skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it does not sum up what it does. "Terminal" is from "terminalis" meaning an endpoint to connect to a computing device. (The terminal itself does not do significant or interesting computation.)

From Wiktionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/terminal

Etymology

From French terminal, from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”); see term, terminus.

6. (computing) In the context of computer hardware, a device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.

7. (computing) A computer program that emulates a terminal (6).
Apple did something similar in February when they published a pretty extensive document on how security works in iOS to explain how securely iMessage, TouchID, code signing, etc. are setup. Apple takes security quite seriously and they seem to want to ensure everyone knows it.

http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.p...

Apple also seems to be opening up a bit. The lack of secrecy gag-order on most of the WWDC information was very surprising.

The pessimistic view (which I'm sure has factored in) is that they're only publishing such things to poke at Google.

Google can try to post some similar information but in most cases they don't control the hardware so they can't verify as much of the chain. On the other hand if Google is providing access to someone they may not be able to publish such detailed information and Apple can play the "Where's your document" game.
Are you taking into account inflation adjusted cost?
Not necessarily — if you require the user to type in "old password" and "new password" when they change their password then you have both passwords in cleartext at once and can check for similarity.

You wouldn't be able to enforce "cannot be similar to the previous 8 passwords" like that, but they don't.
Thing is, for orbital flight, you're adding a lot of sideways translation in order to achieve orbital speed.

In the case of the Saturn V, the first stage (S-IC) sequence completed after 2 minutes 41 seconds, at an altitude of 42 miles (68 km) a speed of 6,164 miles per hour (9920 kph). It continued ascending ballistically to an altitude of 68 miles (109 kilometers), ultimately landing 340 mi (550 km) downrange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#S-IC_sequence
Traditionally Apple has been a very secretive company and wouldn't publish information that wasn't strictly necessary to many people.

They've been easing off that recently (which is a serious plus), although I'm not sure this information would have been censored before, maybe just behind the developer paywall where most people couldn't easily see it.
Who would have imagined this just a few years back!
I suspect it's a very simple calculation based on mutual followers.
Funny because wasn't the shuttle-c used for military missions and it has almost no wings.
I've seen a similar thing with related services (mainly Google - although they appear to have removed it for a 'ping' now). I'm not exactly sure what causes it, but my browser gets stuck on "Waiting for t.co...". Refreshing the page just takes me back to the page I clicked the link on.

The fact that t.co don't have global servers probably doesn't help, in Asia and Australia ping times to t.co are 250ms+. Even in Europe it's over 100ms.
That's just one way of looking at it. An acquaintance of mine who is also a HR guy once told me its in a person's best interest to keep hopping companies every ~3 years at least.

Working at one company for a long time can be interpreted in many different ways. More like a person, who isn't excited about looking for new opportunities. Or a person who is just lazy to not make a move etc etc. Also if you stay at a company for a very long time, unless the company gives you a generous raise every year your salary will be way behind market standards. And if you are OK with your work being valued so little for so long, it only means two things either you just agree that your work or contributions aren't very important to be paid enough, or you are just lazy. And both are negative indicators.

Its pointless to show loyalty that spans across 1.5 decades to a mega corporation where the boss two layers above probably doesn't even know your name, let alone the work you do. No wonder they don't blink twice before letting go some one. As much talented you might be, and how many algorithms you've memorized or how many nano seconds faster you can make a program run.

I fail to understand why anybody would stay so long, its like setting yourself up for a big meltdown sooner or later.
Is it just me, or did the title cause anyone else to wonder if this was real or a parody of TextMate 2?
So, if they're there for diagnostics why aren't they disabled by default, requiring user intervention to enable them?
> I’m already following those who I want to follow - why insist I follow that short list of others?

Money.

Edit: If you think about it, it's a poorly implemented solution to some problem. What was the problem?
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal

A computer terminal ... is used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system.
"TIL" has more memetic meaning behind it than the full phrase spelled out.
"in the works" is a bit premature. Isn't 3 still a beta?

The race for 2020 President of the US is in the works too, if your bar is "someone is thinking about it what it might be like."

[original title was "Sublime Text 4 In The Works"]
Give http://Runnable.com a shot too :-) It's 100% free, and will remain so.
The article expects you to know that $125/hr is way below the normal rate for a criminal defense attorney in a major city, which I would expect to start at about $300/hr.
Isn't Sublime text 3 still in beta?
I use Google AppEngine for hosting WebApps. Lets me focus on the applications and the environment is robust, scalable, etc. You can run the AppEngine SDK on Mac, Linux and Windows so you can use whatever environment you are already comfortable with.

If you really want to get down to the hardware, consider CoreOS.
Hmm, now that is a great point that I had not thought of.
The article mentioned it takes 5 hours. So 1/2 a day of work (and $625 of billings) to answer a single question.

