skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As long as you're abstracting out the human interaction, why not go whole hog and let the AI decide when to click those 8 buttons for you?

You can replace them all with one big button labeled "Play Starcraft", then sit back and watch it win for you. Like this:

http://progressquest.com/
Does the OS Still Matter?
...and not good enough to play the Feynman lectures billg bought and now serves in the Silverlight-only form. I think the reason is that there's no DRM handling in Moonlight. I expect that a lot of Silverlight content will remain inaccessible in Moonlight.
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lorem ipsum dolor

translates to "Hello World!"

qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit amet, consectetur

translates correctly.
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I disagree. Historians are over-specialized, and seem to always recognize the particular pattern they did their thesis on, no matter what the subject at hand.

The same goes for foreign policy majors, who actually run our country.
I was going to reply to this, but suddenly I flashed back to a lot of Usenet arguments from about fifteen years ago and thought better of it. I quote Tim Skirvin's Godwin's Law faq:

8. Are there any topics that lead directly to Godwin Invocations?
Well, yeah. Of course. Case's Corollary to the Law
states "if the subject is Heinlein or homosexuality, the
probability of a Hitler/Nazi comparison being made becomes
equal to one"
Not true.

There is a trade off between speed and economy when doing an early rush. The attacking player will always have less attacking units than the defensive player due to the travel distance between bases. (Assuming the defensive player is prepared for the rush)

In addition, by the time any first tier attacking units reach you, it's always possible to have a defensive structure, which can deal fairly well with any sort of micromangement.
There's another issue with the "graphically manipulated" case - typefaces. There's no fonts that support every Unicode code point.
Single founder, outside US. Any chance in applying for YC?
I'm a single founder with no team, living in Poland (potential visa problems!).

Do I have any chance of getting into YC, or better not bother applying? Assuming that my idea and prototype is good enough :)
On a related note:
All of you on AT&T plans, be on the lookout for unjustified charges on text messaging plans. I had at least two cases in which I was charged an extra $0.30 for text messages 198, 199, and 200 of a 200 text messaging plan.

I'm not sure how to explain this bug--or theft? Perhaps their famous "AT&T Free Msg's" (promoting services, for example) get counted once you pass your limit? Either way, this is wrong. And I know they are wrong because I was redeemed $0.30. I then asked them to check my previous bills because I know there was at least one more case. The service rep said I had to do that myself. The cost of doing that would exceed $0.30 very easily, so I told the guy to forget it and never did check (I also then switched to Verizon).

Anyone have a good place where I can share this story? I'm afraid others may be getting charged unfairly too. I can't imagine this happening exclusively with my account, especially if it's a bug.
Dayta seems to be incredibly buggy (or am I using it wrong?). Data points does not seem to get consolidated by day, sometimes data even gets stored on the next day.
I recently uninstalled both Silverlight and Flash. Hasn't really hindered me, so far.

Though .NET is pretty cool so I'm not especially hostile to Silverlight.
Yes. I'm somehow forced to have it since I do occasional SL work as a part of my job. That said, beside testing my stuff I've never encountered a Silverlight based site in the wild. Not that there are none, of course.
Goldman (Effectively) Suggests Microsoft Start Bending Spoons With Its Mind
How And Where To Get Links From
How tedious, cumbersome and time consuming a process link building is, is a well known fact.
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I use 'moonlight' to watch bicycle racing on RAI3. If it weren't for that, it'd be gone in a second.
You hate marketing and don't have time but you want to build an advertising network that would lead the way?

Anyway, sounds a bit like ProjectWonderful or OpenX. What does your network do differently or better than those two?
Uses a very non-optimized way to generate the JPEG. This is the way it was done in 2007, but now there's a built-in JPEG compression function in the API available. He's using Adobe's example AS3 JPEG code.
Awesome... now do it in the browser with Javascript ;)
He mentions the flirty instance but seems to be pretty oblivious to the phenomenon described by johngalt:

>She has every confidence that I, the only male in the room, can solve her printer problem. (...) I am still the same person inside, with the same skills and abilities as before, but society’s expectations have dramatically changed based on my new gender.
I don't consider myself the worlds best programmer, but I feel that it's kind of demeaning with a programming contest. It's like when you go to a job recruiting agency and they run all this shit IQ test shit on you. If they want you in that setting - run like hell.

If you want me, let me show you what I have done - I don't want to compete in a programming contest where the grand prize is a poorly paid job, where you are expected to work unpaid overtime and be subservient. I know my worth, and is pretty happy running my own startup business defining my own terms as I go along.

I looked at a job at klarna but the thought of spending some time re-sharpening my skills at Erlang and then spending some days doing their code challenge unpaid - not so interested. I'd rather do something else and get my moneys worth for my time. Although I'm kind of tempted for a job where I get a chance to work face-to-face with some more senior people to learn from them.

