skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can still see an advantage in stacked charts when a key piece of information is a sum of components. In the example on site, the data seems to be a proportion, and so there's really no purpose to stacking the lines because the sum is constant.

One could still depict totals as separate lines on a stacked chart, but for subset sums, a stacked area chart helps show how the sum is composed.
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I agree that the learning curve for tikz and latex is greater than word. However I think it is disingenious to say that tikz and latex are no different when it comes to the initial and/or MWE learning curve. In my opinion tikz's learning curve is steeper. For starters there is no tikz equivalent of:

$ nano mydoc.md ; pandoc -t latex -S -o mydoc.tex mydoc.md

Pandoc drastically reduces the initial learning curve for latex and beamer.

That being said tikz was one of the packages I thought was noticeably absent from the nine listed packages. The other package that I would add was fontspec, in fact I was shocked to see microtype and not see fontspec mentioned next.
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Overstock keeps 10% of bitcoin sales in bitcoin: http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/24knns/table_iama_im...
Is using an LCD monitor "cheating?"

I got a perfect score but am neither artistic nor fashionable.
Ben Shneiderman wrote an interesting essay entitled "Beyond Intelligent Machines: Designing Predictable and Controllable User Interfaces", that explained why he is strongly opposed to suggesting that computers are 'intelligent' or 'smart', and suggested better approaches to human computer interaction.

https://code.google.com/p/micropolis/source/browse/trunk/mic...

He wrote that back in 1992, and I think it's still very relevant now.

Limits to Imagination

I think we should have much greater ambition than to make a computer
behave like an intelligent butler or other human agent. Computer
supported cooperative work (CSCW), hypertext/hypermedia, multi-media,
information visualization, and virtual realities are powerful
technologies that enable human users to accomplish tasks that no human
has ever done. If we describe computers in human terms then we
run the risk of limiting our ambition and creativity in the design
of future computer capabilities.
I'll bet we could add a header to fix the problem, similar to the way RFC3514 fixes DDOS problems at the TCP layer.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
I call this the slow feed movement :)
For anyone new coming to latex instead of messing with unicode bandaids and worrying about fonts they can just use xelatex/lualatex and fontspec.
What's the issue with RAM disk to address your concern about "no disk"?
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The real service Coinbase is providing is the conversion of bitcoins into government currency. I can't think of an immediate way to decentralize that, because moving government currency between people requires centralization (short of mailing physical cash, which obviously has its own issues).

It's fairly trivial to simply accept bitcoins in a decentralized fashion. That's just what normal Bitcoin transactions are.
Just download and then use profile manager to open them.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

This way you can open as many firefox as you want.
> His tweets don’t, unfortunately, appear to reveal any link between Perdana and this mysterious string of DDoS attacks. We’ve reached out to Perdana for further explanation on that score, and will update this post if we hear back from him.

Uh...maybe the OP isn't a tech writer, but don't Perdana's tweets, at least the one with the XSS exploit, explicitly reveal a link to the DDoS? If it forces an auto-retweet, then everyone tweeting at once would seem very much like a DDoS
I found it very easy to tell it was a computer. Way too many emoticons for a real person.

It also seems to have problems with slang.
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For the people who use Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/), I'm curious to know Alfred's advantages over the native Spotlight (which IMO works fairly well) or other similar apps like Found (https://www.foundapp.com/) or Quicksilver (http://qsapp.com/download.php)?

Oh and to add my two cents to the OP's question:

HyperDock (http://hyperdock.bahoom.com/): Windows 7 functionality to preview individual windows
I think there would still be a need for "files", ie, a way to store a self-contained document format in memory that is independent from the code that is working on the data at one exact moment: to allow moving documents between computers, but also to allow updating the software in a safe way (ie without losing data), to save older version of a document, but most importantly IMHO to be able to create snapshots that can be safely reloaded in case of a system crash. We're not ready to have systems that can't be rebooted.
The problem is the client. With a client that does proper encryption, you could store your data on one of the huge TV screens in Times Square and have complete privacy.

A server should just be a dumb, transparent container. Whether it's Github or some custom-made "super secure" server doesn't matter. The real magic happens in the client.
Which BART station in the city offers parking? If I live in in the Marina/SOMA/Sunset, anywhere why would I drive 10 miles south to park my car?
It could reduce the amount of data a smartphone needs. I'd like to keep a copy of my local area in my google map and then have it check in once a week to look for changes.
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What kind of low life do you have to be to do this kind of crap ? Is this what "hackers" do these days ?
I wonder why nearly every self-hosted alternative RSS-reader here is a web-app; isn't using a desktop-application desirable? Like Firefox, Thunderbird, Liferea[1], Akregator[2], and probably lots of OS X applications?

