skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm teaching myself Gregg shorthand. I tried (briefly) Pitman once, but the idea of discerning two characters only by their thickness never sounded too good to me (plus, it ruled out using a pen). The books for Gregg shorthand are now in the public domain, so you can download them for free, as they are hard to find. I'll probably print and bind my copy one of these days.

If you are learning a language other than English, you might want to look into localized shorthand systems. I know that German has its own and that Pitman has been adapted to Spanish, but there are other alternatives.
Sometimes you're so burned out that you need to just stop working, and sit at home and do nothing for a few months.

So this time you'll need to take a chunk out of your savings. Don't even bother looking for a new job until you're two months in to your sabbatical.

Next time, get out before things get this bad.

Wikipedia has the Freudenberger and North model of burnout. I'm sure you'll find yourself on there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_(psychology)#Phases
If you want to argue that personal liberty should take precedence over the authority of governments, fine.

You can't, however, argue for strict constitutionalism and what appears to be a form of anarchism at the same time.

That the constitution should be treated as a sacred body of law for which an 'improper' interpretation by the government could be a killing offense is not actually a constitutional precept, and it's not one with which the will of the majority would agree, nor is it an interpretation which legal precedent supports, your single, not actually legally binding quote by Thomas Jefferson notwithstanding.

So pick one. If it's the latter, the redefinition of treason is indefensible as a pretext. If it's the former, dispense with the constitution altogether, as it interferes with the efficient execution of popular will.
It's backup not primary storage. If they were going to spend the twice the cost, do you think there would be a least a single mention of this somewhere? anywhere? (I couldn't find one)

This outage post makes no mention of a backup datacenter and they say backups were halted as a result of this outage: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/data-center-outage/
Does this cure the reflux symptoms or are you using it as a hunger-suppressant?
Some people with no experience in or awareness of the RC aircraft hobby seem to be terrified of it. It seems particularly common on HN, for some reason.
Yes, I agree that the US brand of tyranny is much more clever and doesn't need to suppress things like speech because it realizes that "free speech" is mainly irrelevant and does not threaten its all out rule. Also, having lived under both systems, I agree with the conclusion that most people under Communism, at least the Eastern European kind, did not believe the government B.S. and thus were generally much smarter than the people who believe that B.S. here in the US despite having very few connections to the outside world and unbiased information compared to US citizens.

In the end however, there is no difference and this is more than a fair comparison. Tyranny is tyranny. Being able to buy an iPhone or gab into a megaphone doesn't change a thing.
Elon Musk Compares Rogue Artificial Intelligence to Demons. Yes, Really
For ACM style papers you need a two-column layout. On the first page at the bottom of the left column must be a copyright notice. As far as I know, CSS cannot do that.
Commenters, please note that the author did not say "overtime" or "long hours".

My advice: start working on a side project which will give you satisfaction from every half hour of your work. Does not need to be an IT project. You'll think of something.
The Great Bitcasa Purge
StartupTalks: A curated collection of startup videos
I'm about to develop a small game in clojurescript for the same reason.
It cures the symptoms. Why it works, I have no idea.
Front-End Chemistry 101: Web Components and Polymer with Angular
He means "de-facto proprietary" in that there is no standard for the output of LaTeX, except whatever LaTeX outputs. That means anyone who wants to build anither version has a huge amount of work to do endlessly duplicating the quirks of the original implementation. Imagine HTML being defined as "whatever Firefox does". You're chasing a very complicated moving target and you'll always be behind if you aren't just copying the source wholesale.

As to your second point, he mentions LaTeX converters in the article, saying you must write in a very restricted subset of LaTeX for it to convert properly. Obviously, pandoc doesn't have any way to turn everything LaTeX does into a markdown file.

