skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately it looks like the entire xip.io domain is blacklisted as "Reputation-Viruses" by the filtering service that we use.

I guess this is because it's been used by some bad guys already.
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If you have a Mac and prefer a little GUI tool, Anvil is great: http://anvilformac.com

It has built-in support for .xip.io domains; you can configure multiple sites by pointing it at local directories and it'll serve them up using a built-in POW server (http://pow.cx, also from 37signals).

Great for example for remote testing on your local LAN without having to mess with your HOSTS file.
> You can't visualize OSx on Linux or Windows for practical reasons

I have an OSX and XP virtual machine on my Ubuntu chroot on my HP Chromebook 14, so I don't know where you're getting this from.
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Church factorial can be implemented without recursion though.

Hint: consider a function that maps the pair <n,n!> to <(n+1),(n+1)!> ...
Joe's Own Editor still mimics WordStar for those whose fingers never re-learned: http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
I used Square Wallet all the time, and was frequently told, "That was the first time I've done that!"
No.

"Conceding" means passing. If you don't pass, you have to play. If you play when the game is effectively over, you either play in your opponent's territory and get captured, or your own, which reduces your score. If you play in your own territory enough then you can actually end up losing your eyes, and then be captured.
Not to be glib, but our brain is the only organ, in all living beings on earth,as far as we know, that can wonder about itself and write at lengths about itself.
No, I meant that I can't stand an HN discussion about those topics, because my experience is that it'll be filled with sexism and victim-blaming.
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I am a newbie to BLE technology. I am having a hard time finding the best appropriate solution to implement for below problem.

The problem I need help using BLE 4.0 is that:

I have 2 BLE 4.0 cards and 2 IOS devices (iPhones) that support BLE 4.0

Now Each BLE 4.0 device is synced to one IPhone .

Now I want the 2 BLE 4.0 cards to exchange the data and send them back to their corresponding IPhones .

I came to know that Scatternet can solve this issue. But not sure how to do it.

My main intention is to make BLE 4.0 cards where Employees can have their individual cards synced to their IPhones and when 2 employees come closer (in-person) they should have the ability to copy data from other persons BLE 4.0 card into their BLE 4.0 card and see that info in IPhone/Android device.

Appreciate your help on this problem.
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I am hoping that with deliberate practice, HN will become capable of a mature discussion about these topics. It is important enough to keep trying, even though it is hard.
I do not see the problem. I have never read books for pleasure. Most of the books I own are technical or reference material that have practical applications. Why would I want to read for pleasure? I did not find anything interesting about The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, or To Kill a Mockingbird which were standard readings when I went to school. Maybe I do not have the imaginative capacity like those people that "get lost" in books.
It's quite chesslike, and not really my taste, but it's a good game.
If you're developing an app that relies on wildcard subdomain matching - all the organization-oriented apps that give you a your-team-name.example.com URI, for instance - fiddling with /etc/hosts is going to become a chore.
Is it just me or does anybody else also find it really annoying that the blinking cursor there (behind the “everyone”) is not actually a cursor and one cannot delete text with backspace?
"Rideout cautioned that there may be difference in how people encounter text and the included studies may not take into account stories read online or on social media."

IOW, the study is completely invalid, but we'll report it anyways.
I guess the remark comes from the "perhaps infinite" proof game. I don't know why they put "perhaps infinite" there as most Go rulesets have rules against repeating board positions.
An understanding of colloquial geography, such as:

- informal place names

- boundaries of neighbourhoods

- nesting of those things within administrative boundaries

Yahoo's Where On Earth database had a lot of this, but it doesn't seem to be available to download any more, and they didn't accept updates. GeoNames is pretty messy and inaccurate, and the copyright status has never been cleared up.
With this philosophy, you could wait a decade or two.

Whatever you buy today will be seriously better than your current one.
That's exactly why they should be more circumspect when busting down citizens' doors. It's just irresponsible to allow this kid to cause this much damage.
Leslie Cabarga's _Logo, Font & Lettering Bible_ has a nice section on this, too. http://amzn.com/1581804369
This is very useful for me, because lots of the software I write is SaaS where the customer has their own subdomain - and testing on mobile in a local network is a PITA.

Think of setting acme.example.local and foo.example.local in hosts to 127.0.0.1. In my code I have middleware that sniffs the leftmost part of the hostname and authenticates and routes based on that info.

With this I don't need to mess with hosts, and I don't need to worry about putting in a hack for mobile (on which you cannot change any hosts).
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Also I guess we would want him to write instead of spending his time getting used to other tools.
From the outside, it's hard to dispute that Wallet didn't have enough "utility value", but Square didn't seem to do much to market Wallet to merchants.

