skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LaTeX is actually pretty terrible from a usability standpoint. It has some nice ideas, but it is ripe for a refresh or replacement. I'd rather write anything involving math with it than fight with Office's equation editor, which -- in my experience -- does seemingly arbitrary things.

For starters, the compilation output is impossible to parse if you have an error. The process is also needlessly arcane. You can normally get away with using the `pdflatex' compiler, but there's some (not uncommon) features it doesn't support. I don't see how you can use the thing without a good IDE, but the only one I've enjoyed working with is a non-free OSX one. The list of complaints in this style goes on.

LaTeX does have some good ideas. It attempts to separate style / layout from a semantic description of the text in a similar manner to HTML and CSS, although this very under utilized. I've found a couple packages that use this concept for stuff like algorithm syntax, but most people end up using the default document structure or the 1/2 very common ones for their field (IEEE or ACM for me). It is way more convenient to write equations in it than using Office's editor. Finally, the rendering algorithms are normally quite good at laying out your text (an exception being if you write a long equation and pick the wrong environment for the job, but that goes back the the thing about redundant modes).
I feel you. See my other comment. I've developed a good workflow with it, but it was only after using it for multiple years and developing a number of work arounds.
My cousin's five year old daughter loved this book. Learned what prime numbers are :)
Have fun with your powertrip Russia was one of the republics of USSR, so far Russia has one success story in taking something by force and most likely it will play out very similar to the fate of USSR.
RethinkDB is AGPL? can you elaborate more on the issues? was planning on using Rethink, and this is making me, well, re-think it.

not sure if interpretations have changed in the last six years, but i went through an acquisition with a lot of focus on open source licenses in 2010 and from what i remember AGPL was not something you wanted to have touched with a ten foot ethernet cord if you had any proprietary code - the conservative stance being that AGPL could be read to potentially open source anything that communicated with it.

i know that's not how the license is explained or is "supposed to work", but the IP team's explanation (WSGR, seemed to know what they were talking about) is remember it was that copy-left licenses didn't have a lot of case law built up around them to clearly defined their de-facto legal mechanics. if you were a large company like Google, FB, etc., you could pretty much decide how you were going to interpret those licenses because you have the resources to defend those interpretations in court, but as a small company going through an acquisition this was a great way for an acquirer to say "hey, doesn't look like this stuff is really worth all that much because it's potentially all free."
Btw nobody clueful goes to meet VC, at lest on the first goaround saying they are looking for funding. Instead they say "were not looking for funding but would be interested to hear your thoughts and open to any introductions you might think appropriate from your network."

So you inadvertently signaled "I'm looking for funding" in VC-speak ;)
OldAms.nl – the process of creating the photomap of old Amsterdam
This is apparently powered by Substance, a JS library that implements a WYSIWYG editor, and which looks interesting.

I wonder how it stacks up against the other leading JS-based editors such as ProseMirror, Quill and Draft, which are all quite solid at this point.

(Unfortunately, some rudimentary testing shows that Texture is buggy to the point of being unusable — a lot buggier than I expect for a beta. For example, ctrl-Z to undo doesn't work in Safari and works awkwardly in Chrome; pasting doesn't preserve any formatting or semantic attributes; I can't seem to be able to modify (or even insert) any images; and it's pretty much completely non-functional on iOS.)
Also, the mind isn't like software in that it doesn't get copied to other minds or mediums. Yeah, there are sci fi scenarios or futuristic predictions for this sort of thing, but it's not a reality at this point. Another difference is that there is no machine code for the brain. There isn't some set of primitive instructions programmers could target to instruct the connectome.
Favorite and popular are two different things. Here's a link to the stat:

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
In our line of work and in our economy, there is no low-risk, low-cost way to legitimately match people and jobs. The standard is just a brief all or nothing interview process. You and the company are each taking a chance on immediately making a big commitment and marrying a stranger without ever dating or getting to know each other first.

Ideally, as a candidate, you'd go and work at a company for a short period, and once you can evaluate what it's actually like there and they have a chance to evaluate your work, then you would have a followup interview to determine whether to go ahead (and if so negotiate terms) or call it off. But that doesn't work well in our economy or with the way our companies are structured. So we're stuck with speed-dating.

