skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume it's more of a "straw that broke the camel's back" in a constant barrage of problems. Dick jokes in a toxic environment only make the environment more toxic.

Which is sad, because it was a funny line.
Oh my god, you are so right!

I absolutely hate this about Notepad++! (didn't think about it actually, untill you mentioned it now)
I see an on-screen keyboard on one of their promotional pictures, could this be used as a lightweight dumb terminal ?

If not, what would be a possible e-ink device to display an SSH terminal over Wifi and pair with a bluetooth keyboard ?
Ideally I would want to upgrade within a month or so (after major kinks have been worked out) but there is stuff that may not work with the new kernel (I extensively use NoMachine), so I want to make sure if I upgrade I can still use it. I'll first install it in VirtualBox and give it a try. If it works, I'll upgrade. There are disadvantages to sticking with 12.04 for too long. You get stability but you start missing out on the new features of the kernel and other daily use software like LibreOffice. So, I really want to upgrade as soon as possible.
I think you read too much negativity into these comments. None of them said it is a bad idea.
You'll not abandon printing in the next 75 years. It's not a realistic solution. This kid provided a fix you can put into place in the next 12 months that will save a good chunk of change. Getting people to not print anything will take considerably more time and money to implement.
My Dodge Ram has an unworkable turd as a head unit also. Built-in MP3 that is painful to use, navigation that is horrible. It will never change, I am sure of it.
See https://github.com/cure53/H5SC/issues/2 for the complaint :-)
plus the fact that the site refreshes at almost every click on the menu. If you have tabs, use them the right way! :)
Corporate pricing shenanigans and barriers to market performance are some of the least important factors in what costs money and ails society. How much freer of a market do you want? Anyone who claims that barriers to market freedom are important are either confused or dangerously deluded. Real liberty is abolishing corporations altogether because trying to fight corruption within capitalism is pointless. It's time to end problems at their source, not exacerbate them.
I am an alcoholic sober for 7 years. You know you have a problem and that really is great because then you can address it. If you need to talk to someone, find me on twitter @glanotte and we will find a way to get in touch.

If you don't want to talk, get to an AA meeting or if you don't think you can control yourself, check into rehab. Strike while you care about it, don't wait for yourself to start making excuses.
Oh my God, yes. It is ridiculously hard to find good data analysts, because companies have recently come to realize just how much data they have, and how much can be done with it. And professional statisticians aren't always the right people to throw at the problem! Add machine learning -- where a solid math foundation is more useful than straight coding knowledge -- into the mix and you've got a pressing need for mathematicians. Or you can hit the financial market, where a graduate math background and some F# will land you a quant position in any major market you care to name.
Microsoft Office Mobile for Android
I didn't see the Myth Busters episode, but isn't there still a loss due to the inherent inefficiency of the motor and regen breaking?
Five Great API Ecosystem Lessons from Evernote
When he'll be 18, he'll start seeing that it's easier to change the government than convincing government to change anything.
Specifically, once you've played puzzles of this sort, it is easy to see that the core of the puzzle is that all the tiles move as far as possible on a move. That threes doesn't do this makes it look like the prototype, no matter how much thought went into it.

Threes then seems more like a combination of this concept and a 15 puzzle.
Indeed! To expand a little, can I also download a text from Gutenberg public domain classics, convert to pdf (via LibreOffice for instance) and read on this machine along, as you say, with all the public domain articles and books I have in the same format?
While I don't agree with the parent, accusing her of being "in bed" with another person or group is not sexist – it's a common idiom which refers to having an undesirably close or underhanded association with others.
That's enables long battery life, but it still requires electricity.

Computers are great, but doesn't mean that they are the solution to every problem.
Well, it's not like they can just redesign the entire platform at this point. Slapping some titanium on is probably the best move they can make right now. It should satisfy any government and customer concerns for a problem that was pretty rare to begin with.

As for the other materials we've been using them sparingly in vehicles. The new Ford F150 is using much more aluminum, enough to bring the weight down by about 900 pounds. Yet people are still criticizing aluminum as a material choice. It's not hard to see that aluminum, carbon fiber and other light weight materials are the future of vehicles. Yet some people are still afraid because they associate heavy steal with strength. That aluminum hood is the only part on my old truck that is not rusting through. Lighters, stronger, no rust. Where is the negative?
Spike Jonze talked at Google last fall about this movie but Kurzweil was not at the talk. His review would probably have been different if he had made it to the talk. The way I understood Spike Jonze, he was trying to make a movie about a real love story, in which one of the characters happened to not be human. A little off topic, but Jonze gave a good presentation with the format being a little over an hour of answering people's questions. BTW, I liked the ending of the movie when the AIs transcended to a higher form == cool.
I also remember a hack to spray WD40 into the ribbon to stretch the ink a little further.
How is it a win/win if I lose my data when I quit paying the subscription? Having proprietary data formats means that if I want to keep using what I've created, I'm kept hostage by my subscription.

