skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An idea I've had, the answer is most probably no, but I found it interesting to think about, others may find it trivial:

Is there a number that (1) contains most subsequences and where (2) finding a certain subsequence is computationally efficient? Also, (3) finding a subsequence given a starting and end position should be efficient. If so, we have a efficient mean to transfer data. Just send the index positions. And we can store any data with just those two index positions. Then again, those index numbers are likely to be very very large. Perhaps we can in turn transform the index positions to smaller index positions by finding their positions in the sequence. Then we need a third number to signify the number of recursive uses of the storage.
I was a part-owner and later a mod on a quite big forum (>500k registered users, etc.). There were many people who always claimed that others who disagree with them are paid shills -- I happened to know that they aren't at all.
«From the police POV, a child was left alone in a vehicle that was later driven off by someone else».

No "someone else", but the very same woman: leaving the car, returning back to the car. The same woman, not someone else. Unless the good samaritan has deceptively shown just the last part and told the police he (or she) saw a different person leaving the car with the child inside.

The issue here is not car theft, driving license not matching the car owner, or whatever. It was instead a good samaritan evaluating as criminal/dangerous the fact that a mom left his son alone in the car for few minutes. And decided (when she came back) to call the police to...? Check if the child was fine? Whatever.

It takes few minutes to check if the car was stolen and/or the owner knows that someone else is driving it.
Alibaba to buy out UCWeb in China's 'biggest' Internet merger
Is this the State of the Art for grammar checking on Linux in 21st century?
This is a philosophical question about knowledge, what it is, and how we arrive at it OR it's a linguistic question about the meaning of the word 'knowledge' and what it implies.

In summary: It is not possible to determine the cause of an effect when you only know the effect. For instance, the theory of evolution is not certain because we can't go back and check if we are correct in our assumptions. So how can it offer knowledge if we can't prove it's true?
This has to be bullshit, right? Surely, the Inertia alone would kill people? and wait, I thought we didn't know of anything that could travel faster than light?
Singing is probably harder to mimick than speech, because words need to be pronounced according to a melody and not just their standard pronunciation.

> 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'm not sure if they're particularly complicated from the point of view of emulating singing?

The pronunciation in chinese is not as detached/split as in Japanese, that's for sure. This being said, it's certainly possible if you put sufficient effort into it.
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This tool has been unnecessary since VS2013. I posted some background info and links about it and MS' apparent attitude reversal back in Nov: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728226

The actual commit: http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=16381923fb7b908...
Even Toilets Aren’t Safe as Hackers Target Home Devices
Mexican here too. Please send me an email at kike@devf.mx, I'd love to connect you with a friend, he did exactly the same steps you're trying to achieve few years ago.
Hatsune Miku is quite fascinating. She/it also sort of puts William Gibson's "Idoru" in perspective -- the book came out in 1997: http://www.amazon.com/Idoru-William-Gibson/dp/0425158640

Relevant clip from wikipedia's summary:

"In the post Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake world of the early 21st century, Colin Laney is referred to agents of the aging mega-rock star Rez of the musical group Lo/Rez for a job using his peculiar talent of sifting through vast amounts of mundane data to find "nodal points" of particular relevance. Rez has claimed to want to marry a synthetic personality named Rei Toei, the Idoru (Japanese Idol) of the title, which is apparently impossible and therefore questioned by his loyal staff, particularly by his head of security, Keith Blackwell."

[edit: While Hatsune Miko's first release was in 2007, although she is portrayed as being 16 years old]
I can attest as an American in Berlin -- Germans are VERY serious about their privacy. this is especially true when related to the network/internets.
BTW the funniest thing about Goldman Sachs Switzerland is that they do not accept US customers as they are considered 'toxic'.

Practically no Swiss bank accepts US customers at this time. This can be quite a hardship for US citizens living in Switzerland. But they deem the risk just too high and rather forgo the business.

To clarify what your Goldman friend meant.

Swiss banks are obliged to keep customer identifiable data ring fenced and within the country. That is, it can't even be processed offshore. It has nothing to do how the entity is setup legally.

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.

Singapore, btw, has comparable laws and also ring fences data for use only in Singapore.
It was a bit tricky to work with Halide. The Halide code itself is beautiful, but it depends on LLVM which takes forever to build and link, and I ran into some snags with Windows support. I originally wanted to write the whole algorithm in Halide and run it on the GPU, but it turned out that the Halide language isn't expressive enough to implement a Hough transform. I had to write that bit in C and I'm currently only using Halide to do some more straightforward image processing tasks like edge detection filters, blurring, and resampling. It works really well for that though, and performance-wise it runs rings around the naive nested C for loops that I would otherwise have to write.
Not sure about contractors, as there doesn't seem to be the market here like there is in London or other large cities. For permanent positions, you can get up to 40k euros per year with experience. I haven't seen much more offered than that.
Are you employing the ideas behind reactive programming? And can you explain the types of monads you used for what problem and why? I am writing a paper on Functional Reactive Programming and Haxl really made me curious. The paper (currently in german, but I'll translate it) proposes a new Hypothesis that tries to shred FRP in general, by showing a novel way that solves some of the problems automatically that naturally occur with FRP.

