skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is about the psychological fear of it rather than any rational reason to be afraid. The deaths caused by them (or prevented because of them) should be the main issue.
Well that's different than searching for the URL (though I would suggest using tab to search the site within Chrome). I bet RapGenius got thousands of referrals from the keyword "rapgenius.com" per day. Obviously that will come back rather quickly, but it's something a lot of the HN audience would not normally think of happening.
Anyone know what the licensing restrictions on the surface keypadcovers is? Could anyone make a custom one?
>I can say first hand, that if you call your ISP and say "I'm switching to X service at $Y for Zmbps" you can get your bill reduced.

Except if you're one of those millions that live in rural areas with only one ISP.

Or if the major ISPs in your area are complicit in keeping prices up and enjoy a pre-arranged share of the market each.
I thought the wording of the contract had already changed to be specific to commercial activity, at least in KC. Am I remembering things incorrectly?
Standing is not a legal barrier, it's a functional (unilaterally created) one. It's main purpose being to prevent taxpayer suits and therefore a level of suits that might be unmaintainable by the justice system (weak). So I may be mistaken but I don't believe though that the rules of evidence apply so that standing could be denied on the grounds as you hypothesized them. The question is whether the matter should even be heard as a "case" so I would think it would be odd to conduct it as if it were a case when making that determination.
Biology does not do atomically-precise manufacturing. It does do a lot of sorting and filtering of random interactions, and in a few places (the ribosome), precision alignment of large complex basic units (amino acids). It is very, very unlikely that we will develop Drexlerian nanotech via biological processes.
Does anyone know what browsers allow you to override the Array constructor? I was under the impression that modern browsers don't.
The objection to the Koch brothers might be something along the line of pointing out the harm they have done to impoverished people (or even pointing out the number of impoverished people that were forced into poverty as a result of the Koch brothers).

Both the Koch brothers and PG have enabled a few people to become rather rich. Has PG/YC done any of the things that we dislike the Koch brothers for? Have they done things like lobby against climate change legislation?
I've yet to see a broken lightning connector personally of the 20-30 devices I've seen/used, but I can't say the same of USB. There are sample descrepencies of course, as USB has been around long, but saying the Lightning connector isn't durable is pretty much flat out the opposite opinion of most impressions/experiences, and sounds more like a paid spam-pinion without evidence supporting any specific issues.
Those challenges are easier than they sound (I've already mentally prototyped all bar one of the holes).

The real challenge would be writing each hole in a different language to avoid penalties. I'm a bigger language whore than most, and I've 'only' coded in about a dozen different languages, most of which I'm probably quite rusty in now due to years of neglect (Eg Pascal). But I guess if you were stuck then you could cheat and class object revisions as a separate language (Eg C and C++; Pascal and Delphi; etc).

This does look fun though 😊
My First "Hour of Code"
Making an example of them
I'm sure I could learn, given enough time and effort, but I don't consider it worth it, especially since I strongly suspect it will be a very uphill battle for the way my brain "naturally" works.
>What a disgustingly ignorant thing to say

Was that intended as a warning for the rest of your post?

>It's ridiculous to expect someone to put up with harassment and vitriol

Of course it is. And since that does not happen any more frequently in tech than anywhere else, and does not happen any more frequently to women than to men, I have a hard time seeing the relevance.

>You may not even realize it, but your comment actually excuses all of the sexism and misogyny in the industry

You may not even realize it, but your comment actually makes women less likely to participate in tech. When people constantly make a huge fuss about imaginary misogyny, women start feeling like they are blamed by all the normal people, even though they had nothing to do with it and are actually normal people themselves.
For most sites, Chrome should do this by default and the default keyword is just the site's URL. So simply:

rapgenius.com<tab>search terms

autocomplete is supported so you can also just do

ra<tab>search terms

if rapgenius.com is your first autocomplete result for "ra"
I've been working from home for the last 2.5 years and the biggest lesson I've learned is to embrace the ebb and flow. Keep a schedule, of course, but if you have a day where you can't focus and get things done: don't beat yourself up. When this happens to me, I try to dedicate my energy to something else like reading, writing, or setting up a meeting with a friend.

Seriously, it's extremely easy to kill yourself working from home. An office provides certain boundaries that are not available at home. Defining these early in your at home career is important if you don't want to bum yourself out.
> For all intents and purposes, there's nothing stopping a woman from learning how to program, contribute to open source and engage in community.

Except the community, which is generally hostile towards women. Sure, someone can learn how to program on their own without ever interacting with the programming community, but that means shutting them off from a huge and helpful resource.

> A lot of people, male and female alike, operate under a pseudonym.

