skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you mind going to http://www.ethanglover.biz/ and clicking the "E-mail Me" button at the bottom left? I trust HN users, but I think it's bad practice posting my e-mail address on a public forum. :)
IBM's Potemkin Prosperity
I am not missing that: I do not believe that to be the case. My apologies for not addressing that directly in my original comment.

Uber isn't fighting against discrimination, they aren't fighting against poverty or famine or some global crisis.

They are a business engaged in political maneuvering as part of their goal of changing the regulations in their favor. Whether we think their end goal is good or not, we shouldn't pretend that they're doing this out of altruism.

Civil disobedience and similar acts are effective tools in protesting against injustices in the government. But in using such acts as tools against any inefficient or obsolete laws, we throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Hypothesis... dry means it reduces liquid levels in the gut. Also, diuretic? You could test the first part of this hypothesis by using other highly absorbent foodstuffs and seeing if the same result can be gained.
Scott S. Alexander wrote a great blog post about this called Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolog...
>>I do remember the MS JVM was significantly faster than Sun's.

This is not true, actually. JDK1.1 1997 had JIT.
MS had basically exposed the Variant and COM, the windows handles and part of WinAPI. Overriding paint(Graphic) on a native AWT component (say java.awt.Button) did nothing either and so on.

>>Instead of improving the JVM, Sun decided to make money by suing MS. No wonder that bloated piece of slow crap that looks like crap is dying a slow death and stopped being relevant.

JDK1.3 with hotspot compiler (May, 2000) had the fastest JIT by far.
Trindex: A trigram search library for Go
Both really. A number of cameras can use Leica lenses with an adapter, and since it's manual focusing anyway, there is less penalty in doing so than one would think.

But until Fuji came with its X series, Leica was the only game in town for rangefinders. The use of a rangefinder arguably helps for some styles of photography, especially street shooting and portraits. This alone could be worth a lot depending on what one gets from photography. The was a good review by Steve Huff detailing all of that [1]

Also, until Sony pushed its more compact line up, full frame cameras were bulky ugly heavy tanks riddles with buttons everywhere (like the Nikon D3 [0] for instance). Leica cameras were the odd simple and straight to the point tools blessed by top notch sensor technology.

[0]http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/d3.htm
[1]http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2010/08/04/my-updated-big-bad-...
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C# and .net had Delphi's mastermind, nothing to do with Visual J.
There were a couple of articles just few days ago how alcohol may actually improve memory.
Blackouts are different matter but they affect short term memory only anyway.
Digital photography is not a replacement for film. It's a different technology, and a significant number of photographers prefer film for these reasons: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/why-we-love-film.htm. The best film camera Leica ever made was probably the M3, which it produced for 12 years. If you buy a second-hand M3 today, it will be the best camera you've ever owned and will last for decades. Leica has had a blinding infatuation with digital photography, like the rest of us, but has just released its first film camera in 10 years, the M-A: http://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/Leica-M-A/Det.... It's purely mechanical - no battery, no light meter. They've probably noticed the glaring gap in the market: the only option for photographers who want good quality film cameras is to buy them on Ebay. I wonder if this is the first sign that photography is going to start shifting back to its analogue roots?
With head tracking it can look quite good. Though that only works for one person.
since it's manual focusing anyway, there is less penalty in doing so than one would think.

That's true, but the variability is much greater than is commonly appreciated: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/07/sensor-stack-thickne... :

While I don’t have a mathematical formula to predict how well a given lens will work on a given camera, it should be apparent that wide-angle rangefinder lenses designed for film are going to struggle, especially on m4/3 cameras, but to some degree on other cameras. Longer focal length rangefinder lenses tend to have longer exit pupil distances and should do better. Stopping down to f/4 or f/8 should reduce the problem significantly, although it isn’t guaranteed to eliminate it near the edges of the frame.

SLR lenses may also have some troubles on m4/3 cameras, since there’s nearly a 2mm difference in stack thickness. They shouldn’t have as much of a problem as rangefinder lenses, though, since they are designed for a 2mm sensor stack and they tend to have longer exit pupil distances. Older lenses designed for film cameras will tend to have more issues, of course, since they were designed for no sensor stack.
Bill Gates has some serious swag
>As opposed to your mental narrative where the taxi industry represents democracy.

That's not what he said.
Wheat is one of the top three plant based foods in the world, and is the largest non-animal source of protein in the world diet. The cultivation of wheat, and the ability to store it in a granary led to the establishment of the first cities in the Fertile Crescent. Humans of all cultures have been eating wheat based products for at least 8000 years and it is the top traded food commodity in the world markets.

Less than 1% of the population is thought to have gluten intolerance by most studies.

From all this, you've determined that gluten is bad....because why exactly? Because it is 'processed'? We're not talking about high fructose corn syrup here, we're talking about crushing a seed and using the various products.