[1] http://lzone.de/liferea/

[2] http://www.kde.org/applications/internet/akregator/
Low resolution high frame rate CMOS imagers are quite inexpensive.
Think about the oculus rift, movies/media might become a lot more complicated as VR or VR like technology comes of age. Or if its not VR there might be some other technology.
Area charts differ from line charts though in that they emphasize the cumulative integral under the line. In your weight example, in general the total of your weights on each day multiplied by the number of days is not a meaningful statistic (except perhaps to the operator of the elevator in your building who is tracking cumulative strain on the support cables). An area chart makes sense if the product of the x-axis and y-axis units make sense.

Data continuity is a secondary concern; there's no reason not to have a stepped area chart, which is the union of a set of adjacent bars representing discrete measurements. And sleep hours per day do accumulate nicely over time, so an area-emphasizing plot does make sense (sleep hours per day * days = sleep hours). It lets you look at two parts of the chart and assess 'did I get more sleep in this period or that period'.
I think iterating quickly is great for product decisions where you don't know how people will react. Technical decisions, however, can be objectively evaluated up front given the right experience. I don't think a migration from a monolithic system is particularly exceptional.
You know a lot of programs that know how to use memristors?
Besides a no true Scotsman fallacy here why do you think Microsoft is not innovating?
until an AI can answer this:
define something abstract (e.g. emotion, intelligence).
and be able to answer follow on questions without sounding like wikipedia, there is no chance the turing test will ever be passed.
> A well-run centralized system will always be more efficient than a well-run decentralized system, by virtue of having less overhead.

That's a circular definition, unless you have some objective way to measure how "well-run" a system is other than just measuring its efficiency.
Not sure why he was downvoted, xml is a trade off for developer convenience. A trade off we were willing to make because we had disposable bits.
Energy usage is the huge one - if this is applied to computing and not just storage then maybe.
That's a fair assessment. I drank the LaTeX koolaid >15 years ago when I didn't even have a clearly compelling reason to do so. Now back in school working on a PhD, and wondering why anyone wouldn't use it. How quickly we forget our learning pains.
CPU's may end up looking more like GPU's with thousands of registers.
A smartphone could have an onboard map today. It's a conscious choice by google to make it work the way it does. Look at TomTom or any other navigator (and possibly some smartphone apps too) that come with integrated maps.

That service is just grafted on there, it's not a necessity.

It's the google way of doing things.
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I agree with your comment about laws (the same criticism applies to AirBnB, incidentally). A well run society does not, or shouldn't, simply allow companies to pick and choose which laws they will follow.

As to the remarks in the article about entrepreneurialism, taxi drivers are mostly pretty entrepreneurial. The medallion system that run in US cities and some others keeps drivers from operating as freely as they might, so drivers usually need to work for a medallion holder, and it is the medallion holders who are reaping economic rents, not the drivers. And it is precisely these economic rents that Uber hopes to capture; it is not aimed at benefiting the public or the drivers.

Contrary to the medallion system, London has no restriction on the number of taxis allowed to operate. In London, many "black cab" drivers are freelance and own their own vehicle, etc. Very entrepreneurial. They get fares by being the only ones allowed to pick passengers up on the street, and so-called "taxi ranks" but can also use the usual phones, etc. They can also use traffic lanes that are normally restricted to buses, which are less congested. In exchange for these privileges, they have to drive vehicles that are wheelchair accessible, have higher requirements of safety than ordinary passenger vehicles, and must pass more stringent road worthiness tests than required of non-black cabs and private vehicles. They are also restricted in what they can charge, as shown on their meter.

The cars using Uber have none of these restrictions and with the advent of the app, being allowed to collect passengers from the street is no longer such an advantage for black cab drivers, depriving them of fares and income, while proving a lower quality service to passengers on average.

In the end, I imagine that Uber will have to accede to local regulations, at which point their ability to make money becomes more similar to what exists currently, i.e. not such a big deal after all.
Guake in GNOME3 was pretty broken the last time I used it (a lot of time ago, it was the thing that made me switch to a tiling WM).
Something changed lately?
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There will always be a place for yet faster memory. Does this compete with the registers and L1/L2 cache in terms of speed?
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I have a sense that the coin toss between KOMA and memoir often comes down to which direction, east or west, provides the shortest route to the Atlantic Ocean.
Yea he's most definitely not a tech writer, he refers to the tweet as a "cryptic line of code" when it is very obviously an XSS attack.
There's a huge difference between the lab and a production model.
Kubuntu constantly ships pre-release software. One example in the current "stable" LTS is this touchpad config panel:
http://imgur.com/JIuCNqg
True anonymity is not a feature or a design goal of Bitcoin. It's pseudonymous, so it's better than a credit card and worse than cash. A lot of care must be taken to keep yourself anonymous on the Bitcoin network, and anyone who cares about that certainly shouldn't be buying airline tickets with Bitcoin unless they have completely disjoint wallets.
That article is exactly why the name should be changed .... the most recent example is from January this year at the ISP level. It's such a pointless risk to take.

