skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to think that intelligence gathered in a foreign repressive country can be taken as "promises". This is deeply naive.

> No there's not.

Yes there is. Even if what you claim about Cheney is true, how is he supposed to have convinced Clinton of the threat? And what about all the other nations that believed in it?

I am arguing that there was enough evidence of WMDs that several other people, other than Bush, believed they were there.

You seem to argue that all intelligence has to be 100% perfect, which shows a flawed understanding of reality. Even so, the Iraqi people were demonstrably better off (until the premature withdrawal) after the invasion and a vile dictator who gassed kurds (whilst not having WMDs apparently) and killed at random (certainly his children did) was removed. It was a net-win for the world.
Yeah, it depends on what you're trying to accomplish with the language. The most interesting new languages I've seen lately have focused a lot on performance (Rust, Julia, Nimrod, etc.) but the author of the linked article is more interested in how different languages can be composed together, so for him performance matters only inasmuch as the language is useable.

My main point though was that part of Julia's high performance is due to specific decisions by the language designers (e.g. the compiler knows a lot of information about types even though the programmer can mostly ignore them), while a language like Python wasn't designed for performance and is thus harder to optimize.
I'm one of the conf organizers: we were on a budget and didn't record any talk. Will try to fix that for next year.
Do you want someone's title to change as they grow the team and responsibilities change? I prefer CEO & CTO over just founder since it at least implies what their role is rather than just being "founder". It would also be worse if they threw in a title that purposely misled someone like "VP of Business Development" even though they are a business founder.
It's a very useful mode, but assuming you don't write the entire program in assembly, what's the best way you've found to integrate the assembly with the non-assembly code? Is there any Windows/Mac/Linux portable and self-contained way of doing it short of writing assembly functions in separate files and distributing NASM along with the source? Does even that work?
There is also the commercial, but very extensive Website-Watcher: http://aignes.com/
It should be noted that the OP is a fan of "growth hacking" unironically: https://twitter.com/AviZolty/status/468882462610034689
The US Forest Service has GPS data for many trails. In 2013 I happened upon a USFS GIS server hosting that data. I began displaying that trail data with my Gmap4 browser app and asking questions so I understood the data better.

Then the trail data disappeared from the GIS server.

Apparently USFS management was clueless that anyone who (1) knew the address ("endpoint") for the GIS server and (2) had GIS client software, could display (gasp!) the trail data.

I have seen the trail data. Is it perfect? No, of course not - and it never will be. Is it more right than wrong? Absolutely!

Certainly the USFS could provide that data to the USGS so many more trails could be included on the new digital topos but so far the USFS has refused to do so.

Naturally I filed a FOIA for this trail data and naturally it was denied. My FOIA appeal is currently pending before the USFS Chief.

Here's a bit of good news. Before the trail data disappeared from the GIS server I downloaded the data for trails in the national forests in WA, OR and CA. I then processed that data with some custom code to make it more useful and produced a series of trail maps with mileages. If you are curious you can visit the Gmap4 examples page and look down just a bit for the link to the national forest maps.
http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4_examples.html

Joseph, the Gmap4 guy
Think you need the goggles as well? But anyways, a nice beginner package.
It's probably a number of factors. A couple of possibilities I can think of are Americans' sense of value (get as much as you can for your money,) and a general addiction to the sensation of a full stomach.
How long can you go without working?

Just quit.

Or... take unpaid leave, medical if need be, and have some time off.

Just quit, have a vacation, apply someplace else.
There's tremendous negative value in being locked in a building with a thousand teenage dickheads.
Some intermittent fasting regimes also advocate sleeping after eating
It's a fool's errand to go from this nicely related data to generate a human readable webpages with embedded semantic markup

Right, you mostly wouldn't do that. If you want access to data in a relational store, from a semweb perspective, you use R2RML with something like D2RQ.