I am really interested in seeing how you solve problems for distributed systems with Haxl and how query sharding is handled etc..

I've wasted a whole day looking for Haxl online a few weeks ago, just to find out that it wasn't released yet. The release really makes me happy :)
It's not that hard to get started: https://github.com/zofrex/gradle-template-android-robolectri...

And the Robolectric team adopted Jake's plugin, by the way: https://github.com/robolectric/robolectric-gradle-plugin

Also, it is going to get better. At the moment one of the biggest issues is that there is no way for Gradle to expose extra sourcesets to the IDE, this is a limitation of Gradle and not just the Android plugin I believe, and the tools team want the Gradle build to be the single source of truth. They are working to get that added to Gradle (and they have made a lot of positive changes to Gradle already as they build the new tools), and then things like Robolectric will be able to hook in with the IDE just fine.
Every other great startup that's building something cool, something innovative is being acquired by Google, Facebook, Amazon and so on. Aren't we going to see the next Google or Facebook, because they are all being acquired by, well, Google or Facebook :|
I guess its Indian avatar of Amazon prime :)
I do use Debian for my desktop. So? I still have Australis. The themes don't change that fact.
London cabbies need a bit of competition. On the one hand I sympathies that they are being undercut by people who have not got the training or experience that they have, but then they do have a monopoly to themselves at the moment.
Fundbox's Service-Based Infrastructure (Python)
Hell, even Britain - looking around at junior dev jobs at the moment, and the salaries are in the region of £25-30k (ie, $35-45k US).

Perfectly livable, of course, even in London (for comparison, the median wage is £20k, or $30k in 'real money') - but then I read stuff on here about people walking out of a bootcamp into a $80k job if they're in the States - and the tone of voice isn't the one I'd be adopting for that kind of money (UNIMAGINABLE RICHES!) but "you're getting ripped off because the boot camp boss has handed you off to one of his mates".

Of course, the 'social wage' is higher over here with universal healthcare and the like. But not that much higher.

EDIT: Sterling's strong at the moment, it turns out, so add $5k to all those dollar values. Looking at the history, it seems I took my stateside holiday at the pound's two year nadir. Just my luck!
Mostly technical article about CSS opening with explanation of what CPU and GPU are and where they are located. I'm very surprised that those two terms even need explanation.
Don't get caught up by the word "structure". It's just a simple term I used for the purpose.

The actual subject here is the tension load, the word "structure" is just the most convenient term for it.

(But in any case a hollow pyramid would certainly be under tension. You would need an arch if you wanted pure compression.)
Good app.
It is funny, easy to play but hard to pro :D
I like it
Where does he live? It makes a huge difference if he lives in a farm house in the middle of a field or if he lives in an apartment building in the middle of a a large city. If you live in such a way that the only way for me to see your network is to sit in my car in your driveway, then perhaps. However, from the comfort of my sofa in my living room i can 'see' at about a dozen different wifi networks (and by extension at least a dozen people can see my wifi network from their sofa).

That kind of changes the math a bit. I don't want a dozen people torrenting off my network, not because I'm afraid of getting in trouble, but because it degrades my ability to use my network.
clojurescript + core.async?
how is that unique to zfs?
(1) Yes, 0.1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526....

(2) I'm too lazy to do the calculation right now, but it should not be too difficult to calculate the sum of the lengths of all numbers smaller than n, and then you've got the index of n.

(3) In any feasible encoding, the expected size of the start index of n will be much larger than the size of n. And every recursive step will just blow up the sizes even more.
It seems 'cheap ARM linux platform more powerful than a Raspberry Pi' is the chromebook's primary use these days.
Are CAs keeping pace or is it just a myth?
How are they fighting the "wrong battle" when complying would be a breach of Irish law? If the US DOJ is so keen on this data, they should get the Irish law enforcement in the loop.
Like the idea and the article, but was astonished by this:

> daily things that improve your life in small but beneficial ways, like flossing, meditating, or tracking your weight

Ok for meditating, maybe. But flossing? Tracking weight? I'd say obsession with hygiene and fitness is very detrimental to one's quality of life. I'd find hundreds more relevant ways to improve one's life in small steps: Eating good unprocessed food, Having an aimless walk once a week, Gardening, Reading books written more than 50 years ago, Listening to the music you like, etc.

