skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
vim is not vi. vi is actually quite painful to use, especially when you're well versed in vim. when there are almost no features in your editor, those modes are not all that helpful. it's also a fraction of the codebase of vim

vim also has a pretty horrible codebase. horrible not because bad developers are working on it. horrible because of historical reasons. but neovim is actually in the process of doing what everyone said nobody could do.
I believe these thieves are looking for valuables left in the car, as opposed to the vehicle itself. The "black box" unlocks the doors, but doesn't necessarily start the car.
Rob really needs a $5/mo digital ocean instance...
Paper face mask printed with a color photo of an authorized user, with a hole cut out for the nose, according to [1].

Of course, breaking a window is probably less bother.

[1] http://www.ipc.on.ca/images/Resources/cons-bio.pdf‎
Your short term plans aren't all that short term. Most of what you describe is obviously the ideal that society should strive towards, but incredibly difficult to actually do. That's not to say we shouldn't work towards it, and you gave 1-2 very concrete examples, but it really depends on your definition of how long "short term" is whether or not it's feasible in that timeframe.
"The myth that men are more likely to be engineers because thats what guys are interested in.. Is just that.. a myth. People are interested in things because they have had access to learn about said things." is absolutely correct.
that's the problem with a lot of places that deliberate try to be so-so 'science hub'. the thing with scientific research is that doesn't always turn into a positive result - much of it is messy, we don't know a lot, and ends in failure. most investments in science assume that results are always positive and profitable, which works with agencies and pharama companies but not for the pursuit of scientific research aka 'the higher ideal' of human knowledge.
Qeyno Labs: Making an app at Oakland's Black Male Achievement hackathon
Could and app have saved Trayvon Martin? Dylan Lang, 10, and Yah Ella Willams-Riley, 8, worked on one of fourteen teams answering that question at the Black Male Achievement hackathon in Oakland earlier this month. Their app, Help Circle, lets you contact the police anonymously. Dylan and Yah-Ella's team pitched to a panel of entrepreneurs and won new tablets. "She's been coding ever since," said Ella's mom, Iman Saint Jean. Full coverage on KQED Newsroom Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 at 8 p.m.
Glad I'm not the only one that thought that. Got a serious case of deja vu, almost exactly the same article text, including Texas having confiscated one them.
Yep, running side by side with PHP 5.5! I highly suggest trying it, it's an awesome implementation.
I think homebrew handles this for you, which is great.
The sound of Quicksort
lol i lost it...

> Okay, so sue us: we launched on February 29.

> Please don’t sue us.
> who faces the constant up-hill struggle to convince IT that Node.js is ready only to have it shot down time and time again

So it sounds like it is not ready. _This_ drama, tangled slinkies of callbacks, drama with the Node.JS contributor that got pushed out because if "her" vs "his" pronouns and so on. Nothing of that says it is ready. So I pretty much agree with your IT department. Sorry.

> And, I'm sick of failing because other people suck, won't learn, won't adapt, won't address problems or make progress.

Maybe they did, they just didn't arrive at the same conclusion as you. Maybe they are even right.
The value of a finished battery pack is about $20 / lb. Truck transport across the US costs about $0.35 / lb. So indeed, proximity to installation locations makes less than 2% difference.
Ya, no doubt. But perhaps he took it as an opportunity as he was stepping away from prominence to do something positive with it. A favorite example being Eisenhower's farewell address.
See, I don't find that clearer; quite the reverse. With trailing 'or' the type variable is nicely lined up, and the pattern matching that is going on is a lot clearer to my eye. With things misaligned, I have to much more carefully parse the text to see what is going on. I sometimes even do something like this (probably overkill in this example, but my aim is to illustrate a concept, not to bicker about the best expression of that particular statement):

return (
(type == KIS_ES_NAGYKER ) or
(type == KISKER and not is_nagyker) or
(type == NAGYKER and is_nagyker))
First Outdoor Flocks of Autonomous Flying Robots
> For the rest, it seems that vi and emacs do what would be needed, and work on everything. Why not just improve on those two products instead of making new ones that are simply short lived fads?

While I get why new editors pop up, and really, I'm glad we have people trying to innovate and introduce new ideas, I'm ultimately more interested in stuff like the Neovim project, for this reason.

I will say it's nice when someone creates a new product that has a killer feature or two, because some form of that seems to make it's way back to vim/emacs pretty often.
The ability to boot a kernel with USB (and thus Ethernet) running. Probably not display in the first instance (we're hella-resource-constrained), but we'd want to add that later on.
That JavaScript code is ugly because either:

1) the author tried to make it ugly.
2) the JavaScript was generated by a compiler.

Or, I suspect, both.
The world does not need another damn stand-alone messaging service. I already have to use enough of them, which is why I started using imo.im in the first place! It was the only place I needed to go to be able to communicate across all my contacts, and it being a web app made it so much easier. Now that they don't service this need, I have no reason to continue using them.

