skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried clicking the small "Advanced" link on the error page and then selecting "Go there anyway"?
I also got an internal server error when creating a full (non-twitter, non-facebook) account, but it had actually registered me, and I could login with my details.
The very first GPS lock for a device in a new area takes a while because it has to download the satellite positions first. After that (if you haven't moved too far away in the meantime) subsequent GPS fixes should be much faster.

(Quoting Wikipedia: »in order to obtain an accurate satellite location from this transmitted message the receiver must demodulate the message from each satellite it includes in its solution for 18 to 30 seconds. In order to collect all the transmitted almanacs the receiver must demodulate the message for 732 to 750 seconds or 12 1/2 minutes.«)
Unless there's an XSS somewhere, which is unfortunately all too common.
totally agree. at least you can have someone moderate channels on irc though.
Mass protests but Hungarian gov't doesn't back off from its Internet tax plans
Isn't that exactly how Google's voice recognition works? And Siri's too I assume? Your phone doesn't have the processing power to do speech-to-text on the fly, so it sends it to a server to do it. I don't see a vast government conspiracy behind this. If they can make the TV a bit cheaper by putting in a less powerful processor and taking advantage of the always present high speed Internet connection, of course they would do that.
From August 17, and the full title ends ", And How It Doesn't".

Also, "When more facts are in, the evidentiary issues will be clearer."
No: the mobile version of WebCore is different, and for example comes with binary object blobs (which is sufficient for LGPL compliance) for source code that Apple refuses to provide as open source. I wish I had been here earlier to correct this misinformation :/ (though I'm also glad I've gotten in the habit of not checking Hacker News after I comment). Note the libWebCore_{Sim,armv7,armv7s}.a that is provided in the WebCore source repository at opensource.apple.com.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/WebCore/WebCore-1640....

It is also simply not sufficient to say "here is a repository with a lot of code in it": you have to be able to specify what exact code was used for the build (which is what I care about, as I'm constantly trying to analyze the version of WebCore on the device: I have no interest in compiling my own copy or building my own browser), and it is not the main WebCore repository's job to keep tags or branches around for specific versions of iOS that Apple distributes.
Keeping code around doesn't come free, it still needs to be maintained, tested, and provides an additional attack vector. You need to draw the line somewhere. As pointed out in the post TLS 1.0 is 15 years old and things are still using SSLv3.
Debugging BBC Master demos with jsbeeb
except you have a massive 1/2cm thick chunk of hard plastic the whole way around your wrist.
> People like Newton, who was a geek, had to suffer isolation all his life in order to do what he felt right.

I feel like I'm missing a reference here. Was Isaac Newton ostracized for heretical beliefs during his lifetime?
I think this is a little bit revisionist. In hindsight, much of what Nintendo did seems common, because it has become common. Back then, stuff like the rumble pack or the analog stick or a controller that has directional control on both sides actually was innovative.
Learn from Folly source code the new C++11 features
What about momentum exchange tethers, AKA skyhooks? The smaller ones require significantly less mass than a full space elevator, but mean that rockets need carry less fuel, because they're taking from the momentum of the tether. The lost momentum of the tether can then be replenished over time, using either efficient engines like ion drives, or if the tether is electrodynamic, using the Earth's magnetic field.
Because they didn't write it, someone else did
The scenario for baseline-3 is just a conceptual tool(pythogras theorem) to establish a bound. It still doesn't get you into orbit.

What I was grappling with, is. I presumed @ars (parent) knew he was talking and in expressing my contention it would get addressed with a little bit more information in what I was missing. I now see some emphasis in his explanation and additional links.

The key is was that tangential acceleration opens up none fuel based acceleration mechanisms i.e change to the type of energy and the quantity (you accelerate less fuel to burn up the fuel).
Genuine question, that makes all the difference in the world for me: Does the TV require me to push a button to activate the voice commands?
So does Google Now when you enable voice recognition inside other apps.
A tiny elite can't rule over millions if the millions are opposed to being ruled at all. Today, no one sees governments as the rulers they are, but everyone considers dictatorships illegitimate.

But from our point of view, what's the practical difference between being forced to comply with a King's royal edicts and being forced to comply with a bunch of politicians'?

Cartels can't be maintained in a free society. We know everyone participating in one is a scumbag, and the more lucrative the cartel's position is, the more motivated the participants are to betray the others (because there's lots of room for competing on price and taking away all the captive customers, thus making shitloads of money).
Hi Steve,

First thanks a lot for Rust. I have a background in embedded development and the perspective to have a modern, safe by default language available in the future (it's a conservative domain ;) is very exciting!

Cargo aside, the question of ABI stability is an interesting one: if an implementation stick to stable features, will it be possible to link code compiled with a newer compiler with a library compiled with an older version? Or is the stability only at the language level for now?

