skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My solution to this problem was to build Python so that it finds all of its dependencies in one directory. This project
https://github.com/wavetossed/pybuild has the build script that I used on Ubuntu Lucid LTS. In addition this build ends up being portable to any Linux distro because all of the dependencies are in one directory tree where you can easily create a tarball.
Colour me cynical, but when a corporation is under fire from consumers, regulators and activists, a soppy and heartstring-tugging ad is exactly what the doctors order.

It is literally Google saying, "Oh look, cute puppies!" when faced with a global barrage of criticism about its disdain for user privacy or its own past promises.
Could you clarify for me - are you saying that monitoring of police is a good thing? You start by saying "No", but I believe monitoring police interactions with the public is a good thing?
I guess you don't have a gaming life.
A Yiddish scholar once said that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy."

It's really true. One might think that mutual intelligibility (ability for speakers of one to make themselves fully understood by speakers of the other) would be the standard for differentiating languages from dialects, but the distinction really ends up just being political. The spoken forms of Hindi and Urdu are entirely mutually intelligible but have two separate names.

Many varieties of Arabic and Chinese are mutually unintelligible but are called "dialects" of one Arabic or Chinese language, presumably to promote a unified Arab or Chinese identity. Speakers of Moroccan Arabic and Levantine Arabic or of Mandarin and Cantonese can't understand each other any better than speakers of Spanish and Italian can, but we don't call Spanish and Italian dialects of Modern Latin!

It gets even weirder when you have a dialect continuum, like with Polish-Russian-Ukrainian. Russian is somewhat mutually intelligible with both Polish and Ukrainian, but Polish and Ukrainian are not themselves mutually intelligible! So even if politics didn't play a role in the distinction between language and dialect, it would be hard if not impossible to come up with a universal distinction.
Guy Confronts Strangers With Information They're Providing On Social Media.
SWEET IRONY! OH IT TASTES SO SWEEEEEEET!!!!!!
As long as the themes I use keep working, great. One of the best parts of Firefox (which Chrome seems incapable of picking up) is that themes work: You can change the whole look and feel to what you want, as opposed to it being what some self-styled UI expert thinks you should want.
Lots! We long since incorporated all of the suggestions from that post, including building a cross-language graphing API for Python, Julia, MATLAB, R, et al. We've also had time since then to raise a seed round, smooth out the UX and aesthetic, build more features like ability to comment on graphs, and build the team past the original 2.5 engineers from the time of that post (https://plot.ly/about). There are also many, many more graph types: box plots, histograms, error bars, area plots, and multiple axes and subplots coming very soon. Thanks for following and asking! Most of the HN readership likely graphs data regularly, so its been especially rewarding and fascinating to solicit feedback from y'all.
Which is unnatural when you think about it, showing teeth is interpreted by most animals as a sign of aggression.

I remember reading that if you smile at strange kids (or dogs), don't show your teeth, they'll get scared or agitated. Similarly, if you are e.g. greeting a small child, squat so that you are eye level with them - kids (and dogs) hate when somebody huge is hanging over them.
(If you don't have bookmarks or don't keep a browsing history / don't know how to use URL autocompletion).
Chrome didn't even exist when firefox had tabs, but I don't think there was ever a version of Chrome without tabs.
If Chinese people are using bitcoin to bypass government controls, how long before the Chinese government cracks down on it?
> I have no idea why you would ignore $8 trillion in interest bearing deposit accounts. To the extent these funds come from other banks, they will show up on the balance sheets of those banks (as loans).

What? I'm not ignoring those deposits, just pointing out that those deposits are "created money". They are made by banks, not issued by the Fed. The only restriction on their creation is the Fed interest rate on one side and the reserve requirements on the other.

In technical terms, they are part of M2, not M0 or M1 [1]. And banks are definitely allowed create M2, though obviously not M0 and M1.

> Maybe try working from the assumption that what I am saying is (more in the direction of) correct. The banking system may be set up to work in favor of the establishment and bankers, but it isn't a giant fantasy.

