skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Also, while "Chinese" (Cantonese or Mandarin) are quite complicated

> Not sure what you refer to in terms of how complicated is the language. Phonetics? Grammar? Vocabulary ?

I meant that Chinese have many phonemes, but part of that comes from being a tone language -- and if you're going to emulate singing, you already have to deal with tone change.

However when I think more about it, I really have no idea how phonemes are "tuned" when singing a melody. For a language where tone doesn't carry meaning[1] (or hardly ever does) I would think we simply change tone according to the tune we sing. But what happens if changing the tune of the phoneme changes it meaning? I suppose it is a little like how we must fit the words to the rhythm...

[1] By "carry meaning" I mean in the phoneme sense: how in British English you can have "red" and "read" both be pronounced /red/ -- and there would be no way to answer the question: "Is /red/ a verb or a colour?" (without context). Well you could of course answer "both"...
Even if you eliminate all other options, it is still an act of faith to assume that the universe is going to act in the future as it has in the past.

Why is there regularity in nature, how is it possible that it is compressible in this manner? Belief in the continuation of predictability, is just that, a belief.
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Agreed. I use an HP Chromebook 14 with an Ubuntu chroot as my main machine, and I love the Chromebook, but I have no love for Chrome OS.

It's just too damn limited to be appreciable.
Google demote Chrome full Web addresses hiding feature
Protests against Uber are heating up in Europe
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Afaik neither exFat or fat32 support it -- and they are still(?) popular for flash sticks and/or drives that needs to be shared between OS'.
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I couldn't find the bit corresponding with "6. Was arrested and put in a Philippines jail cell". That links to the section entitled "Retaliation" which doesn't say anything about being arrested or imprisoned. What am I missing?
That's either wrong sample rate or missing the deadline for the audio callback. My guess is the former.
Ask HN: How many devs worked on Heathcare.gov 2.0?
The Wired article doesn't seem to say but kind of implies that there were eight when referring to a picture of the eight as "the team."

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/healthcare-gov-revamp/
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Poe's law is in action here, so I am not sure if you're serious. In case you are, you were not blacklisted for abuse, but the service you were using (the JSON editor) was blacklisted for abuse by the service that was hosting it (rawgit.com)
>I used FAT16 for years and years and years and never had a problem. I used FAT32 for the majority of a decade and never had a problem

>I'd trust ext2 over HFS+.

>Yes, I'm bitter.

Unfortunately not only bitter but bitter to the point of senseless argument just of the sake of argument. Trusting a non-journaled FS over a journaled without error correction/detection is a bad choice, like career-limiting bad. And if you never had problems with FATXX then you most likely never used DOS or old Windows seriously. Corrupted data and specifically corrupted MBR was really frequent back then (like corrupted b-trees on the Mac side)
A lot of research is still stuck behind paywalls. Ironically, the research is often publicly funded. My belief is that public research grants should be conditional on open publication.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-acc...
Have you tried searching for it on amazon's site with the TLD for your country, or the one of a neighboring country? It is available on Amazon instant on amazon.co.uk. I haven't tried playing it yet, though. And I don't know if it would work outside of the UK.
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I think that both your arguments are true.

Whilst our opinions are indeed irrelevant, they still try and influence the discussion.

Why? Because the military-industrial complex has invested vast amounts of public money in technology, contractors and employees to allow them to do just that.

Companies like Booz Allen Hamilton are making buckets of cash selling the government this kind of tech and the contract staff to go with it.

The government buyers are being taken on jollies in the Caribbean and receiving nice kickbacks for authorising the public purse. Next year both parties plan on increasing the budget. And so the merry dance goes on getting bigger and bigger every year.
The repo is here: https://github.com/jdorn/json-editor

A working demo (although also on rawgit): http://rawgit.com/jdorn/json-editor/master/examples/css_inte...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_14...
> For example (I work for a Swiss bank). I can easily remote access my desktop from home, or, if I have my laptop and token with me, from any other location in Switzerland.
There is no way to access the systems from outside Switzerland.

Can you remote access your home desktop from outside Switzerland? :)
And if you are already using Celery, it has crontab feature http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-t...
Yeah I've seen hosting companies in the past use sparse files for virtual machine storage - all is good unless, or until, they overcommit.

At which point you have filesystem-soup..
It's good to see you back to blogging on your own. I read
through your list of recent stuff, but I hoped to see something
about any of your historic computing efforts?
ZFS is not limited to your concept of a file system either. Any change is represented by the addition of a series of one or more blocks, which can be seen as direct equivalents to blobs in git. ZFS is copy-on-write, so you can always reference any particular content change regardless of what file it was called when you made it. Compression and deduplication are handled almost the exact same way as you'd expect.
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Nice link! Thanks.
> The original business was established under Karen’s name and we switched everything over to the corporation a few months down the road.

