skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The complexity of gesture typing opens the door to a lot of interesting questions that aren't relevant for "normal" typing. I really enjoyed reading through this notebook, it's very clear and presented well. What's more impressive is that most of the questions were answered with less than ~150 lines of code!

In regards to the 6th question (one left only partially answered), some of you might find this blog post (posted to HN by my collegue a few months ago) that attempts to answer this question in a lot more detail (and with a lot more computing power) [1].

An aside: we made a python library (specifically intended for use in iPython) to help facilitate answering the exact types of questions posed in this article. A bit more time was spent on performance efficiency and visualization but there were some interesting functions in this notebook that would be a welcomed addition to the library [2].

Although the main point of our work was to determine the least confusing keyboard layout for gesture typing, we designed the library to make it quick and easy to answer all types of questions relating to keyboard input. As an example, at the request of an HN commenter on our previous post, we took a quick look at how the average path length on a random keyboard layout compares to the FITALY keyboard. Shameless plug: the question only took 5-10 minutes to code up and answer using iPython with the library mentioned above ([2]). In case anyone is interested you can find that notebook here [3].

[1]: http://sangaline.com/blog/swype_optimization/index.html

[2]: https://github.com/sangaline/dodona

[3]: http://sangaline.com/blog/optimizing_for_swype/FITALY.html
Why bother with the fixed functionality?

(defun cc () "Secrets File" (interactive) (find-file "/home/ajross/.cc.gpg"))

Launch with "M-x cc" (which is simple enough) or bind to a keystroke. Emacs will prompt you for the decryption cleanly, your distro will surely cache them with gpg-agent, and you can then just edit it and cut and paste as you like.

I'm pretty sure it's "cc" because it was originally a list of credit card numbers, but quite frankly I've been doing this so long I've forgotten.
From the chrome extension github:

"This is pre-alpha quality software, the result of a three
day project. It will crash your browser, leak your
passwords and destroy your home. This is actually my first
Chrome extension and I am no expert javascript programmer."

YMMV
Actually, the Russians developed a completely different programming language Prolog and Prol2 that had nothing to do with the French Prolog. It just happened to have the same name.

Source: http://forum.oberoncore.ru/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=4111
+1 for the source code!
Got curious about how the spec is built. Source said:

> Built with spec-md

http://leebyron.com/spec-md/
And an imprint or at least a contact address. Why would anyone share sensitive files without even that... can't imagine.
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If I'm not mistaken, the lack of mentions ~2011 will likely be due to the (thankfully dead) NoSQL craze.
Haitian revolutionaries murdered virtually all white men, and spared only the women willing to marry black men. [1] "Black Jacobins" is indeed an apt term for such barbarism.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
That loan will end up enabling billions of dollars of tax revenue for Uncle Sam. Probably the single most successful loan in the history of government loans.
Take a look at Kolmogorov complexity. It's uncomputable.
>One might argue that on paper the money involved for an individual won't be that much, which is sort of true but the bigger issue is perception. This makes Chicago seem like a greedy money grubbing place that's gonna nickel and dime you any change they can get.

That perception certainly hasn't hurt San Francisco.
I think we as taxpayers got a great ROI on it, since new economic activity within the country translates into increased prosperity and increased tax revenue.

Looking purely at interest earned on a government loan misses half the picture since the government gets to essentially double-dip on all the success stories.
Are there any plans to release the Relay (client side) component of this?
It's not a indefensible position. But it is different, and makes direct comparisons more difficult.
Progress will always shift things from "WANT" to "NEED".

If you want to play that game living past your 30's is a "WANT" rather than a "NEED". You probably won't find many people who think this particular "WANT" isn't a "NEED".
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While there is some disagreement, as you link to, in general the major authorities on this topic are quite consistent in saying that gender reassignment surgery, hormones, and so forth, can be helpful. For example, here is the APA's page (see the part on "mental disorder?" among others),

http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.aspx

No treatment is perfect - some people detransition, etc. - and our information is limited, but to the best we can tell, those things do help a significant amount of people.

