skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asus Zenbook UX* line. Only thing that does not work out of the box with Ubuntu is ambient light sensor. Light, powerful, good (not awesome) battery life (4-5 hours), excellent display, ... Also Lenovo X1 Carbon, but the latest model comes with dumbest keyboard ever.
Structural Parameterizations of the Mixed Chinese Postman Problem
Tor and Bitcoin hide fundamentally different things in their pseudonymity specs. It's like people think Tor is magic anonymity peanut butter they can spread on whichever project they wish.
Hindley-Milner and other type systems do it by restricting the class of programs you are allowed to write. Essentially what they do is if they can't infer the type of a variable they terminate with an error. The class of programs that you are allowed to write is still reasonably big and Turing complete, but as research to make the type system more expressive shows, people want to go beyond that (higher kinds, GADTs, dependent types, polymorphic variants / structural records, subtyping, etc.). Type inference for a dynamically typed language can't terminate with an error if it can't infer the type, it has to be conservative in the other direction: if it can't infer the type of a variable it must assume that it can be anything.
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Try posting at a time when most Americans are awake. Sure, hackers may be a nocturnal species but quite a significant amount of them may still be constrained by the rules of the non-hacker segment of the population. Since HN is an American product focusing on startup culture, it may be safe to assume that a significant amount of its patrons would also be from the USA with only a minority from all other countries.

Also, there is a method of finding people who may share common interests on Twitter and reaching out to them to try and make them try your product.

step 0: create a twitter account (obviously).

Step 1: follow some people in the startup scene and people who report on it.

Step 2: use Moz.com's Followerwonk product to learn (1) who follows them (2) who they follow (3) who they interact the most with (4) what is the ideal time to (a) interact with them (b) they interact with others (5) with the list of (1),(2),(3), repeat until you have found a significant and influential audience.

Step 3: Go through all their contact details and build your outreach campaign around that information. Be polite (after you've asked them precisely what you want from them).

Also, there are some subreddits that may be more conductive to providing feedback than HN. Don't place all your eggs in this.basket();

I wish you would provide more information about yourself, your team, what your product does in text and image form rather than in video and a short text. Write a hundred words about it and how it's different from any other service.

Good luck.

Edit: some typos.
For some things, markets work pretty well. Prices go up, people have a big incentive to supply the good.
"Remarkable that an American realises a world outside the USA exists at all" would be the stereotype :P

(Not necessarily an accurate one; but as a European, that seems to be how the average American is viewed)
A frustratingly incomplete, always obsolete, amazingly effective solution
Yes, but I live in Israel. It's normal here to expect native English speakers to learn Hebrew to some degree. But Chinese is seen as completely impenetrable, more than any other language. People use "Chinese" to mean something they don't understand.

Just two days ago, my postal carrier asked me a question about computers. (She's knows I'm in high tech.) I started to explain things, and she said, "What you're saying is Chinese to me." I said, "Actually, I'm learning Chinese," which she definitely didn't expect!
This looks awesome! Now I won't be able to decide between this, myMail and Mailbox :'(
Can anyone shoot an invite to andrew(at)algorithm.dk?
Thank you!
I love it. They used to say "The only way to know what the Times is free to print anything it wishes is for the Enquirer to be able to do so too."

Ubricht proved we're not dealing with supervillians. Just security experts with lots of funding. Ordinary humans that can be set back using tech just like us.

Their difficulty in proving their case gives me hope that there's still time to make technology a force for good, both within and without government.
Not disagreeing with you, just going on a tangent and extrapolating the point from the article, the third method group, "something you are" might jump into the "something you have" if it can be extracted or copied from you which might be the case of fingerprints. You are the original source of fingerprint, but you leave copies of it everywhere, so then there are several sources to mimick from and they work just as well on these technologies.
It's almost like... statically typed languages!
Battery's important. I'm aware of the keyboard issue on the Carbon. It worries me that they still have trackpad and keyboard issues in 2014. The X1 isn't the only one.
Agree with allowing browsing before signing up. Looks great though. Well done and good luck!
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This is only true in bigoted European stereotypes of Americans. 20% of the country is bilingual. In port cities such as San Francisco or New York the ratio is much, much higher. It's just not that special. Non-Asians learning Chinese is still somewhat special, though much less so than it was in the 90s.
I've had Ubuntu as my primary desktop for about a decade and the regression issue is my biggest one, especially with three monitors. Fortunately it takes me far less time to go from non-booting desktop to something usable these days, but I think that can be chalked up to practice more than improvement. That said, for the most part it continues to run smoothly, provided I wait about a month or two after each release before upgrading. Otherwise, I remain a fan - including Unity.
Here in the UK the relationship between unions and business has always been hostile and unproductive and since the 1980s the unions in the UK have been stripped of any effective power.