There's also a lot more to the Semantic Web than just extracting structured data from otherwise unstructured content like HTML. If you have semantic data you want to expose, depending on the use-case, you just expose it using the remote SPARQL protocol, for direct M2M use.
There's a middle ground, you could just take any minimally acceptable contracting job. You won't be mentally committed to it, as no one would think you were obligated to stay past the initial contract period. Just find something that's not overly demanding. This will get you out of the rut that's your current job, and hopefully give you time and rest to consider your next real position.
How about using Scrum stories?

Each story would be a 1-2 page Word doc, with a long form description of the behaviour required and mockups of the UI.
> I know that it would take an earthquake of change for vim to sprout a file sync feature

Well, you may know that, but don't worry, when it happens and surprises you and you post about it, there will definitely be someone here on Hacker News to scold you that you should have known better and that it's all your fault for not anticipating the unexpected and unannounced changes.
Recording a talk only takes a phone these days? I know I know it won't be professional recording but I have good luck with just recording from the front row.
Here's something I think should be easy: I want to count the events (by month) on all of Wikipedia's 'year' pages.[1]

First problem: multiple levels of indent, so there needs to be logic for that. Second problem: some pages have weird stuff in the events section, like "world population".[2] Third problem: some pages have "date unknown" events.[2] Fourth problem: all the other problems I'd encounter if I looked at more than two of these pages.

So it's a day's worth of work to get something rough and 2-3 days to get something solid. To answer one question of this kind.

Does DBpedia help me?

[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955
Great talk! I am excited by the possibility of seeing Mirabai Knight launch a Kickstarter campaign for a steno keyboard for programmers and other users. Given the promise of typing 200 WPM comfortably I think many of us would pay a premium for a new device and training software.
All the Little Bits and Pieces of Writing, Practical Advise by William Zinnser
I second (or third) Warren Ellis's stuff. Orbiter and Ministry of Space are a couple of good sci-fi books. Planetary's also pretty awesome, but it's more superhero-y.

Others off the top of my head:

Wizzywig by Ed Piskor - fictional account of a Kevin Mitnick-type hacker.

We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely - 3 bionically enhanced animals escape their captors and talk funny.

Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark - an immortal hitwoman with a conscience in a feudal society.

RASL by Jeff Smith - art thief is chased through parallel universes.

Casanova by Matt Fraction, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba - more parallel universe hijinks, this time with spies.
I think it also has to do with the common attitude in the US that 'bigger is better' and I guess that probably goes hand in hand with value.
>In the future, we will dedicate an entire blog post to vibration.

In the meantime, does anyone have a link?
The semantic web as originally proposed (Berners-Lee, Hendler, Lassila) is as dead as last year's roadkill, though there are plenty out there that pretend that's not the case. There's still plenty of groups trying to revive the original idea, or like most things in the KM field, they've simply changed the definition to encompass something else that looks like it might work instead.

I think it's equally disingenuous to suggest that a vision, and associated definitions, aren't allowed to evolve - and to suggest that "X failed" because "X" isn't exactly the same today as it was in 1999.

One of the reasons that whole thing died was that existing business models simply couldn't be reworked to make it make sense. If I'm running an ad driven site about Cat Breeds, simply giving you all my information in an easy to parse machine readable form so your site on General Pet Breeds can exist and make money is not something I'm particularly inclined to do

It may not make sense for every use-case, but plenty of companies have found value in using SemWeb technologies.

http://readwrite.com/2010/06/30/how_best_buy_is_using_the_se...
I always see this claim that latex separates content from presentation, but I don't see how it's true. As the article says, \emph{hello} is implemented in terms of font commands; it entangles the semantics (emphasis) and the presentation (italicisation), and there is no way to extract the semantics of a latex document and render it in a different format the way you can with e.g. Markdown.
I suppose this is a good place to ask.

Does anyone have a preferred system of shorthand? I've always wanted to learn shorthand because my thoughts sometimes escape me when I am writing. I haven't taken the step beyond choosing a shorthand system, so if anyone has a preference would you mind sharing?

