99.9% of visitors do pass, because they are consistent with certain profiles--business visitor, tourist visitor, never-been-anywhere-bad visitor. Even for them, it's a rather unpleasant and rude experience that leaves a bad taste.

There's no question that our border control and immigration system needs an overhaul. The stupidity and counter productivity of the agents who scrutinize every incoming person (except for a few thousand Mexicans every day, but that's another topic :) inspires little confidence that they would actually recognize a terrorist, who would undoubtedly be carrying a false or sanitized passport to avoid just such questions.

I'm sorry that happened to the submitter, and I hope he'll give us another try some day. If his story gets out to the right person or persons, it might even make a difference. I'm not convinced that Border control people will ever hear about it if posted here, but he can contact them directly:
https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/175/~/complaint...

By the way, this kind of profiling or over-profiling is not confined to U.S. Border Control agents. I have seen identical behavior by Canadian agents, too. All I had to do was mention I was going to take a class, and the guy made us go into an interrogation room where he asked repeated, annoying questions to try to entrap me into admitting I was in Canada to work or some such thing. I was born in Canada as it clearly states on my US passport, and he asked me where I was born, then looked at my companion with a sneer on his face as though to show his disbelief. It was entirely unpleasant, but in the end we passed. I learned not to say I was there to take a class. Just visiting. Hope to spend lots of money. Ok, have a nice day!
Yahoo to encrypt all users' data
Had a similar problem when flying into NYC. With an Iranian visa stamp in my passport. "Why would anyone go to Iran???" the lady at the border control said. Then she wrote CTR on my immigration form (my imagination believes it means 'Check for Terrorist Record'). Then she showed it to a guy with a machine gun and he replied "Is he a fugitive or something?". Had to wait in a room to talk with some guy. I showed him my passport which has a lot of stamps. "Oh so you were backpacking?". Yup. "Ok you go can".
Sounds like the U.S. doesn't want him back.

I've traveled to over 30 countries and the U.S. does not have a monopoly on rude bureaucratic custom officials.

My worst story is probably in Germany where the border officer would not let me take the used car I had purchased in Germany across the border because the chain of title in my registration was out of order. He ended up calling all the previous owners in the title to determine the proper chain of title before he would let me leave the country with it.
> YaST has been ported to Ruby

!!!
Really fantastically fantastic.
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Yeah, readability is definitely an objective when you are trying to cram into ~30 lines.
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Doesn't seem to be working, since OP saw the attribute being sent by Adium, an open source multi-protocol client.
This is disgusting. But then the more I think about I wonder if I was a CBP officer how would I behave if I didn't want to be the officer who allowed a terrorist into the US who manages to succeed with some plot. Far fetched perhaps, but I think that mentality has created a culture in CBP.

With that said, I think there's a larger culture of militant xenophobia running rampant in federal, state, and local policing. It's very unnerving - but I guess that's the whole point right? Keep everyone unnerved and therefore divided and under control. On one side you have the people who are afraid of those who are doing the policing and on the other side you have the people afraid of foreigners (or people who "look" like foreigners).
> So, if something bad happens to you in Sweden, say a policeman is rude to you, or something like that, will you leave Sweden because of it ?

No. But if police officers are routinely rude to me, and if I see many reports of officers killing people and beating people - even people who pose no risk to those officers - then I might start thinking about where I live.
What Wiki/Documentation tools do you like for hosting internal docs?
I'm joining a startup of two co-founders as their first full-time hire, and I'd like to set up a documentation hub. I'd like to be able to host sketches/diagrams as well as text, and to find pages via search. This is obviously not my primary responsibility and needs to be fairly easy to set up, but especially easy to maintain.

In the past i've used mediawiki and google sites, but don't love either so i'm very curious what HN is excited about.
> viking metal is stronger than sleep

Yes.
I went for a interview with Facebook recently from India and had a really different experience. The CBP guy was really gentle and just reminded me to not work for Facebook in my days there and that's it, I was in USA. I just had a small carry bag and no luggage so another one of them asked me why I have no luggage and I told them that I am only there for 3 days. I agree US can be a bit paranoid of these things but compared to people trying to enter USA I think very few face the kind of hostility the author faced.
Norms? Really.

Edit: You can get big, dumb TVs that look stellar. Look at TVs targeting the commercial space. Of course, you're going to pay for it though.
I agree with you and I am empathetic, but somehow 67 million international tourists manage to enter the U.S. per year, according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings

so perhaps, my advice is, don't overreact.
Let them be. Otherwise we'd be seeing "look I drew a square using pure CSS" posts again.
Canada Needs Better Startups, Not More
I don't know about JavaScript, but generally short code is impressive: For most of these things, if you think about doing them "the usual way", you think about a 10x or 100x (or 1000x) more lines of code. e.g. there used to be a 842 line Java Spreadsheet example in the JDK (maybe it is still there). And then, someone shows you that it can be done in 35 lines of JavaScript.

As a hacker, it is a case study of (ab)using some JavaScript features on one hand (yes, with , I'm talking about you), and on the other hand, it is tractable proof about which part of (say) the 842 lines are useless, and why.

Many people have not experienced lots of functionality in very little code, and the fact that it is possible is both surprising, and often inspiring.

And JavaScript is familiar, so it gets an audience. If I posted the two (2) line K2 spreadsheet, that does a lot MORE (e.g. keyboard control) than the 30 line JS one, and needs a 200KB K interpreter, instead of a 20MB browser - then people will just ignore it with a SEP field.

S..t:".[`D;(;);{. y};S[]];S[.;`f]:9$D[]"
S:D:.+(`$'_ci 97+!26;26 99#,"");`show$`S

If you want to know more, head over to http://nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm
Crop.less - LESS powered auto-cropping
the government embodies the will of its people

Like most people who vote have any understanding of what the government does or much less what the consequences of those actions are.

Voting choices in the US are much like religion choices and football team choices -- nonsensical tribalism at its finest.
Farmers are now 'the undeserving rich' -ha! Clearly they don't know any (I'm from an Nth generation farm family).
So an extension breaks a site, and the web developer is to blame for sloppy coding?

No - this is a case where the extension's at fault. Most of the cases I have seen, however, are sloppy coding.

Remember that it may also not have been the developers decision.

Well aware of that, given the number of times I've added the n-th external tracking bug to a client's website.
PyPy 2.2 - Incrementalism — PyPy 2.2.0 documentation
To be more precise they're not tautologies but endless variations of one rule which would be something like "ignore unactionable sitations". And then endless expansion on what it means to be unactionable or the opposite of actionable, or what ignore means, or what is a situation, examples, etc.

The fit people thing would be harder, depending on your local definition of fit, it would probably be something like "exercise often" followed by 15 paragraphs of what is the definition of exercise, or the definition of often, or "can't exercise safely and effectively if you're fat, so don't be fat", and helpful tips for noobs like "don't go long distance swimming if the water temp is below 40F" or "don't go marathon running by yourself in a deserted area with no water when the air temp is over 120F" and similar. Not to mention "lifting a beer can in front of the TV is not exercise" and stuff like that. Shouldn't say things like this too loud; they'll hear and get ideas and this will be a linkbait article tomorrow, somewhere.