Almost none of the local merchants I tried using Wallet with knew about the feature, and some merchants didn't show up in it at all (they were using Square to run simple cash transactions -- i.e., no product catalog entered into Square).
Meaningful reproducibility would mean writing your own code and performing your own experiment in a different lab with different people to see if the results hold up. Running the same code more times on the same machine, or repeating a measurement in the same lab with the same people isn't what we mean by "reproducing" a result.
IMO, assuming exchange support matters, Airmail on OS X and Boxer on iOS are the best choices. Airmail has been consistently improving and I have no serious complaints against it anymore.
The Google geocoding service returns a normalized address in addition to the lat/lon. There are times I need that address localized for the area it is in, and other times I need it localized for another culture. It would be very useful to be able to specify which locale the return value should be.
Then... don't presume to speak for everyone else?

"Programmers (and I see an example almost every day here on HN) don't know the math and equations (or the concepts) of even basic scientific calculations. Let alone some more complicated stuff."

This is a really sweeping statement and really does not apply to everyone.
It's funny you mention that, as our main business is the real estate search engine Nestoria http://www.nestoria.com
We parse about listings 15M addresses in 9 different countries every day (though not the US). We work in pretty chaotic markets like India and Brazil. The world is a very diverse place, but there is one constant - agents do not feel the need to let themselves be bound by the "on the ground" truth of where a listing is.

Regarding Google, you are right, they do a good job, especially in the US. Full credit to them. The problem is the cost and usage restrictions.

Coming back to your initial point of reporting inaccuracies. What would be your preferred way to report problems? some sort of API you could automate? Would you just tell us there is a problem, or want to also tell us the solution?
We should give octopi the gift of technology and let them overtake the underwater world. Just like in 2001.
thanks, good feedback
> "The work you did a year or more ago couldn’t possibly still be relevant today."

Funny how the first project on author's github page (https://github.com/brandonweiss) is over two years old.

This is satire, right? Right?
where did someone get ahold of that URL to begin with....random appspot test server? some dev probably not happy to see that in the wild heh.
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"We even have to be thankful they're not using Fortran (not that it's bad, but...)"

But what? If they happen not to be using Fortran, why should we be thankful?
The are security implications whether you use the password anywhere else or not.
It's a two way: file size (amount of points) and rasterization issues.

Since every DTP program has it's own (or multiple) rasterization algorithms (and the same goes for printers) we have to deal with these too. It's about balance. :)
>Well, this is the effect of the democracy that you people have created and nurtured over the years. Why do you want to blame the companies that have stepped in to take advantage of the rules you have set forth?

I haven't nurtured this form of democracy at all (lobbying), I'm from Sweden, not the US. Nor do I believe that the actual voters have 'nurtured' this form of paid influence, if it were ever to be subject to a specific vote then I'm certain that the vast majority of american voters would be against this.
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I'm no expert, but in my understanding the transition from unicellular to multicellular can go pretty smoothly via symbiosis.
This is incidental to the main argument, but I think it's important enough to observe here:

Since that letter, I have learned more. The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to all senators on May 6, noting that in the view of the Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein, “there are at least eleven OLC opinions on the targeted killing or drone program.”

I joined the ACLU a couple years ago in part because I'd read a lot about the various illegal and immoral activities parts of the government has done and didn't see an obvious way for me, a somewhat normal, random guy, to do much about it. There's a lot of (justified) Internet outrage over the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki, widespread spying, and so forth. But without converting outrage to action, the outrage means very little.

Does my $50 do much on its own? Perhaps not. But it means something.
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While it's not perfect information, it's been studied quite a bit, and heads up play is getting very good for some games. Not sure if that's limit, no-limit or what.
Yes, and then setup keepalived on them so you have a stable VIP that is guaranteed to move between them. I did a writeup of how we did it (when I worked there) for ticketmaster here:

http://www.digitalprognosis.com/opensource/scripts/keepalive...

The gist is that you have a dummy interface ie: dummy0, and when you down that interface, the VIP flips to the backup node with the highest VRRP priority.
If you are a computational scientist who is using random() for any part of your simulation, you are an idiot.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that this article is in the "one sentence per paragraph" form that I tend to associate with bad writing (or perhaps writing aimed at people who don't read long form)? I imagine the journalists are somewhat to blame for this. I'm looking at you, Buzzfeed.
I didn't realize PoF doesn't use Adsense any more, but I was more interested in letting HN users know in case they were inspired to share the same kind of data and risking having their accounts suspended.
Another way to think about it is that only recursion "drives" computation. Corecursion sets up a potentially infinite number of computation steps each of which can be chosen to be churned through via recursion.
Ahhh :) I might book that cruise now.
Wow! Awesome article! :D

Do you mind if I had your article to mine?

