skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correction - Wouldn't it be better as an EU citizen to store your data with an EU provider (I.e. a non-NSA partner)?

The safe harbor agreement has been demonstrated to be patently false. The data wasn't ever safe. Every major US tech company has participated either willingly or forced through secret courts under threat of prison for non-compliance by individual employees. That's not 'safe'.

It's a joke. It's a kangaroo court. It's non-democratic. It's anti-privacy. It's a conflict of EU basic human rights. I could go on.

The EU has a responsibility to prevent EU citizen's data from leaving the EU, period. I hope they see it through and the safe harbor agreement is the first thing I'd rip up and throw in the the face of whichever kangaroo US President you have now or next time.

Then Microsoft need to win their upcoming court case against the USG, which will demonstrate clearly to everyone that the USG cannot open the electronic equivalent of a private sealed letter stored in a bank safe in Ireland, because they damn well feel like it.

The US constitution needs another amendment to protect the privacy rights of all, regardless of whether they are US citizens or not. It is time the citizens of the US started pushing for it. These three letter agencies with their massive black budgets funded by narcotics are your mess and it is time you sorted them out.

I'll leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass
Ask HN: Any Googlers want to help a fellow HN fellow out with a password reset?
Please help me.

I've had this account for over a decade ago.

I got in when it was still invite only and you were only giving out like two invites per new account and it was really hard to get in. Its an old account and I have a ton of things in my email, files in my Drive, things in my calendar, and most importantly all my contacts and messages in Voice (I was a memeber of Grand Central and got switched over - loved that you added texts.)

I fail all the online prompts for resetting my password. I have no alternative email, I can't remember my security questions, and I can't remember the phone number I linked to the account.

I'm sorry if this is inappropriate for this board at this time; I haven't seen many Ask HNs for personal help in awhile. I hope you understand my dilemma; over ten years of accumulation is quite a lot to lose.

Thank you anyone here who might be able to point me in the right direction or give me a hand personally. My contact details will be in my profile.
The WD they use is a 5-platter HDD (1.2TBx5). The Seagate has 6 platters (1TBx6). The higher density means that the linear reads/writes are faster at the same spindle speed (more data passes under the heads in the same time interval). The interesting thing is that they are faster even at different speeds.
From the original press release (http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/unsw-res...):

"The new results are based on the use of focused sunlight [...]"

So it has the usual drawbacks of focused photovoltaics: you need tracking in two dimensions, scaffolding, and active cooling of the PV cells.
Wiping out the species you're trying to save is obviously ludicrous. The point of this article is that rats (which are dead common in practically all corners of the world) pose an enormous threat to lots of unique species and ecosystems, and controlling rats is necessary if you want to preserve those unique species and ecosystems.

Spreaking large amounts of poison to do that, certainly makes me quite uncomfortable. But I'm no conservationist, so I can't really judge whether that's ultimately a good or bad idea.
Ah, serendipity! As it happens I'm working on a variant of HM type inference right now, so my first step was to look up the explanation on Wikipedia and have my eyes glaze over. (As the saying goes, 'Which part of [above equations] do you not understand?' Answer: all of it! And it's not even the first time I've looked at it, though I don't remember anything much from the previous time.)

So I rummaged around a bit more and found http://akgupta.ca/blog/2013/05/14/so-you-still-dont-understa... which explains the notation in much more readable English text. It's a pure win.

Yes, I find typical Java style too verbose for optimal readability; but I find typical Perl style too terse for optimal readability. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.
Ok, that's Linux but I'd want desktop apps too. Well, maybe not. If I can run media player (DLNA) apps maybe I'm ok. Is there a way to access the optical drive (play blueray and dvd)? What about server side stuff? I don't know chrome well. Is there a dpkg repository? Will it run well in a VM and play Netflix?
Fork the code, create class AgentSmith and you're good to go. ;)
I see what you are saying as similar to the "window breaking argument". Just because a bad activity produces a positive output, doesn't mean we shouldn't fight the bad activity(so like in the example - just because city's glass makers have more work thanks to the vandals breaking down windows everywhere, doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying to stop the vandals).

>>ambitious young people who want adventure but instead find it in playing video games and driving cars fast on public roads.

Come on now, real world is never as black and white as this. It's not like the only decisions in the world a young person can make are "hunting in the wild and learning to be brave" and "driving fast on public roads". I am very glad you had a great childhood - but I also feel like you are romanticizing your experiences and feeling like everyone should have the same ones because they were the only good ones in your opinion. That's called bigotry, no?
Care to link the MIT paper ?

edit: found it

http://web.cs.dal.ca/~eem/gradResources/MITAIResearch.html
Looks very interesting, and highly motivational to spend some time writing something. Thanks.
I have the very same problem.