I think if our unions were more like Germany's which have board representation and pay determined by collective bargaining - then I'd be more inclined to join.

Another difference between the UK and Germany is what happens to workers when technological innovation occurs. For example there have been strikes by the RMT union against driverless trains on London's underground.

Initially this appears to be counter-progressive, striking against what is an advancement in technology. In Germany these workers would be retrained so that their careers would not be destroyed. The UK does not retrain workers when they are made redundant.
Of course you understand this, but for the benefit of the audience:

HM can do this because it dramatically restricts the allowable complexity of every single name in the program. This is rarely a problem, though, as typically you, as a programmer, only ever intend for names in the program to be so complex. The result is that HM simply ensures that your program is one which makes enough sense all of the time.

Which is sometimes painful for people when they first start.
> May I ask what you are missing from Debian as a desktop ?

When I switched, Debian was in the process of taking 3 years to go from woody to sarge. After that it would be another 5 before etch.

I'm sure Debian makes a fine desktop these days. I could definitely see switching back at some point.

I do like that there is someone who takes decisions Ubuntu; I think that streamlines things in some ways. Debian can get into pretty long and involved flames/discussions about things. Sometimes good comes of it, sometimes it just distracts people from putting out a good OS.
I'm much more amazed that so many people around the world have managed to learn English at a high enough level that they can work and study in it.
I too think he is guilty.

Guilty of breaking non-sense, victim-less laws. Laws that restrict usage of non-addictive mind-altering substances that are much less harmful than other, legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco, medical drugs). Laws that shouldn't even be on the books! Laws that cause millions of dollars of damage and thousands of deaths each year. Laws that power organized crime.

The drug laws.

I totally support him, and I hope he comes out a free man, albeit his business will probably be ruined.
Does MDM Provide the Security That Corporations Are Looking For?
Because Canadians are easy to keep under control and the actual land containing the rare earth metals is in the US, which means that we can take it back if that ever becomes necessary.
Guilty of violating the USC Drug Kingping Act amongst others. Guilty of running an $80 million narcotics ring. Guilty of murder for hire. Guilty under the law as written.

You may believe him innocent by appeal to natural law, or un-prosecutable due to the Fourth Amendment, and on the latter you may be right. But from a moral standpoint, "guilty" is definitely the right word.
Dart has great autocomplete.
I really, really like the idea that they are pushing you to always have clean inbox. I always struggled with that, making my own systems. Also grouping of similar emails sounds promising.
But I hate this invite thing, so if someone have a spare invite, I would be really thankful if you can send one to ssijak@gmail.com
I am excited. I really want to an invite.
Please invite me at karabacakcengiz at gmail. dot com
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That was the least helpful page ever ... but thanks, it pointed me in the more helpful direction of Wikipedia.

For those wondering, here is a list of what various ILR levels entail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale

Although I find the scale rather odd. When it comes to English, you could easily classify me as ILR 5[1], but on account of my heavy accent and the fact that I sometimes grope for words[2] you could put me in ILR 3. Can anyone explain in more detail how this works? Is it subjective on part of whomever is doing the evaluation?[3]

[1] I've published books in English and until people hear my accent they normally mistake me for a native speaker. I also have a terribly tendency to fix native speakers' grammar because it bothers me too much.

[2] I'm used to using two languages at once (Slovenian and English) so when I'm put in a context where I can only use one, I start groping for words. This happens both in English and in my native Slovenian.

[3] I remember doing IELTS tests a few years ago and I got marked down on listening comprehension and speaking fluency because the lady expected me to diss GMO's and I disagreed with her opinion and told her the various benefits they bring. She thought I didn't understand what she was saying, so I had to fake a different opinion to satisfy her expectations.
Out of curiosity, why do you think Opam is awesome? I recently had to install a few OCaml projects and I had a hard time dealing with opam and ocamlfind (both on mac os and a linux VM). I suppose it's fine once everything is properly set up.

I have the impression that the OCaml world has seen a lot of changes recently with a lot of complexity added.
Who are you and what does this do? How is this new? What advantages over any other solution?

These are the questions that your site does not answer.

Edit: In fact, your <title> and <meta description> tags have more information than the site itself.
This was helpful! Now I have a bunch of new things to research and learn. Thanks!
Agreed, this is really exciting. Please give @cengizkrbck an invite!
It is not a "trap". In "C" it is required to generate fast machine code. It's a trade-off, not a "trap".
Could I also highly recommend making your project Rubocop-clean, and using pronto to run Rubocop on your CI server and make comments on your commits in Github. Rubocop warns against any methods you define that are not used at least once.
Test coverage in Go
In fact Bitcoin design does not contain elements hinting that anonymity was ever a goal. People using Bitcoin over Tor might just want to circumvent censorship aka Tor as glorified proxy.
> Yet I don't see him advocating that Ubuntu force users...