From my experience with lawyers in a lawsuit, there where lots and lots of little questions. Eg they'd ask what I meant by a sentence in an email between me and the defendants.

Also, am I the only person who finds it just fucking amazing a prosecutor should be able to read emails between a defendant and his or her lawyer?
Welcome to Hacker News, where every article is wrong and contributes nothing.
http://www.sublimetext.com/3

> Sublime Text 3 is currently in beta. The latest build is 3059.

Yep. Which makes this announcement extremely odd.
and $300/hr is for the medium ones. If you're looking at serious time and have the resources, you're probably paying $500+ for an attorney experienced in criminal defense trials and your type of claimed lawbreaking.
CleanLinks: https://github.com/diegocr/cleanlinks
It works with most obfuscated links
>>I don't get whz he should be unemployable anywhere else..

Your ability to get work done has nothing to do with getting a job.

Getting a job depends on clearing interviews. These days that means live coding over shared sessions, all kind of crazy math and puzzle questions, getting grilled over esoteric corners of CS, and your regular tests of algorithm wizardry.

If you haven't interviewed in 1.5 decades. Its very likely you are going to go through hell before you find something you like.
I have been using Java for a really long time. I have never seen a "AbstractAdapterFactory" anywhere. Ever. Disclaimer: never did any J2EE BS.
Hang on, they have a single developer who is also the director? Yet they sell the IDE for a hefty sum with a healthy amount of "known" users https://sublime.wbond.net/stats - if they even have 10% of these are paying customers they should be able to afford more staff.

Sublime must be the most mismanaged profitable company.
Is there a way to use the file_relay capability? Documents?
Better title: Sublime Text is still alive.

The synopsis seems to be that development is continuing, there are long term plans, but that development is slow and will probably continue that way at least until 3 is released (which there is no date given for).

So basically nothing has changed :)

[Edit: Title fixed to be less link-baity. Thanks!]
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I was listening to NPR recently and there was an interview with a former Clinton administration official [1] who mentioned almost in passing that prosecutors regularly infringe on the right to privileged conversation between a defendant and their lawyer. Specifically, he mentioned that the room you are given with your lawyer has paper thin walls that the police and prosecutor folks can hear through easily, and when in jail there is no way to have a real private conversation with your lawyer as well.

[1] http://wfae.org/post/webb-hubbell
Is the demoscene a good place to get into graphics programming? The prevalence of older methods leads me to believe one could learn in a similar progression to the graphics gurus of today, moving from simpler old methods with performance and size optimization to modern techniques?
I'm a very well paid software engineer.. I apparently can't afford to hire a qualified defender if I find myself in need. I figure a defense is a minimum of 500 hours, so even at $300 that's $150,000. I have no idea where I get that type of money from.

Our justice system is severely screwed.
I'd say almost always it's the soft stuff: Respect, stress, suitable challenges etc. I know very few Senior Devs who've left a great place to work just for more money.
Well, I for one thank you for that. Personally, it inspires my trust in conversations there by virtue of knowing where I'm going WRT links. And perhaps plays a role in making the conversation... "feeL" a bit more open. Important things, for me.
The announcement isn't odd. The bullshit HN title is.
The latter. George Takei makes Facebook money by making it more engaging. Facebook wants more celebrities to see what George Takei is doing so they do it too.
It's just another case of people using new technology as an excuse to encroach on rights. Ridiculous and absurd, but I wouldn't say it's surprising that it happened.
Don't companies usually need to pay ycombinator to place ads on HN? Please stop suggesting anyone is interested in closed source software.
and no-constraints gave us 4chan.
Plenty of HN users are: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sublimetext#!/all/sort_by_date/0/s...
libimobiledevice has support for it (see filerelaytest.c):

http://www.libimobiledevice.org/

edit: com.apple.mobile.house_arrest also exposes much more than you see in iTunes; there are various applications to use it, such as iExplorer.
This is why I started using DuckDuckGo and only hit up google as a very last resort by adding !g to the search term.

I'm not usually this militant, but that Google link dark pattern truly pissed me off.
They don't enforce paying for the editor. Those users may or may not be actually paying. You're right that it does seem like they could afford more staff. But its also pretty clear the guy who created it wants to write code and not deal with the other parts of being a "company" (see lack of public responses/updates). He created it, so he can market it/develop it as he sees fit.

I admire what he's done, and respect his choice if he's really not expanding because he likes to code and doesn't want to deal with running a business. But I also now use Vim because I didn't trust Sublime's future.
Code doesn't make a fledgling currency. The brand does via the demand that brand creates.
While a client might balk at paying 5 billable hours for a jailhouse visit to answer a single question, would a public defender face any career risk from billing the state as such?
>She seemed to take particular offense at an argument by a prosecutor, F. Turner Buford, who suggested that prosecutors merely wanted to avoid the expense and hassle of having to separate attorney-client emails from other emails sent via Trulincs.