Time to close the account.
There's still some kinks to be worked out particularly in smaller screen sizes so I just wanted to clarify what exactly you were looking at. Thank you for the feedback.
Another hypothesis is that the US gov't might be in control of the bitcoins having connected them to SilkRoad or teh terror-izm and have Kerpeles under gag order preventing him from revealing this.
Well, I can't say for south american countries or asia, but in europe it is quite unusual for people to _not_ be able to drive stick :)
These don't work if you have two eyes and are close to them.
Navigation, copy/paste, sorting, piping, regex search, split views, location marking, ...
Hmm, that's interesting, thanks. Link is down, though.
I'm pretty convinced to stick with vim at this point, myself, and see where the neovim project goes, but I thought I'd throw out that when I think of "powerful text manipulation" I'm not necessarily thinking of how fast it takes to do basic operations.

For instance, I messed around with sublime text and I really dug how it handled multiple cursors. I'd never say something like vim couldn't do that, but sublime (for me) made multiple cursors seem intuitively powerful and useful, in that I could perform quick operations in seconds that I wouldn't have thought to perform in that way before.

I'd say it's similar to me if you were to compare regex find/replace with normal find/replace. It's a more powerful/flexible idea. Whether or not it's a good one is up for grabs.

That said, the speed does sound like it could be a problem. I just don't think power text manipulation is referencing processing efficiency.

I'm wondering how the efficiency of this setup is played out in stuff like Light Table and Brackets, which seem pretty similar (I think the front end on those is just html? I could be totally wrong). And like I said, so far I'm way more interested in neovim than any of the newer other browsers.
RUSSIA WONT GIVE UP UKRAINE TO NWO
Funny, I've been working on a tool that is exactly that. Sounds like it might be worth uploading to Github?
Part of me views this as a branch apart of a larger problem in our societies today, which seems to be with the allocation of capital in general, combined with the (mis)alignment of traditional institutions in general (the state/corporation/church) with the (idealized?) vision some people look back upon their effectiveness in the past.

I think this interview gives me insight as to what the void is (something I've been wondering myself as I feel kind of estranged from academia, but wanting to pursue pseudo-academic interests), and how its currently being filled (by individuals in an ad-hoc fashion, who have capital it seems), but leaves me wondering: who will be the actors in the future, where their incentives will align enough, for something to take off on a larger institutional level?
"nobody should write literal HTML anymore" isn't really relevant. React actually goes out of it's way to enable HTML syntax with JSX.

the templating is subjective. i for instance prefer writing my template in the same language as it's logic.
What kind of draw can you put on these batteries?

An 85kWh battery may be more useful in every garage than this article claims. The added expense is claimed to "keep consumers away", but really it means things like solar panels become more useful.

If you are able to charge your car via power you generate and it can supply enough power back to run your home, you can get some huge benefits. You can have power at night that you generated during the day. No need to suck power from the grid. During outages, you would likely still have a few days of power. And finally, if we actually take full advantage of this, our power infrastructure could directly use these cars to distribute and store energy and route around outages, increasing stability in a huge way.

All in all, this could usher in an era of crowd-sourced power generation. One of the primary reasons that hasn't been feasible was the ephemerality of power on the grid. You consume it just after it's produced. We have no good way to store it. But with hundreds of thousands of 85kWh capacity batteries plugged into the grid, we suddenly have a start.

I think paying an extra $20,000+ for a car if that's a potential outcome is worth every penny.
Devil's Advocate:

The "centralized content silos" are side effects of the copyright system, which exists to ensure distribution of IP generation costs across the people who consume it.

Wikipedia doesn't care as much about this because most of the content is an aggregate of the Wikipedia community. Wikipedia's costs lay in distributing the information, not in generating content.

For most content companies that have IP generation costs, how do you propose that they distribute the costs?

Torrenting only solves the distribution cost problem.
> Author is seeking employment & could use some life guidance... https://twitter.com/robcolbert

Hmm...Life guidance. I don't know.

Sometimes a technology's biggest detractors are its most fervent adherents. The drama, fuss, immaturity and irrationality is just off-putting and screams to everyone else "Do you enjoy drama? Do you want to be in the middle of trolling wars on Twitter? Please join us, just Node.js it all comes with it as part of the package!".

This is isn't the only thing. The drama with Joyent fake firing that person who didn't want to accept some doc updates. Is that all, I maybe wrong, but there is just no end to immaturity and drama. The people and culture associated with this technology is off-putting to me. Maybe others love it, good for them.
vim and emacs are obscure?
Ask HN: What are the best Linux-based laptops? 
Who has the best Linux laptop - System76 or ZaReason or Dell or anyone else?
Wolfram Language Demo
Exactly, and that costs money. Electricity costs money, servers cost money, webdev costs money. That data that is being sent to you wasn't magically discovered and offered up for free.

