skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't say specifically why she values using Word as her text editor of choice, due to not being in her head. I know she uses some features such as adding notes to pieces of text (which I know she uses to track what she needs to work on/revisit later, etc.), but I don't know how many of those features she uses or how many advanced features she touches.

I suspect a large part of the reason she sticks with it though is threefold: familiarity, volume of content in the Word format, and working with agents/publishers. (like another commenter mentioned) She's already familiar and comfortable with using Word, and so she can be productive and just get things done by sticking to what she knows. (she has expressed displeasure with the idea of upgrading due to possible UI changes) She has a /HUGE/ amount of stuff already written using Word, and moving that to anything else would be a herculean undertaking which is, honestly, not worth her time. And using an automated tool to attempt to do so could lose information, which she is already extremely protective of. Lastly, because she needs to work with other people, and might submit documents to those other people in a digital format, it basically needs to be in Word, otherwise that person is unlikely to ever even touch her stuff. Having to deal with agents as a writer is harsh, as they won't even tell you if you did anything wrong. They'll just ignore you. Submitting an unknown, uncomfortable format to those people will just cause them to ignore her anytime she tries to submit anything.

While you might consider plain text to be the ultimate format which is compatible and usable everywhere, people who are not tech people (my wife is not very "techy") just want to get things done with tools that are highly supported, comfortable for them, and widely recognized and used by the people they need to interact with. While you might consider VIM/Emacs/Sublime Text/<insert plain text editor here> to be the ultimate editing environment, anybody in the world my wife deals with will just give you a blank stare the moment you try to deal with those people using those tools.
I know little about RNGs -- but wouldn't it be practical to run about 3 RNGs with different algorithms in parallel, and add their results? Surely that would be a lot harder to attack than any one RNG.

Ditto if you start with the RNG output and apply even a simple transformation to it. After all, if you start with a pseudo-random-number and apply to it an isomorphism from the valid number set to itself, you should wind up with something that's still pseudo-random.
If they're not upgrading, they're not facing the horrible, insurmountable problem OP is.
Not really, you can fake both.
While I understand that you are not going to debunk all the myths, I think the article would be much stronger if you at least battered the "10X myth" a bit
But the netflix app on TiVo is utter garbage. Slow, featureless, garbage. There's not even a back button for crying out loud! Want to change episodes once you're already watching something? Have fun waiting 5 minutes to exit and re-launch the app.

I just cut my TiVo. Unusable slow junk for $200 + $15 / month.
How long before he denies this under oath? At that point he's risking criminal charges if he is found to be lying.
Semi-circle = issue is not fully resolved yet.
You're bending over backwards to avoid admitting sexism exists in tech. That's like saying both men and women engage in locker room talk, so there's no sexism in professional sports and in fact it's sexist to imply that women can't handle locker room talk. We've heard that one before.
I'm pleased to see c99 and mingw considerations.
Same here. Coincidence? I think not. They even added details about how much Drive data I have, a passive threat that it might not be safe if I don't cough up for the paid account.
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For anybody else in this field, I would caution you against accepting this knowledge as canon:

> And news accounts routinely estimate the number of attendees at political rallies.

In my experience, news organizations routinely over-estimate the attendance of events to which the reporter sympathizes, and dramatically under-estimates the attendance of events to which the reporter does not.

As someone who attends a lot of rallies encompassing both 'left' and 'right'-leaning movements, I can say that I've witnessed this first hand. I attended an event in Annapolis to oppose some gun control measures last October. The attendance, by my count, was nearly 4,000. I can prove by the testimonial registry that we had over 1400 people not only in attendance, but that provided testimony before the legislature. At the same event, those in favor of the rally were protesting as well. They had, by my count, a few dozen supporters in attendance. Their testimonial registry was exactly 22.

The Baltimore Sun and Washington Times reported attendance for both camps at 'about equal', which a 'few hundred in attendance for either side'.

When protesting in support of the fourth amendment, or in support of free speech rights for the media, those numbers were conversely inflated.
I wanted the same thing - there is a zip file with some code on one of the YouTube video descriptions. I asked the creator and he said it was an older version of the material that he uses for his on-site training.
Hopefully Intel can help. Still experimental but at least we are discussing 800Gbps cables. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/intels...
It's kinda a pet peeve of mine as well, having to switch between 'proof' meaning a conclusion that logically necessarily follow from premises, to proof meaning "really strong evidence".

But, as harshreality was getting at, if we used 'proof' that strictly, nothing outside of pure math and logic would be a 'proof'.
You can open wordperfect 5.1 (1989) in Office 2013 no problems.