I don't know whether it would really help, but I'm planning to send Google a snail mail.
Honestly, we need a programming language, any language, that is genuinely designed around the limitations of touch input while sticking to a textual style. I can find lots of interpreters for various languages on my phone, but all rely on stock text editing controls to make me peck away at whatever I want to write - even the MIPS assembler I downloaded made you edit a text file. If we just embraced denser notational style, we could do a lot better without being particularly more elaborate in how the code is displayed or parsed.
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Been there. It sucks. There's no easy way around that.

What ultimately worked for me was to capture a question. Find a question that fascinates you.

The ability to do that, for me, came down to resisting the urge to come home and zone out in front of Netflix. It's tempting after an 8-10 hour day.
Says someone who has obviously never driven or lived in NZ. The little shits sit in the middle of the road. And these aren't long highways, they're windy little country roads (eg. state highway 1).
Fascinating. A corollary would be: be careful what you read and be critical of what you read. There is danger of manipulation, particularly by others. The plus is that you could manipulate yourself, change personal perceptions and mode of thinking.
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This is exactly the right perspective. If the US has secret warrants in the form of NSL (National Security Letters) or similar, it's easy to imagine Australia having precisely the same thing. I've enjoyed being a user of fastmail for some time but I'll be switching to one of the new projects (e.g., LEAP) or self-hosting in the future.
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How many people are missing out on JavaScript? (2013)
The Taliban/Al Qaeda are evil, not the CIA.
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I've seen that video and cried bitter tears. I just don't know who's at the wheel web development right now. With all the garbage being pedaled out over the past few years, especially Javascript stuff and reinvention-of-the-wheel technologies like MongoDB, I'm seriously thinking of leaving the industry. It's a tough choice because I've got a pretty decent mortage to pay off but I just feel like the industry is being taken over by teenagers with no real world experience or street knowledge.
I'm learning two of the five "advanced programming languages" mentioned here (Ocaml and Haskell). I started with Ocaml but these days I'm spending more time with Haskell. I find the materials and activity around Haskell to be more abundant and approachable than for Ocaml. Also, a lot of the things I learn from Haskell are transferable to coding in Ocaml. Both languages share a lot of concepts.

Now that I've done some Haskell I can't believe I originally dismissed it not because of its non-strict evaluation but because of... the significative white space.

Something else exciting about Haskell is all the activity around compile-to-js languages that are inspired/derived from it (and some of them are implemented in Haskell too): purescript, fay, elm, idris, and others!
I agree. Mods/Op should add "(2013)" to the title to avoid confusion (but as others have pointed out, the article is not only old but wrong in important points).
lol, some of his comments certainly look like generated :D
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It's an awesome page.

I would guess one of the reasons it's here though is that it's almost required reading for Google interviews, #DetermineIfPowerOf2 is a particular favorite.
Most likely a sane default but I would think also strongly circumstantial depending on traffic, current speed and weather/light conditions.

As the pinnacle of the animal kingdom we should be able to come up with smarter solutions.

I always liked the story of Andrew Hallidie, the man behind promoting the idea of the San Franciscan Cable Car - he and his main engineer William Eppelsheimer were motivated to find a better solution to what was to a high-degree an animal welfare issue.

Street cars in SF during the late 19th century used to be pulled by horses which both was dangerous for them as well as passengers:

"I was largely induced to think over the matter from seeing the difficulty and pain the horses experienced in hauling the cars up Jackson Street, from Kearny to Stockton Street, on which street four or five horses were needed for the purpose–the driving being accompanied by the free use of the whip and voice, and occasionally by the horses falling and being dragged down the hill on their sides, by the car loaded with passengers sliding on its track.....
.... With the view of obviating these difficulties, and for the purpose of reducing the expense of operating street railways (tram-roads), I devoted all my available time to the careful consideration of the subject, and so far matured my plans that I had California Street (a very steep street in San Francisco) surveyed [between Kearny and Powell streets, a distance of 1,386 feet] in 1870 by an engineer of the name of David R. Smith, and in the Sacramento Record, a newspaper published in the City of Sacramento, California, in 1870, a statement is there published in its telegraphic news of what I proposed to do, viz: to run a rope railway to carry passengers from the city to the plateau above."

http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hallidie.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system
Please divide all your exercise numbers by 10, it was the thing that took my attention most while reading, which is probably not what you want.
This is great. Something that I'm sure I and many other developers suffer from when it comes to projects at home is "it's not done yet" syndrome, usually to the point where it's never done and gets abandoned.

