skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"E.E. Cummings" is fine. It's what he used.[0]

On the top of Cummings, I have occasionally felt like I was faced with an incomplete set of instructions when reading certain of his poems. Of course, there's no particular reason to liken them to computer instructions; I've never seen anything in the poems to suggest a connection. Anything to link one art with another is a stretch—if we even accept that coding is an art.

(I think code can be, though it isn't as a rule. In the same way, writing can be artful but is typically workaday and unremarkable. This post, for an example.)

0: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/cummings/caps.htm
Stuffy offices can halve cognitive scores
Yes, this is exactly what we're doing.
The two-state emulsion
How is Klout long dead? I opened an account today. So, genuinely confused. Please enlighten me.

Thanks.
> These days the markets are decimalized — stocks trade in increments of a penny. (They are not allowed to trade in increments smaller than a penny, by federal regulation. This is unfortunate, because “the minimum spread is 0.01 dollars” is not any more rational than “the minimum spread is 0.125 dollars” — if someone is willing to provide liquidity for cheaper, we should encourage that.)

This is not true, at least in the US. HFT has made sub-penny trades a pretty common thing. Quotes are displayed in pennies, but using limit orders you frequently see sub penny trades for highly liquid tickers (AAPL for example).

http://blogs.reuters.com/ben-walsh/2013/11/18/do-stocks-real...
How about your hands though?
The credit for the information in the post goes to Reinhard Max and Pixelz from the Tcl Chatroom.
I'm confused. I thought it was Twitch controls Trump.
13M Passwords Appear to Have Leaked from 000WebHost
We don't use "scores" in the game to "hire developers". This is like the Stripe CTF, or Microcorruption, not HackerRank.
Sumoshell: A better way to analyze log files on the command line
Actually, that's a feature... Ctrl-C exits insert mode. If it quit vim when in Normal mode, you'd accidentally quit Vim all the time. Less annoying to just show a helpful message in case you actually meant quit, than dump everyone who knows what Ctrl-C does back to a shell.
It's more like them "proposing we have a vehicles [sic] that use four wheels and internal combustion engines" while owning 100% of General Motors. There is nothing about this paper that is not self-promotion (and for a totally dead company no less).
The software doesn't highlight calls it highlights messages with keywords. This was asked for by a dispatcher who said during emergencies it's hard to spot the important messages. This particular dispatcher's job was to monitor all of the other dispatchers and ensure that calls were prioritized correctly. The software itself did not do the dispatchers job for them. Calls are prioritized before the Chief Dispatcher typically sees them. There are calls the Chief Dispatchers are supposed to know about but are always notified of. This software was a tool to help keep the Chief Dispatchers in the loop. They dictated which keywords they wanted to use.

The meeting was scheduled by the director of IT at the time, a former Amazon VP who left two weeks after this incident, about how to allow me to continue developing apps like this. He was trying to put structure about it. The Captain wanted none of it.
Any suggestions on what to read to get up on these details? I've started "Trading and Exchanges", "Algorithmic Trading and DMA", and "Market Microstructure in Practise". Does that sound like a good path?
Funny old world....

I can't be the only person who looked at his processes and wondered what Bonjour was and where qttask.exe came from.
Cant be worse than the greek government.
I wash them. In cultures where one cleans his behind with hands, one usually finds a tap at knee level just next to the toilet....
> GPUs (for rendering and simulation)

I'd like to provide a data point for this, btw. There are exchanges for sports gambling (we run one), and some of the most succesful betting syndicates run clusters of hundreds or even low thousands multi-GPU servers to crunch the incoming data on their real-time simulations. The results of this type of crunching are feeds, signaling and strategy shifts for their market makers.