In January 2014, files used in the online game League
of Legends were reported as being blocked by some UK
ISP filters due to the names 'VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj'
and 'XerathMageChainsExtended.luaobj' containing the
letters used in the word "sex".[30]"
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Totally bought ten shares of HPQ after learning about that. Who knows, their plan might actually work. Go HP!
Yet another article about HP's future monopoly on computing that doesn't mention PCM, RRAM, STT-RAM, etc.
I think most respondents are missing your point. At heart this is not about Uber or disrupting technologies.
same, if I was lucky it was a half dollar.
Lisp Machines would have become cheap. Similar software divergence would happen. There would be an increased separation from normal people and programmers. Lisp would become a serious thing used by all programmers.

Or maybe another thing like UNIX would've replaced Lisp Machines quickly.
No, we'll just use the same shitty car and theft and property analogies.
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Yes. On Linux it's /dev/shm and it is a ramdisk that you can access from multiple processes.

IPC (Inter-Process Communication) is a known technology. This won't change it much if at all.
Nominet's new rules on .uk domains could mean the end to users' privacy
I think my argument is that we will find new things to store on our PC's similar to how we found new stuff to store on our PC's from the 90s till now.

I guess it is hard to imagine, but let's dream a bit...one ridiculous possibility that I've thought about is consider something like google glass. Imagine recording every moment of your day from your smart phone, and not just when you wake up. Why would you do this? Well, may be there for little things like having a meeting with someone and you want to remember details without writing it down. Why take the time to record it manually when you have the ability to do it in HD, for cheap?

Again, this is hard to imagine wanting to do especially for privacy reasons, but were things like facebook and twitter easy to imagine in the 80s? As things things have changed, so have social norms...I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing, I'm just stating an observation.

So, I happen to not have any HD vids on my laptop at the moment, but I have a normal video on my laptop that is 10 minutes long that is 70 MB. For something like recording video for 10 hours say, that's 6 * 70 * 10~4GB. So, yeah that's about 250 days (little less than a year) on your smart phone at 1 TB ignoring all other things (full seasons of vids of shows, as another commenter mentioned, stuff like raw gps data that could be added to the video, other things), so may be it isn't quite reaching the limit but it's a good example for how as we have more space for stuff, it is possible to imagine finding more things to fill your smartphone's new TB of storage with.
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So much of what you're reading in RSS-reader is web content, naturally you'd want to click through things in your existing browsing experience. At least that's how I view it. I'd like to use a desktop-app but find myself never opening running it and instead jumping to feedly/google-reader etc.

I'd really like to have a desktop-app w/o web service that sync'ed to my phone which I also like to read rss on.
>Perhaps if we replaced the cars with driverless people and the farmers with automated farms, these people should not have to work, because the work is done for them?

Honestly, the only fair way I can see to handle this kind of automation is Universal Basic Income.
Continuing to use the file-system metaphor (Instead of, I don't know, anything else, perhaps some kind of global namespace with built-in versioning like Urbit's) seems like lobotomising this incredible new paradigm before it is even born.
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Is it web scale? Can we make it social?
Xubuntu 14.04, xfwm-whisker-menu bound to Super-Space,

Finding settings: Press Super-and-Space type 'set...'

Gnome 3.x, just about any version, e.g. RHEL7 RC

Finding settings: Press Super, type 'set...'

Windows 8

Press Windows key, type 'control'

Windows 7

Press Windows key and letter R and type 'control'

Seriously, each of us uses what we find best and produces work. Settings tend to be easy to find these days
Exactly. And back then, getting "Steve back full time" wasn't what they were betting the farm on. More than anything, Apple was desperate for a next generation OS. Their choice was between NeXT's OpenStep and the BeOS. Obviously, they chose NeXT.

Now in hindsight, due to Apple's success post Steve's return, many claim that he was the play all along. At the time, though, that wasn't the consensus of people I knew in and around the Apple sphere in Cupertino.
Physical precious metals have some of the worst spreads/fees and friction involved buying and selling compared to other assets.

Stocks: $5 flat fee per trade is typical, index funds charge as low as 0.05% / year.

Bonds: Cheap bond index funds charge 0.1% to 0.3% / year. Buying bonds directly from the treasury carries no fees.