Did you meet Karen physically before or just began to trust her virtually.
Your taxes (if US citizen) paid for the research and it was peer reviewed for free by (I believe) academics in the public service but we all know the immense burden and expense involved in typesetting and publishing the results in print or on the internet. At least that is how it appears. The solution to this scandal lies with the researchers themselves.

The price of information
http://www.economist.com/node/21545974
For what it's worth, for all the people I never told that I thought this to be true. I told you so :)
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You weren't blacklisted. The site owner was blacklisted because use like this is against the github TOS
Great, thanks for the heads up. Do you think that there is any hope to use ZFS as a full-featured replacement in the future for OSX?
I don't get it. What's so hard about cron jobs that you have to write a wrapper for it? It is easy to understand if you just read the crontab file comment at the top.
There is just two commands:

crontab -l

for listing

crontab -e

for editing. What else do you need?

With this, instead of learning crontab simple syntax, you need to:

- install this package

- learn its API

- run it and still edit the crontab file :D

seems like not worth it.
Its not really that simple, since Ireland is part of the European union. If Microsoft willingly break data protection laws, then the EU court would likely sue Microsoft again.

Given the history of EU court vs Microsoft, and the market size of EU vs US, Microsoft has no easy solution to the problem. The US government might pressure the Irish, but would have a harder time against European union (which I suppose is part of its design).
Hey, is there a way this could be done under Windows? Run from a batch file for example?
Hey Mike,

After our connection agreed to have some people stake out her house, we think "Karen's" neighbors let her know what was going on. The next day she appeared at the police station, was booked, and was put in jail.

That didn't last very long, though - I believe she was out the same day with her attorney.

A big sticking point on coming to an agreement with us was that we gave up any interest in pursuing the criminal case against her. That's a bit weird, because criminal cases come from the government not us, but I think the lawyer knew nothing would come of it if we left it alone.
As far as I can tell, the main issue here (ignoring jabs about the NSA, M$, etc.) is the difference between a warrant and a subpoena. US law enforcement would like to have their cake and eat it too, using a novel warrant-subpoena hybrid. With a warrant, law enforcement officers are the ones that search and seize the documents or data outlined in the search warrant. In a subpoena, the party being served is compelled to produce the documents themselves and testify in court.

In this particular case, it seems obvious that a warrant is inapplicable, since US law enforcement officers don't have the authority to seize Microsoft-controlled data located on servers in Ireland. If Microsoft had instead been served with a subpoena, they would be required to hand over any documents that they had access to, regardless of the data's physical location. However, there are strategic advantages (for law enforcement) to favor warrants, since they're much harder to challenge, and that treaty obligations with foreign countries might restrict the kinds of data that can be retrieved from overseas servers.
Not remotely as cool, but I was working on a modular synthesizer lib [1] based on the js node audio API.

There's a small demo [2], based on an older version of the lib, which can be played using the keyboard.

[1]: https://github.com/zenoamaro/audiokit
[2]: http://zenoamaro.github.io/audiokit/
The url should be prefixed with `cdn.`

http://cdn.rawgit.com/jdorn/json-editor/master/demo.html
The "EU court"? What do you mean? The European Commission?
We'd never met Karen when she was working for us with our mortgage company.

A few years later we hired her and a couple of other VA's to help us with work. As we started to ramp that out, both Joe and I flew out to the Philippines to meet up in person, check out office space, etc.
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I have updated it to mention that Plan 28 is moving along despite the silence. There's a guest blog post coming about the work. Basically, there are two people (one is Doron Swade) working on interpreting Babbage's hardware description language (which is vital because a lot of the Analytical Engine is described using it). They are doing this using the language and the Difference Engine No. 2 as a "Rosetta Stone".

The work is being funded by a major donor and through a major university. I'll say more then I can.

Plan 28 still needs money. Mainly to extend work on the AE from two people, two days a week to at least two people full-time.
Most modern media does error checking, and usually error correction as well. This isn't primarily because the media is unreliable, although that is true. The main reason to do ECC is to increase the capacity of the media. Having ECC able to cope with a reasonable number of bit errors allows the bits to be crammed closer together on the media while still being reliable.
First of all, the role of that executive would require a business need to access the data at all. Banks are really big on compartmentalization and the most important principle is that a bank employee can only see, let alone modify, data as far as it's required to do his or her job. This also applies to top executives.

It's unlikely that an US top executive has a valid business reason to see Swiss data when visiting the country. If such a reason exists he can surely see it, but it's probably illegal to take the data out of the country in any form. (I'm guessing here, but Swiss criminal law is quite finicky on the issue of bank secrecy).

