skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be easier to simply have a smaller cup? I mean, this is clever, but seems a tad impractical.
Exactly. Self-driving cars could increase use of public transportation; order a car to pick you up and drive to the nearest bus/train/subway station. Ditch the car because it can take care to park itself/do whatever is next.

So if car-commuting is as terrible as the article thinks it is, and mass transit is more pleasant, it can help with that.
Indeed. Reed Solomon coding (maybe only available in system software, not disk hardware) gives you efficiently balanced striping+redundancy
I read your website for 5 minutes and still have no idea what you're offering. Can you summarize in a sentence?
nice little jail overview
The fact that features can be learned means we could see the emergence of machine learning methods that could be used by anyone with a technical background, not just ML experts.

That would be a big deal IMHO.
What does "smh" mean?
Pi Trademarked (Sort Of)
I'd wish someone would look into LGBT refugees as well and not just from war zones.
Transgendered from Russia are having an insanely hard time living there.
I can't find any website for your company. Care to share more details?
I wonder if this is competitive with the Intel graphics on their cpus. Intel gpus are not exactly stellar.
I honestly don't know how anyone could make a living by writing books these days? Besides the obvious; like publishers don't pay like they used too, your book will
be traded on p2p? Oh and what to write? Let's see, If you
have a child's mind you might be able to come up with the next Harry Potter, or some psycho babble self help book?
I don't know, but am always saddened by what Americans
do read. I didn't read the article, but stay away from
vanity press(Bertram Capital--Author's solutions).
I think you're confusing deep learning with strong AI.
How about correct everything inside these parenthesis/brackets? Or indent everything within these brackets? Or do a search/replace over only the next paragraph? Or Title Case everything up to the next colon/semicolon/quote? Read the contents of file <x> into my current buffer? Format everything within these two matching quotes?

Every movement is composable with every action. There's a lot of movements, and a lot of actions. Delete three lines is the simplest possible command, but it's hardly the only one.
I agree about the importance of walkability and public space. On reflection, it is possible that self-driving cars (and their ability to go perfectly from point to point) could make walkability economically redundant, which would be very damaging, as you say, to health and happiness.
>Levison was simply opportunistic and inept

Actually, by far the simplest explanation in this case is that Levison supported Snowden's actions and wanted to back him up.

I mean, he sacrificed his company -- his baby -- for this case, even though he had complied with multiple prior government requests (usually relating to child porn, from what I recall).

Clearly, Levinson went through a period of fear and doubt, but the only consistency was his refusal to give up keys that would reveal Snowden's communications.

Can you explain why you are convinced it's opportunism and not idealism? Because unless you know something we don't, Occam's Razor in this case says that Levison was simply being a Snowden supporter, to the point of sacrificing his livelihood. In my book, that makes him a patriot.

Sillysaurus: yes, he knew the court order was for Snowden, since it specifically mentioned him by name. Also, I believe that an edsnowden@lavabit address (or something similar) was on GPG keyservers everywhere. So it wasn't hard to guess. And in fact, that address was soon revealed to be Snowden's in a public document from his lawyer sent by Wikileaks (accidentally).
And clearly it isn't your's either.
Facebook and Google both still have tons of PM's.
Show HN: User-friendly full directory encryption with GnuPG
Most recent, but not recent - 2012 Q3 - add two years of 17% per annnum.
I need that terminal and color scheme, Where can I get it?
I'm particularly fond of Nano. :)
When writing documentation. The mouse + delete is not as easy when you're doing non-trivial movements, such as "replace everything between these matching parenthesis"

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Moscow blocks military functions of U.S. GPS stations on Russian soil
https://springpad.com/blog/2014/05/springpad-says-goodbye/

"As part of closing our business, a portion of our team is joining Google."

So those are the facts. My probably inaccurate opinion is an acqui-hire gone somewhat off the rails.
The opportunism I'm referring to was setting up Lavabit in the first place, as a web-based email provider that made expansive claims about security that it couldn't possibly back up.

It's easy for me to understand why people think Levison is a hero. They think Lavabit was a noble, useful offering, and that government intervention is the only reason it failed.

To understand my position, you need to know that Lavabit's architecture was almost comically unsound; it claimed to protect the privacy of thousands of users, but all the weight of that claim was borne by a set of keys Lavabit's operators had total control over.

Online privacy tools don't need to work like this. They often do, though, because transcending this pitiful security model requires that users install software. Nobody wants to install software. Not to mention, most of the people who want to build and offer these tools don't really know how to build locally-installable software.

There's nothing wrong with lacking the competence required to build secure messaging software. Most people do. Observe that for all the nitpicking about crypto that I do on HN, I haven't launched a tool like this either!

But there's something very wrong with lacking competence but then going ahead and releasing something that users will stake their freedom on anyways.
That is a copy. Here is the original video from the original channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb5N2wpYRJg
They should at least reduce the number of housing locations where owning a car is necessary, which might get more people thinking about non car modes of transport. But that depends on how expensive they end up being to utilize on demand.

