skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can I be in denial if I said I'm just learning about the US history and details? I absolutely acknowledge that I have not read enough on the subject to have a proper informed perspective.

As for Ingria, I think we are referring to different places. I'm referring to the area mostly in present day Leningradskaya Oblast in Russia. From the same wikipedia article:

"According to the Soviet census of 1989, there were 829 Izhorians, 449 of them in Russia (including other parts of the country) and 228 in Estonia."

Compared to:

"By 1897 (year of the Russian Empire Census) the number of Ingrian Finns had grown to 130,413, and by 1917 it had exceeded 140,000 (45,000 in Northern Ingria, 52,000 in Central (Eastern) Ingria and 30,000 in Western Ingria, the rest in Petrograd)."

So from 140k to maybe ~800? At least to me, that's pretty heinous...

Edit: Note that events I'm talking about are less than 100 years old and, as a resident of the country doing it, I had no idea it even happened...
Try visiting Hong Kong sometime. Great road infrastructure. Great (possibly best in the world) subways. Roads are full of buses, delivery trucks, and taxis. Individuals don't own cars unless they're enormously rich, because it's 4-8x as expensive to own a car as in countries like the US.
Search for Advanced Civilizations Finds Nothing Obvious in 100,000 Galaxies
And the Objective-C community thanks you for it, Michael. We wouldn't be software developers, however, if we weren't hopeless pedants who lose the forest for the trees and point out that goshdarnblocksyntax.com is MISSING the amazing attention-to-detail favicon from the original domain. Where's the craftsmanship?

I'm never paying for this website again.
Goldtouch (IBM/Lexmark heritage) makes a foldable bluetooth ergonomic mechanical keyboard, http://www.goldtouch.com/go2-goes-wireless/ & http://www.amazon.com/Goldtouch-Wireless-Bluetooth-Mobile-Ke...
The very last line mentions:

> Check out gdb’s “tui” mode

But that should be in the first paragraph. TUI mode shows the source code and the current line. This is like the difference between `ed` and `vi`: you can see the source code that you're debugging instead of mashing `bt` or whatever again and again.

To use gdb's TUI mode, simply include the `-tui` argument at the command line:

gdb -tui path/to/bin

or, at any time while running gdb, press `ctrl-x ctrl-a`.
I'm looking forward to playing around with this. Vim is my editor of choice, and it would be nice to configure/extend it in something other than vimscript. Gives me a good reason to familiarize myself with Python as well.

Not to mention I'm a huge Metal Gear fan. =]
What makes you think Standard US Cellular Network (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc) GSM traffic isn't encrypted? It is encrypted, just that that at least some of the older ciphers used have been broken. Gr-GSM (which is mentioned used in the link) has some basic implementation to decrypt traffic built into it. I've only skimmed it over, so I'm no expert on the project, but I wouldn't go around sniffing a cellular network's traffic without some careful consideration of what the tools you are using are doing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1

https://github.com/ptrkrysik/gr-gsm/blob/a33f3d82ed565719645...
The bigger issue for planes and MRI machines is that they're not his devices, and are not being set up specifically for him.
lib.ru is not exactly dodgy. It's the oldest Russian online library, founded in 1994.
Ad Muncher goes free
What Intelligence Tests Miss [pdf]
Not the author, but I use brew.
You are ridiculous
I'm referring to control of government. Yes, those majorities are narrow, but impact on policy is quite strong. Given the proclivity of the current administration to use executive orders willy nilly I anticipate that trend will only continue. The executive branch loves power, regardless of neocons or progs running the show.
Nobody has any comments?

Is this on the level? If so, this guy just "Snowdened" himself.

The article describes appalling lack of security (and more) in Britain's Trident nuclear submarine program.

He ends with:

Order through the fear of nuclear annihilation
can no longer be maintained. Every major nation
on the planet has been infiltrated by terrorists
that are preparing to attack us from within.
Our Nuclear weapon systems are the prime target
and we are wide open to attack. We must unite
globally in order to eliminate he biggest threat
the world has ever seen.
What kind of overheads should we be aware of? Spark can run on a single machine, it could be an interesting benchmark to compare against Vertica or similar products. I've seen similar systems tuned for under 1s response times, even when running in distributed mode, though they were proprietary.
Most public transportation is taxpayer subsided.
The Mobile Growth Stack
I can't speak for the man, but given my understanding of his positions...

If, in some convoluted way, one were faced with the choice between death and purposely installing non-free software on one's own device, I expect RMS would consider you to be a victim and feel sorry for you, but recommend that of course you should do the thing that saves your life.

I would further expect - only slightly more weakly - that he'd take his own advice.

