skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that if you paid people to live near a nuclear power station it would produce the opposite effect to the one you're hoping for.

After all, if nuclear power was so safe, why do they have to pay people to live near the station? (Etc, etc.)
Clojure is not a very fast language.
Ask them to make an offer first. Their offer will likely be ridiculously low, which solves your problem right there (ie. don't sell).
Good for them! What most people doesn't know is that Radian6 founder, C. Newton, also founded Q1 Labs ( a successful security company ) and was kicked out of it a few years ago by the "board"...

Instead of giving up, he formed a new company and did very well for the second time.
TL;DR version: some software vendors used memcpy instead of memmove when copying memory contents in overlapping blocks and that used to work until recent change in glibc. Torvalds insists that glibc should try to maintain compatibility. Drepper says that programs should be fixed. I tend to side with Drepper on this one, but what is HN's take?
"What readers end up with is low quality information, popular conspiracy theories, sensationalism, voyeurism, etc."

Readers end up with this because this is what readers want. We know this is what they want because it's what they pay for, which works just fine for tabloid newspapers.
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Because the market can bear it! Uh... I think I see what you did there...
Surely they are deliberately going for the Streisand effect, to raise awareness of their existence by doing something the show's enthusiasts will always remember them for and getting wider publicity into the bargain.

ADDED IN EDIT: Is someone going around downvoting all my comments? This is really strange. Please, if you downvoted this let me know why so I can adjust my actions accordingly.

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> Interesting that the clojure stuff is slower than python. From what I gather most clojure stuff never actually gain any of the possible multi-core performance boost that is one of promises of the language.

Clojure always sad its designed for CONCURENCY and he said that Clojure has great primitives for parallism. Most people just dont know the diffrence.

> Not that I don't like clojure, but part of the hype is that it's supposed to do a lot of the scaling inherently just by the design of the language.

That wasn't a designgoal of clojure to provid parallism just out of box. It maybe is a designgoal now because everybody wants it to be.

> But in reality it's never that simple. Switching from map to pmap doesn't do much, actually a whole different way of writing the code is necessary. I'd like to see a version of this that tries to maximise multi core performance, and see what a 12-core mac pro can do with the execution times.

pmap does work great for some things but just thinking you can throw in some 'p'-s want wrok. Rich or anybody else never claimed that this will be possible he infact always said that it wan't but people in the internet just dont listen that well.
Its thread-safe, for starters. All the algorithms that depend heavily on mutation will run (kinda) slowly on Clojure.
oh please...the new version of Top Gear has been out since 2002...if you haven't caught on that the new Top Gear is different from the "old Top Gear" after 9 years...then you haven't been watching
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I married my Chinese wife last year & I understand perfectly well that a lot of compromised had to be made by the family just because I'm a Westerner. I own a flat, back home in Europe, but it's not paid off 100% so "that doesn't count". Also, in their eyes, instead of me tucking away a few 100000 in my propety they see a few 100000 "lost" because I invested in European real estate and not Chinese real estate. I spent a few days in a newly-built 'city' of summer houses just outside of Shanghai. Lots of places that people don't even bother to fully furnish since they are planning to flip them anyway.
They play conkers with caravans, do you think it really needs pointing out that this is an entertainment show?
As a fellow Jacques, I will cut you a break.

edit: I didn't realise having a name common in Francophonic nations was a downvotable offence.
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In college ("computer science part A",using Haskell) we played out the various sorting algorithms we learned in class, with students holding up a number (to determine sorting order). Neat to actually experiencing the slowness of bubblesort vs. mergesort/quicksort ;) We repeated the performance in front of a local mall - I can't recommend trying something like that in a crowded place from that experience.

I think expecting recent CS graduates to implement a basic sorting algorithm or binary search, etc. (say, in a garbage collected language they know well) is reasonable, for people with actual work experience I think it makes less sense and the focus should be on more recent experience if relevant to the job.
"we ended up hiring the candidate with the smoothest answers"

I mentioned this in another thread, but the point of coding questions is to see how they think about code, whether they understand how to walk through it (have a machine model), if they can pick out and evaluate edge cases, and how they can work with hints from you on how to improve their answer. Hiring based on ability to answer a particular problem is probably only a slightly better indicator of ultimate job success than height.
Its a straight code port. I think it would if norvig would of used CL or Clojure you could say the same thing to a python port.