Some time though I might want to take a job, my plan to be able to skip all these silly programming contests is to have some open source projects or contributions to show. I have a couple of project that I wish I had been able to open-source, but I think that I will go by the route of contributing to some existing project. I feel that recruiting by looking at open source is a very good thing, where the interests of both employer and employee are upheld.
How is glibc loaded at runtime?
Simple Lack of Hygiene Fools Most Biometric Scanners
On my desktop - yes. Thanks to fixplay.ninemsn.com.au - one of the Australian TV network's "watch our shows over the Internet" site.

On my two laptops: no.
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Lean Startup Bundle: books and services ($1083 for $42)
* Take out a spreadsheet, put down the names of your ideas in every row, put your evaluation criteria in the columns (Ease of development, New Skills, Current Progress, Real Life Value, etc).
* Add a row at the bottom to specify the weights of your criteria.
* Add a column to sum up the scores.
* Sort Z-A by total score and pick the top 2/3.
Well - marketing seems crucial in this startup, so I'd say - do you aggree to be #2, and let somebody else lead the startup and be the ceo? A tech guy most probably cannot run an advertising network efficiently :)

It will be an uphill battle to find somebody that will want to run your business, so I'd recommend learning to like the marketing and run it yourself.

Anyway: where are you from? What is your experience? Are you a student, or did you just quit working for somebody else? Tell us and we'll be able to help you more easily.
Sure uses a lot of stack.
Apparently I do, but I really don't remember installing it.
I am actually in the process of writing an application for Airbnb. However, I am unsure about one important detail: Are you accepting applicants without a US working visa? (But who are willing to travel to the US as much as a tourist visa allows)
You figure out what you need to learn by doing something, which is why working on a project is so nice.
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"Hi Alphonse. What's up?" The gruff voice of Bob, Jerry's manager (or "master", as he called him), came from behind them. "Oh, I see Jerry is showing you how to generate unnecessary String garbage and stack overflow exceptions. Wow, and in a simple word wrap function, too. Nice job, Jerry."

Alphonse was confused. "Bob, how do you know that? We didn't write tests for those things. I don't even know if you can write tests for them."

Bob looked at Alphonse with a sad expression. "Jerry, could I see you in my office--sorry, my 'dojo'--for a minute?"
On MetaOptimize, we were discussing the most influential ideas from 95-05:

http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/867/most-influential-id...

And just to clarify: Most of the contributions have been in machine learning. Machines can learn a superset of AI (assuming that machines can learn AI) because there are a handful of things a machine can learn that a human can't.
Don't put a referrer link without stating so in the title.
Delver: Web Developers Tools
Not very interesting. I mean, does it matter whether someone worked at Microsoft or HP or Oracle or Accenture etc. before they lost interest in a big-corp career? Or is Microsoft a special case? Or is Mashable running out of "Top X" list ideas..
I guess he was making a site to get the Silverlight version, not whether it was installed or not.
Python is easy. Just complain about the GIL like everyone else does :)
It's Microsoft software. Who would not have it?! Clearly adding the code branch is an unnecessary waste of time.
I guess yes, I have Mono...
this article would have been a lot better with just one or two curse words. homeboy wanted to blow up, but it came off too restrained.

Puh-lese!

this isn't leave it to beaver dude.
TechCrunch Disrupt Bingo
It's close to impossible to be competitive with high flyers (the Google, Microsoft, etc) when you're a small company or startup.

This is utter nonsense. There are plenty of people who aren't necessarily interested in working for Google or Microsoft. Neither does working for a startup mean little pay and neither benefits nor career prospects (assuming that's what you meant by 'carrier perspective')
The Importance of Giving a Damn (in people and software)
So your SSD is slow-ish... FYI most achieve ~280MB/s these days (which is the practical bottleneck of a SATA 300MB/s link).
I always miss anonymous functions when coming back to python after a bit of perl or javascript.

If you use multiple languages regularly surely there are some things in each language which you think is better in the other ones?
Isn't that just the same as all the spammy grabbed domains? Get a good domain name, put ads on it. I've heard some people make good money with such sites.
Hrmm? How else are you going to solve a problem that you've never faced before?

And yes, wasted time is basically a necessary feature of working on problems that don't have a textbook solution.
Apparently gratuitous editorial spin in the titles is okay as long as it has to do with Microsoft?

In any case, people are focusing on a minor detail rather than the interesting piece of this: The point is, when you buy from the Microsoft Store, you can get that's set up to have a "best-effort" configuration of Windows--one where the choices of what to install and what not install are made from the perspective of making the customer experience great, not based on who paid the most money.

