jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Woah there. Be careful with that quick dismissal of what you term 'code beauty'.

Sure, constructing quick and dirty prototypes is necessary, especially if you want to assess whether the idea is actually worthwhile, but this 'well, hey, even Larry Page didn't seem to know much early on so obviously code quality is overrated, blah blah' attitude is a bit dangerous and something of a stretch (we're basing this discussion on him not knowing one small aspect of a then-beta language, c'mon).

Sure, write something quick and dirty, and seek to refactor it later, but keep in mind that doesn't justify not having the chops to be able to write reasonable code first time.

I really think this 'none of this stuff matters, it's just aesthetics' idea is really pernicious - what is this 'aesthetic' stuff? To my mind it's writing code which is clear + understandable to you and other human beings - that is all that good code is. I believe that, with discipline, you can learn to do that quickly and efficiently and scale it accordingly from prototype -> critical library without ever just totally letting loose and writing crap (where crap is defined as being difficult to understand). That's before you even begin to consider the quality of the software perf-wise if you make naive algorithm choices.

Note that prototypes very often become core systems way more often than you would expect, so these 'throwaway' systems are often not as throwaway as you first thought.

This stuff isn't aesthetic, irrelevant or subjective nicety (all ideas 'code beauty' brings to mind), this stuff is the very means by which we construct our products and core to everything we do. Can we please stop pretending otherwise?

And, though it's something of an appeal to authority, I do think it's relevant in this particular case - keep in mind when google interview people, they themselves actually seem to think this stuff you're down-playing is important. I doubt an appeal to 'well I'll learn algorithms and so on later once I've got stuff working' would really prove sufficient.
I see a lot of "but I'm not a programmer" complaints. I'm concerned how many end users seem to overlook the solution of hiring programmers to make desired changes, since enabling that is a big part of what open source is for. How do we fix this? If third parties followed up by offering estimates to do the work, would that be well received?
Would I? Probably not. Is it conceivable that this could be the norm? Definitely.
It's kind of weird reading that.

Many people think it's rude to ask someone who wants work done to do the work themselves.

I think it's rude to expect other people who've got you 90% of what you want to just drop what they're doing and give you the remaining 10%.

The answer is likely somewhere between, but (and I'm biased), I'd tend to think that those who brought a body of work forward should have a little more leeway in responding to the demands of those taking advantage of it.
"Of course, you'd have to be wearing tight clothing for it to be accurate."

Effectively-no clothing would be much better. It's not like a human is looking you over. You'd also need to hold a known calibration image, too. I'm still not sure you could do it even then to the requisite accuracy, that's asking an awful lot, but maybe. Would take some clever work and a lot of testing.
This article is very strange. It's pretty cynical about Gladwell but his details on him aren't all negative are they? Gladwell sure is good at telling stories and proving points! It has to be a formula. A formula of what pretty much equals good writing and research.
I noticed the interest the other battle.net article got and I think this is another article worth reading.

The other can be found here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1416808
Literate programming is the style of programming that's intended to be read: http://www.literateprogramming.com/

Quite the contrast with the Bourne Shell:
"Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help."
– Tom Duff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell#Quotes
It'll be good to know what types of problems do you want to solve? What's the industry are you mostly interested in? B2C or B2B?

What are the biggest problems you see around you and want to solve?
This has been my general experience too. I've found myself taking Crockford's description of "Scheme in C's clothing" to heart. I treat object's more as first-class maps/associative arrays - much in the same way that maps are first class in Clojure - than I do as proper OOP objects.

Functional JavaScript is exciting and maleable to me, which is a breath of fresh air after (still) waiting so long for proper closures and anon functions in Java.
Crikey, that's like recommending the Bourne Shell (which was a bunch of macros so you could write ALGOL-like code in C)! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell#Quotes

twisted is, well, twisted. And that's what it does to your head too.
>"Thinking you have a decent sense of what looks good just doesn't cut it, unfortunately every human being is endowed with this belief, hence the general ugliness of the interwebs."

I strongly disagree with this statement. Perhaps every web designer thinks that they know what looks good and not all do but this is not a feature of the general public. The public tend, in my country at least, to consider that "I can't do art" - it's like a massive version of imposter syndrome.

I work with a company that spends a lot of time tapping the art and creativity of those who think they have none.

/antihyperbole
This is true, and it's not unique to Japanese (Chinese does it too). But I'm not sure the existence of this specific feature in the language supports any particular generalizations about a "Japanese mindset."

To English speakers, using different counters for different classes of nouns is a pretty strange feature, but I'd imagine no stranger than the Japanese might consider our plurals. Japanese (and Chinese) don't inflect nouns for plural agreement at all. From there, imagine how English's seemingly random collection of irregular plurals must seem (feet, oxen, halves, deer, women, mice, children, dice, larvae, alumni, bacteria, etc).

