skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Knowing LinkedIn is saying "enough" is a real breather for me. At this point, I can stop. Hopefully it will trigger a chain reaction, and leave Scala for the academics."

You later speak of "hate" while justifying on the decision of one company your dismissal of a whole ecosystem. The chain reaction comment was tasteless and in no way looks like an opinion trying to make the platform better as a community.

If you don't like it, drop it.

Also FWIW in my experience with academics, most of them use Python, go figure.

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I don't usually reply to comments like this one but this time I could not resist. Sorry.
You're on a comfortable bus, in a comfortable chair with a table, with giant windows, and not being jostled around in the back of a minivan.
It's also the national language of Bangladesh. Once a language has become the official language of a recognized country it can hardly be considered a "niche" language.
That’s because they aren’t “tactics”. One of the greatest things Carnegie teaches is becoming interested in other people. You can’t fake that. It’s not a tactic to use on people—faking being interested in them—on order to get them to like you. It’s about actually being interested in other people.

For some, that may come naturally … for others, it may be something that they need to work on. But it’s not about smiling and nodding while they talk about themselves … it’s about genuinely being interested in them as a person and caring about what they have to say.
> This obviously wouldn't be the case if any of said bus routes stuck even remotely to the stated schedule, or if traffic was at least somewhat predictable.

These are symptoms of the same problem. In France (at least in Grenoble where I worked for a year) there are dedicated bus lanes (dedicated lights for those lanes). Without those, buses are subject to the same issues caused by traffic.

I agree with the commenter above who remarked that the public transport woes are due to poor urban planning. To answer why urban planning is so misguided you'd have to follow the money.
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One key insight the original paper (by Dean Simonton) had was that creative peak varies by field. So, some fields like poetry, pure mathematics, theoretical physics admit of early peaks (by twenties). Well, turns out this is not true. Consider Yitang Zhang who was in the news all of last year (to the extent mathematicians can be :-), he was was almost 60 when he presented his most famous proof. Clearly no spring chicken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang

new yorker article on yitang zhang

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

When somebody researched the average age of Nobel prize winners (when they did their prize winning work, not when they received it), they realized a gradual drift upwards from 1901 to now. When quantum mechanics was new everyone making new discoveries was under 30. The average age now is 50. Chemistry rose from 36 to 46 and medical scientists from 38 to 45.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111107/full/news.2011.632.ht...

So, I think you should find a field you love and work in it. Keep your at-bats high and you might do ground breaking work in your 50's or 60's. Don't worry about IQ, beyond 120 it doesn't matter. I have my doubts if it is possible to do creative work beyond 75 but it is just a hunch.

In any case, entrepreneurship would seem like a field that would peak the later part of life curve, so if you want to do it in your 60's go for it. Of course, just like quantum mechanics in early 20th century, something completely new like social media would be grokked by younger entrepreneurs but that is only one field. Remember the greatest entrepreneur in modern era, Steve Jobs, made his biggest hits after he turned 50.
I have used buses in SF. They are unreliable. Sometimes a bus just never shows up, regardless of what the schedule says. Then two buses show up at the same time. This has happened to me several times.
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The New Yorker did a great article about this tech (and the guy behind it) a couple years ago: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/20/inherit-the-win...
This is really out of date (January 2011).

If you are interested, good website / forum to check from time to time is http://www.candlepowerforums.com/

My personal favorite LED lights are ZebraLight -- the tints are pretty consistent, and the regulation is top notch. The SC600 is amazing - a nice lighweight, floody, 1x18650 light awesome for trail-running at night in the mountains - great to see all the eyeballs watching from the hills.

I'm hoping soon the CRI of these emitters will get better. It was hard seeing rattlesnakes with CRI=65, but they blended in anyhow :( Warmer tints of the XM-L had CRI 75 but that still isn't very good.
> If I give my modified-GPL code to my coworker bob is that distribution?

If it is yours (and not your common employers, which then brings into some question as you being agents of the same actor) it would seem to be "conveying", which is the more relevant term under the GPLv3 (see below).

> If I upload to an EC2, is that distribution?

More relevant is probably that it is "conveying" as defined by the GPLv3:

To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.

(Uploading to EC2 enables -- requires, in fact, for normal operation -- Amazon to make or receive at least one copy of the software.)
Empathy is probably the greatest thing we could teach children or anyone for that matter.

We do a very poor job in general of teaching emotional skills such as these in schools.
And many of them, from a quick glance, are actually due to complicated sandboxing policies. That is, RCE was an explicit feature, but they found it hard to get right.

In fact, one of the first real security holes I've ever found was in 1.0 version of the CLR. You could load a function pointer to an un-JIT'd function, then later on use that to safely jump to other code. This is technically a RCE, but the user has to be executing your code first anyways. That is, if the CLR and Java didn't set out to run "partially trusted" code with no help from the OS, these wouldn't have been problems at all.

