skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, "supposed" might be a better choice than "allowed"; but that's splitting hairs.
That doesn't mean we can't look for ways to make the situation better. To cut along the grain of human nature, so to speak.
A document like that was included in the original investigation, with 9 different chess engines. It didn't compare source code though, but on which features of the board each engine would consider when evaluating a position. For example one engine might give an extra boost to a position where your knight is in a central location and capable of affecting a larger part of the board, another might give a boost to situations with interlocking pawn defenses, etc.

According to the evidence, two engines with different ancestry would have a feature overlap of about 30-35%, up to 45% in the most extreme cases. With the exception of Fruit and Rybka, with 75% overlap.
I'm 35.
"Pro-little-guy positions like "tough shit, pay up" are aggressive stances not just against abstract legal entities but also against often-well-meaning individuals who aspire to offer products and services." So nicely put. This was an important concern, why I decided to write this post from this perspective. "Business" is a person. I am a person. And if they treat me inhumanly, I die.
Very interesting read. I understand completely and that is why I was hesitant to call it a social networking app. I feel that is ultimately what it would be categorized as, but it would be much more than that. In addition to that I have a couple of thoughts on how to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem. Hopefully a working demo, and a large enough user base can offset the bias against social networking apps(I use that term loosely).
I have got really into Path since leaving Facebook. I have been very strict about who I accept and it has given me the best parts of Facebook without all the dross. I am in love with social networking again. You can follow me on twitter here: www.twitter.com/ricburton ;)
> You might not hear about it all that much because it isn't cool to blog about it, but doesn't it make sense that women make less money when, on average, it costs more to hire them?
This isn't about right or wrong, it's math.

Have there ever been lower taxes for women in any country? This would make sense, wouldn't it?
Society wants (and needs) women to have children. So why shouldn't we pay for it, instead of the employer or the women employees?
They didn't say "nothing of importance was compromised."

They said that the functionality of their products was not compromised... and if their product is built well enough, this would be a true statement.
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WHY ARE CHRISTIANS SO FOOLISH?
Well, if you translate "foolish" for "humble", i myself believe it is "Stay Hungry, Stay fan of the Green Bay Packers"
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Freelancing is a business, and a limited company is nearly always the best way.
Joel Spolsky take on it http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html
Youth is not a skill. I don't hire green college grads. And I look at anyone with less than 10 years of experience with suspicion. Knowing Ruby or Scala or whatever syntax is fine, but it's far less important than the underlying skills: OO design, distributed systems, threading... Specific languages and frameworks come and go. Many of the twenty somethings don't really understand that.

As for working 80 hour weeks, you're fooling yourself if you think people of any age can do that productively for an extended period of time. Plenty of research exists on that topic.

The key to hiring is to hire only A players who will be highly productive and produce quality code. In my experience A players are not twenty somethings. Do you think Delta Force recruits green beans fresh out of boot camp? Absolutely not. They recruit from the Rangers and Special Forces. Of course we can't all hire A players. But I can.
I agree with you completely, i think the general thought process here to reach the conclusion of 'just go exercise' is based on personal experiences, but if you have ever seen people go through major depression, it is not that easy, even to get them to take the meds for a few weeks because effects are not immediate and initially they make the subject feel weird
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No, "supposed" is almost as incorrect, mq is there in the standard distribution and most of its job is history rewriting (the mere act of popping a patch effectively rewrites history). `rebase`'s sole job is rewriting history.

> but that's splitting hairs.

Not being completely and utterly wrong is "splitting hairs"?

Furthermore, it makes very little sense to criticize a tool with no basis in the tool's capabilities themselves but based merely on its community's suggestions, do you also criticize Python because its community recommends underscore_separated method names and you prefer camelCase? I'm not saying the community is not important, but mercurial itself, as a tool, has absolutely no hangup on history rewriting.
> Antibiotics have no effects on viruses

Note, though, they can kill you. Something like three million C. difficile infections occur every year in the US (http://www.medicinenet.com/clostridium_difficile_colitis/art...). They are caused by the bacteria growing after you kill all the "good" bacteria with antibiotics. In a severe case, this can cause severe diarrhea, which can be fatal. It's not a good way to go.
I read his motivational articles like years ago. I am not sure but I was 22 I think, and it was really great article. Absolutely will read it one more time.
ThinkPad X60 or X61 (non-tablet) off craigslist.