Would it be that hard to specify one e-mail address as a "priviledged address" (with a signature from the lawyer about such) and filter out those? It's really surprising how people can go to court and argue such claims.
This guy makes PCG art:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonathanmccabe
http://vimeo.com/jonathanmccabe/

He does interesting things with fitness functions that try to vary the entropy across different regions.
DotPeek 1.2
"...budget cuts no longer allow for that, they said."

Is the amount of money being spent on prisons in the United States really shrinking?

Honestly, I have no idea.
That's likely true, since DC motors need either permanent magnets or energy-wasting field coils. But motors are only a part of the energy-usage picture.

Ideally, we'd distribute "last mile" power as DC, and devices that really need AC would handle the conversion themselves. For instance, a polyphase inverter that's designed to drive a specific motor would be more efficient than a general-purpose single-phase inverter of the sort being discussed here. So even motor-drive applications could still be a net win for DC distribution.
Introducing the Redesigned Mobile Commons
More info on underlying tech please
If Messi Sneezes, Would You Care?
> Elementary topology shows that a good decision-making process is equivalent to managing by metric.

I have not checked the proof, but I think what the author means by "equivalent" is that it comes up with the same result, without regards to computational complexity, much less human and organizational psychology.

I would not expect the computational and informational costs to be the same for both. Shifting the order of computation may not matter, functionally speaking, but can affect efficiency in many cases. For example, some decisions are easier to make if you can defer gathering detailed information until later in the process: for example, you can prune low-scoring alternatives cheaply at the beginning.

Humans also often need to dig into a problem in order to explore the parameter space. This is roughly analogous to "knowing it when you see it."
> Yet in the real world, many people oppose metric-based management.

It seems to me that few organizations and even fewer people use mathematically rigorous decision-making. Some people realize this, some do not. I think some people oppose metric-based management out of self-preservation -- it involves hard thinking and some degree of formalization of their criteria. Specifying your criteria can box you in and give you less flexibility.
Wage Stagnation Is No Illusion
Gosh, then it must be impossible to delete a tweet!
While I don't know how readily Dominion conforms to the definition of "procedurally generated", it's interesting to consider how its lessons can be applied to creating unique experiences in repeatedly-played video games. The game is always built on the same foundation of rules (expansions notwithstanding) and every game has the same goal. The difference in each game is the selection of actions available to each player, and the thrill is in attempting to compose a more effective sequence of actions than any other player.

To make this interesting, you need both a very wide pool of potential actions, and the mechanics of each action need to be designed such that feedback loops arise naturally.

Dominion gets off easy here, as the "medium" through which different cards interact is the very simple system of resources: actions, gold, and buys. You can create an enormous selection of cards just by having any given card grant some unique combination of these three resources, and then attempt to balance the card by dialing up or down its cost. It's all very abstract, and that eases the burden on the designers.

But how do you do such a thing in a video game, where actions are usually not abstract, but specific (and as a result, limited in number)? What medium of interaction do you exploit to create the game-breaking feedback loops that are the delight of a Dominion player? Better still, how do you make it so that the interactions between actions are subtle enough that game-breaking strategies are non-obvious, making them a joy to discover?

Off the top of my head, you could start with a game that already has a huge number of actions and create a replayable game mode where you limit the number of available actions. Let's use MMOs as a concrete example. You could just take World of Warcraft, assemble four five-man parties, and then present each party with the same randomly-reduced selection of the game's classes, where each class is limited to only one or two of the three talent trees, the class' usable abilities are pared down, and the talents within each talent tree have been shuffled randomly. Each group then races to assemble a functioning party and see who can down the most bosses in a non-randomized dungeon. And instead of instancing each party, you could just pseudo-instance them: for instance, downing a boss makes that boss unavailable to kill for any other group, rewarding groups who made hasty party selections (but punishing them if their hasty selections slowed their ability to deal with the trash mobs leading up to the boss).

I dunno, I suppose it could be fun with enough effort.
I looked into this a while ago, when I was replacing the pump on my swimming pool. This is a bit of a special case, as there are gains to be made from using a variable speed drive. Whilst a variable speed drive may increase electrical losses, the slower water flow may reduce losses due to turbulance by a greater amount, leading to a net increase in efficiency for volume of water moved.

As far as I can gather, for variable speed motors a brushless permanent magnet DC motor is more efficient for small power applications (< 1-2kW), but as the power goes up, a high efficiency three-phase induction motor with a variable-speed drive become more efficient than the DC motor. A high efficiency induction motor has extra copper in the rotor, to reduce resistive losses.