He doesn't have to for his point to be valid.
I personally like to think of the human race as a giant super computer with local caches in brains and quite slow information transfer. It even has bad/malfunctioning cores.
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law
Wonderful piece of advice.
Plus I didn't know about Followerwonk at all.
Will try to follow all of your suggestions.

I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Mandarin is the easiest of any of the Chinese languages. It only has four tones instead of seven or more, there are a wealth of language teaching materials and a lot of natively-produced media, ranging from children's books to near-hollywood scale move productions.

Cantonese, on the other hand, has a decent amount of media but relatively little in terms of materials aimed at teaching foreigners.

Taiwanese learners have a decent amount of local television and music to lean on if/once they reach a high level of competence, but there isn't even a standardized written language! Instead there are the following horrible options:

1) Use an essentially unworkable system of trying to apply patchy etymological research of Taiwanese going back to middle Chinese to guess which characters modern syllable could be represented by.

2)Picking characters with similar Mandarin pronunciations, using a romanized script. This has the drawback that Taiwanese has several sounds and tones that Mandarin doesn't.

3) Use a well developed and self-consistent romanization (aka our alphabet) system developed by missionaries over a century ago. This is pretty decent but there are competing romanizations.

4) Use a mishmash of characters and roman letters together. This is very common.

One advantage both Cantonese and Taiwanese hold over smaller languages is that it's not too hard to find speaker communities in just about any major world city and many of those speakers are fully fluent only in that one language and find Mandarin to be a painful alternative. If you want to study an American Indian language like Blackfoot, you'll have the additional problem that every speaker of it is bilingual in English.

All in all, I don't think Mandarin ranks anywhere near the most difficult option for English speakers. It's certainly harder than romance languages, but in the big scheme of things it's of medium difficulty at worst.
If I do will you sue me?
I've had a play with Ubuntu on the Nexus 5. I don't think it's a daily driver for me yet, but I'm excited and they look like they are working hard to get there. Can't wait.
>they don't accept TouchID on first login after a restart

That's because the hash of the print is stored on an encrypted volume of some kind, which requires your regular password to decrypt after a cold boot. Once the hash is in memory, the fingerprint can be used instead.
You seem to be saying here that the USA isn't economically able to use certain natural resources but that these unprofitable resources should not be open to purchase on a free market by Canadian companies. That sounds a lot like a soviet style planned economy.
From the "meta" tag:

<meta
name="description"
content="Loopy is a new fun way of communication
with your near and dear ones. Express your
feeling and emotions through drawing and
privately send them to a friend. After
they view it, the loopy will disappear
forever."
>

I assume it's Apple only, and probably iPhone only, and might be a specific iOS version only.

But who know?
I have transferred from Ubuntu to Mint recently.
Ah, the naivity of predictions.

Play "Space War"? As if games on a computer will ever catch on - we're all too busy making turtles and drawing men with them...
OccupyCharity – someone needs to look after the smaller guys
Bigoted European stereotypes?

Yes, a lot of them know a second language, usually because of family.

Of course that's not what it shows when most tourists don't even try to speak the local language in Europe.
ML's syntax is indeed less confusing than OCaml's. And that's the reason I'm working on a compiler front-end replacement for OCaml inspired by Clojure, Haskell, Ruby and Julia. It will be for OCaml what Elixir is for Erlang. I'm finishing the parser right now and will next implement the language primitives as a library in the language itself.
Ubuntu is really user-friendly... until you are having any kind of non-trivial problem, which can happen to anyone if they are unlucky with their drivers, the sound doesn't work, etc.. Then you are relegated to copying command line gobbledygook from askubuntu into the terminal, being able to understand nothing about what it does. At least with those tedious "click on X, then on Y when that pops up"... you're able to understand the gist of what you're doing.

I'm a programmer so I've become somewhat accustomed to working with the command line. But it's hardly a nice user interface for most people.
>How would you emerge from feeling every bit of pain, humiliation and despair that they went through?

You'll probably avoid letting it happen again. You'll remember it before raping, maiming, or torturing someone. You'll remember it before letting someone else get away with it. You'll probably treat the victims a little better as well.
I tried to switch from Windows to Ubuntu multiple times but I go back to Windows each time.

I have mainly 2 issues:

- Upgrade to newer version always fails. I'm left with a broken OS at the end.

- Although the UI has improved a lot since the early days of Ubuntu, I still don't like it. I know I can customize it but it always causes issues on some apps.
That doesn't really sound like "enough".
> get a decent GPA

A 2.0 is not a decent grade nor GPA, it means you're failing at most of your classes and will probably be expelled.