Why? Trackpoint, great keyboard, 4:3 screen.
Great game! Played against one of the developers. It was interesting to talk abou their technology stack while we played the game.
We are working on promo video explaining what is Baghchal and how to play this game. Really appreciate you trying it out. Thanks.
I don't know the best solution, and I bet there's no perfect one. But for many qualified jobs, employees are not easily interchangeable. You cannot replace and reemploy women based on their family needs without disrupting the business needs. Unless you provide employers with a solution to this, there's a disincentive to employ women in non easily replaceable positions.
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I'd like to think of myself as responsible person in all possible aspects. That of course means, that I'd like to be socially responsible too. I would even go as far as saying that I actually am socially responsible. My point is, the sort of regulations you are proposing don't work. They impossibly violate the rules of life, especially when it's a small business. These regulations do a lot of harm. I do believe seriuosly, that society must protect its weakest. So goverments should make it cheaper to employ them. That's fair enough. And then, please, let us do our business. We businesses are people too. We can't be treated like this, or we just can't survive. We have to close shop, if all sorts of regulations are against our freedom to do business the way we think it makes sense. Well, something like this... :)
I was thinking about this - when such humanoid robots get to the point where they are truly useful, wouldn't it be reasonable to shell out about as much as we would for a car?
"No, it's spread out among all the companies that are willing to hire women."

I don't think it's a black-and-white issue of giving or not giving a job. These types of government restrictions cause a change in the supply and demand for the protected individuals. This results in a change in their average salaries (i.e. more restrictions reduce salaries). Women are still worth hiring, just at a lower salary, to account for the added risk.

So in the end, the cost ends up being fronted by the women anyway.
Yes, I enjoyed chatting with you more than the Game play :) Thanks for trying it out.
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You make money from the sales, right? And the amount of money depends on your claims that the trinkets and baubles have some residual value (as opposed to being merely pretty junk sold for flea-market prices)? Then you are doing some business, even if it is only part-time business.

They're not superseding the law at all. You have no automatic legal right to enter a private marketplace; if you want eBay/Paypal's low fees, you accept their conditions. If you want the full-service luxury treatment of an established auctioneer like Sotheby's, then you pay their huge fees. If you want the no-questions-asked simplicity of a flea market, then you rent a table and stand in the cold for hours.
I would second that--video preferably. I prefer to learn board games by watching other people play them, or have them demonstrated to me.
You can watch others playing in obaghchal.com

Try joining other Running Games.
Yes, section 4 says that, but I do not find that section convincing. IMO, some of its arguments are flawed. For example:

"integers are quicker than floating-point numbers"

Maybe in this case, but not in general, on all current hardware. Chances are that chess programs use little floating point code. If so, using a few floats here and there can even be faster because it allows the CPU to issue more instructions in parallel.

"According to Rajlich, he wrote a utility program (separate from Rybka and not available to users) in the C# language to generate his PSTs. As Fruit is written in C (not C#) this means there is a 100% certainty that Rajlich did not copy the Fruit PST generation code."

For low-level chess code (a bit of bit-twiddling, array lookups, arithmetic, but no library calls), I would think that porting C to C# can be an almost 100% copy-paste job.

Remarks like these make it hard for me to accept the conclusions as undeniably true. The "but everybody is doing it" argument, on the other hand, I found more convincing.
I'm 49 years old.

Currently I write python, php, (and all the usual web scripting like js, html, css etc, etc) and c.

I've always written c. But spanning my carrer (life) I've written Assembler, BASIC, Xbase, Pascal, COBOL, & Ada. I've worked on various database systems including DB2, Oracle, Sybase and straight betrieve.

I've worked on various systems including (my very first HeathKit and TRS 80), Wang, Dec VAX, Netware, BeOS, IBM 360 and AS400's, most of the various UNIX's and of course all the popular OS's of today.

I use Git. I also use SVN. And I even use CVS (if I must).

This idea that us "older" programmers are resistant to change is ridiculous. If you want to get the "older guys" using Git explain why. I can't tell you how many times I hear younger programmers bashing other languages and tools. And rarely do they know what they are talking about.

PS: Let me add; I'm in management now - translation- programmers work for me. But I still write code. With them. On the same projects. For several reasons: (1) I enjoy it. (2) I better understand what they are writing. (3) I like to say to clients "I wrote that". That feels good.
you don't want your cofounders to go out of their "comfort zone" when it comes to learning an entirely new programming language & stack just for the sake of buzzwords AND building a startup at the same time. LAMP is a perfectly fine stack - they would have to "learn something new" if they were stuck with, say, COBOL, which is not exactly good tech for web development...
Is it really necessary to have robots moving around? As a computer vision guy, I would think why not just have a bunch of cameras covering the area and then do the image analysis at a central terminal. Unless the eventual goal is to have the robots break up fights.
People who can't build excellent software have written many good books.

Writing a good tech book requires deep understanding of a subject.

