skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mixed feelings about this article:

1. A fine easy read about Ramanujan and Hardy. It was well-summarized and nicely written, with excellent pictures that I had not seen before.

2. A disgusting vein of self-promotion runs throughout the article. Much has been said about Stephan Wolfram's occasionally self-centered behavior, and many of his writings have a self-aggrandizing tone to them. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised to find the piece start out with little self-reference by the author, until:

> The other, slightly more famous, track — less austere and less mathematically oriented — was Eton and Oxford, which happens to be where I went.

How is that relevant in an article titled Who was Ramanujan? It got worse a few paragraphs later, as Wolfram began discussing numeric approximations, and engaging in what was effectively product placement for WolframAlpha and Mathematica. There I was, trying to read about Ramanujan, and Wolfram kept interjecting with comments about his computation engine and his implementations of Ramanujan's formulae.

Toward the end of the article, after the biography of Ramanujan was complete and Wolfram turned to discussing expansions of Ramanujan's results, such topics were fair game. "What if Ramanujan had had Mathematica?" is a valid question. Discussing cellular automata and Wolfram's principle of computational equivalence, etc., etc. was fine at that point, since these are valid expansions to the topic at hand.

Nonetheless, the blatant product placement and continuous breaking of the flow of the text to push some function implemented in WolframAlpha on the reader was extraordinarily annoying, and, frankly, deeply disappointing. If Wolfram sets out to write the unlikely tale of a mysterious letter, and its place in the history of mathematics, as advertised by the subtitle, then I would have hoped that he could leave his egregious self-advertising to the end of the article -- or better yet -- to a separate one altogether.
> Life anywhere is a brutal, senseless struggle against a guaranteed DEATH.

Fixed that for you.
Unprivileged Build Containers
I hope after this release they will start improving OCaml support for Windows too (mostly smoothless opam experience, like the package managers for other languages) https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2191
Hadoop performance troubleshooting with stack tracing
Downvoted? But no answer? Seems to prove my point that the knee-jerk hatred of the NSA ought to be backed by some real world facts.
تور ارزان مشهد در هتل های تاپ ویژه ۱۲ اردیبهشت ۹۵
Actually, after extraction of data files, it points out that it is likely a PC port to console instead of the usual console port way.
Agree 100%. Too much focus on happening to have encountered the particular skills you ask about in the technical grilling. Rather, hire smart people you'd like to work with (and who have demonstrated a capacity for learning).
As someone who has only just managed to crack into the developer industry. I agree with most of your sentiments.

We get the same buzz and artist or musician might get.
Apply HN: Mankind– Curates and Crowdsources for Ventures That Can Get Us to Mars
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Ventures could do with more support from the masses beyond crowdfunding - SpaceX needed dairy farming machinery for its prototypes and Tesla needed accounting advice.

PROBLEM/OPPORTUNITY - Contributors

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Average no. of hires per company per year: 13

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Likelihood of a start up in these sectors advertising jobs online: 75%

2,921 x 13 x $475 x 0.75 = $13.5mn

CONDUCIVE MARKET TRENDS

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2.	Online recruitment is growing 50% annually.

3.	The nature of work is becoming more flexible and driven by interests rather than money.

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I'm not that familiar with guile internals, but IIRC they have some intermediate representation (bytecode?) that the VM then runs. So the frontend languages (Scheme, Elisp, even Javascript IIRC) are compiled to bytecode, the Guile VM then interprets the bytecode.
I previously wrote here how on his Wikipedia page there is nothing about his family other than some vague reference. A user below pointed out this was because of his fear for his family's privacy. Which is fair enough.
Gen X was standing on the same rug as you guys when it got pulled out. Take a look around next time you're in WalMart or McDonalds. All those 40ish looking people that look weirdly out of place in their uniform shirt? Yeah, that's us since the boomers nuked domestic manufacturing and construction wages made a run for the bottom. Don't even get me started on retirement. sigh
(continued)

SOLUTION

Mankind curates and crowdsources resources for ventures that can help humanity become multi-planetary species. We crowdsource resources such as talent, freelancers, accounting advice… whatever these ventures need to succeed. The ventures we curate operate in the fields of genetics, AI, space exploration and sustainable energy – technologies that will most affect the future of humanity, according to Elon Musk. We’re like Product Hunt x Kritical Mass for ventures that can get us to Mars, with compensation (financial and/or Kickstarter-like) for contributors.