Other languages like C, Ruby, etc. simply don't have this "partially trusted" concept so there's nothing to attack. (Well I guess things like Native Client or VMware qualify, but they're at a better abstraction later than JVM or CLR permissions.)
> Perhaps it's possible only when the margins of a business are as spectacularly high as those of Vegas casinos, so that the parking facility as a loss leader is still net profitable overall. There's also the invisible hand of capitalism, as casinos compete in the market of convenience: a casino without such a facility will lose market share to those that do.

Or land is so cheap because you're in the middle of nowhere.
Spanish speaker here. "ch" and "ll" being separate letters has been discussed for a long time and finally the decision was that they weren't separate letters but a combination of two [1]. Meanwhile, "ñ" stands as a letter of its own.

Accented vowels aren't considered different letters in Spanish because they affect the word they are in rather than the letter, as they serve to indicate which one is the "strong" syllable in a word. From a Spanish view of point, "a" and "á" are exactly the same letter.

[1] http://www.rae.es/consultas/exclusion-de-ch-y-ll-del-abeceda...
This is topical because "The Imitation Game" has been in the news and movie theaters recently:

I come from a Soviet immigrant family whose stance on all things LGBTQ is predictably conservative. Sometime in high school, as part of my interest in CS, I read Turing's life story. The story of a man whose contributions were fundamental to my chosen field being persecuted due to his sexual orientation cinched my views on the matter: talent and contribution are everything, the rest is private and irrelevant.
> how often do you hear complaints about their designs?

Every time I turn on my MBP.
I had the linked image in mind when I wrote that, of a journalist whose laptop was shot by Israeli border police whilst she was being interrogated.

http://lilyasussman.com/2009/11/30/im-sorry-but-we-blew-up-y...

Actually the reference doesn't totally work in hindsight because she was never asked for her password, but it seems as though it was encrypted and hence they just destroyed her laptop instead of asking her for the pw. If it had biometrics they might have just forced her to open it. So actually, the example might work after all.
That's interesting, considering, for many years, I've seen this bus around San Francisco with 'jitney bus' literally printed on the side:
http://images.nymag.com/travel/weekends/20090910sanfransisco...
Unicode has excellent Tibetan support, despite that language and its script being notoriously difficult to work with.

Also, Bengali is not just a major language in India, but the national language of an entire country (Bangladesh) with 100m+ people. It really is almost entirely the fault of the Bangladeshi and West Bengali authorities if they can't get their shit together enough to submit a decent proposal to Unicode.
This announcement comes 20 years too late.
In specific. I'm familiar with the rigin of the Cherokee Syllabary in general, though HN would probably find it enlightening.
Assuming a bus costs 100k@4% financing, that's about 2,200 a month.

Salary for a driver could be another 100k (including benefits, taxes, etc). That's 8.3 k per month.

CNG buses get about 3mpg at about $2/gallon equivalent cost to diesel (http://www.catf.us/resources/publications/files/20120227-Die...)

Assuming 150 miles driven per day, that's $3,000 per month in fuel costs.

Total costs per bus: $13,500/month or $450 per day.

At $5 per ride, that's 2,700 rides per month or 90 per day. Even if they could only fit 10 people, that's less than 10 rides per day. Seems reasonable to me.
Disabled swap? Disabled coredumps? Used the right madvise-a-like for each OS?
This looks a lot like a project being developed by Bryan Roberts (IIRC) in Australia, that New Scientist covered about fifteen years ago. He was using a gyrocopter-like structure (he called it a gyromill) to keep the devices up in the air, and with an intent to be much higher up than these things seem to be aimed at, but the principle remains the same (tethered, high enough to gain some consistency of wind).

Can't find the NS link, but this provides some more info: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_18...

[Edit: add url, fix historical reference.]
"I'm pretty sure it takes a little bit longer than swiping my card."

It probably does, but swiping your card is about as insecure as a transaction can be. (Thieves love it though - they break into POS systems and there are tons of mag stripe details.)

However, as time goes by you'll have to enter a PIN (as we do in the UK) which is a bit slower - perhaps slower than Apple Pay.
I thought this recent Razib Khan post on the origins of the Japanese was interesting

http://www.unz.com/gnxp/scions-of-the-hairy-ainu-not-amatera...
Just because you haven't experienced something doesn't mean it's a myth.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/246mlg/bitstamp_blo...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25jyf1/bitstamp_ive...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/26c1y6/buying_bitco...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2renc7/why_dont_peo...

I could go on, all I did was search /r/bitcoin for the word "passport" and I was overflowing with results.
> That's truey, but not particularly interesting. Most languages can't be dropped easily into C programs.

