skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a good part of my 20's learning about video game development because I always wanted to write a game. Sadly, the only working thing I produced in all of that time was a UI system and a Tetris clone.

I am in my 30's now and am grateful for having put the time in because I was able to apply many of those lessons to business software, which is how I make my living. That said, I still considering creating a puzzle game using Nim as a learning exercise and to make sure I "still got it".

I recommend doing something like a Tetris clone because it has challenges, but is within the realm of the attainable even for someone with a short attention span such as myself.
Thoughtly's Ellipse: AI for Research
Thank you for your kind words :D
Thank you a lot.
This sounds like a great enabler drug! You can eat more junk food and not gain more weight, even if you don't exercise, as long as you take this pill! If this does ever get sold as a pill, it may make billions for the people selling it, the junk food companies, and other drug companies that will benefit from the side effects this does not completely eliminate from your poor diet and lack of exercise, not to mention the side effects the pill itself will have. I can't wait!
The limiting factor of 3d printers isn't the material cost (the plastic is fairly cheap), it's the printing time.
The attack reported in the original posting happened when that cert was valid.
Hi, it works in iOS 9. The Pie for iPad screenshot in the post is running in iOS 9.
I didn't expect this to be #1 post this is kind of you people, I would love to thank everyone who posted and is posting midway replying to comments with "Thank you" i found out i'd be spamming the comments in here, so this is a huge THANK YOU to everyone who wrote and will write.
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanual Kant. It provided the solution which abstracted away the issues with empirical reasoning as the basis for fact and made possible modern scientific enquiry. The abstraction is so powerful that science can ignore the fact that it is a distraction and rebrand itself as independent science rather than the natural philosophy branch of philosophy.
My point is just to reiterate that the 0,1,0,1,0,1,... pattern of i % 2 == 0 is actually exactly the kind of pattern that branch predictors excel at, which you seemed to be skeptical of.
I read through all the comments, hoping for someone to match the irony of this Paul Graham article.

ycombinator is not exactly memorable like a "stripe" or "parse", yet they are presumably one of the most successful accelerators in the world.

Naming is secondary, marketing that name is primary. Of course, you can't have a shitty name like ookabugiedandwig, but ask yourself why English-speaking people know words like: Samsung, Nissan, Ubuntu, Volkswagen and you can even apply that in reverse and find out why people who may not even use English to write, know words like: Apple, Mercedes Benz, Windows.

Also, I don't mean this in a bad light, but I am glad to see people disagreeing with Paul Graham. This shows that HN is healthy and even a YC members opinion can be wrangled down to reality.
"the pool evaporated a thousand gallons a month"

That's because the pool is not covered. Cover the pool and evaporation will be minimized.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/100-raw-Bayer-polycarb...
I remember in my college linear algebra class (I think it was) that my prof made the joke that his wife was the projection of the vector representing all the attributes of his ideal woman into the space that represented the pool of all women who would date him.

I thought it was hilarious. Almost made me want to be a math major (I was just a physics major). Which makes me think of: https://www.xkcd.com/435/
I once used Quickbooks Online b/c it allowed me to accept CC's & BTC.
do they deliver?
Hi sandofsky, that was our previous implementation (dismissal starts only when user's touch enters the real keyboard area) - it doesn't feel 'right'.

The library is not really using KVO to observe private APIs, bounds/center of UIView is public property.
OP should look at Australia, I think he will probably pass the 60 point requirements for Australian skilled PR visa.
Have you considered India?

While a work visa is not likely to be easy, the current tech scene has huge demand for programmers of all kinds. Especially if you're expert in Unity/Full-stack.

If it'll help, let me know here, and I'll connect you to someone in this very area (game programming, Unity SDK programming).

Other options would be Canada, Mexico, Vietnam, or anywhere else you can work remotely.