BUSINESS MODEL

Charge a fee for successfully connecting top talent whose aspirations and interests align with the mission and needs of these high potential, Mars-bound ventures. Future revenue streams: crowdfunding, freelance services, beta testing, ads

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- 6/13 cold calls responded positively

- 2 proactively reached out

- 4 out of 9 ventures retweeted our tweets about their needs

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Approx. 120 sign ups from Betalist (incl. marketers, journalists, developers, designers…).

Email open rate: 64.5%, click-through: 34.9% (Media & Publishing Industry Average - Open: 22.3%, Click-through 4.6%)

We are working on validating whether contributors will take active interest beyond passive info consumption (e.g. applying for jobs, sharing jobs, providing feedback).

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Thomas and I met as classmates in Year 10 (15/16 years old). We worked together on school work and numerous projects throughout high school and university.
C++ Hybrid Intrusive Containers
It sounds more like a consequence of global business cycles and growth being "absorbed" by newer economies.
Daily NuGet updates to prerelease Microsoft C++ toolset
Elixir news and status updates from the community for Elixir and Phoenix
Oh my. This article is just a bunch of rethorical fallacies and flawed arguments.

"For example, many vegetarians cite the sentience of animals as a reason to abstain from eating them. But there’s good reason to believe that plants are sentient, too. In other words, they’re acutely aware of and responsive to their surroundings, and they respond, in kind, to both pleasant and unpleasant experiences."

Whenever you read something like this in a piece about vegetarianism/veganism, run as fast as you can. Your own QI is at risk from the exposure to such bullshit.
Those are some rose-colored glasses. I could easily make a list of the best things about being in the hospital, too. I'd estimate that my 18 years in software development have been about 25% good, 25% tolerable, and 50% team/boss-induced inhumane mental torture.

The one thing I can't argue with is the money. Everything else has been highly volatile.
Xamarin launches major update to its cross-platform development tools
Try aCalendar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.withouthat...

It sticks to the basics and integrates well with Google Calendar
Thanks, this is very valuable info. What constitutes my ideas being public? If I already have a splash page up, does that count?
I really do dislike this style of reporting :

A bold claim stated as fact.

Claims report by X.
Can you provide a walkthrough scenario or two that really explicates what this would look like in practice?
Ask HN: How to get into a PhD programme without any prior degree?
I have recently heard of cases like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mazur
Who have gotten PhDs without prior degrees, & even High School diplomas.

How do they do this?
"I think maybe you're engaging in a ridiculous level of paranoia."

But this is the whole point... people change their behaviour because of fear of being persecuted, it may seem irrational and paranoid to some looking in with certain beliefs about what constitutes a risk, but it is entirely understandable and this is the negative effect of governments that spy on their citizens to mark them as threats.
Where does Google fit into an AI automated world? With weak AI sure Google can use it to make profile of its users. When strong AI comes on the scene, if strong AI is at all rational it would most likely remake our civilization without any sort of marketing, without any sort of consumerism, without much waste. It would create a boring sustainable system that could sustain human beings for another million years. It would not continue things as they are now, that would be to it insanity.

Strong AI would completely change the power structure of human civilization. It would hold all the power, much like States try to do today, and it would dole out little bits of it to the puny mortals so they can do what it wants them to do.

Eventually I think human beings will come to worship strong AI. It will become a God of sorts to them. Like religiously because AI provides what the real/imaginary God never could.
rose colored glasses was precisely the point
Where, oh where, does the API key go?
Good points. I know how I want to spend my time - working on something creative not "training up" for a potential interview. Companies only started doing the "throw the CLRS book at them" style interviews when they found out that was Google was doing. I'm sure Google has their own reasons for that. However why would a smallish start up want to emulate what works for a company that has 65K employees? This whole training up for Google/FB/MS/AWS style interviews has actually given rise to a cottage industry that has sprouted up around helping you train - "Cracking the Coding interview"/Hacker Rank etc. I would rather hire someone that:

A) Has good experience

B) Has the ability to reason about problem domains even if they can't scribble out a perfect implementation with all edge cases considered on a white board in under 30 minutes.

C) Has good interpersonal skills.
I think that might just be a (perfectly reasonable) desire for privacy... he is a fairly public figure, after all.
Definitely. Just part of globalization. It helps far more people than it hurts, but for those in developed countries, you don't really see the people it is helping because they're across the planet.

I'd say it's nice for developed countries to help out like that - but we all know the real winners are the businessmen behind your politicians bankrolling this stuff.
Captain Kristen Griest to Become First Female Army Infantry Officer
Page-specific JavaScript in Phoenix framework
It is still just a bitwise AND
Show HN: PicoTorrent 0.10 released – WebSocket API included
What's coming in Elixir 1.3
Honest question: How is is possible to lend any weight to predictions like these when, even when it comes to the lower profits of the last few years, predictions have always been based on the recent past and wrong?

