skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a Starcraft AI competition at a conference in Palo Alto this fall, which is probably the hardest in this category of competitions (playing a full Starcraft game well is pretty nontrivial), though there are also three categories for restricted versions of the game: http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition
i don't get the (n choose 2) identity proof. can someone explain?
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> Communists may be evil, but they aren't stupid, so it's unlikely they haven't foreseen this.

I'm in Cambodia right now. Communists are, in fact, quite stupid in addition to being evil. However, that doesn't really pertain to the infanticide thing, which is more a characteristic of very poor areas than communism.
The sentiment is understandable.
The myth of the starving artist suffering for his
art was already (mostly) nonsense when it was dreamed up
in the romantic era and it's high time, I think, that
after two hundred years we start thinking about
putting it to rest once and for all.
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> The entire time men have been behaving badly women haven't even shown the slightest interest in participating so that's already evidence enough for me to make some conclusions about which is the more docile and empathetic gender.

While we're broadly generalizing, does the fact that men have accounted for 95%+ of all inventions, scientific breakthroughs, philosophy, and governance in history mean men are more proactive and hard working to go alongside women being more docile and empathetic? And does this lend itself easily to a judgment that a particular gender is better?
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The statistics and pieces of research get updated regularly, but not often. More importantly, you can download your SNPs and go to SNPedia and look up whatever you want by yourself.
Sure. The total number of yellow balls (the ones not in bottom row), is 1+2+3+...+(n-1). But each yellow ball determines exactly two blue balls (the ones in the bottom row): they're the ones you get by travelling left and right from the yellow ball in a straight line until the bottom. You can visually confirm it to be a 1-1 correspondence: different yellow balls will determine different pairs, and each pair is determined by some yellow ball. Therefore the total number of yellow balls is also the number of ways to choose 2 blue balls out of the total number of n blue balls.
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Asynchronous I/O is a very compelling alternative to the traditional threading approach, when your app is more I/O intensive than CPU intensive. It's also very scalable since you don't have to fill your memory with separate stacks for each thread and other overhead.

I recently wrote some server software around the Linux epoll() system call and found it simple and effective to use. It's rewarding to eliminate all locking and think in terms of processing queues. I've also used AIO for async disk operations and it has worked nicely.
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I would actually like to suggest that wordhate (http://apps.facebook.com/wordhate/) is the Hot or Not for words and phrases. Haha
Candidly it's not a leadgen for my business. We run it as a service to the bootstrapping communities in the cities that we operate. And San Francisco, San Diego, and Minneapolis are moderated by other folks and often the Silicon Valley Breakfasts are moderated by other folks.

I know Jonathan Nelson (iamelgringo) and appreciate what he is doing. I have been to several Hackers & Founders events and found them worthwhile. It's nice to be able to meet for breakfast as well. I have been on YC for perhaps four years now and contributed I hope a number of useful comments and links.

I have no idea who you are from your YC profile or why you have jumped to the conclusions that you have. I ask that you take me at my word and otherwise accept that reasonable men may differ.
Hitler was also cheered on by women. There are plenty of examples of women doing evil things. Just a couple of weeks ago I think there was a female amok runner.

Also, men and women face different challenges in wife. For example I suppose in many primitive societies, if one tribe raided another, the enemy men were killed, but the enemy women were taken home and being married (just one example).
Ironically, I think it would improve software quality these days if you were required to refactor your subroutine if you wanted to insert more than 9 lines of code somewhere.
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Anyone here actually have their first programming experiences with a "kid" language? I know I started on regular "adult" BASIC, then moved on to C and C++. No hand-holding anywhere, and I never found it to be too difficult.

So personally, I'm wondering what the value is here.
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maxklein exposed the primary technique these guys are most likely using. It's definitely a TOS violation.
A very interesting observation.. I tend to agree that the sheer number of frameworks and libraries makes programming into coping with flaws or badly documented "features". The other thing is that the programming world is much like an archipelago, where different islands develop their own programming culture, like .NET or JEE or PHP. And the islands are floating apart: It will become increasingly difficult to establish the better choice because of long learning curves. It is important to admit there are other cultures out there, that even might do a better job in particular areas. However, as much as frameworks get more sophisticated and cater to the programmers ideal of elegant and abstract formulation of the code, Managed Code, Reflection and even OO have a overhead cost in cycles and bytes, particularly when scaling up. As a 45+ programmer I sometimes weep about "elegant" code that drives your machine to the edge but only does a fairly simple job. Stacking API's and frameworks does certainly not always contribute to efficient and simple executables. Sometimes we just need to get back to the root, or at least understand what happens in the machine when we use a certain framework or library. For programmers that will remain a challenge, and fortunately will force us to reflect occasionally...
Slightest interest in participating? You realize that in most western, patriarchal societies women were not allowed to participate?