For visa details see
http://www.immihelp.com/nri/indiavisa/employment-visa-india....
I really love your critique, because it seems consonant with the work my lab does. We work with EM neuron images, we have a DNN trained on image patches that are quite small as the training cost is quite high. If I recall correctly, it was trained for months using 7x7x7 patches on several 100^3 voxel volumes. The output of the network was fractured, and at the time it was the best we could do. However, humans, because we can see the bigger picture, bigger than 7x7 patches on 2D image displays at a time, we can resolve the splits in the image segmentation that the AI is bluntly unable to. It's worth noting that my lab uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) not recurrent neural networks (RNNs).

It seems to me that this is a technical problem of being able to train and run a large enough network to approach human abilities in pattern recognition. Sometimes this is easier than others.

However, a disclaimer, though I hang out with machine learning people, I'm not yet one myself.
I think that basic branch-sims are still useful as a kind of lowest common denominator - if the simple-minded branch sim can predict it OK, it'll almost certainly go OK on a wide variety of real CPUs. Do you disagree?

Benchmarking on a particular CPU does give you more precise results, but at the risk of them being less generally applicable.
Eight Tools That Show What’s on the Horizon for the Python Data Ecosystem
Well, given that the project is launched and things have been running smoothly so far, the "Needs Years More" crowd is going to have to give more specific rationale.
I don't think math exists without sentience, it is a construct . What math describes can and is "real" in the traditional sense, but that doesn't necessarily make objects, concepts in mathematics "real objects." I take this position with language as well, it's all a metaphor.
Email sent. Let's get the ball rolling and see what you've got.
On a project this weekend I switched from Mocha to node-tape.

Coupled with blue-tape and tap-spec, it was a pretty seamless transition.
>Ideally, it is intended to work like a machine with as little room for human discretion as possible

Actually, these laws are the most dystopian.

One concept that seems to have this design goal is strict liability: what you intended, what you believed, what elaborate conspiracies were created to deceive you, none of that matters. If you did it, you are guilty and will be punished, full stop. This is attractive because it's much harder to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone did something "with malice" or "intentionally" than to prove that they did it. This tends to show up around youth sexuality, probably because that's an area where social norms have changed quite a bit.

It doesn't matter if the 17.5-year-old you slept with presented a fake ID saying she was 18, took the lead in all sexual activity, etc. It doesn't matter if she shows up in court and begs the judge to let you go. People whose 18th birthday has not elapsed cannot give consent, full stop. Sex without consent is rape, rapists are bad people and should be made to suffer, so you're going to prison and then on to the sex offender registry. Your judge, and the judges you appeal to, all think this is ridiculous, but their hands are tied because the law was written like a computer program that failed to consider edge cases. (Literally edge cases - those that fall near numerical boundaries. Some states have patched their legal systems to allow consent between partners who are close in age but under the normal age of consent. Some have, but only for heterosexual couples. Some still haven't. My state actually tried and convicted two teenagers as adults for raping each other at the same time.)

Same with child porn. Child porn laws were created a time when taking and distributing a picture could only be part of a commercial publishing operation. Anyone who creates or possesses an image of a nude child is guilty of a child pornography offense. Seems reasonable. Now every teenager has an internet-connected camera in their process, and we found an edge case we forgot: the child pornographer is the child him/herself and the consumer is her long-term boyfriend, also underage. Still just as illegal and the same punishment is required. You would hope prosecutors would turn a blind eye, but "the law is the law."

These rather salacious examples are the most high-profile, but I'm sure the same problems happens in more mundane areas of law as well.

