skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if I'm already in China? Seems like a lot of work for a week. I just need to use facebook to get in touch with a supplier. He's not replying to email. That's the main reason.

Thanks for the advice.
Although with our ridiculous tax scheme they probably got to claim a fat tax deduction from the loss or something...
However, if you both want to make games, and have the stuff to actually make it through a CS degree program, hearing this shit gets a little old.
I have no idea my friend...

http://www.icq.com/people/60459407/en
This is so bad that it is hard to imagine how it could have escaped notice until now, Apple really need to beef up their security competence. Lets hope that malevolent hackers were similarly asleep.
So, presumably you think these folk are wrong then -

Probing the Statistical Properties of Unknown Texts: Application to the Voynich Manuscript

While the use of statistical physics methods to analyze large corpora has been useful to unveil many patterns in texts, no comprehensive investigation has been performed on the interdependence between syntactic and semantic factors. In this study we propose a framework for determining whether a text (e.g., written in an unknown alphabet) is compatible with a natural language and to which language it could belong. The approach is based on three types of statistical measurements, i.e. obtained from first-order statistics of word properties in a text, from the topology of complex networks representing texts, and from intermittency concepts where text is treated as a time series. Comparative experiments were performed with the New Testament in 15 different languages and with distinct books in English and Portuguese in order to quantify the dependency of the different measurements on the language and on the story being told in the book. The metrics found to be informative in distinguishing real texts from their shuffled versions include assortativity, degree and selectivity of words. As an illustration, we analyze an undeciphered medieval manuscript known as the Voynich Manuscript. We show that it is mostly compatible with natural languages and incompatible with random texts. We also obtain candidates for keywords of the Voynich Manuscript which could be helpful in the effort of deciphering it. Because we were able to identify statistical measurements that are more dependent on the syntax than on the semantics, the framework may also serve for text analysis in language-dependent applications.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Out of curiosity, if you did it over would you have spent more time "out" than you did?
Oh wow, you're right, sorry. I saw the error code at the top, and missed the fact that it was reporting success anyway at the bottom. That's... pretty terrible.
It is not that credentials are not needed--in my example, Johnny Lee still has credentials--but that it is not essential to gain the very best credentials in order to find work where one's creativity matters.
How many ships did Antoine de Saint-Exupery actually build using this method?
Absolutely you can, and you will do it again and again with different technology stacks and different languages.
Yeah the biggest problem with mobile devices I see that desktop applications have less often is crypto problems..It will get better as the time goes on.
Cie lab color visualizer
A tip to expand the Open-Source: Solve the “#MessyFear”
This article is silly. The title suggests that if they had only listened to some guy stating the obvious 17 years ago all this could have been prevented as if "don't let your sys admin steal all your sensitive files" is some deep insight. The problem is more likely that their IT staff is woefully inept and either weren't bothering to look or didn't notice what was going on right under their noses.
How to onboard new users like a wizard – The KISSmetrics edition
Some VAXen, in their native habitat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYP-F7XxrDA
They specifically mentioned self contained. While there are quick connect/disconnect water cooling connectors [1] those do leak a bit of liquid each use.

[1] http://www.xtremerigs.net/2013/07/02/2013-quick-disconnect-r...
Ha. I did the exact same for both a les paul and an acoustic i built. Really neat.

I'm surprised they can tune to within a few cents in a few seconds.
I think one of the most important things about this is the last bullet point. "Development on Github." I occasionally look at the vim-dev mailing list and I see people attaching patch files to conversations. I think Github's collaborative development workflow could help the barrier of entry to updates a lot.
Mobile Computing Research is a Hornet’s Nest of Deception and Chicanery [pdf]
Can you access psiphone?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/en.html
https://s3.amazonaws.com/e8uh-puy4-4hx1/en/download.html
https://s3.amazonaws.com/0ubz-2q11-gi9y/zh.html‎
Weird - I saw this about a minute after reading the AI post - and I did for a second think that he was actually going to run as an Independent candidate for US Presidency.

The weird part of course was "oh on some kind of business / privacy reform ticket. Yeah that makes sense - he might be like a privacy Ralph Nader. "

I think either I live in a bubble or the world really is changing.
More info:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/gdc/projects/alpha1/help/man/html/mod...

> The way I got the story (this was even before my time as a grad student at Utah) the original teapot was modeled by Martin Newell and rendered by Jim Blinn in 1974 or early 1975. The Utah Teapot was the first computer graphics object to be designed and rendered as sculptured surfaces, rather than as a set of polygons. The design program which was used to create it used bicubic Bezier patches as a representation, and used a Tektronix storage tube connected to a DEC PDP-10. Position continuity between Bezier patches was maintained by keeping control points on the edges of adjacent 4 x 4 patch control meshes in the same place. Tangent continuity between patches was maintained by keeping the control mesh links adjoining adjacent edges collinear. I don't know how the radial and bilateral symmetries were maintained.

