skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But how could this have been a more stellar experience for you?

Are you joking? Did you even read their post. The guy literally called and asked the same set of questions twice, then didn't follow through with what they said they would do.

I cannot believe you're even asking "how could this have been a more stellar experience for you?" the gall.
I love the disconnect between science fiction and reality. There's no beautiful Kubrick-esque set design here. The whole thing just looks like someone's garage, full of nick-nacks, tools, and little projects. It just a giant mancave, really. This is why I'm a little bored with LEO space exploration. I can't wait for the SLS to go live and try something that isn't this.

That said, I would love to see a ISS-like structure on the moon, perhaps also serving as a dark-side radio telescope.
Do you have any links to resources you used to build it or better yet a link to your implementation?

I've been pretty happy with my bash history solution, but thinking about the return value, one big thing I think would be handy would be to have a default filter for searches that removes commands that returned an error code. They might be handy to see every once in a while, but for the most part, I wouldn't want to re-run one of them.
Demo server linked in the paper: http://42.61.39.87/TreeScope/
Yes I understand all that, but direct detection is definitely not impossible. The PTOLEMY experiment at Princeton is attempting to do just that, although it's very very hard. Might still be decades away.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4738
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I have a serious question : If google uses a person's search results internally to determine that they are a person of interest for hiring, whose to say they aren't using a similar process to strip Intellectual property from searches as it relates to projects they are working on?

i.e : They are internally working on self driving cars and, in particular, are looking for ways to integrate algorithm 'X' in their solution. So, google decides to setup a special filter for searches related to certain profiles that search for 'X and self driving ....Results get fed to the group conducting the work. In effect, allowing them to internally see what 'profiles of interest' are up to as it relates to Google's flagged area of interest.

It would appear that this could easily be made 'legal' under the premise that the individuals are anonymized. However, it does give google a unique advantage in being able to see 'what everyone is up to'.

The fact that they are already using people's specialized searches for flagging them for interviewing makes me strongly believe they are already internally snagging people's searches/clicked links to give them advantage on projects.

I think everyone should take a pause and consider the implications of this as they are quite damning.
No, my buddy just got this while googling node.js stuff from a starbucks.
To counter your anecdote here is mine: during the interview my plane back had been switched by Google from something like 6 pm to 11-12. The interview was over before 4 and it had been at Youtube (very close to the airport) so I got to spend more than 8 hours at the airport before my 12 hours multi-connected flight. Literally the worst experience I have ever had during an interview.
Seattle vs. San Francisco: Who is tops in the cloud?
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Huh, I don't know, just seemed like a patronizing way of phrasing something. People do it subconsciously a lot. It's not like it offended or bothered me, was just pointing out that it had such a tone, and noting that conversations or debates are better when people just say things directly.

About the ad hominem, saying something sounds like an excuse isn't addressing the argument made. If OP disagrees with the argument, he's welcome to make arguments that address my own.
> The large companies that converge on these contests in a feeding frenzy of head-hunting would beg to differ on your assessment of how good a proxy such contests are.

I'm yet to see some good code produced by winners of such contests. And large
companies typically struggle to achieve sensible accuracy of assessing hiring
candidates; hard to argue that they suddenly got this sole criterion right.

> Poland has a long tradition of brilliant mathematicians, logicians and chess players.

Yes, it does. I constantly stumble upon Poles when studying anything related
to modern mathematics.

> Just look at all the Polish names in the industry or in open source.

...like? I don't remember anything of significant size and popularity written
by a Pole. The most prominent thing originating in Poland I can recall is
Nemerle. The only big Polish names I can think of are lcamtuf and Rutkowska.
Not too much of global achievements, I would say.

> They tend to get excited at the deep problems with mathematical implications, not so much with the shallow problems (by shallow, I don't mean insignificant, or trivial for industry).

By now, I'm still waiting for Poland to produce something significant (or
for something already produced to gain significance).

> This is the time for programmers who operate at that nexus between mathematics and programming to shine. You can be sure that the Polish will be at the forefront of this.

We'll see. I hope you're right; I want to take pride of my country's
achievements. For now, I just feel offended by talking how good Poland is in
computer science or programming, but mentioning only programming contests.
All that work just to skip a telephone interview ey. I suppose it was for fun initially anyway.
JLS: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-15.htm...