I think there are lots of people that believe they will need a car some of the time and end up doing their planning in the context of owning one. Cheap, on demand access can change that thought process.
Check out http://haskelllive.com/environment.html

I don't use Syntastic, but haskellmode-vim and ghcmod-vim integrate nicely with ghci, and neco-ghc gives autocompletion.

I don't use tags files or other project-level stuff, the above is good enough to get started.

Also once you have ghcmod-vim you can map a key to tell you the type of an expression:

au FileType haskell nnoremap <buffer> <F12> :GhcModType<CR>

It does take some work to get all these things installed, however.
Was Snowden public knowledge when Levison was first served a warrant? I can't remember. Levison was served with a warrant very quickly. Are you sure his actions were to protect Snowden?

EDIT: I meant, were Snowden's actions public knowledge when Levison was served the warrant? Not merely Snowden's name, but the extent of what he did?
Ha. When I saw this on the RSS feed, I thought you meant "where did all the good product managers go?"
software bugs, ability to be hacked, snooped upon by NSA, also go along way.

I'll take my chances thanks. Road deaths have been falling for years, despite the number of cars rising. More people die from accidental falls.

As a software developer, there's no way in hell I'd trust a car driven by software.
King of Fearmongers: Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center
Rejecting an improvement because it's just "too much code" is... brilliant, disciplined, and extremely difficult to do. Such a high percentage of software development is maintenance, and it's easy to underestimate that long-term maintenance cost.
Don't Fear the (Great) Filter
" The basic summary is
cursoring around required a
higher level of mental
planning to organize the
interaction, which apparently
obscures the perception of
the passage of time--think
of being deeply engaged in
something and being
surprised when you look at
a clock-- whereas the use of
the mouse was done at a
lower, mechanical level that
left the mind free for higher
things, such as complaining
about the mouse."

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Mouse_vs._Keyboard/ind...
Theory-testing in psychology and physics: a methodological paradox (1967) [pdf]
I mostly use TrueCrypt for cross-platform directory encryption. With all the uncertainty about its future, I started thinking about how to replace it with a more trusted encryption utility. GPG works well for individual files (in Emacs, encryption and decryption occur transparently), but not for directories. I decided to try using the common filesystem mount-unmount model and adapting it to GPG-encrypted tar files. The resulting prototype zsh code is in the linked gist. Seems to work for me, and has enough error checking to avoid clobbering data (but I'm sure it still has bugs).
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Excerpts of Meehl 1967: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/4sSbzwnP...
TL;DR Margate only slightly stranger 4000 years ago than it is today.
Wow, and it is available in multiple formats. Thanks
I'm New Here
Java – SwingI18n | Internationalization library
404 not found now?
Answered upthread.
Business programmer here, I get to use whatever editor I choose on whatever OS I choose so currently I use Sublime Text 3 on Ubuntu and I've been testing out Atom (though I find it quite slow.)
In China, you can buy the scripts to Friends with the Chinease translation printed below as a learning resource.

I knew a guy at university who had an ok understanding of thw english language with a fairly Chinease accent, but would occasionally say strange slang informal words that no one has said since Friends aired.
I hope to someday reach the level of expertise the author of this post has... for now, though, I think I'll stick to playing CTFs.

Fantastic work, even if (s)he didn't find the vulnerability her-/himself.
As a long, sad trail of people have learned the hard way: never slight British spelling on HN. :)
Is Google CEO's "Tiny Bubble Car" Yahoo CEO's "Little Bubble Car"?
320% would mean you find 3 wrong bits each time you read the disk.

I was calculating the expected number of wrong bits per full read of the drive.

You calculated the chance of a perfect read which is similar but not the same.
We make a few (mostly B2B) SaaS products for college bookstores. Namely:

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Each of these are part of the ecosystem of college textbooks and we've really helped turn struggling bookstores around in the face of, e.g., Amazon.
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They'd have to, right? The narrative about Levison resisting court orders is established in a detailed opinion from the 4th Circuit, written by a judge who was confirmed unanimously by the Senate in 2008.
Well, in theory it should be true.
Snopes suggests that story is a little inaccurate:
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp
Amusingly, I dismissed the original Apple Mac when it came out, because it couldn't display 80 columns of readable text.
Same here! Would love it and make me actually attend conferences.
Just because you don't have a formal role an unspoken org chart will arise and someone will be acting more as a PM than others.

when you aren't trying to build a lasting product, and are hoping to get acquired after a few rounds of funding its pretty easy to not have product managers.
Visual languages for the web
You probably mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryder's_Law
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The first thing that grabbed me about bazqux was just how fast and responsive it felt to use. The second thing was that it was the closest replacement to Google Reader I had come across. I'm still using it.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7827524
Thank you for the insights. Why would Levison refuse to comply with the government order and shut down his company? If he was an opportunist, the opportunistic action would've been to comply with the secret order while keeping his compliance secret. Users would've continued to trust Lavabit.
Follow up:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7830737
Extreme pair programming Guy Steel and Stallman
Just confirming that 80 characters is an idiotic and arbitrary "standard", propagated by nothing much more than cargo-culting

"Oh but it fits my screen, fits two-by-two on my screen" change font size, unless you're using the native 80x25 PC display (some kernel developers use that)

I can't imagine a worse use of developer time than making everything fit exactly inside 80 columns

Of course, not having a limit is bad as well, but the main issue is having a hard limit
Looks less like it though, as there's definitely a postmortem being given about the ebb and flow of freemium/revenue models: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/05/28/five-lessons-for-co...

