skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going out on a limb here, as I posted a pretty lengthy comment on Nation State attacks in the past [1], but does this Google/NSA relationship qualify as terrifying? Google finds out it has been targeted by a Nation State, who is actively siphoning off user data and company crown jewels, so they enter into an agreement with the NSA to share information about the attack, and develop technology and methods to prevent future attacks. I would argue that Google must share knowledge of Nation State APTs with the US Government, and other Silicon Valley firms, once they found out the scope included Symantec, Yahoo, and Adobe, Northrop Grumman, etc. NSA/Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon should be trying to advance countermeasures and leveling up the industry as a whole, because they arguably have some of the most exposed attack surfaces, host most of our data, and have the financial resources and in house expertise to deal with it best. I would be terrified if Google did not have a relationship where it shared intrusions of this scope with the US Government.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8316430
> orthogonal to each other

by which I meant: parallel and orthogonal to the linear transformation, not to each other. same thing for the third one.
> I mean, seriously if you are going to put the time and effort into a long document like this, don't be so blatantly bias.

It's also totally counterproductive. If you tell me to use something and you start telling me things that aren't true I'm going to be deeply skeptical of your possibly-valid points if I know you're either ignorant or dishonest in some cases.
The problem is that its simply not possible, there will never be a "low barrier to entry" into the space industry, or the airplane industry or many other industrys. The amount of investment required is just to high.

I know why people want it, and I think generally that the basic idea is not bad. However the idea that we can controll all markets to achive this goal is just not relistic. This kind of thing was tried in "indian socialism" were they would have permits for every market to controll how many firms operated in each market.

All you need is effective banking and low regulatory burden. A safty net is of course nice, but Im not sure I would put it into "low barrier to entry" category.
If they offered the same space for economy seats, the prices would be higher. This way you can make the judgement for yourself.
Is your whole point that it takes more than one congressperson to change the law?
M-< C-M-% regexp RET replacement RET C-u C-space

If you are just replacing plain text (no regexps) then take a look at iedit. Then C-; will edit all occurrences of the word at cursor.
1.) ...

2.) Isn't this like saying python doesn't add any new programming capabilities over hand written assembly? Having full-take data in a database, all in one place under the hands on one agency DOES constitute new surveillance.

Also to be clear the XKEYSCORE program uses metadata to search but will return full content in the query response. It is a database with full-take data.

3.) http://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/fisc0912.pdf&ved=0CB4QFjA... resolves to http://fas.org/404-not-found/ for me. From what I can tell, however, lots of upstream collection has happened during the Obama administration. Would you care to provide another link?

4.) Covered in 2.

5.) Agreed about his link. Let's talk about this one. http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/dec/18/nsa...

6.) They are recording the data. But they presumably delete it if it isn't related to their case. It is known that there are no formal safeguards - the deletion of data is enforced merely by policy.

7.) Again we need a new link. But I don't understand how shutting down of upstream data collection could imply no assistance in parallel construction. Could you expand?

8.) ...

9.) You can use the threat to persecute journalists, which is what I believe the parent is talking about. Furthermore other laws are used in its place (e.g. Risen).

10.) > The Obama Administration continued to lie about the programs. The Obama Administration continued to refuse to admit their existence. This is all continuing right now.

Do you agree with these sentences?

> The Obama Administration massively expanded all surveillance programs.

I think the parent is speaking generally about the growth of the budget and capabilities of the NSA during the Obama Administration including the Utah Facility, the renewal of the spying programs and Patriot Act by the administration, and legislature that would have (had it passed) expanded the NSA's ability to look directly at content without having to make requests to corporations.

11.) Back to 6.
This is really cool, just one small bug.

When I click to start a new translation, it pauses the previous translation(s) instead of canceling what hasn't been beeped.