Your being certain that they are hurt by such treatments is both incorrect and unfair. We would need to be EXTREMELY certain in order to deny people the basic right to decide what to do with their bodies. If we are uncertain, we must default to letting them decide for themselves, as it is none of our business. But we are not even just uncertain - evidence seems to point that it can help.
Pretty hard to compare two vastly different arenas like that. In space flight even mature platforms have a 1%-10% failure rate.

Because of the physics involved, rockets operate at the very edge of the capabilities of the rocket. Modern auto's don't have this issue: you can drive at highway speeds all day long without stressing the materials in your engine anywhere close to the edge of the operating envelope. In short, from an engineering perspective car's aren't hard any longer.
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Discard fears of comparison immediately: nobody is judging you. You already recognize areas in which you still have learning to do - that is perhaps the hardest step.

Think about the area you have identified. Chiefly, is it worth learning? Would you find it stimulating or useful? Channel your decision in to confident curiosity, and your curiosity in to learning.

One day, if you keep going, you can confidently launch in to this sort of broad, deep, out-of-context learning routinely and without stress or great difficulty.

Just remember: life's too short to try to learn everything. Some people love being the expert at something, others prefer a more distant, 'renaissance man' or talented generalist approach. There is no single path, just be confident building your own.
Probably not worth a whole lot to sell. Sometimes the disks and memory will be worth something, occasionally the processors. There are a bunch of folks who part these things out. For the most part the best return can be selling directly to end users on ebay or craigslist.

In terms of learning things, if by a "stack" you have 10 or more, then you run a hadoop cluster or any of a number of other clustered type systems. If you were more devops oriented you could play around with deployment scripts and containers and what not. Setting up bitcoin miners or unikernel systems. Can be an excellent way to transcode video if you've got lots of VHS tapes you wish were MP4's :-)
+1 for not forgetting your roots. I am also in a battle with my accent. Hopefully, one day, very soon, I will win it.
What I am asking for is like consulting without having to deal with the business aspect of consulting: looking for clients, how to get assured you are paid, paying taxes, taking care of legal essues, ...
Poorly applied benefits do. If at any point, you lose $2 of benefits by earning $1 more, you are encouraged to not work harder. Of course there is a cap, such as if you earn $5,000 more you'll only lose $4,000, but people don't have the option to increase by $5,000 at a time and are stuck where working harder only earns you enough to cost even more in benefits than you earn, thus discouraging working harder.
> If you're still whining instead of acting

Please don't be personally rude on HN. This comment would be fine with just the first sentence.
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Window making being a terrible job is new information to me. What was so bad?
The beauty of these pictures reminded me of urban decay photography and Wabi-Sabi. Also made me think of bit rot. I thought that if those spaceships were Software, maybe they would still be flying around, rot and decay included.
Very wonderfully put, this is the basic premise in which I see no other way than a form of basic income for developed nations in the future. The interesting question is one of timeframe and methods.
Tesla charges $600 for their annual service, or $450 if you prepay four years in advance. This is a bit high, especially considering that they do very little. However it's not mandatory, especially the first year.

What's likely to be cheaper is long-term repair costs. No muffler replacements, no leaking head gaskets, no timing belts making an attempt at freedom.... But whether that actually works out remains to be seen.
Because it was intended as a repository of preprints instead of a publishing platform. It surely has the potential of becoming one, but that has not happened yet.
I no longer work there, but ~5 years ago you had to get approval per project. I went through the process once and it took over 2 months for them to say "Ok" to working on an open source game.

Depending on the content and nature of your website, I expect the likelihood of approval will vary from difficult to impossible.
I'll be honest: even if you gave me unlimited money to fix it, I wouldn't want to work there. It was already about as robotic as it could get and yes, there were definitely a few things that could have made it less bad, but I don't think that job could be good.

Also, I'm not so deluded to think that it was the worst job in the world, either. I mean, in that world, who collects trash? There are a lot of necessary jobs that just plain suck and we're simply zeroing any incentive one might have to do those.