This anti-food information worries me as it seems to be spreading like anti-vaccination hysteria.
"the fundamental reality of encryption (...) is that
the person who is using encryption (...) cannot read it either unless the key is put in some point. (...)
Even when your phone is encrypted locally, when you are looking at the secret picture, if the picture is visible to you it's because that picture is decrypted. (...)
What this means is that even heavily encrypted communication is vulnerable to traditional means of investigation."

I'm a strong believer in crypto as the liberating technology, but this quote is a wonderful Devil's Advocate argument that dispels hackers crypto dreams.
You'll know if you're celiac -- "vague" and "nonspecific" "maybe feel slightly bloated" are not symptoms of the disease.

They are however specific to the latest hypochondriac food fad that's swept the nation and as numerous controlled studies on random non-celiac populations are starting demonstrate with Science, are treatment for disorders (NCGS) that don't even exist.

It appears that "gluten sensitivity" industry (an $11 billion dollar industry) is now about to run its course, so the next fads are starting to spin up, FODMAPs or Frutates or whatever is probably the next big thing. And guess what my prediction is going to be, all those people who complain of vague non-specific NCGS will start eating Gluten again without any complaint and completely forget about it, while simultaneously froggering over to FODMAP free diets or whatever to deal with their vague non-specific hypochondriac symptomologies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE
Ya. The way I pictured it working would be something like your vimrc file or whatever. People post those online all the time as a 'good' starting point. Then eventually you want to add your own and what not.
Very observant Buddhists (chiefly monks and nuns) are not supposed to eat after midday either.
Allowing Vista to play Bluray makes MS a major proponent of DRM? Then so are Google(Widevine acquisition), Mozilla(DRM in HTML5) and Apple. If you're referring to the FUD against Vista DRM, it was debunked long ago. I guess you missed it(read all three parts).

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/everything-youve-read-about-v...

Also, perhaps you believe more FUD against Windows 7's perceived DRM, but it was also debunked.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the...
Perhaps you need to read from more varied news sources than just Slashdot, Groklaw and Boycott Novell/Techrights.

And what have you got to say about Palladium implementation by Apple?
it's definitely in the not yet written category. Background services is something hard to design right and we don't think any of the other mobile operating systems got it right (think: battery, data plan drain, privacy, security, user control).

There are multiple ideas on how to approach that as more and more systems in FxOS would benefit from it (background music player, IM, various synchronization services), and I expect us to come with first approach relatively soon.
I wouldn't do it to people who I know have problems, which is why I said that.
There seems to be a lot of love for these things. It's hard to give up the 4-core xeon and the lower price of the TS140, definitely food for thought. Thanks!

Edit: Based on the reviews, it looks like it has previously been on sale for as little as $229 after rebates, which would make it a much easier choice than the current $399.
Ikea Standing Desk
I'm having a tough time tracking down anybody saying it does, in fact, have memory functionality. That's certainly a feature you'd want to advertise, so it seems reasonable to assume that it doesn't have that particular feature.
Launch fast like Product Hunt for startup success?
JBoss Unveils Profit Sharing (2003)
Don't forget to read the comments.
It seems like I have some sort of in-built desire to do something that 'matters'. The only way I have to measure this is 'number of lives changed'.
Ya, would be interesting to rethink it. Seems cool, but like the question about using it on your phone. Since steno you need two hands you can't use it on your phone (keyboards on your pockets? lol :) )
From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine

> It was the fastest Windows-based implementation of a Java virtual machine for the first two years after its release.[1] Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java, sued Microsoft in October 1997 for incompletely implementing the Java 1.1 standard.[2]

Which is the fastest JVM after 1997 is essentially a moot point after the lawsuit was filed.

I also like how Apple completely sidestepped such kinds of situations in iOS by disallowing third party SDKs and alternate browser engines. If there can be no Netscape or Java, there is no threat and no need to kill something and potentially get into trouble. Same with Google and Chromebooks.
Don't forget to read the comments.
If you and your friends can't be assholes to each other, then who can you be an asshole to?
Push It, Location based anonymous messaging
There's nothing under WNPP (https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/) in Debian for openage. Maybe you could request it?
> I'm not sure I'm fully a fan of derailing this thread into a discussion of the disconnect between progress and true democracy, but if we allow the minority of the population to override the majority's decision because we "know better" than them, are we still being democratic?

The majority of the population (I speak US-centric here, as I'm a US citizen) wasn't for same-sex marriage nor healthcare reform, yet we "knew better" to enact both.

> If the average voter doesn't want the system to change, should it?

Yes. We should never cater to the lowest common denominator.
Gun Violence charted
I chowed down all through college on the Seitan chicken in the cafeteria's Vegan line, if I had Celiacs' I'd know.