Thank you.
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Ask HN: Paypal + BOA lost $200+ of mine.. What should I do?
I closed my Bank of America account on 9/5/14. A few days later Paypal sent a refund to the closed bank account's debit card for $200. I was told by Paypal that if the account was closed the money should be rejected by the bank and will appear back in my Paypal account's balance. This they said could take up to 30 days.

I waited 30 days and the money never appeared. I contacted BOA and they claimed they never received any money from Paypal. Paypal claims the money is with BOA and BOA tells me the money is with Paypal. Both services refuse to help me further.

Does anybody have any ideas on what I can do to get my money back?
That was in school. Can't do really at work, unless you start at 7:00.
You'd think/hope that a guide for that topic would be highly readable.
Another fun Unicode-related bug in OS X 10.9:

% printf 'Unicode strike\xcd\x9bs again' | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 od -tc
Assertion failed: (width > 0), function conv_c, file /SourceCache/shell_cmds/shell_cmds-175/hexdump/conv.c, line 137.
0000000 U n i c o d e s t r i k e
zsh: done printf 'Unicode strike\xcd\x9bs again' |
zsh: abort LANG=en_US.UTF-8 od -tc

I don't know if this is fixed in OS X 10.10 — I filed a bug with Apple a year ago, but it was marked as a duplicate of another bug. The only thing I can see about that other bug is that it's now closed.
I didn't speak about US media. Also, is US media your only source?

It's the same over here, IKEA flies under the radar very well.
I've been working on a new PEG parsing algorithm, and though my first crack at it was way too slow and I still haven't finished debugging the second version, I was able to show that packrat parsing had about a 40% runtime hit over recursive descent for well-behaved inputs on some common grammars (and linear memory usage vs. constant).
Of course there's a difference between monetary risk and utility risk. They shouldn't be conflated in this discussion for a number of reasons. One such is that measuring utility is very difficult without resorting to a yardstick like capital.

You also bring up personal utility which is important. How do you balance the risk of a destroyed livelihood against a much greater capital loss? We also have to be careful not to presume that Joe Schmo can't find another job (better or equivalent).
GitHub for Scientific Protocols
Or something they figured out through experimentation and wrote down so future generations could benefit.
Sure. Climbing a mountain is a cakewalk compared to descending an erupting volcano as well.

The analogy being that C++ appears to make things simpler (descending) but the destination is filled with peril.
They're real time, that's the whole point of demos.
Tetris Is Hard to Test
Possibly coupled with an observational confirmation bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
edit: nvm, i do see what youre saying
Is there any reason why you can't walk into your manager's office tomorrow and say "this is my two weeks notice"?
Use a whiteboard/pen paper with a webcam, as if you two were in the same room. Just because we have every productivity application available to us, it doesn't mean we have to use them or approach things any differently, half of the time these products are solving problems that don't exist, keep it simple, communicate and get results.
How to handle toxic people
When I started grad school, I initially used LaTeX to prepare my articles. But then my advisor tried to open one of my documents on his machine (Windows, I'm using a Mac) and some kind of weird error came up. So we spent one whole advising session with him searching for MiKTeX and installing it, whereupon my document still wouldn't load for whatever reason.

Then once BibTeX got in the mix, it became even messier. Well, I finally finished the article and submitted it to a journal, but they had so many requirements for LaTeX submissions that it took a while to change everything for it. Once I finally submitted it -- surprise! -- their online LaTeX compiler came back with another weird error. It took me about 8 more submission attempts to isolate the "bug" (which was some kind of issue due to differences in versions and default packages installed on their machine vs mine), and I finally got a PDF generated. Except it still didn't look the same as mine for whatever reason.

Well, the article got rejected from that journal, and so as I'm applying for another journal, I read "Word documents only".