I have no doubt investment banks, who operate on an order of magnitude more data, would have something similar. Even if majority of it was used for backtesting.
I thnk it is kind of like coming up with a standard metric that compares cars, trucks, SUVs, hang gliders, trains and horses.
I wasn't in trouble for doing what I did. The meeting was discussing how to keep the innovation going in a more controlled manner. The Captain believes the only way to implement software in 911 is to take years and millions of dollars to do it.
Patrick: If the REST URL has FOOEX and BAR, why is that info repeated in the JSON body?
Yes, but migrating to another VCS would be like working on a moving car and you have to pay the mechanic to plan -> dev -> implement...and then convince everyone who's worked with the VSS thought pattern (which is pretty different from SVN, GIT, just about everything) to use this new 'better' thought pattern or create something that will mimic the workflow they're are used to and connects to the new VCS...all the while you are still try to generate revenue rather than resolve a legacy 'issue' that really just looks bad and is still in place because: it works, everyone is used to it, you don't have the time / resources to make a change until it doesn't work.

Not that I'm arguing for VSS, it's awful, but there are business reasons I can see trumping the desires of wanting an upgrade.

Edit: spelling
Huh, that's interesting. I certainly wouldn't have guessed that.

Now that I think about it, I have no idea what investment banks are really like as work environments. The caricature in my mind is a rigid hierarchy populated by career-minded sycophants who judge people based on the college they attended; bosses that would be played by Alec Baldwin in fiction; software stacks sold by Oracle salesmen on golf courses; senior architects who manage via UML drawings; workdays that extend to 9pm just because; and for a touch of fun, brokers who throw half-eaten lobsters at each other on Friday nights.

In all, the kind of place that would have absolutely no interest in hiring me and where I would never imagine working... Maybe my prejudices would need a reality check.
But HTTP is one-directional (disregarding Websockets which is a client thing).
Yep wanna not improve SPD fine but I'm going to showcase everything you and your people do. You're be forced to improve once the media gets ahold of the mistakes being made.
Linked Pull Requests: a solution for multi-repositories projects
Urubu: Micro CMS for static websites with a focus on good navigation practices
How does it work? I get that a bidet is going to be cleaner than paper, but it seems like the continuous stream is an important factor. I can't really visualize how using a wet hand is going to do anything but make a mess. Sure, you wash your hand afterwards...but you just wiped a bunch of unsanitary water around a place that doesn't get a lot of fresh air.
Redskins' Pierre Garcon Sues FanDuel on Behalf of NFL Players
Why contentEditable is terrible
Down voated for this really?
I knew someone from a culture that washes their rear with soap and water after defecating. I was told they refer to Americans as "unclean ass" and are horrified that we just use paper and do not wash.
Wild idea: DRY up CSS for better performance
Although you both make the same tacit assumption, which is that you know the contents of the set "best people in AI" when in fact all we can really say is that "we know some really great people in AI who are visible." The next Alan Turing or Ray Kurzweil could be working at Apple right now and we would not know it due to their secrecy right?

I completely agree that if AI features become the compelling and ranking feature of phones, computers, and tablets. And if Apple begins to lose financially because they are paying a "tax" to license someone else's AI features to stay competitive, and unable to develop a compelling experience on their own, then you can say their internal AI group either doesn't exist, or is not staffed with competitive researchers.
They're not working on ads. They're working on maps, speech recognition, visual recognition, self driving cars, etc.
Correction to Patrick: we do support FIX in ch1, but you have to write AVR assembly to use it.
Hiya. Author here.

I'd class some of Apple's main peers as: Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung, Baidu, and, to a lesser extent, Amazon. These are all large consumer technology companies that are trying to develop quite intimate relationships with consumers, whether through phones or services.

Among these companies, Apple's secrecy with regards to AI does make it an apparent outlier. All its peers are, to one extent or another, publishing much more aggressively than it in an apparent attempt to woo some of the most accomplished grad students in the academic community into considering going into industry. (Not mentioned in article, but relevant for this: Samsung has started publishing a few papers, and I'm seeing lots of collaboration between Samsung-affiliated researchers and SK academics pop up on Arxiv. Huawei is coming up as well, via its "Noah's Ark Lab" and some other R&D centers.)