That being said, I personally like LaTeX a lot. But I wanted to clarify the points the author was making.
I'd like to know, too.
The RC jet flying that you see in this video requires an immense amount of knowledge, experience, preparation, and flying skill—far more than to fly a normal electric RC plane or multirotor, or even to drive an automobile. There is nothing I saw in this video that looks remotely irresponsible.
I wonder whether anyone is still using AspectJ? Why not APT instead?
I see your point. My worry is mostly on the lines of wether I can fight with them as a solo founder working part-time on this. But on further analysis, I feel there is a chance of holding a good fight by focusing on certain niche markets as you've highlighted.
The windowless plane set for take off in a decade
What if there's a tiger with a team of professional large animal trainers abiding by all sensible guidelines?
I don't like their syntax, and it's a hobby project so to say. I like the pythonic syntax of coffescript, and I have lisp/FP learning on my bucket list, so I think I'll go the clojurescript way!
Do they only do backups or also cloud storage? If they have an API for uploading / deleting / viewing files, I'd use them over S3 given how lower their costs are. But, I can't find any info on that on their website.
TeX sources are only for co-authors. Everybody else gets the generated pdf. Advisors et al can annotate the pdf or print-and-scribble. All my publishing venues only gave templates and required a pdf.
Google has recently started to embed some semantic elements into search results: http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2014/09/introducing-struct...
To a point but logically it could be concluded that skipping breakfast offers a longer period of time where the blood sugar and insulin response has a chance to drop lower which might hypothetically make a resulting spike from food intake actually higher in comparison.
The burden of proof should be on you, if you want to prove that the flying was irresponsible. That's how that works.
The point is, are there any other applications that will render a LaTeX document correctly that aren't LaTeX itself? It's open source, but in practice the code is so complicated and large no one has ever duplicated it. It's not proprietary in the traditional sense, but if you want your LaTeX file to not be mangled, you must use LaTeX itself.
Nice. Now just add laser tags...

http://abstrusegoose.com/570
I found a cure that works perfectly for me.

My doctor prescribed a truckload of antiacids and proton-pump inhibitors for me, until they stopped working. Then, as a new year's resolution, I decided to stop eating potato chips... after avoiding them for about 3 weeks, the acid reflux completely went away. Whether it was because of all the salt, or the oil, I don't know, but it solved it for me. Give it a try!
Sam Altman on Cofounders
Are these use case the same or similar to just doing it through API access to some set of underlying relational databases?

That question suggests that you see "The Semantic Web" as being exactly equivalent to "HTML with semantic metadata added". But that most definitely is not the case, and "API access" is part of the Semantic Web. An HTTP based protocol for SPARQL has been around for forever, and continues to evolve, as do the standards around semantic discovery of API services.

The whole RDFa, microformats, microdata, GRDDL thing is just a small part of the overall picture.
And the detail behind the technique:

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_uk/blog/witness-the-an...

and

Clark - Superscope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYrwuxLZtY
We changed it back.

Edit: Normally we take attention-grabbing Unicode glyphs out of titles since they disrupt the placid bookishness of HN's front page. But this is one is so tasteful and content-appropriate that it seems obviously a special case.
This is what RDJ used to make the sounds in the b-side on Windowlicker.
> I have to wonder if the compressor is basically an ablative heat shield

As an aerospace engineer, this is cringeworthy. How exactly would this compressor function as a heat shield? Is it experiencing hypersonic intake flow as part of an atmospheric reentry vehicle? Makes no sense.
I use Backblaze to backup something like 400,000 files on my Mac. Worst case scenario, I only care about maybe 100,000 files total. The rest is associated with the OS, apps, etc
Don't be a jerk, please.
My schools's thesis template was incompatible with the packages which I had to use for a specific notation. I spent the rest of the year constantly wrestling it. The OP makes a good point, LaTeX ultimately does not separate content and presentation, nor is it declarative.
Once in a while, we find out that crazy ideas of the ancients have some basis in truth. For example, "epigenetics" is something that has been around since the ancient Greeks. Eveyrone who learns biology "learns" that Lamarck was a quack. Now, well, maybe he was kinda right somehow. The ancients weren't stupid. They may even have had more native intelligence than we do, since breeding patterns were still eugenic in the past (aka dumb people were killed off).

Similarly, I wouldn't be at all surprised if leeches and bleeding had some health giving effect. Perhaps it allows your body to make more appropriate white blood cells when you are sick.

BTW, can you recommend some good popular books on this subject? "Devils drugs and doctors" was one of my all time fave reads.
If you saw a video of someone flying a full scale aircraft without incident, would you assume by default that they are being irresponsible? I don't think most people would say "that seems irresponsible since it's basically a huge flying missile that could kill dozens of people if it crashed," even if the full scale aircraft was flying in very low visibility conditions.
Start a free CDN for open source projects.
UK developer working on replacing heavy aircraft windows with smartscreen panels
That's funny, this survey says it's still in use:
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-iso885905/all/all
Quelle.ru uses iso-8859-5.
Pandoc can't replicate everything LaTeX does. It can take a heavily restricted subset of LaTeX and convert it to other markup languages. Nobody to date has duplicated LaTeX quirk for quirk.
Why were they only taking 4 classes per day?

They are 30 minutes longer than my high school classes were, but we had 7+ different classes per day. I'm pretty sure our day lasted till 3:30 or 4pm. We had 5 minutes to get to the next class, and on a big campus, that could result in some pretty good cardio workouts. So maybe inadvertently we were getting those stretches recommended by the author.
Sadly this type of response seems to be common amongst those that do get it. "Whatever. Most people don't care anyway."