So I gave up on LaTeX. Too much of a hassle for me. Maybe it's a smooth process for everyone else, but I don't have any problems just typing a Word document and sending it off. (Although I do miss LaTeX's equation typesetting system.)
Love Unicode? Then Butts Institute may be for you!

http://butts.institute

But in all seriousness, you may enjoy this thing my friend cooked up.

"With over a million billion codepoints, Unicode offers a vast array of unique characters — perfect for microblogging. [Butts Institute] helps you keep your own personal Unicode character updated, instantly, as often as you like! It's fast, convenient, fun, social, and totally free!"

Just make an options request to:

curl -X OPTIONS http://u.butts.institute

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/shmup/e92dad275bcca9287aa...
> I am sorry but I don't see this point... Everybody is free to write a parser for .tex files and use it for whatever reason they want...

It's great that you have the freedom to do that in theory. But it doesn't work in practice. The .tex format doesn't have a spec or independent implementations; it's complex and idiosyncratic, and there are no good general-purpose conversions from .tex to other formats (e.g. markdown, html). The only program you can really use .tex with is latex.
Having tons of libraries and multiple alternatives with unclear criteria for choosing A over B - that's a problem, not an advantage.

It creates unneeded wasted work in evaluating and comparing the alternatives; it makes maintenance harder and slower as people moving between projects have to get used to different components and styles every time, etc. Opinionated frameworks have a valid engineering reason for being and staying opinionated.
> If the research is about a language being able to prove properties about programs

Or if the research is about speeding up language implementations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)
start interviewing, taking days off.
Well I'm in The NL and it's been in the news here because their holding is registered here for tax reasons. I think they're one of nl's biggest tax payers.
It is the simplest way to increase revenues. If for example a food item is sold for $5, and you would like more revenue then increase the portion size (costing say 20c in ingredients) and charge $6. Labour and space costs are pretty much fixed so this is the resolution to getting more per customer.

There are also some other cultural differences. Eating out is far more common amongst similar peer groups (comparing US and UK). Additionally Americans seem less able/willing to cook, despite the amusing amount of "food porn" TV channels and shows. That also ties in with the doggie bag - the idea being that the meal served is for more than one meal, taking the difference home for eating at another time thereby avoiding having to cook later.
I'm conflicted on this. A big part of me says that if something ends up taking off, it won't be the ideas posited by the W3C and it'll just be something else that happened to work and now Semanticists are just co-opting it and re-labling it as "Semantic Web".

So you're arguing that JSON-LD isn't a Semantic Web technology?
Looks like it is fixed

$ printf 'Unicode strike\xcd\x9bs again' | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 od -tc
0000000 U n i c o d e s t r i k e ͛
0000020 s a g a i n
0000027
That's not a terrible rule of thumb, but one can often do better. If you (the programmer) know that consistently correct prediction is impossible (as it is often is for binary search) then it's often beneficial to convince the compiler to generate conditional moves rather than branches. This is what the article shows for the test results.

Conditional moves (CMP/CMOVcc) will always be slower than correctly predicted branches (CMP/JMPcc) if the branch is predicted correctly. If the prediction accuracy if 50%, the conditional move will always be faster. The threshold for prediction accuracy differs for different processors, but 85% is a reasonable approximation. This necessary threshold is moving higher with modern processors (CMOV is getting relatively faster).
Lag and latency would be an issue
Not crashing for me in 10.10

~$ printf 'Unicode strike\xcd\x9bs again' | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 od -tc
0000000 U n i c o d e s t r i k e ͛ **
0000020 s a g a i n
0000027
My school publishes a LaTeX template for theses. After I downloaded that, I spent very little time thinking about formatting.

Unfortunately my advisor doesn't do LaTeX so it kind of sucked for collaboration.
This. I live in a major city and our water is majorly chlorinated. I read a bit about this online and thought, sure, what the heck, I'll try eliminating chlorinated water and see what happens.

