jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"We focus on experienced engineers (2+ years) in North America so we won't be a good fit for you (today)."

I did classified infosec for nearly 8 years in North America and wasnt able to make the cut for a resume. Awesome.
Not exactly related, but the recent Amazon Prime series "El Cid" is surprisingly good, especially if you thought that GoT lacked development of themes on how religion played such a major role in medieval politics.
It clearly says “sent as text”when it’s green. There really is no confusion and takes a second to understand.
This project seemed innocuous enough. And it's a shame Discord killed it. As long as services are centralized, platform owners keep doing things like this.
Precisely because we expect that Wikipedia has sourced this information, such as climate data, from a reliable location - i.e. not made it up for itself.
I did a similar thing recently but used amazon's mechanical turk - might want to give it a try if you want additional feedback.
I also went to a college with a student-adjudicated honor system. It really does work, because the students actually have the better incentive for applying discipline. They're the ones that will be competing with the scoundrels for class ranking and job hiring. But what's the incentive for the administration to cost itself a tuition payer? Of course, it is possible for the honor court to go too far and be prejudiced against peer students out of sheer competitiveness, but it would seem that happens rarely enough to make it the lesser of evils if a factor at all.
But does that change something about the purchasing decision? Transfering sucks but buying is still easy. I'm skeptical about whether the actual purchasing decision is negativly affected by having to connect a device. You don't have to connect a device to spend money.
Thanks. I'll do that.
Conifers still exist in places other than mountain slopes; boreal forests and taigas being the perfect example. It's more a question of climate than terrain as far as I know.

Losing needles is not a disadvantage as much as an advantage in the most northern regions of the world where the old needles can still do photosynthesis when there's good light but it's still too cold outside to grow new leaves and get nutrients from a still frozen earth.

Note that a few coniferous trees like the larch are in fact deciduous.

Leaves were a 'major invention' and a 'big step up' in climates where they are the most appropriate thing. In some climates, coniferous trees still dominate because they are the most adapted species to that specific environment. Evolution works through what's the most apt at surviving in given conditions; dominance is conditional to the environment you frame it into.
You're right. It's nuanced.
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Every patient would be treated with random drug/treatment. With accumulated treatment results, a multi armed bandit algorithm would adjust probabilities so, that most effective treatment would be used more often.

For example, in Thompson sampling probability of choosing option is equal to probability of that option being the best option given evidence so far.

Aim is to maximize reward (successful treatments), while spending little as possible time on exploration (testing less effective treatments).
Of course they won't.
It's hard for me to respond to this, because personally, in I don't think I've ever met a single neighbour and never had "trust" to any of them - and if there was a noise above a certain level, I just called the police to deal with it instead of going out of the apartment myself. "Trusting them as people" even sounds weird because I don't even know who those people are. I guess it's a cultural thing.
So is the sea level being measured or estimated?
Those articles are super old and don't apply anymore - the terms of the app store have changed almost 5 years ago (those articles are 10 years old)
Wouldn't this cover bartering? I could also see someone trying to twist this definition to cover gift cards and other mediums that are not strictly "money." Such a skewed interpretation is why I think drafting such a bill would be difficult.
Played this game in undergrad and this was my exact experience.
It's been my go-to tool for almost a decade for figuring out what's in strange files, and working out how to ingest them. I learned about it from ProPublica.com; they used it in their series about payola to doctors from big pharma.

https://www.propublica.org/nerds/using-google-refine-for-dat...

It's Java. You can mess with the virtual-memory jvm parameters to make it handle more data.

It has a disadvantage in the workplace: it's hard for some managers to believe it's local only. The name Google on it means, to them, that it must upload data to cloud servers owned by Google. Maybe the rebranding has reduced that hurdle.
Yes you can. I've done it when my phone was dead and I had forgotten my charging cable at work.
I just wrote a stock prediction system

Oooh, a bankruptcy engine! The most prominent art form of our times. ;)

You seem to understand that you've become dangerous to yourself and others. Be sure to keep listening to those thoughts. Just in case, you might want to get a tattoo: Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
No, I don't. I never did a study. =)

You did, however, seek further credibility to backup my comment, which is the entire point.

I do, however, remember reading about this at one point, and XKCD did a comic on the topic as well.
That's only speculation to the extent that any investment is speculative.

