skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used ms office and google apps for years. For lightweight day to day use, google, hands down. Nearly every document I create is shared, and MS as of a few years back doesn't compare. I haven't tried the new office.

For serious spreadsheet work with layout requirements, Numbers, easy. Yes, Numbers. For super-serious something or other I hear Excel is unbeatable, but I don't know what functions Excel has that google doesn't, let alone Numbers, and Numbers has the one feature every spreadsheet should have and almost none do (certainly not excel/google): allow two sheets on a single page. How often do you have to juggle column widths/cell merges to get different layouts in two parts of your worksheet? No more! With Numbers you can draw out multiple separate sheets, each with their own column widths/row heights and other formatting, no problem.

And for large data sets, or data that requires extensive filtering or specialized presentation, FileMaker, no question. It blows all spreadsheets away when it comes to: hundreds of thousands of rows (or millions), and it supports limitless separate views of the same data. Anyone who does serious work in excel that includes large data, normalize-able data, or extensive presentation or filtering, you owe it to yourself to check out FileMaker.
Seems like they need to improve their tools to allow rightsholders to conveniently white-list their content as youtubable.
Hey obra,

good to see a GHer on the front page of HN... It's a nice board you made there and I prefer your thumbs key placement than the one on the ErgoDox, which I find to be too a bit too close one to another.
The main issue is the break-down of _trust_. See 20 years ago when I took planes, I could bring anything that was reasonable: water, shaver, shampoo, etc. and the security check was minimal. Now look at what is happening? We are treated like criminals: we are patted down, all things are stripped to go through bomb detector and metal detectors, a lot of times we need to take off our shoes and belts to go through the x-ray machines. Why?

Before we start to accusing others as 'terrorists', first step back and think: Why someone would sacrifice their lives to attack us? They are crazy people, some may say. But why we suddenly see so many 'crazy' people in the recent years? What caused them to be so desperate and so angry to the extend they want to waste their lives to do damages?

There are countless ways to cause mass damages in the modern societies, and unless we can understand the _rootcause_ of the attackers' motivation, trying to seal off all potential attack vector is no more effective than trying to remove weeds from ground without taking off the roots.
I switched from Rdio to Spotify because the latter allows sideloading your own mp3s into your catalogue. So my Spotify includes Tool, which aren't on any streaming service.

The bottom line is as long as I can buy the content instead of renting I can get it in via sideloading, so it really doesn't matter if the streaming services have excusives.
Somewhat related - it appears Dotcom
Is still very much under surveillance. The but about his cellular cover improving is fascinating, but if true, a fairly big tell. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=...
His therapy is already off to a great start - the judge letting him suffer virtually no consequences for quadruple manslaughter will surely convince him that the belief that he can get away with anything is misguided.
You speak as though the process of continually training/learning is not valuable to society. This is someone spending their free time learning optimization. You wouldn't criticize them if they wrote "I practiced code optimization methods in a Coursera class." This is someone's free time.

I don't spend 24/7 attempting to make your life better.

Source: Top comment on the blog

>This is apparently what happens when computer scientists spend four weeks sick and have to keep themselves from going stir crazy. +Emin Gün Sirer , I blame you for inspiring this, and I'll buy you a beverage at NSDI with some of the proceeds. Thanks for the fun! And thanks to my online-and-offline friends who put up with me babbling about bitcoin entirely too much recently. I'm done. I think. :-)
It will be interesting to see the civil suits. The parents apparently argued that their son had no sense of personal accountability because they'd always given him anything he wanted and never told him no. When damages start being calculated for the victims and their families, there's a pretty good argument that it's not safe to leave the parents with any money.
unicomp sell the endurapro, basically a model m with a trackpoint.
Yes. Clearly. Competition benefits customers, and better market information allows better competition.

Would it be good for you? Yes, probably, but it'd be scary. If your competitor can take your customers from you then you need to improve your offering. If they can't then you can probably take their customers from them.

Who benefits from keeping your customer list secret?
This is a consequence of the significantly different treatment defendants receive if they are classified as "juveniles" (that is, not adults). Yes, drunken driving that results in the deaths of pedestrians is usually a criminal offense, all over the world. However, in many places, and for sure in every state of the United States, a minor who commits a criminal act will not be put on trial in the adult court system, but rather in a special juvenile court with different rules and different outcomes for a case. The usual outcome of a juvenile court case is court supervision to try to help the juvenile grow up to be an adult who won't commit crimes. That is the disposition that was ordered in this case.