Numbers can't even open ODS files at all, destroys iWork 09 documents and pretty much sticks a fork in most xslx documents.
It's good because it has slightly more sophisticated gameplay than flappy bird and is still straight forward to implement and therefor iterate on.

It's quite fun to see a game literally evolve.
I'd clearly be upset, but that doesn't mean I'd pursue legal recourse. Not that I'd even have that available to me today, unless the perpetrator is unlucky and I'm a celebrity.

And none of what I said keeps vindictively publishing someone's semi-private information from being the specific crime in your example. My point is that the serious of the situation should depend on the intent and damage caused, as well as the actual victims (email account holder) feeling of wrongedness, rather than an immediate felony because witchcraft. For example if you get into a bar fight, there is a whole spectrum from getting temporarily kicked out, to assault charges, to second-degree murder, depending on what actually occurs. While getting into a scuffle is wrong, it doesn't and shouldn't lead to life-altering penalties.
The rate of mistaken id is ridiculous.

For example, over 75% of DNA based exonerations were convicted based on mistaken ID's (and this is limited to those exonerations where DNA would be conclusive).

Post-identification feedback (IE learning facts later) can often even alter the original memory someone has of an identification:

http://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100715
In a strange way, it's good that people don't get to vote. With voter apathy and declining turnout in many countries, might as well encourage people to stop voting.

Let voter turnout drop to single digit percentages. It would be hard for anybody to claim that the elected person had any kind of mandate. The news headlines would be farcicial, "Prime Minister elected, wins 55% of the popular vote, on 7% turnout"

Of course in Australia they currently fine you if you don't vote. Perhaps in future they'll make it a criminal offense and put people in prison for not voting!
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Please don't let webgl become the next animated gif
i agree with the story, however the author did not write the possibility that the plane could be shot down by air force and was covered up within those 5 hrs that they failed to report.

also i heard somewhere the captain used to live around that airport and is familiar with it..thats why he decided to go there.
Do they even have a feed? I've been trying to find it on their site, and if they have one it must be pretty well hidden...
and they removed iPhoto Library sharing from the recent update, which we used all the time...
Looks good, the pricing is here if you're logged in: https://marvelapp.com/user/account/#pro-tab-show

$5 p/m but that looks like an early adopter price
SWEs are responsible for the problems they create - if it's a problem with the code, we'll just send the problem their way with instructions on how to go about fixing it. If a service causes too many problems, we'll hand it back to them.
Is there a decent hacker-friendly domain name provider that supports 2FA?
>lab equipment that's air-gapped because it only works on some obsolete OS that's horribly insecure.

Just to emphasize how prevalent this is, I work in a 5 story life sciences research center with hundreds of personnel. All of our lab computers are airgapped, many of them stuck on OS versions >10 years old.

I used OS X 10.1 the other day. That was certainly an experience.
These are pretty lame (for me in California, at least). I'd love to get some kind of pass to take my 9y/o daughter on some trips this summer ... but intra-ca is useless.
> I don't like that it's classified as a disorder. It's a different style of cognitive activity, with its advantages and disadvantages.

I'm sure the same can be said about all of the disorders like depression or anything else.
Found it[1]. She says, "The one thing I found out the hard way is that there's actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company, and it felt a lot like high school... There's popular kids that have acquired power within the company, then there's the trouble makers and everyone in between."

[1]: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-07-08-valves-flat...
Why would people want to be independent of a foreign city which sucks the lifeblood out of them? Have not your local politicians taken enough bribes?
I feel like I'm missing something. The price for flights from bay area to LA are outrageous. Generally ~$100 round trip.
They went through YC S11 as Yardsale, and pivoted to FOBO.
IMHO, ageism is a pretty big problem for developers and not just in the Bay Area.
> I think the only real problem is that ADHD has always been improperly named[0]. The actual condition itself has very little to do with attention.

I think it should be called "executive function disorder."
I've been wondering, will the word Dorian, real Satoshi or not, find its way into Bitcoin language? Like Satoshi being the smallest amount of Bitcoin.
You don’t have to give us your name and we don’t ask for your email address.

true, but by having my phone number and my friends address book that lists my phone number, you in-fact have my phone number.

We don’t know your home address

You have my friends address book which has my address for my phone number and you have my phone number. So. No. You do in-fact have my home address.

We don’t know where you work

See above

or collect your GPS location

that's what you say, but you really have my GPS location, at least to some degree as sharing my location is one of the features in WhatsApp I used at times.

None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

While I believe you that you so far haven't collected anything, there's nothing to stop your new owners from collecting the data.