"It's fine as long as you never say you're a woman!" Yeah, that's indicative of a friendly culture.

>Unless you're a celebrity, it's generally smarter for plenty of reasons, including risk management (something contemporary feminists don't seem to comprehend) and OPSEC.

Aside from all your open source work never being attributable to yourself, sure. It's totally smarter. I'm sure no one ever contributes to open source projects with the intent of getting their name out. And your little aside to "contemporary feminists" (ironically in the same comment where you complain about generalizing cultures) just reveals your true intention in this discussion.

> ...tend to be mostly about offended sensibilities.

Ah, here we go. The "you're just too sensitive" argument. As though not wanting to be hurt or harassed or bothered is a bad thing. As though the culture of trolling and adolescent behavior that permeates the programming community should remain the status quo, and anyone who calls for change just doesn't have thick enough skin.

You sure do bring some unique and insightful contributions.
I have extended the Toyota stuff in my own special way...

1) Imagine every piece of data in your code is a component, a physical widget.

2) Imagine that component has mass proportional to its size as measured in 1's and 0's.

3) Imagine you have to have some person or some robot move it from place to place, maybe via a warehouse (hard disk somewhere).

4) Now question what you are doing and whether it is efficient.

Take the simple but common scenario of working with someone that knows Dropbox but not how to use FTP, e.g. a graphic designer. They upload their stuff to Dropbox, taking hours to do because they are on the slow end of an ADSL connection. They then send you the Dropbox link for you to then download and upload to the server for them. Now imagine all of those 1's and 0's have physical mass and have to move physical distances back and fore across the Atlantic.

This whole process is so not 'just in time' manufacturing ways of doing things.

Clearly this also goes on in your own code as well as with inane procedures needed to work with non-techies. Sometimes thinking data has physical mass helps you see whether what you are doing is efficient.
This is a ridiculous argument. Traffic rules can lead to death and it's literally not possible for there to be multiple standards. Having a different charger for your device is not dangerous nor impossible.

Additionally, I said in my comment that maybe the government should regulate it, I just proposed alternatives that would allow for some reasonable exceptions.
So instead of every single Macbook Pro, it's just those used by key people in your government and key people in industries that compete with industries the US government considers national security assets.

That's still enough to constitute an act of war. We are not at war with Germany. We are allied with them. What we are doing bugging our allies instead of using diplomacy shows that we are simply untrustworthy.
Don't hold your breath, "wireless" power is ridiculously inefficient even at extremely short distances. You might as well just use a good plug.
There's a lot of ambiguity in your scenario. Do I get equal access to the existing infrastructure (presumably paid for by the existing monopoly)? Assuming this deregulation comes along with some law or judicial ruling that no local government can create such an ongoing monopoly, there would likely be created a separate industry that simply builds infrastructure at some price to the locality with no continuing agreement.

Second, who am i? A startup? Since this is a fantasy world, I imagine I'd have invented some new tech that would substantially reduce the cost of operating an ISP. I'd pitch that to investors and raise enough to get of the ground?

But that's only one way I might enter the market. I may be Google, or even an existing telco looking to expand my turf.

My overarching answer is simply: I don't know, but let's get rid of the artificial constraints on the market and see what results. In most unregulated industries, quality rises and price falls (in the long run). There may be exceptions, but which industries do you see this not happening:

1. Finance
2. Medicine
3. Utilities
4. ?

All industries with close connection to the state. I'd wager that sans these connections, things would be a lot different.
You could solve that problem by reading your politician's blog (and donating of course) then voting the way they recommend on each issue.
> Because they're demanding the freedom of the telcos be overridden in favor of our own personal interests.

Imagine that someone was allowed to own the air, and then control / privileged what you are allowed to say (sound waves). Would your opinion be different?
It's pretty easy to manage site searches in Firefox -- go to rapgenius.com, click on dropdown in the FF search box, click on add "rap genius", and that's it. Also, you are able to set keyword to it in "manage search engines" dialog in the same dropdown, for example "rg" -- so you will be able to write just "rg song" in the address bar to search on rapgenius.
official story of 9/11 is fabricated lie.
Yes, I think this must be the most interesting part of the report:

In one internal graphic, they replaced the text of
Microsoft's original error message with one of their own
reading, "This information may be intercepted by a
foreign sigint system to gather detailed information and
better exploit your machine."

