skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago I had a friend apologise verbally for her "forx pass". Turns out she'd only ever read the phrase faux pas.

Then just last month a colleague of mine created the reverse in a group email, acknowledging a "fow par". It was a phrase she'd only ever heard and used, never (knowingly) seen spelled.
I'm not sure I follow, but I think we're saying the same thing.

It's been too long since I've taken any hardcore discrete math for me to reliably reason about the bounds on the number of moves required to win. All I can do is make estimates based on simplifications.

How I arrived at my estimates for the order of magnitude of the minimum number of moves required to win:

At most, you can merge 4 tiles in one move. Assuming you were doing 4 tiles every move, and the game just didn't produce twos, it'd take just 128 moves. Order of magnitude: 10^2.

Assuming exactly one merge per move, and that the game only produces twos, it'd take 1024 moves. Order of magnitude: 10^3.
Doesn't render in Firefox, but then again, probably for the better:

"The Food Porn Index - Created by Bolthouse Farms"

Yeah... no.
I won! Woohoo!
https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/p75x...
Is it bad that I was kinda hoping that Zuck finally had his Scorpio moment?
They can only do that if it's an illegal unit, which is not exactly a secret from the renter when they first moved in.

Now, if there was a way a tenant could make a legal unit into an illegal unit and then invoke this, I could see that as a problem.
its obviously not meant in the sexual attraction way, duh.
You would think a property owner would have an implicit right to "go out of business" when a lease term expires. Every lease I've ever signed had a clause that at the end of the least it can only be renewed, with notice, if BOTH parties agree.

As a renter, I would never presume to be able to stay in a unit past the end of the lease without the landlord's permission. How was this basic right of property ownership was ever subverted? It sounds a bit like 'involuntary servitude' (13th amendment) to be forced to rent your property to someone after the lawful terms of your agreement to rent it have expired.
Benchmarking of m instances (storage optimized)from AWS
Thanks for the swipe gesture support, had fun playing it on the way home.
Single page http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-flight-of-the-b...
lol. Although I am an emacs user I signed up for early access invite for vim after visiting the website. Can't wait to try it out.
I disagree with your first assertion. The poster-child for declarative programming is pure functional languages, which conceptually start from scratch at every call. In a certain ideal sense we'd like system state to be a pure function of configuration; this is certainly where NixOS is aiming. In both these cases, mutating existing state is merely an optimization.
Would really love to hear personal experiences & challenges faced by online readers today in their daily news consumption habits or in general the qualities of online news compared to other mediums
Did I miss that phrase in the article or was there edits?
Except that Mozart had ALREADY benefited from his work. But today many people feel they are entitled to watching movies and listening to music for free. The problem is that quality movies and music are expensive to produce. And rather have one person pay for them, they split the cost up over a lot of people. But if no one chooses to pay, these movies (that people apparently WANT) will no longer be produced.
'Congressmen' were once 'people' too, is the counter-point I'd make.
I understand the reasoning, but I believe it is flawed for two reasons:

First, you're confusing the cost of distribution with the total cost of creating media. While digitization has driven down distribution costs, it doesn't affect the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars that a typical movie costs to produce. Just because you can download a movie from a server to your laptop for free, does the cost suddenly cost nothing to produce? Of course not.

Second, the scenario we're discussing does not reflect traditional free markets. Conventionally, a seller offers a product or service, and if the seller and a buyer agree on a price, there's an exchange. Basic supply and demand.

Technology now allows buyers to set the price of certain services to zero against the wishes of the seller, and the seller is powerless to stop the transaction. Clearly, this is not a conventional free market scenario, and we may need new principles.
You just described how GP wants rm to work. The problem they're talking about is that it doesn't work that way today.
While B didn't agree to pay, B wanted to watch the works, (and C and D and and and) If B and C and D don't pay, then next time A won't make anything, and everyone loses.
get over emacs. either vim or sublime
It's a reference to Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons, a character who was simultaneously the perfect boss and an evil genius.

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Hank_Scorpio
Some employee must have phoned in a bomb threat after becoming sick of the peer pressure to have the "awesome Chef-prepared dinner" on campus, which is just a ruse to extract up to 2 hours of extra work per day.

Or maybe to put off one more mind-numbing, health-destroying caffeine-and-pizza-and-beer-overdose "hackathon". In PHP. Actually, it's probably just the PHP.

http://chinpen.net/blog/2013/02/hackathons-are-bad-for-you/
Why open floorplans are bad for programming
Though not related specifically to pronunciation, a fun fact is that a lot of English words for meat and livestock are borrowed from Anglo-Saxon and French words respectively. This apparently comes from the Norman conquest: the French nobility dealt more with prepared meat while Anglo-Saxon peasants dealt more with livestock.