I do agree that the python code looks a little cleaner but both look fine.
Which is probably a worse thing to do. They're supposed to be making it easy and appealing to start a business. This makes it seem more complicate and expensive that it really is.

There are thousands of successful businesses that don't have logos.
Twitter looks more like a company and less than a start-up for every day that passes.
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It is if that work is only a byproduct of a system such as described in the article. It's essentially "free" computation, even if it is only in tiny chunks. If the system became widespread, it would quickly add up. And why not?
Sleek and simple interface. Where did you find the AI though? I know you aren't supposed to play the AI, but it doesn't seem to be aware of anything happening on the board.

1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e5 a6 4. exf6 d5 5. fxe7 b5 6. exd8=Q+ Kxd8 7. Nxd5 f6 8. Nxf6 h5 9. Qe2 Nd7 10. Qe8#

Also, it would be great if "White/black disconnected" was shown in the session log as well.
I've often found Salesforce software janky and frankenstein-ish. Radian6 is a great acquisition but hopefully they won't try and marry it into some of their other software.
Is this a legitimate attempt at a currency or a political statement?

Also, what's the exchange rate between bitcoins and Flooz?
It's a good day for New Brunswick!
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As an aside under the proposed new English libel laws this case couldn't be bought as they've waited two years from first publication (the new laws place a limit of a year).
What if a real newspaper ran headlines that lied, Mr Dalrymple
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So does that mean you own a Morris Marina?
Pretty nice, I did beat the AI pretty easily but I guess that's because you disabled the deep search. Is the AI made in Javascript?
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Introvert and social recluse are not the same thing.

I'm an extrovert (happy speaking publicly, I think out loud and so on) but not by nature particularly sociable. At least one good friend is the opposite.

Introversion / extroversion is a way of interacting and thinking, not a measure of desire to interact with people socially.
It's an electric car, I think your average Top Gear viewer is as far from a potential customer as you can get given the general stance the show takes on such matters.
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Multiple submissions of the same link have the same effect as upvoting and once a thread is on the homepage it will gain a lot more views instantly, if only a small number of people on the homepage then gives it another upvote it is likely to hang around for a long time.

These are artifacts of the way the 'new' and the 'news' page work, the cumulative effect of those is larger than the actual quality of the submissions.
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It's a great day for New Brunswick! May it inspire a new generation of Maritime startups.
Hard to argue with. I don't have a Clojure environment running, but I'd like to see a comparison of Norvig's spell-checker, and Rich Hickey's Clojure translation: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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Tesla isnt your typical cookie cutter electric car. Theres a reason the Top Gear folks compared it to the Lotus.
Start a bitcoin to flooz exchange and find out ?

The difference is bitcoin is decentralized while every other internet currency has been reliant on a single entity to issue it.
There are dozens of mockup/wireframe tools out there, so why did I decide to add another one to the pile? First, it was a fun diversion from my main project and second, I believe that using PowerPoint for mockup design has some significant benefits:

- It encourages managers, clients and other "non-techies" to take part in the design process. PowerPoint is what they know and love and allows them to be an integral part of the development process.

- It's easy to embed mockups into Word documents (it's even possible to edit mockups from within Word).

What do you think?
I second the design comment. Extremely easy to jump in and start, no log-in bs, nothing to get in your way. The minimalist aesthetic is nice as well. If only I knew how to play chess..
Amazon Appstore disables Android security
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to see the code side-by-side

http://tin.nu/sudoku.html
Thanks for the post. I think the link to Bitbucket should've been https://bitbucket.org/
Indeed, that Bentley they had in Albania completely put me off ever buying one!
I've built a HN-based site that uses karma as a currency, which I submitted a week ago, to little fanfare :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359935

In the scheme I'm trying, it costs you karma to upvote or downvote, which gets converted to non-spendable clout. You get a small portion of karma everyday, which increases as you have more clout (and followers, another aspect I added). If you have spent all your karma, you cannot submit stories until you earn some. Here I was trying to limit the effect of users that are new, and of those that have not contributed appreciated content or comments.