This led to a fun test where I asked it to spell eight words simultaneously and suddenly found myself listening to electronic music.
Some effort is going towards this in LaTeX3 (see the experimental package: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/expl3).
You can see this sort of thing in open source projects where every status change for a issue or a patch automatically sends email. If you're subscribed to lots of issues and patches, and monitor the user support mailing lists as well, it adds up.
While true, Isn't this more an "engineering problem" barrier (like the sound barrier) instead of a "theoretically impossible" barrier?
I could see something novel changing for smaller craft flying a few hundred km, so that loading passengers and cargo was far more efficient. e.g., an electric plane that was propelled into the air and then would glide the remaining distance.
It is not exactly commercial, but I was 12 (2001) when I first sold some IRC bots. I started charging something like $10, had no idea I was able to make money from it. One of these bots was used for long time.
Thanks! (And thanks for the other replies as well)

This resource is the most interesting to me.

As I got a lot of answers about zooming and resampling, I'll try to restate my original question:

What I have is some mechanism to sample something as much and as detailed as I want. This is why I mentioned a fractal. I don't want to zoom or resample, just find the optimal way to sample the original data to construct, say, a 500x500 pixel image. Up until I read this article, I would just sample randomly in the [0.0, 0.0]-[1.0, 1.0] space and avergage out the value. If there's a better way, I'd love to learn it.

The best answer might just be "main metric of quality for them is how they look" from fsloth.
I think Netflix is stagnating on content, not features. I'm really considering canceling my subscription because I feel like I've exhausted everything worth watching (granted this is highly subjective, but more and more when I get on Netflix I've browsed around for 5 - 10 minutes and just given up).
The problem with coroutines in C and C++ is that you'll have to save the stack upon a yield, and restore it later. If only C or C++ added some stack barrier primitives to the language, coroutines could (I suspect) be added more naturally.

Perhaps Rust could introduce this.
Actually, you can do SMS, Facebook and Hangouts in one app.

There are SMS services who support XMPP, and additionally Facebook and Hangouts support the XMPP client-side. It’s not as convenient as sending from kuschku@chat.facebook.com a message to justJanne@talk.google.com, but it still works quite nice.
something similar but does dashboards+ https://my.infocaptor.com/free_data_visualization.php
Agreed--which is strange, since I expect it's less likely to be used anywhere.

Pictures with my phone often go straight to social media.

Pictures with my camera are curated and I only choose the best ones. Maybe 2% are ever viewed by another living human.
why isn't this a start-up already? if this crowd can't point you toward 25 variations on the theme, maybe you've asked a good question...
see rest of comments, it is not taking long for people to point out the flaws in the OP
Got it.

Thanks for confirming that you're an asshole who is happy to subject thousands of people to valueless bullshit because you require the last word.

If dang had balls, you'd be banned for that shit. But he lacks balls when it comes to idiots like you, Dan.
I have to deal with uC++ for the term. I'm not quite sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, it does make it a bit easier to write concurrent programs. On the other hand, I would have been more comfortable with Boost or almost any other language to learn about concurrent systems.
I don't think bounds checking can be done at compile time.

Otherwise Java, Rust, Go et al. wouldn't need to incur the runtime overhead of the extra bookkeeping int per array.
It's in the same order of magnitude as the Project Orion speed estimates, based on present-day technology - it ought to be possible if the political will was there.
This looks awesome! I remember playing line rider when I was in school!
The point is that you can write something that takes advantage of hardware that will be consumer grade in x years, rather than hardware that is consumer grade now. I thought parent stated that fairly clearly.
> The Meta key is called the "Meta key" because that's the label that was on the keyboards of the Lisp machines in the MIT AI lab when Emacs was first developed.

You have your cause and effect backwards. TL;DR: The Lispm's bucky keyboard simply extended existing practice.

Emacs predates the Lisp machines (CADRs in this case), and was originally written in TECO. Originally escape escape would open and close a minibuffer in which you could simply enter raw TECO. The Knight TV system had a custom keyboard used by us at MIT AI (and at Stanford AI for their own, slightly different TV system) had a Meta key which was used to invoke the minubuffer with a single keystroke (meta-altmode, mapped to escape when using ASCII) which later turned into direct "long" commands (M-X commands) and a wider keyspace.