Not to mention, many Native American cultures were matriarchal, and had absolutely no compunction about slaughtering each other there, either.

I find it somewhat ironic that your justification for saying that women are better than men is that they are more docile and empathetic - the very same reasons that were trotted about to try and deny women the vote (i.e., too docile and easily led by the nose politically, too emotional to vote rationally, etc). It's hard to consider you pro-female when you seem to riding the same train of thought as anti-female folk.

I do mean this in the most sincere, respectful way possible: have you considered taking a course in anthropology at your local university? I studied anthropology in a limited way during my time college, it was very eye-opening, and IMHO your viewpoint wouldn't stand up to a simple gut check against even introductory undergrad-level anthro. I know this may sound like I'm bashing you, but I'm really not trying to - IMHO you seem like you have a lot of misconceptions about culture and history which can be rectified by formal education on this subject.
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My first programming experience was with this shareware Mac app called GameMaker in the mid-90s. It let you make card-based adventure games. I ended up meeting all these kids on AOL back then who also used the app.

I'm still in touch with a lot of them, and it's amazing how many have become incredibly talented, successful, entrepreneurial folks (and we're all mostly in our 20's now).

The interesting thing is that this app was probably the worst way to learn programming. It didn't have operator precedence, functions, arrays, or many other basic features. It was a toy language in the most pejorative sense of the term -- not one carefully laid out for pedagogical purposes. I learned so many bad habits.

But that didn't matter -- the real important bit is that we all learned how fun it is to actually build stuff on your own and release it. I think that's the critical spark that makes the rest happen.

So many people have never experienced this joy and spend their entire careers only working on things other people have assigned to them.
I think it helps no one to say "debt is high" or "debt isn't high" - relative to what? In absolute terms it's huge and a first, in relative terms you may always find a measure that says it has been higher before.

You're a proponent of Keynesian economics then. How do you counter the argument that no government spending is ever only temporary? There's no such thing as a temporary countermeasure in politics. So spending now in all likelihood means spending forever. And that is surely not good at all. No politician ever will seriously reduce spending when all is well. Keynes is only cited when times are bad..
Jonathan runs Hackers and Founders as a sideline to something else he does. He does it for love and the desire to be around others like him.

You run a consulting firm that feeds on startups.

Your breakfasts are a marketing/leadgen program. That's fine if you call it out, but you're deluding yourself if you try to claim it's a community service. It may benefit the community as a side effect, but that's not why you do them.

ProTip: When you have a conflict of interest, call it out upfront. Anything less dilutes your legitimacy.
Wow. This is a model article. It takes two controversial opposing articles about an extremely relevant problem, points to a grey area that's worked in the past, and then, quite insightfully, points out a missing link (self-hosted advertising that is still inherently auditable to third parties) that we should fill in.

Even though I detest advertising, I think a lot of what I detest about them could be seriously mitigated by turning advertising into something a business plans and designs for. Let's get some applicants to Y Combinator next season that try to figure this out.
Though I began with GW-BASIC on MSDOS 6.22 way back, but...

I would like to see a similar poster with a poor kid shown running linux on an old donated PC (because he can't afford one that runs vista/7) and playing with Python in bpython.

Doing much more than what he/she can do in Small Basic and learning something which would actually get him some money in future if he/she goes in the right track.

I wonder if this is case-sensitive too, I dont like the "To", "EndFor". The title of the current script - "Tetris - Imported", is so confusing, I see no tetris anywhere, all I see is something done to the poor turtle.
I also wonder what is the default direction of Mr. Turtle, I just can't guess what would be drawn.