I dunno, jrock.us is free. I subsidize those costs for the readers.

It's not as good as the New York Times, though.
Alice just signs Carols name. Bob looks up Carol's name in the blockchain. The primary application is TLS style authentication, so the user ideally already knows the name of their intended recipient.
Who's their compliance officer and what are their qualifications? Without that kind of disclosure, they have forced me to conclude that they are full of shit. Without basic information and contact info about their compliance structure, they have no business making this kind of claim. It's just press release nonsense.
two to three years, typically.
Figured you'd get a kick out of this release. Should be enough for people to figure out how Andrew's FFT code works.
However, Docker is officially supported on OS X through https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker
The sound of progress.
Welp that didn't take long. I sure hope someone (who is more skilled than I) forks NPM so we can all move on from this craziness. It's getting pretty sad.
So how would this work? During the daytime, you have your car with you at work, away from your solar panels at home. When your car is at home, it is night, so it is not charging then. During a power outage, are you really going to drain your source of transportation to power your house? Especially if you don't know when the power is coming back on to refresh your car batteries? I know I wouldn't -- I'd just fire up a gas generator when the power goes out for an extended time, and use that to also recharge the electric car.
Lose weight, gain an Oscar?
Ugg. I've been loving the web chat, but first meebo then imo died a bad death.

Time to go back to https://www.trillian.im/, I guess.
Tiny ARM/FPGA Zynq COM does Debian
Memory mapping the file doesn't really help an editor much. For one thing you can't have your buffer changing arbitrarily underneath your parse of it.

But also in order to have both precise and fast scrolling, especially when syntax highlighting or line wrap is involved (usually you don't want both but you might want one or the other), you need to do at least a superficial parse on the whole thing anyway.
Come on. Full tilt decided to run a Ponzi scheme when they were unable to collect funds in the us due to online poker being illegal in the us. They gambled with all their customers funds and lost. That is not good customer service, that is immoral and illegal.

Poker stars is the company that had good customer service in that they didn't touch the deposits, as promised, and so we're able to be back in business almost immediately.
The "looks more pleasant?" test can be valid only between cljs/Om and the CoffeeScript from which the generated JS was compiled.

By presenting Coffee's not-quite-idiomatic JS output as the counterpoint, the otherwise well made argument for Om's pleasantness is weakened.
I'm not sure if they do mind. I do know that their relationship with Google is important to them when it comes to their much larger and more successful projects and that this site has been mostly left behind, so they may not want to bring it up in the context of this Hacker News post, even in the unlikely case that it resulted in this site getting its traffic back. Why not just email me and I'll show you a simple content site with minimal traffic, not using any black or gray-hat SEO tactics, with high-quality, original (to the Web) content, referenced in thousands of Wikipedia articles and you can decide for yourself if my post was truthful.
You can't disclose if you are under a gag order.

Exactly. They'd say something like nothing, rather than making up some false story about malleability-based thefts.

The government theft theory is nonsense.
Crafting a CLI: text only UI
Translation:

Everyone, stop talking about stuff I don't like. Since I'm so self-absorbed that I can't possibly comprehend someone not having the exact same opinions as me, this is obviously some kind of marketing hype machine at work.

Did it ever occur to you that people react to big things from big companies? No, of course it didn't, which is why you came on here and threw a tantrum.

How about this: go back to proggit and stop whining here.
Ask HN: Better e-mail support interface?
I've been handling app support through an ordinary e-mail inbox and Thunderbird for years now, but it's slowly becoming unmanageable with volume increasing. Finding past e-mails is a pain and there's constantly a mail or two that slips through the gaps and goes unanswered.

What solutions would you recommend? I signed up for a Freshdesk trial but the configuration options are rather scary and complex.
yeah, it's riddled with '_ref's and the like.
This is only the tip of the iceberg as far as this kind of thing is concerned (this kind of thing being people relying on software to keep them and their belongings safe).

With peoples' lives at risk and with cars representing huge investments for many people, it's probably about time to get regulation that requires the software systems that are interacting with vehicles to be open to experts at large.

The same goes for things like in-home security software.

The competition should not be in the critical software. That much needs to be standard. The competition should be around fluff, construction quality, body design, brand, perks, horsepower, etc.

How is this kind of thing handled in the medical and aviation industries? How about NASA? Life-critical and safety-critical software isn't something you should hire the lowest bidder to create, nor is it something that should be hidden away in the belief that "obscurity is (the best, and the only) security."
Widget delays the load of the rest of the page.
that was what i thought too. four years seems particularly long.
I live in the UK and everyone I know who's ever passed a driving test drives a manual/stick.
> The markup characters outnumber the content by like 50x.