In that vein, if we go this route, I'd almost think we would be better off to supply basic goods (food, shelter) than cash. That at produces some semblance of incentive structure for improvement while leaving an out for those who have been made irrelevant by technology.
Though, to be fair, Tesla's monthly numbers would be like 4k/month, which in the ballpark of Porsche, and you don't see them on the analyst's list either...
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Basic income does run the risk of causing ancillary money creation. People may end up lending more because they have a guaranteed income. For example, my country at one point introduced a tax credit for home loans, provided it was your only home, to incentivize people to become owner instead of renter and gain financial security. The net effect was that home prices rose to offset the tax credit, because many people lend at the upper range of their budget and suddenly that limit was higher. Basic income risks having a similar effect.
We're running Debian 2.6.32-45, and NTP outputs this:
ntpq - standard NTP query program - Ver. 4.2.6p2.

Does it answer your question?
Perhaps enslaving, torturing, murdering, and raping people might one day result in a negative outcome for the slavemasters? Fancy that. My heart bleeds for them.
I posted a reply on the original post, so I'll add it here as well:

Yes, SmartOS is indeed very interesting and has been around for many years already. They've done some incredible work to get Docker containers to work on their platform. The purpose of the comparison here is to show some of the Linux OSes that are focused on containers (mainly Docker but also others), and it's never gonna be an exhaustive list. SmartOS could've been on the list as another alternative.
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Anyone else think that this (academia/research) sounds like an industry that could be disrupted?
I'm currently co-authoring a paper that will be submitted to an Elsevier journal because it is a good fit for our work. All of my time and that of one other co-author is funded by an NIH grant which of course is funded by US tax dollars. I'm fairly certain the Elsevier agreement stipulates that I cannot share my paper without their permission – assuming the paper is accepted. If I were the NIH, I would make it illegal for grant recipients to publish anywhere that does not support open access.

[EDIT] There are some conditions under which sharing is permitted: http://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/sharing-and-...
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Seriously impressive interactive map, especially when you realize you can pause and click any "ship" for more information.

If this kind of thing had been available when I was in school, I may have had a whole different perspective on history.
13% of the population of the US is immigrants; for Sweden it's 14%, and Norway it's 13% (source: Wikipedia).
Just out of interest, I installed a couple of the European Ultima Online servers, they were Sun E450s running Solaris 2.5.1.

They had a massive 10 Mb/s dedicated to them (with the ability to burst to 50 Mb/s) - bandwidth shaping was done with a Packeteer.
Something is pushing this "Tesla loses money" angle hard. Since I bought mine, I've discovered that a lot of people who know very little about the company "know" that they make a loss on every car sold.

Regarding subsidies, the "good" news there is that at least in the US, there isn't much in the way of uncertainty, because the US federal subsidy starts to drop off at 200,000 units per manufacturer and is unlikely to be expanded. Given how quickly they're moving, they'll probably hit that within the next few years and one way or another they'll have to learn to do without. But at least they won't be waiting for politicians to drop the knife on them.
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> Having dealt with lots of the "majors'" new car models lately in rentals, I doubt that they have much to bring to the table anymore.

I think it's more a matter of being shortsighted. If the ads from this season of the Startup podcast are any indication, they are so busy focusing on small pieces of the experience (such as having designing wear suits to simulate feeling old, etc) that they are missing the major advances. It's somewhat understandable, the major automakers have been making basically interchangeable cars for a few years, so spending time to enhance the entire experience in many small ways seems to make sense. That is, until some upstart shows up with something radically better.
>I'm 100% sure nobody wakes up totally stoked to go bus tables or wash dishes.

Maybe you don't but there's some people who do. I, personally, actually did enjoy my time working at food service. The first place I worked was poorly run and it sucked but the second place I worked at great management and it was generally a good job minus the pay. I enjoyed my time there.

I also know someone (with a degree) who is a restaurant manager who loves her job as well.