I don't know what to do with this remark. Maybe our Amercanized civilisation has an exagerated focus on body hygiene. Something that once saved lives (doctors and nurses washing hands often) became an obsession the makes many people miserable (brushing teeth trice a day, removing any form of pubic pilosity, flossing, weight-watching).
One way is to eliminate all other possible options. I'm not quite sure that the evolution example is a good one. We have the opportunity to observe some parts of evolution.
Yes, in fact, we used to convert ext2 to ext3 with one single command:

tune2fs -j /dev/<device>

This adds a journal to the filesystem, making it ext3. In fact, you could mount ext3 as ext2 (you probably still can). It would just not replay the journal.

The same is pretty much true for ext4, it primarily consists of extension for ext3, but forked as a separate filesystem in order not to destabilise ext3. You can mount an ext2 or ext3 filesystem as ext4. You can mount an ext4 filesystem without extents as ext3.

It should also be noted that ext2 is strongly influenced by UFS1 (FFS), which has been around forever.

ext[234] is not a modern filesystem. However, it is very well understood and stable.
No more IPv4 addresses in Latin America and the Caribbean
E.g. Ryan Dahl uses Linux and has objections towards OSX. I trust him (and others) and I use Ubuntu on a MBPR (Linus likes 13inch screens with high res & low weight... he actually has a Mac Book Air). Now Ubuntu is maybe okay but for a professional SW-developer/hacker there are a couple of more roads to go down with (BSD, myriad of Linux distros / devices). There is a Mac standing in our living room and if you are an iOS dev ofc. Better than Windows in my opinion.
Not easy as in everyone has access to a __trusted__ VPN tunnel server.
MAn you like to run you mouth. A a Netflix/Comcast customer, I'm already paying for that bandwidth. Netflix shouldn't pay more because Comcast is too lazy to invest in their infrastructure.
Then the people in the US would be sent to jail for contempt of court. Doesn't make sense, but that is how it works.

The court's argument could be that MS should be required to design their systems to make it possible to comply with their requests.
So they're huge numbers, but still pretty small in comparison to YouTube which claims to have 100 hours of video uploaded every minute [1] - meaning they probably have at least several millenia of stored video... wow.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html
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Why would you want to be a porn star?
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That would be handy if I could grab a league snapshot or something.
Interestingly protest comes right after former first in class Hailo opens up its service to private vehicles (just as Uber)
Happn : Find those you’ve crossed paths with.
Every year some ancient artist becomes a photographer. The last time it was Caravaggio using mercury salt and a pinhole camera setup.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/11/caravagg...
I would think Microsoft has the upper hand untimely. They could always take the nuclear option and stop selling the government windows or something drastic like that.
One of you missed the point. The reason ECC is suggested with ZFS is because all of the other features (RAIDZ and checksumming in particular) don't do any good if your data gets corrupted in memory. This is true for all filesystems, but most of them don't try as hard to protect your data in the first place.
The reason why ZFS didn't plan out were simply because it was using too much CPU and Memory.

I am not sure that is the reason. Apple did already announce it at WWDC after all. ZFS on OS X was announced in June 2007. In September 2007, NetApp sued Sun over patents violations in ZFS.

It's likely that Apple didn't want a patent suit after adopting ZFS as their main file system. 2007 Apple was of a completely different size as 2014 Apple.
Can someone give interesting stats out of this mess ?
It's not like this is obfuscated code. I clearly mentioned this is untested, and it turns out it contains a major bug. But it starts a conversation, and made me learn about that significant bit in the mac address, should I pay a fine for starting a conversation?
Cross-browser support for SVG (with image fallback) using CSS
There may be a technical restriction but what prevents a top US executive from Goldman from traveling to Switzerland an accessing the data?

What about IT people? Such companies generally bring in IT professionals for projects from other entities such as the US headquarters.
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In finance, the US pressuring people in arbitrary jurisdictions is considered completely normal, though they've been overstepping themselves of late by wholesale interference with intra-EU transactions conducted by European private citizens, by collaborating with Israel to pressure Europe to block Iran entirely from SWIFT, and by showing their cards by financially blockading Wikileaks without any form of trial or due legal process whatsoever.