I don't see how the fact that most languages can't be dropped into C programs makes the fact that Rust can not interesting. It seems to me to imply the opposite.
This looks very nice to combine with the Novena: http://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
Ms would stop being ms in that scenario, I can't see it happening. I could see them drop the "windows" brand though.

This new browser, is it married to Windows? Ibm went through this, they were maybe the most dominant corporation the world has ever seen, then the government scared them and the micro revolution happened. IBM switched from trying to own every deal (well they still wanted that) to being satisfied to get a slice of the action, it became all about open. Ms seems to be switching from "windows everywhere" to "helping you be the best you" or some other theme. I'll be impressed when they support a browser and office on linux.
Given the number of Indians working in the software field, I think it's safe to say that there are quite a few Bengali speakers "doing the work" to keep the internet running. Actually, I'd posit that the majority of programmers are not native English speakers.
Is there any reason why the submission title has "2008" in it? The article in question says it's from the June 1998 issue
It is good to see that kind of go getter attitude. I wish more people would argue against things they don't understand.
You're right, I think we should believe him when he says that he was tortured. It's the part where he claims that it was at the direction of the FBI that needs proof.

And I agree, I don't think the UAE cares about Portland. They might care that US security services had taken an interest in this individual though. Are you saying that the UAE security services are totally subordinate to the US and just act as puppets when it comes to US citizens? I would have thought they'd have a bit more independence than that, even if they do cooperate at some level.
Ironically, it works great with the spacebar. (I've become accustomed to people breaking spacebar scrolling entirely, especially in Firefox.)
Well, if you find Hiragana/Katakana it's Japanese, if you find Chữ Nôm it's Vietnamese. Otherwise it's Chinese (Well, given the definition of "language" is very hard in the context of Chinese).

From a purly theoritical perspecitve the Han unification looks like a great idea. Image the horror of normalisations if it didn't happen. ; and greek questionmark would have been a joke in comparison.
Wanted to throw in: this is exactly the sort of thing I've been looking for and I'll be looking into your offering soon.

Also: what everyone else has said so far. Typos ("unless you tell us differently" is what you mean on the FAQ about deleting data) and localization issues, lack of obvious feature list on landing, etc. - if those weren't issues, I may have not decided to put off looking at your service until later.

But if it does what it says on the tin, good job!
Err, no... One is a type construction, the other is function application. It sure helps if these are different...
But Heartbleed still existed even without out-of-bound reads, right? That's the critical distinction I got wrong and why Ted made his rather fine point. In Ted post, IIRC, he's clear that Rust will unlikely have such needed up code written. But that if people like me boast how Rust would have flat-out refused to compile such code, then we don't know the details and probably aren't in a position to be spouting off on security. A one or two word edit of my original comment would have avoided this whole discussion while retaining the essence that Rust would, in practice, almost certainly eliminate these bugs.
Imagine what a problem it is when you want to play a ten player game of TF2 at the office and nobody has it installed.

This is where you create a network drive and share it with everyone's Steam client as a Steam Library.

(Catch: you can't use iSCSI unless you use a cluster FS, and circa 2012 using a Samba share required some text file editing)
One by one:

I'm confused by your use of 'our' and 'we'. It seems you're trying to write from the general point of view of a German, answering .. a German?

Are umlauts letters? Yes. [1] [2] Maybe not the best source, but please provide a better one if you disagree so that I can actually understand where you're coming from.

I understand - I hope? - composition. And I tend to agree that it shouldn't matter much if the input just works. If I press a key labeled ü and that letter shows up on the screen, I shouldn't really care if that is one codepoint or a composition of two (or more).
I do think that the history you mention is an indicator that supports the author's argument. There IS a codepoint for ü (painful to type..). For 'legacy reasons' perhaps. And it feels to me that non-ASCII characters - for legacy reasons or whatever - have better support than the ones he is complaining about, if they originate in western Europe/in my home country.

Typewriters and umlauts:

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Mzk2WDQwMA==/$T2eC16N,!)sE9swmYlFP...

(basically I searched for old typewriter models, 'Adler Schreibmaschinen' results in lots of hits like that). Note the separate umlaut keys. And these are typewriters from .. the 60s? Maybe?)

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
2: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Alphabet
Nice one, going for the emotional and gender-based play. Homeless people are people too, surprisingly, and in my experience those that complain about homeless people on public transport are whinging about the mere presence of them, not saying that they're as extreme as your example.
Wow 6+ years.
> Why would uploading code to EC2 be distribution?

It might not be distribution, but the GPLv3 terms are mostly triggered by "conveying", and it is clearly "conveying" as defined in the GPLv3.

> You are not giving your program to Amazon to use

The GPLv3 definition of conveying keys on whether you enable another party to "make or receive copies" of the work, not whether it is for that other party's use. Even if the copies are for your use, if you enable another party to make or receive copies, you are conveying, and are covered by the GPLv3 provisions applicable to the form (verbatim, modified source, or non-source) you are conveying the copy in.