In those days most programs on the PDP-6 & PDP-10 used six or seven bit bytes (though byte pointers could stride by 1-18 bit bytes) but the KTV was built on a PDP-11 which had 8 bit bytes, so meta was trivially available. FWIW the PDP-11 was memory mapped into the 36-bit PDP-6 through an arcane process I have thankfully forgotten.
Mujica's great. I've lived on and off in Uruguay for a decade and really things are going pretty well. There's laptops for all kids, free internet for everybody, no taxes on tech companies, free universal education and universal healthcare. What's more he's somebody who believes in leading by example.

The thing is, he's not actually retiring. He's president of the senate and leads the largest faction of the governing coalition. Once he steps down from the presidency he'll still be the major power broker in the government and 3rd in line to be president again if anything should happen to Vasquez (new president) and Sendic (new vice president).

He's a friendly old uncle figure who everybody finds adorable. But don't for a minute think that he isn't an incredibly savvy political player. I think he plays up the act because it's not as scary than having somebody who's a libertarian marxist as president.
I have been using LaTex for many years and I like it, but what's stopping other document editing software (like Word) to reach the same level of quality of results? LaTex has been around forever, but nobody else is close to that quality.
CSS Dig for Chrome
I would actually go further. For the most part it makes frightfully no difference. Last I checked, the majority of fiction books out there have ligatures. As do many "professional" publications. Magazines are an odd mix. Last I recall, the expensive ones use them, the cheap ones don't.

All of this is to say that sure, you may notice and be cognizant of ligatures. Most people aren't.
If you look at uIP you'll realize its pretty much a gigantic function [1] with a lot of gotos and ifdefs. Not exactly what I would cite for sane code.

1: https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki/blob/master/core/net/i...

P.S. UIP doesn't use the coroutine stuff at all it seems.
Some airlines (like Delta) offer "economy comfort" seats which give you access at ticket purchase time to some of the best seats on the plane, including bulkhead and exit rows. I'm 6'7" so I always pay the extra bit for these seats. It runs anywhere from $25-100 one way.

I flew from Minneapolis to Taiwan earlier this year and those seats made all the difference. I had as much leg room as any business or first class seat I've been in.

The key is to make sure you use http://seatguru.com while you're picking your seats.
I've done a fair amount of work importing CSV files into SQL Server 2008. I have no idea if this is still broken, but I can confirm that 2008 mishandles CSV files where the character used to surround string columns appears escaped within the column itself. Such as:

57,4.3209,"green","He calls himself""Waldo""",98,"Y"

This is a perfectly valid CSV file, but SSIS will choke. I ended up writing a custom script component to load these files anyways.

That said, I absolutely love SQL Server, and I think this guy is a little over the top in his religious hatred of it. In an Enterprise setting, it works really, really well.
No the article implies that inbox is the streamlined, low featured version of gmail that got everybody angry and then finally ends up telling us that it is in fact inbox that is the power user version of gmail and normal gmail is the simple version.
Except I've found the produce in the small corner grocery stores (like Associated's) to be much lower cost and the same or higher quality (due to the turnover).
I am not disagreeing with you.
Because charging every customer same price regardless where he lives is widely accepted - but just imagine you had a "city tax" appear on your telco bill. You'd be outraged by it...

Sure. Which is why you wouldn't charge a "city tax", you'd just charge a tax on everyone, but the subsidy to rural users would simply cover it (and part of the ISP price).

Also, you would not gain much from point-to-point-connecting a rural village as you'd still have to dig fiber into the village center.

I was actually thinking about connecting to the village using microwave, not (just?) to individual homes.
Maybe, but the same content takes weeks or months to cover in high school. Besides, you can skip to the next level or section when you feel like you get the idea; a feature which classrooms unfortunately lack.