Because of the severity of the charged offense, the prosecutors in this case asked for, and apparently were within the scope of juvenile court rules to ask for, hard prison time if the juvenile defendant was found delinquent. But, yes, in this case the defense lawyers, who were no doubt expensive specialist defense lawyers, came up with a defense that convinced the judge to order a less harsh disposition for the case. A news report I saw[1] included this report about what a defense lawyer said after the case decision:

"'There is nothing the judge could have done to lessen the suffering for any of those families,' said defense attorney Scott Brown, CNN affiliate KTVT reported.

'(The judge) fashioned a sentence that is going to keep Ethan under the thumb of the justice system for the next 10 years,' he said. 'And if Ethan doesn't do what he's supposed to do, if he has one misstep at all, then this judge, or an adult judge when he's transferred, can then incarcerate him.'"

So it could be that the boy will still do prison time (which I personally think would be more just than the treatment disposition he has received so far). Some of the facts in another report about the case[2] are really stark. This boy was a disaster waiting to happen in his earlier behavior, and his parents appeared not to do much about that. That's just wrong. But the prosecutors had their one chance at trial to ask for a tougher sentence on the boy, and the trial court decision now cannot be undone to allow them to ask for a second trial to get tougher punishment. Nor can the parents be tried for anything under usual principles of United States law in this case.

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/texas-teen-dwi-wreck/

[2] http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Defense-pushes-for-intensive-...
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"use another laptop/device for that, they're relatively cheap"
It goes back considerably further - even Clark was their patsy when it came down to it. But the very visible spy base next to a state highway has never been perceived as anything other than a surrender to US policy. A break with the US came close after the nuclear free thing, but relations recovered.
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> it's most likely all in your head.

It's one thing to never have been persecuted or discriminated against yourself, but it's not really excusable to be so completely unaware of your own privilege and sheltered life.
Darpa puzzle games to help detect flaws in computer programming
surely this...?
Transactions are effectively carried out and verified instantly right now. Try it yourself on gyft.com or namecheap or anywhere else that takes bitcoin through BitPay. Accepting 0-confirmation small value transactions is the norm.

Also, the confirmation time does not scale with the size of the network. The mining difficulty automatically adjusts to one block every ten minutes on average.
I think he will romp home as the opposition is so weak. Last poll I've seen has National over 50% and Labour at 33%.
http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9332786/Poll-a-major-...
I disagree. In the five years I've been posting here, what I've found is that anybody that wanted to get offended would be offended whether I referred to the parties by name or as abstract schools of thought.

If I hadn't put the party affiliations, and had gotten something wrong, I'm not naive enough to think that anybody would have been fooled by that. Had anybody felt that I misrepresented either party, I'd have been corrected, labels or not, only instead of being able to respond directly, I'd have hard to parse through layers of obscurity to figure out which metric was even the topic of discussion.

People are going to be pissed if they feel that their positions are slighted; I just figure the better tactic is to avoid insulting the position vs. obscuring which position I insult. And, as I stated, each of the positions I referenced is, to my knowledge, equally as likely of standing a chance at solving the matter at hand as the other.
Rails & Nodejs Developer: 13" MBP or Air?
Hi,

My 6 year old MBP is on its last legs & I am need to buy a new portable device, I am trying to decide between a MBP or MBA.

The pro has a faster processor, retina display and can hold 16GB of RAM but the Air has a 12 hour batter life and is much lighter. The screen & HD sizes are both the same.

I spend most of my time developing Rails, NodeJs and Angular apps at the moment, I do a little graphic work via Sketch, nothing too exotic.

Just wondering if anyone has tried both machines, what was your experience, what did you go for in the end?
Assuming his devices are in some way useful for gaining information on Snowden, preventing further leaks, or similar, there's a shaved yak chain of what-ifs which ends with the idea that the fewer details the terrorists have about how we prevent terrorism, the better off we are. But I'm not saying this is valid justification by any means.
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Canada Post is an entity that sustains itself solely by delivering direct marketing junk mail. As a Canadian citizen I would prefer to see it disappear entirely. If people need things physically sent to them they should rely on the private sector (FedEx, Purolator, etc).

Such a system would reduce waste and encourage digital of documents, invoices, etc. +1.
Thanks!

The ErgoDox layout is nearly identical to the Kinesis and Maltron layouts, so it's not exactly without precedent, but yeah. I think we can do better :)
I'm not relishing the sight of these in Montreal. I don't think they'll blend in:

http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/canada/2013/...
"its out of curiosity and to attain peace" -- for a person. Nobody really knows what everybody else is into. Not everything interests everyone.

There are certain people (or very few tv shows) who re-build ancient machines which might not be needed in the current age. Because we acquire knowledge enough to live in a point-of-time.