I don't play the market ... I buy mutual funds for my Roth IRA, and I sit on them. And sit on them. And sit on them. But if you were to reduce my actions down to the bare basics, it would sound just like the initial comment: "you buy some stock, believing it will go up, so you can sell it at a profit at a later date". Just because my window is 30 years, and not 30 days, it doesn't change the basic mechanics or principles.
For what it is worth: here is an example of a non-uniform random variate:

a = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
1000.times do
a[5 *(rand + rand)] += 1
end

results in (actual numbers may vary randomly):

irb(main):020:0> a
=> [28, 60, 96, 151, 171, 168, 146, 96, 63, 21]
Really. If you want your story to be heard, tell it. Start talking here or start an IamA.
You're probably right that people who haven't taken a course in probability are likely to use "random" to mean "uniformly at random". And of course, most people haven't taken a course in probability.
I call it natural when it is within the normal diet of humans throughout their evolution.

Most of the food we eat every day today has not been part of the normal diet of humans throughout our evolution.The vegetables, the fruits, and the animals we eat have been bred and refined and genetically modified, and most are less than a few hundred years old.

You can simply answer this, is it in human's natural diet to have lots of aspartame intake each day?

No, but so what? If scientific consensus says that aspartame is perfectly safe to eat, I'll trust that. I avoid aspartame because I think it tastes like crap. That's a perfectly valid reason not to eat it.

"Because it's not natural and I don't trust those so-called scientists that say it's safe" is right up there with astrology and homeopathy.
To make money with stocks you want to buy cheap/low and sell for more/higher. It doesnt have to be in that order.

If you expect a stock value to go down lower than X dollars, you commit to sell them stock at >X$ (without owning) and, when the time comes and your expectations (about the stock going down) become true, you buy for <X$ and sell the stock for >X$.

-- MV
The losses you can receive from buying a stock can be huge. The stock you bought could go to 0.
I note elsewhere in the thread that high pixel density is something I feel Apple was forced into by their business model, then marketed very strongly as a must-have feature.

I've felt the same about their one-piece aluminium enclosures and their new unbreakable glass designs.

Again, durability is great, if it came for free then I'd take it, but you're going further and telling me that all the cameras, gameboys, walkmen, cell phones, PDAs, netbooks etc. that I ever owned were never "mainstream" because of some Apple marketing that doesn't even apply to the 100 million plus portable devices they themselves sold over the last few years. It just doesn't add up. There's nothing inherently wrong with plastic or rubber devices, Apple just doesn't like the associations. They'd rather have titanium that flakes off than plastic that didn't.
Please document yourself: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/impuls...
Are you perhaps coming from a Clojure perspective? Scheme is no more inherently immutable than, say, JavaScript. Many Scheme programs I've seen use mutation quite liberally. Immutability is a useful pattern in lots of languages and situations, but Lisp per se doesn't particularly enforce it.
I get it. The sequence of events seems very analogous to a Rube Goldberg machine, and one would conclude if the sequence of events didn't go as planned the parasite would have been doomed.

My theory is the parasite community for that species can survive other ways just fine, but has stumbled across a scenario that serendipidously gives it an extra boost at the change of reproducing.

I would imagine that most species that benefit from these complex interactions tend to have left-over backups for survival and reproduction. When species over-adapt to specific scenarios, it seems likely they'd become to susceptible extinction or their populations would be periodically thinned out.

That's one guess.
Please submit links to the arXiv summary page when possible, not the pdf.
industry where it can have the broadest application and best chance for making an impact

Does impact there ever have a definition other than 'revenue for the university'?

I realize this is a somewhat pointed question, perhaps even obnoxious, but if the answer is otherwise, I'm wondering why bureaucrats in a tech transfer office are the ones deciding when it is proper to forgo revenue for some other societal benefit?
That allows CloudFlare to MITM your SSL, so I'm torn on whether it's better than plaintext. Sure, it reduces the points where people can read your data down to one, but it also makes SSL go from "definitely secure to the server" to "probably secure".
I agree, I've started uploading my conference presentation slides to Scribd, and it's a much better experience than Scribd's Flash implementation ever was (and Slideshare's, for that matter). I tried the two sites multiple times over the years, and I never felt that there was a better experience than just putting the PDF for download.

However they achieve it, with "HTML5" or hacky auto-generated HTML markup standards from before, it's a wonderful technical achievement that should be applauded.
"As longtime readers know, I think the cellphone industry is one step away from a big-city mugger."

I think they're worse. You at least know what you're getting into with a mugger. The carriers, however, are all about hiding information, causing unintended charges and profiting off their customers' lack of 24/7 vigilance, and manipulating you with crazy pricing plans. It astonishes me that this industry isn't better regulated (in the US), or given effective incentives to behave like good citizens.