Particularly given that he's himself used a proprietary BIOS when there were no other options, for simple "ability to do computing" which is clearly less severe than preserving life (it's awfully hard to do the one without the other).
This is so cool, thanks! I wonder what the limitations are?
Animats post on "Maximizing shareholder value", which had many responses, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709880
What are some applications of this? If an attacker has access to memory there's not much left you can do right?

Or is the use case similar to why you would want to zero out the memory used to store password strings?
+1 to patio11. When I'm skimming comments, I make sure to actually read his fully.

As much as we all say we're governed by reason, there's still some timidity and doubt and he has this great ability to call people on it in a constructive way.
I always get annoyed when people think the point of University's is 'pure' research. There are plenty of pure research organisations out there, the point of undergrad is to teach and the point of Doctoral programs is to teach research.
note: this kickstarter did launch and is on it's way to meet the minimum (50k) goal to get funded: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1544392549/peeple-calle...
Top data mining algorithms in plain English
If you’re pitching Marc Andreessen, here’s the bottle of bourbon to bring him
Ask HN: Keeping sane while working remotely
I started working remotely a couple of weeks and it's great. I'm happier, less stressed and I'm learning a lot. I can wake up, shower and start working right away. I have to keep office hours but the lack of commute is wonderful.

However, after a couple of weeks of this, I have realized that I can perfectly spend an entire week without leaving my apartment or talking to someone in person. I usually go out with friends on fridays but that's the only thing I have going on besides work.

I'm thinking about joining a gym and going in the mornings before logging in to work, what else should I do?
How about you can't compare a bidet to washing your hands. When you wash your hands you use soap and purposefully rinse a way from your body. A bidet just sprays some water with no anti microbial properties, and it makes no attempt to wash germs away from your body. Tp might not be great at going antimicrobial but at least it is intelligently applied to keep germs contained instead of washing them all over your backside.
The support agent points this out:

Google Support: Ah okay, So if you click the download (for Chrome) there’s a popup with the TOS
Perhaps by your metric, that is a true statement. The progressives I worked with were adamant and proud socialists and they worked his campaign.
Is there any sort of statistical analyses which could give some idea of whether those bits were generated randomly, by a human, or perhaps came from some other key?
Wish it was that certain.

The US and Canada once had almost 100 municipalities with streetcar lines in the first half of the 20th century, there may be a dozen or so left now. One could blame GM [1] but many municipalities abandoned their systems without much pressure.

Toronto --which I believe has the largest streetcar system in North America-- has had to employ a blacksmith for the last 3 decades to forge parts for the aging streetcars [2], though they apparently expect to retire him as the fleet is modernized.

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

[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/meet-pat-maietta-the-t...
"Did you win the Putnam? If not, then don't be bolder than this guy." "Yes, I did." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

A parody of being a startup founder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
There are so many factors at play in a diverse ecosystem. For one, the plants compete on many levels that it becomes too "chaotic" for an immediately discernible overall synchrony to arise. Even then there will likely be a number of symbiotic relationships between different species that depend on the presence of varying flowering/life cycles. The bamboos come out all "well behaving" and synchronized perhaps only because the natural evolutionary process is trying out everything everywhere and something somewhere will be judged to be synchronized with distinction.
And if that kind of "game" is your thing, you may also enjoy https://microcorruption.com
Perhaps there is a different term for the type of city you are thinking of, generally cities such as Letchworth[1] are moreso what is known as a garden city.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letchworth
It's all a continuation of the trend that started with that "Look at these fucking peppers" image, and produced things like "What the fuck should I make for dinner" etc.
But doesn't it have a hard time with coulomb friction, since you can only work with conservative fields/forces? A quick search confirms you have to use a bolted-on "dissipation function".
Extending human lifespan to a very large degree, only then can we travel through deep space after finding other inhabitable planets.
Idris 0.9.18 released
Tested it today and the performance improvement seems very significant. Good job Mozilla (wow, I haven't said that in a while...)
There are several linguistic mistakes in the text. What do you think about it?
> But this new arrangement had the backing of President Eisenhower, who was especially interested in seeing the system built, partly so it could be used for troop movements and mass evacuations in the event of a nuclear attack.

I've read that US interstates were designed to accomodate mobile ICBM launchers. That was the pre-silo plan, as I recall. Does anyone else recall that?
This is what happens when you have too many half employed CS graduates. They have enough free time to keep forking stuff and changing it to put their name on it, instead of fixing the old software of even overhaul it, only to create more management nightmare for serious IT business.
How to Make a Human Brain in Python
Well, even if the vendor secures the data properly, there's always third-party doctrine, so as it stands today, you may never know if government or law enforcement accesses your door logs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

It's a little premature to complain when the service isn't built yet, but yes, a less privacy-hostile design would be nice.
Linux-libre is GNU software: https://gnu.org/s/#allgnupkgs
There are lots of scenarios where you would want to let an untrusted intermediary handle critical operations for you without actually having to build trust with them.