It can be tough to strike a balance when post-docs and 7th graders are both in your target audience. I'm thinking of making two tutorials, one for people who have done this in school once before and one for people who haven't.

Did you try the non-tutorial puzzles?
Developing bleeding edge software takes time. So you start writing your SW on a top end machine; in two years it becomes mainstream, which might coincide with the time of your first release. Moore's law worked perfectly for you here.
> Unicode was known when it was invented

Certainly not, not even latin-1 was existing when TeX was created.
You may also be interested in https://github.com/nschum/highlight-symbol.el which provides highlighting of the current symbol, and provides highlight-symbol-{next,prev} commands to move between occurrences of a symbol.
I think the best alternative out there, honestly, is to just write simpler papers. Having finally started digging into the some of the core works of Knuth, I must say that the source and the results both read fairly well. There are macros, but they are judiciously used.

Probably doesn't hurt to adopt his style of reuse. Which is not necessarily to "link" to a full blown library of macros for purposes, but to pick and choose some that you wish to use. Possibly even just redefining them yourself.
Having a good way to measure something is very different from something being impossible to measure...
He is indeed - I was fortunate enough to work with Wilfred and he is truly passionate about OSS!
Header based stateless token authentication
Toxic femininity isn't really a thing, but the other side of the same coin would be societal pressures on women's appearances, and pressures to not be a slut/prude/bitch.

Also, I think you need to explain what slippery slope you mean.
it's a 'strike price' R&D programme. work on expensive stuff _now_ on the assumption that it will be cheap/mainstream in x years. if you waited for it to be cheap enough before you start, you'll be outgunned by the crew that started 6 months before you did. that's iterative of course, how far back you go is the decision that counts. someone once said "10x faster isn't just faster - it's different". i like that metaphor, in CS you might throw away processor cycles for the GUI at a time when everyone else is optimising the metal for a text inteface to eke out a millisecond or two...
I hear they are buggy on OSX too. It is not a very big pile of assembly though; that is what eg Go does (gccgo uses and requires swapcontext).

EDIT: I agree really, C is not very suitable and that is the correct conclusion but if you are eg implementing a language that has them, assembly is the best solution.
Apologies for the numerous typos.

Memo not memory.

How to disagree as an internal executive...

*clear Matt is not excited...
Can't say much about 1 & 3. But, pgAdmin[1] has a great visual "explain" tool.

[1] http://www.pgadmin.org/
-fbounds-checking, I'm sure there is a runtime cost, but it's provided by the compiler.
Pretty fascinating, is there much discourse out there on this?
Your anecdotes do not support your stated conclusion that "it is a tiny minority"; at best, even if your data is actually accurate, you've gathered evidence to support the conclusion that there exist people who have not been harassed or abused. Likewise, there is more than enough evidence to support the conclusion that there exist people who have been, and more than enough evidence to infer that those aren't just "isolated incidents" (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Isolated_incident).
What do you mean by bug? It's true that you can get slightly different simulations at different zoom levels due to the sampling optimizations needed to draw a new graph every frame, is this keeping you from completing the level?
That's interesting. Which SMS services? (is SMS service a tautology?)
Instead of cscope/ctages, have you tried GNU GLOBAL? I've taken my first steps with it and the ggtags mode. So far, I am finding it to be drastically better than ctags.

Have I just never configured ctags correctly?
They likely should have said "standards compliant CSV." I've worked a lot with CSV (too much!) and let me tell you Microsoft's tools are simply awful at following the CSV standard.

Excel in particular drives me up the will. Plus the automatic inferences in Excel break all kind of things. Have a six digit number? Randomly a date. Have a UPC? Going to corrupt it in numerous ways (leading zero stripping, converting to scientific notation, etc).

I can definitely sympathize with anyone who criticises Microsoft's CSV support. They really just want you to use an Excel format (either the binary format or the zip-XML one). However Excel formats are overly complicated for the type of data migration work CSV is often utilised for (XML is too large, it adds up, and requires custom code to import/export (even if that is XSL from CSV), JSON might be better but isn't "yet" popular).
Agreed.