Writing good software takes discipline, creativity, and (interestingly) not necessarily a particularly deep analytical understanding of underlying concepts. People have written truly excellent software on poor CS foundations.
knuth is the only person on the planet with the authority to call programming an art

this guy's a nobody
For what it's worth, the same basic setup is in place in Latin America. Brazil the effective cost is 2x the take home pay for people as well. Maternity leaves are much shorter, and you can fire somebody, you just need to pay a hefty severance. As somebody else mentioned, the way most companies work is to have each developer with their own tiny company.
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here I covered similar topics for Switzerland, if someone is interested.

http://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog20/p/Swinog20_Starting_a...

In general, the Swiss company registration is a bit more expensive, and there are certain obligations.
Nice app, guys!
Scandinavians have sane laws about parental leaves : both parents get the same amount. Therefore if you hire someone in the 25-30 age range, there is a high risk of having to do without this employee, regardless of his/her gender. IIRC, the rule is 12 months to be split between the two parents, no part being smaller than 2 months.
If those things are predominantly healthcare, police protection, civil administration and national defense, then yeah, actually it's a pretty good assumption that everyone wants those things. The cultural items you cite are tiny as far as expenses, and presumably the're popular enough to resist periodic efforts to cut their funding. Any quibbles about apportionment and overhead from the government would be dwarfed by the inefficiencies of breaking them out of gov't (see the US healthcare system).
Why don't they give out the simulator? Less inducement to pay $16K I guess, but, certainly it'd boost mindshare, and give a wider audience a chance to shine, feeding back to Aldebaran.
This seems hard to reconcile with the commonly accepted notion that unix is an example of 'worse is better'.
Mercurial having an extension to make their branches like git is exactly why Mercurial is superior. I love git branches, but everything else about it is worse, but that's OK because I just use the extension like everyone else. Mercurial has great extensibility, which means if you need to do anything not simple, it lets you.

As they say, simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. Mercurial is the best of both worlds.
Why Geeks Should Be Your Target For Marketing
Redis-dump: Backup and restore Redis with JSON
five-minute coffee, am I hired?

getRow = (n) ->
rows = [[1]]
for i in [1...n]
prev = rows[i-1]
rows[i] = []
for j in [0..i]
rows[i][j] = (prev[j-1] or 0) + (prev[j] or 0)
rows[n-1]

and a one-liner for those who appreciate:

(n) -> [[1]..n].reduce (p, c, i) -> ~~p[j-1] + ~~p[j] for j in [0..i]
Agreed. You can confidently negotiate if you've got nothing to lose. Another way to achieve this is to have multiple offers. You come out ahead when you have competing offers - get them in a bidding war.

Also you can be a total hard-ass when negotiating with HR - you won't offend your future boss or team in the process. They usually are not involved in the negotiation process.
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I don't know if what I am saying contradicts you, but health insurance certainly can serve a rational purpose even if everyone that bought it was young and healthy. You premium simply needs to cover the average cost per subscriber plus some profit for the provider. It can (and possible should) also function the way you describe with the lower cost subscriber subsidizing the cost of the higher cost subscribers. But that is not an inherent part of insurance.
Thanks! Point taken. This was my first post, and I flubbed that.
Can someone please write this in ruby? :)
A Stack of Phones
> - has experience working in the early stages of a venture-backed startup

This has no effect on someone's ability.

- went to one of the top schools in the world, such as Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc

Those are not "top schools in the world". The only advantage they provide are great contacts and opportunities thans to those contacts. In terms of knowledge, many schools around the world (including many in the former Eastern bloc) provide excellent education.

> - has an extensive personal portfolio of software projects on which they contributed

Again, this has nothing to do with being in SV. Many bast-known open-source projects were started outside US (I'll leave it to someone else to list them, but I'm sure you can think of a few off the top of your head).
the best way to find a technical cofounder from HN is to browse people by localization and skills on this site: http://hackernewsers.com/users.html good luck! (I live in Germany, otherwise would like to help)
Spoofing GPS, at least the C/A code is not such a huge challenge. You can buy the hard part off the shelf from many vendors. For example, http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/206805
It's the prerogative of a performer to ask someone to stop taping their set. But I'm not buying the whole "you're taking food out of the mouths of children" argument. Give me a break.

There's no way to gauge how many people don't buy an album or DVD because they already saw leaked footage online. There's no way to prove those people would have bought the product if the material hadn't been leaked.