Cheers!
Hi Tom,

thanks for commenting. Big fan of your work on flickr neighbourhood boundaries.

We hear you and are on it, which doesn't mean we'll be perfect of course, but definitely aware of this issue.
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Just to clarify, the linked article refers to plays, not downloads - changes the dynamic a bit, but still a crazy stat nonetheless.
Standard assigned readings may not interest you precisely because they're assigned. You're telling me you've never read a novel on your own? Not Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, nothing?
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The reading scores among 17-year-olds, however, remained relatively unchanged since the 1970s.

Interesting. At least they catch up.

Isn't this just another casualty of the war on public education and teaching for these stupid common core tests?
According to Jim Trelease's book, "The Read-Outloud Handbook", one of the most important things to with your kid is to read to them every night.[1] The book, from what my recollection, discusses how students in other countries, such as Finland, perform better overall because their parents tend to read to them every night.

Even someone like Warren Buffet focuses on reading - spending "80 percent" of his workday ready.[2]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Trelease#The_Read-Aloud_Han...
2. http://theweek.com/article/index/248655/the-warren-buffett-f...
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A computer would only win by playing out pre-proved positions (joseki) against an amateur who has studied them positions without understanding them.

As for infinite games, they don't really happen much; in rulesets that make it possible for them to happen, the game is usually called "no result", and this has happened only very few times in hundreds of thousands of recorded games. Modern rulesets have "patched out" this by implementing superko or similar rules: playing a stone that would put the board in a state it was in previously (positions of the stones and which player's turn it is) is an illegal move.
DIF is fun, but it changes too much established canon for my liking. I have my own grand unified Known Space theory, originally in two forum posts which a friend has compiled together:

http://news.larryniven.net/concordance/content.asp?page=The%...
On the other hand, you could say that not accepting "octopi" as a plural of "octopus" shows 'ignorance' of languages in general.
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I'm glad that this trend didn't reach Austria, because as annoying as it may seem, swatting can result in deaths of innocents, if the cops are trigger happy or the victim fears that (possibly armed) robbers are breaking into his/her home.

This kind of hoax should be punished harshly, even for 15-17 year old juveniles.
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Depends on what your target customers are doing!

For a delivery company, inaccurate results can send drivers to the wrong place, so it's important to get the best accuracy available.

You want it to work way out in the country, where buildings are few and far between; and with named buildings as well as numbered ones. So a search like [1] should come back accurate to less than 100m.

Fuzzy/imprecise matching should be used with care. If there's a search for Manor Close in London, it should ask which of the four Manor Closes you mean [2]. If the only part of the address that matches is London, that's not enough information to send a delivery driver - the address should be rejected.

If there are parts of the address you can't match that's sometimes a problem - you don't want to map 1 Hopton Parade, Streatham High Road to 1 Streatham High Road. But you do want to map Some Company Ltd, 1 Streatham High Road to the latter.

On the other hand, if your target users are dating websites wanting to show rough distances between members, just matching city might be plenty accurate enough; property search engines like Zoopla will show any shitty approximation on their maps if they don't recognise a street or postcode.

[1] https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Paradise+Wildlife+Park,+Whi...
[2] https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=from:E17+5RT+to:NW7+3NG+to:...
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I've been "stalking" patio11. :)
Yeah I know art and engineering are fairly intertwined - it was really all of the medical choices that showed up. I'm interested in psychology but not so much that half of the career choices shown should be that haha.
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Studies have shown than reading fictions tends to improve empathy [1]. This is a great assets for doctors for example (but also to deal with a client, customer, boss, co-workers, etc). Obviously, if you are put through a character stream of consciousness repeatedly and in various situation, it might be easier to put yourself in someone's shoes in every day interaction.

In the end, reading is an opportunity cost, the time you 'll spend reading, will not be spent on something else. So I don't think that if you don't enjoy it, you should read in the hope of "improving your empathy".