Tl,dr; most companies are v private and publishing so openly is the outlier, but among Apple's peers/significant competitors, there is a tendency towards open publication and interaction with the academic community.
Has anyone tried MongoDB service on Azure?
I saw a press release from awhile back about MongoDB being a fully managed service on Azure. Haven’t heard anything about it since, and I don’t see it on my account in Azure how to get the service.

Has anyone else tried it or used it?

Here’s the press release.

https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongodb-announces-fully-managed-service-microsoft-azure
Future Proof
I am not suggesting we all use deutsche toilettenbecken or anything, but if your diet is good then there is nothing to clean up either.
Emacs doesn't really fit with the Unix philosophy. Emacs came from the MIT AI Lab and ITS, not Bell Labs and Unix - it got included with most Unix distributions later.

Editors that do fit with the Unix philosophy (they were written by its original developers) are ed sam and acme.
Anyone knows a way around upfront license fees for Microsoft SQL Server on AWS?
I’m trying to run Microsoft SQL Server on AWS but it seems my options are either to 1) spend a lot of money upfront for the license on AWS or 2) switch to Azure and pay a much more reasonable monthly cost.

Anyone else run into this issue?
Accidentally left this running for a few hours...

71 FAIL :(
5747 OK! :)

So about 1% failure rate.
Our criminal justice system is barbaric and should be a huge national shame. Not only is it used to perpetrate injustice against the poor and the disempowered it twists society with the way it favors retribution and punishment over forgiveness, rehabilitation, and true justice. It's also substantially race segregated and a huge source of racially driven animosity in parts of the population (helping to foment racial divisions and foster the creation of racially aligned gangs). And all of that is aside from the corruption issue, which is also deeply corrosive to our culture, society, and government.
this assumes that the content is unchanged or already saved for every case.
Big companies like Dell and Lenovo (which owns IBM's old PC business) get the best deals. Smaller companies get worse deals: I've had that complaint from UK manufacturers. Small Romanian companies may get even worse deals.

But I would have thought Acer and Asus would be competitive, because they're global suppliers....
May I ask which button that is?
> Solving arbitrary puzzles someone else has set in front of you, in order to get a job, is not a fun programming challenge.

Given this premise please explain the popularity of Project Euler.
Despite this "abundance" of land, Japan has not found a way to produce enough food.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/02/26/reference/japan-...
I have always considered refactoring as improving your current code rather than starting from scratch. I like to start over once I have a working approach for two reasons:

1. The original code is by that time I have finished hacking a mess and it is not a good place to start.

2. I can use the original code and the new code to find bugs I missed the first time around. A good percentage of the time I find bugs in my original code that only a clean rewrite exposes.
> how else would you have any idea about what happens around the world?

Since there's nothing I can do about anything anywhere else in the world, why should I care? Furthermore, if very little the news establishment publishes is correct, how can you say you have any idea what's actually happening around the world? You don't. With the readiness with which the news establishment will publish absolute junk, what makes you think they won't publish what they're told by their corporate owners or the government? When nobody does any fact checking, it leaves them (and you) vulnerable to manipulation.

> Do you see no value whatsoever in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post or The Economist?

None.

> Had it not been for the articles in Svenska Dagbladet, how would the shareholders ever find out about this misuse of the company's resources?

Wow, you had to go all the way to Sweden to dig up an example for this? We're talking about the American news establishment. I have no comment on or exposure to European news. In the American media, investigative journalism is a dead art. The disclosures we see in the news are mostly done because we have a (more or less) open market which gives an incentive for all sorts of people and organizations to profit from these sorts of disclosures. That part of the system would work just as well without journalists.
GUIs, graphics, video, GPU rendering: Finance professionals have a huge interest in visualizations and interfaces that let them understand and manipulate large quantities of data easily. Some of that data has (at least) near-real-time constraints.

