skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I co-founded Dev Bootcamp and still spend my time in this "space."

I assume @Kalium is talking less about technical expertise and more about signaling, like a VC who invests in a company but then won't invest in a follow-on round. This fails the "raised eyebrow" test and, while it might not be an automatic disqualification, it will invite extra scrutiny.

See http://blog.ycombinator.com/pro-rata for how YC handles this.

A hypothetical interviewer or recruiting manager might be thinking things like...

"If IBM won't extend an offer to a gradate of this program, why should I? Doesn't IBM know these students better than any other possible employer? Do they know something about this candidate that I don't?"

I think it's easy to overstate the impact of this signaling, but students of this program should definitely be aware of it. Fair or unfair, rational or irrational, this context will be present in every interview.

In fact, if I were a student, I might avoid interviewing at IBM entirely so that I could answer "Do you have an offer from IBM?" with "No, because I've decided not to interview there." and keep a straight face. This is a very easy story to tell unless you're interviewing at companies similar to IBM, e.g., HP.

Conversely, it would be smart of IBM to create some kind of firewall to address these issues preemptively. I'm not 100% what that would look like, though.
I get the "technically" but I believe that the FDA was going after it as a deceptive labelling practice.
The page is missing your name, company details, address. If you plan to charge money for a service I'd want to see some hints that you're a real company which is stable enough to exist in 12 months.
> Why are we people mad at Ashley Madison and not the hackers?

I dunno. Why are you? (Alternatively, why are you abusing the first person when what you should be using is the third person and identifying precisely who you are talking about?)

More importantly, where is the evidence that people who are mad at Ashley Madison are not also mad at the hackers?
Yes, per person. At 50 million users, you need a 35 Tbps pipe to take in all that data.
HN is written in an obscure variant of Lisp, perhaps that is the problem? There's been practically zero development since the site was created.
I didn't say it was my opinion, so not sure why you are trying for a rebuttal.

But as long as a significant number of people feel that way, it has a social impact.
Then will Politwoops take Twitter to court for fair use of the API?
Ah, that bullshit! I think you stumbled on the way Robinhood makes money.

When I first joined the Android beta Robinhood had a very clear message before every purchase: "to protect the user from volatility, Robinhood creates market orders as limit orders with a 5% higher price". So, yeah, that means that if you place your market order at $100, they reserve the right to broker it all the way to $105, which is bullshit. On average it won't be that high, but still, if you were planning to make a 0.5% profit, you'll always lose.

The only way to get around that is by creating a proper limit order yourself, setting the price a couple cents the current price (to match the BP you are willing to give up.)

Since I started doing that, things became way more predictable.
I love scheme, though at first I definitely thought I would hate it. The big issue that I have with it is the difference between interpreters and how things that work in Petite won't always work in Gambit.
He was probably thinking more of 9P fileservers, rather than disk filesystems.
Same thing with Zucchini. Resently someone died here in Germany because a neighbour gave him a home grown one. Don't eat them if they taste bitter!
Can you email chris@instapainting.com? If you're in SF would love to have you come in to try the full colored version.
He's also apparently already taken Algebra 2, a good five years or so earlier than usual.
Very impressive Ryan!
This kid is going places :)
I live in Sydney. Look the Switzerland suggestion sounds excellent, but I will give you the sales pitch for Sydney.

The main things are the weather - hot summers and cool winters (cold enough for a break from the summer, but not too cold). Over a dozen awesome beaches within a short drive from the city. You could easily live near a beach if you wanted to.

There is a big focus on outdoor activity, great facilities for kids - unbelievable number of parks, daycare, sport activities. With so much summer time - get a garden and you can get them out of the house for 8 months of the year.

Education seems good. Healthcare is excellent. 20 days annual leave and 10 days sick leave is mandatory. So is superannuation (pension) so you are saving for the future. Most companies don't expect you to do any unpaid overtime either.

There is a reasonably good tech scene here, and I have no doubt you would find a good job. There is a bit of a start up scene around Fishburners. It is also home to a few of the big ones like Atlassian, Freelance, Campaign Monitor. There is also a ThoughtWorks office, and plenty of banks and finance jobs. Lots of meetups and things like that as you would expect.

People are friendly here, as a parent you would love it because other parents will talk to you and be friendly and your child will make friends easily. It is that kind of culture. I imagine the US is similar but I have not experienced it.