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/i-know-how-youre-fe...
I don't think any of the authors problems were caused by misinterpreting something intended to be sarcastic. How exactly is one supposed to read "I have a shotgun aimed at your head", or "I will mutilate your genitals with scissors" as lighthearted?
Recently, I stopped over a friends house. And, I was surprised to see a group of 7 or so 9-11 year olds all watching their computers or devices. At first I thought they were having a lan party, playing a game. So, I asked them what they were doing, and they said they were watching youtube videos. I observed them for a while and watched as they'd go back and forth between each other, sharing different links then sitting in silence, watching. Then, they'd get together and talk about it. I'm not sure what they were looking up, but they were all engrossed, sharing in some sort of learning experience.

I'm not sure if this is good or bad (who can really say?). But, I see it in my son, who is 9. I get frustrated that he's not reading at the level I was, when I was his age. And, we certainly have lots of books around the house and encourage good reading habits. However, he likes his videos and audio.

Didn't Marshall McLuhan predict this back in the 60s? The 'book' as we know it has only been around for a few hundred years. And, certainly it's been quite important to our progress and exchange of information. But, information has been communicated for thousands of years, in different means, with success. I'm fairly optimistic that new generations will rely on different types of communication to exchange ideas and to learn. Books will not be irrelevant, but books (and reading) are being replaced, in importance. What will happen when we re-evaluate all of our knowledge outside the context of the 'Gutenberg mind'?
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Darn those who call their languages something ungoogleable by itself (yes R I'm talking about you)

Anything bigger than 2 letters and having a name that's not a (very) common word should be fine.
No, a game is only over when both sides concede, and players concede when they recognize that any move they could make either does not change the score or would cost them a point (playing in territory that is already yours effectively reduces your territory as only empty territories are counted as points (in standard japanese rules)).

If one player would never concede you would keep playing until the board is full except for the unfillable eyes of the player that wins. Obviously that would take a long time and many negative moves of the losing player.

So you stop playing when both players are confident the game is over and agree on who has won.
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the system will work over long distances, indeed he claims in the paper (with nothing to back it up, that paper is extra-ordinarily vague.)

However it wont increase bandwidth. (I should have been more precise) The only reason why people are interested in this is because it offers the idea of greater bandwidth.

The way they increase bandwidth is effectively partitioning the local airspace off from the wider world. Each cell (be it TV, phone or $other) can deliver x bandwith.

The bigger the area covered by the cell, the less bandwidth per unit of volume. (conversely the smaller the more bandwidth per volume)

This is before we start doing clever things like spread spectrum or account for signal loss/noise/shannon's law

This is pretty much snake oil. Its beam forming with a marketing budget. There is nothing in that paper that suggests otherwise
>You're telling me you've never read a novel on your own?

I have never read a novel. I was curious whether I could finish one, so I tried to read the first Harry Potter book. I did not continue after the fifth chapter since it felt like work.
Hey!

Isn't it the other way around? I mean, isn't cubic a special case of quadratic?

Please correct me if I'm wrong (or my references), I want this article to be as accurate as possible!

Thanks!
> That I work with "boundary code" so obviously that's harder on Python 3 now (duh)

mhm. I tell people now and then that python 3 (and the python 3 developers) are hostile to people embedding it and using it for low level tasks specifically because of this unicode stuff, and they tend to tell me I should just suck it up.

I suppose I'm morbidly glad not the only one feeling the pain, but really, it honestly feels like python 3 line is just not making any effort towards making this stuff easier and simpler. :/
They worry over them after takeoff until they ascend beyond range and once they descend into range.

I'm assuming they don't worry over satellites in orbit but they might have some concern if one decides to come back home.
Two things strike me as sad:

1) This type of reckless, non-violent, anti-social behavior in young males has been quite common for all of recorded history. It's a shame it has to involve so much money and international crime nowadays.

2) We remember everything now. No more can you do some bone-headed thing in your teens that cost 400K and got you sent to juvenile hall for a year, then move on with your life. Now it's all over the interwebs.

I feel sorry for the guy. Don't get me wrong: this was a lot more dangerous than it seemed to him, and something had to be done. Still, as the author points out, this is a shame.
The high rate of convictions for US Attorneys vis a vis state and local prosecutors stems from the higher level of prosecutorial discretion they enjoy. Basically US Attorneys only prosecute slam dunks. From the same source, you'll not that Florida for instance only has a 59% conviction rate.
Story-telling is important for society.

It teaches us how people might react to situations we are not immediately familiar with, and how to empathise with people (characters) who have a different viewpoint than our own.

And, it teaches us how to communicate our own stories effectively (as you have done here, in fact).

So, I find it strange that you have never enjoyed reading fiction books. It is not necessary to read fiction to gain any particular skill, but reading fiction helps you gain a wealth of skills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling#Storytelling_and_...
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Yes, I suppose that's usually frowned upon during the performance. :)