This begs the question: figure it out later once you have a lot of users or figure it out with a small number of users and then try to get a lot of users?

Obviously not that simple, but curious.
It looks like Elm has this?

http://elm-lang.org/learn/Records.elm
John Dee and the occult in California
Pretty lame algorithm. I'm more a fan of base 2 and you count your L using your R fingers, then do a simple register transfer from R to L and continue the count on your R register, err, fingers.

Also they lamely demanded knowledge of counting as a pre-req whereas implementing a simple binary adder (count) is pretty trivial. Essentially every finger is a toggle flip flip aka a divide by 2 feeding its MSB neighbor.

I am not ashamed to admit in moments of extreme boredom I've implemented a 5 bit, even a 10 bit binary counter using my fingers on a tabletop. Aside from screwing around once I got good at this in my starving student / retail employee days I would occasionally count stock when accepting deliveries this way, which highly confused people, I usually did one hex per hand and paws held upward your LSB (aka highest count frequency) is your pointer finger which works well.

You can count easier without using little finger but then you're stuck with two octal digits and that really freaks people out. (octal... its a DEC PDP thing...)
Sorry if I am sceptical but I don't really believe your claim that you were able to obtain a sound working knowledge of calculus from the Principia.

For one thing, Newton barely makes use of calculus in the textbook and instead opts for geometric methods. And even with that, he is not rigorous at all because rigor hadn't been discovered yet. I wouldn't even put it on the same level as modern textbooks since so much had yet to be discovered about calculus.

I would not recommend the Principa to anyone except for historical interest. Everything in that book has been said more concisely by other people in the three hundred years since it was published.
I've tried twice to make a shirt on Zazzle, neither time using copyrighted material, and both times, having my custom shirt rejected for copyright violations.

Whoever runs that department is being compensated or measured the wrong way. They are overzealous, have a naive understanding of copyright, and make it complicated to appeal.

I wish Zazzle would pay attention to this and ease the reins here. The law isn't ambiguous with respect to copyright, and they are probably creating more liability for themselves by enforcing overzealously and erroneously.
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It is pretty ambiguous. But I think the reason to believe in religious sacrifice is because there are also animals and other valuables there. The arrangement of the bones should tell you whether an animal has been killed and buried whole, vs. eaten. If you're burying sheep without eating them, religion seems more likely.
It doesn't seem he has tried taping this out as an ASIC yet. Unless you fab the circuit in the same process as Intel uses (which you won't be able to do unless you work for Intel), any performance comparisons would be pretty meaningless.
OpenDNS kills its typosquatting operation
Nothing running on an FPGA that implements a GPU architecture / instruction set will be competitive with any recent Intel graphics.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7827524
Because "opportunism" and "principle" exist on spectrums. Opportunism prompted Levison to release a dangerously flawed privacy tool. But once that flaw threatened to compromise Snowden, circumstances crossed the threshold where principle required him to contain the damage he'd done.
Most introductory discrete mathematics textbooks should cover basic graph theory.
Square has Product Editors.
Would you please make a post to HN when the challenges are back up for newcomers? I could also just send you an email and you reply when you can.

Thanks.
It's certainly no less violent, also Cthulhu is just as feted and worshipped now as then.
So, Emacs has the same ability to compose commands as Vi. If you want to delete a sentence, then you do:

(set-mark)
(forward-sentence)
(kill-region)

If you consider holding down bucky bit keys to be command-mode, then it's:

C-<spc> M-e C-w

I don't see how this is any different than giving "d" an argument, other than it's three keystrokes instead of two, and the fact that there's a region leaks. (Of course, in vi you still have to enter and leave command-mode, making the total number of keystrokes greater in this particular case.)

All said, I don't get this article.
i think what he means is, down time isn't a big deal since recovering from back up is quick enough in his case. I never found raid 5 particularly helpful because:
#1 hard disks tend to fail at the same time
#2 systems fail to give warnings on bad disks ie everything is working, no red flashing lights, things go boom, restart, just kidding, lol you got 2 bad disks.
#3 redundant servers > redundant disks for uptime
#4 cloud

but thats just me and my use cases

edit: when i use raid, i use raid 10 or raid 0
Not really. Intro calculus hasn't changed much in the last 100 years beyond becoming more and more streamlined.

Although in a newer book you might see more modern applications and maybe some more streamlined proofs.
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