The downsides - you won't earn the top $ you would get in SF, London or NY. You wont get to use French much. House prices are high compared to wages, but for an IT worker owning a house with some outdoor space within 1 hour of the city is not out of the question. You probably already have savings anyway which would make this easier.
I love working for Amazon. I get to work on extremely interesting problems that have a huge impact on the company's global operations. I rarely work more than 40 hours a week. I don't work on weekends. I am compensated very well. My management shows real concern for my well-being (after my father passed away I was told to take as much time off work as I needed. I returned to work after 10 days, and was immediately asked if I wanted to take more time off.) In contrast to what you hear, most people I work with seem happy to be here.
This is one of those moments where you start to feel old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method may be adapted for programming.
It would be cool to know why the downvotes.
Same thing with Zucchini, cucumbers and other pumpkin derivatives which originally produced the toxin Cucurbitacine. We just had a case where a man died after a pie made of home-grown Zucchini which tasted unusually bitter. Apparently the plants can start producing the toxine when under stress (e.g. heat wave).
There's a reason why children avoid anything bitter-tasting.
Hollywood Finally Gets Hacking Right with Mr. Robot
Download+Cydia+iOS+8.4.1+taig +|+iOS+Jailbreak+Tools+and+Jailbreak+Guide
Good timing :-)
Well, I guess even some rich kids might want to make their own fortune rather than living off their parents.
For a little more diversification, I would amend that to buying shares of ITOT and IXUS in a 3:2 ratio (60% domestic/40% foreign), without paying commission if possible (e.g. https://www.fidelity.com/etfs/ishares).

Once you are comfortable with that, just rebalance this portfolio to the 60%/40% ratio once every year or two (http://seekingalpha.com/article/2130243-portfolio-rebalancin...), and start moving toward fixed-income funds as you get closer to retirement.
There's a signaling component, but I'm also thinking about content. A company like IBM controlling the curriculum will tend to lead to the program being geared for IBMs needs. The needs or desires of other companies won't be weighted as heavily, if at all. If all someone knows is IBMs internal technologies, they can be expected to have a difficult time outside the IBM-o-sphere.

IBM stands to benefit significantly from this kind of curriculum shaping. It gets them a pool of talent they can skim the cream from cheaply. Neither the schools nor the students will be positioned well to resist this, either. It's a terrible position for the students, because many of them will have done this school for lack of other options.
>There is nothing harder to understand about indentation levels than curly braces //

At the start of this year I finished a first course in Python to learn in anticipation of [possibly] using it for home learning with my kids (it seems widely used for education). As I'm familiar with programming I searched for an IDE as I started. It told me when I had dropped a space or used a tab by accident. I tried several different environments including my standard editor choices - nano and Kate - revealing non-printing characters was a clear advantage. Others (primarily adults) who were starting fresh in programming had lots of problems with errant spaces.

With braces you can see more clearly when there is an error of addition or omission, not so much with spaces. Like I tried to say above: this is clearly tractable with the right tools but the demarcation - I feel - of braces can be a more clear and obvious sign of separation than whitespace. For younger people with less spatial reasoning and less accurate perception of text lining up it rather seems it could be pretty much harder to use whitespace structuring.

Personally I like the overall "clean" appearance of Python compared to PHP (say), debugging with tools is fine, when I was testing different environments and tripped on whitespace problems it was a nightmare rather reminiscent of trying to debug HTML tables some years back.
Here it is, dang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyzlEYspqTI
This not bad. I see a lot of "Oh they should have gone to a 4 year college". Well for many applicants here it might not be a choice between 4 a year college and this. It might be a choice between no college and this.

And no matter what the startup world tells you IBM is still a respected name in the real IT world (banks, finance, large retail stores, etc).

And I am saying even though I don't like the likes of University of Phoenix and friends. However IBM is an established technology not in the primary business of sucking down fat student loans from the government.
I don't think most people would want to download 200 gig of video just to get a glimpse of this.
When you take a hypothetical individual and lock them in a room and control their food you can give them a restricted calorie diet and they will lose weight.

No-one credible denies that.

What the people arguing against CICO are saying is that it's fucking stupid pointless advice to give to a population because while true it's not helpful. We know it's not helpful because we've been saying loud and clear it for many years and obesity rates have risen in almost every country every year.

"We could cure cancer if we just kill all the cancer cells" is true but not helpful.

"We could fix world hunger if hungry people just grew food" is true but not helpful.
Communism is state ownership of all property. The parent gave the proper definition of socialism. It is the state ownership of the means of production. Europe is not socialist. There were various attempts, but the means of production is still overwhelmingly private.
If they don't get picked up by IBM, they're still very young with highly sought after skills that they could either use at another job or go onto a 4 year program.

It didn't sound like this is meant to totally replace college but instead to offer them more options. Some of these students might not have gone to college anyways so to give them the opportunity finish high school with solid internship experience and skills that could lead to a decent job sounds like a pretty great deal to me.
It remains to be tested, but I'm pretty confident it will work for this—in a significant proportion of cases. You'd only visualize a few data structures at a time, most likely; there are controls like fast forward/rewind and a progress bar, and stepping one operation at a time; and you can just let it run on the side with the self-navigating camera for an extended period of time, and maybe you catch an anomaly. For applications where you're operating on data structures with millions of elements or whatever, you might need to artificially restrict the amount of data for testing—but that's reasonable to do most of the time. There are also controls you can't see that make hierarchically navigating from groups of data structures to single data structures to single elements, easy.