That said, you've got me rethinking the idea of karma for submissions... It might be better to have submissions only increase clout. -Therefore, it will only slightly increase a user's karma-earning rate. Good comments will be the best way to get karma. Yes. I am going to try that. Thanks!
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it's true that his code is very nice.
thanks for the ideas and suggestions jonp. I asked Oscar Toledo (http://nanochess.110mb.com) permission for use of his javascript ai (a.k.a 1k chess) yesterday, guess I'll use a fork of his work
This suit has parallels to Dan Snyder (NFL team owner - Washngton Redskins) suing a local city paper for a rather humorous (and factual) A-Z account of his mismanagement. The original post: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40063/the-cranky...

The suit:
http://www.tbd.com/articles/2011/02/dan-snyder-lawsuit-a-com...
You guys from NB?
I don't have any submission either, so the presence of an average score shouldn't be affected by that.
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Here is an updated version of your work. I went through and replaced all the asterisks with the letters. The lines I replaced are in lowercase. The asterisks that remain are characters that are to scribbled to read.

The lines that Have the dash - next to them stand out heavily. As someone has stated before (I believe it was thinkalone 6), they may represent Interstates.
The biggest question is what language did Ricky McCormick speak? Was he known to use any slang?

Another part that stuck out at me was the numbers 99.84.52. I would have to take a punch and say that it is a PO box combination code. I put the numbers in brackets {---} to spot easlily. But what got me was the lines before and after the numbers, 651MTCSEHTLSENCUTCTRSNMRE and UNEP25ENCRSEAOKTSENSKSENrSE It has to be an address of some sort and location. UNEP25ENCRSEAOKT. This looks possibly like an adress. I focused on that portion for a few minutes and could not bypass the feeling of an address. Where to I dont know. But thats all Ihave for now. I am going to get some sleep and dive back into it when I wake up. If you have any comments or even something to help or add, Email me when you reply so that I will know when to check. Thanks! Y! Plutoniumrings
Some of the negatives:

1)Phishing, if your private keys and password are compromised your money is gone.

2)Regulations, although governments would find it difficult, if not impossible, to regulate BitCoin. They can regulate the exchange of BitCoin into everyday fiat currencies. We seen this with the likes of e-gold when exchangers were cracked down on due to the ease of laundering money in the system.

3)Value, if people have no faith in the value of BitCoins then the system will not work. Right not there's a lot of commerce with BitCoin but it seems that it's only digital products or services that are accepting it. Once sellers of physical products start accepting BitCoin then it might become are more common currency.

4)Drugs, CP and money laundering. Although I don't believe in the scaremongering tactics used by politicians in order to regulate the likes of the internet, this system is going to be vulnerable to the similar attacks. We've already seen narcotics marketplaces open up that are now accepting BitCoin by operating through the TOR network. Soon enough this will receive a lot of unwanted attention.
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I don't get this. On the one hand there's the 40h-a-week camp, backed up by plenty of research [1] and on the other hand there's the work-as-much-as-you-possibly-can camp, which seems to be what plenty of successful startup have been following. So what's the deal? Why this discrepancy?
It's not about manual vs knowledge working - studies on knowledge workers show that even less than 40h / week is beneficial. Is it about the difference in possible leverage? Self-directed work? The close link between work and payoff? The stressful situation in a startup? The 100% commitment?

Any attempts to pin down why and under what circumstances [2] different work hour guidelines should apply would be greatly appreciated.

1: See studies in this pdf http://www.lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-pres...

2: What's the difference between starting your own company, running your own company, joining a startup, doing a PhD, being in a research team, working at an established startup?
Sorry for the confusion.

I was trying to say that he (is that you??) understand more about C++ than almost everybody.
It looks like Mr. Dalrymple makes a habit of this:

"Amazon Appstore disables Android security"

http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/03/29/amazon-appstore-disabl...
Interesting. Personally I find the more boring the work the more likely I am to mess it up when tired. At least something tricky gives you some mental stimulation which helps you push through the tiredness and stay focused (or as focused as you can be).

Sure there are those days when you're knackered so you just tidy your inbox, sort out your expenses and so on but most people really don't have that much work of that nature to do.
It does, but jasonmkey is a new account, presumably with no reputation to protect and no new startup to promote on a website dedicated to startups.

Therefore, the most useful advice is that given to someone with something to lose. Whoever was "wrong first" is irrelevant to the outcome desired by curiousoffice.
if i go home I am just going to play xbox, would it not be spent better writing code?

You need to quantify what "better" means here to even begin to answer this question:

- better for your mental health to take a break or have some fun?