At some point you have to trust judges and you have to empower bureaucrats to help people get out of obviously ridiculous situations. Laws are much more difficult to change than computer programs; there needs to be a reasonable amount of discretion for a manual override until the law can be fixed.
I personally know Iranians that use eBay. They aren't in Iran and haven't been for a while but still.
The way i view editors vs ides is an editor is a completely un-configured ide.

for example your go problem can be solved using goimports http://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports Using this tool you don't have to worry about those imports and it can be configured to automatically run on save in most editors.
GAM: A powerful and simple predictive modeling technique
Staying Late for Appearance?
60 years ago: The famous Boeing 707 prototype barrel roll over Lake Washington
From what I've read, in general the oral prohormones are harsher on the body as far as side effects. Some of the oral prohormones kill the liver & kidneys, which is why "real" steroids (hormones) are injected into the blood stream, which just trades off for different side effects, like higher risk of heart disease. Doing actual exercise feels great & lowers risk of heart disease. If some miracle breakthrough was discovered, I'd probably abstain & continue to just exercise. It seems like we never understand the true side effects of these things until decades later.
Ken Anderson spent five days in jail for his role (Brady violations) in the Michael Morton case. Morton served almost 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. http://www.statesman.com/news/news/ken-anderson-to-serve-10-...

Funny story, his successor has just been sentenced to 10 days in jail for contempt of court for violating a gag order in connection to a capitol murder case. She hasn't served it yet, and probably won't.
Cavkosh is searching for technical co-founder/CTO
Cavkosh is a learning platform that connects users through their areas of expertise. Everyone is an expert in something, so we highlight that, allowing users to share their knowledge & make money doing so. We are currently searching for a CTO for an equity deal. MVP built, early adopters, investor interest, beta mockups ready! Email koshenka27@gmail.com if interested.
Pick three project and complete each one from start to finish, then ask yourself if you still want to create games. This can be creating a clone of games to see if you can actually do it since you do need to start somewhere. I would recommend creating a clone for learning purposes ( in order ) of Flappy Bird, Super Mario (NES) first level, and Mr Jump Levels 1 to 3. Even at a slow pace each one should take no longer than 30 days each if you dedicated a few hours every day to it.

If you can successfully replicate these three games (doesn't have to be perfect) this should give inspiration or more knowledge to accurately judge and answer the question since you will have your own practical experience and know what it takes to accomplish the projects.
Or New Zealand - check out www.seek.co.nz for jobs. Quite easy for tech skilled immigration.
A Weekend at KansasFest, the Sleepaway Camp for Apple II Fanatics
AWS SimpleWorkflow (SWF) replay mechanism seems close to this.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonswf/latest/awsflowguide/aws...
With tech skills like his in NZ he could get a real job and get paid real compensation. No need for Wwoofing.
I'm in a similar boat, but just have a license key on the machine (committed) and use the maxmind updater to fetch our licensed db.

It happens once per provision, and a cron job to keep it up to date.
Watch: Richard Feynman on why he can't tell you how magnets work
You need to parse the comment as written and not through some -ism flavor of the week. You need to turn off the Daily Show and do your own thinking.

The age is relevant relative to his economic performance over that time period. Re-read what I wrote and try to parse it correctly as it was written.
The absence of usenet's "MTN" and "ROTFLMAO" made me wistful.
I developed this: http://andreimikhailov.com/slides/bystroTeX/slides-manual/in...
and it seems to work, for example: http://andreimikhailov.com/teaching/gdmc/exterior-calculus/i...
I wish I had time to polish it more. It is also Scribble, but unrelated to Pollen.
Seriously, this is the most helpful comment on here. OP, I understand the psychological pull of America, and perhaps it is the first Western country you have visited, but it is not worth it to work illegally (as you are proposing, even if no money changes hands) in America.

You may improve your life temporarily but it will all come crashing down one day when the immigration authorities catch up to you. You will be deported and banned from re-entering the US. There are many developed countries where someone with your skills can obtain a temporary work visa easily. You can live and work freely and legally, get on your feet financially and maybe attend university there to help you get into the US legally in the future.