I think you're one of the few people I've come across who seems to get what it's for at all :D
And deceptive it arguably is. The clear issue is not that people are too dumb to realize that dehydrating cane juice results in sugar, but that when they scan the ingredients looking for "sugar", they may not always spot its disguised form.
They seem to have ignored the "collaborative" angle, which is important because we're talking about web applications.
Hacking Politics
Probably not Politwoops, because they were using the API. But perhaps a successor that did not use the API, but scraped and screenshoted only might have a good chance.
> Crashes occasionally

Looks like Mozilla decided to ditch Flash, and now Firefox 40 sometimes hangs completely due to some odd interlocking with plugin-container process.

> Main advantage

... is that accelerated rendering is used where NPAPI Flash was afraid to use it. For example, for transparent plugin instances.

It comes with a price, though. There are more rendering issues, because unusual graphics paths are used.
Mereological nihilism
Common Rookie Error: How to lose a lot of money in the stock market
Beautiful. Can you go into more detail about your recording setup?
holy camoly that is adorable!
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The uploader left the bittorrent swarm too early. Only one client got 100% of the file, and they left before anyone else got 100% too. Some security news (I forget which) reported the orignal seeder left the transmission web ui unprotected.
Maybe the idea should be better stated if it's so easily misunderstood.

I believe this is the origin of that phrase:

http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/six-rules-for-eati...

And, well, I don't really know what was meant by it. It decries Twinkies and Vitamin Water, but it also decries yogurt just because it's in a tube. Does shape matter for yogurt?

He exalts fresh produce as the pinnacle of health, yet my great-great-great grandmother would have had extremely limited access to it for most of the year, and probably would not recognize most of the stuff I'm able to buy in the store.

It's not a straw man when you legitimately don't understand what was intended.
We're based in Runway East and there are a couple of 10+ startups based here - http://runwayea.st/

There's a whole bunch of co-working spaces popping up in London which are drastically more affordable than an independent space.

WeWork have a bunch of options too - https://www.wework.com/locations/london
Not if capitalists can prevent it, crush it, disallow it, etc -- along with their friends in the goverment, with "right to work" laws, etc.

It's funny that for something supposedly pragmatic and empirical, as capitalism, there are people invoking the "no true capitalism" defense.

I mean when they say that in "true capitalism" the government would not interfere and the market would adjust itself etc, where in real life (and in all know historical cases), the government is in the pockets of powerful moguls and big business lobbys).
As opposed to Ctrl-o, y, enter?
Very cool! I've forwarded this on to a few members of the NH software team
Well, killing people is pretty bad for business, as I explained elsewhere under this article. So I'm pretty skeptical of that motive... normally.

Once you have the government mandating that everyone buy your product, it doesn't really matter any more whether it's a good product or has good PR or is otherwise viewed as beneficial. A drugmaker selling something to the willing has an incentive to make sure it's not lethal, if for no other reason than that the most profitable business is repeat business. A drugmaker selling something the government mandates has no such incentive. This applies, actually, to anything of which purchase is mandated on threat of violence, not just drugs.
Reminds me of the last lines of the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) from Ferdowsi:

I've reached the end of this great history
And all the land will talk of me:
I shall not die, these seeds I've sown will save
My name and reputation from the grave,
And men of sense and wisdom will proclaim
When I have gone, my praises and my fame

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9197000/9197062....
Did you see the bit about Michigan? Here is the current law: http://legislature.mi.gov/doc.aspx?mcl-777-16a
WeChat blocks Uber. And this is only the beginning
Personal update- I'm joining Uber Here's why
I second hubblehq. They're estate agent who specialized in tech/startup offices.
OptionsHouse used to be an amazing discount brokerage, but ever since they were bought out by TradeKing it's been ruined and I can no longer recommend it. OptionsHouse's platform has been replaced by TradeKing's terrible flash platform. Here are some issues I've had over the past 3+ months. I've submitted tickets to customer support for all of them, but never gotten any response.

1) Flash platform that randomly crashes after being open for extended periods of time (eg. more than an hour). I've even seen the prices stop updating after a while.

2) Often appends a bunch of 0s after the decimal to the price of your order, forcing you to manually remove them in order to place the trade

3) This morning the platform was extremely slow, and I was unable to load pricing data into the charts. I tried to submit a ticket to customer support, but the server was down. I didn't try to submit any trades, but for all I know that may have been down as well. Keep in mind this morning the S&P 500 was down 10%. Nice to know my trading platform will crap out on me when I most need it

4) UI sucks and is confusing. When specifying how many shares you want to buy, you're not told on the same dialog how much total that would cost. The charts suck and are confusing to work with.