It's a real shame that with companies like these, the engineers who actually do the work of adding value are not the ones driving these companies. Instead, it's some jerk in a suit whose job is to figure out how to use their leverage to wring more money out of people.
For the nth time, the $75m liability cap only applied to cases of genuine accident, not those involving gross negligence; it only capped punitive liability and not mitigation costs anyway; and it was a statutory provision made into law back in 1990, a generation ago. Pointing to this as if it was indicative of current political machinations is completely misleading.
How do you do the Back extension one without a machine?
I don't know about the idea, but I can give you some feedback on the main page.

First, "Flock is an easy-to-use social gaming network for Android and Iphone". I have no idea what that means. Is it a tool I download to chat with my buddies in game on iPhone? Is it something that will help me as a developper to create and publish game? Is it a kind of steam for iPhone and android?

I think the main page as too much "features" and not enough of "wtf is flock?".

Like, "Integrated encryption with SSL/TLS and AES-256".. I really don't care about the encryption you use if I'm not to use your service because I don't know what it is.

If you absolutely want to tak about security, say it in a: Flock is a secure and reliable way to blah blah.

Keep it simple!
There's a DBI library and an SVG library. See Proto for more: http://proto.perl6.org/
Sorry, I got sidetracked. Holidays and whatnot :)

My day job has always been outside the gaming industry. I do programming for the industrial automation sector in America. Robotics, PLCs, manufacturing... that sort of stuff. It's interesting at times, but not particularly challenging. The pay is good, but we're somewhat of a dying breed. Most new programmers move into the web apps or networking side of things. Some days I'm not even sure how I got into this stuff!

As for my games, I've piddled around for the last decade or so making old SNES-style games. You can find some examples of my past work at (callofcodethulhu.com) and (http://www.allegro.cc/members/sirocco/projects). I'm about a month or less away from finishing my latest project, so it's a total grind-o-rama around my house when I get home from work.
That's true for Goldman - they tend to have a very short term focus. It was not true of many of the other banks. This is why Goldman did so well (relatively speaking) in the crash.
The reasons Python is so appealing to me are numerous, but the primary ones are (1) Django (2) script based (like PHP, no waiting for compilation) (3) easy to scan (no need for {} and everything is nicely nested)

It's good, clean fun if you ask me. Just the other day I even wrote a script to listen in on my sound card and emit an unpleasant 20k tone when my dog barked. That kind of programming is what you call fun!
It's still prorated ($10 off per month), but the starting fee was doubled.
I don't think Apple ever calls any of their machines 'laptops' – that's the point.
Being more specific would risk allowing the company to be identified, but you're absolutely right that just quoting user numbers by themselves is not going to be much help. Consider adding the words 'within the context of this application' wherever such metrics are used.

As far as interaction goes I would qualify this particular product as halfway between twitter and a social bookmarking site. More interaction than HN but signficantly less complex than twitter. Both twitter and HN are deceptively simple on the outside but remarkably complex underneath, so maybe I'm overstating the complexity level but it's not too far off the mark. By my estimate and using my own websites as a benchmark they should be able to run their current product on a single machine up to or over 100K users daily (using their current set of technologies), session times and concurrency of course play into that heavily.
Since I help put out a lot of fires, some of them smoldering and with potential threatening to (eventually) burn down the company, I like to think of what I do as working from two priority queues.

The first priority queue is very small and what will be done today/in the near future. The second priority queue is a list of everything else.

Stuff can get bumped from the first priority queue back to the second priority queue. Both queues are constantly being reshuffled (in my mind, not in JIRA).

I never really understood the agile/scrum thinking that seem to block parallel execution - or management implied could only be executed serially (as in this feature needs to get done at the detriment of this one).

System-level issues trump individual customer-level issues. Long-term fixes for customer-level issues trump individual fixes for customer-level issues (unless, of course, said customer has escalated). Paying off high-interest technical debt that has rolled over to several credit cards is a high priority, as well.

The reality is that when the house is fire, you need to put out the fire. Sometimes the perception is that there is a fire when there is not, though. And, if you see something that is a potential fire hazard/already smoldering, you need to aggressively put that out.
Try Minecraft with a render distance of sixteen chunks.
Another couple of aspects of the government you describe are transparency and passivity.

Nobody feels inclined to hide or dispute the blatantly corporate government; relatively inconsequential people know the intimate details of corporate corruption. There are no real "politics" as they relate to most people, merely figures of power moving pieces on a chessboard in full view for those who care to watch.
> Although it's not a great language by design, I think there's a reason why it has reached wide adoption. And don't tell me it's because there are no alternatives.