Due to limited interview time, they throw puzzles at you and try to throw you off guard to see how you react to an unusual situation, and whether you can handle it. How you handle a crisis or bizarro unexpected situation is more important than knowing what you can do under normal circumstances or how you are normally. Not a pleasant answer, but one way of looking at the why.
The tricks you mention are only about avoiding taxes, I wouldn't call those "rich getting richer" tricks, I'd call them rich preserving their capital tricks. Rich getting richer is more along the lines of hearing about investment opportunities while golfing with your banker, insider trading, having the capital to play in certain markets that only big money is allowed to play in, being able to take huge risks. Angel and VC investing being in that last category.
What was the problem you faced for this solution ?
I actually have an anecdote about leaving AAISP and going to an 'evil-capped-service'...

AAISP applies time-and-byte-based billing, with higher billing rates in the evening. One buys a number of billing 'units' at the start of the month and these deplete with the calculated usage, if you exceed your purchased units then they add another one and charge you.

Eventually this reached the point where my wife was asking 'how much will it cost to watch this video?' and we were trying to work-out whether it would fit in our purchased allowance, given the time of day, or require a top-up. So it was easier to move to an equally competent ISP ( Goscomb ) who offered various capped tiers, so now she can just look at the usage level and determine whether she can watch a 1.5GB video or wait until next month. There is also less fear about how much my self-hosted services are costing me.

Several months after I migrated-away from AAISP the latter cancelled the underlying broadband service on my line. So they're not infallible, either... and they never did apologise. Thankfully Goscomb fixed the issue and soaked-up any charges from BT, the infrastructure provider.
I have mixed feelings about open concept floor plans. I think they can work - especially if the office is organized such that the work area is separate from areas that could be loud.

People who visit our offices are often surprised at how quiet the engineering floor is. There might be the odd conversation, but the tone is kept low, and everyone is issued a pair of noise cancelling headphones.

People generally respect the headphone rule and will ping you on Slack instead of shoulder tapping.

Basically open concept floor plans can work as long as everyone respects the etiquette that makes it work.
https://github.com/substance/texture/blob/develop/LICENSE.md

I wonder why they don't use a variant of the BSD/MIT or GPL?
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Stop thinking about products and money based on ML/AI, start thinking about AGI, research, science and the possibilities AGI could bring. You don't need big data to build AGI.

This is a step in the right direction, and from experience, a small research-only startup could achieve very similar results.

More than likely, the amount of data is a detriment to creating a better system.
Am I correctly understanding that big/most attacks are against unwanted content? For instance, in my country the two most popular political blogs that make strong opposition to the government are regularly DDOSed. If that is the case, maybe an easier solution would be to make this a software problem and not a network one. For that, I think we already have the tech to make P2P websites feasible. My phone and data plan cannot serve hundreds of requests per second but I'm sure I can get ALL the content I read on a given day from peers as well as pass it along to others. Clearly not a solution for all Internet use cases but a viable alternative to blogs.
Odd though, the author just recently reviewed another mechanistic consciousness book and recommended this old essay [1] in the review. There seems to be a real resistance towards accepting what's hard about the hard problem.

http://www.massline.org/ScienceGrp/ConsciousnessAndBrain.pdf
I don't want to have to wear noise cancelling headphones all day long. If you give them out to everyone, it becomes an excuse to be loud. "Just put on your headphones!" No, you go fucking chitchat somewhere else.
The solution is to choose a "normal" pseudonym.
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Perhaps suggest your concerns with the puzzle questions and maybe offer to talk more about your personal projects. I often have candidates talk about architectural decisions and challenges in such projects to gleam their effort and level of interest in the projects.
does anyone have links to go to court documents that have been filed?
Usually that's because you're creating and disposing of a lot of objects in your game loop. Look into initializing a lot of objects at the start and reusing 'em (usually called object pooling).

I'd love to take a look deeper - contact info is in my profile if you're interested.
No, I never started implementing Scheme. Where did you read that?

Netscape didn't "plan" to do Scheme in any deep or detailed way, either. It was a gleam in the eyes of jg & mtoy when they recruited me. By the time I got there the Java deal was on, and MILLJ was the management edict.
Perhaps so, I did not screenshot the posts of the last week. Certainly scores that were very positive yesterday are now negative. And certainly it began immediately after a post to wikipedia's marginal utility page which apparently disturbed someone's ideology. And it seems to have been aggravated further by this[1] post.

But perhaps this is desired result. Either way the issue is no longer interesting to me.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12664519
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That there was no Tcl implementation for the CLR?