I wonder what features of English-origin programming syntax they might link to this bizarre collection of special cases :).
7. Use an MVC framework (like Backbone) and forget all about it!
Wisconsin was the state the looked to take the power away from unions
Science does not "prove anything". It just offers an explanation which can be falsified (can be described objectively, and makes predictions which, if refuted, disprove the theory). Other belief systems are based on non-falsifiable theories (or explanations, or beliefs)
> and the nag screens haven't gone away

I'm also there since Youtube Red and I'm not sure what you mean. I've never seen a nag screen so far. I wonder if it's some bug, or some kind of targeting failure?
He's a liar. Promises self driving every year. Not even close
Genuine question: would you guys be saying the same “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” about the Boston Tea Partiers if you’d lived back then and they’d failed?

I think I would. IMHO either you cross the Rubicon or you don’t. None of this shaking your foot over the water’s edge at your enemy and then acting surprised when they shoot your foot off. Also I realize I’ve mixed historical events and I apologize.
I want to be okay with Capital One, but the day I tried signing up for an account (a few years back), their entire application for applying (their application application) had a meltdown and their app crashed, etc, etc.

And then I thought, hmm, glad this happened before I had opened an account.
It's been a while since I've read the U2F spec and my info may be a major version out of date but I understand that the enrollment-specific key was encrypted to the long term device key then returned to the service for storage.

The attack to mount would be against the long-term device-specific key, no?
Wondering what politicians come up with regarding social media in general, as this incident plus above-average social media presence now finally demonstrate without any doubt their polarizing and amplifying effect, not to speak of foreign influence.
To be pardoned their names would all end up in public, and it wouldn’t protect them from anything they did in future.
Indeed, that is why they protected their identities, covered their faces and were arrested on spurious charges by the ten thousands and key figures mysteriously ended up in burnt up cars half a year later.
His phone was strapped to his chest with the camera facing out, presumably recording or streaming.

https://www.nxsttv.com/nmw/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2021...
The thorium is in the gas mantles.
This is a really nice paper which asks some critical questions for the future of NAS research.

However, it's important to note that this paper doesn't show that NAS algorithms as originally designed, with completely independent training of each proposed architecture, are equivalent to random search. Rather, it shows that weight sharing, a technique introduced by ENAS [1] which tries to minimize necessary compute by training multiple models simultaneously with shared weights, doesn't outperform random baselines. Intuitively, this makes sense: weight sharing dramatically reduces the number of independent evaluations, and thereby leads to far less signal for the controller, which proposes architectures.

The paper itself makes this fairly clear, but I think it's easy to misinterpret this distinction from the abstract.

[1] ] H. Pham, M. Y. Guan, B. Zoph, Q. V. Le, and J. Dean. Efficient neural architecture search via
parameter sharing. ICML, 2018.
How do you explain the "party line" dynamic with the Republicans if Democrats are similarly politically cynical. Regardless of media slant it's clear that Republican policy marches in lockstep, with very clear talking points. How can that be explained except being a naked power grab?
Mass incarceration and the destruction of Uighur culture is inhuman.

The people of Hong Kong, and their right to live with self-determination, matter.
My students do three:

Reddit clone

Food bank organisation, shops submit out of date food. People want food. You organise this, facebook like interface.

MUD clone

Code these three. Put on github.
What? Brainfuck is one of the easiest languages to read. It's almost entirely context-free; you can immediately infer what's going to happen at any given point of the code, except brackets, which require a bit of counting if you're not using a syntax highlighter...

(yes this is parody but so is my parent)
> Burning methane is even better

Actually, burning is probably the best way to deal with any excess methane. Methane has a significantly higher warming potential than CO2 does. So if there's any methane we're venting into the atmosphere, we should burn it to convert it into CO2. Bonus points if you can use the generated energy to capture the CO2 as well.
Thanks for this glib comment, it must be true since you asserted it. Frankly what I find most annoying about this comment is the implicit claim that humans are so complex that we can't possibly study it; that our existing scientific method is inadequate to describe economics.

Unlike any art economics can make predictions, and we can test the validity of such predictions. That our models are insufficient right now doesn't mean we should cast the whole discipline into the toilet.
I so distinctly remember reading this in a second-hand paperback copy of Reader's Digest back when I was a teenager. I was so fascinated by this story - thanks for reminding me of it and helping me re-read it to relive some of it.
Well hello addison! Fancy meeting you here.

It is very cool what's available to mashup these days. Kind of a lot to keep up with sometimes.
It's not hard to imagine them implanting Neuralink-type devices in humans to make Minority Report a reality. And that's just read-mode. With write-mode, I bet they could easily figure out a way to make wrong thoughts physically impossible to think.