I'm pretty sure that this is exactly the reason: JavaScript is found in every browser, and only JavaScript is found in any (modern) browser. That's the only reason it's widely-adopted.
This is simply insulting and childish.
It's a point of honour with me. Why send an invoice if it doesn't save their bacon? Better to align my goals with theirs. Make money with the customer, not off the customer is one of my mottos and that has worked well for me over the years.
She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama, the European World, will be contests between inveterate power, and emerging right.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. - John Quincy Adams

It was until recently (the early 1900s) that the policy of the United States to stay entirely out of any foreign affairs other than her own. It was acknowledged that America could spread her virtues and values by being the paragon example of them as inspiration to others to follow suit.

Today she holds the opposite view - that it is her unquestioned duty and obligation to interfere everywhere with the justification and rationalization that she seeks justice - and that discarding some of these principles for her own people is necessary for this noble mission.
because price ( aka salary / fee) is a function of supply and demand and it grows the more the skill is in demand. As simple as that.

Let’s say you want to start a career as a freelance for example : what skill to you put forward ? You may say « but jobs requiring elixir are probably more interesting than sql/java ». I agree, but that is if there’s one position open at the time you’re looking , in the area you’re looking and with other qualifications matching
I know of a team at an AI-oriented company that uses Reinforcement Learning to find cheats and exploits in 2600 games as their happy hour activity. No need to work late (though one could), just start that training run and hope for the best.
Quite a lot of negative comments here.

I've been using DDG as my primary search engine for ages now - perhaps years now? It has been great - very refreshing, no filter bubble (that I can see).

I still end up doing !g maybe 3 or 4 times a week when struggling to find something, but often I can't find what I want on google either. On the whole, I generally really recommend it. I still use google as my primary at work and I cant say I notice the difference in the results quality (technical or region).

My main criticism is that the "products" search seems to basically be an "Amazon search" where as Google Shopping is actually quite useful when trying to find a retailer, and some of their search widget things (e.g. currency conversion) are pretty basic compared to the richer ones Google has.
A very high percentage I bet.
Why would they standardise? They see their way of doing things as their competitive advantage - they each think their approach is better.

Maybe you don’t understand how much people spend on these services? If you’re spending a million dollars a month on AWS then it pays to have a few people who focus on AWS full time and know it intimately.

I really don’t think you need to let yourself get disturbed by this.
I've gone down the Google-free rabbit hole myself lately. Being Facebook-free is so much easier than Google-free but here's what I switched to:

Chrome browser -> Firefox

Google search -> DuckDuckGo (StartPage for specific searches that DuckDuckGo doesn't do well at)

Gmail -> ProtonMail

Maps -> OpenStreetMap

Translate -> DeepL

Analytics -> removed them from my site completely so no tracking scripts at all

Details: https://markosaric.com/surveillance-capitalism/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/nyregion/epstein-suicide-...

> The last suicide at the Manhattan jail before Mr. Epstein’s was in 2006, according to the bureau.
The courses are not free, they are paid for, in large part, by the federal government and the state.

California did not back then, but they now have their own legislation known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act and of course there’s the ADA/Rehabilitation Act.

Here’s the kicker - they have to do this whether it is posted publicly or not. The legal requirement does not only apply to public material, but to ALL material and the material still exists/can be accessed with Berkeley credentials. It also applies to future material produced that is used with students/in classes.

My guess is, they had to make it accessible regardless and did this out of spite. They had internal resources to help with this but chose not to do so/made it really expensive because of the volume due to not doing it in the first place.

It is kind of like Cybersecurity - people don’t like to spend the money until they have a breach, where it’s much more expensive to remediate and their costs would be much more manageable/risk reduced has they done it “right” the entire time.

My mother is a professor in the CSU system and I will say California public universities are beginning to take this much more seriously now, largely because of lawsuits.
Not always, been there, done that. But they can definitely rob you of momentum when you need it most.
>>If only these people would tie in with the Computer Language Benchmarks Game<<

The Problem Based Benchmark Suite might be a better match:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/
I've possibly missed the point of what you're asking, but... surely it's obvious that photons can be converted to electrons, given that's what a photodiode does and that's how digital cameras work?
Even if previous well known attacks didn't rely on encryption, it seems likely that future attacks will be organised over encrypted channels because they are now more ubiquitous.

"Encrypted Web Traffic More Than Doubles After NSA Revelations". http://www.wired.com/2014/05/sandvine-report/
The example he gave was a young police officer who was a very experienced driver, and had a passenger call 911 in a panic while he was unable to stop the car with his foot firmly planted on the brake - and it ended up killing all four occupants. That negates the 'old people can't drive properly' theory.
Hey there, any chance you want to turn this doc into a dedicated webpage? Here's a demo: https://demos.writary.app/deptrust