> Put another way, if you take your GPLed code, burn it into a cd and mail it to yourself through DHL or Fedex, you are not "distributing" the code to Fedex.

Mailing your GPLed code through DHL or FedEx does transfers physical media through their hands, it does not enable or require them to make or receive copies of the code. So, true, it is not conveying, and it is also unlike uploading to a third party, which always enables that third party to make or receive copies.
I think you may be attributing to malice what could be better explained by stupidity :-)
Simple has several significant limitations, namely, the need to mail checks over a certain threshold (I think $5k) and I don't know whether they do credit origination, either.

End of the day, I went with good-old-brick'n'mortar Wells Fargo because (1) I wanted to establish a long-term customer relationship with a bank that can provide me with various credit products (including for business) (2) their ATM network is ubiquitous where I live (SF) and (3) there are many branches with convenient hours for when I want to do something a little off the beaten path.

I don't give a rat's about how quickly a $10 payment is available. I care a lot more about good fraud controls, and the ability to speak to a human being, in person, when things occasionally go wrong.
I would say your site needs a little work but that the app is a really neat idea.

Actually I think your explanation here is better than the one you put on your site! Maybe have the site tell the story you told here. The whole application is really easy so I would say tell the story, very short and simple, and quickly get people to the app store to get the app! Might also be good to advertise a bit on facebook since you tie to facebook friends.

I would make the hero graphic at the top of your site a little higher res, it's a bit fuzzy. Also you don't need that top nav menu. Just go with it as a single page. Good luck!
> I wonder if the author has submitted a proposal to get the missing glyph for their name added.

Probably not. If he did, he wouldn't be able to rant about the injustices of the White Man, now, would he?
Especially when the FAQ says:

"Do you use professional drivers?

All of our drivers have years of experience driving public and private transit. Each driver must pass through a complete background check and adhere to a zero tolerance alcohol and drug policy."

It sounds like its just a way to make bus drivers 1099 contractors, while dictating everything they do, since it seems unlikely to me that there are many bus owner/operators.
Agree. The funny part is that Apple's touchpad driver is open-source (under a scary Apple Open Source license, but still). You can read it. Or at least, you could circa 2006.

I've been meaning to hack on the Linux driver since back then, but honestly always expected someone more competent to try a touchpad-driver-rewrite instead. Maybe they have, but we still seem far behind, and I'm pretty sure it's a software issue.

That being said, physical buttons are superior. Clicking one means you know a click registered, so even if the software is doing something stupid, you're assured of your interactions. I don't understand why the buttons have gone away.
Here's an example I made in plnkr.co: http://embed.plnkr.co/y1a3DWh1P8tTTUamsWbE/preview

It begins by filling in the canvas with random colors.
Reminds me of the Nairobi matatus, too: https://medium.com/@transitapp/hello-nairobi-cc27bb5a73b7
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As far as I understand, unsafePerformIO is not unsafe in relation to memory safety issues. It is just unsafe in that it circumvents the IO monad, which means order of execution is not guaranteed.
I've built and am currently using an Atreus, open to questions.
> Must be a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder to enter. See contest entry rules and terms & conditions in description below.

> Essay/Answer Requirements...

Umm, how about no?
>Firefox is too slow.

Despite all the evidence to the contrary?

>As a power user I notice millisecond differences in page render times.

No you don't. As a web developer, I personally can attest that's not true.
A class-based explanation and Muni being a terrible service "ripe for disruption" are not mutually exclusive. You can't, however, argue that a private bus service that requires a smartphone and costs 3x what regular public transport does doesn't have interesting effects on who can and can't use it.
When Chinese linguists came up with hanyu pinyin, they specifically wanted to pick up Latin characters (1) for Chinese phonetics, so that Chinese phonetic writing could use what we'd call "white men's writing system".

Now, they did use the letter Q for the sound tɕʰ that was formerly often romanized as "ch". It is not really a "k" as Q is in English.

Are people now saying that hanyu pinyin should use a different coding to English, because it would be more "respectable" for non-English languages to have their own code points even if the character has same roots and appearance? That is absolutely pointless. The whole idea of using Q for tɕʰ is that you can use the same letter, same coding, same symbol as in English.

(1) OK they did add ü to the mix, although that is usually only used in romanization in linguistics or textbooks, and regular pinyin just replaces it with u.
This is very true, but it does bring up a point about scaling. Bus services aren't as terrible in other cities, though there are always some deficiencies.
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Interesting questions guys! Will recommend to my colleagues. Also checked out http://closeheat.com - slick.
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I have an erdgodox at home and really miss it when I work at cafes, I'm kind of paranoid about something that doesn't have []{}(), etc on the may layer though.
Software can't entirely save you -- a structural failure could cause one kite to careen into another, taking down a lot more kites.