Otherwise, if the second and third operands have types that are convertible (§5.1.8) to numeric types, then there are several cases:

... binary numeric promotion (§5.6.2) is applied to the operand types, and the type of the conditional expression is the promoted type of the second and third operands.

... If either operand is of type double, the other is converted to double.
Was it the same interviewer? Maybe there are 10 interviewers going off the same script.

Interviewer 1 called OP and asked questions. Then it was lunch time and he forgot to put result in the CMS.

So the same guy popped up a week later to Interviewer 2. He was reading off the same script, so of course his questions are the same. Not his fault, or Google's per say - Interviewer 1 happened to forget a step. (Which is sad, but we all make mistakes!)
Using Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) to find security problems in web applications
From someone who can't necessarily spend much time keeping up with how things are evolving in the web world I really appreciate this reply. I think you have a really deep understanding of the problem and your predictions about a 3 year horizon seem on point.
Don't let the naming get in the way, it's a more humane approach to enforcing community norms than the obvious alternative, an outright ban. The subterfuge might be a little disconcerting, but it's not like hellbanned user's posts disappear into the ether, they're visible to those with showdead on.
I completely agree about medical developments. However, as someone getting on in years (even older than Jacques), I'd just like to point out that ED medications are a godsend. I am being completely serious. You youngsters don't understand, but you will eventually.

Before Viagra and the like (or the somewhat older injectable fixes), your sex life was almost certainly over by 50 or 55. While I may be unusually horny for an old guy, that is a big fucking deal. I can't imagine facing another 20-30 years not getting laid. And because of advances in public health and medicine, that would have been an increasingly likely outcome, previous generations just being dead not too long after the plumbing stopped working. While the medical fixes are less than ideal, they do work, and I am very happy about it.
When I learned modern Chinese, it had only sentence breaks. Individual words are one to four syllables and not separated. It takes a while to handle this. This would be like eliminating spaces in English.
Chinese before 1900 is even worse. They didnt have sentence and paragraph breaks, leaving one large grid of characters. And the grid can go in any of four directions: vertical horizontal, rightwise, leftwise. Ancient Latin and Torahanic Hebrew is like this too.
One of my first jobs was as first, second and third line support at our university. The support group had an ethos of being pro-active and creative - so when I saw a zero-day for local root on Solaris 5.8(?) posted to bugtraq - my first inclination was to a) test it b) test if the sys.admin group was aware/had patched the servers. Since we ran just our own linux boxes, I reached for the first Solaris box on hand, the employee file (and maybe mail?) server. With some 2 (two)-10.000 user accounts. Exploit compiled, ran... and the box crashed.

Thus I learned that exploits can be unreliable - not binary get root or nothing. The phone call down to the sys.admins was a fantastic serving of humblepie. At least they were happy about the heads-up about needing to patch the servers...

I know also know not to run random code from the Internet (even if I had at least read through it) - and that some people kiddie-proof their public zero-days in order to save busy sys.admins some time putting out fires lit by naive support staff and users...
Didnt come out the way I intended. Its been removed.
Don’t Embrace Failure (Embrace Discomfort Instead)
Yeah, I just dump it into full market funds. If the whole market sinks, we are all fucked anyway.
Its because they don't do the same thing

Math.floor() favors the number equal to/less than the parameter, Math.floor(-15.5) is -16 while (-15.5 | 0) is -15

Also because the returned value is int32[0],

Math.floor(2147483648.5) is 2147483648 while (2147483648.5 | 0) is -2147483648

You are fine if you know the input is less than (2^31) + 1 and you want to truncate, rather than floor.

[0]: http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-binary-b...
Nietzsche's concept of solitude has freedom. If you feel like you are going insane, you can talk to real people. You can read books.
It seems like that would take away any rehabilitative effect prison might have. Convicted of a crime, go to sleep, wake up ready to continue committing crimes.
>The author hints at the political problem of adopting a land tax near the end: But there are practical problems with a land tax — perhaps the largest of which is that by its very nature it hits the well-connected rich hardest. So we may very well never see this regulation brought up or passed given the current, money-greased machinations of the political machine.

You know, neoliberal corruption of government isn't Written in Stone by the Three Fates. We can actually fight it, especially when there's $2 trillion at stake.

>[1] Perhaps this paper assumes that there is an infinite supply of highly-skilled tech workers who have taken jobs elsewhere due to high costs of rent? Seems a bit far-fetched to me.