"Beef" comes from Old French "boef" (meaning ox), while "cow" comes from Old English "cu."

Same goes for sheep/mutton, pork/pig, and poultry/chicken.
It might not be worth any "money" BUT it was worth something to the person who pirated. As they watched the movie. It had SOME value to them.
oh well.. you can watch .. uh... rugby or something.
Why my company culture is better than yours
finally beat it
I very much enjoyed this quick introduction to Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation (the sound of speech at the time) and how many puns and much interpretation is lost in modern accents. From the Open University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
How does UTC not save you? There are no DLS transitions in UTC, and leap seconds are added (61 seconds in a minute).
One thing I absolutely disagree with is keeping the dependencies out of source control. I have always argued that the best way to ensure that the code running in your dev environment is the same code that makes it to production is to check in node_modules to source control.

In addition this also eliminates the possibility of you being unable to deploy your application because npm decides to make a breaking change without bothering to inform anybody, or if npm goes down for any reason.

I find this over reliance on npm in the node community a bit discomfiting. npm is a package manager and an excellent one at that. But using it for everything from running tests to application deployment is not a very good idea.
That is a different argument. Why do actors "need" millions? Because the movie makes millions. Perhaps the problem is the cost of the individual ticket is too high?
While there are some good independent films, many aren't very good. Generally (at least to me) a high quality hollywood blockbuster is more entertaining (and more polished) than a low budget film. I'd be fairly disappointed if we lost the blockbusters and only had low budget amateur films left.
I'm actually surprised their survey found more people using "excetera" than "expresso."
I don't think this story has anything to do with social welfare or a safety net. Free health insurance, $1,300/mo stipend from Uncle Sam, pays no utilities, and stopped paying rent entirely. Is there something in the constitution that I missed about a right to live for free in someone else's garage in San Francisco Mission District? There are actually plenty of places in this great country where you can rent a 1-bedroom apartment for $500/mo and not exactly have to duck bullets.

This read to me more like story about a squatter in an illegal dwelling, trying to cause as much pain to the owners as she could on her way out.

A property owner wants to, god forbid, sell their property, and they have to suffer through this: http://pix-media.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/632/ScreenShot2014-03...

I'd feel bad for the soon-to-be-prior owners, but the $40k in costs barely dented their 120% return ($723k) over 12 years. It's not like they didn't know she lived there when they bought the place. But it still doesn't mean they are/should be legally obligated to rent to her for the rest of her life.
The hover text (8000 years) should also update continuously.
Forget the fact that you can check your email, browse the internet, run a shell from inside email. In Notepad++ you need to take your hands off the main keyboard and use the arrow keys if you want to move around. In emacs you use C-n C-p C-b C-f. That is enough reason to not use Notepad++
How will this site prevent travellers from being used as drug-mules?
I'd be very cautious of carrying goods for somebody else on a flight.

The answer may be the 'community ratings' but how often does somebody need something shipped internationally? I doubt it is often enough.

I currently live in Australia, and I can get anything I want from Amazon, shipped fairly cheaply (for things that I want to buy). For my own belongings, that I've left in Canada, I have to go get them out of storage anyway, and they're all too big to have somebody put in their suitcase.

I think you're looking at too small a market with too much risk and not enough repeat business, but I would have said the same of AirBnB.
12 Lessons Learned from Building a 10,000 Subscriber Blog
If that is the case, why would any entertainer allow themselves to be recorded? And who would bother to waste the time and money to make the recording? I don't have the time nor desire to go to a concert, yet I enjoy listening to good music. Therefore I pay for it.
"why" is squared latin capital ("Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement" Unicode block -- www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F100.pdf‎)
"for different" is mathematical bold fraktur ("Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols" Unicode block -- www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf‎)
"formatting" is mathematical bold script ("Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols" Unicode block)
The Magna Carta was imposed on king John by his nobles, and went from being a statement of grievances more honoured in the exception to the law of the land. I think it's quite a good analogy for what needs to happen in the internet domain.
Someone should make a video of two strangers using emacs for the first time.
U.S. judge freezes assets of Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange boss
I'd actually say that that counts against her opponent - things got worse as her opponent was in power. (And the effects of policies often only start being felt years later).
On a related note, if you haven't seen these yet, these series of videos is awesome:

"A history of the english language in ten minutes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3r9bOkYW9s
Because the rules for cab companies actually serve a purpose--they actually ensure that there is some minimum level of service that the consumer can count on in terms of service, fares, non-discrimination, insurance liability, etc.

If services like Uber and Lyft simply decided to be a cab company with excellent technological underpinnings, people would have been quite happy with them and they would have been quite profitable. And they could have blown most cab companies out of the water. Buying up inefficient operators, consolidating them, and bringing them into the modern world of technology is a really good business plan.