What exactly are you asserting? Nowhere did I state that the banking establishment is some kind of giant fantasy. I just made the fairly uncontroversial assertion that banks are allowed to issue more credit than they have cash on hand. In a sense, when they do so they are "creating" money (though this "created" money is technically referred to as M2).

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
Plotly is awesome...I show it to everyone I can, and use it to present awesome graphs at lab meetings almost every week.
I think it's because not getting in on the ecosystem now could be regrettable later if other powers do.
> Of course, this effect is more noticeable the faster you type.

I type pretty fast and I've never noticed it, so this seems like a very subjective thing to me. I'm just trying to understand that point of view.

I would have to go back to the n900 and use it for a while to get a handle on why I really never missed its keyboard much at all. It has been a while. The only thing I remember missing is the ease of using modal keys versus the android (Samsung, I suppose) touch keyboard app, where you have to shift to a completely different keyboard to use symbols and then switch back when you're done. I find that distracting.
> "taking measures to protect public health by promoting access to medicines for all"

actually means "break the patent". We did just that here in Brazil in the 90s with some AIDS drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Brazil#Drug_patent...
>It's a sad fact that the departure of the British Empire from various colonial possessions frequently resulted in a power vacuum followed by deep internal conflicts which remain problematic today - Ireland, Israel, and India being three obvious examples.

Not a "sad fact". It's how the "british empire" planned it, melticulously and with great effort and cunning.

It's a result of their "divide and conquer" way of ruling, in their colonial era, and it's something they pursued afterwards in order to keep it's post colonial grip on those places. With lackeys, puppet governments et al.

Oh, and add Cyprus/Nothern Cyprus, Ethiopia/Eritrea etc to the mix.
I saw you make this same comment on another page. I'd like to learn more, but your website is very scant on details. All I can tell is that it allows me to code in the browser and has quite a few screenshots, but how about a technology overview?
Not really. Im Indian but not a native Hindi speaker. I have trouble understanding Urdu, where as Hindi seems more natural to me.
I'd like to learn more, but your website is very scant on details. All I can tell is that it allows me to code in the browser and has quite a few screenshots, but how about a technology overview?
You've made an interesting post; however, I would like to add some of my own insight, which could help explain why I made my original post about being bothered that his wife left him.

My parents were happily married for 17 years before my mother passed away from cancer. They had an essentially perfect, idealistic marriage. They never argued, they retained their same values/morals from the day they were married, and they were truly each other's best friend. I could tell both of them enjoyed each other's company immensely and unwaveringly. Maybe their personalities changed a little over time, but all of their important core values remained constant.

Is this a common occurrence? Not at all. I'm sure we can both agree on that. But from my perspective, as someone who grew up witnessing this kind of marriage, the fact that I know such a thing is possible means I would try hard to replicate it for my own family.
Haha, that's Ryan Singer https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ryansinger
Creepily cool!
Too funny -- I just went through this same exercise to see what the limits were and figured nobody would actually care about it since > 2048 bits is a little bit crazy.

I also found that TLS1.2 is not supported in Mail.app on Mavericks, even though it is supported in Safari. I wanted to see if I could enable TLS1.2-only AES-GCM on everything and quickly found the SMTP/IMAP TLS support is lacking.
> and dynamic languages more broadly (e.g. Python/Ruby)

[sigh]

It's a sign of the times when HN posters say "dynamic languages" and manage to ignore the Elder Language, the language from whence all dynamic languages sprung. And that language is...
Groovy has a great eclipse plugin that makes it pretty much seamless from Eclipse - it "just works" the same as if you are programming Java. Your programmers will feel right at home.
I think "turning on the MMU" is something a bit different than "turning on virtual memory." The former just means that all addresses are translated from virtual->physical, while the latter implies more abstraction: virtual memory can be overcommitted, pages might not be resident.