Maybe it will help if you tell us where your citizenship is and we can help you with suggestions of other developed countries that will allow you to come for a 1-2 year temporary work visa.
Inside Nairobi's Tech iHub
I've never really thought about it until now but I don't think I'd even pay for a service on .ly et al even if it was using stripe/PayPal

Maybe I'm just getting old but the .com wins it for me, at an absolute push for online services I'll trust a .net
Some examples of legitimate and temporary business activities that people have conducted on a B-1 visa are:

attending business conferences and meetings

conducting independent research, such as feasibility or marketing studies

engaging in “start-up” activities (for example, exploring U.S. investment opportunities)

Source: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/a-b-1-visa-business-v...

So it would be legitimate if the work you are doing is to research business opportunities. Also book every relevant conference and convention in the area that you can go to and attend each, get business cards, develop contact.

As far as you know, you are here researching future opportunities to set up a great business and create jobs in the U.S..
You can always use FS-UAE/WinUAE

http://fs-uae.net
http://www.winuae.net

You have to get a kickstart rom ... somewhere.

And then you can google for the game you like + abandonware and download the ADF files.
Uber Gets a Class-Action Tutorial
You may be wrong: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/a-b-1-visa-business-v....
From [1]:

To our knowledge, only one study investigated the effects of long-term CR (with a diet of reasonable quality) on health and longevity in nonobese humans and a control group (24). This study was conducted in 120 men, of whom 60 were randomly assigned to the control group and 60 to the calorie-restricted group. The control group was fed ≈9600 kJ/d. Calorie-restricted subjects received 1 L milk and 500 g fruit every other day, which led to an overall mean energy intake of ≈6300 kJ/d (or a 35% restriction from the intake of the control group). This regimen was implemented for 3 y. Stunkard (25) reanalyzed these data and reported less time in the infirmary (123 compared with 219 d) and a nonsignificant difference in the death rate (6 compared with 13 deaths) in calorie-restricted subjects than in control subjects, respectively, which suggests that chronic CR may prolong life span in humans.

[1] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/361.full
Details matter so much for this question. The "best" changes depending on lots of things. If your "UpWork for $foo" is for call girls, the answer will be different than if it's for house cleaners or lawyers. The "best" changes if your typical transaction size is $5 or $50,000. The "best" changes if you're billing for a product/service that ships/happens same day or one that's booked 6 months in advance.

All three of those mentioned are "good" (at the very least "good enough for some people"). It's not impossible that _none_ of them are "best" for you.

There's arguably a "technically best", but it's of very little relevance until you've determined whether any of them are actually useable for your business case.
You can define the command character to be anything you like by setting a single variable.
How do you prove that you have 9 years experience?
Alex Kozinski has recently threatened perjury prosecutions for lying prosecutors. Link includes a video of Kozinski & Co. warning a prosecutor that they are on to their shady conduct. http://observer.com/2015/01/breaking-ninth-circuit-panel-sug...

Fun starts at around 16:00 Kozinski strikes just after 18:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sCUrhgXjH4
Really? If you're serious enough to need something like this, you likely need it for more than 4-5 months which is the break even point for a single instance (for your quoted price anyway) and I'm pretty sure this'll have much higher performance.
Sure, but what fun is a pool you can't do a cannonball into?
Paul Graham's essay: http://paulgraham.com/name.html
Also see http://hostip.info
HOAs are a vicious racket everywhere, but especially so here in Las Vegas. It's a real problem.
Multithreading and the Tera MTA [pdf]
Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized
I delete my browser history often enough, but each instance is not evidence that I believe I've committed any crime.

Do browsers actually log when you delete history? Is there any record or log beyond traces on the filesystem?
Cheers!

A stupid aside but just had to know ;-)
>Are you willing to make the same claim about other addicts, smokers, alcoholics, drug users, sex addicts, and so on and so forth?

As an addict, yes. Every time you indulge it is a choice... Just like every single one of the 100 OCD times I check if my door is locked at night is a choice... If someone walked up to me and said "I'll give you 20$ to not drink today" I'd not drink that day, it would be annoying and I probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep for a long time, but I would do it. And if you want to claim that "doesn't make you an addict" well then, I guess I don't know what you call it when you drink at least a 6pack or a bottle of wine a day for 10 years is.