If the top executive tries to asshole his way into the data (as in: "hand over the data, or you're fired") any halfway smart employee would immediately inform compliance, where a whole cacophony of alarm bells would go off.

As for IT professionals. Sure, a lot of foreign IT professionals work for Swiss Banks. But the need to access actual customer data is very, very rare. If the need exists, they can surely see it, but only from within the country's borders.
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Based on the screenshots it seem KDE devs tone down their interface to simpler visuals (icons, colours, shades and all the blingbling I usually associate KDE with).

Is that the trend for the next iteration of KDE ? (I like it)
I'd like something like this for XML.
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Haha trying to talk about .ai and .psd files with programmers is always funny :)
I agree. What is the alternative? Are the 26 files silently bad or does OS X say about this? Is Ext2-4 better than HFS+, is NTFS better? For sure ZFS is better... but is any of this standard file systems better (NTFS, EXT)? Is there any research? Maybe he would also get 26 bad files with NTFS and EXT3. This whole article is blurry for me.
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Same thing for me. I use Firefox as my main browser and I think it's far better than Chrome, but its native developer tools are just very confusing so I'm sticking with Canary as my development browser.
I am from Spain, when charging you should take into consideration various aspects:

1. 21% of your fee goes behind taxes.

2. If you want to work on your own you have to pay each month around 250€

3. If you are going to live there, you should also consider paying the social security fees (around 1000€/month more).

More input:
A house keeper charges between 10/12€/hour,

A particular teacher charges between 15€/hour.

A computer forensic expert charges around 100-150€/hour.

Mechanics charge between 30-50€/hour.

I would recommend between 75-150€/hour depending on the amount of hours. If you are going to stay in their office and work with them around 8h/month I would charge between 5-7k/month. 1k/week should be fine.
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Ok that's the amazingest answer you could give to my question! Very cool, it doesn't look so bad.

In my mind this style should be the default for error handling when coding (i.e. I'd prefer to push the choice of using .unwrap or not to the caller)
Slightly off topic: Would httprouter + negroni be a reasonable replacement for Goji?
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oh guys, you have so much humor! (speaking FOR the comment)

I in fact started actually reading the article only to be let down that it is not about an alternative to git. Remember the times when there was a correlation? Welcome to the tricking-each-other-into-reading-stuff age.

I want to keep the right to believe that an article is a long version of the title, thus keep the right to comment on the idea held in the title as if it was the content. Don't forget that there could always be a longer version.

And considering the title only, the comment does have its place. Now go downvote me too.
The EU Commission brought the case against Microsoft in one of the EU courts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_compet...
In many cases a few examples and type signatures are enough for the intermediate Haskell user. Virtually all packages for Haskell are free software though, so you can of course contribute documentation if you feel there ain't enough, because obviously if the current Haskell users don't need more docs they won't write it.
Why not use Android sticks instead? For $60 you can get a quad-core with 2GB RAM, USB + HDMI + WiFi + BT and passively cooled. You can place dozens of them on a single rack. What would be Chromebook advantage here?
Because mostly you are just shelling out. Also you can't just use any mac addr as some bits are reserved, e.g. multicast.

But you can collapse that as so or suchlike:

ifconfig eth34 hw ether $(openssl rand 6 | xxd -p | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/:$//')

Obviously doing this is wrong anyway but that will do what your script does.
I guess I should have read the comments on this post: http://steve.grc.com/2010/10/28/instant-hotspot-protection-f...
> It's like someone saying "Mehh I don't like calculus ...
why don't these mathematicians make it just easier?

Actually, modern textbooks do exactly that: they try to find pedagogically better ways to teach this stuff.

And sometimes newer developments really simplify things.

All that apart from the simple fact that mathematics and the user interface and user interaction are not even in the same ballpark.

Your comment seems a bit lazy to me. Just not in a way you expected to.
The register has coverage of this one at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/23/taxi_rage/
> Even if you eliminate all other options, it is still an act of faith to assume that the universe is going to act in the future as it has in the past.

Well, everything is a belief then.

Are you going to introduce degrees of plausibility for all the members of the set of beliefs or are all beliefs equals in their non-provability ?
http://www.idt.mdh.se/kurser/ct3340/ht09/ADMINISTRATION/IRCS... Page 8 and 9 of this analysis of file systems. NTFS and Ext3 would not be better. The problem the author describes is more and more a hardware problem. No standard filesystem will automatically repair bad blocks.
I guess rawgit should change its strategy: they instruct people to not link to rawgit.com but to cdn.rawgit.com when you expect heavy traffic. The thing is that you have to read their instructions, which is probably not what you see when you receive a link to them. So you share that very same link, and if you share it on HN it crosses their threshold. Maybe they could use a redirect to their cdn URLs when such threshold is crossed, reverting it when some time is passed.

