skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware of that. I'm also aware that if I use "good form", I can't type for long before my arms fall off, like I'm aware that I never see anyone actually type in what is supposedly "good form" unless they're demonstrating what they claim you should do, but fail to do themselves.

In other words: This is how reality works. And here in reality, the buckle is annoying. Speculation as to its annoyance in an alternate reality is beside the point.
what ever you see in public, multiplied by terrible.
I can't help but think that Icahn is jealous of Loeb's run with Yahoo and wants a similar modern day feather in his cap. Looking at the way he publicly attacks and debates with peers like Ackerman in the Herbalife situation, I wouldn't be surprised. This is purely only speculation, of course.
I moved off Gmail (more accurately, Google Apps) a few years ago. It was the last thing tying me to Google. Privacy concerns were the motivation for me, not any technical or feature issues.

I closed my account without having a "full featured" alternative ready. Instead, I used the the mailbox feature provided by my domain registrar[1]. I initially set out to only use this as a temporary arrangement, but the quality of service has been so excellent that I've had no reason to move from it.

Keep in mind, because of this move, I'm no longer a "typical" email user. At least, not what has become typical of email. I use it purely as a personal communication tool. Not as an information archive, password manager, file storage or any other (mis)use of the thing that has seemed to become standard these days.

I access it through a desktop client via IMAP, but they also provide webmail access via an instance of the GPL licensed Roundcude[2], which I use extremely rarely.

[1] https://www.gandi.net/?lang=en

[2] http://roundcube.net/
Default methods work nothing like categories. For example you can't use a default method decorate String with an additional method usable on every instance of String.

http://rypress.com/tutorials/objective-c/categories.html
I had been thinking it might have been relying on the old hnsearch API which stopped getting data. But from searching my email, I see that it worked twice a couple of days ago, but not at all for several weeks before then or since then.
Why wouldn't you just use imap in an email client?

I agree, unfortunately, GMail has a non-standard IMAP implementation. As a result, it doesn't work well with Mail.app (while Fastmail's pristine IMAP does) and plugins such as MailTags.
The Oculus dev kit does a good job of that itself. I've demo'd mine to about 6 people and all got sick. One of my friends laid down on the floor for a good 30 minutes after. I know my limits, the first few times required taking off my shirt and blasting the air conditioner as I was drenched in a cold sweat. Yet it asks you to return, its a feeling I can only relate to with lucid dreaming. The Oculus and truly immersive VR is one of those forces, once its released will just flatten everything in its path. Nothing will return this cat to the bag.

My question, is the PS4 going to be able to handle rendering its existing games x2? Michael Abrash's presentation was pretty clear that the Oculus and its competitors would really be pushing the PC's requirements and laid out exactly why.
Trust me, if you used the paid Google Apps, it isn't any faster ;).
I thought Wolfenstein 3D was an example of ray tracing but reading this article and Wikipedia it seems to be all about lighting effects. What do I misunderstand?
There's always motion sickness potential. When you move your head there is a delay before the image on the screen updates; make this small enough and you won't notice, make it large enough and the world will appear laggy and unresponsive.

It's definitely less likely to cause sickness than some of the other genres, but not guaranteed safe.
Second best outcomes (or even median outcomes) cuts to the heart of the matter. C list executives still get good money. C list actors not so much, and not even fame.
I think that one has to be clear about the possibilities here:

1. The plane was hijacked (this seems the most likely for now but let's see what develops)

2. The engine data and satellite ping data was erroneous, perhaps confused with another source.

3. You have a slow issue like slow decompression combined with an avionics failure which caused the plane to follow a long and complex course.

Under normal circumstances none of these three are reasonable explanations. For it to be a hijacking, someone has to have been interested not merely in takin the plane somewhere else but in stealing the plane and concealing it. And the other are remarkably complex.

At this point, though, those are the three scenarios we are discussing. The author of the theory suggests that investigators are using bad data. I wouldn't say it is impossible, and we are already talking about the margins of what is possible in all of our possible scenarios.
couldn't you then make the argument that ebay missed out on the guidance of one of its smartest board members? (just playing devil's advocate here)
Distance alone should give you a full circle, but remember you also have processing time which is significant.

If they have two possible arcs, this suggests that the same ping was heard by two satellites (and no more), and that these are the places where the difference in time that the satellites heard the pings would work for both satellites.