But I try to limit my carbs now and I do hate the looks I get when I ask for a gluten free menu just to see the entire offerings of a restaurant(and then I feel doubly dumb when sometimes the menu is just a listing of the already gluten-free plates on the normal menu).
You make the point better than I did.

I would also add that, by this definition, any animal product eaten is processed - even eggs - which are cracked and then usually cooked. Ground beef is extremely processed - having been butchered and then fed through a grinder.

You can theoretically grow your own wheat and grind your own flour. If you can do it yourself without a food factory and secret ingredients, then I don't think it fits any reasonable definition of 'processed'.
Which is philosophy.
Amazon is sitting on $83M in Fire phones they can't sell
Killing someone with your car is cheaper than a $1000 fine and you get to keep your car, too.

But god beware you transport people to their destination and take money for it.
Brian from Backblaze here.

Awww, you are so kind you make us blush. :-)

I do wonder why big companies like Google and Yahoo and Apple don't release more interesting statistics on drive failure. I've heard many people assume they are getting some sweet pricing on hard drives with an agreement never to release those numbers. But if that were true, why won't Seagate or Western Digital or HGST ever give Backblaze a deal to shut us up? Those three companies have refuse to sell to Backblaze "directly" (their business plan is to sell to distributors like Ingram who mark up the product and sell it to NewEgg who marks up the product and sells to Backblaze). I assure you, there are no backroom undisclosed pricing deals for Backblaze.

So I suspect Google and Apple pay retail drive prices also, and is not disclosing drive failure rates because they don't see the profit in it?
Thousands of years of human consumption without negative effect might be a useful starting point.
Off the main topic, but perhaps relevant.... based on personal experience, exercises like biking (esp stationary) and rowing (leg part) can cause piriformis syndrome[1] if not complemented with a set of actions targeting orthogonal actions/muscle movement.

During the winter I knew I would not go to the gym, so I purchased an exercise bike and used it religiously every two days. I was exercising but there was a pain in the buttocks and it was getting worse and I finally had to stop. Sitting at work caused pain after 1 hr, then 30 minutes, then 15. Driving to work caused pain. Stopping the bike did not help alleviate the problem. Went to the Dr who referred me to a physio. None of the exercises given to me helped. It took me a while to diagnose what I was experiencing - googling symptoms finally led me to a set of exercises that has helped incredibly. I am not fixed yet; I have to do the exercises ideally twice a day or at a minimum once every two days. It is much much better but it was torture when undiagnosed.

So if you have pain in the "middle of each or both buttocks" when sitting for a small amount of time, consider piriformis syndrome. If you feel you are constantly clenching your buttocks read up on it as well. The exercises to get relief are very simple, can be done lying down, and start showing promise after about 2 days. The exercises I do are on Youtube.

Which reminds me... I need to call my physio and let her know... hopefully this information helps someone else.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piriformis_syndrome
The semantic thing - modelling language nodally - is inevitable. if you get it - it is simple - the question is when. tools will enable nodal linking as standard when the need to communicate becomes blinding. today google has their internal nodes as we all see - and how powerful its intelligence grows by the day as a result of their nodal step change. but it will not be the only creator of coherence - it will not want to be - as that is stupefying. We all need external predication (not by unstructured text alone - although I note that text is our evolved method of creating a node - just a little rougher than a GUID.) Tools to link will be created so information points can fluidly relate to each other. If we talk to computers today, why will they not talk to each other tomorrow. Is that far away? So then we must just ask if the SW framework is well conceived. Personally I like the simplicity and power of attribute value, and an ID that I can relate.
>Q	Is it a term you're familiar with in your business?
>A	I really don't know what you mean. You mean an API that you have a patent on?

Isn't that a good question? An API is essentially a function header.

eg. void print(string Text);

How can it be proprietary unless it was patented or something? See Oracle vs. Google.

While talking to a court one has to be exact. Perhaps the lawyer meant an API implementation that is copyrighted?
"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills."

One of the oldest questions in philosophy to which I don't think there has every really been a good answer. Or at least I haven't read one.
The article includes a link where the CEO posts some rebuttal: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/whisper-ten-answers-oct-2... .

> We then fuzz the location on the server.

Why not fuzz it on the device, before sending to the server?

> All data is stored in the United States, and has always been.