- better for your code quality to not introduce mistakes due to tiredness?

- better from some economic standpoint because you petceive the increased value in what you produce to be greater than what you value xbox-time at?
It's limited by time and other factors. If you haven't commented on anything for a considerable time then there aren't enough values to average.

I think it works like this: Take the last N values from the last T time, discard the largest (and perhaps the smallest) and compute the average of what's left. If there aren't enough, don't bother.

For more details, read the code. It's available here somewhere ...
NodeJS and CouchDB. Mustache (http://mustache.github.com) for templating, Jeff Hlywa's chess.js for move validation and JSBuild (http://jsbuild.kodfabrik.com) for the compile of CommonJS modules for browsers, and excanvas for cross-browser canvas
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I don't want to dog pile on them because Tesla seems like such a promising company, and despite this PR disaster, I hope they pull through to profitability. They're trying to push the technology for electric vehicles forward, and they're going to use the vacated NUMMI plant in Freemont, which is commendable. So I'll cut them some slack. A lot of slack.
Until someone can prove that more hours = more value, I refuse to believe this "startup mentality" is anything but a cargo cult mentality.

Weird for a culture that so prizes data and science to endlessly repeat certain mantras as truth without any validation.
Please, no.

a) It is hard enough to submit from a smartphone already. Much of my news browsing is on my phone while cooking and eating my breakfast.

b) Adding a CAPTCHA at this point seems like a big hammer to solve an small problem, one that was solved by jacquesm (at least this time) via a little detective work and personal contact (thanks for the deft handling of the situation, Jacques).

c) PG already does voting ring detection, it seems like autosubmitbots should be detectable too if this becomes a problem again.
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You know what else is great about it? The money is stored as a file on your computer. I can steal it from my laptop from the park across the street from your house and be gone before you know its missing, and you will never, ever be able to find me. All I have to do is steal your wallet file and transfer the bitcoins to my account, and the money is irreversibly mine.

Computer security being what it is, and with bitcoin growing at the rate you claim it is, I may soon be a millionaire without having done any real work.

Welcome to the future.
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Asking someone to spend 10 unpaid hours on a test is a great filter - for developers to see that a company doesn't value their time.
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If you leave your wallet on the beach your cash is gone or someone could pickpocket you.
Egold was located on a central server that was liable to confiscation.
You can buy alpaca socks with bitcoin.
You can do money laundering ,cp and drugs with US dollars.
That would only work if the most highly upvoted stories on both sites were the best ones.
Top Gear is the #1 car show in the world...so there has to be a segment that would be interested in a Tesla.

Sure it's electric, but it's still a sports car of sorts.
DHH is working on a new javascript framework, one that would create single page js based websites as easily as rails. How is this different from sproutcore? Or from libraries such as jquery, YUI, closure? and a timeline?
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Until the original poster gives us more info, you can read the source here: http://multiplayerchess.com/mpc.js
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Thanks. That comment was my biggest hitting one ever, so my average will probably jump quite a bit. Funny that it should be in a meta-karma thread.

I do see what you mean, I didn't think you were discarding comments from low karma commenters. I mostly wanted to bring up a point that is often missed in these discussions, that karma points might be very dependent on not only participation and quality, but on timing.

Given that using average karma as a filter is so blunt, an alternative way to express your method would be "I might see a high average karma as a reason to re-evaluate a comment that I initially discarded". Then it would be even harder to misconstrue into something sinister and karma elitist as I did :)

* Edit: from the comment below by mrduncan that shows how average calculation is done, my previous comment will not affect my average a lot. The max comment is sensibly ignored as a potential outlier.
For most applications of a proof-of-work system, you need to be able to verify the results quickly,. In addition, while the aggregate CPU power is pretty hefty, communication overhead is huge. There are not many useful problems that fit these constraints.
The fact they provided two cars says a lot about what they thought might happen to just one car.
I once hacked into a Twitter Mass following tool. It was written with the .net stack and not obfuscated, so I was able to get the whole project source code.

I sent an email to the stuff out there. I typed "I just hacked your software. It's insecure and not obfuscated. Tell the devs".

The guy replied accusing me of hacking the software and told me that he is going to sue me. I just replied "F*ck you and your team. I was just playing around with no intent to make any damage for your company; but now I'll release a cracked version and distribute it".

I hadn't released a cracked version, though.