I don't think ABI stability is required at this stage. There's been some experience with ABI changes with C++ and it's always possible to deal with it by having interfaces defined using a C ABI (stable) to shield oneself, if needed (if recompiling everything is not practical). But clarifying the status and plan would be nice.

Thanks again.
> It has no syntax (of its own) in that it hijacks s-expression syntax instead. When you want to write Lisp code, you actually write some data structures in the s-expression data format, like when writing some data in JSON or XML. Then a Lisp interpreter or compiler uses an s-expression parser to read that data structure into memory, and operates on that.

My point is that the s-expression format has to be defined (obviously), e.g. you enclose lists in '(' and ')' characters, space symbols separate tokens, etc. In my world these rules are consequences of a defined syntax and saying there is no syntax is just wrong. The reader parses at some point a byte sequence and builds an AST. That Lisp/Scheme has such a simple syntax is a powerful feature of the language but saying it has no syntax just contributes to the belief of misinformed people that Lisp is some kind of strange Voodoo-language which is a bad thing as it is a powerful tool.
Last time the proposed tax was posted [1], a lot of people thought it was a distraction from Hungary's international relationships -- specifically its increasing reliance on Russia.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8491882
I think it is party due to marketing, but I don't think that's the only issue with the Wii U. Other issues include the fact that there's no killer game that explains why the new controller is really needed (most games just mirror the TV to the controller, or show inventory or a map on the controller), the fact that there's only one controller with a screen, so most games that use it have asymmetric offline multiplayer gameplay (which can be difficult to explain to people), and the fact that playing the Wii U doesn't look as much fun as playing bowling or tennis on the Wii did.

Don't get me wrong, I think the Wii U is a console worth owning, and right now, it probably has the best games library of all current-gen TV consoles. I also think that poor marketing and misguiding naming play a role in its poor performance — why not call it the Wii 2, to clearly show that it is different and new?

But I don't think that its failure can be attributed solely to marketing.
Thank you for the suggestion. I now managed to get our Pinterest feed to IFTTT through RSS.
But Instagram has no possible Actions in IFTTT. Only Triggers. Now what? I'm determined to get this working!
Alex Gaynor can be a bit of a troll. This time he wrote a blog post about things he (allegedly) doesn't like about Twitter, added a couple of "flammable" statements here and there to clickbait, and meanwhile he still has a Twitter account.

It's not the first time he acts like this, regardless of his technical contributions. This is why I don't follow him and will keep discounting everything he says, sorry; he goes in the same bucket as Dave Winer and Eric Raymond, people who can code but whose overall opinions I really don't care for.
Future releases will accumulate new features as they are deemed useful to the goal of a memory-safe zero-overhead systems programming language. Rust is not interested in feature maximalism, so dread not the kitchen sink. For the features that we do add, we value orthogonality and clean integration with the rest of the language.
What were the politicians thinking when they decided to tax the Internet?
If you consider the account of what happened surrounding the passing of the post-9/11 legislation as given here[0] factual, it was very much transported on emotion.

Sure, the original concept wasn't new, but I'm fairly certain the emotional landscape at the time was intentionally used as a vehicle to pass these kinds of laws.

The saddest part is that many people who did pay attention at the time were fully aware of where this would go and were criticised or ridiculed at the time. My first thought upon learning of the PATRIOT Act was that it's a creepy name for a bill that permanently erodes civil rights and protections, but apparently most people thought it was okay because A) it has a name you can't possibly argue with (being considered un-patriotic in the aftermath of 9/11 would have been outrageous) and B) it's only for dealing with terrorism anyway.

Kinda reminds me of the Internet censorship bill our politicians in Germany tried to pass some years ago. It was only to be used to restrict access to child pornography, of course. Because if there's one thing that's easier to rally people against than terrorism, it's child abuse. And who can argue with combating child abuse?

[0]: http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/
Good ideas/applications for programmable debuggers generally.
Strange, all this debate about homosexuality. I wonder what the conversation would be like if the truth was known about it...

Epigenetics is the science of how our genes express themselves. They can be altered by many factors. Environmental, even certain strains of bacteria.

So being gay is actually not the intent of genetics, but an error in the expression on the sexual orientation gene. This will become very public and irrifutable in the next decade.

There will literally be a pill that will turn a gay person straight. Where will the debate lead then? It doesn't really matter. Within two generations, there will no longer be gay individuals (from erring epigenetics) in first world countries.

There is a second means of being gay. Neurol pathways are formed which redirect certain thoughts and impulses in a different way. These are strictly experience based anomalies, usually caused by trama or desperation/rationalization. These comprise only a very minor number of the homosexual population.

Does this change your opinion on anything?
A thing is what it is.