Why not just amend your Privacy Policy to state that data is only stored in the United States? Anything less, such as this nonbinding account of what you've historically done, strikes me as hand-waving and not fully above-board. It's like you acknowledge this is a legitimate concern, decline to formally commit to anything, but tell people a truth (or at least true at this moment) you think they want to hear, hoping they'll feel like the concern was resolved.
That's a pretty disrespectful comment but fair enough on an objective level. To take the same analytical approach, however, what you are advocating is a modern scientific mode of enquiry. You may be interested to learn that Jainism, Buddhism and other early philosophies of India did in fact have significant (core) portions of their scriptures dedicated to formalistic enquiry in to the nature of being, mind, and senses; and from the results of those enquiries, philosophical extrapolations. After taking a formalistic approach they decided to veer away from rigid analytical inquiry and embrace empathy. Einstein famously had this to say, which can can be applied with somewhat reduced accuracy to Jainism:

Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in the cosmic religion for the future: It trancends a personal God, avoids dogma and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. - Albert Einstein

You should not be so quick to dismiss other traditions.
Wasn't knox discontinued?
Most diet crazes are completely fatuous. It's not a lack of education (because we can't know everything about everything) - to me it's a chronic lack of self awareness and self responsibility that manifests in most people sincerely believing that everything that happens to them is the result of other actors, and not their own actions. So if you're feeling fat and bloated, it's not because you can't stop stuffing crap into your mouth and are too lazy to exercise, it's because some evil conspiracy is feeding you, the helpless victim, foods which you are not designed to eat.

Maybe it is the decline in religion - without a seemingly senseless deity to blame - the search goes on for other reasons. When the answer is always in the one who asks.
> No chemicals are added

To be pedantic, chemicals are added to fortified and enriched flour... perfectly harmless chemicals that were lost in the milling process.
'Securely' is relative. While a TrustZone kernel is supposed to be isolated from the main OS, it can still be compromised, which would allow the key to be retrieved. I don't know why they are storing the key at all, considering that it's supposed to be derived from the password; other systems certainly don't. (Apple's goes farther than that by attempting to prevent parallelized cracking using hardware encryption keys.)
Only the personal edition. Knox as an enterprise product is still active.
It can also be used in situations where you would incriminate yourself by telling the truth. Mr. Gates uses it in reply to the question:

> What did you mean when you asked Mr. Maritz whether or not, "We have a clear plan on what we want Apple to do to undermine Sun"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhdDZk45HDI#t=2113
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Don't act like this isn't your startup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499841

EDIT: May have been premature, but it is still suspicious.
Sure, but if it's true that this is the nature of the mechanics of the universe, that's physics, right?
Leica never stopped selling film cameras. The M7 has been available since 2002, and the MP (not the M-P) since 2003. Also, I only own one camera without a built-in light meter, and that's my Hasselblad 501CM[0]. I specifically bought the M6 because having to bolt on extra hardware to meter a scene struck me as being ridiculous.

> I wonder if this is the first sign that photography is going to start shifting back to its analogue roots?

Not at $4,750+ for a camera it's not. If the future of film photography is all 35mm cameras that cost as much as a 2007 Honda Civic, you can keep it.

[0] And if I'm in a position to shoot with my Hasselblad, carrying around a light meter isn't a significant burden.
You're welcome. That's what happens when rookies develop MVPs.
I wonder if there'd be less friction to porting a BSD - FreeBSD already uses clang to build the kernel+userland, for instance.
How does winning a Pulitzer mean that the people give a shit. My parents know who he is also but they also don't give a shit.
It's so simple... It's not that they can't, it's more that they don't want to. They're profiting from it also.
weev... more innocuous? Are you fucking serious?

http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point/
Well I. for one, am fully convinced of the ill effects of gluten because of this documentary I saw the other day:

http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s18e02-gluten-free-ebo...
Brian from Backblaze here.

Yep, we checksum the file on the client before sending it. In practice for any one user the number of "silent bit flips" on disk is very low and you probably wouldn't notice it (maybe 1 note in your mp3 file is slightly off). But when we check the checksums every few weeks we absolutely see it occur in our datacenter at our scale probably every day and take steps to heal the files (either from other copies we have or ask the client running on the customer's laptop to retransmit the file).
Twitter Auth & Text/Image Upload in 100 lines of code
Wow, what an extraordinarily ignorant and obtuse remark. Way to go HN!
The original post was updated:

http://mobilesecurityares.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/why-samsung...

Not with a retraction.
> IMO Gates the businessman is just a ruthlessly competitive adversary.

Well, anticompetitive adversary.

> I don't even see a conflict between him then and his philanthropic activities now.

He certainly seems to be pretty good at both jobs.
Terrain blending theory: https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/blob/b7af79f1d5bfcc986935...

Terrain blending implementation: https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/blob/b7af79f1d5bfcc986935...

I think we got the perfectly matching algorithm, we even get the same blending bugs with snow :D
> what the NSA was up to

Correction. What the NSA is up to. So far nothing has changed. The Utah data center is still up. Another massive data center is being built in Maryland. May I remind you, these are for content, not metadata [1]. There are no limits to their spying.

Everybody's looking for technology solutions but so far nothing has changed politically. And with the way things are going, it never will because the power and blackmail potential of these agencies are just too great.

[1]: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs-july-dec1... (skip to 3:50)