I would like the kid to know that he needs not know wtf is ".NET", teach programming, don't advertize to them. Let them create their own .net if they want to.
I found the story and the points made very interesting, but in telling it the excerpt seemed overly-redundant: it repeated similar ideas several times in slightly different ways. I feel like I could have had a similar experience in an article of half the length or less. Sorry, but I don't think I could read an entire book written in this manner.
>> Are you just out of practice?

With debuggers -- definitely, and I like it that way. Not with coding; I'm an overpaid code monkey this downturn (a bit "golden handcuff"-syndrome).

Edit: I might add that I do use profilers.
Too many variables make the formula of global warming impossible, yes, I said, impossible to compute.
I had no idea this was not standard, I have never seen a free-sitting cinema.

When you buy a ticket here the cashier asks you where you want to sit.
How does it compare to Martin's _Song of Ice and Fire_ novels? (my new yardstick for high-quality contemporary fantasy)
I'm not sure how much suffering was done, but as far as artists maintaining cheap living arrangements so they can focus on their art without having to earn much income, that's not exactly a myth. From French Impressionist painters living in garrets, to 80s punk rockers living in cheap lofts, it's a pretty common way of self-funding art production...
You are a being very pessimistic.

Europe and Japan declining in population? I find that hard to believe. Do you have figures to back that up?

Greece bankrupt? Even if it were true, any negative consequences of that will be mitigated by the EU.
And a country in turmoil will only have a positive effect on birthrate.

Fortunately there was a lot less danger at the end of the 20th century when there were still nuclear weapons at the ready all over the globe.
What was the "'facebook login' incident"?
I await the days when musicians indirectly related to RIAA donate money to NSPCC or similar children's charity, and then say P2P is partially responsible for child abuse.
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We've never met to my knowledge so I don't believe that you know me.

I am an entrepreneur and enjoy conversations with other entrepreneurs. I had a photography business in my teens and did my first startup in Silicon Valley in 1979 when I was still in college. the resources that were available then were minimal.

The breakfasts attract a broad range of folks: 20 year olds to folks in their 60's, men, women, the entrepreneurially curious, people in startups, serial entrepreneurs, consultants, and others. We don't turn anyone away as long as they want to talk about real issues related to bootstrapping.

I started them because I was fed up with attending evening events that were either about hearing a VC speak or were in bars and involved bullshit networking. I wanted to take part in serious conversations about entrepreneurship, in particular bootstrapping a business, because there were too few discussions about real problems.

We have a unique format for the breakfasts that foster one conversation on a range of topics proposed by those that show up. We have guest speakers sometimes, but they only have prepared remarks for about 6-8 minutes at which point they take part in the conversation. We have invited a number of entrepreneurs to talk about lessons learned from successes and failures including the inventor of MacProject, Writely, Wowzamedia to name a few.

I am not sure how you have reached the conclusions about me that you have but you are mistaken in your characterization of my motives. In particular I reject "everything you do is for business." There are no pockets in shrouds: not everything has to be about money.
Many of them don't seem to be complete proofs at all. It's not enough to draw pictures and claim that two areas are identical. You have to argue why the areas are identical.
How long is recompiling really going to be if it's one file, though? I'm not talking about C++, which clang isn't quite fluent in yet, but one file of pure C shouldn't take long to compile. Or have I not been compiling the right C files?
If clang could come up with better C++ template error messages that would be really sweet. STL related error messages in g++ (and MSVC) are really hard to figure out, especially when C++ is not your main language; so you're not exposed to those problems on a daily basis.
Imagine Martin writing Harry Potter about a manic depressive megalomaniac, then narrating it retrospectively.

Less political intrigue (by about two orders of magnitude), far fewer characters, frame character is better realized, far closer to Martin than Tolkien on the grit scale although less explicit about it, rather more magic, far closer to Tolkien than Martin in the heroic fantasy department.

I liked the first three Song of Ice and Fire books quite a bit, although in a lot of ways they are not my usual cup o' tea.
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I think for many large projects (> 100k lines of code at least, I guess) compilation speed can be critical.

GCC is not perfect, but works well enough, is stable enough, that to switch without a strong argument is going to be a slow process at best.
And another port of GWT for .NET is http://dotweb-toolkit.com. It uses a decompiler in order to translate .NET assemblies into javascript.
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happy zabbix user here, it's true, the ui is not especially obvious, but it works quite well, and with the graphing capabilities it is also a reasonable replacement for cacti.
Really? I'm gen Y and it's a few times a week for most of my circle of friends. My younger cousins (gen Z?) around 13-15 are about the same.
Sounds similar to rm2k around 2000-2004. The language idea's sound similar and it was all ui based programming where you selected commands off menus rather than click them.