If you want the same thing done to a PC purchased elsewhere, perhaps you have to buy a copy of Windows (I work for MS but I have no idea whether that is the case or not). On the other hand, all of this setup/optimization is free, so it's quite likely cheaper to pay for Windows a second time than to pay, say, Geek Squad for their questionable "PC optimization service."

If the store just said "come in and get your PC optimized for $99" I'm sure no one would have an issue with it.
Netflix watch instantly needs it. No way around that.
I think this is a little bit indicative to how broad you experience is as well, if you've programmed in C, Python and Haskell you're more likely to critique one of the languages based on your experience with the other two e.g.
Structured Settlements, The Recession, And Advertising
Incidentally, you should check out a guy named Richard P Gabriel. His company made Energize, an Emacs-based IDE (in fact they were responsible for the Emacs/Xemacs schism). You may judge the interest in full IDEs in the Unix world from the fact that it no longer exists...
I was going to post the same thing.

Ultimately, the key sentence he writes is: Do not release crap, and use minimum viable product as your justification.

But do we really need to re-define MVP to say that?
Use an iPad, iPhone, Xbox 360, Wii, or PS3.
Normally you'd just buy the PC at Microsoft Store. You probably don't have to to go back for reinstall, there will be a restore DVD or partition.
I don't know the technicalities, but I always considered Halifax a 'building society' rather than a grown up bank. That is worrying. And ++ for the irritation of arrow keys+mouse etc I've seen that before on others.
I get the feeling that not all these faces are real life people... ahem `Zachary Morris'?
Places like that are great for drive-by consulting. If you can find a 3-month contract in the bay area, chances are you can also find a 3-month couch for the duration.

Now you're making a rate calculated for people living in those million dollar starter homes, but with <$1k/mo in real expenses. Take that back to Iowa and live like a Corn Star for the rest of the year, then repeat.

I used to do just that, substituting LA and [random 3rd world beach], and I'd always manage to add a good amount to the retirement fund each year, even after 9 months off.
I can say Yes and No. At work I have it installed, at home nope.
point is microsoft is supposed to be doing a certification process already which as far as I remember was to certify that the experience was guarantee... so base on this news, that certification sticker is just full of crap and now I need a geek squad or microsoft itself to tune it up to be the best experience.

seriously, if microsoft did their quality process the way it should be there should not be a need for "pc optimization services" or this such "signature experience" of any kind.
Video streaming performance of silverlight seems better compared to flash, on those sites which support it (e.g. on demand viewing of dutch public tv, omroep.nl). So I have it installed on the machines I use to consume online media.

I do not have flash nor silverlight installed on my development machines, because I can live without the distractions :)
Let's do EVERYTHING
"The root of our economic problems is the ever widening income gap. The rich, who are laying claim to a higher and higher percentage of income, don’t spend as much of their income as do those down the income ladder, so demand for goods and services is dropping"

Actually, a case could be made that a rich man not spending his money is actually beneficial to society. It is like society owing the rich person services, but the rich man never claims them. That implies that before the rich man gave some things to society for free (in exchange for the money).

An example might be China exporting lots of stuff to the USA in exchange for "worthless" slips of paper (a ka dollars).

Of course the whole story might be more complicated than that - but it is also very likely more complicated than "our problem is that the rich don't spend more".

Reference: http://www.slate.com/id/2110817/ (Defense of Uncle Scrooge)
We are talking here about the "Microsoft Signature Upgrade" -- not the "Microsoft Signature on any PC purchased from the Microsoft Store." Check the main article again.
A far more entertaining (it's funny because it's true!) variant is

http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
I am sure I have seen something like that before, even added my face. Still, from the million dollar hp guy, there might be more traction behind it.
Why is everyone bashing the AI? Its clearly a joke from the first two sentences of the post:

"John Davison recently claimed that games are "Too Big and Too Hard". I have addressed this issue by reducing StarCraft to 8 buttons."

Or is it too early in the morning for satire?
>> There is a trade off between speed and economy when doing an early rush. The attacking player will always have less attacking units than the defensive player due to the travel distance between bases. (Assuming the defensive player is prepared for the rush)

The attacking AI can abuse it's much much higher APM to do a lot of damage with less units. Like killing workers with zealots, zerglings or vultures.

>>In addition, by the time any first tier attacking units reach you, it's always possible to have a defensive structure, which can deal fairly well with any sort of micromangement.

Defensive structures are 1. expensive and 2. can be bypassed.
An AI can use the same resources, human spent on defense, to expand or tech, easily winning the game.
i second this. if i have to install silverlight for a web app that'd be something els.. but silverlight on a public website is an offence.

flash is too to some degree.

somehow i think they will both not survive this decade.
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I found this quote quite telling:

I size other guys up, thinking, Yeah, I could take him.