(You can find more interesting info there as well)

I've actually used a derivative of the software alpha_1, at Utah while I was a high school program at the U. I actually used it to create a model of Escher's Belvedere, IIRC using NURBs for the dome.
Oh, I don't really have an opinion either way or the other (as I don't have enough information on it). I was just clarifying the intent of my grandparent.
not very profitable compared to the acquisition price.
Ah, I see. I wasn't arguing that the person I quoted was using the word innovation in that way but that they were explaining the same worldview: That the benefit of innovation is the generation of profit.
If you click the text "An Algorithm for Nudity Detection [pdf]", that's actually a link.
Therein lies the problem; the license is not being included. I find this a bit concerning since the default in forking a repo would have included it. So this gives off the impression then that the license was deliberately removed.

Just to make it clear (most people on Hackernews probably already know this, but for the sake of anyone that doesn’t), it would look like this.

hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ neovim

cd ./neovim

git init && git add . && git commit -m “First commit”

git remote add origin https://github.com/neovim/neovim.git

git push -u origin master

There you have it; an exact fork from Mercurial push out to neovim on github, everything included. Getting those license files out of there took some manual steps somewhere in between lines 1 and 3.
Shared state is great as long as you control it.

Databases are a giant blob of shared state, albeit a carefully-managed one. People complain about them all the time, but databases completely take over in huge areas of the application development landscape. There's a reason for that -- consistency is a very powerful simplifying assumption (giant understatement). Getting consistency in erlang may be possible, and of course you can still use a database from erlang, but the philosophy doesn't quite line up.

Databases already offer isolation between transactions. And they naturally work with immutable structures similar to functional programming.

For most applications out there, HA means replicating a database, and when it goes down (which is actually quite rare), you lose a little time doing a failover.

Hot code loading means uploading a PHP file with a new extension and "mv"ing it over the old one. Need schema changes? PostgreSQL offers transactional DDL (e.g. ALTER TABLE).

Any error in the database usually just causes that one transaction for that one request to fail. Any error in the application usually just crashes that one process serving that one request.

Philosophically, using erlang is trading consistency for availability. Given that it's easy to get good availability using normal applications connected to a database, using erlang is somewhat of a niche.

I have spent some effort learning erlang, and I really like it in many ways. I bought the new book and I like it so far. I have no problem with the syntax and I find it enjoyable to write in (though I haven't written any large programs). There are certain projects where I think erlang would be a great choice, like management and control of a cluster system. Obviously it works for telco-like things, too, but I've never developed anything like that.
It is still alive and is pretty affordable now: http://thermaltakeusa.com/store/Product.aspx?C=1014&SC=1017&...

I will stick with my 900D though.
LXC 1.0 has been released
I think it was due to how you tell people to add you as a friend. There was a search you could do but if you had a common name there would be multiple matches (and I don't think there were photos or a count of mutual friends to help you figure out which one) and perhaps it might have been easier than telling someone to look you up via email (especially since email addresses were often random words rather than first.last@gmail.)
Also the University's CMS may be very bad.
I am very excited!!
> Not even once did they show an actual kid in the whole video, let alone trying to get them to learn from it.

Many parents are extremely hesitant to put pictures of their children online. If you're concerned, ask about it – a testimonial, note, etc. might be more within her comfort zone.
52535425. And then I was so angry when that "children under 13 can't use the internet" or whatever act went into effect and I got locked out of it (young and stupid enough to put my real birth date!). I made a new account but can't remember the ID, I stopped using it pretty quickly after that.
Making "desktop" computers not look like ass.
Ahh there it is.

"The Southern Poverty Law Center? Yah they're a bunc of phonies and the real racists!"

Do you think any of the SPLC's designations are legitimate? Or is it all a plot by globalists/blacks/Jews/George Soros?

People who think like you don't need to be censored, just mocked & embarrassed.

Go back to your hole
"99% feature loss" sounds terrible but vim is actually way too featureful, in the sense that all that shit gets in the way of just using it as a text editor. The amount of silly pointless knowledge you need just to move around lines and save a file is a real burden.
See, also, the Stanford Bunny:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Bunny

List of common 3D test models:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_3D_test_models
It really depends on what you want to do. Engineering is unusual in that grades matter less. That said, not a lot of B students at Stanford. They matter a lot in many other fields. Not much room for B students even at less elite med schools. If you want to be a VC, fastest way is still straight As at Harvard then a Stint at Goldman.
Such a (GPS-based) system I've worked with in the past is called Blue Force Tracking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Force_Tracking
I'm not sure about libuv. Isn't that primarily for async I/O? This is a desktop application. Async I/O isn't going to significantly affect performance. And it doesn't make shit any simpler.
Protip: If you film pornography in black and white, there is no such thing as "skin color."