I don't know about infinite, but I sure as hell know that I personally choose not to live in the Bay Area, despite its having loads of tech opportunities and the nicest climate on the planet, because of its high housing costs and suburban sprawl.
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>I'm so confused about this discussion.

Frontline has a great documentary about solitary confinement:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/locked-up-in-america...

Without giving too much away: watch as the criminals they feature walk into solitary confinement with sentences of weeks or months with the attitude of, "This is nothing. I'd prefer it here". Witness what it does to them.
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Nikki Wertish and the UbuTab Scam
The only 2 choices shouldn't be solitary confinement or being beaten/raped/murdered by fellow inmates.

I would have thought that surely most inmates would just want to get their head down and serve out their sentence?
I'm referring to things like the media scares over 'bath salts' and the tendency a couple of years ago to blame everything on them. Many/most of the extreme cases turned out to be nothing to do them.

Oh and in the UK - mephedrone, which was banned purely because it became popular. Nobody did themselves much harm with it until after prohibition.
Yankees Suck Yankees Suck
Someone is getting a disproportionate amount of praise for what, in all likelihood, amounts to running a pre-existing sound through PaulStretch and posting it to SoundCloud.

I realise they try and link to more information about both the process of doing this and the original creators of the Windows 95 sounds, but both links as of writing this end up in 404s.
Resistance is futile
All bits are created equal. Standing up for net neutrality
I saved my milk teeth in small clear plastic bottles when I was a lad and they disappeared after a year or two from tooth decay.
It doesn't sound like you do understand the point of the list then. The point is not that any particular issue is unsolvable or even difficult. It's that laymen eagerly suggest naive solutions without even realizing that these issues exist. That's why you need to plan out your project and devote resources to executing it. Amendment 64 was not a single line "marijuana is now legal". The governor even set up a task force to oversee its implementation. And there are still complications due to its contradiction with federal law.
Still better than being inside those incredibly loud machines. I expected a "spinning" noise of some kind, not the jackhammer concerto.

Also, I had no idea courts in India were using that as a detection method; that's insane. I hope to god they don't use it as absolute evidence...
Extreme false dichotomy. Most people in prison are not violent psychopaths eager to murder anyone they can get their fingers on.
What is it with cards that everything about them is so satisfying?
I always need more sleep.
Art Style Transfer
Without any agenda, I suggest you research why some prisoners are in permanent isolation.

A large percentage of them are there because they assault/murder other inmates or guards.
From Atlas to Pepper: The Coolest Robots Around
I don't see anything wrong with cynicism _per se_. In fact, I have a hard time seeing how it's possible to avoid becoming at least somewhat cynical. Apathy and complacency on the other hand--those I have a problem with.

On the other hand, I'm not sure it's fair to come down so harshly on people who are feeling hopeless and/or powerless. I'm not sure getting indignant with such individuals is particularly constructive. There's probably a reason there are so many people who feel this way, and it's not just pure selfishness.
The Butterfly Effect – One student's experience with college and hackathons
Basically. They put the magnetic source in an shielded sphere, and then somehow moved the field outside of the sphere.
I'm early 40s at the moment. I love technology, and love programming and system tinkering/admin in particular. I'm currently a CTO/CIO in a niche industry, although I write code almost daily and participate in various technical trenches many CIOs wouldn't venture into on a daily basis due to lack of resources.

I am sadly terrified of getting older. Not because I fear death (well, maybe a little), but I fear the silver ceiling this industry seems to place on many. Sure, the CIO/CTO thing might help, but I'm not banking on it. I've seen so many qualified folks get replaced by younger, unqualified ones just because of the way IT tends to favor the young.

Now I look at my own daughter, who is very interested in following in my footsteps and is already programming and Lego mindstorm'ing, and I really, sincerely hesitate to push her in that direction. I love the craft and think it's very personally rewarding as a creative outlet, but not only is there this silver ceiling, but to stay current you are constantly required to be learning. I spend almost all my spare time working to stay current. I see friends who are lawyers or accountants, and while I would probably die of boredom in either field, there seems to be nowhere near the level of effort to stay current in those fields.