>Now in the cases of illegal drugs this is the intended effect, and without argument they're some of the most addictive substances we know of.

Nice blanket statement. I'd love to see someone get addicted to Mescaline or LSD; I'm fairly positive it's impossible. Not because of a physiological argument, it would just be downright mentally excruciating, just 3 days in a row and I toss the towel. And it's just obviously not the intended effect for lots, like rohypnol, ketamine, dxm.

And go ahead and strike that "illegal" bit out. If you think your doctor writing a little rx for it makes it not addictive (in many cases intentionally addictive), you're wrong. And what makes coffee different from coca? What about the neuroeffects of cocoa? You're entire life is drugs, drawing some silly line in the sand with "illegal" is just juvenile.

People who have no idea what they're talking about love to chime in on subjects like this. "Oh it's their choice" or "Oh it's impossible for them to make choices" or crap like that. It's a choice the same way studying maths for 10 hours before an exam is for most people -- yes, you can obviously do it, but most people give up after 15 minutes and just skim at their desk. No one runs around calling them mentally ill, when they are legitimately doing their entire life lasting harm by not becoming maths literate. And it's exactly the same chemical interaction, dopamine and serotonin pathways; you don't get that flowing with maths studying, but you do with video games or blasting bongs.

Addiction is a stupid label that people and politicians use to demonize behaviors that they dislike. I think that we should solve obesity the same way we solve smokers and other "distastefuls": public shaming, banning from public spaces, specially marked 'fat zones,' etc.
Once you have .com, the other one that I've found useful is .net. Use .com for public facing stuff and .net for internal/backofficey/partner stuff. If you ever get big enough for international domains, congratulations.
for a dead operating system Plan 9 certainly seems to be kicking, however faintly :)
You're really making it sound more complex and difficult than it is.

Oh, sure, it's difficult to say with certainty that 100 calories on the label will be exactly 100 calories for every person ever - but there's really not a gigantic amount of variance. Certainly it's a good enough guideline for use.

It's a matter of thermodynamics more than anything else. You can't get energy from nothing. Quantifying the exact amount of energy you'll get from a food is difficult to do precisely, but the guidelines we have are good enough for use for the vast majority of people. You can be pedantic about it, but that won't change the fact that it is that simple to lose weight, as proven time and again.
Stripe and Braintree accept BTC IIRC
Sickening stuff. It's even worse when you realize you're afraid of ending up on a watch list for speaking out about this kind of abuse.
Your message seems to imply that its consumers fault for paying to little for food from California; that's a silly way to think about this problem.

California allows the disruption of true prices of water. If water is scarce, it should be more expensive.

If the water at true market value is so expensive that prices of goods produced with that water are now no longer competitive on the market, then that means that agriculture is not sustainable nor feasible in California and will be correctly priced out of the market by those who are able to produce the same quality product for less.
Per the docs it's option-shift-V on a Mac...and more effort on other systems.
Why You Should Use Timezone Offsets Not Timezone Names
This sounds like another "banal-sounding activity that everyone does is suddenly illegal!" misunderstanding. The charge is that someone destroyed potential evidence on their computer with the intent of preventing that evidence from being found by an investigation that they believed was likely. In the non-digital realm, this is like shredding business records when you suspect you're being investigated. Shredding isn't illegal, but attempting to obstruct an investigation is, and (IMHO) rightfully so.

Which is to say: deleting your browser history as part of an effort to thwart a criminal investigation could land you in prison.
Ditto this... as a developer in Auckland, I've got to say it's pretty sweet here. Ditched a career in investment banking in the US for the quality of life here. I only occasionally regret it.
Following up - here's our requirements for getting a Visa http://skillshortages.immigration.govt.nz/developer-programm...