If you remap the palette for a desaturated image, so that everyone's skin is green or magenta, are there any fewer penises penetrating vaginas in the image? If it's a horse and a fully clothed person's mouth, where is the algorithm for that?

Think about it.
Intelligence means that it can figure out how to fulfill it's goal as optimally as possible. It doesn't mean that it can magically change it's goals to something that is compatible with human goals. Why would it? Human goals are extremely arbitrary.
I joined in 2005, when you still needed to be part of a school which had a Facebook network. At that time the ID for most users was made up of a network number (which was in the 4-digit range by the time my school was added) and then a 5-digit user code. So you could (and still can, given the right info) figure out the first person to join from your school, as well as when your school got a network relative to some others nearby.

You can still use this to find some mundane information about Facebook's early userbase. For example, the first non-Harvard schools added were, in order, Stanford, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, U.Penn, Columbia, etc., and that the first people added to most of those networks either grew up with or attended the same high school as Zuck.
Yes, indeed that's the entire point of the article. It appears the original poster didn't actually read it.
iOS SSL Flaw Enables Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Game of Light – video author about his work
direct link: http://onebit.us/x/i/814381733331796005.pdf
Thank you for posting this – I was thinking the exact same thing. The real, huge win for kids is thinking about how to decompose a problem into easier, repeatable steps and that's of benefit in many fields even if you never write a line of code.
UCSC wanted to charge me for the "privilege" of retaining an @ucsc.edu address. I think there were options of annual or lifetime payments.

That didn't seem plausible to me, but I guess they must be getting something from some sucker somewhere. :/
A tremendous amount. This is really a very nice version of how things work in many Asian countries. One or two questions on an exam India decides the date of many kids, what's worse is that most agree with culture that a particular exam score is who they are and it's not really questioned. I think it is very simple minded.
10554049

how do I remember that?
> Usable means an interface which is (i) consistent and (ii) well suited to the task at hand.

No it doesn't. Usable as in Usability is defined in the ISO-norm 9241-110 by seven principles, a summary can be found here: http://www.userfocus.co.uk/resources/iso9241/part110.html

"suitability for the task (the dialogue should be suitable for the user’s task and skill level); self-descriptiveness (the dialogue should make it clear what the user should do next); controllability (the user should be able to control the pace and sequence of the interaction); conformity with user expectations (it should be consistent); error tolerance (the dialogue should be forgiving); suitability for individualisation (the dialogue should be able to be customised to suit the user); and suitability for learning (the dialogue should support learning)."

vim falls short in discoverabilty and, arguably, in user expectation, and suitability for learning.

Though I don't want to further spawn a vim-discussion. Just to show you that you don't seem to know the necessary vocabulary to tell you parent that he is wrong.

> You're doing it wrong. Read the bloody manual.

Yeah. Way to prove his point.
"...you can bet the private sector would fill the market gap."

Not if doing so was a felony. Sometimes, safety IS prevention (see toxic waste / dumping of).
Would superconductors like Graphene or Carbon nanotubes allow for low latency signalling over longer distances?
1369500 :)
The Jersey versions 2 and above are examples of turning a successful user friendly project into an application server specific JAX-RS framework(?). The versions prior to 2 allowed clean integration with many popular frameworks (spring / guice) etc. Now they have this thing called bridge which provides abstraction over abstraction over abstraction.

Paul Sandoz why did you leave man ?
Congratulations Sam! Here's to a very exciting future, and looking forward to see how you help shape it.
I had not; I'll look at it at some point here.

What do you mean by "know what a directory is"?
The link that you just commented on answers your question in literally the best way possible, it's an academic paper on an algorithm used for this.
Ohh a modal vim with like wheel typing for taking notes on my iPad in meetings would be smexy
Not racists.

They need to be mocked and embarrased and ignored. Unfortunately, they have the pernicious effect of turning political disagreement into quasi-crimes through their witch-hunt mentality.
Online sports and league management made simple
> Congressmen will start seriously discussing turning the internet into a utility.

I loled. Congress has a lot more important problems on its plate than this (social security, immigration, health care, etc.) On this issue they're just going to do what ever their friendly telecom lobbyist tells them to do.
Thanks for the help. I'll try psiphone later. Good news is I messaged my supplier on FB already. Basically, I clicked on an ad for a free 7 day proxy trial and $6 a month afterwards. Got it running in a couple minutes. I'm thinking of setting up Your Freedom (proxy service) afterwards. A German friend showed me when I was working there.
As someone who did absolutely nothing at school except get in (sometimes very serious) trouble, I find this astonishing. I didn't even go to university for 4 years after school, I just got a menial job.