While I don't think the constant learning requirement has a solution, I really hope to get some time in the future thinking deeply about the silver ceiling problem. Not just for me, but for my tech friends. I personally employee two 60+ folks on my team, and they're great resources. I wish other companies would view them in this way. It seems there is something which could be done...even if it's a company which distinguishes itself by making a point of hiring senior, aging folks for solving problems which require that level of experience. However, that of course has it's own difficult problems to solve (namely, a senior employee likely has a lot of his/her own personal overhead to cover, so salary requirements will be understandably greater). Still, if the problems were out there, perhaps a company like that could thrive. Perhaps.

Anyway, just the ramblings of a early forties techie who thinks/worries a lot about this. One day I'll take action either way, because there will come a time where there is no other choice ;)
There's guilt, but there's also: "hey guys I EAT Spicy Cheetos, and we all eat Spicy Cheetos. Let's admit it. And it feels good. Here are some funny Cheetos stories I have."

Then there are the advicing, "yeah, I know it's bad, yeah, health, yeah, nutricion, you shouldn't do it, we miss on better foods etc".

But that part is more like an obligatory guilt/save-face addition, whereas the core is "I do, you've done it, it's normal and even enjoyful".

It sure doesn't seem to me like an article written with the intention to putting an end to the practice -- more to admit it and excuse it. Eveywhere he stomps on the guy who dismissed Pratchett without having read him, he adds "but, ...", and "don't get me wrong, ...".
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Just heard you got in touch with one of our sales guys. He'll walk you through getting started.

@all: thanks for the feedback! Your comments are heard and are high up on the list of "stuff to get right REAL fast".

For anyone with questions: shoot me an email, I'll be happy to answer questions! Mail is in the bio.
Computer Science for Babies
Such users, if they care to understand the community they want to be a part of, will eventually absorb enough knowledge to understand what a hell ban is, why they exist, what prompts a hell ban, and someone like yourself will alert them to it. Then they can request an unban or just make a new account.

It was a lack of recognition of those norms that prompts the ban, it's only right that they have to work harder to arrive at that recognition before they can regain visibility. We don't want it to be too easy to become aware that you're hellbanned, that would defeat the whole point.
>If we could clone this neighborhood and built it elsewhere, it would be a good thing. But we don't seem to be able to build neighborhoods in this style anymore.

It's not that we're unable, it's that North Americans have chosen not to. Nice dense developments are bad for cars, and car-lifestyles are what North Americans have culturally designated as the marker of success. Therefore you see a false correlation: dense developments are only built to house those too poor to participate in car culture.
Is everyone able to fix submission title on HN now or do you have some special status (e.g. mod or high karma)?
If everybody's metric of success is national maximized social/economic utility, your point would be fine. But that isn't the case. Many people prefer a positional metric, where they'd rather be poor as long as other people are poorer. See, e.g.:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268198...

If the point is money, then yes, you'd be right. But for a lot of people the point is status, not money. Taking a vulnerable or visibly different group of people and forcing them into a subordinate state is going to feel like success to a lot of people.
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Thinking out of the box is not mutually exclusive with having a social life. I know many artists and musicians who are doing truly groundbreaking stuff. They all violate the social norms, and have unusual lifestyles. But all of them are very well connected (in art, you have to be). Their social networks are very broad, and very strong.

He's not saying to obsess or be a workaholic. He's saying be creative. The way to be creative is to relax and let your thoughts drift.
Jesus, this was the biggest letdown from a click bait title to TFA ever.
the animation is lovely and fluid. bit of a shame that the card faces don't have the pictures for the royal cards and the usual layout of multiple suit signs on the number cards, but this is still super.
I think the problem is that kind of high density housing is its hard to sustain out of a handful of high density metros because you can only employ a large fraction [but not all] of the people in it within the neighborhood. So there needs to be high density offices/industrial plants/etc as well.
Ask HN: Lisp for web apps
In his essays, Paul Graham goes to great lengths to attribute much of his success in developing one of the first web apps to him deciding to use Lisp. He claims that it was a competitive advantage that none of his competitors were using Lisp and therefore he was able to develop features at a faster pace.

> Robert Morris says that I didn't need to be secretive, because even if our competitors had known we were using Lisp, they wouldn't have understood why: "If they were that smart they'd already be programming in Lisp." [0]

In other essays, he goes on to describe what makes Lisp different [1] but its all fairly technical (example: Programs composed of expressions. Lisp programs are trees of expressions, each of which returns a value.) I've heard professors also wear their Lisp background as a badge of honor.

What's the practical implication of Lisp's unique features, specifically in developing web applications? Is Lisp still being used in web apps?

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html