Uber and Lyft are in trouble because they wanted to be exit strategy profitable rather than simply profitable. And they decided to do this by ignoring all of that icky stuff like liability insurance, commercial licensing, and following the law. In addition, Uber and Lyft tend to want to ply their trade in areas which are already profitable to cab companies rather than taking over areas that are underserved. If they were brokering rides in areas that can't get cabs easily, they would have lots of defenders.

There is a big difference between laws that actually protect consumers vs. laws that protect middlemen. The fact that pg can't see the difference is a pretty big issue.
They could have insisted that the original seller fix the violation/evict the tenant before the sale of the unit. This of course would mean a much higher sales price (or no sale), so they didn't. They could have reported the illegal unit to the DBI at anytime in the 10 years that they lived there. Instead they waited until they were basically ready to move out and sell the property.

They were probably hoping that the tenant would eventually move out on her own so that they could either re-rent the unit for a much higher price, or bring the unit up to code and re-sell it. They didn't let her live there for 10 years because they were being nice, they did it because they were hoping to avoid the messy and expensive legal issues that they eventually had to deal with. Regardless they walked away with ~$770K from the appreciation of their property, so not sure why they deserve any sympathy. As far as investments go, they hit a home run.
Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Facebook User Access_Token
UTC would save you w.r.t. timezones, but it still has leap seconds and the like to adjust for nonuniformities in the earth’s rotation (around itself and the sun).

However, these jurisdictions change timezones in autumn and spring, so specifying the current timezone should work just as well as specifying UTC. 01:30:20 CEST is not repeated, nor is 01:30:20 CET.
Ask HN: Could popcorntime be implemented in an html5 capable browser?
The entire download is >100MB, so perhaps not.

I was just curious since it runs on node.js and has literally no dependencies on the recently-created archlinux aur package.
CIA Search of Congressional Computer Sparks Constitutional Crisis
Until he admits that opting for DRM in html, in an open standard (!), was a historically bad idea, that guy has no credibility and nobody should need to bother about what he thinks.
Not sure why but every time I ran it on Firefox it failed, but it succeeded solving it on chrome always.
Wow. That was harsh.
Three people three editors, emacs. vim and ed.
Google facing US lawsuit over $66 of in-app purchases
Financial regulators increasingly skeptical of Bitcoin
The devices are pretty easy to install, 3 wires (power, ignition, ground). Because this is heavy equipment, there's usually a mechanic somewhere nearby that can handle at least that.

I also make a version of the tracker that I pack inside a Pelican case and expose a cigarette lighter plug, for use on snowmobiles. Most people can handle plugging that in, no instructions required.

My local ski area has a couple of machines that they let me crawl through, so I take lots of photos of the important parts of the installation process, best places to place antennas, etc, and put them in an "install guide" PDF that I print and include in any shipments I send. I also wrote up a "how to test/verify that the unit is working" guide, and ask people to go through that before contacting me for troubleshooting. If they call, I ask if they've gone through the test/verify guide. If they haven't, I tell them to do that, then call back if it's still not working.

So far, so good.
You don't sue individuals for patent infringement unless they're so stupid as to do business as a sole proprietor, which is a bad idea for a host of reasons quite aside from patent infringement. You will not find anyone with deep pockets to sue for patent infringement individually.

It is distressing that someone obviously so utterly clueless about law has the top comment on this story.
Well said. Everyone has to start somewhere :)
Moroccan Government websites Hacked by Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail
My apologies -- I posted this from mobile and didn't see the ad. I should have checked. If you're motivated, I found that deleting the div ids "jpintoverlay" and "jp_lightbox" worked for me.

ETA: Even better: prepend a "m." to the URL.
Not that I don't take my hands of the keyboard, but what do you really NEED to use the mouse for? You can use the KB to hit any item in the menus, there are tons of shortcuts, and the point and click menus are mostly related to configuration and settings, though those are technically mostly accessible via KB too.

I personally use Sublime Text when I'm not using VS2013/R# these days though.
Miley Cyrus,Selena Gomez,Taylor Swift,Britney Spears Official websites Hacked
In a thread not too long ago, I asked why CS:GO might have such terrible performance in OSX, and olegoandreev hypothesized that it might have to do with poorly compiled shaders. Maybe with enough eyes on the code, this can finally be fixed? We already know that the OSX port of the Source engine can have close-to-Windows performance based on benchmarks done in Parallels, and yet it's still shamefully only half as performant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303753
I used this strategy.