I think this helps explain Tom's experience, because that is a very "hollywood" view of how the male psyche works. I'm sure a portion of men think like that, but I'd posit not as many of us as some might expect.

So Tom has this fantasy of what it is like to be a strong, assertive, aggressive male. In my experience, though, such men (my second best friend is like this) often tend to be extremely sensitive and vulnerable. Whereas from my observation some of the sugar-sweet women I know can be whiplash when they need to be.

Which goes to show there is a lot more to this gender lark than meets the eye.

I think there is some expectation bias in Toms experience, he will notice these incidents a lot more. But I don't think this is a general observation of society, for example as a straight 23 year old male I am pretty much the go to guy in my friendship group when you feel a bit lousy and need some sympathy.

I'm sure there is still some bias, held over from the past century (even the past decade), especially in the realm of computers. But I think it is decreasing rapidly over the generations.
Later: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?
> working in the Visual Studio group

That really is where he's coming from. I worked at Microsoft a few years back, with some Vista and IM guys, and none of them used Visual Studio, despite pleas for feedback from DevDiv. It was all gvim and build.exe and windbg (the latter vastly more powerful than the VS debugger, even though I think the same team produced both).
I'm sorry, but I never understood: What does "consultant" entail, exactly? Is it writing code for other companies, telling their devs how to write code, telling them how to engineer their systems, or what exactly?
Well last time Microsoft tried to improve consumer experience (by including one of those new-fangled web browsers out of the box) they DID get sued by the US Government.
The only site I've wanted to use that wanted me to install Silverlight was tv2.no, but I managed to make it work with gecko-mediaplayer (though I had to right-click the movie, select settings, audio and correct audio channel in order to get sound...not sure why that couldn't be correctly set by default). Other than that, I've fortunately never needed Silverlight.
It's been sat there in my 'suggested Windows' updates ever since I installed Windows 7, and I haven't yet found a reason to actually acknowledge it. So, no.
John Middle Doe may ask to be called John, or Middle, or Doe. Nobody can deny that these names can all refer to the same person.

But if Mr. Doe asked to be addressed as the King of France surely he would be regarded as delusional. One could still say that calling him Mr. Doe "does not work for him" but I can't see how that makes it wrong.

Now, some of us are skeptical that a person born as a man can literally become a woman, or that there are women out there who just happened to be born "trapped" inside a man's body (and vice-versa). Note that this doesn't imply bigotry of any sort.

Personally I don't care strongly about the matter. I would address the OP as "he" if I was talking directly to him. But I wouldn't feel guilty at all of speaking of her outside that.
You can't agree that the sentence quoted is from Mitchell's translation? I assure you it is.

I say nothing as to whether it's accurate or not. I wish I could read the original like you. One of my dreams, in fact, is to do so someday.

"Good walk no tracks" is actually a fine translation as far as I'm concerned. It communicates a great deal, leaves a lot of interpretation out. It has that quality of mystery-combined-with-practicality which is essential to the whole book. I wish they'd publish a literal translation like that. Maybe you should!

Incidentally, can you also understand the original text of the I Ching? And commentaries on it?
Read Hacker Monthly, may be?
But this time, they've got entire departments dedicated to ensuring they follow all the rules :-/
Since you've done it, can you tell me a bit about the caveats of converting from floating point to fixed point arithmetic? It would seem that the only thing you'd need to do is multiply by whatever doesn't make you run out of space, so, as someone who hasn't actually tried it, I'm wondering what the hard part is (apart from the obvious loss of accuracy when transitioning from floats to ints).
No. We tried this already with Java applets. The fact that MS didn't cancel Silverlight the instant HTML5 started getting traction is yet another sign that they just can't follow what's going on (having made it to begin with is another).
Wait, if it took a day per second, how did you even know it worked? :P
COBOL is the nature of computer science? Couldn't disagree more. It is certainly the nature of the enterprise computing market, though.

easy-to-access domain-specific tool that permits technically less savvy people to codify some of their own knowledge

But this is the pipe dream that the OP argues against, that perennially comes up and inevitably fails. Well, to be more precise, it inevitably fails technically. It often succeeds, in the short term, at convincing people who want to be convinced, and those people are sometimes executives who write checks, so there's usually a buck to be made at it if you want to sell vaporware.

(With, of course, the enormous exception of spreadsheets.)
I would just like to say alternatives for Acrobat Reader are generally crap and can barely display the page correctly, not to mention print.
Flip4Mac (WMV codec) installer comes with persona non grata.
Perhaps he is a Javascript programmer who thinks that zero means no.