This is just a guess, but I'd wager that UEFI has the MMU enabled, but with an identity mapping that maps all virtual addresses to the same physical address.
I'm not sure what you mean. The 'clever' filesystems I'm aware of are copy-on-write, which makes it much easier to recover deleted files. Unclever filesystems, like NTFS, are also quite easy to recover files on. I've had to do so multiple times.
Samsung Galaxy Gear Sales Tipped At 50,000 Units - Sound The Flop Alarm
This is beautiful. I'm not a Linux fan, but if I can get BSD to run on this, it's instantly more powerful[1] than any "smartphone" I can buy.

1. My definition of "powerful" includes IP forwarding and packet filtering. iPhone could use one of these as a gateway.
Don't get too excited, they'll probably expire worthless.
Buy gold at a coin store/jewelry store. Sell gold for btc to:

https://www.goldsilverbitcoin.com/products/gold/gold-america...
I noticed the Certificate Assistant UI in Keychain Access only lets you choose as high as 2048 bits if you're generating certs that way.
Bad thing there's not much other changes.
Okay I see. Thank you for the link.
I'm a Comcast Business customer in Seattle:

"Dear Comcast Business Class Customer,

Thank you again for signing up for the Comcast Business IPv6 Trial! At this time, we ask that you please register on our Trial Portal. Here you will be able to provide feedback, complete exercises and read documents related to the Trial.

To Register:
Go to https://trials.comcast.net
Create an account by clicking "Register Now"
When prompted, add BusIPv6 as the Trial Code
You will also receive an email from DocuSign with the Trial Agreement. Once you have registered for the Trial Portal and signed the Trial Agreement, you will be notified with next steps.

We thank you in advance for your participation!

Thanks,
Comcast Business IPv6 Trial Team"

The trial agreement was agreeing to provide periodic feedback. In return, I would get a new cable modem, a new block of static IPs, AND keep my old modem and old block for "transition".
Sure it does, especially since many times checks aren't actually sent to a clearinghouse, but scanned and turned into ACH transactions. They're just as easy to counterfeit (you can order checks with any account and routing number you want from Vistaprint online, or print your own at home) and sometimes just as easy to reverse. A cleared paper check that was never converted requires a bank's intervention to reverse, but it's still possible.

You want to show up with cash, not a check.
So who should get access to this newly minted currency? How about we just increase everyone's bank accounts and the price of all dollar denominated assets/goods by a factor of 10, would that solve your problem? Inflation for everybody.
The same applies to the Scandinavian languages, to an extent. A Norwegian will generally have little issue understanding both Danish and Swedish, while Swedes and Danes have a much harder time understanding each other.

However, us Norwegians receive a lot of influence from our neighbors and so understanding of their slight differences in language comes as a side-effect of that. A kind of younger sibling complex. May the same apply to Poland and the Ukraine?
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Bank transfer.
It literally says "fork me on GitHub" at the top right.
We'll promise you that we won't be evil...;)

= We have too much dangerous information that will turn us into a monster, so don't blame us when that happens
Can't you make up your mind on your own based on information, without the need to appeal to expert consensus (which might as well be bogus and profit-driven?)
For those who can't be bothered digging, uses http://ip-api.com/json/

For those who don't want their web service to rely on other web services, I recommend MaxMind's lite database, they have a fairly recent downloadable binary of IP to geographic coodinates.
The official languages of India are Hindi and English.
Yeah, I agree. here I am watching the ad, getting all emotional (I have some family in Pakistan, who moved their out of their own volition frankly) and I suddenly realize, wow I fell for this nauseatingly sweet ad!

You got me (almost) Google. And since when did they start showing ads in India?
Yes, I know. My point was related to the terminology re: static, dynamic, shared, etc.

A statically-linked library won't share any state with other users of the library. It's statically-linked into the binary. State will be shared only with the instances of the same binary.
Almost any partner who can't be with you during your struggles definitely doesn't deserve to be with you during your success.