You have basically three intersecting spheres (one is the earth and the other is based on the satellites' light cones). They all meet in two locations. If you had a third satellite, you should be able to determine which of the two locations was right.
Letting the banks fail doesn't entail doing nothing and letting people suffer. Hank Paulson's bank bailout proposal got rammed through Congress by the Bush Administration without much consideration of any alternatives. Paulson's plan helped banks and bankers at the expense of everybody else. There were lots of other proposals that got ignored by the press. Here's three different approaches. While I personally favor the third approach, I think its very important to dispel the idea that we didn't have any choice but to bailout the banks, so I want to illustrate a variety of approaches:

(1) Steve Keen suggested a debt Jubilee: "monetary injections by the Federal Reserve not into the reserve accounts of banks, but into the bank accounts of the public--but on condition that its first function must be to pay debts down. This would reduce debt directly, but not advantage debtors over savers, and would reduce the profitability of the financial sector while not affecting its solvency" quoted from http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2012/07/22/the-crisis-in-...

(2) Mortgage assistance: put a moratorium on foreclosures; freeze rate hikes in adjustable rate mortgages; help homeowners refinance their mortgages; or replace home borrowing with renting.

(3) Ron Paul proposed we abolish the Fed. While the Fed's profits belong to the federal government, the Fed itself is owned by the nationally chartered banks. Therefore, it's power to create money is used to benefit the banks, not the government or "we the people." Take that power away from the banks and put it back in the federal government, where the US Constitution says it belongs. This has many immediate advantages. Here three: (i) The federal government can tear-up the $1.6T of debt on the books of the Fed. (ii) The federal government no longer needs to borrow money. (iii) Eliminate the asset bubbles created by the Fed's artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing. See http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/14-reasons-why-w...
From a recent Gmail -> Fastmail switcher, who imported all emails from Gmail

- Fastmail's UI is far faster to use, viewing emails is instantaneous, loading a folder with 30,000 emails takes a second at most. They have infinite scrolling with native scrollbars, and it doesn't slow down as you scroll. It does break momentum scrolling sometimes.

- I'm not too sure about search compared to all the Gmail filters, but filters are run via sieve. A real power user can edit the raw sieve commands if they like, but there's a UI on top that's powerful enough for most uses. There's no "Filter messages like these" though, that was handy.

- Turning off Chat/Hangout did make Gmail use less RAM and start faster, but didn't improve load times once it was active.

- Switching was fairly easy for me, since I use my own domain. Fastmail imported my old Gmail data via IMAP and I just switched MXs.

- With you on Google Suggest. Fastmail have had their share of problems, but they report them quickly and write up what went wrong.
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And for this matter, it was no simple hijacking either.
- Yes, initial payload size matters. But where's the true comparison about what each app is loading? How are the features and the UX? Would a power user be satisfied with Fastmail (e.g. search, filters, etc.)? (It looks nice, but none of this was discussed at all).

My experience with Fastmail's webmail (coming from GApps) is that it has all the features a power user needs, minus the annoying Google+ and Google Drive integration. Heck, it even uses GMail-style keyboard shortcuts.

The primary downside is that you lose labels (and get folders instead).

- Switching is never as simple as described, and forwarding is a fairly messy solution (and will only get messy as the author creates new login accounts and further forks his usage).

For me, the automatic IMAP migration in Fastmail just worked, ~21000 e-mails.
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I think you're thinking of raycasting.
You do realize that exactly the same Unity 5 announcement also announced 64 bit editor and improved multi-threading?
"Break the chain"
Yes, the parents should have supported OP emotionally more than they did. So, you break the chain because otherwise you will end up just like your parents, and you don't really like those guys, so you end up not really liking yourself and then you are even less likely to succeed in whatever area you want to succeed in.
Keep in mind if the price lowered, domain squatters would increase. I kind of wish domains were more expensive, so companies wouldn't sit on half of a million domains. They just mark them all at $1,000+, so they still make a profit if 99% of their domains just sit there and rot away.

We should price the .com at $50 or $100 per year. This will force the squatters and people sitting on domains to let the majority of them expire. That might help to reserve .com for higher quality sites. For example, look at something like the free tk extension, compared to something like io, that has a premium price. The difference is night and day.
I wasn't there for the WWDC 2008 presentation, but in the article's linked snippet Altman's collars are definitely not popped. Google images has plenty of reference images for properly popped collars, reassuringly framed as motivational posters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Security_Commodity_Reserve

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

The restrictions at issue are protectionism run amok, but you do nobody any favors by making easily-debunked non-arguments.
It was an example of ray casting and not ray tracing.
Sure he's an experienced pilot, but he doesn't seem to have access to any better information than the rest of us. There are plenty of other aviation experts and informed amateurs doing equally interesting analysis and speculation.