Beside, the redirect or a gentle message would be cheaper than serving evil.js and evil.css.
- Compiler internals cleanly exposed

This exists in clang!

I'm not sure I get this one:

- Constancy as an attribute

Does it mean read-only variables such as "const" variables in C/C++?
Yes, they have a new design project: http://wheeldesign.blogspot.fi/

Although in my opinion their work hasn't exactly been a huge improvement so far. It's just a flatter coat of paint with the same issues that already plague KDE: inconsistent padding and spacing, terrible organization (think system settings) and so on.
Whenever gem does the same thing. So you can keep it under version control with your project.
Your Attention Please? Human-Rights NGOs and Global Communication [pdf]
Yeah, we are using that as well. It's nice because it hooks up to your Django admin and people with the right permissions can reschedule stuff.

I don't see any use case for Plan, it's just complicating an easy task.
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Ars Technica also has a in deep review of HFS+. It seems HFS+ deeply trusts the hardware in finding errors on disk: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/ BUT all normal filesystems like NTFS, Ext2-3 are no difference there.
32 ARM chips in 4U seems very low to me, just in terms of the TDP a 4U rack is able to dissipate at present. You could increase density a lot.
Without "(with the correct encoding scheme)" this is not a proven fact, i.e. it is not known whether Pi is a normal number [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
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I have seen Navying jobs advertised for more than development ones in the UK ;-)

For those who haven't worked in civil engineering By Navey I mean ground workers.

All technical jobs in the UK are looked down on unfortunately.
That's not a capped plan. A capped plan charges you more if you exceed a specific bandwidth threshold - no matter what you spend the bits on. As long as Netflix, Comcast PPV, Youtube and my private cat videos get charged the same price - I'm fine with that.

The issue you're pointing out is the lack of net neutrality - but that is orthogonal to the pricing.
What's the problem with having those on external buses?
Feedly down: Denial of service attack
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Though the title of the paper was shortened by yours truly to fit on HN,
the paper is actually about tech rather than politics.

Hypothesis 1: Global news media attention will be heavily concentrated
on a few NGOs.

Hypothesis 2: The distribution of global news media attention among
NGOs will correlate closely with the distribution of organizational
resources among NGOs.

Hypotheses Three and Four make the same predictions but with respect
to getting the attention of individual citizens via the Web and social
media:

Hypothesis 3: Global public attention on the Web and in social media
will be heavily concentrated on a few NGOs.

Hypothesis 4: The distribution of global public attention will
correlate closely with the distribution of organizational resources
among NGOs.

Hypotheses Three and Four lie at the crux of the current debate.
Though many observers would acknowledge that Hypotheses One and Two
are likely to be true, the premise recent enthusiasm about the Web and
social media is the supposed democratization of communications. If the
Internet is indeed democratizing NGO communications, then Hypotheses
Three and Four must be false. If they are true, on the other hand,
then the promise of the Web and social media to provide improved
access to the global public for all groups especially the less wealthy
and powerful in society may turn out to have been an appealing
illusion.

Abstract

"Historically, NGOs have relied on mainstream news media to expose
human rights violations and encourage governments to pressure the per-
petrators. Thanks to the Internet, NGOs are crafting new strategies for
conducting information politics. Despite the obvious democratization of
access to the means of communication, however, the new media may in
fact represent a more challenging environment in which to be heard for
some groups seeking global attention. We draw on agenda setting research
to develop a theory of global attention competition and use it to explain
the success of 257 transnational human rights groups at generating at-
tention in both international mainstream news media and social media
outlets. We conclude that most NGOs lack the organizational resources
to compete effectively for either traditional news coverage or for public
attention and that the Internet is unlikely to resolve the problem of global
communication."
Something out the ays material science gets reported is broken. It's hard to distinguish between things that are theoretically possible and those that are in production now. Cost of production is also an issue.

Can we make a pencil out of this stuff. What would it cost?
Yes how many of the respondents where actual working professionals as opposed to students and so on.
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Yahoo locked me out of my email account
When I created my Yahoo mail account 15 years ago, they forced me to put in an alternative email. Since I had none, I put in something like "dont_have_another@anywhereintheworld.com". Today Yahoo told me that for security reasons I have to confirm my account via the alternative email "don...@...". There was no way to circumvent this. So I clicked "ok". Now Im locked out of it and someone who owns that domain has received a password reset mail for my account. Damn. There is a lot of memories in this account. I feel terrible.
I hope this trend continues. Mainstream desktop environments sort of lost their roots. I never wanted widgets, I just need to organize my windows!
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