> why not say, "F* it, I can get by with the guaranteed minimum, so why bother?"

Because, most people want to be able to do more. Working at McDonalds might give you enough spending cash to be able to do the stuff you want to do like have a fancy car, jewelry, nights out, vacations, etc.
I am pretty sure that the best way to prove that deep thinking exists is giving to an enterprise the plan to execute their process, product or idea in a way that it beats the competence and produces a lot of money and value. Some people need to touch to believe.
Well, the administrators have outsourced the domain knowledge to the journal reviewers and pay for this service indirectly through journal fees, so from an accounting point of view it makes total sense.

If not publication, what metric should funding agencies use to decide who gets grants? Of course they could hire senior scientists in the field to evaluate grant roposals, but that would mean hiring lots and lots of scientists across all the fields in which they disburse grants; those jobs would be sinecures and from the point of view of the grant applicant it would still be about 'who you know,' just a referee at a grant-issuing agency instead of an editor/reviewer at a journal.

I don't disagree with you about the problem, but I'm not clear on how you would address it. Making the journals less profitable by refusing to pay silly subscription prices to read publicly-funded research would be a good thing for universities, and maybe for scientific publishing, but it's not going to fix the disconnect between people who control the public purse strings and which scientists will get the grants they want.
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> As some people used to say, "security is binary; you either are secure or you are not".

Disregarding all other context: I disagree strongly with this statement. Practical security is about risk management, and is never binary unless you've proven the absence of bugs (and backdoors) through your whole stack down to the transistors (unlikely). The practical exploitability of any particular bug is certainly relevant.
Every industry can be disrupted.
The minimal work load average problem here seems like it would be a great candidate for simulated annealing. [0] It gets rid of the local maximum problem that the author mentions, without adding a significant amount of additional complexity to the computations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
It's passed to that function in the reference implementation, but a server would probably create a helper function that runs a query for a particular schema. For example, you can just pass a query to Facebook's GraphQL endpoint (without specifying a schema), and it will run the query on the Facebook schema.
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So if I understand this correctly the game state was kept in memory in variables/data structures and then once in a while saved down to the DB. Why not just save stuff as they happen? Seem like the most obvious solution to avoid rollbacks.
To be accurate sensors need to be carefully calibrated. I think with a quantum dot they may be more stable over long periods (due to their inherent qualities).
I think you might enjoy the book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, by Douglas Hofstadter [1]. The first chapter is on (what Hofstadter argues is) the fundamental nature of recognizing patterns in number sequences.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Fluid-Concepts-And-Creative-Analogies/...
I will suggest picking option 2. Executive position and title at an established company (assuming relatively well known company in segment) will go a long way in your future executive career growth. I wouldn't be surprised that after staying in the role for 6 months, you will start getting contacts from executive recruiters for executive positions at other companies. Also, being in executive position you will most likely interact with BoD and other investors. At exec level, you need connections to move up and sideways.

The chance of B2B startup becoming big and stay independent are low. Most such startups get acquired by larger established companies in the segment. Executive position at startup doesn't typically equate with executive position at acquiring established company. As a non-exec at startup who might have been reporting to an exec at startup, you most probably will be demoted and reporting to someone non-exec in this situation at acquiring company. You will lose any professional cachet in executive recruiting or moving into executive role.
You can avoid a lot of these types of issues using a digest for the username and password plus a master key as a salt. It generates a unique and relatively complex sequence for each site and doesn't require any persistent state other than the salt.

The downside is a lack of control over complexity and the issue of passwords being strictly dependent on the salt. So, if one set of credentials is compromised, you would need update them all.

I've seen software that does this, but there are subtle details to consider to actually get it correct.
What's odd is that it was the Jesse Jackson AMA that was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. There have been far worse AMAs than that. (e.g. the infamous Woody Harrelson Rampart AMA)

/r/amadisasters has a good list of them: http://www.reddit.com/r/amadisasters

EDIT: Response from Alexis: https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bw39q/why_has...