Does Microsoft's error reporting mechanism even use SSL?
Well, men and women are different. As hopefullly everyone knows, they have different bodies, including the brain (there are obvious psychological and behavioral differences).
The connector is durable but the cable leading up to it isn't. I can of course only speak anecdotally, but I've gone through 4 lightning cables in a year and a half, the kicker being that they're not by any measure cheap (AUD$25). My first one took less than a week to become unusable.
Apple supply a usb micro B adaptor with their products.
Probably 7 million after taxes. The first million will buy you a decent house. The next million will let you buy other materialistic goods and/or give away. The next 5 million can go into a very safe savings account which will net you 6 figures a year in interest.

With 7 million, you should be set for life with a decent lifestyle.
Alright, that's one anecdote. But take a look at this one.

In Python:

a = 3 * 4 + 5

In Lisp:

(setf a (+ 5 (* 3 4)))

Now maybe it's just me, but balancing all those parentheses and thinking in prefix notation gets a little hairy, especially if we introduce more math into a program (think graphics or ML).
Incognito window!
3- By learning I meant learning to use a technology/programming lang.
4- Don't know if FB would accept a self signed certificate ... Never tried before!
5- Unless you're on a Cloud-based highly scalable hosting, I don't see how.
6- That would mean you need to setup a git server, on your server. Resource management and security wise, I wouldn't do it.
Everyone on the planet that has at least one hand is capable of drawing at a professional level. The only thing stopping you is a lack of practice.

If you want to get good at it, draw, observe objects closely, read books and watch tutorials on youtube(or elsewhere), and then draw some more.

The more you practice, the better you will get. There is no such thing as raw artistic talent. Some people learn faster than others but no one has learned to draw well without lots of practice.
> Our brains are physically different [0].

You do realize that brains change in response to their experiences, right? That there are differences says nothing about whether the differences come from being treated differently by society.

And regardless, to the extent that there are genetic differences (as there certainly are), we still have no credible way to map those differences to phenotypes as complex and deep into development as "ability to program".

That said, if programming involved a lot of playing with toy cars, you might have the beginnings of an argument.
The technique can literally be a race between servers, one
that is described in internal intelligence agency jargon
with phrases like: "Wait for client to initiate new
connection," "Shoot!" and "Hope to beat server-to-client
response."

It would be interesting to build a tool that watches out for duplicate-but-different SYN/ACK and DNS answers.
Another weak article from the Daily Mail featuring the BBC's John Simpson:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530571/100-years-Wo...

I think that these right-wing organ-of-the-secret-state propagandists are all fairly clueless.
M#
The comment was sarcastic and hostile and dismissive of his point. It may not be incorrect, but it's the kind of thing I'd expect to see on /r/politics and come to HN to avoid.
Brilliant. If a solution appears over-simplified, it probably is. Like a reverse razor.
My first impression:

This idea sounds great ... until you need to hop in your car and drive somewhere midday and learn that the battery is mostly drained because it's a hot day and everyone's turned their A/C on full blast.

I'm sure the engineers have thought about that scenario and maybe only allow 20% of the battery to be used for the purpose of grid maintenance, but I imagine it will be difficult to sell the average car owner on the idea, because people are always thinking about worst cases.

I mean, think of it in terms of a conventional car. How would you like to never know with certainty whether you have a full tank or not when you get in your car?
Google, Apple Forge Auto Ties
It's different in that Apple's "n" is quite higher and has a very good technological reason (a 4 year old machine or older is quite a difference to a 1 or 2 year old machine).
> .. by eliminating explicit monopoly rights and by mandating and/or price-controlling B2B bandwidth/traffic sales ...

Are you willing to try the former before the latter? If so, I don't think we're far off .. I'm not an absolutist, if there is a compelling case after the artificial constraints are removed, then I might consider state intervention as a last resort. But not before giving the free market a fair shot.
A web application framework for Clojure
It's always just one more dollar. I think you have to consider the opportunity costs involved with the exit versus the potential financial upside. The right number is the amount for which you are comfortable to part with your current business.
>I strongly suspect it will be a very uphill battle for the way my brain "naturally" works.

What we have been trying to explain is that this belief is incorrect. Everyone likes to pretend that the ability to draw is some sort of mystical power bestowed upon artists while they were still in the womb. HN in particular should understand how silly this is, because non-technical people generally think the same thing about programming and general computer skills.

Learning to draw is largely the same experience for everyone. If you don't think that this process is worth the effort, then you don't really want to be able to draw, as you originally claimed.

There used to be a threat in an art forum where a member joined, barely able to draw a stick-figure. He kept uploading his work and getting feedback, and eventually, he opened his own art school.
Blame culture is easy, cathartic, and broken; deeply broken if you're in a situation where you can say, "this is solely their fault", then you've got an organization which assigns responsibility in excess of ability. Beware!
The problem with "national security" is that it is too easy to use that term for the sake of industrial espionage as well.