That depends on what the definition of “is” is.
I wonder when we'll get commercials that run voice commands on those TV's themselves...

'TV Install Samsung Super Social Awesome App, Yes, Yes Yes'
This is why I want all my devices running a full Free Software stack, and give up functionality for being able to run free(-er) software whenever possible.
one possible explanation is that it was just a communication trick, to make people talk about this instead of the corruption scandal which resulted in government officials being banned from entering the US.

http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2014/10/17/the-us-cancel...
To distract the public opinion from talking about high priority officers being forbidden from entering the USA.
Looks like classic trolling clickbait to me.
You sound as if that's a surprise to you.

As an outsider the ubiquitous racism in American culture seems obvious. It's just become political correct to not actually speak about it.

I mean, it's not like Americans are rounding up brown people in lynch mobs anymore (or at least not as frequently), but that most racists today don't outright try to kill the people they despise doesn't mean they're not racists anymore.
I own a moto360 one for almost a month now. You are probably not going to say "ok google" all the time so most of the features that require your voice are pretty useless. To be honest I only use them when driving. What I really use it for is:
1) Check who is calling. If I am on a meeting or otherwise busy I can drop the call.
2) Read messages/gmail(full message)/whatsapp etc. I will have to get the phone out of the pocket only if I need to respond.
3) Notifications/reminders/weather reports etc.
In the UK, it's common knowledge that ISPs "special case" speed-testing websites as soon as they learn of their existence.
I think you might need to provide more details. Where are the scans "coming through", what type of modifications are you trying to detect, and at what points in the process might those modifications occur?
This article implies that programming is not design.. of which i take offense.
Are You Too Old to Start Up?
What would the guideline be made of?
I don't think we really understand the role or the utility of laws regarding this stuff yet. But, there are two things that I think need to proceed regardless. (1) One is user control. My android phone is running all sorts of stuff that I know about mostly because of battery use. There must be a better way. App permissions isn't the end game. (2) The second is hysterical public outcry. Sometimes a cold headed analysis is the right way of going about things, but… A terrifying and unpredictable mob response has always been an important tool of societal immune systems.

Highlight. Names & Shame. "Samsung is recording your teenagers having sex!"

I realize there isn't one culprit. That doesn't matter, pick one and deliver mob justice.
Does he build rockets?
I'm not sure that's really fair.

- Nintendo experimented with a CD add on (with Sony) for the SNES. It eventually became the Playstation.
- They released the Double Density Drive addon for N64 (probably a failure).
- Mario 64 was the first really 3D platformer, and was groundbreaking.
- The weird looking controller for the N64 had an analogue stick before anyone else.
- Rumble packs
- N64 came with four ports for four-way split screens

They're just off the top of my head.
Living on Internet Time
Simd optimisations aren't very minor. For games anyway, we have a 90-10 rule (90% of time is spent inside 10% of the code) I'm sure that exists in other areas too. One of the most common operations performed is multiplying 4x4 matrices, which can get 300% speed ups with the correct simd operations. To get that speed up in the most called parts of your code is anything but minor
Actually never heard of wisp. There's so many lispy dialects, smaller ones tend to get overlooked. I don't think I can get involved with another compiler at this point — got a bunch of other libraries underway, which have even muscled out jisp for the time being. Sorry :)
Put a black sticker on it's camera and it's mic (make sure voice commands no longer work) and problem solved. I don't see any use of facial and voice recognition anyway. they can send and analyze black screen and silence all they want.
As a German, every time I hear Americans openly embrace unquestioning patriotism (or equate patriotism with blind loyalty to the government -- and no, conservatives ragging about the "nanny state" and questioning Obama's nationality or religion don't count if you also sport "Support Our Troops" bumper stickers and pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth), I cringe a bit.

Over the years I've learned to pay less attention to it, but especially with Bush the rhetoric was exactly the kind that rang all the alarm bells. Every time I see a new president be elected into office my only thought is "Please don't become Hitler".

If there's anything scarier than the US, it's the US at war. And since 9/11, the US is de-facto perpetually at war.
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There is a button on the remote to activate voice.
This seems interesting. But I find it a bit unsatisfying that it can only be used as a package manager then. How about using this functional machinery, e.g., for a general build system? A "functional make" so to speak. And I bet there are plenty of other use cases.
The technique is known as smoke&mirrors.
ABI stability is definitely not guaranteed at this time, as this would require standardizing a huge swath of behavior that is currently internal to the compiler. As mentioned in the OP, this is the same reason why syntax extensions cannot be stabilized as they are.