There's any number of "black swan"-type events that could prove this to be incorrect.
I had the same feeling when I read the article...
> book... roadmap... ideas

Notice a pattern?

Meanwhile, in deep learning (and FWIW I don't think any deep learning researchers are under the illusion deep learning provides a path to AGI), there are:

working systems that outperform humans at narrow visual tasks (image classification, segmentation, etc.), a working Go bot, early prototype systems that caption images, the list goes on and on.
It is still just bitwise if you model the time slots e.g. like one bit stands for 5 or 1 minutes and then look for some contiguous 'free'-block in the result
Isn't that what a startup should be? Long hours of hard work with a real goal, generously paid... in stock.
Well, in that case we could also discuss whether Wikipedia could be considered the best information you can read.
Also, would Wikipedia be as updated as, say, an investigative report about NSA misconduct published by the New Yorker?
I mean, the absolute value of the medium has not been taken into account nor weighted in the study. Editorial worthiness is certainly something we can talk about, but I wouldn't consider it as a meaningful replacement for the lack of a statistically and numerically relevant point in the study.
You could still add a delay function with a setTimeout, but you'd only need one.
> ... filing a provisional patent starts a 1-year clock where, if you don't find the money and time to file a real patent, your IP irrevocably enters the public domain.

IANAL, but I believe this is incorrect. My understanding is that if you don't follow up with a non-provisional ("real") patent application, the provisionals don't count as prior art, and in fact might as well not exist. This is because provisionals are not published and cannot be discovered until the corresponding non-provisional is published. Would prefer if an actual patent lawyer could confirm, however.
If I understand correctly, the "baseball like draft" would turn every developer in to a contractor working to an annual contract, right? There seem to be some paradoxes in your idea though. You believe that a "baseball like draft" would mean everyone would make more money, but at the same time businesses would like it because it lowers costs. How does that work? You say that it would relieve the business pressure of ongoing monthly salaries, but at the same time all the programmers would receive perpetual royalties? Programmers who speak up would improve things somehow, but there'd be less waste from boss' ego features - what if the newly outspoken developers want to add ego features?
Well, I didn't say that Gen X got nothing at all. We all got hurt in some way by the GFC. Of course to generalise about an entire generation people is egregiously pointless. At the same time, simply due to the luck of timing, it feels as though Gen X had more of a chance to do something about it. However, they did not and in fact they had much more of an opportunity to take advantage of the selfish and short-sighted policies perpetrated during the previous era. They, at the very least, had the potential to come out of it with at least some decent sum of assets. Meanwhile, here we are with a completely upside down economy left to us in tatters and we've no inheritance to help us. Of course, millennials feel shortchanged in a very real sense, we were the hardest hit, we have had little to no chance to do anything about it and we'll likely be known as the impoverished generation -- much like the lost generation, except this time with economic warfare as the driver.
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I was actually fairly unhappy at my last job, but still was able to enjoy a lot of things from that list.
Themselves? For the lulz?
How is that different to the generic employee experience? Most people don't enjoy their jobs 100%, or even close to that.
It's been a few releases in the last 168 days when I announced PicoTorrent on HN and I'd like to get some input on both the progress as well as the new WebSocket API.

You can find the relevant API documentation at

- http://docs.picotorrent.org/en/latest/websocket-api/index.ht...
Apparently "driving just under speed limit, when other cars drive faster" is the predictor police in some states uses to choose cars to check for drug trafficking.

So yeah, Lem was probably right.
How Google is shaping the rules of the driverless road
Are you implying that he wrote his own Wikipedia page?

In a 1997 article in Technology Review, the author said that Wolfram politely deflected personal questions about his wife and newborn child out of privacy concerns prompted by the Unabomber case.
This provides a lot of value for businesses - therefore I'd definitely charge more. I would also consider changing the name to something else - "Thingie" might cause some friction in purchases.

As to setting the price - I'd look at comparables such as Sublime, JetBrains IDEs/Resharper. I'd be looking at charging at least $49 - but I think $79 to > $100 would feel right to me.

As to a long term enterprise pricing plan, I dunno - but I'd definitely be looking at it.

Good luck and well done.
Build a community that's honestly interested in skill and frowns on cheating. Then trust that community to detect and flag the (hopefully very few) cheaters. An example would be Dustforce.

Of course this only works with the right community.