It's only a matter of time before certain governments start alpha-testing this type of technology in places like Xinjiang or Myanmar.
I haven't tried the Java driver, but it's worth a shot. They also have "raw_exec" which might be helpful.
That is surprisingly false. Microsoft operating systems use both / and \ as a path separator, going all the way back to DOS.

Early versions of MS-DOS made it a user preference option in the command.com interpreter, whether the user wanted to use / for options and \ for path separation or vice versa.
Look at raw-exec too - that will avoid cgroups and friends.
what is your setup to save queries in file and run them,
does psql support this model

i use ssms for mssql, and i have a large solution with multiple projects

i know datagrip can be used in the same way as ssms, but can you this be done using psql
so basically Hawking was a Frederick Hallam who bullied others into thinking he was important?
Crimes like this one happen in Russian all the time. The fact, that foreign businessmen were envolved in this one, makes a big difference. Pretty much Russia is held in fetters of corruption. There are little things that can be done in here without bribing a small-time bureaucrat. Mr.Medevedev is feeding us with useless talk about war on corruption, but if you study his blog (http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/) or the committe for fighting corruption website (http://www.com-cor.ru/en), you won't find a single referance to some sort of anti-corruption hotline.
Many tend to think that problems lie only in bureaucrats, but I consider that main problem is in Russian people who are raised over last few centuries to be ignorat of law and their basic rights. Citizens don't have a slightest clue about what can and should be done when ran in to any problem. Fighting the raging corruption should be Russian's greatest and the only concern over next 5-10 years. Justise is only possible when Mr.Medevedev or sometime Putin are addressed and their Manus Domini applied. Georgia should be a positive example of how thing could be delt with a country where 80% of officials are corrupt. It is really dissapointing for me to read comments like "a terrible influence on this world for the past 200 years. When was the last time anything truly positive came out of that dark, forgotten corner of the world". I can list some positive things, but I will probably be considered very subjective by people living outside of Russia. I hope thing will change, and we won't be thought of as a "threat", but for now, you are all right, we are a great threat and I am ashamed of it.
I'm sorry, but you're giving AI too much credit.

There was only 1 reason why Bradley Manning was moved: 2012 election. Obama knows that as long as Manning was being tortured, this would be a sore sticking point with his core Democrat supporters. And I speak as one of them, someone who put in a lot of time and money into getting him elected in 2008.
The idea is awesome but when I looked at your site, I was confused. I checked out Chef Indrajit Ghosh since I actually had a craving for Indian food tonight. When I went to his profile, he's listed under Little Delhi (my favorite Indian restaurant for delivery). Does this mean that I'm actually ordering from the restaurant?
When I opened my law firm, Firestone Duncan, in Moscow in 1993, I was aware of the dangers of doing business in Russia. The stories about "mafia" groups of tracksuited thugs extorting businesses were well known to me. What I never expected was that the Russian mafia would merge with the government; its members are now the same officials who are supposed to be protecting the public.

As far as I know, in 90s mafia had the strongest influence on government's decisions in Russia. Then again, it might have really became the government. I'm too young to remember and moved from the Soviet Union some time ago.
If you go into low Earth orbit from the Earth's surface, you need to go into an orbital inclination equal to the latitude of your launch site - which is extremely unhelpful if you want to then take that mass anywhere else in the solar system. You also need to circularize your orbit, then later boost that mass from circular orbit to hyperbolic escape orbit - also extremely wasteful.
Awesome... I've got some MTurk experiments brewing and this would be lovely... but, TL;DR, where's the code? Here: http://code.google.com/p/turkpipe/

Seems like a dead project, but still nice to have the code.
Oh I agree, I don't know how you would go about it, and I'm sure it's not easy or it would have been done. Talking with someone who has actual experience in both research and ROI studies leads me to believe however that these companies have a pretty good idea of their research ROI, but that it is merely a hard sell to shareholders due to the time delay.
Fair enough. But I wonder what value there is in making that distinction; it would be better to argue instead that the decision was made in error rather than that it was made correctly but not to be used as an example.
That is one nice thing about the Internet - Right To Leave.

If Wikipedia is being rude and alienating users, then people will leave. Eventually something else will come along and take their place.
HiDPi support is also a second class citizen on Windows. Many applications are still designed for 1080p and under, Linux is even worse. OS X seems to get it mostly right.
Works for me, third party image host only.
Wouldn't that make it more important? Given you believe the media is scrubbing the internet of these types of conversations? I don't follow.
Foundation needs money (to hire employees) and resources (server time and bandwidth) to run. Sponsors of the foundation will fund this. It's as simple as that.

Point out where this arrangement hasn't worked well. Otherwise you're just spreading FUD.
Abhorrent facts are still truthful. If you feel it's distasteful and wrong that men can be attracted to other men how far should the world go to defend your worldview
I'm reading this thread and things are not getting clearer, sorry.