This post is complete nonsense and I'm just ever so happy that I have deleted my account the moment the sale went public. Considering the fact that my GF was able to send messages to my account despite myself having deleted it, I doubt that anything was really deleted though. So thanks.
I think you're badly mistaken.

While I'm sure there are some rich that are heavily leveraged, the majority are not leveraged that highly relative to their asset base. This has been shown in most available statistics on household wealth. For example:

http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_589.pdf

In particular the debt-equity ratio of the top 1% (>$8.2m net worth) is 2.8% ; the next 19% (> $473k < $8.2m) is 12.1%, and the middle three quintiles ($200 dollars-$480k) is is 61.1%.

Moreover, the rich representatives in press & politics (WSJ editorial page, Forbes, the GOP, etc.) have been clamouring to raise interest rates for the past 5 years out of inflation fears... for what reason? To benefit the poor?
It's just branding.
That's what the CEO is for, and hopefully clear and helpful rules.
...speculation that your messaging/other business records would be hooked into the greater Facebook data hoover was ANYTHING BUT baseless, unfounded or irresponsible.

Indeed, it's entirely reasonable. It's not what's in WhatsApp's DNA that make people deduce this - it's what's in their new parent's.
F-Zero GX on Oculus Rift
Not sure I agree entirely here - Microsoft is definitely a far better bet than Apple for this kind of stuff, but it's still not a perfect bet. As Microsoft has shown with their Win8/phone platform, they are trying to transition away from their old platforms (although the market currently won't let them). It's almost a guarantee that eventually old Office versions will fail to run and after that running into data incompatibilities with old files becomes par. With the call-home DRM in post Microsoft platforms, there is also no guarantee you'll even be able to run an old Microsoft version either.

A better option is to stick to open standards. If your presentation is done in something like HTML, there is a 100% chance you will be able to view it in even 50 years as it is standardized and there are many implementations available for viewing it.

Of course, if your presentation depends on some javascript calculations or a remotely hosted jquery, those probably won't be working in 50 years time either..
> where it is tough to come up with some distinct thing that could possibly act like a particle, but still diffract like a wave.

Armchairing here. But as I understood, objects in quantum-land are known as "amplitudes in the complex plane".
They behave like this all the time and under all circumstances, and should be understood on their own terms. E.g. squaring the height of pond ripples doesn't return a probability distribution. The "sometimes it's a wave, but other times it's a particle" idea is a historical artifact, like how humanity uses a base ten number system.
The point you are defending is not the point you stated.

You stated
>People who need to save $200 on a tablet where we live very likely do not need said tablet at all

You are defending the point
>People where we live very likely do not need said tablet at all
I saw that access type information, but the docs were not clear to me.

What you question is the central point of my comment: maybe I am biased by learning C++ on SunOS, then playing with Linux, then using FreeBSD at work, but it is hard for me to imagine systems programming without C/C++-colored glasses in terms of memory.

I have no doubt it is possible in Ada. It is just less ugly and dangerous than C, so I thought you are just forced to deal with pointer management in your own brain with rough syntactic constraints because that is the highest you can go wo systems programming on the metal without going to assembly.

I know it seems silly, but that I think drives people to embrace C completely as the only answer, and not just the preferred answer. Fortunately, forcing many to deal mean there has been good progress since the OP article was first published.
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There's a Ben Franklin quote: "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see." Seems like Linde subscribes to that thought, as all scientifically-minded people do.
Ryan, the question is about protecting the seller against buyer fraud. How this will happen with your service are the following:

1) Buyer does not acknowledge receipt
2) Buyer does a credit card chargeback

Does the seller bear risk in these cases? If yes, why? If not, then that's great, but I find it hard to believe that your company will eat these losses since nobody else is willing to.
Why do you think he would have to say anything under oath?
It is a good movement from Microsoft. For the last couple of year, they have partially ignored the mac environment. Eg: Office is not retina display yet.

I compare immediately with Evernote, a daily tool in my case. I like the idea of concurrents for Evernote.
Why are there two possible arcs for the path of MH370?
In all of the reports and images of where MH370 could be (based on Inmarsat data) eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26503141, they show two possible (and opposite in direction) arcs where MH370 could be. How come this is the case? Must be something to do with which regions and areas different satellites collect data from?
>if there are patent-encumbered formats involved.

Patents would not discourage manual conversion. I.E., a human looks at the old presentation and recreates it in the new software. I'm just not sure that there are any presentation worth this cost. God knows that most presentations I have been subjected to are not.
> Software is hard. I think it's pragmatic for software vendors to have a strong, transparent philosophy about the trade-offs so that consumers can make the right choice.