I mean, presidency is not a vow of poverty, the president is not the people's redeemer. What matters is administration competency, efficiency, results...

I would like to know why presidents are held almost as emperors here in latin america.
Do you know if he's back from his sabbatical?
classes start at 0710!? what on earth do you do all day?
Mind-Control Helicopters and the Healing Power of Poop
Java 8′s Date Time API Quickstart
A) Indexes do not just disappear. Someone dropped them or restored an older version of the DB.

B) What? That's not SQL Server's fault, it's either a broken third party package or the display settings on your UI chopped the data to fit on a screen or something.

C) Never heard about this. I even tried to google it but I can't find any information about this. Do you have a source?

D) Third party tool problem probably. Not SQL Server's fault. Did the BAK file restore normally using SQL Server?
Isn't Facebook XMPP going away? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat/
Indeed, TeX: 1978. Unicode: 1987.

Perhaps some dyslexia lead someone to believe they were invented in the same year? :-)
The fact that nobody blinks when agencies openly admit doing this for economic interests is the part I find terrifying. Could there be a more blatant admission of the unethical nature of military-industrial complex?
So that is a "no" then? You make a blatant argument from authority and then when asked to affirm your opinion with facts rather than claimed qualifications you refuse (saying "read the other posts" is a refusal if I've ever seen one).
> On the subjective side they IMO made the worst possible choices. Arial (or similar), 12 points, almost no margins, 150% spacing between the lines, italic and bold headings.

So that's why my high-school's formatting requirements for assignments and papers were exactly what you've listed there.
I wonder in how many states doing this is an illegal form of tampering with electronic communications. It seems to me interfering with communications would be illegal unless it is necessary for network operations, which advertising trackers obviously are not.
Really? What evidence do you have for that? This thing has been promised for decades now, since the early 1990s.
So now sort by recommendation ranking is truly gone even via other websites, along with Netflix being eliminated from data search such as apps that help you find where a show is available to watch (legally) across all services?

Wow. I do not get this at all.

I can't quite understand why so many big services avoid obvious features related to ranking and discovery. Is it because they've found that people just burn through their top 10% of recommended content, and then quit the service? This seems hard to believe. Is there some other reason I'm missing?

I've been calling this "value evasion" to refer to obvious features that are consistently avoided by many top web services, and working to understand what the point of hiding that functionality is for a while now. There must be really clear reasoning as to why it's a bad idea, but I have to admit I'm stumped.
Well, you would probably compile to TeX, not LaTeX.

I don't want a new language, myself, because new languages are much more difficult to migrate to. Personally, I just want an implementation that knows how to produce good error messages despite LaTeX's macro implementation. By the time TeX sees the results of the LaTeX macros, it loses the context for producing meaningful diagnostics.
I scrolled to a random page. It was totally absurd, stopped right there.

"Crucially, because open-source software tends to be written by people who care deeply about its quality (often because they have a direct personal stake in ensuring that the software works as well as possible), it is often of the very highest standard (PostgreSQL, Linux, MySQL, XBMC, Hadoop, Android, VLC, Neo4JS, Redis, 7Zip, FreeBSD, golang, PHP, Python, R, Nginx, Apache, node.js, Chrome, Firefox...). On the other hand, commercial software is often designed by committee, written in cube farms and developed without proper guidance or inspiration (Microsoft BOB, RealPlayer, Internet Explorer 6, iOS Maps, Lotus Notes, Windows ME, Windows Vista, QuickTime, SharePoint..."
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Any help?
Hi there, I have recently released a new site, but I'm having trouble getting people interested. Does anyone have any pointers?
This may speak to a growing need for people who have actually studied human-computer interface design, combined with other skillsets (probably graphic design principles, too), to be primarily in charge of the screens and flows.