If you look at the reaction of those 99% to Apple planting a U2 album on their phone, you see an angry response when people are made aware...
Then the only 'expert' is a computer, for even the best human will occasionally make undefined behavior inducing mistakes. And 'occasionally' is frequent enough to be a problem.
Need not be anything strenuous. Just a dozen pushups are good enough and take hardly half a minute. Jumping up and down like a little kid is fine too! The idea is to divert the mind away from the source of stress.
CoffeeScript isn't really supposed to offer new features, just syntactic sugar. And in my opinion it excels at that.

IcedCoffeeScript, on the other hand, does introduce a few new interesting features: http://maxtaco.github.io/coffee-script/

It's still technically sugar, but it changes the way you think about and write code.
The neural Turing machines article has had significant recent attention here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=neural+turing+machines#!/story/for.... If someone wants to post the "Learning to Execute" article, that would be great.

Originally I thought we could just change the present url to that one, but since the comments are only about the other paper, it seems better to just treat this as a dupe.
I agree with 101914. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8511826
> The workload is unmanageable and it just never ends.

I'm not sure there is another good way to interpret that statement.
I completely agree with this article. I was surprised how fast I was able to implement the guts of pixie (http://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie) using RPython

I had a repl, with a JIT and a GC done in about 40 hours of work (this is a pet project and I'm a father, so I only hacked on it for about 3 hours a day for a month). At one point I commented to my wife how shocked I was that I started implementing the JIT one morning and about 2 hours later it was done. From there it's just been an hour or two here and there tuning it. That's something that would have taken me months to implement by hand. Making polymorphic functions transparent (completely removable by the jit) was about 4 lines of python code.

In addition, all the stuff in rlib is simple to implement. Want FFI in your language? Pull in the rlib/jit_libffi.py module and crank out a hundred lines of python code to interface. Want strings that are implemented via ropes? Just one more module to import.

RPython (and the PyPy toolchain) are amazing, I wish more people would spend time playing with them. And on top of all that the pypy mailing list is very active. Most of my questions were answered within a day, sometimes within an hour.

Oh, and when I found a bug in PyPy, my patch was accepted and merged within 48 hours.

I can't say enough good things about this project.
What do I do with a good idea?
I have an idea that takes a new approach to teaching programming and development online. I've never seen anything anywhere similar to it (and I do know of a lot of these sites http://goo.gl/W0UQNq )

I've been sitting on this idea for over a year now and occasionally add a few notes to my overall vision.

I've built two websites, but nothing to the dynamic level that I'm thinking of. This would be something that would require a few people working together even at its basic level. I once tried to outsource getting something in place, but my $5,000 budget was outbidded. (I now have a $7,000 budget but I don't think that's big enough.)

What I'd like to know from HN is how I can find either people willing to help with this, where to find investors or anything that could help me get started.
Apreciate the feedback, I hadn't thought of that. Any ideas that would make alerting more appealing?
Yup. I built the first version of the site and the iPhone app some time ago.
The C sources are quite baroque as well -- inconsistent naming, lots of repetition. Things that could have been neatly done with a lookup table are coded into enormous repetitive switch statements. No goto for error handling, hence a repetition of the same error handling code before each return.

If you want to see examples of consistent and disciplined C programming, look at Git and Nginx.
As a Dutchman I disagree. In general the portions here aren't large.
Entrepreneurs think they’re badass
Escalate to paper.

My first letter would be to, take your pick, the CEO of BoA or their Investor Relations department. ("To whom it may concern,¥n¥n I'm a shareholder in Bank of America. It was therefore with great displeasure that... I would be obliged if you investigated this as soon as reasonably possible.")

I happen to be a shareholder in Bank of America, and if you own virtually any mutual fund in the United States (perhaps in your IRA or similar), welcome to our exclusive club.

There's a series of letters you can write after that one, but I'd give you 50% odds on that solving your problem within 2~3 weeks.

The size of the dispute is too small to justify hiring a lawyer. If BoA continues to not play ball, then I'd send a followup letter, addressed to your local branch manager, and say substantially the following:

"On XX/YY/ZZZZ Bank of America received a $200 electronic funds transfer from Paypal to my account, QQQQQQQQQ, which was closed on 9/5/2014. As my account was closed, I have not received the transfer, which is a clear error. The bank's representative $BOB said that the money had been returned to Paypal, but according to Paypal, this is not accurate.

XX/YY is within 60 days of the posting of this letter.