On the other hand, if enough people do buy the product, then who cares how many don't, for whatever reason? You've made your money. You win. Be happy.
Sorry, if I came off as defensive. There is no such thing as absolute. My point was that don't get caught up in trying to find a cofounder to get yourself started. That's it. No trust issues, no hate, no absolutes.
That's strange. When I installed it a couple summers ago on Vista, it Just Worked. I didn't have Cygwin. Maybe a conflict?
I think it would be worth at least that, probably more. But that time is not now.
I think of it as meaning "stay open to new ideas and experiences, and keep your preconceived notions at bay."
Sounds like something like Redmine would be needed in that case.
Is it a growing obession? Or just an aging population? Can we get a graph of drugs per capita, binned by age group?
I don't see how that factors in? I've been playing with GitHub a bit and I use hg. I just use the hggit extension the github guys wrote to interact with git and GitHub.
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You recommend GoDaddy? :)
I interpreted it as the literal term for foolish.

- Make mistakes, leap before you look, believe something crazy, etc.
Post-its work if you work in the same location all the time and don't have a huge amount of to-dos.
I haven't tested it, but I would expect so. There aren't many cross-domain restrictions in browsers for images.
Ask HN: How do you validate your startup ideas?
Hey guys – how do you validate your ideas beyond family and friends? Do AdWords+LaunchRock and MTurk work? Is there a better way?
Technical Interviews at a Startup
Even if it is a wash, and the costs of things end up being the same, the real issue is the question of who should be spending the money you earn.

Should the government be allowed to forcibly take your earnings away to pay for your kids college and purchase retirement for you?

What if you decide your kids would be better off earning their own way through college, or what if you want to retire in a location with nice weather and a very low cost of living?

It sounds like living in Silicon Valley has not made you more wealthy, it's just provided you with a wealth of choices that the author of this article doesn't have.
Right, but $16,000+ is still a reasonable amount to pay when you consider the target market - researchers, educational institutions, museums, etc. It's not quite within reach of your average joe just yet, but this is a step up from what it costs to get an Asimo...
I'm talking specifically about Lortab, which contains Hydrocodone.
"While most of its physical systems are ready, the robots are reportedly undergoing improvements to make them more friendly and appealing to humans."

about:robots (on Firefox)
no, now go jump into a lake

and take your hipster language with you
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in June 2010 it was OK to recommend it :)

I actually still use it for some DNS hosting
I love hg, and bitbucket is the best we've got - but man, the developers at BitBucket have their heads stuck in so deep in the sand!!!

GitHub "won" because the developers were not only innovative but they listened to their user base. BitBucket developers have, so far, just scoffed at my requests for changes to features that should be fundamentally different.

For example, the issues system. When you first hit the issues list it sorts by most recent date created; if I want to see the most critical tickets (sorted by priority) I have to click on the priority column; but wait, that first sorts it as least important first (wtf?) so I have to click it AGAIN to get the highest priority tickets.

I put in two support tickets on the matter, one asking for the default when hitting the page to be sort by priority (most critical first) so I can see WHAT IS MOST CRITICAL THAT NEEDS TO GET DONE NOW. If not the default, give a settings option so that I can set what the default to sort by could be! Their response? "Create a bookmark" - yeah, that's what I've done but I shouldn't have to do that. It's little shit like this that irks me about bbucket vs GitHub.

The second ticket has to do with that silliness that is sorting least important first when you first click on the column sort... Le sigh.

I still use it though because I prefer mercurial to git.
OP here. I'd love to how other startups run technical interviews - particularly when you're interviewing for roles that are outside your area of expertise.
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I've tried. I've failed. I would have loved seeing this been done in Imagick on PHP.
Those are just the sizes of the pseudorandom sequences produced by a PRNG. They'll be defined by structures much smaller than that. However, that's not the bit that needs stealing, and doesn't even strictly need to be secret.
I've been using a similarly minimal system for about 10 months now. One feature I really can't do without is the ability to save completed tasks and the time they were marked done. I find it very handy to look back over the past week or so at the todo items I marked off, or even within a single day.

The code for my solution is available here:
https://github.com/asb/sh-todo
Ask HN: Which technologies do you recommend for website development?
I used javascript, php, css and html few years ago while I developed some websites. And my knowledge needs to be updated.

So what are popular libraries, or framework these days for website development? What would you recommend?

I do not need hello-world tutorial, instead I am looking for quick summary of proven solutions from real world.

Thanks a lot!
looks great, thanks for the suggestion
I don't want or need more women to have children, and I have no desire to pay for it.

Why can't we just let in more Chinese immigrants if there's not enough people? China already has plenty of people who want to have more children without me having to pay them to do it.
Cameras would not only be many many times cheaper, but they would be many many times more effective.
Anyone have a link to better PDFs where the images fit on the pages? E.g. Fig 6.2 on page 170.