It's a lot better with things like Office, where other programs have been able to extract the data, but it still seems too much like extortion for my liking.
Is that good ?? tried it ??
Even with the fast walking, they seem to have employed a slow walker to measure this. My walk to work I can do in 35 mins, which isn't at a terribly fast pace, but even TfL's fastest option reports it as taking 44mins http://www.tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/results?IsAsync=true&Jp...
It's quite obvious, the site is all static content so even if you can't tell the ads from the contents by their visual appearance, just press F5. It also quite literally says "download" right at the top:

http://drp.io/geKo

On the second page, scroll down if you don't see the buttons. Notice that the advertisement has an AdChoices button (and it also changes on reload). Also, the instructions are right there underneath the ad:

http://drp.io/geKp

On the final download page, there are obvious signs to tell where you should click. The download button is surrounded by a huge click target in a box that features an AdChoices button and if you look closely you'll see it quite literally says "Advertisement" (FFS). Most importantly, the page tells you to click the link labelled "Free Download Now" to the right, where the ad sits below.

http://drp.io/geKq

I feel dumber having explained this.
Speaking of which, I love the tech in Palm Pilots. To this day I'd take the monochrome screen that lasts forever and is extremely responsive.

But seems like people prefer burning batteries that need daily recharging, or input lag.
Eh? Your criticism makes no sense. Burning a fossil fuel means taking an existing source of captured carbon and releasing it into the air. Using biofuels means burning the fuel, releasing carbon into the air... then recapturing the carbon in the next batch of fuel to be grown. Plants don't just spring out of the ether - they're made of carbon, taken from the air. It's a zero sum game, unlike fossil fuels. No concrete required.
If you file against MtGox (class-action or otherwise) right now, you could be listed as a creditor in their bankruptcy, and would benefit greatly from said liquidation.
I've actually read that one. Very interesting book!
Being gay or left-handed doesn't inherently impact your quality of life.

It does if everyone else is telling you that you're abnormal (and need to be 'fixed'). That was the point of using those examples.

Not being able to concentrate on anything does.

Only if society has defined as valuable the ability to do only one thing, without distraction, for whatever period of time. Therefore, anyone who cannot do this must be 'broken' somehow.

So even if it were part of the normal range we should work on fixing it, like we do for myopia.

The first part of your sentence doesn't make sense. If it's 'normal' then by definition it isn't broken (and therefore doesn't require fixing). For the myopia example, most people 'fix' it by wearing glasses or contacts, which are non-permanent and do not mess with brain chemistry. Indeed, some people I know with myopia only bother with glasses when driving and cope just fine without for the rest of the time. Of course, measuring the degree of myopia is very easy so drawing a line between 'has some difficulty' vs 'severely impaired' is a lot more clear cut. In one case, we can consider glasses as an augmentation to something that is normal, whereas in the other we've fixing something that's broken.

I'm not suggesting that ADHD isn't a problem. Merely that we should exercise some caution before we label some things (people?) as broken, when perhaps they are not.
I'm not quite sure why you aren't getting this. The view of the Earth that each pixel has isn't separated by the same distance as their separation on the sensor. Do you agree with that?

The important part is that it's also true for the different color lines as well. That's what I'm trying to explain.

The view of each color line may traverse 1mm for every 1mm the satellite moves in orbit, but that has nothing to do with the separation of the lines. The important thing is that the view of, say, the green color line will not be identical to the view of the red color line when they are at the same relative physical position in orbit (e.g. a fraction of a second apart in the orbital motion) because the view of each color line is at a different angle through the optics. And because of that the portion of the Earth that each line is viewing at a given time is separated by a considerable distance, and there is then a considerable time separation between when a given spot on the Earth is imaged by each color line.

My other examples are trying to provide hypothetical scenarios to help get you to understand why your preconceived ideas about how push broom scanning works have important gaps, they're not meant to explain how things work in this particular example.
I remember seeing a rooted kindle used for that. Digged the article up: Kindleberry Pi: http://www.ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/
Sure they do. Vehicle fires occur spontaneously, due to sabotage (the most common reason), due to various acts of god, due to road debris, and due to collisions.

Anyway, two of the three Tesla fires were on freeways, not local roads. The third was under somewhat mysterious circumstances (Mexico).
And here's the video of Cleese reading the eulogy at Chapman's memorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxCHybM6Ek
> only two changes, namely the UTF-8 system, and no "old-school" classes

I like the new import semantics a lot. It removed all ambiguity from the old one.
"Kurzweil predicts that [in a book published in 2005] supercomputers with the computational capacities to simulate protein folding will be introduced. In 2010, a supercomputer simulated protein folding for a very small protein at an atomic level over a period of a millisecond. "

This is a great one. When I worked for IBM in 2002-2003ish they were already working on the machines for this. It was public knowledge.