With the news here confirming that communications area resistance is beginning on commercial grounds... and from well funded pockets like Microsoft's... a ray of hope exists that the whole tide may be beginning to turn. The truth, ladies and gentlemen, is that we can choose freedom - the natural result of decentralization, encouraged by the jurisdiction-hopping internet - or we can have a feel-good, artificial, dangerous kind of centralized-power-billed-as-safety: one, or the other. It is pertinent to remember what Benjamin Franklin said: Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Julian Assange's strong statement in Cypherpunks that we are galloping in to a new transnational dystopia is certainly correct. Yet it is also true to say that, with massive transnational corporations even so blindly led as by the profit motive, commercial interest in reaping the custom of the decentralized masses actually aligns with the disempowerment of rogue nations acting continually in defiance of international law and other jurisdictions' right to self determination (such as the US) and instead acts to benefit the preservation of basic digital freedoms for the many.

It's far too early to see what kind of world we will pass on to the next generation, but we are at least blessed to live in interesting times.
I wonder: If we would have known terrorists would target subway systems in the future, would we have abandoned their construction?
I'm in New Zealand. For giggles I tried running this test from my TV via Chromecast. I expected terrible results. Instead I hit 4300Kbps somewhere around the point where the dude was doing the sweet moon walk whilst e-mailing his grandmother. Since then it's stayed right there.

At least, I assume it was his grandmother.
For future readers, I found that after installing gpgOL Outlook then refused to start (and I had the same problems on multiple computers).
Outlook Privacy Plugin works but has some bugs (it's still massively in beta) and the author seems responsive to bug requests posted on the github page.
That is using the 'official' rate, which the rate the central bank forces(if you transfer money to argentina, the central bank will keep the dollars and give you pesos) you to sell your dollars to(about 8.05). But you cant buy dollars from the central bank, so you have to get them 'illegaly', which is between 11 and 12 pesos per dollar today.

Thats what the OP refers to with black market exchange.

Disclosure: I am also Argentinian
It's in no way efficient (and is obviously a joke -though one with compile-able and usable code), but piFS [1] kinda does what you want...

[1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs
I don't know about (1), but (2) could be achieved by scanning through the first n digits and building a lookup tree. If we restrict ourselves to Pi then (3) could be achieved by either just keeping all the digits in memory or using the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula [1], which allows the nth digit to be determined without needing to calculate the preceeding digits.

Your're essentially describing a compression mechanism. As you might expect, this isn't a new idea [2] and it generally fails because (as you said) the index quickly gets large as the size of the block of data increases - basically destroying any advantage for non-trivial block sizes. There is some discussion of the space trade-offs in [3], and I wouldn't be surprised if the speed of this approach is poor when compared to conventional techniques.

Another problem is that it is still not known whether number like Pi actually contains every possible finite sequence of digits [3], so not all input blocks can be compressed. In practice, this shouldn't be a problem for small blocks though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe_formula

[2] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pi+compression

[3] http://penduin.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/pi-compression.html

[4] http://www.askamathematician.com/2009/11/since-pi-is-infinit...
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Yeah, but does yours do v92? If you don't get the two bongs during connect then you're missing out ;)
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The quote is wrong: ZFS checksums both the user data and metadata in a Merkle tree, optionally using cryptographic hashes (i.e. SHA256).
Even as a Mac user, Safari completely has vanished from my radar. Apple seems too slow to adopt the latest web technologies and Safari to me is a completely lackluster browser. It has neither the market share of IE nor the raw speed of Chrome nor the versatility and configurability of Firefox.

Safari does not work on anything but MacOS and iOS, so developing for it requires additional testing.
So Microsoft US would tell Microsoft Ireland to do something and the local management don't do it why would Microsoft US be in contempt of court?
Thanks, been interested in the language from a distance for a while now.

Can't claim to know what a Hough transform is, but do you think the lack of expressiveness can be fixed without interfering with the tricks that make it work? It's still a language under development after all.
You are getting old
All knowledge is contingent; when the facts as I understand them change, I change my opinions!
If companies like Microsoft adopted end-to-end encryption wherever they can for their services, this would be less and less of an issue. The users from a certain country wouldn't need to "trust Microsoft" anymore then, because there would be nothing to trust them with. In the same fashion, governments wouldn't need to try and force Microsoft to build local datacenters to keep the data there. When the service is trust-less, such policies aren't necessary.
The unknown, unknowns make that tricky.
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Sounds like something from Alan Parsons Project :-)
I didn't like it.
I was "Blacklisted for abuse" for no reason. Unless you define adding a redundant comma by mistake as abuse. (؟)
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Heh, same here. If everyone who accused someone of being a shill was right, then everyone would be a shill, almost. Hilarious stuff, literally insinuating that someone had built up a reputation on a tech magazine forum over half a decade to shill products. In fact, I think in the years I was a mod/admin, we banned maybe one "shill", and even that was debatable and mainly because they didn't post any relevant information for anything else.