Typical example: Certificate authorities distribute CRLs primarily through untrusted channels and third parties to lower their operating cost. The CRLs are signed so its a win-win for everybody.
It's always on top and you can drag it anywhere on the screen any time you want. Sometimes it gets in the way of keyboards and etc and it has to be pushed over to keep working.
I was using it to bypass a broken lock button. Only catch is that you can't turn it on easily - plugging it in is the only way to restart the phone.
The Putnam reply is one of the great moments in Internet commenting history IMHO.
There's also Paulo Soleri. In his plan for the Newark Airport, he proposed to house the entire population of New Jersey. The runways would have been on the roof.
I can only speak for myself, and I'm not at $10M, but I can definitely say that for me the lifestyle change would be much greater in that case than in the 10k to 1k case.

$10M is, as they say, 'FU money'. $1M could be, maybe, but with a much different standard of living. Where I live you could easily blow the million just on a fairly standard upper middle class house. Losing most of your 10k on the other hand, while unfortunate, would hardly be life changing because it's not enough to do much with in the first place.

Now, if you reliably earn $1M a year, then sure, losing the 9M probably wouldn't be a huge issue. But that isn't the case if you're sitting on $10M from selling your startup.
They are just 256 bits. And if they come from a cypher they certainly can't be distinguished from the pure random bits or from the bits from any other key.

But if they come from some other key unmodified it would be possible to scan for the match, and it's a fast operation, as soon as we have the keys in which we'd like to search.
Absolutely. The greenbelt defined cities like Letchworth are definitely a different phenomenon. I'm thinking more of cities as gardens.
A good python online textbook is "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" at http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/inde... - lets you type python code into the browser to try things out.
I would be really surprised if he followed his advices 100% of the time, but they sure are a good start for getting you to think.
The Hole in the Rooftop Solar-Panel Craze
Advice by sillysaurus3 on 'recommended reading' for programmers, mainly focusing on C and distributed systems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602457
I'm learning the flute, and I know how painful it can be to struggle just to play one note in tune and a good tone, compared to playing a note on the guitar or the piano.

But it looks like you're comparing pop guitar/piano with classical cello. If you can always take a cello and play jazz, or even pop music. Then the comparison would be more fair.

Also, tenor clef is no harder than other clefs. It's just a different offset. If you learn intervalic reading you can read any clef.
You may find IPFS (http://ipfs.io/) interesting then!
Cities with good public transportation have longer commutes because a long commute on public transportation is far more tolerable than a long commute by car.
Yet again the meme continues: George Orwell did not write 1984 as a design document.
Very much disagree. It's written for developers, and I've never met any developer who finds profanity offensive.

And, more importantly, it makes the whole thing much more eye-catching. It's a fun way to a deliver a message - as a vitriolic, spit-flying rant. It would be ineffective if it was friendly and delicate.
The followup is the icing on the cake, "Only once?"

> Yes, only once. But I actually consider my first score on the Putnam (53, ranked 53.5th in North America) to be my most impressive performance on the Putnam, considering that I was only 14 years old at the time.
Here's an old one which is still awesome:

"How I crashed HN" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
Drones are remote control planes, not AI. They are human-based kills (just one-sided risk profile)
bdunn on justifying your costs as a freelancer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8705179

patio11 and the Fair Credit Reporting Act: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833

spolsky on detecting toxic customers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987223

tptacek on naming your company: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684845

The journey of Flappy Bird: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7207943

Programming is terrible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6469360

On being a consultant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6443135

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263458

Are designers crazy? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002262

Why learning to code is so hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933178

"I don't understand": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4930262

death and regrets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4540459
take weekends off.

Dress for work, as if you're going into the office - that is, don't work in your bathrobe.

When the remote office is closed, don't hang out online, not even HN.
Well whats the other alternatives? Sending images to devices on a shared network, or having a server in your house/phone which receives the images.
All of them are quite unpractical, most people don't know how to setup a server in their home, heck most people won't know how to even forward ports (hence UPNP in CPE/SOHO routers).

Running a server on your mobile device isn't an option on all platforms, many cellular ISP's don't provide you with a "legal" internet IP but rather use NAT, and running server software on mobile phones is probably a bigger security risk than this.

And while some might say well they could've used dropbox or any other similar storage yes they could, but no one in their right mind would ever design a product which relies on a 3rd party like that since that 3rd party can (and they often do) change the TOS or scrap the service you rely on completely.