Mobile platforms: ...and they want to do this all from wherever they are. :)
HTTP is asymmetric (the two sides are not interchangeable), but the information flow is bidirectional. I don't see how that it prevents something like Unix piping from being implemented between web services using it. Seems to be mostly a UX design issue.
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They haven't always had to. Presently, they do. Eventually, in a better world, they won't. Walking hasn't changed for millennia, and it won't in the foreseeable future. Riding in automobiles, however, is about to change completely.

Projecting our typical pissed-off aggressive auto-commuter attitudes into the future is a mistake, and will come to be seen as a sort of mental illness. Well-adjusted robocar passengers will pay no attention to traffic, just as normal people today don't constantly bother air stewardesses about how long their flight is taking.
This is intended as no way offensive, but your written English isn't great (I'm thinking it isn't your first language?). The first step to getting an executive position would be to improve in that area.

The second thing about being a Director or VP is that it's all about team building, not technical skills. Technical skills are a baseline, but a good executive is an expert at attracting, hiring and retaining good talent. So that is another area where you'd need to prove yourself out (you didn't mention anything about hiring or recruiting).
"present energy needs for several millennia" means actual energy needs is a much, much shorter timespan assuming we continue our exponential trend of energy use.
Wow, really basic JavaScript. SO impressed. not.
For Node.js core APIs, there is a deprecation strategy that requires at least one major version cycle before anything can be removed, and even then the chances of things actually being removed are slim. We're trying to take a very cautious and conservative approach to breaking changes in core. Generally, if it works in v4, it should continue to work in v5, if it doesn't, that's a bug that should be reported and fixed.

Changes in npm, on the other hand are a different story. Technically, npm is not part of Node core, it's a utility that we bundle with the core but it has it's own lifecycle, it's own process and it's own separate project. The "contract" between npm and node.js is still being worked out and this kind of feedback is extremely useful.
No no, just clearly not up to the hiring bar. because reasons. tree algorithms or something.
Laugh along with GNU
No, but a well written program has the qualities of a good poem: You want to read it and it you can follow it easily. And every word is exactly where it belongs.

I still remember with how much pleasure I read Edi Weitz' cl-ppcre - as a print-out, in bed.

More than once I did minor changes to programs that I attributed to my OCD just to get positive feedback from peers that I made the program more readable (say, changing (let ((x ..)) (when x ....)) to (when-let ((x ...)) ....)).
I thought the parent's first point made lots of sense and I don't really follow your point. Marginal cost for web services isn't literally zero, it is just close enough to zero that real businesses with revenue can treat it as if it is zero. But that doesn't mean that it is at all cheap in the usual sense to run a popular web service.
Would you consider Myspace to be dead?

Many people would, and the same applies to Klout.
3 Product Development Mistakes We See and How to Avoid Them
What is a poet?
I was just pointing out it was an interesting controversy. It ranged from "it is an efficient building design", to happened by accident, to deliberate agenda due to some conspiracy theory.
It's optional -- if you don't put them in, we do. The canonical representations of any order has them in, otherwise you have no clue what is going on.
> It's regrettable.

That makes it sound like you had no control.

Being rude is not "speaking up against the received wisdom", it's just being rude, and it's against the rules here. In the future, please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Game Player Demo does not run on Chrome Version 47.0.2526.35 beta-m (64-bit)
I don't think that's a great model as a brentling watch and a Honda civic hardly took the same resources to produce. A new 900sf condo in DC takes few resources compared to a new 20,000 sf house in West Virginia even if there both 500k.
He definitely does NOT have aspergers. (Know him personally.)
I am curious how much money would it cost to run an advertising campaign in this district and how likely it would be to influence jurors. I suspect that the jury selection process would prevent it from having much effect.
Fatality rates seem more difficult to game than recidivism rates.
Building open source communities for security
Perhaps I should ask whether you think that horsecarts are long-dead as a mode of transportation. They're still legal, and one can still purchase horses, carts, tack, etc. But no more than a handful of people use them on any given day. To me, they're long-dead: still historically instructive, but not economically relevant. Klout is in the same bucket.
I use one of these. I never touch my ass with my hand while doing it.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/ABS-Toilet-Handheld-Bidet-Spr...
Well the interesting fact was that there was a controversy. I remember reading about it back then.
> I hoped Google would merge Android into ChromeOS, a much more lightweight OS. Now they are stuck with the broken Java UI architecture