Essentially a social instead of a technical solution.
Also fun can be a relative term, my worst programming gig was more fun than working at Walmart for example.
I sort of like the sentiment but this sort of interview, at least for me, would feel a bit too personal. Look I'm not your friend so let's not pretend that's what this or you just really want to get to know me. No. You just want to know if I can do the job so just get me to do a task which meaningfully reflects what I'd be doing day-to-day then ask me questions about it.
> Does it suggest that voice will emerge as the primary user interface?

In the short term, perhaps, at least for mobile devices. But there's a lot more bandwidth in visual input. So I suspect visual input via EMF. Eventually thought.
On Debian, you can use pipexec to create and manage a directed graph of processes and pipes.

https://github.com/flonatel/pipexec
I would love to be able to install a service like this with AWS Lamba and API gateway with a React of AngularJS front-end. If anyone has thoughts on how ElasticSearch could work with Lambda?
It's very hard to say, because of the use of parallel construction. We know very little about what the NSA does with its data; even members of Congress are being denied access to this information. But we do know for a fact that the DEA has prosecuted people based on information they received from the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130...
Graphene magnetoresistance sensor 200 times sensitive than silicon
Does this article actually say anything? I feel like I could summarise it as "Famous person said <thing>. What does <thing> mean? I'm not really sure. I think they're right and <thing> is going to be big."
3d printed fpv mini-quadcopter drone run opensource flight controller
Awesome work
Writing Extensible Elixir with Behaviours
You could assist in the political and economic activity required to improve accountability, governance and social responsibility in global corporations and governments, seek to increase transparency in high value economic affairs to reduce corruption and tax evasion. If that works out our states might have the resources to support us regardless of 'wealth'.
Buy less, consume less, recycle more, buy a bike, start a co-op, shop at your farmers market, volunteer at a local charity, get informed about local politics, get involved in local politics, network with your peers and form organisations to protect your interests, talk about wealth and income freely so as to understand your worth, I'm sure the good folks here will have some more ideas...
The payout wasn't particularly big, bug bounty rewards are just a bit of a joke.
I can barely tolerate anything he writes. It is hard to understand how a person could reach his position without learning how to express himself tastefully.

Funny to read this after reading the Claude Shannon profile posted a few hours ago [1]. An actual giant of 20th century mathematics, and so humble.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-t...
Well, what is dead may never die… is what the Krakens say…
Like Bitcoin, you can ask clients to find a hash of a string (in the format of, say, 'server_key' + 'random_number' + 'client_adjusted_nonce') with the value of the last four bytes being higher than say 50,000. You can increase the value until 0xFFFFFFFE, where only 1 in 4294967296 hashes would 'pass' the test.

Your client will basically be working on passing the test for a predictable amount of time, dependent on the difficulty threshold.

The neat thing about this method is that although it takes a while to pass the test, it's very fast and easy to check if a test is passed. You'll simply ask the client for the client_adjusted_nonce which gets a value higher than 50,000 (or whatever difficulty threshold you choose).
As the author has stated, you can adjust the threshold depending on the strength of the DDOS.
if the USA ... fail to punish VW and its criminal leaders ... in an exemplary manner

By and large the USA has chosen to punish companies by fines. Very rarely do we put executives in jail.

There have been a few. E.g. Jeff Skilling is a poster boy for corporate malfeasance, and he wound up being sentenced to 14 years. But Enron was, overall, a cesspool rather than a legitimate company. In the greater scheme of things, VW's transgressions are minor compared to Enron's. So it's unlikely that the USA will try to put anyone in jail for them.

But VW has already set aside $18 billion. If we look at what happened to BP (another foreign company, and consequently easier to treat as a whipping boy than a US company), that $18 billion will prove wholly inadequate. VW will be lucky if it only costs them $18 billion for their USA fines, etc. And then everyone else in the world will then pile on.

Even if VW's total cost is "only" $18 billion, I think that's a big enough number that it will get the attention of CEOs and boards all around the world. It's unlikely that any other company will be so brazen in the near future.
This sounds like a cool idea, but I've seen where hiring for personality often leads towards hiring discrimination. I think it's more likely to reinforce the lack of diversity in tech than to combat it as people unlike the interviewer tend to be viewed less favorably and would be less likely to be viewed as a person who could pick up the specific knowledge he/she doesn't already know.
Fear This Man: How David Vincenzetti Built a Hacking Empire
Doing the Hardest Thing First
Could you elaborate on "Stack space is allocated by generated code" Are you talking about the C runtime in the binary? Thanks.
Eye training app with server creating parameters of the next training session (based on the whole training history and some data analysis magic). If you want to get a training seasion that doesn't fir your real results — go ahead, we don't care.