I think I personally could do with doing something like this in my free time.
While diggers dig they do not generate income (because a filled hole is not 'income' by itself). And the cooks don't generate income either because their work is not for their utility but for the diggers.

What does that say about the net result?

Think thermodynamics: What is the utility of burning fuel? If you end up where you started, you're just wasting energy and increase universe entropy.
Agreed, however, there are those that would have all mammals (including large ones) removed for the sake of NZ's ecological originality. Perhaps this is an "authentic" thing to do but I believe there is more at stake than original ecological authenticity. Protect the unique birds, definitely, but I haven't heard of large mammals posing a threat to birdlife in NZ except when populations get so out of hand that vegetation is being destroyed - a point we wouldn't reach with well managed large mammal initiatives.
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One thing that the article fails to mention, and some comments here don't seem to understand, is that Environmental organisations such as Greenpeace NZ sanction the fur trade in some NZ mammals (eg. the possum) as they are regarded as such a destructive pest.

My family has a high country farm in the south of the South Island and it used to be overrun with rabbits. Not cute; more like a biblical plague as there are no predators (aside from the occasional hawk). I recall driving up the farm road and having rabbits part in front of me like water. Crazy numbers.

Don't mistake a cavalier attitude to possums/rabbits/stoats/australians for lack of civilisation. It's just a different set of circumstances than what you may have experienced.
Just as in politics the craziest voices are always the loudest, and usually don't represent a majority of the population.
This is pretty neat. I never would have thought that just letter pairs would correlate with authorship.
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You are right, I've never been to NZ but the way of handling the issue implied by the comment didn't put it in a context of "if dangerous then keep on going" but "aiming" for them (i.e. "population control").
Sibling mentioned The Economist; I read Prospect for similar reasons (it's monthly, so even more so), and reading something a bit leftist helps balance something a bit rightist. (I also read TIME, but I hear the US edition is quite dumbed down, so maybe only if you can get a European or Asian edition).
Well, The average intelligence of the Hacker News commenter is a tad above that of Youtube or the Daily mail.
Bill Gates himself has repeatedly stated that reducing mortality and improving quality of life has consistently proven to reduce population growth : http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/#myth-three

Everybody here already knows this of course. ;)
The day scarcity died (watch USDRUB:CUR live)
>I'll be switching to [...] or self-hosting in the future

I can really recommend self-hosted email. This is not as hard as it sounds. Of course, you should have the following abilities:

1) find some good documentation (or friend) that explains a clean setup with spam filter, correct DNS/SPF and HELO entries, such that you don't get on the blacklists. Note that this is almost a one-time effort, you'll have to adjust things every 5-10 years, I guess. [1]

2) be able to administrate a Linux/BSD machine, i.e. to keep it simple and up-to-date in the long term.

I really hope that Tuxevara will finish his series about a modern email setup. This is his first part:

http://www.tuxevara.de/2014/11/mailserver-reloaded-step-1/

[1] For example, I had to add SPF entries since my mailserver also had an IPv6 address, otherwise Google and others blocked me - for understandable reasons.
Nobody expects (cartoon, apropos Google News in Spain)
Interesting.

I should add, that my idea was to publish an RFC-style standard that worked both ways (from the password to number and back again) -- which is why mapping two letters to 256 bits was nice: it makes for short word lists. It might even, with some care, allow for localizing the actual word list to at least some other European languages (we're really only concerned with the two first letters).

> Having 128 bit passwords feels like overkill.

I agree. However, as a user can't be sure sites properly stretch passwords, I'd say 64-bits feels more comfortable.

For use-cases where one are protecting keys, it'd be good if the password wasn't the weakest brute-force target with too large a margin. Obviously, if you can manage to get 64-bits into a password suitable for everyday use, chaining two together for the (presumably rarer case of) master passwords should be viable.

But even 64 bits is a lot of entropy to be typing in, no matter how you encode it :-/
> possums/rabbits/stoats/australians

Australians. Huh?
I am skeptical too about the relevance of this effort. But there is one thing it can be useful for, is to track the size of the shadow banking sector which is growing on the back of tougher regulations that force banks out of many activities.

But the shadow banking sector is already on the regulators radars so I am not sure what this is going to achieve.
I've never been able to find the footage again, but it was quite something - arid scrubland in the foreground, rabbit-proof fence across the middle, and orange sand from there to the horizon. On the other side of the fence was a boiling mass of furry bodies; rabbits trying to get into the scrub.
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To address your point about Fifteen Million Merits, the way I had the excercise bikes framed coming into it, the "system" being presented is a prison (a microcosm of the larger society outside), and riding the bikes is part of their punishment/sentence.