Can we not just build cool things? Sorry, I could not help myself.

Fun fact: antirez of Redis fame started with an interest in Tcl, and he has written about it. He wrote his own minimalist Tcl implementation in C, despite the original being an exemplary C project (or so I have heard the Tcl codebase is still sometimes used, despite reservation about the resulting language here, as a very clean and easy learning object for teaching language/interpreter design) and I doubt none of his experiences or lessons learned bled into the uber-success that Redis now is, right?

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

https://github.com/antirez/jim
The Podesta Emails
> we end up with the same status quo year after year

As I said, in some ways that is true and some ways it's not, but now we're going in circles.

The budget and economy, foreign policy (including wars), health care, and more were much different when Bill Clinton left office, when Bush left office, and now near the end of Obama's terms.

The courts have been and will be much different depending on who is elected. Congress acts very differently depending on which party controls it.

EDIT: LGBTQ rights are a big change of the status quo, as is a black President and changes in national health care. And before that, pre-emptive war, torture, Guantanamo, and mass surveillance were big changes. Congressional gridlock is ironically a big change, as is only 8 Supreme Court justices.

It would have been interesting to learn something about in what cases it's true about the status quo and in what cases it's not.
I've seen places like Studio A where there are cubicles and even "open rooms" now. Older buildings have individual offices, but junior employees share them with another roommate (or sometimes two!).
You probably won't have to worry about it unless you become famous.
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A few questions:

- Can you do Starkits!? With .NET and the CLR, pre-Core (since I see this goes back to 2012), that would be interesting?

- Can you run Fossil on this?

- How does type ellision work (or rather how do you handle moving between CLR/.NET primitives into a very different or minimalist Tcl type system)?

Thanks for the cool work. Sorry so many questions but that is what popped into my head!
Just got back around to looking at this. Thanks, I will check it out.
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I've also asked similar questions for embedded roles. Lots of candidates can't implement their own strlen function. Most of my coding questions need 3-5 lines of basic C and lots of them struggle even if I give a couple hints.
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I don’t have Autism, but I’ve struggled with PTSD/depression for most of my life and have pretty debilitating shyness (so much so that people have asked if I’m autistic).

It looks like ThrowawayP has really good suggestions, but I thought I’d throw in a couple resources you may find helpful.

1) I know a huge barrier to getting counseling is the cost. Before you find a stable job you could try online counseling. I found a couple sites that seem pretty affordable (Both options start out free and have comparatively low monthly fees after the initial consultation). I think both have chat options, which is great for people like me who are really shy :) You mentioned that you may be homeless soon. Definitely talk with a counselor about that; they may be able to point you to helpful resources.
- https://www.betterhelp.com/
- http://www.7cups.com/online-therapy/?ob=1 (This site has licensed therapists and “listeners”. This link should take you to the licensed therapist option, which should be more useful.)

2) A few tech companies are starting Autism hiring programs. Here’s a general article about it: http://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/autism-hiring-i...
- Here’s microsoft’s program: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/c...

3) I’ve been trying to find ways that I can work on my interviewing skills and am considering using https://interviewing.io/. It allows you to do anonymous technical interviews for practice where you can get feedback on your communication skills. (If your interview goes well, it can even lead to real job opportunities)

You mentioned that people hate people with depression, and I just wanted to add that this isn’t necessarily true. There are people who don’t understand it because they haven’t experienced it, but there are a lot of people who will relate to what you’re going through. When you have depression, it feels like everyone dislikes you. I’m not trying to put a bandaid on the issue, and I know there are people who can be cruel and unempathetic. I just want you to know that there are a lot of people out there who do care and will relate (and they’re the ones worth knowing).
This really reminds me of this super fun flash game Manufactoria: http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/ A Turing machine game.
It looks like a dropdown / <select> box.
That's what I mean about etiquette. The headphones aren't an excuse to be loud.

Good quality headphones also mean that your neighbour's shitty music isn't leaking noise into the workspace.
This is probably one of the best examples of "bike shedding" I've seen yet.
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Is there implementation released maybe? Similar like they did with TensorFlow.
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Well, we don't have to speculate. The OP weighed in:

> Just to be clear, I quite liked Lister's [sic] note as well.