For fixed speed applications, you'd think the above variable speed performance would reflect the performance for a DC supply, as the DC supply requires switching in both cases. For a three-phase AC supply, you'd think the induction motor would win, due to the absence of switching.
Question: the article does not directly mention the "independence of irrelevant alternatives" (IoIA) concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_irrelevant_alt...

I wonder if the author's assumptions imply IoIA. I am inclined to think so, but have not proved it.
Transacting in US dollars accomplishes the same thing, with far less volatility. In fact, transacting in any commonly exchanged currency does (US is the global reserve for this reason - you can exchange US dollars for any currency on the planet - notably Chinese currency - easily).

Moreover, there's no benefit here: dealing with separate Bitcoin services removes any end-user guarantees. If I send money from Australia to England, Paypal Australia has to deal with the Australian government and the British government to obey consumer law. With a Bitcoin exchanger, once the BTC is transferred you're at the mercy of whatever local exchanger you use at the destination.

Paypal wants to stay in both countries, which means there's an end-to-end legal protection for both parties.

The open-nature of Bitcoin is irrelevant. The USD is pretty damn open.
Unless you plug the device in, unlock it using your pin code/touch ID sensor, and say "yes, trust the computer I am connected to" these won't be accessible.
Except it's a setting with what one might consider 'shitty bundling tactics':

i.e. "Notify me about additions or changes to my games, new releases, and upcoming releases."

I only want the setting to apply up to the first comma.
Its Pride Month What legal matters affect same sex marriage?
Curious, what do they use to create these machines? Is there some sort of open source package that allows you to create elastic machines?
+1 form Runnable. I love how well they run terminal in browser.
i'm aware of transferable objects, but it really defeats the purpose of parallelizing analysis of the same thing if that thing becomes unavailable to read after transfer. it would be great to just tell a worker to read a specific bounding box from an existing canvas without having to give up the canvas entirely or copying the bounding box contents into it.
I think the biggest problem with information from the Sublime office is that it's "just words". My take on this situation is that perceived activity were driven by software updates and presence in the forums. Both stopped a fair while ago (well, one release the last 6 months: http://www.sublimetext.com/3dev).

The forums unfortunately also deteriorated to bickering between the "you're paying for future promises" and "you payed for a working editor up to date". Why people bicker at all is beyond me, but I guess both camps has enough opinion to engage.

All in all, Sublime Text is excellent software – just as
TextMate was (is, if you prefer) – before the business of "one man bands" most likely removed fun from the equation.
If launched from Texas, would they have to move side to side to land the first stage in Florida?
If it wasn't a Facebook app, I wouldn't expect it to know that.
How to Compare Two Word Documents in Your C# / ASP.NET App?
LXC or Docker. You can resize a container by changing the parameters on the cgroups.
My read of that was that it's inefficient for the government to pay one person 5 * $125 / hour to keep another government employee from getting access to information that could have been transmitted, read, and responded to in a matter of minutes.
A 500 hour billing for defense would be pretty serious, so if that's going to be a problem for you here's a heads-up to ixnay on the crime you're committing that's going to require brand-new Supreme Court-favorable legal theories for acquittal. That's over 3 months of 40-hour weeks dedicated to just your case. I know lawyers bill like crazy, but still.
Does multimillion dollar Chinese investment signal Detroit’s rebirth?
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I had a Sanyo CP/M machine in the early 80's. I couldn't believe how fast Turbo Pascal ran compared with the Pascal compiler on the DEC VAX 11/780's we had at school.
S3 is great. You can also use this shell script if you like to make the site faster (minify your css/js, compress images, gzip html):

https://github.com/stucchio/Homepage/blob/master/pelican/dep...
It's pretty amazing how much press this guy got for nothing.
You might also be interested in a browser extension I made to try and make Twitter more readable.

It hides promoted tweets, 'trending, and 'who to follow' boxes, and adds a 'temporarily hide all retweets' button. It attempts to counteract the myspace-ification of Twitter by toning down colors and removing custom background images, and swaps the timeline and dashboard so you can shrink the window and still see content. It also hides the beginning hashmarks so sentences with hashtags are easier to parse.

For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readable-twitter/l...

For Firefox: https://github.com/rajbot/readable_twitter
That price is just for the lawyers time too, there's many other costs like billing for photo copies, calls, court fees, couriers to deliver registered mail, everything is charged unless quoted a flat fee from a McLawyer.
The previous title was changed, mercifully.
Ethereum is more ambitious than being merely a fledgling currency. It's a fledgling civil infrastructure. That's a pretty big responsibility. Forks and threats of forks are a way to keep "brands" honest.

And speaking of brands, everyone likes "free"!
I remember back in 2005-6 when I thought that News Feed, Events and other stuff introduced to Facebook was a bunch of cluttered junk. If I could have seen into the future then... the horror, the horror!