5) One day I submitted a sell order, and it ended up buying. Although I was convinced the platform screwed up my order, I gave OptionsHouse the benefit of the doubt and figured I must've made a careless mistake. Then later in the day I attempted to sell again, only to have the platform issue a buy order again and give me more or the stock I was trying to sell. At this point it was clear the platform fucked up my order, so I called OptionsHouse. They basically just told me to use an alternative method in the platform to close out my stock (clicking the Close/Adjust button).

During my call about #5, I mentioned issue #2 (it had been months after I submitted a ticket for it). They told me it was a known issue that they were working on. How long does it take to fix a bunch of trailing zeros after the decimal being appended to your order? Do they even have a dev team? The fact that it's been months and they still haven't solved such a simple yet incredibly annoying bug gives me absolutely no confidence in the future of their platform.

I'm going to transfer all my funds out, probably to IB or RobinHood. This morning was the last straw. Having the platform down when the S&P is down 10% is unacceptable. OptionsHouse used to have the lowest commission fees, but that's not longer the case with RobinHood (although of course you don't get nice things like options trading and a web platform).
Well, the rail line runs through Siberia which is almost all wilderness. If you zoom in a lot, what was once noisy garbage starts to look like forest and grass.
Yes, but it seems reasonable that it would be turned off for laptops that are swapped every class, whether Windows or Macs (in this case).

If Bobby or Betty just lets it save, now you have to find the laptop the doc was automatically saved to.

Or maybe it was saved to the machine instead of her thumb drive and the IT guy just told her she lost it.

I try to do tech support for my kids and parents hands-on because details that don't matter to them do matter to the OS or apps.
AWS DynamoDB Storage Back End for Titan
Until this thread I believed that "Google Now" was that voice search interface with the irritating tendency to pop up and start listening to whatever is going on in the room at the slightest provocation.
A second piece of coverage with additional details: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/ashley-madisons-ceo-w...

Bhatia had gained access to nearly everything about a user, and in a further email to another employee, he added that “I can turn any non paying user into a paying user, vice nversa, compose messages between users, check unread stats, etc."

Biderman wanted to take advantage. “Holy moly..I would take the emails...” he replied.

But Bhatia wasn't keen. “can't do it.. want to be able to look my son in the eye one day.” Bhatia did, however, demonstrate to Biderman how to complete the process, and sent a .txt file apparently containing a wealth of information on a Nerve user. The file included an email address, seemingly hashed password, and plenty of other data.
There was a big hoopla surrounding Acrylamide some 13 years ago. It was a real bogey man for a while ("OMG, there is a deadly poison in anything you cook and fry; we are doomed!"). You don't hear about it much nowadays.
Unfortunately the elegance comes at a cost: Box-Muller is a lot slower due to the sqrt and log. Ziggurat's fast path (which can be hit arbitrarily rarely, by controlling the table size) is just some indexing and comparisons, making it amazingly fast.

Also, Ziggurat can be applied to any distribution with a decreasing PMF (e.g. it's also amazingly fast for the Exponential distribution), whereas Box-Muller relies on special properties of the Normal.
If you're like me and find yourself typing mostly the same few document types over and over it pays to spend a few hours and set up a latex template.
Lately I've been butting heads with some seriously anti-command line people. I'm not sure if this is a growing sentiment, or I'm just advocating CLI usage more as time goes on.

Anyway, glad to see this. I'll be sure to recommend it to whomever I'm preaching.
Like others here, I like Think or Swim by TD Ameritrade.
Nice game! Its super fun. Wll be playing it with my kid when she gets home later today. May you share the source code? I haven't dabbed in unity and it would be nice to see how you built it (and maybe hack it a bit).
> If they don't get picked up by IBM, they're still very young with highly sought after skills that they could either use at another job or go onto a 4 year program.

I think that may be assuming quite a bit about what skills they have acquired. This puts IBM in a position to teach the students IBM-specific technologies, making them more valuable to IBM while not adding to their value to non-IBM players.

Compared to nothing, it's a decent deal. Compared to the prospect of an education not controlled by a single company, it's perhaps not such a great deal.
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I visit my girlfriend and friends in predictable schedules, and I always like the gesture of it telling me how long it will take to get to each of them on those days and times.
UIKit Dynamics, Core Animation Layers and Autolayout Constraints
Oxford BioChronometrics Meets Accelerated Growth with New Executive Team Members
Just one problem though, in times of extreme market volatility and volume, Thinkorswim freezes up. Like today, it was unusable at times.