So the answer is sadly no, different versions of the Rust compiler will not be guaranteed to produce binaries that can link to each other, short of using a C ABI.
I am not judging him at all. He sounds like someone I would like a lot. I have had addiction problems in the past, and so some of my past behavior could have rightly been called insane too.
To be fair, there are a lot of other promises he didn't hold. It's unfair to focus on that one in particular.
Mario Kart 8 is an curious example to cite. The game was sold with a free download of another game - and choices included many top tier first-party titles. That's a very unusual tactic. It's a great game, but I'm sure this will have been a big driver for sales.

I wonder if the tallies for the other games (e.g. NSMB-U, Nintendoland, Z:WW) include those sold as a pack in, or free download?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Wii_U_vide...
There may also be people you had a drink with to whom I have no connection to whatsoever. It's not disqualifying but it is a piece of information.
...so you want your TV to be so powerful to automagically turn speech into text and process it, in possibly a dozen languages?

All similar services work like this.

IMHO, from an IT point of view there is nothing weird about how his TV operates.

What's weird, is buying a smart TV and then complaining it's smart, or about the things it has to do to be smart. I mean, your answering machine keeps confidential messages because it needs to play them back to you. Now, you're connecting that to the Internet—probably not a good idea, but what is the big deal? Otherwise it would be a "regular" TV.
It's escape velocity, not escape speed - and it's orbital velocity that matters here, we're not escaping entirely. If you're in the same place, travelling at the same speed, but pointed down, you're not in orbit, right? It's the same if you're pointed straight up. You need to be at an orbital altitude and travelling at the right speed in the right direction.

(well, any combination of speed, direction, and position will be an 'orbit' in some sense, in that there's a conic section you're on that you would follow if you were in freefall. But if you're sitting still over a planet then it's the degenerate ellipse that's a straight line down to the planet's core).

So in the absence of atmosphere the ideal ascent trajectory would look pretty much like a Hohmann transfer orbit: you'd accelerate horizontally until you were in orbit at surface level, and then you'd do the minimum energy transfer from that orbit to a higher orbit. In reality it's worth getting to altitude where the air is thinner before turning horizontal, but even so, the vast majority of a rocket's acceleration is horizontal, not vertical.

You can do the maths, but if you want to really understand these things, play Kerbal Space Program. Seriously.
RequestPolicy is cool, but there's a new addon called Policeman that gives more fine-grained control.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policeman/
Programming is as much designing as building a house is decorating it.
How we created the best political online test
Where are the Bytex16 types? Or the Wordx8 types? Who the hell is using floats for every data value?
Microphones are incredibly sensitive. You pretty much need to cut their wires.
JT's lawyer have already announced they won't appeal.
politics is like a magic trick, "hey look here while am doing something else" only with a much less impressive finale, am afraid manipulation is a normal tactic =[
Glasswire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8222652
link to the project homepage: https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd

Not really an apple user, can anyone tell me what the benefit to porting this is? Is it much better than rc.d or sysvinit?
Fix Mac OS X Yosemite
Duck hunt via your iphone
I would certainly dismiss elevators because there is a much more practical alternative that doesn't require materials that don't exist in sufficient quantities to reach a quarter of the way to the moon.

The Lofstrom Loop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop) could be built with materials we have today, although it requires sufficient amounts of money and land that only large countries or multibillionaires could attempt it.
I wonder how it compares with seL4 (http://sel4.systems/) which is verified, open source, "bare metal" and designed for minimality, security and performance.
eer...yes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack#Armadillo_Aerospa...
I love minimal things. But if this is supposed to be more than a because-we-can-thing, tell me if it is worth the trouble - how fast is it, how many requests can it stand? Numbers! Ten times a stock Linux setup? More? Less?
with all the discussion about privacy it's interesting to see the things that OS companies are embedding in their next generation releases..

Is anyone auditing Win8? (Win10 or whatever is next)?
The job of the government is to help us make our world a better place. If the job of government was just to resolve conflict, we'd have no roads, no bridges, no public education, we'd all be working 100 hour weeks for a pittance, and the world would be a really really awful place that none of us would like to live in. To think otherwise is just foolishness.
And also the noise is really a problem with projectors, in quieter scenes you can definitely hear the fans working.
Communication between brain networks in people given psilocybin
A searchable collection of websites archived by Stanford University
"relatively short" is a pretty fuzzy statement, saying it's "Not even close." invites me to try to argue about what I was thinking when I wrote it (ooh fun), and it isn't all that necessary to your point.
i've also wanted this for a loooooooooong time.

btw will it have a way to export the data also ?

i'am ready to pay for this service

keep me updated for the linux version :)

bussiere AT gmail.com

Regards
I think most people have no idea how much it costs to do half the things the government does, and so even if everyone was compassionate, they'd give far less money than is actually needed, even for the socially normal people.
If you have tea that strong you are going to want to temper it with some milk.
Women are not all clichés in video games