If, as stated in the article, they merge ChromeOS into Android, rather than abandoning ChromeOS in favor of Android (which seems to be how you and many others have interpreted it), they aren't limited to what is currently in Android, since they bring all the capabilities of ChromeOS are now in Android. A merger is functionally equivalent regardless of direction, which just becomes about branding (and its hardly surprising that Android is the more marketable brand.)
Yes, I'm sure that sitting at home and getting to go out and coach baseball instead of being stuck in a prison had nothing to do with his reasoning.
I never really got into Myspace. That answer sounds to me vaguely like "No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

So, still in service. It is just passe and not the new kid in town.

(This is an honest attempt to parse your meaning. I swear, it is not dismissive snark. Thank you for responding to my "dumb" question.)
If population continues to grow exponentially, a Malthusian apocalypse is a physical certainty, it's merely a question of when, not if. A 1% growth rate would put us at 1 trillion in about 500 years.

Let's say we then invent a new technology that doubles the carrying capacity of Earth; that buys us about 70 years. Now we figure out how to terraform mars to hold about as many people as earth: another 70 years.

So assuming a 2 trillion maximum capacity of earth and a steady 1% growth rate, we have 640 years to figure out how to colonize the moons of the outer planets...

If population sizes do peak in the next 40 years we are a lot better off, but are still stuck with the question of how to grow the economy at an exponential rate indefinitely, or come up with a different macroeconomic plan.
I've recently considered doing this, not because I particularly care about generating a moderate amount of trash, but rather because I think that this would be an excellent mindfulness exercise!
What I Did this Summer (2005)
That is something that got even ESR wondering - chief "Unix philosophy"-advocate and Emacs patriot par excellence that he is...

(Although one thing that can be said for Emacs as regards the Unix philosophy is that it is programmable.)
While I respect your opinion on the fitness of the style for telling a story, that particular movie is the one that launched the style into its current popularity. Right or wrong, when you change the direction of your field you get major props.
I'll pay my (IB) fees and get actually my orders filled instead. Plus, if you're only playing with stocks, you're missing a lot of the possibilities with a margin account.
Every company makes stuff in China, but not under the massive pressure that Apple's big-bang marketing puts them under, where workers are forced to deliver many millions of devices in the shortest possible time.

It was Apple production lines that were driving suicides, and hence the nets round Foxconn dorms.

Pegatron has had Chinese workers doing 90-100 hours a week, sometimes more, just so Apple fanboys can get their fancy new toys without the massive loss of kudos that waiting a month would cost them.
http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/report/107

And Apple workers do not get a living wage, according to China Labor Watch, even though -- as I stated correctly -- Apple is making a billion dollars a week in profits and has more than $200 billion in cash.

Of course, this isn't brutal capitalist exploitation.

Or if it is, well, who cares?
> I'd pick the enriched solitary confinement over having to socialise with the general prison population any day, wouldn't you?

I bet you wouldn't after a few months.

I also bet you wouldn't be well suited to getting out afterwards either. Prison should be about rehabilitation, and what your proposing is to isolate someone from society completely.
Can confirm, have done it thrice.
I read it as the transfer took 9 hours, not all of the work to prepare for the transfer.
So why bother with putting them in the URL? Why not just have /submit and put the details in the body where they belong?
Doesn't matter, as long as it buys time to develop renewables and nuclear fusion.
If I'm not mistaken, the attack is aimed at a quicksort implementation where the pivot value is chosen as a median of first, middle, and last values. It would not work on randomized quicksort, of course.