The Petrobras hacking is one prime example. Is oil a national security interest? Yes. The opinions of many people in the US government justify these actions on national security grounds. Is hacking every single oil company in the world justifiable because its done in the name of national security?

They like to claim acts like those don't constitute industrial espionage, but that couldn't be farther from reality. Just because there are tenuous national securities justifications doesn't mean those acts cease to be economic espionage as well.

Is hacking the Saab Group and Dassault fair game because those companies produce fighter jets? What about hacking Airbus and Embraer? Rolls Royce? We like to think that there is a line where it's still a legitimate national security issue and where it starts to become plain vanilla industrial espionage, but that's just a fantasy. It's often both.

Hostile sovereign states are not made overnight. Countries like Germany, France and Brazil are not inclined to be hostile to the US. For the last 40 years or so, pretty much every enemy this country has had has been the fault of our failed foreign policy.

We should only start hacking sovereign states once this start on the part to hostility towards us. While they are still allies, we should trust them and use diplomacy.
>The iPhone 4S and below are completely unusable with iOS 7. Even switching between two apps will require one or the other being evicted/reloaded into memor

I'm running iOS 7 in a iPhone 4 (not even 4S), as do millions of others, and what you are saying is BS.

I can even upload a video if you don't believe me.
"why would they throttle?"

Because they want to slow the demise of their television business unit. Many of the telcos here in the states not only also offer cable television service, they also directly compete with Netflix (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/0...). If they can make Netflix slower than the Comcast online offering (and they can), then more users will often choose the Comcast offering, even if it is inferior in every other way...and, most nefariously, the consumer probably won't know why Netflix is "so slow" and Comcast streaming is so fast.

In short, Telcos want the ability to kill their rivals, without having to provide a better product. They succeeded in doing so during the 90s on the broadband Internet front (there used to be thousands of independent ISPs in the US; they were killed by the telcos abusing their monopoly power, it's a story I've told here before, and so won't go into again).
Except that the non-american parts of Nato could easily end up not joining such a war. That could easily be considered something similar.

All it takes is USA joining a war due to defensive alliances with either japan or south korea. Then assume Russia joins the war on the other side, or already has joined it. Exactly what incentive do the European countries have to join such a war? They certainly wouldn't have any obligation (since Nato is also a defensive pact), and it would be a stupid idea to open a land front against Russia, because most of such a war would be fought on home turf due to Russia having more projective ability compared to Europe.

Sure, Europe would probably eventually win such a war on sheer size of population and economies, but it would be a very very costly war.
> The problem with MOOCs is that they have a pretty low retention rate.

Actually, I think that's one of the strengths of MOOCs (or, at least, a symptom of its strengths.)

> The benefit of having a physical class is that you can turn to the professor or TAs for help if you're having trouble. It's also more difficult to completely fall behind because there are milestones in place (tests, assignments, projects, etc.).

The MOOCs I've been in EdX and Coursera all have had both milestones of the type described, and TAs to go to for help.

What they don't have is a large up-front cost to enter, so there's no reason for people not to try out classes when they aren't completely certain are the right fit -- and little reason, even if the fit is good, not to drop out of one iteration and come back and take the course again if other life events that do have a cost for not dealing with now erupt.

So, yeah, a higher rate of people starting MOOCs and not completing them compared to traditional courses is to be expected -- and that's a good thing.
This feels like a bit of a regression. I used to be able to just use the automatic search, but it seems to be breaking for more and more sites recently. Even sites it used to pick up automatically, like tpb, now need to be manually specified.

And there's still no damned excuse for them not being able to search maps.google.com from the omnibox.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with your CPU intensive statement.

Multiprocessing definitely brings Python speedups in the CPU bound arena. I've used it for everything from template matching, to building movies from still frames. Heck, my primary solution to speeding things up is throwing more cores at it rather than figuring out why my algorithm sucks ;)

A couple of quick benchmarks and you'll be a believer, too!
Well, you turn a company that can sell to anyone in the industry and make a profit, into one that can only sell to one customer and makes zero profit. The former is generally going to be valued higher than the latter.
TQM crap is still there, humming away and earning a decent living for the auditor agencies.

Deming's ideas might've been the genesis of the TQM fad, but I bet he spins around in his grave when he sees all the paper tiger waste that is TQM.
Most people prefer to buy cheap crap instead of quality.
11 Inexpensive Portable Test Tools
I love this analogy. This makes me want to bring back to life the product that we killed after our 12 person private launch didn't get traction!
Ask HN:What are your thoughts on Dogecoin?
The dogeroad, dogecoin's silkroad, is opening up on the first, and I potentially see this as the most viable cryptocurrency other than bitcoin.