Money is just "to get things done". Not sure if everyone gets it.
How about this: No one can predict the import of what's recorded NOW. Not the person who records it, not the person who observes it, not the person who comes upon it 5 minutes, 5 years, 5 decades later.

Keeping your material projections close to the vest, keeping them out, as far as possible, from the unpredictable hands of the future is just good sense.

The times are changing. We have very little grasp on how what we record now - private, public, or otherwise (?) - will impact us in the future.

There's a virtue in openness, to be sure. But maintaining privacy is no bad thing. No matter what the talking walnut says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKd7z5CY4BU
When will be the first IPO of an open allocation company?
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Dumb question. Does the US have these tariffs on consumer products and I've just never noticed? As a canuck, I feel a bit oppressed dealing with all the paperwork around customs. Does this actually bring the govt a lot of revenue?
It was not created to do anything of the sort.
Sorry, accidentally down voted you. Yes they are very fussy, shoes need to be clean, no plant material etc.
The article says there are currently 20,000 mailboxes. It doesn't mention how many there were in 2008 - it sounds like community mailboxes are increasing rapidly.
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The NSA has stated that they cannot be effective at paying internationally without picking up data on Americans every so often. The effort to reduce the number of accidental collections to zero would be astronomical. Given that, Americans must decide if they want a foreign intelligence service like every other world power, or not.
How so? Valuing the average user's data at $360 a year would mean it would be about $100Bn across the entire US. This is the amount of total digital ad spend over the last year. Comcast would have to own the entire digital ad world and have 0 cost for this to be a break-even proposition for them.

In reality, your user data is probably worth around $30.
This reminds me of:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp
Incredible read. I also recommend the audio version, read by Will Wheaton
Technology takes time. We'll have them soon, just wait.
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People choose who to vote for based on a variety of issues and I guess the legal status of marijuana isn't a priority over things like healthcare, taxes, fiscal policy, and 'job creation'. There's also the problem of having first-past-the-post elections with one conservative party and two to three liberal parties diluting the left vote.
Yes, I'd love to know the cost of delivery in my neighborhood. I live in the Plateau Mont-Royal in Montreal.

There are about 200 people on my block, based on what I could gauge from my municipal election zone. I see the postal workers quickly moving from home to home on foot.

I also fear the community mailboxes will be significantly uglier in areas such as mine, which have a combination of lovely architecture and small streets.
I'm not sure that's the point. My shoes still get taken off me.
i am one of those people who believes that, only I don't think it's as simple as 1. take drugs, 2. figure out we're slaves. 3. ??? 4. Profit.

There are a great number of activities which slowly, in turn, help reveal that all power is within ourselves. Basically, any activity which takes us by surprise, including psychedelics but also including extreme sports, international travel. Hell, reading a good book.

and it's not as easy as realizing it to get out of the trap. that's like saying is easy to become an entrepreneur. it's about spending the rest of one's life devoted to seeking reality....
I'm not sure what part of the media is omitted in the states to get that picture of Germany, but our counselor was pro NSA all the time and fully supporting their actions and against Snowden until she got "monitored" herself [1]. Then she started voicing her concerns. But only as late political act of gaining sympathy. However the public received her message broadly as selfish [2].

--

[1] http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/23/uk-germany-usa-spyi...

[2] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-smug-merkel-av... [English]
That sounds awfully like a grid scheduler (think Sun Grid Engine, and its derivatives), which I greatly welcome: the market (for grid schedulers) is a bit barren at the moment after Sun's buyout.

What's the status on accessing other system resources from containers (e.g. GPUs)? There was some work being done to enable this, but I'm not sure if the eventual solution was "run the container with less security so that it can access the cards", or if there was a more graceful approach
There is no preventing such a well-funded and pervasive adversary. There is only acceptance of the situation and after that we decide to what extent we're willing to react.

So far the answer to the latter seems to be "to no extent".
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Little known fact: almost all of the spam (at least in my area) is not postal delivery. Private couriers deliver it. You can affix a "pas de pub" (no ads) sticker to your mailbox, and it stops. (It's possible the post also stops some spam delivery with this notice)

I havne't received junk mail in over a year.
- I comment to look out for others. Some people need their karma up.
hmm, sorry. I thought that shipping the package using the regular air-mail service of the government would be an option.

You can still save the data on a VPS and encrypt it, then download & decrypt it, when you're back at your new country. Would that be a viable option?

I understand that you're more concerned about your equipment, but this could at least get you going until you get your stuff back; I mean in the worst case scenario.
Amen. you echoed my thoughts, but able to put it in good english. :)
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> What is legit or scientific about it?