Accordingly, I dispute that Bank of America has properly discharged its responsibilities under Regulation E. You have 10 business days to investigate. After investigating, you have 3 business days to inform me of the results of your investigation. If you do not inform me of the results of your investigation by #{Date.today + 13.days}, you are in per-se violation of Regulation E.

I seek the following resolution to this issue: a cashier's check, delivered to my address via your choice of courier, in the amount of $200, representing the amount Paypal attempted to transfer electronically to my aforementioned account.

I have taken the liberty of sending this letter via registered mail, to make sure it comes to your prompt attention. [+]

Regards,

$YOU

[+] This action does not need to be announced in the mail, but considering that it is intended as a threat and will be read as a threat, might as well make sure everyone is on the same page about the threat.

The action you're threatening is to write the Federal Reserve Board a very well-documented complaint, upon which point a well-funded bureaucrat with very little to do gets to command BoA to pay attention by holding their feet to the fire until they do.
No.. it happens if you enable iCloud at all, not just iCloud Drive. There is no "enable documents in the cloud" setting.

According to Apple's KB, just signing into iCloud makes iCloud the default location for all unsaved docs (for iCloud-enabled apps).[1] So even if you've just turned on iCloud for photo streams or syncing contacts or whatever, iCloud becomes the default location for all unsaved docs.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4372
I doubt any of the companies are willing partners in PRISM - it's terribly bad for business, as Americans are only 4% of humans and being forced on threat of personal imprisonment to spy for the American government is not a really wise customer acquisition strategy.

It is really quite likely that the access to Apple and Google and other large providers' systems is done at an operations level, without knowledge of their management and providing for complete plausible deniability. How many network admins and ops people at Apple have physical access to the machines where keys are generated, stored, and used?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations

The #1 realtime end-to-end encrypted messaging service on the planet (where the software development and cyphertext transmission are both physically present inside the legal jurisdiction of the US) would be your first choice, no?
> That said, its an amazing to me this guy can keep his head 'in the plane' which is to say at that speed can fly the plane to its orientation rather than his own.

If you think the orientation skills in this video are impressive, you should check out the professional 3D RC helicopter pilots!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDptulCpK0#t=37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PptMrBFAO-A#t=28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxaJTjCFhE#t=16
FriendDA v2?
Thanks for posting those. Very interesting stuff.
Are you saying JSON-LD is part of this "invisible" semantic web? Because that link says:

>I’ve heard many people say that JSON-LD is primarily about the Semantic Web, but I disagree, it’s not about that at all. JSON-LD was created for Web Developers that are working with data that is important to other people and must interoperate across the Web. The Semantic Web was near the bottom of my list of “things to care about” when working on JSON-LD, and anyone that tells you otherwise is wrong. :P

>TL;DR: The desire for better Web APIs is what motivated the creation of JSON-LD, not the Semantic Web. If you want to make the Semantic Web a reality, stop making the case for it and spend your time doing something more useful, like actually making machines smarter or helping people publish data in a way that’s useful to them.
<Edit>Leave your email in your profile, and after doing some research I will send you info. This is a very good question.</Edit>

Sorry for the late reply. I picked up a coffee table book titled "100 of the World's Most Beautiful Paintings," reading through it, I would quickly Google artists, and found a few lived close to each other and during the same era. I would have to go through it again, but surely I will add it here once I do.

Something more obvious would be Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle.

Also Einstein's influential TOR work on the Atomic bomb when highly capable scientists advanced the same work in the United states at the same time.
> or give up and start-over on something else?

So what happens if you hit a similar problem when you start over on something else?
I think there is some truth to this, but it also seems to be true that on average the US is valuing quantity over quality (in food) more than many other economies that can certainly afford to overeat.
Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]
> (Question to front-end types. Are people still agonising over section vs aside, dl/dt vs ul/li under the impression that it makes any damn difference? Angels dancing on the head of a pin...)

I am saying this without a value judgment either way, but this is still done today under the banner of accessibility, not SW in the sense being discussed in most comments here. I understand that accessibility requires semantics in a similar way, but the use case is specific: allow screen readers to read your pages.
It's at odds with the name, but Creative Cloud runs independent of Adobe. "Cloud" refers to a harsher anti piracy check under the guise of a Dropbox like file storage that nobody uses.
The article mentions markdown, HTML. I think markdown is more practical for actually writing in, and combined with pandoc it can be very powerful. Both of these formats should work well with version control. Personally, I find that markdown's minimalism goes very nicely with git. As long as you use suitable line wrapping it generates very concise and helpful diffs.

Bonus: if you're using pandoc you get native use of LaTeX's math mode.