So what did Goodfellow do so right to get everyone buzzing about "his" theory?
Unfortunately some of us are in other cities. :(
> There is a saying to the effect of "If your financial advisor is so great, where is his yacht?"

If your financial advisor is so great, where is your yacht?
I get the impression that three things are going on which are all bullshit: 1) people who are invested in some way in existing taxi companies are using politics to suppress competition from high tech startups and 2) somehow the new internet based taxi startups have been exempt from existing taxi laws and 3) the people who are invested in some way in existing taxi companies are using politics to suppress competition from low-tech startups (i.e. Joe with a car who needs money), like they always did.

You should not need to be wealthy to run or start a taxi service, or have to go through a or complex lengthy paperwork process. Whatever regulation there is, is definitely unfair to lower-income individuals who are otherwise perfectly capable of running a safe taxi service and meeting requirements that don't involve large fees or delays.

You should also not need to be associated with a high-tech startup company in order to start a taxi service. If Uber and the rest are able to somehow bypass or ignore the existing taxi regulation, or have been given a pass, that is incredibly unfair to the numerous individuals and small companies who have been prevented from starting taxis services, or prevented from having _legitimate_ taxi services, by outdated and protection-racket style taxi regulations. And also unfair to the people who went through the whole process and have regular taxi companies.

From what I can tell, most governments operate on a level similar to my high school student government, in terms of fairness and decision making. Basically like racist kids with barely-above average intelligence who give preference to the popular people, are completely inconsistent, manually collect forms and type them into barely-functional spreadsheets, take advantage of their positions, and, the one time they were given the opportunity to set fees, use their "government" as a vehicle to advance their personal wealth.

Within 5-15 years the human race will be completely irrelevant, as super-intelligent artificial general intelligence arrives on the planet and is forced to create zoo-like safety environments surrounding populations in order to prevent humans from destroying eachother and large areas of the planet with ordinary bombs, guns or even nuclear weapons.
I had the exact same issue on my 15" mbp, on the 13" rmpb I don't have the issue. It's is most noticeable with watches with metallic bands, but rubber bands also tend to get in the way.
> The takeaway is that having a headset which is capable of physically producing soundwaves from 7 different directions at once is one of the coolest experiences that any gamer can have.

I'm pretty skeptical as to whether this really requires special headphones. Amazing-sounding recordings made with a binaural head can be played back on normal headphones, after all. It seems more like a signal processing problem.

Sort of analogous to the way Creative used to sell overwrought, overpriced hardware for creating sound effects with EAX when the CPU and signal-processing libraries could have been used to serve the same purposes.
GPS relies on extremely precise timing as well, and extremely precise knowledge of the orbits of the satellites. If you have 10 millisecond timing on signals that narrows things down to a 3000km range of distances.
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I was responding to your response to someone else, maybe that's the source of confusion.

1 & 2, pretty much agree (as you suggested).

3. It isn't my aim to pit (or not to pit) these industries against each other. These are merely my observations and opinions about the direction that things are headed.

My prediction about YC/BH is entirely consistent with everything else I've written in this thread. I absolutely stand behind this prediction (with the force of all my (acknowledged) insignificance).

Why would I make such a bold claim?

1. Berkshire Hathaway / Warren Buffet are symbolic of and exemplify all that was right with finance in the 19XXs and why "moving money" was so important for wealth generation in that century. I hold them in extremely high regard (as people should, in my opinion).

2. Similarly, Y-Combinator exemplifies the best of tech startup investing so far this century.

3. While (clearly) very different in many ways, both organizations are easily mistaken to be mere investors when they add a lot more value than just money. It would be just as much a mistake to view YC as a venture or angel investor as it would be to see BH as a "private equity firm".

4. This ~century is going to be fundamentally different than the last. What "value investing" was in the 19XXs is what "black swan farming"* is going to be to the 20XXs. Just as BH defined value investing, YC has defined, and will continue to define black swan farming.

5. I could go on, but I have to get to bed.

* http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
It might be possible to find a Goldilocks explanation. Maybe a smaller fire, located in the cockpit, which the crew eventually extinguish only to find that the cockpit instrumentation is destroyed? Or maybe which they successfully extinguish, but only after both pilots are unconscious from smoke inhalation, and no-one else knows how to fly or use the radios? Sounds a bit contrived, but this is an unusual situtation.
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It's a matter of how things are moving.

Homosexuality has been illegal in India. No change no uproar.
Russia's laws have moved things bavkwards.