Besides, what the purpose of a man's life anyway? To slog until death to provide milk and honey to the kids and wife. And then be perfectly OK to be dumped like a 'use and throw' napkin on the street when you can't provide further. While the wife goes to live with another man, and kids go their paths.

I wouldn't be surprised if marriage as an institution is completely destroyed in the far future. Because after some time men will make 'rational' choices too. Its far better to stay single make money for your later years. Than to have a family who is going to milk you until they can, and ultimately leave you anyway.
Interesting I thought both the Parallela and the Lockitron were shipping. I see that Lockitron claims they will 'resume shipping' this month and shop.adapteva.com allows orders but is 'out of stock' of the parallela. Such a sad place to be.
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great ad..well done google.
Maybe it takes a neutral 3rd party to make bothers start talking.
Can we get a north korean version next?
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Lisp!
The Ad also has short sequels as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lzSb0m1cs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYVoM8tgbvA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltXy9tGqlT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_Ke3iyfac
I believe that "long mode" is just the name for the native 64-bit mode of these processors; ie. what you'd normally run 64-bit Linux under, with the MMU enabled.
They did have another option this year: Get NFL Sunday Ticket for ~$90 dollars.
Yeah, people have historically added patches, but all of them have been rejected so far for one or the other reason. They are not even willing to add an about:config workaround for that. Anyway, I'm sidetracking a lot from the subject :).
And the official languages of Pakistan are Urdu and English.

...And, yes, I just Googled this question and got the answer from Wikipedia.
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While I don't understand people who scream for ever-fancier graphics year after year, the previous generation of consoles did badly cripple PC game development for one reason: their lack of memory.

As a quick illustration, look at the size of levels in Thief 1/2 vs Thief 3. Or the seamless outdoor world of Morrowind, compared to the loading screens of Oblivion and Skyrim. With just a little bit more RAM (say 1GB instead of 512MB), developers could've done so much more.

Instead, we've had a whole generation of 3D games in cramped and/or lifeless worlds with simplistic gameplay. But hey, they're pretty. It wasn't always thus.
i have a private equity background in retail / online retail and have experience in startup space in retail. i can help analyze but need more background story to help out. let me know how i can reach you if you want my take.
Mantle shows promise, but its proprietary nature is still its achilles heel
Virtually no one in Congress has ever been hungry because they had little or no money and couldn't buy any. But they have lots of experience having people give them money to obtain more for the giver. So you wind up with feed the rich and starve the poor as good politics.
Yeah, or "but why take any chances?"
If your parents were married for 17 years before your mother died, how old were you? How aware were you of what they had been like earlier? What had changed? In short, how good a position were you to judge?

I say this because I know for a fact that my 9 year old son's view of my marriage and my view of the same thing are virtually unrelated. He sees, but he cannot understand. Nor does he have any idea what changes came before he was 5.

Here is perspective. My aunt and uncle were married nearly 60 years. They had one of the best marriages that I am aware of. Most of their children were unable to recognize the constant work in the face of ongoing changes that caused that until after they were married adults themselves.

Do you really know your parents' marriage as well as you think?
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They were essentially the same language also known as "Hindustani" with the distinction being that Hindi was written in the Devanagari script and Urdu written in the Nastaliq script. However, starting a few years before independence, the Hindus gradually Sankritized Hindi, while the Muslims Persianized Urdu. An example of this is the news in the national TV channels of India and Pakistan are in versions of Hindi and Urdu respectively that hardly anyone uses colloquially.
Los Angeles is a big place, but I don't think San Marino was ever cheap:

"In 2010, Forbes Magazine ranked the city as the 63rd most expensive area to live in the United States, with the median list price of a single family home at US$1,987,500."
(I feel strangely outsmarted again by them.)