Bitcoin: 0.20-1% fee is typical when purchased online

The only common asset class that is worse in this regard would be real estate, but unlike precious metals, real estate can at least produce income or provide utility while it is held.
Has anyone used this in production?
In thinking of this as a binary question (pass/fail) it feels like we're missing the point. As Kurzweil points out when quoting himself, "By the time there is a broad consensus that the Turing test has been passed, the actual threshold will have long since been achieved."

What we need is more of a Turing "score". The design would be a website (say) where each human participant will be presented with both "defend your humanity" challenges (as a subject) or "judge other's humanity". For the former, you'll try to convince an interviewer that you are human; for the latter, you'll be presented with two subjects, and asked to identify which is human (possibly with a "both human" or "both robots" option).

Based on this, individuals will get an ELO score (like chess) on how often they "win" the contest as a subject, that is, are identified as human (or as "more likely to be human than their opponent").

Computer programs will participate as subjects; the requirement will be that the behavior is deterministic given a random seed presented (to them only) at the beginning of the conversation,is to prevent cheating and allow reproducibility.

On an orthogonal level, participants acting as judges could be scored on how often they are correct in making the identification; and there's no reason that computer programs could not compete on this side as well. And this could even feed back into the score for humanity; you get more credit for fooling a good judge than fooling a bad judge, etc.
That's...it's not...goddamnit. That's what we have drivers and operating systems for. :(
I don't understand how the two could even be construed to be related (the DDoS and the Tweetdeck XSS vuln).

Guy sees vuln, decides to exploit it "humorously" (as humorous as a German can get, that is, heh), and now WaPo is writing about how they're apparently not related?

Why would they be related in the first place? Am I missing something? This seems like a report on the fact that it's cloudy today, which is apparently unrelated to the stock market being down. No shit?
HP hasn't been a startup since World War II
All of them?

It's just another type of non-volatile storage.
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Actually, Google Maps allow you to cache portions of maps for offline use: https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/2650377?hl=en

There are other navigation apps that do store offline maps; the reason they're not popular outside of outdoor enthusiasts is that they take up a huge amount of space. It seems like a reasonable trade-off to me.
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Can't wait to see it: You wouldn't steal a Library of Congress...
So Uber is saying their insurance will cover 125k? This is not an adequate amount of coverage, and they are still shifting any liability away from the company, onto people who cannot afford the consequences. Who pays in a tragedy like this?

There have been many car seizures in the US and abroad. Many of these independent contractors do not have the resources to fight a legal battle without the help of Uber.
Retaining program traces for every program executed on the system.
How about a thumb drive instead of a server farm?
Actually, the cool bit about memristors is that you could treat them like both a transistor for computation or for memory, or flip. Like an fpga.

So imagine the difference in an operating system that could retain its running image between reboots, and not have to distinguish things like stack/heap.

And could reconfigure more computing resources on the fly and back again.

It is... a very different view of computing. Exciting though.
Great! Now if they'd commit to not publicly crucify those contributors over overblown scandals, I might consider giving node.js another look.
Since when is caching a substitute for integration?
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I tried on two different LCD's and got wildly different scores. On big expensive HP IPS my score was way better compared to T530 LCD.
Aren't most of these new drivers former taxi drivers?
Flying saucer, meet duct tape. Duct tape, meet saucer.
Well I was mostly thinking consumer machines, I totally forgot about industrial and lab stuff.

Sorry all.
No. I didn't mean that as a criticism.
The author of the article has no idea what he's reporting on so it's not hard to draw conclusions when in his mind all he sees is "omg two popular internet things got hacked in the same day".

He even calls the obvious XSS attack a piece of 'cryptic code'. This guy is not a tech writer.
I thought something was wrong with Twitter on Sunday. My desktop Twitter client was automatically favoriting and retweeting everything @pmarca said. He joked and said that's how it's support to work, but I was wondering if it happened to anyone else.
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I highly recommend this book to any intermediate Python programmer. This is the book that made me not to get scared whenever there comes thing called algorithms.

Very well written, beginner friendly and great examples to demonstrate algos in action.

Thanks a ton to author for this gem :)
I see the value of this type of service in theory - a good anchor point on which to set pricing for AirBNB listings is useful especially when you are first starting up.

Unless you are hoping to run your listing hands-off and full-time (the "always on" instant book-able listing), however, I think that out-sourcing the pricing removes the control you have over differentiating your offering.

It has been my experience that furniture staging, photography, listing reviews/reputation, and the lister's profile all have dramatic impact on the amount you can charge for what is otherwise a very normal apartment. In this highly differentiated environment, it would be hard to model truly optimal pricing.

I imagine that what Beyond, Smart Host, and the like can do first and foremost is help you maximize occupancy, which certainly has the potential to increase your earnings if you are not a high-demand listing.
That's not a sufficient reason to resubmit so soon.
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