The DA (she) charged the pharmacist (him), because he favored non-blacks. What is the "who" refer to? What's modern progressivism? What's its origin?
> Free speech and the right to be forgotten are in direct conflict.

I don't think so. The right to free speech is a right the government to say what you want without consequences from the government beyond certain limited criteria. The right to be forgotten is a personal right where a person can decide they want certain information removed after a period of time. I consider this more a personal protection in a world where people have issues realizing that felons have paid for their crimes, that peoples views can change over time, etc...
Oh, yes yes, I can relate so hard that I actually have to take care of not getting mad after my SO when she breaks in those optimized routine she can't possibly have any clue of.
It apparently has a full-size USB and microUSB port for power purposes.
Why not people who are downvoting me just provide uses of it?
These devices are made by other companies not Google. How do they profit from advertisement. Are you implying that Google pays these companies when they sell their own devices with Google software in it?
> IE is basically only exists as a way for people to download Firefox anyway
I wonder why they didn't demo an outdoor use case.

I'm curious if this technology is closer to oculus rift than to google glass.

I'm thinking maybe they use a front-facing camera to capture the scene and render the 3D stuff on top of the camera view? a user simply sees the composite scene via a display similar to oculus rift.
In this case, your email provider, everyone's email provider and posterous.
It's worth considering that you had to type those BASIC programs yourself. Even if you didn't understand it, you had to look at every line. Compare that to Ctrl-A-Ctrl-C-Ctrl-V.
From the post on the Cloudkick blog, "We are committed to continuing support for multiple clouds within the Cloudkick tools. This means no matter which cloud infrastructure vendor you choose or what data center you have physical servers in, you can continue using Cloudkick."

For some background Jungle Disk still supports multiple clouds as well.
I know this girl, and she's brilliant.

http://vihart.com/doodling

I especially love her Moebius music box

http://vihart.com/musicbox/
I would fund this, although I'm broke now.
> Surgical masks aren't about protecting the wearer from everyone else, they're about protecting everyone else from the wearer [1]. They may provide the wearer some protection, but that's not really the point.

Normal people using surgical masks in public are definitely also for protecting the wearer, and do offer protection.

"Any type of general mask use is likely to decrease viral exposure and infection risk on a population level, in spite of imperfect fit and imperfect adherence, personal respirators providing most protection."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/

Additionally, the number of asymptomatic carriers who may be able to spread the disease is possibly quite large.
Woah. Cool dude!! Working on something similar. dm'd
When cooking for others you have to learn which things to avoid and what they like. For people who like spicy food I zone the pizza in regions of sliced red pepper, cayenne pepper, black pepper, white pepper, wasabi and sambal. One said it was the most interesting meal he ever ate.
As a developer with ADHD, I have a few insights into the skill of attention-management.

1) Shifting into undivided attention isn't the only skill you want. You also want the skill of knowing when you should divert your attention. Otherwise, you end up going down a rabbit hole before you realized that you've been focusing on the wrong thing for a while. If you get stuck, it can be very useful to take some time away from the keyboard and let some other ideas float in and out of your working memory.

2) A key question to answer is "What should I focus on?" One thing that can make this much easier is if you have a way to find out from your team:

- Why does our team exist?

- Who are our stakeholders?

- What are our goals? Why do they help our stakeholders?

Getting this information can be quite difficult, depending on your company culture.

If you are feeling distracted while writing an essay, see if you can imagine that someone asked you a question on reddit.

3) Another useful question to answer is "What does better look like?" for any given task. Essentially, jot down a leading-KPIs for the next couple hours...or next minutes! This is one reason why writing automated tests is useful, even if they are only mental scaffolding that you refactor away before committing.

For writing, it can be helpful to do "question-driven drafting" where you write your first draft as a dialogue between someone who is confused and someone who understands. That lets you look at your explanations and treat "does this seem like a good answer to the question I just wrote?" as your leading-KPI to shoot for.

4) One thing that can impede deep work is when you intuitively suspect that your pursuit of your current goal puts other things you value at risk. This tempts you to keep checking on that thing, forcing you to shift attention. One approach to that is to tell yourself "don't worry about it." I've rarely found that approach valuable -- indeed, the knowledge that I'm just not handling a risk I'm responsible for makes me more tempted to check on it. I've found it much more valuable to set up something which would detect the risk for me and could shift my attention at that point. This is another reason why automated tests are useful.

But you can also just have a checklist that you add to as you go along and check at the end.
Approximately 0.35 EUR per loaf containing 250g flour, assuming you bake 3 loaves at once in an electric oven, and aren't considering the effects of the heat produced on your heating/cooling costs.