I'm not talking about software, I'm talking about information. Information shouldn't have an expiration date. Here's a webpage from 1994: http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/expo/ Surely you wouldn't prefer a world where the blog you wrote 4 years ago can't be viewed on a new computer?
.docx (and co.) isn't really an open spec. Microsoft forced it through the standardization process, but it doesn't really deserve the title.

The "spec" is full of statements like "render this the way that it was done in Office 95".

The best solution would be to use ODF, which is supported by all office software.... except Apple's.
So I share my ideas with Microsoft and the NSA?

NO WAY.
Abstraction provides the equivalent of nominative typing. It is easy to differentiate between 12 meters and 12 Newtons with OCaml's type system.

In general, it is easy to get nominative behaviour out of a structural system. It is much harder to get structural behaviour out of a nominative system.
Newsweek went digital only for a while, the Satoshi "outing" was the headline article for the first print publication.
What if the "inventor" of Bitcoin isn't even really named Satoshi Nakamoto? All of this manhunt would have been in vain for so long.
I'm holding out for Oculus VR support.
A long while back, American Express through it's Blue card line actually proposed the use of a card reader and physical token (the card for internet purchases). It never took off.

An article on such -- http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/a-credit-card-loses...

That said, their own site (at least when I last changed my password) had some fairly silly password rule restrictions like no punctuation.
Yet it can't be solved by mashing and requires some thought.
Ah, yeah that makes sense. You would definitely be limited in input while mobile, but at least it would be possible to bring your workspace with you. The good news is, VR has already spawned an incredible amount of research in more natural human computer interaction, so hopefully some of these input problems will be better solved. Most of the input problems being tackled over the last few years have to do with touch screens, which can never be as useful as purpose-built interaction hardware. Keyboards aren't as useful when you can't see them, and VR no longer requires being at a desk, so with any luck we will see real headway in high quality new text input and interaction devices soon.
Wouldn't it have been better to just stick a specialized piece of hardware/fpga to read directly from the crystal, buffer it, and pass it on? In fact that's what the timing equipment usually does for you. There's no reason to give up security when a few minor changes in architecture will give you performance, security and ease of maintenance and interconnectability.
gandi.net fits both your requirements.
What in unusual? Any sort of tolerance?
> everything will parse fine.

That's an exaggeration. There are circumstances in files where it's necessary. I didn't realize this, which hung me up for a long time.
He doesn't have to but he may choose to if he decides to sue Newsweek, for example.
How do these typically compare to Skype or Hangouts in terms of video and sound quality?
Much of the information coming from the Malaysian officials tasked with communication is confused or inaccurate. Naturally it's unclear whether this is a case of "right hand not talking to the left" or broader incompetence, but I think you're right to be conservative in building hypotheses atop this information.
Can we drop it and leave these people alone?
You may be confused by the fact that the type system will notice the equivalence of two types if the implementations of both are public eg

module M =
struct
type newtons = int
let inc some_newtons = some_newtons + 1
end :
sig
type newtons = int
val inc : newtons -> newtons
end

M.inc 1 (* this works *)

module M =
struct
type newtons = int
let inc some_newtons = some_newtons + 1
let in_newtons x = x
end :
sig
type newtons
val inc : newtons -> newtons
val in_newtons : int -> newtons
end

M.inc 1 (* type error *)
M.inc (in_newtons 1) (* this works *)

The use of hidden types in OCaml gives far better control over encapsulation and implementation hiding than any over language I've used.
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The page: http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-respon...
Shows as 112 KB by lori in FF. Really? 1/10 MB for a page of text?
The universe of unwanted, valuable consumer electronics is probably quite small. The universe of unwanted goods whose resale value is less than the cost of disposal is pretty huge.

Add to that the huge risk of tying up capital in worthless electronics and I see this one as pretty risky.

But it might just be how ebay will have to go - small seperate communities.
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Had an expired SSL cert bite me in the ass yesterday actually. They auto renew on the billing side, but if you have a year SSL cert, you have to generate a new one each time. So I saw that the billing renewed, didn't think anything of it, then was reminded of the manual generation step by a bit fat warning on my app. Yay.
I'm starting to sound like a broken record saying this, which is kind of sad... But here it goes again.

If you don't want to see something on the front page, don't upvote it. If it makes the front page, then people wanted to see it on the front page, or liked it enough to upvote it... The whole mentality that somehow you think that the majority of HN agrees with you on being sick of seeing this stuff on the front page is clearly wrong, because they're putting it on the front page.

If you see something that doesn't interest you, move onto the next.

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