Nothing. And no one here is claiming that all parts of these texts are to be taken as absolute fact with empirical proof. Most of it, as you mention, is riddled with imaginary stories probably because scientific discovery was being carried out by religious philosophers of that time.

However, there are parts of these texts that are legitimately impressive, philosophically or scientifically - and a blanket denial of that would be just as unjust as the 'filth'.
Paying for the service won't protect you. Visa or whoever will happily cancel a paid merchant account.
OMG. I've been waiting for them to do this for forever. I've got a pair of M13s, neither of which is totally functional anymore. I never realized how much I used the trackpoint until I had to switch to the one where it wasn't working.
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Take the job and keep coding on the side. Stay current and stay sharp. Who gives a shit what other people think.
If it worked in Chrome outside of the store, it would be more plausible. But requiring the Chrome Store seems to indicate it is not using just standard HTML5 stuff like appCache. The issue of limited storage or not seems insufficient to explain this.

Very disappointing.
I find it amusing that email spam is such an issue for people, but physical mail and SMS spam is not. At least in South Africa, I really can't find a way to report SMS spam so I just keep on receiving it. And who the hell would I have to speak to in order to stop receiving shit in my physical mailbox
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The relevant section of the law,

47 USC § 222 - Privacy of customer information

> http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/222
I've seen a trackpoint- (or some equivalent eraserhead pointer thingy) bearing keyboard with cherry (blue?) switches in the store, but it was a bit too "maximal" for my taste (numpad, lots of function keys etc).
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6887989
Well, why should they curb it? Some citizens want it curbed, but that's not always a good reason to curb something. I say look at it from a political perspective. What does a congressman have to lose politically by introducing such a bill? Here's a hypothetical: A congressman introduces a bill, the bill gets passed, and a month later extremists successfully detonate a bomb in a populated area killing several people. It's now election time. Guess what the opponent's platform would most likely include. Probably something along the lines of: "I won't vote on laws that will endanger American lives." Game over for the congressman.

This is just one possibility why we haven't seen any significant movement towards legislation. It sounds oversimplified, but it can make or break an election.
Mobile apps?

If I don't count mail, messages, or phone, then I would say: Tweetbot is #1 by far. Next would probably be Facebook and either Music or Feedly.
Sorry I wasn't being too clear. Knowing the odds as in "I know I have little chance to have an exit, but I still want to do it anyway". While gamblers might see the odds posted but still think "I'm gonna be the one guy who wins".
Yeah, I didn't post that. Kind of weird.
I have no idea about iOS, but I have tried porting some QWidget based apps on Android using 5.1 (not tried 5.2 yet), and they did work but poorly. Some widgets looked downright ugly and some had layout issues.

I ended up rewriting my UI in QML instead and that worked very well.
No, it is still not there. First thing I tried. :-(
In my opinion, if you're not good enough to adapt to any given language, you have quite a ways to go before calling yourself a software engineer.
"Remember when the administration said X? They lied." - seems to be happening quite often.

The almost funny thing is that at the time they also say they wouldn't have the authority to do that anyway, but when they get caught doing it, they always try to turn it around and say "but of course it's legal - and it's necessary anyway (implying that it doesn't really matter if it's legal or not)!"

And yeah, it's getting a little ridiculous how everytime one more of the leaks is unveiled, nobody is punished - in any way.
Should be working ok on Firefox now.
>>you would have expected a dominant technical culture but why was this knowledge lost instead?

One word, Entropy!

As an Indian, I can tell you India has seen many cycles of ups and downs. And its not just mere technical culture, there is tons of other things. Food, literature, language, poetry, food, clothes, music, religions, philosophy and what not. I don't know any other country in the world comes close to matching this. Buddha arrived in India in around 500 BC. And that was one of India's peak times in Spiritual and philosophical tradition.

There are languages that are totally extinct, cultures that have faded away. Massive amounts of literature lost completely to mankind.

But Mainland India has been invaded many times, colonized, bulk of its wealth plundered. Add to this the overall entropy of the system.

A simple question to you would be like this. Can you be sure US will remain the world super power 200 years from now.
"LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been
prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He,
and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay
recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral
if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you
lose and not immoral if you win?"

Robert S. McNamara, in the documentary series The Fog of War.

[0] http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html
There is a bit of text now that appears if geolocation isn't enabled.
The current consoles are plenty powerful for this type of thing, don't forget they are basically just gaming PCs in compact cases this generation and share almost the exact same hardware (Xbox One and PS4).