Fast forward 25 years when the dates are a bit fuzzier and someone reads his book published in 2005 and they conclude "Kurzweil predicted the future of genetics!!!". Sucker.
5-Year-Old to government: Your employees would be happier if you gave them cookies
A message to entrepreneurs: Don't be afraid of startup volatility
Acorn for Mac is good also SVG-Edit
http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-e...
Agreed. OP's story is terrible, but I see that sort of thing happening in the private sector all the time as well.

We need to have a broader discussion about closing the labor law loopholes that have been carved out over the years by special interests.
It's hardly a new approach - people have tried this sort of thing for decades. I don't know of any significant adoption analysis, but it pops up as an idea fairly regularly.

edit: There is some confusion; this was a response to parents "More importantly, this opens it up a new approach that can be used in lots of places.", not to the article. It doesn't really open anything up.

I think it was a fine school project, fwiw.
Apple Gets Its 30% Take On Office 365 Subscriptions for MS Office For iPad
> Computer Chess programs appear immensely intelligent, and we subscribe forethought and intentions to them, but in reality they are just algorithms.

What do you mean by "just algorithms"? For anything that does anything, what is the alternative to being an algorithm?

It seems that most if not all algorithms we come in contact with in IT are easily recognizable as "just algorithms" merely because their complexity is very low and so our brains can easily extract the invariants, operational principles and patterns of behavior.

I'd risk the conjecture that sufficiently complex algorithm with the right features would appear to us as intelligent, emotionally developed and subtle as any human being. It seems to be just a matter of relative complexity with the right features. If not that, then what?

Your derision of AI seems to hinge on nothing more than relative complexity of your brain to it :-)
I feel like hacking HN to upvote this twice.
Before anyone runs off and grabs Pixelmator, see if Preview.app can do what you need. If you just need to highlight something in an image or add a note, it can do that.

If you need more, grab Pixelmator. It's an excellent program for basic image manipulation and drawing. If you need professional level tools, grab Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop, or GIMP as you need. Pixelmator will not be a good replacement for this programs.
LLVM has an open-source PTX backend, and newer versions of the official CUDA compiler use LLVM to generate PTX internally, but PTX is a device-independent intermediate layer, and the PTX-to-SASS compiler is closed-source.
awk needed just 15 lines, where as java needed 372!
Ask HN: How do you get startup ideas?
When I was in my early 20's I used to have lots of interesting ideas. I was lazy and as no one else was doing them I did nothing, as I figured there was no demand. 8 of them are now being done by large companies and appear successful.

Now I'm in my early 30's I'm less creative and have fewer ideas, and when I do 1+ companies are already doing it (usually 10+) and blogging about their success, or the market appears too small to be viable.

Where do you get your inspiration, and have you any suggestions?
It's thoroughly disappointing that they're sticking to PDF for this. In every other way, it looks like progress, but not supporting EPUB is a pretty long step backwards, imho.
Imagine NoSQL – how John Lennon might have said it.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/20/ray-kurzwei...
What should gender-neutral washroom signs look like?
> Spike Jonze creates an AI that's actually alive, deep, and something it's okay to fall in love with--I couldn't accept that.

If falling in love with AI is not acceptable to you, then what about falling in love with a mammal?

The former has been cleverly designed to learn, be smart and live a long and happy life. The latter evolved to be just barely good enough to hold out until the age of replication and then fall apart.
Sounds plausible I Guess but I wonder how Tesla in this crash description
circumvented Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and the bodily damage the driver should have incurred on negative G's.
If you promise not to kill me, I promise to give you a single 15 minute or 5 mile test drive somewhere in the southern NH area, or possibly in some other area that I happen to road trip through.
The government isn't going to abandon printing entirely, ever. There are too many people who need access to documents who don't have printers, too much information that is too sensitive to email back and forth, and too many government offices with small one-off forms that visitors need right away. Besides, let's look at the cost of electricity, maintenance, insurance for broken and stolen devices, upgrade costs, and how pissed people will be when X system gets hacked and their info is stollen. I'm sorry, but paper is here to stay for a very long time.
Yep. Imagine there are plenty of gasoline cars that have the potential for the gas tank to be punctured, and well that seems like it could turn out much worse. The problem is that electric vehicles are scrutinized to the point that Tesla actually has to defend the one of chance that something punctures the battery pack. A lot of gas tanks are visible under a car with a thin layer of steel protecting them. The straps holding the tank in my Ford truck rusted through. I had the optional off road package that includes a skid plat for the gas tank. Without that plate it certainly would have dropped and I can only guess what might happen. However, that recall got nowhere near the media coverage Tesla gets for anything.