Now I have an under-counter water filter and all our drinking water has a significant amount of the chlorine filtered out. It made a huge difference for me. YMMV, and of course doesn't mean much for well water.
I didn't realize something camel-like was wanted.
I think it was because America was the first country that could eat afford to eat like that, so we did. Look at the differences in traditional Italian food and Italian American food.

Dealing with virtually unlimited quantities of food is a very recent problem, and Americans were the first to have this problem at scale.

Most of the rest of the world now has this problem too. If you look at overweight trends, most developed countries are about were America was 30 years ago [1].

There are other differences as well. For one, America was the first country with ubiquitous car ownership--contributing to lower population density and less walking, more time sitting, and drive through restaurants.

[1] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/the-world-is-fa...
> If you can control your portions, as she says Europeans do,

Spanish portions can be huge. A paella "starter" could feed 2 people for a main course. UK portions sizes are growing, too. My Slovenian friend says they have huge portions in Slovenia, where quantity is valued over quality.

It's very hard to generalise about Europe and its ~600 million inhabitants.
I'm reminded of this MathOverflow thread:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/53036/books-you-would-like...

I couldn't find an analogous StackExchange thread. If you start one, please follow up here.
You also have to know about how computers work, how they represent numbers, how and where they store memory, how computers process information, you have to know about interrupts low level os stuff, networking protocols, physical hardware limitations, debugging low level byzantine failures. You have to know a lot more than just C syntax. I haven't even mentioned computer science, best practices, working with others, architecture and UI topics.
\emph does not always render as italics, it actually depends on the document class you're using, and you're free to redefine it as you see fit. It just indicates that the argument should be emphasized, not how.
So the alternative is to use Word? That's messed up.
But his question was "why in America?", why not anywhere else?
For someone who works in philosophy, his argumentation is extremely weak...
This may sound harsh, but this is a pretty worthless article. Essentially it says:

"Find people,
make a good impression,
pay them."

You ought to consider deleting this.These are the kind of articles that make people down vote you.

Best of luck!
I don't think they are doing replication at all, don't see it mentioned. RAID6 is cheaper than replicating the files, which would mean twice as many servers.
> By his definition, every document ever written in any DSL is in a propietary format.

I think that's basically true. The good formats are formats that have a) a standard but more importantly b) multiple independent implementations.

> Personally, I'm perfectly happy if I can open a document in a text editor and get the content that way. That obviously works perfectly fine with LaTeX, it doesn't work at all with doc.

You can get the content, but not the formatting, which was presumably important if you were using latex. It's pretty trivial to extract the plain text from a word doc too.
I agree with most of what you just said, but one nitpick:

JSON-LD, which is a profound improvement on and compatible with the original RDF,

I don't think this is right. JSON-LD is RDF. What it isn't is RDF/XML. But it's important to realize that RDF != RDF/XML. JSON-LD is just an encoding of the abstract RDF triple model in JSON, just like RDF/XML is an encoding of RDF into XML.
Handguns are far slower than rifles. .45 ACP usually goes about 1000 f/s.
That jet, flying at half the speed of a .45 caliber bullet, weighs at least one hundred times as much. I think that's the point GP was trying to make.
I am surprised by the negativity in this thread. Since when did founding a startup start having a fixed set of rules?

Further, if he gets a break in terms of bigger investor who happens to be a passenger. This is what everyone will start doing!
So the setter gets called automatically, but now you have to store the object names as strings or in an XML file. How is that better?
If you aren't doing so already, start a daily exercise routine before deciding your next step.

Jogging, workout, walking, cycling, swimming...whatever you like at whatever time and duration are convenient to you.

They give you a kind of physical and mental high that'll help cope with stress.

I felt short term boosts in self-confidence and more long term improvements in memory and recall (YMMV, of course).
Exactly my thoughts. This video is in my favorites for quite some time and was also surprised how it become "new stuff" without reference to the original upload or other resource.
It is still cool of course, but not UAV,just RC jet ;)