This device isn't for people who are paranoid about their security and privacy, you don't put a device which takes a picture of anyone who enters your house if you worry about privacy in the first place.
This device is for people who want convenience and as long as it's cheaper than an intercom with a camera in it or is much easier to use it's fine. This is actually quite nice solution for various apartment / condo complexes, you can buz a delivery guy into the hallway when you out and about if they hook it into the buzzer.
I also like tokenadult's posts for anything biology-related.
Don't take the job, if this is their negotiation strategy imagine what they will do once you are employed. This clearly shows how they intend to operate.
With a big project like that during wartime it would probably be fairly easy to cover up. Tons of money is being expended, you just cook the books a little bit and spread that $20bil over a bunch of other huge expenses.
A isreali high security lock manufacturer already have the idea first. http://www.mul-t-lockusa.com/6689.html

Smart security gadgets like this are very hard to do without a distribution network of locksmith who actually does most door installations.
Finding Your Spot in the Market
I'm sorry, but this is just a load of bollocks. There is a fundamental difference between public transport and cars, other than the upfront investment that was pointed out in another comment: A car is a ~12m2 sized thing that you have to (a) somehow route into the system (road space requirements) and (b) leave somewhere when you do your business.

(a) is an overhead of a factor of ~40 compared to people standing and a factor or ~20 compared to people sitting for the transport alone (I'm assuming here people driving alone, which from experience is how this mostly works out).

(b) is an additional constant overhead of 12m2 for every participant that's not moving.

In computer science terms, your network protocol sucks, and leads to inefficient cities.

Would you like an example? L.A. metro area has about the same size as Greater Tokyo, produces about the same amount of carbon emissions total (!) [5], yet provides space for 2.5x less people and produces ~2.4x less GDP at purchase power parity [1],[2],[3],[4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_areas...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_metropolitan_area

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Tokyo_Area

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP

[5] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/223399559_Twelve_met...
Meh, the Romans and Greeks are upstart striplings when it comes to city planning. Mohenjo-daro in present-day Pakistan was built as a planned city in c. 2600 BCE, and Chinese capitals like Luoyang's first incarnations aren't far behind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohenjo-daro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luoyang#History
>Aha so the great American success of Federal governent that progressives tout

This is like saying "LOL Progressives your federal military invaded Iraq under false pretenses! So much for the federal gubmint!"

The Interstate Highway Act was basically a big subsidy for the privatization of transit.
Probably by viewing the source code and seeing Google analytics stuff.
I would expect a tracking check from a TOR exit node to be a "clue". Might even be grounds for reasonable suspicion (would need a judge/case law to know for sure). Which is enough to isolate a package for a drug sniff. Though for international shipments I don't think the postal service/border folks need to meet a reasonable suspicion standard for a sniff.

I guess the take away is... never check your parcel's tracking details.
ChuckMcM can always be counted on to have a thoughtful and interesting comment. He is my #1 favorite HN commenter.
Remember that you could also charge them a changing fee if they suddenly want to change the UI, and since your a contractor thats money they'd have to pony up extra. If your fulltime, they would feel like they could pressure you into doing it quickly
This is something I really miss from a few years ago when I was using Cg to do my shaders. It had (what I would consider) fairly basic features like #include and the ability to specify texture states and so on within the shader file. Now I have to do all of that manually, or write my own preprocessor or something...
You had better license it as free software.
This thread describes so many flaws to the mental health care system. Does anyone want to team up and maybe solve the problem?

While I'm no domain expert, I know a ton about mental health and the process of finding a good provider that you're comfortable with.

I'm a generalist, mostly back-end guy (Ruby/Rails/Postgres) with a good eye for design. I've had a few lucky exits. I think this can be another one.

Email is in profile.
Are you claiming that Obama is a socialist? If not (as I assume), then what was the point of your anecdote? I don't see where the guy you replied to claimed that Obama wasn't in some broad sense to the left of those he ran against.
"In a fictional future world where self-driving cars are ubiquitous, they'll likely serve, in miniature form, the same role that buses and trams do now; except they'll be more point-to-point than those; one could pick you and a few others on the corner near your flat, drive you to your offices, and go do it again."

To be honest, since I suspect that world won't be fictional, I think this whole debate is really a waste of time now. It wouldn't even matter if an alien brain ray struck the entire world and suddenly everybody agreed that public transportation was totally the only way to do anything ever, and all public transport spending was 100% rerouted into public transport... self-driving cars would still obviate all the plans before we could possibly fully enact them.

In a world where that level of consensus isn't going to happen, it's even moreso a waste of time.
Is is possible for consciousness to come from non-conciousness or intelligence to come from non-intelligence?
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