Part of the challenge though was overcoming the engine limitations as you could only display 20 pictures at a time but you were able to use sprites as images and change the sprite being displayed.
aaah, any pair chooses a unique yellow ball - wow! thanks. if the image were animated, or showed a sequence of "selections" i think i would have gotten it.
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Banged out in something of a rush before bed :) To be fair there is only 2 outright mistakes (and some clunky bits).

I copy-edited it this morning...
I read the "Why do this project" section on the site, and am not convinced. Nagios is a very actively maintained project, and did have major features added about a year and a half ago. It is totally suited for use in large installations, especially with the help of existing third party enhancements like GroundWork Monitor. And on the non-issue of wanting a flexible Nagios, a lack of flexibility is NOT one of Nagios' problems. It is insanely flexible, and has tons of add-ons and plugins. Also being in C, it performs very well, especially the current version. I've looked at the code, and it's not bad - maybe the shinken authors are just intimidated by C.
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You are a being very pessimistic. Europe and Japan declining in population? I find that hard to believe. Do you have figures to back that up?

I'm not the you responded to, but here goes:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Mark Steyn's book America Alone has much more on the implications, written in a rather witty style.

http://www.amazon.com/America-Alone-End-World-Know/dp/159698...

The only European country that is maintaining its population is France, and it only barely. In the Euro-Med countries the average number of births per female is about 1.3, far below the replacement rate of 2.1. In Japan (which has the oldest mean age in the world), pop is dropping so fast that they are permanently closing almost one primary school per day.

Greece bankrupt? Even if it were true, any negative consequences of that will be mitigated by the EU.

Technically not bankrupt yet, but Greece and most other European countries (and the US, at our current rate of debt growth) had better hope like hell for an AI breakthrough that pushes productivity rates thru the roof.
Welfare states are pay-as-you-go plans, with the younger generation paying for retirement of the much smaller number of elderly. That only works as long as there are lots of young people and not many older folks. In other words, the cutbacks and riots in Greece and California these last few days are just the beginning w/o huge productivity breakthroughs. Let's hope that Ray Kurzweil is right.

And a country in turmoil will only have a positive effect on birthrate.

Evidence???
Leech Killer (http://iwonderphone.com/leechkiller/) is a SMS/call block app for Android phones. The author decided to kill it due to maintainability difficulty caused by so many incompatible Android phones.
First, if that's the case, then Ars is being dishonest with their advertisers, who are paying for attention, not rendering processes. So, once again, fuck'em.

Second, if they're paying a tenth of a cent to render a page, they need a better host!

Third, I would imagine that the cost they might be trying to cover is the cost of writing the article, not the negligible cost of serving it.

In any case, fuck'em. It's a wild world out there. If you don't wanna deal with it, don't. There'll be plenty of other publications willing to step in to fill the gap.
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> People reading and talking about your content are a large part of the engine that drives the 'buzz' around a website.

Absolutely agreed. Indeed I think that if they notice you showing a willingness to give them the web they want (ad free) you'll get more coming back!

> If you would cut those people out and be only left with the people that are prepared to pay in some way then suddenly your website wouldn't be half as interesting.

I'm not suggesting that. It's not a paywall or anything - the initial/actual experience would be just the same for a blocker as it is now. Just with the option to pay...

I think the whole ad blocker discussion is focused way to much on ads being the only way to 'monetize' a user, if there is any exchange at all between a site and a user and you have a feeling that you get more from the user than what it cost you in bandwidth you're under way to solving your problem in a much better way than to worry about a few ad impressions being lost.

I cant disagree with that (I did try, actually, but I can't :)).
The US government debt is all in US dollars. Who controls the value of the US dollar? Yeah. Do the math.
Is this site run by Andrew Warner as well?
The way I would do it is make a really solid ad blocker for all browsers and release it. Get a load of users (as many as possible) for 6 months or something.

Then release the micropayments service (and approach some of the big content publishers with the idea to get them signed up).

Obviously being open to your users that this was your long term plan :)