So yes.
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I've read in several credible sources report that former anti-Russian insurgents from the Caucuses (e.g., Chechnya) are also in Syria, and rumors say Russia facilitated that.
It is shared. It's just that everyone has to go through to mental work to truly understand. It takes me a semester to convince my students that 3x+5x=8x and that this is true because of the distributive property. And this is why ax+2x = (a+2)x. And the reason we can't simplify further is because our language does not have a word for (a+2) but it does have a word for (3+5). But I know that after a semester of teaching this most still don't actually understand the distributive property. It takes a lot of effort on the part of students for the concept to click.
I'm sure he did good work but this is the intellectual equivalent to snack food. Its entirely possible to be open to outside influence without giving random coworkers visible permission to interrupt whenever.
Yes, Eagle supports completely self-contained deployment scenarios, including any application scripts you may need. You can end up with a single EXE, if needed.

Also, Eagle runs quite well on Mono, on both Mac OS X and Linux.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Can you run Fossil on this" since Fossil itself is written in C. However, Eagle can certainly be used with Fossil via its Tcl integration support. The Garuda package (part of Eagle) is used to load the CLR and Eagle from native Tcl.

Eagle "knows" about all the .NET primitive types, including generics, nullable value types, ByRef, multi-dimensional and nested arrays, and all delegate types. The "core marshaller" handles all translations between these types and strings. Everything is handled with full fidelity.
> China is also in the same situation. They don't have projection capabilities either yet.

True right now, but to add to my table above:

* China: $11.3 trillion / 1,376 million

China absolutely has the resources to be a superpower.
This is my point. I'm pointing it out that its a conflict of interest and entirely justified. Many people do not think so - if you read the other comments in this thread you get an idea.

I'd also advise you to take a look at the community guidelines on making comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

3rd paragraph under 'In Comments'
Because all of us have worked with a ton of engineers who had a lot of experience but weren't very good anyway.

But companies insisting on quizzes instead of looking at free software projects you have is complete bullshit. It means they are not interested in your coding skill but instead are looking for something else.

It could be that they want to see you under stress and think that they can deduce some valuable information from that. Like if you lose your cool it means you are unstable. If you don't talk through the interviewers while solving the puzzle it means you are not a "communicative" person.

Or it could be that they have no idea if the test they are handing out is working or not. They need to calibrate it by running it through a hundred candidates so they can see what the mean and median scores to even know if someones test result is good or bad.

Just to be clear, I think everyone should be able to pseudo code FizzBuzz or strlen() in an interview because it is very simple and every engineer should be able to solve it in 10 minutes. But the tests I've been subjected to have been much more contrived. Like long multi-choice questionnaires or take-home coding projects that took many hours to complete.

If interviewers insist on me doing such tests I now refer them to my github profile instead. If they don't accept that as substitute for taking the test then the job probably wasn't for me anyway.
Hang in there. It gets better. I hit rock bottom last year and it sucked. But after a while you kind of get comfortable in the cold darkness. The solitude feels great. I made it a rule to give at least a dollar to every beggar I meet. If I have time then I'll try to strike a conversation.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelste....
This is why I sympathise with regular US American citizens, they are equally a victim as the rest of the world. Their soldiers are not bringing "freedom, democracy and human rights" but death and destruction. And they themselves come back home - some dead, many destroyed. And for what?

Regarding US media being influenced by three-letter-agencies: Operation Mockingbird

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

is alive and well.
Well, yeah, that's a metered connection for you and it's what I was talking about: You need to keep it in mind all the time. Or, you need to overprovision in order not to worry about it.

They have a 1TB service now which is very cheap, same as Comcast, so for most people I actually think this problem is solved. Back when I used them, my usage was greater than today and I was ordering only 300GB monthly so it was a pita. Yet look at me still recommending them :)

> So they're not infallible, either... and they never did apologise

Honestly that doesn't sound like them, unless it legitimately wasn't their fault. Ring them. Hell, ring them today and ask for an apology I'm fairly certain you'll get one. They did mess up when I was moving out as well, by turning it off a day early - I gave them a ring and it was fixed in 10 mins, and they did apologize :)

Now today I'm stuck with an ISP that doesn't train its staff on what IPv6 even is. I can't call it about increased latency or 70 disconnects a day without being asked "have you tried turning it off and on again". I can't get transferred to a manager. I can't get a refund despite 4 months of completely unusable service.

I'll take the constant worries of metering over eating meat from a butcher that doesn't know what a cow is.