This is what the episode all the more disturbing to me. This would be the far-west's answer to a demand for less retribution-oriented prison designs, like a virus becoming less deadly so that it can infect more people. (How many on Hacker News would tout the virtues of free services as "you only have to watch ads, you're not forced to buy anything"?) You have "free choice", but it is only within a heavily curated model of illusory flavors; yet the vast majority of prisoners in this system are content, even euphoric, within it.

As Eddie Izzard put it:

> I know a lot of people who'd love to be under house arrest! They bring you your food... "Just stay here? Oh, all right. (laconically) Have you got any videos?" You know, you just sit there all day...
OpenStreetMap has ~165,000 banks mapped and tagged. http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=bank

This might be another data source (thought I think the OP knows ;) )
Yep. Particularly Queenslanders, victorious Aussie Sporting teams, overly attractive bikini models and other non-kiwi things.
In-game Christmas jumpers. All pixels, no wool. All joy, no itch.
just by the way, you get your funding refunded at about 5% of the vote, so it's not like the challengers have little access to the funding.
I don't think many people are going to buy your game because as you say it's very similar to Flappy Bird and there are thousands of Flappy Bird like games out there, yours is not much different from all of them.

Your game is not a clone like others but it's not different enough so people are going to pay 1€ (especially in Android) to play with it. Maybe if you make it free you can have a chance of getting people to try it and find out it's better than the other Flappy Bird games.
I'm not against organized mammal control in NZ. I am against ridding the country of mammals completely. My statement was an attempt to show that I believe we have an incredible resource that is largely under-utilized for the benefits it offers people.

Regarding your last point; it depends if you see spending time in the outdoors and breaking laws on public roads as ethically the same thing.

Everyone doesn't need to have my experiences, but if I cant talk about the value of those personal experiences and recommend some of them without it being referred to as bigotry then I'm left wondering what the free sharing of ideas is for? Can I only share purely objective ideas? - Because, unfortunately, I don't have any of those.
The problem with using the whole haikus, is that you must type quite a lot, typically blindly, into a password entry field -- and not make a single mistake.

I think the more interesting question is: if you manage to memorize the haiku -- will you be able to retain it longer than the ipv6 address? After typing in the address a few times a day, you'd have it memorized (at least in muscle memory). But what if this was something you either used rarely (passphrase for restoring backups for example). Would you remember the haiku even after you'd forgot the ipv6 address?
I dream of a programming language that would bring coding closer to Japanese brush painting. APL's terseness would make it a suitable foundation for that.

Imagine you're handed a tablet that shows such a program. At first glance it's a unique calligraphic image, but when you know the language you can also parse the data flow and manipulated types intuitively upon seeing the shapes. And since it's a dynamic digital document, you could zoom in, isolate parts, or even run "live coding" style experiments to see what the painting actually does.
Or you can use light wells.
There is no disagreement regarding blogging v/s not blogging. Your approach is sound. I made my point because i sensed that this issue will tend to eat at your time. And as an external, detached, party i said what i hope someone will say to me if i am ever in a similar situation as the one you described. It can be condensed to "don't mind the people being assholes, record your lessons, and move on".
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Thanks for reporting the typo. Fixed now.

This app is essentially a specialised version of Squarespace, designed only for SaaS products. I haven't seen any Squarespace templates for SaaS. Yes you could hack together one, but the whole point is to make it instant.

Once the basic site is there, I can add more SaaS-specific integrations like subscription billing, lifecycle marketing, metrics, etc.
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Superb and lots of fun into the bargain.
I mean, it literally means "after death" and stems from the name for the study of dead bodies, so it seems odd to name any post-facto report a post-mortem and the Wiki article may apply to gaming industry but it's not really common industry usage.

Normally in tech, a post-mortem is a particular kind of analysis, backtracking from an incident to figure out what caused it, with the aim of preventing it happening again and improving quality overall (aka "incident report").

There have also been a number of "startup postmortems" recently, which means just as it sounds.
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The ideas behind that list is good, but I think they went overboard with their machine learning approach to find words that were as far apart as possible in pronunciation. Considering one would think that such a list will be used in international contexts, basing it off of Basic English[1] or something would probably have been a better idea. How many non-native speakers (that aren't a fan of Dave Sim's "Cerberus") will know the word "Aardvark" ?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English