Then when I'd figured out what I wanted, I did an undergrad at a non-prestigious university and am now doing PhD at Cambridge. Mistakes you make at 14 shouldn't have to follow you into adulthood, and I think the idea that people have to go straight to university from school is toxic.
That's why the importance of removing bad laws off the books, and reforming what we consider essential liberties is so important.

Yes, the observation state is coming as many have said, but how we apply it, and who has the power of checks is the the real question.

If every on foot police officer has a camera on their lapel that any citizen can log in to and monitor, if much of the technology behind the monitoring is transparent -- if the people ultimately control the monitoring and its usage is to detect weapons, explosives and true acts of terror...not petty things like teenagers with pot -- then I believe the coming 'monitored state' will not be as scary.

So the removal of bad laws. Maximum liberty in the privacy of one's house, and then crazy cameras and detectors for explosives and the printed guns et al is where I hope/believe the future can head too.

Call it the green tea party ;p

EDIT: In my world every printed gun, hell every gun taken out of the household needs to be transmitting its location so I can log on to a 'like google maps/latitude' type app and see exactly where any weapons in the public space are...and anyone caught by the monitors or an officer without 'reporting' on their weapons would face the severest of consequences.

On the counter side though, within the house hold, you can print and make whatever you want. You can do the vices you'd like, and you can petition for areas within the public space to do such things, as long as I can also see where it is taking place and avoid if I desire too.
>i welcome robot catastrophe too. if it's going to happen it's going to happen and i'd prefer it be while i can experience it.

I'd rather it turn out friendly than unfriendly, and I'd rather have as much time as possible to either figure it out or live out my life.

There'd be nothing to experience anyways. The AI might kill us all overnight with super-lethal virus, nukes, or swarms of nanobots.
I've used coinmkt more and more in the past week. I like them, seem to still be working things out, but if you trade multiple currencies they're a good bet. Being based in the USA doesn't hurt either.
This could only be a very rough first-pass on detection. Bathing suits can be very skimpy without being fully nude.

And social context plays a large role, for instance distinguishing between a fat male's nipples and a small-chested female's nipples would be impossible without analyzing a lot more than skin color.

http://i.imgur.com/sb6Iw.jpg
New York City mayor says he would OK affordable housing buildings at any size
As I said, weight by simplicity, forcing the algorithm to be as general as possible.
On some level, it's silly. There are high school dropouts that go on graduate school. It's not a high percentage but happens often enough that I don't it makes the over-emphasis of certain things in high schools seem pointless. If someone can do a GED, go to a junior college, then go to a 4-year and then on to grad school, it makes one wonder about a lot of the nonsense clubs and so forth kids pad their college apps with in high school.

Obviously, this is probably nigh impossible in countries outside of the US, particular Asian countries.
No, its a speed of light issue. Signals can only propagate at the speed of light. The other issue with signals integrity is when a signal goes from one wire to another (like it does through a connector) it behaves a bit like light going through one lens into another. Most of the signal goes through, some of it gets reflected. The result is that instead of the signal being there or not being there (ideal) you end up with what folks think of as any 'eye' pattern (it looks a bit like an eye) which is the point where the signal is reliably all there, or all not there (in digital terms a 1 or 0). More reflections, more noise, the smaller the eye and the harder to reliably read the signal.
If you want let me know and i'll setup a VPN account for you. I used to have a VPN business but i shut it down a couple months back.. some of the servers and code is still in production. You can have it for free until you get back.
1315453 - A great collection of memories, indeed ;)
On that note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusang
I'm not sure that's a fair comparison to make. Most of their revenue comes after the first year. With the growth they had last year and current growth, their revenue should exponentially rise over 2014 and 2015.

Also, I wonder if being bought by facebook could help reduce hardware costs by utilizing facebook's infustracture
Also, in line 17, I think it's running whichever of the two codes is longer (since the longer one is the one that didn't have a byte deleted)

eval eval"[eval||=9,instance_eval||=9].max_by{|s|s.size}#"##"

See the max_by ... size part
I do not use any of the mathematical elements of LaTeX and the work I do render using it is exclusively words. Just words. So really LaTeX isn't necessary for what I do. But, I write using MultiMarkdown in Scrivener, using Bibtex citekeys for referencing then export the document as LaTeX from scrivener and then compile using Texshop.

I guess I don't really have a point. Just that if you are writing essays in the humanities or sociology then markdown can have a place in your workflow
In fairness, it's worth pointing out that Go 1.2 has partial preemption. Preemption is still checked only on function entry. However, unlike something like Node, this is not built in the language semantics, it's a characteristic of the runtime, and I imagine over time this will be fixed.
The joke's on Venezuela: the journalists have already left CNN.
Well, in clarifying someone else's intent you appear to have gone a bit further and seemed to be supportive of them about what is and isn't reality in this case, which doesn't seem to make much sense if you don't actually have an opinion on this subject.

How do you know their intent anyway? Are they actually your grandparent?