GM left bad ignition switches in the cobalt for something like 8 years. People died when the switched locked up.
Do you consider a company like Raspberry Pi or Oxfam to "exist to make money"? They certainly need money to exist.
Is This A Google Glass Hit Piece Or Click Bait?
Assuming the underbody plate is only 2mm thick, the Model S is suddenly accelerating 5% slower. To put it otherwise, every acceleration now takes at least 4% more energy (> 0.01 kWh for an acceleration from from 0 to 65 mph). Sounds great for city driving.
Its like this adviser is necessarily going to be a sexist douche to the author's face, yet this adviser never graduated a female PHD student (which the author had to find out from another channel) and the conference the adviser run hasn't had any women represented for a period of years.

Just because someone isn't directly disrespectful to you to your face doesn't mean they don't have bias or aren't sexist. It is not incumbent on the people with no power in that kind of relationship to provide evidence to satisfy your disbelief.
Consumerization of IT: what it is and how it impacts you
It's the site's ultimate responsibility.

If getpaint.net wants to maintain a site with deceptive ads, that's their explicit decision. I couldn't care less about their limited choices. Excuses like that are worth a null device. It's not up to anyone else to figure out for them how they should create an honest/ethical source of revenue. Likewise, complaining to Google is nearly a dead-end. The only decent solution is calling 'em out. Express disappointment and recommend against them. Maybe they'll care. Maybe they won't.
IIRC it's Canonical's official stand to suggest users to wait for the first point release. I am sure I read this some days ago, from following a link posted here.
The time to have the difficult conversations is now - before you start anything.
You'd rather put all your cards on the table including what you see as obstacles (include some of your own challenges/deficiencies in that mix).

A good way to start such a conversation is to assess if to get a sense of whether everyone shares the same goal and what they are willing to do to get there.
If that alone is something where everyone is not on the same page then there is no point in getting into conversations on personality etc.

If everyone is on the same page, that naturally will lead into talking about challenges of achieving the goal.

You can google things like "how to handle conflict" or "how to have difficult conversations" etc to see which specific strategies/tactics for handling such a conversation could work for you given your temperament and the group dynamic in general.

If you don't do this now, it will be 100x harder later and likely cause a lot of friction/ill-will and possibly even cost you your friendships.

If having the conversation means that your friends don't land up wanting to work with you, that's fine.
They are likely not the only 2 people on the planet with those skills.

If this is something you are serious about then you cannot let anyone else hold you down.
If they can't/won't be inspired to work with you then you've gotta do what you gotta do to move forward.

Hope that helps.
"Our PI is renewed for being one of the worst in the planet, but he's also a really famous one. (average is 1 science + 1 nature / year)"

The system may have helped create him, because I'd bet those two things are very connected. If the path to being published is via working other people nearly unto death, well, our history shows that there are enough people who don't have a problem that you need to rely on something other than their conscience to stop that from happening.
It's not due to imprecision, it's due to design and fundamental optical constraints. There's nothing special about the optics used for a push broom imager, it's just an ordinary lens. If you put a full frame sensor at the focal plane you could take an image of a several kilometer square patch of Earth. If instead you put several different lines of sensors in the focal plane and put each behind a color filter then you'd have a multi-spectral push broom sensor. But each line does not view the same part of the Earth at the same time. Because the sensors scan the Earth they end up imaging the same spot within a fairly short delay. But optically it's not possible to have each color line viewing the same horizontal slice of the image of Earth at the same time, that's not the way lenses work.
Nearly every time I've heard the phrase "in bed with" it's been in reference to men, and the meaning is hot man-on-man collusion (not sex).

However it is a really unfortunate phrase to use where the group is mixed gender. Especially so when it's an imbalanced mix, such as very few women.

(I think everyone should get a small stack of "Yikes did I really say that?" chips. Only after someone runs out of their chips should we bring out the pitchforks and enjoy ourselves a nice cathartic public shaming spree.)
Throwaway account here.

I was a "high functioning" alcoholic; 35 years in the software business, and I've worked for companies I know you've heard of, and you've almost certainly used my products. 15 years ago I was drinking 750ml of liquor a day. Lost a few jobs, was living in filth, and was about to be homeless.

Long story made short, I got into detox and then AA, changed pretty much everything in my life that wasn't working and haven't had a drink since. First couple years were intense, and I still go to AA meetings every week. It's a maintenance thing. I know I can't drink again.

It can get better, but you can't do it yourself. If you're a heavy drinker, get medical help in the first few days because withdrawal can kill you. I think you'll find your employer amazingly helpful and supportive.

[I'm extremely skeptical of solutions that involve other substances. I guess if it works, it works, but I'm not going to get much out of talking to you about it.]