Btw, your argument is "leave the school and pursue sports." I just found that interesting, that's all.
You don't have to be the USSR to manage at least substantial portions of a country's infrastructure and natural resources in a rational way, designed to maximize national welfare. It's a reasonably common way to operate in prosperous western democracies: Statoil (Norway), Hydro-Québec (Canada), DONG Energy (Denmark), Vattenfall (Sweden), Électricité de France (France), LKAB (Sweden), Deutsche Bahn (Germany), are all well-run state-owned companies, with no gulags in sight.
Has anyone tried to marry IF with voice recognition (+synthesis or recorded content)?

I imagine it could be a wonderful experience, sitting with a headset, eyes closed, and exploring this kind of world. Not unlike "pen&paper" role playing games - even if you have to restrict your speaking to a limited vocabulary.

Does it exist? Any experiences?
Does anyone has some experience with this, i speak Dutch, German, English (Germanic languages) and French (Latin language).

I suppose it would be easier for me to learn Spanish or another language. But would it also help me to learn Mandarin?
Such as?

Also, this is completely besides the point.
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I like Ubuntu, we use (LTS releases) at work and it's been very stable and easy to maintain. It's also by far the most popular Linux distro for a lot's of reasons. Although i rarely use it at home (switched to OSX) I still keep myself updated and try every release.
Imho i feel they should get more in the "latest technologies" bandwagon like they did a few years before Unity (for those who remember Ubuntu pushed always the latest GNOME releases with the latest technologies developed by RedHat and get it right even before Fedora) and upstart in order to not cause more fragmentation on the Linux desktop.
Let's take Unity example: First was desktop on top of GTK2 which looked and worked better than gnome-shell. Then the transition of GNOME3 started and now GNOME was able to get a ecosystem of applications that fit's on GNOME not Unity, so currently GNOME apps don't fit on Unity desktop and even gnome-shell perhaps it's more useful than Unity.
Same for upstart: It started as an new modern init system but then systemd came out and become the standard in Linux (or at least it's trying to). Now Ubuntu is migrating to systemd because their init system never gained traction. Not to mention the manpower they invested and now they don't get any result out of it.
I fear the same will happen with MIR since it will NOT become the standard on Linux like Wayland.

For the future I hope Canonical don't pull the plug on Desktop and Server (which is also very popular) and give it's users the choice of using Wayland, GNOME, X11, systemd, XFCE, LXDE or other technologies instead of the "home made" technologies. Also let's hope for more bright 10 years ahead trying to get Linux Desktop in the right direction giving people a choice between Operating Systems.
I started using Ubuntu from 8.04 when Windows crashed on my first personal laptop. When I saw 11.10 Netbook Edition with Unity I viewed it as something which would be geared towards touchscreens with limited advantages otherwise. So after briefly trying desktop unity in 12.04 I switched my development machine to Fedora with Xfce and XMonad. Now I only use Ubuntu on the occasional virtual machine for testing, but I may try running it on my touch ultrabook some day.
As someone who's current phone is more powerful than his laptop, I am really looking forward to seeing what Ubuntu Touch can deliver.
Something like this, but for the team would be so awesome…
Edit: looks like this tool supports multiple keys. Does that mean that passwords can be shared?
I've been using Mailbox for a while on mobile and more recently on desktop and I'm wondering how it compares to that app? Also, are the new Inbox features in the app available on the web as well? I ask because desktop management of email is a great feature that Mailbox's beta desktop app provides.
@jozi9 sure! Not all projects will be complex in a way that you can't handle both sides.

@omegaEpsilon I with I could downvote you.

Best regards.
He won't allow fingerprint reader support in eCryptfs, yet he has put no effort into adding password complexity rules to eCryptfs.
So was Charles Manson before his trial.

I'm saying he's guilty, not a court. It's one man's opinion, not a finding of fact or law.

The fact pattern isn't really in dispute here. Do you really deny he performed the acts of which he is accused?

EDIT due to reply limit: Fine, its your opinion that I'm a child molester, but since you can't enforce it, I have little reason to care.

In the instant case, I am perfectly capable of examining an indictment and concluding as to its likely veracity. It doesn't make the person legally guilty, but in my personal unbinding and most modest opinion, morally so.
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Every update was a lesson in frustration. So I thought either I'm stying on LTS or I use another distribution.

Right now I am using Debian stable for my "it has to run" systems (the ones my gf is using too) and tried Arch on the other systems.

So far I am pretty much sold on Arch linux (my Linux knowledge got better too) - but I still don't know if I'm just using Debian stable for things like my HTPC.
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I think what op means is that if you find someone's password, you can type it into their device and you are in. Total breaking in time < 30s. If you find someone's fingerprint, you need to make a copy of it, scan it at high resolution, prepare a good printout and only then you can use it. Total breaking in time >1h.