What would be interesting to know is if India is basically virgin territory as far as Google (marketing) ideology. In other words, is Google free to start from scratch there, without (some clearly outlined) lofty promises?
Moscow is not a country.
But I agree with you - people living in Moscow have very few reasons to smile to strangers.
Just because it's an old idea doesn't mean it's not a good one.
United States and Japan are relatively isolated in their negotiating positions. This could bode poorly for the United States as it seeks to shape the TPP to its liking.

Actually this bodes well for the USA. The greatest enemy of the USA on these IP issues is the powerful and moneyed insider lobbies that want to destroy our freedom for a few more dollars. If the US negotiators who are controlled by those interests might be frustrated, that's the best news the American people could get.
Ask HN: Why does being in an accelerator pre-YC lessen your YC chances?
Our startup was in an accelerator previous to applying to YC, and this was the reason why we were rejected after the interview. I understand the concern that we should already be "accelerated" by now but its hard to compare the previous program we were in to the caliber of YC.

Why does being in an accelerator pre-YC lessen your YC chances? Has anyone had similar experiences with this? Are there any YC alumni that had their company in an accelerator pre-YC?
Although I understand the point, I think it's more accurate to describe Groovy as the "Ruby" of Java rather than Python. Groovy's philosophy and syntax are all very Ruby-like, while many things about it are completely orthogonal to the same in Python.

Where Python is usually trying to have just "one way" to do things, Groovy offers you a million. Python actually share's much of Java's annoying desire to keep the default namespace clean and hence make you import modules to do just about anything useful. While Python puts simplicity and cleanliness on a pedestal, Groovy is unashamedly pragmatic, letting you do any dirty thing you feel like or need to do to get your job done.

In complete contradiction to Python's direction of eliminating it (eg: forcing brackets on print() statements) Groovy gives you incredible amounts of optional syntax - add semicolons? if you want ... or not ... except sometimes the syntax gets ambiguous they are required. Use brackets on your function calls? If you want ... or not ... except sometimes the syntax gets ambiguous, so they are required. The author didn't even mention optional static typing which not only enforces type correctness on parts of the code you apply it too, but dramatically speeds them up. So much freedom makes it easy for Groovy code to end up messy and unstructured compared to Python.

I'm currently in a situation where I switch between Groovy and Python coding on alternate days. I definitely prefer different things about each. Groovy definitely seems more powerful when I just need to get a simple job done. It is incredible what you can cram into a single line.

I hope Groovy continues to prosper, but I worry it's getting lost among the hype around more "sexy" languages. I think it's by far the best language for many jobs.
Google to Pay $17 Million to Settle Privacy Case
Not sure, but I'll be paying attention around the same time today. However, I'm tending to hold out until my father calls me asking about Bitcoin. By then it has gone mainstream.
I use autocomplete for commonly-visited sites, but Google plus vague memories of basic search terms have almost completely supplanted my use of bookmarks these days.
Hell, I'm just some random white guy in the US and the ad made me tear up. Yes, it was made for effect. Whether it was made by the newest evil corporation or not is irrelevant. The feelings it invokes are genuine.
I don't know if that's the case with Polish and Ukrainian. That certainly is the case with Arabic where many speakers of Levantine or Gulf Arabic will probably understand Egyptian Arabic since they grow up watching Cairo-based media. Likewise, most Indians who don't speak Hindi will probably understand it perfectly since they grow up with Bollywood. I assume that's especially true for northern Indians whose languages are related to Hindi.
Thanks for that insight, I was missing the entropy lens.
The very fact that the policemen complain should make it mandatory. Anything they oppose, they oppose for a reason, and there's really only one conclusion - that the cops would rather hide their movements from those paying them. Google glass will likely make this moot since the other side of public contact will be recorded. People that carry guns and with alarming regularity kill people for the worst reasons should be subject to way more scrutiny than other employes and practically everyone is on camera all day these days. Cops should wear Google Glass and the video streamed to a vault inaccessible to the cops, to be pulled when needed for court (by a third party)
They have to prove the owner of the recipient wallet, which is already pretty hard, especially if you are using something like Tor.