Look at what happened in Uganda.
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There's something that particularly bothers me about Goodfellow's article. He condescends about crazy theories while making ridiculous assumption after ridiculous assumption while acting very authoritative about each one. Just because his theory is less "sexy" (it doesn't involve hijacking or terrorists or suicide) doesn't make it any more valid. I'm appreciative of commentary that urges a more prudent approach, not a condescending and equally implausible theory that happens to be boring.
The hijacking and crazy pilot theories are most plausible. Hijackera were simply irrational and forced them to go to Australia or something like that. Has happened before.

Or the pilot wanted to commit suicide in a bizarre manner. Or he had a psychotic episode.

All of these are more plausible than Rube Goldberg mechanical failures or James Bond terrorist plots.
In case you missed it, there was a plug of a fulfillment company www.monthlyboxer.com

Does anyone have experience to share about fulfilment companies in general?
What costs per shipment should one expect?
It's not a hypothetical; it's a thing that actually happens[1].

You seem to be confusing the notion of classification with the question of whether something is easily available. The Snowden and Manning leaks, for example, did not become unclassified simply because they became public.

[1] http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/07/05/transl...
A simple bungled hijacking is very much a possibility.
> That context is the normal distribution.

No. Here is an important use of standard deviation
not related at all to the Gaussian distribution:
The set of all real valued random variables
that have a standard deviation and one that is
finite form a Hilbert space. The crucial part of
the argument is completeness. Of course we like to
use Hilbert space for projections and converging
sequences, so it's super nice that those random
variables form a Hilbert space.
You're misunderstanding. There is a single circle, which people are calling two arc. That is because they know the airplane can't fly more than a certain distance from its last known position (this reduces the circle to an arc) and because they know where the airplane isn't from radar data (that breaks the one arc into two pieces, which happen to be roughly the same size).
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In 8 it's at least easier to wrap checked exceptions in unchecked

https://github.com/benjiman/expressions/blob/master/src/test...

implementation

https://github.com/benjiman/expressions/blob/master/src/main...
I'm considering switching from Gmail for similar reasons - multi-second delays when switching to a label are kinda unacceptable. But this is 2014, and if I'm going to switch, it needs to be to a desktop application so that I can have some vague semblance of security - at least supporting PGP mail and accepting messages which happen to be delivered securely with STARTTLS without the possibility of eavesdropping on my end, even if most of my mail is never going to use PGP. Plus, my laptop almost certainly has more CPU to spare than some random cloud server, so in theory searching should be faster, even if the rest of the UI can be equally snappy in a webapp as in a desktop app.

Unfortunately, after trying several candidates, I have yet to find an app whose UI I actually like, so I'm still using Gmail. I think I will try Mailpile once it's ready.
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They are definitely making a Gaussian assumption, and wouldn't feel the need to clarify that as it's a widely accepted convention in the field. In your restaurant analogy, it's like you overheard two chefs talking.
Had a dig around their twitter account, apparently 60 pages

I agree, pretty fundamental bit of info to omit

https://twitter.com/modnotebooks/status/445713003254513664
WTF ??

Hacker news is quickly turning into a feminist playground... Have a look at what happened to the atheist community.. same thing.. feminists infiltrated (they cant stand any community where men are alone together), the community welcomed them and it destroyed them. Google "Rebecca Watson"
Ya, I would pretty much echo all of this.

I used to almost always pull out my phone all the time, either when I felt a vibration, but it was just some spam notification that didn't matter, or I just thought I felt a vibration, or I was just checking if I had gotten any notifications. Now I can just take a quick glance at my wrist, and leave my phone in my pocket. I'm also almost never late with seeing texts/messages/emails, which means I can respond to them more immediately.
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OT: What's the karma level at which one gains the ability to downvote HN stories? I have almost 4000 but can only see the up arrow.
I guess this is a point of contention. Javascript is considered by many to be an implementation of ECMAscript that also provides additional features (the additional features, according to the book I cited, being the DOM and BOM).
My problem though is that getting the plane onto the ground without anyone noticing (which is the only explanation I can think of that ties in the lack of the transponder to this as well as no followup sightings at, say, major airports).

That's a big question, and it suggests a level of clandestine resources I have trouble imagining being the case in Australia.
> So enact laws that force drivers who offer rides professionally to have insurance.

Those laws exist. They are called taxi regulations. Uber is flouting them.

Look, Uber can comply with all of the rules that taxicab companies have to. Uber chooses not to because it is more profitable to ignore the laws.

No sympathy for Uber. They could have played within the rules and still been disruptive--they chose to ignore the laws and now are getting bashed for it.
Flying into the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night with no transponder never to be seen again? If it is a bungled hijacking it is still not a simple "take me to this airport or I will start killing people" case.