What's important to realize that after being forced to go right you will occasionally get a small tile trapped either in the corner or directly below it. You need to focus all your energy into merging other tiles into this small corner until it is the largest tile on the top row. Learning how to deal with these small tiles correctly was the key to my victory.
when I went for an OSS sprint it was completely locked down. the security was very disruptive -- we really weren't allowed to leave one floor of one building, so it was pretty difficult to get any kind of focus room even for half an hour. I was working on a facebook project (one that saves them tons of $$$ at that) and we couldn't leave the building to go to a conference room even when escorted by two engineers.
Took me just a moment to realise you’re from a non-rhotic area. I thought those mispronunciations were really far off.
Git 2.0 release notes
Ask HN: Should I get an MS in CS?
Sorry for yet another question about getting a MS in CS question, but I did a search through old posts and I think my question is unique-ish.

I got a degree in Hebrew Literature in College, I taught myself how to program and I've been working at a pretty decent startup in the Seattle area for 3 years now. I have some decent projects on Github. I have some decent chops, I'm pretty much full stack, and I've been working through an Algorithms and Data Structures book (Sedgewick's) on my own and really getting into it. It made me wonder if I should go back to school and get an MS.

My company is doing well, but I think I'd like to branch out technically after I'm done there, and try new things other than Web/Mobile CRUD. Embedded looks interesting, and I've built a DSL compiler in JavaScript, so learning more about compilers would be fun.

I'm also worried that my status as a really good Engineer won't transfer between companies. It took me a good year to convince people at my current company that I could do much more than work on the front-end.

The University of Washington is, supposedly, a really good CS school. They offer a professional Masters degree. Will this solidify my status as a good Engineer? Is this something I need or should I continue to learn on my own and trust that good people will recognize my work?
And there's doubling in the law. Cease and desist, plus a few others I can't remember.
This seems pretty cool. I'd be interested to know why it's so much faster. Is it just because the controller is extremely close to the ram modules?
This is amazingly great advice. Don't go pre-"optimizing" by adding a bunch of needless network calls—you'll only end up with more instability if done naively. DO start from the beginning with clear interfaces and boundaries between concerns in your codebase. Design for services from day one. If you don't have discipline not to tightly couple objects together, split into multiple codebases (gems, modules, whatever) tested in isolation that can be deployed together until it's time to pull them apart.

A well designed class interface can be turned into an HTTP (or socket) API easily enough. By the time you need to, you'll probably have the resources to monitor, scale and maintain the additional service properly.
On the 25th anniversary of the web, let’s keep it free and open
Are the #tags are fetched from twitter?
Can't any app access all SMSs too in an easier manner? Whatsapp is a similar app, so why hold it to different standards?
The practice problems are what first got me interested in programming. This will be my first year competing, I'm excited.
Interesting. In spanish, "orange" still has the n: "naranja".
Possibly late 2014 or early 2015, but we're not going to rush it if things don't feel ready yet.
In the game of 2048, it's actually about risk minimization - in general, you progress at a steady, fixed speed unless something ugly happens. If you're in a safe position (which you should be throughout almost all of the game) then your possible gains from a great move are zero; if you don't take some advantage this turn then you'll generally get it next turn; but a single bad move can put you in an unfixable position.

There are almost no opportunities to make a 'great' move - since a great move with a significantly better effect on chance of winning than a move which doesn't change anything at all - is possible only if the move fixes a huge earlier mistake that you wouldn't have made in the first place.

For this particular game, advantages are temporary and disadvantages are near-permanent - so it makes sense to play very defensively, which minmax does. Imagine a game of Die or Coin, where if you choose coin, then you get $10 for heads, and $20 for tails; and for dice you throw a hundred-side die and get $25 for values 2-100 but if you roll 1, then you get shot and die.

[edit] what I'm saying is that assuming that [a] all payoffs are either effectively 0 or -infinity; and [b] most moves will (in the near expected future) be either 0 chance of the bad event or >0 chance of the bad event; then minmax would generate equal results to MC search - however, MC search would fail badly if you put overly optimistic payoffs, i.e., give too large rewards for 'good moves' and too little penalties for bad moves; and this is hard to estimate.

Minmax works if your payoff scale is completely wrong by orders of magnitude as long as the preference ordering is correct, MC search doesn't. If you know that position A is better than B but don't know if it is 1.1 times better or a million times better - then you can't implement a good MC search but can implemnt minmax.
There are very harsh laws against anonymously calling police for bomb threats. I remember a case of a very smart business man who was getting late to airport and called the airline saying that the flight he was supposed to be boarding on has a bomb. Eventually call got traced to him and if I remember correctly he was sentenced to jail for 14 years.
ydash = [1 => y[1]]

creates a Dict that maps for from Int64 to Float64, `=>` is used for declaring Dict literals in Julia. c.f.: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/?highlight=d...