This isn't an accurate measure of DOM memory usage because element names/attributes/CSS selectors/CSS properties are interned in all browser engines.
TSA Harasses Traveler After 'Seeing Bitcoin' In His Bag
During the daytime, your solar panels are dumping power onto the live grid. The same grid your car at work is plugged into. And all your neighbors'. And every other car in the garage or parking lot.

During an outage, unless it's a weather-critical incident or a disaster, the convenience of not needing to go and power a generator (and thus mess with needing to refuel it, and depleting your supplies which will be more useful in a real disaster) would likely be better. If it makes sense to power up a generator, then do that. It would also be charging your car.
Why HN Titles Are Awful And How You're Doing It Wrong. Bitcoin.
There is a theme of HN titles that seem to crop up from time to time, so much so over the past couple of years it's been a running joke between myself and my coworkers. Thought I'd see if anyone else noticed.
Terrific release, thanks for all that hard work!
(Who would have thought! well that crazy dataflow stuff actually works... :)
I know one, Google.com
What's OSC? Open Sound Control? Open Source Code? I'm not familiar with that acronym.
Thanks but those are not the complete dataset. It seems like we should be able to get it at http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=24879, but I keep getting an error.
Yes, as well as JavaScript.
Of course not, it was a creative agency, our job as developers was to cater to every creative's wish
> How is this kind of thing handled in the medical and aviation industries?

You need government approval (FDA or FAA respectively) to bring a product to market. Are you sure you want that kind of bureaucratic overhead (and the associated politics) in your car and home alarm?
sockjs is better than socket.io if you're into WebSocket (streaming support etc).
I stopped using IMO when Skype stopped supporting them.
You don't need to brush up on your English skills if you hire me, I'm a freelancer specializing in polishing up non-native English speaking companies' website and promotional copy when they're expanding into English-speaking markets.

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I produce a report that identifies and corrects all spelling, grammatical, and phrasing/punctuation errors that may have been missed during the initial translation to English.

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No, he's making assertions about what is objectively an inferior text editor.

and people seem to keep rehashing the same conversation surrounding it.

I'm not surprised he's exasperated, but I'd hardly call it a rant.
Glomar response
looks like the corporate sellouts at reddit are trying to rehabilitate their image because of recent disclosures on other websites of how reddit is paid to disseminate propaganda and hide certain news stories.

This story is propaganda.
Thanks for that! Looks like a great read.
I don't have a business. I like responding to edgy, baseless crap on the internet.
Are you aware that you can install a Linux distribution on just about any hardware? System76 are OK, I've never been wowed by them. Realistically, I would just go with a Thinkpad, unbeatable keyboard and great build quality (though lately Lenovo has been messing up on both of those)
What others said. Checksums downloaded via HTTP are just as easy to spoof as the tarball. The VPN protects you part of the way but not the entire way. Now, if you said that I could verify the download because it was signed using the publisher's GPG key and that key was widely trusted, then I might have entertained the idea. Then again, that is very non-standard compared to getting a $10 TLS cert.
I don't think "government" means "good engineering", I think that it should be thoroughly vetted by sufficient expertise.

I'm not sure if the FDA or FAA are capable of doing that, given how the government is really, really bad at building or contracting software (in general).

If only we could have some kind of standardized software to power these devices that is built by the community at large and thoroughly reviewed for correctness. Even at the cost of limiting hardware, I think that's an option.
If anyone is wondering what the actual change was:

It looks like the npm registry used to have a certificate signed by npm's own CA, and existing npm clients only trust that CA by default, not the normal list of verisign, digicert, etc. (Trusting versign et al would defeat the point of using their own CA.) The signing key for that CA is pretty darn important, and maybe there are entities other than npm, inc who might know it (i.e. nodejitsu).

So npm, inc rolled out a new cert that looks to be signed by digicert, but existing clients don't trust Digicert until you explicitly configure them to.

I was thrown off by the SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN error; I expected some error about an untrusted root CA if the problem was that npm clients didn't trust digicert, but apparently SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN is what OpenSSL returns when the root CA isn't loaded.
This.

Titles like that tend to be fluff, and frequently misleading. Feels like people are more concerned with up votes than quality of content.

Dramatic titles always win.
What happened to research, investigation, profiling rather than just publishing snark, vitriol and guesswork?
The problem is simple: if you send me an HTML file over HTTP, an attacker can inject some JavaScript code that will catch the onsubmit event and also send the data elsewhere.
Well, Occupy had quite a lot of money coming into it from different groups, and I would imagine the participants think the same of themselves.

The money coming into the Tea Party (or Occupy) didn't get people out to protest or spend all day at events. The general public is never political as a whole and the Tea Party did a pretty good job during the elections. It will be interesting to see if the establishment triumphs or the grass roots push back hard in 2014. I would imagine the 2012 RNC will probably be remembered.