skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I resent the accusation. But I do venture south of the "sanity" meridian quite often, so perhaps I have lost perspective. Perhaps I should watch more television.

Do engage the substance of my inquiry, please. If it is "delusional" to invoke the Godhead as an explanation for running only certain monitor resolutions, is it not delusional to invoke same Godhead as an explanation for holding $moral_value or making $public_policy_decision?

Rhetorical, obviously. My point is - if no objective metric is invoked in determination of "insanity", does it not then become a "house rule" of sorts?
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Funding? No, helplessly watched my 5 year window go by from FBI prison.
I had 10,000 firm downloads in the last 3 years. I only got 15 emails over 5 years, all FBI.
That's okay -- it's in God's court.
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^This is so sad. I think I can sense what's he trying to tell. He's a genius; hope he will be fine.
None of the points you're arguing with follow from my comment.

Huh?

You specifically said in your comment that: "a qualified employee will simply quit an abusive job and sell their skills to a more reasonable employer".

This is exactly what I addressed.
None of that ever ends up in the actual articles, but you would know that had you read any of them.

And I admire your naive belief in "legit journalism outposts". Knee-deep in two wars and you didn't ever learn why.
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The title is misleading.

[IANAL] In the United States, for a person in a salaried position, work week hours beyond 40 are not legally classified as overtime.

For salaried positions, the length of the workweek and compensation for additional hours are always subject to negotiation (for hourly positions compensation for overtime is also negotiable but cannot be less than the statutory minimums).

In my opinion, the author's analysis of economics entailed by salaried positions is rather naive. Hourly rate of pay is often less important than the monthly or weekly or yearly rate, i.e. cashflow is often the more important consideration. For example, if one's household maintenance is $10,000 per month, then monthly income, rather than hourly rate, is likely to be a more critical issue in regards to compensation.
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For the last 7 years I have worked at a company that does specialized job listing web scraping. And on nearly a weekly basis I encounter other programmers who say, "pssssh, I could do that in a weekend."

It does seem disgustingly easy, but once you move from "getting" the data to "understanding" the data it becomes a beastly nightmare. So thank you to the OP for helping raise "give scrapers some credit" awareness.

Except scrapers that don't respect robots.txt or meta noindex - a pox on their houses....
Firstly, things have changed massively since one flew over the cuccoos nest was written. It wasn't even representative at the time. As I understand, it's more an allegory for the wider society and about institutions. A modern psychiatric hospital is utterly unlike the place in that book in every respect. They still use electroshock therapy, because it has been proven to work. Now they do it under general anaesthetic and it's an altogether less messy affair. Watch this moving TED talk if you don't believe me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZrAGdZ1i8

Secondly, closely related to this is the famous Rosenhan experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

The really relevant bit is this paragraph:

For example, one nurse labeled the note-taking of one pseudopatient as "writing behavior" and considered it pathological. The patients' normal biographies were recast in hospital records along the lines of what was expected of schizophrenics by the then-dominant theories of its etiology.

I also remember that one participant had their habit of standing around outside the cafeteria waiting for it to open for lunch noted down by a nurse as "neurotic behaviour around eating and food" and again framed as part of their disorder and used as a reason to keep them there.

Remember though that this was in america in the 70s, and things have changed a lot since then. Partly as a direct result of that study, which made a huge impact on the profession and caused a lot of soul searching. Someone repeated it, I think in the 90s, and they were all just put on pills rather than being committed. The crucial difference being that one can choose not to take pills.
The article talks about what I would call "pre-emptive understanding," but what about "just in time understanding?"

Have a good general understanding of a platform (all the way down to hardware, if you wish) and know where to look when either curiosity or need arises.
FBI vows to catch insider traders on Facebook and Skype
The good thing about hashing something repeatedly is that the result is always the same!
I would argue that the value is in quality of those links. HNM editor doesnt simply take any articles; this way he could just make loops through an X amount of tech/news sites and reprint. But thats not what takes place here. In other words: he is using Hacker News ecosystem (with all its limitations, votes, points, karmas etc) and based on that formula, he reprints "the best of". Perhaps smart attorney would want to ask him to stop using HN formula to build his catalog, since its obvious that HNM wouldnt get traction if he wouldnt keep high quality articles in it (he does know which articles have quality ONLY thank to HN). But again I am not trying to get the author in any sort of troubles. Its just another thought that would stop me from working on this idea.
Of course the problem is that people are too dumb nowadays to come up with all that :)
How to solve supposedly intractable problems
My personal view on the topic isn't whether we're getting smarter or dumber overall its the mediums we're capable of expressing these traits through.

Throughout history the only people who were given face time on radio/tv (internet wasn't a thing) were people that had gone through various levels of screening. If an idiot interviewed on the news and said irrelevant or hateful things they were simply not aired. The radio was run by professionals with invited guests. Other examples exist too.

However, today we provide the means for anyone to create videos of themselves or write articles and be put on the same stage as anyone else. Often times we see the dumb antics of various people as "entertaining" and it becomes encouraged.

Without diving too much deeper I believe it is simply a case not of smarter/dumber but instead an argument of how visible they are. We've always had "dumb" people but only within the last two decades have we created a medium they are capable of expressing themselves through.

*Obviously just my $0.02. I'm an engineer, not a researcher of the social sciences.
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I remember reading an interesting article by Eric Sink once: http://www.ericsink.com/articles/Game_Afoot.html which I think is semi-relevant.

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The thing I find most interesting about Ping Pong is that you can often win without doing anything fancy or aggressive. A lot of players think the way to win is to slam the ball really hard. The problem with this strategy is that a slam is a high-risk/high-reward shot. If you do it right, you almost certainly score a point when your opponent fails to return the ball. If you do it wrong, you give your opponent a point.

Modesty aside, I consider myself a "pretty good" Ping Pong player. I can slam the ball when necessary, but I hardly ever do. I can beat most other players by simply returning every shot with a little backspin. Hitting the ball hard simply isn't necessary. All I need to do is wait for the other player to make 21 mistakes.

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So even if you have competitors if you execute in a better fashion than they do, and don't f--- up, you can still be the most successful business.
Great reply, i'm sure this approach will pay dividends down the line!
No, it clearly isn't. You used a series of terms that I didn't that changed the meaning of what I said, then argued against that instead of what I actually said.
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I agree. The first one linked is particularly inane.
There are two problems with your wall of text.

Firstly your comparison to lawyering is disingenuous, lawyering has the partnership model, you take a load of young naive idiots, you dangle this partnership jackpot in front of their noses and then you work them to the bone doing dull and even pointless work that you bill your clients many $$$s an hour for while the partners take the bulk of that money home. Lots drop out, some make partner, the cycle repeats. It's a 'jackpot' industry.

Programming is not that way, there's a massive demand for programmers, there's not a massive demand for young lawyers.

The second problem is your belief that working long hours = working 'exceedingly hard'.

There's a massive body of evidence that working past 35-40 hours per week that you're actually less productive in the medium to long term past about a month, it's bad for your health and the whole scenario feeds on itself in a horrible vicious cycle as employees who decide to 'opt out' of it get punished with no promotions and lower raises, perhaps even fired.

You see posts like yours trotted out when anyone puts their hand up and says 'hey, why are we working these long hours?'. Worse still in the UK, where a lot of companies also have this ridiculous culture, we have contracts in place specifying the amount of hours to be worked but they are just ignored. The employer is wilfully and knowingly breaking the contract and often lying to prospective employees in the interviews. But what can you do, you took the job and you can't have too many jobs in the last 2 years as people will begin to wonder.

But we have to protect startups and free enterprise right. Because all managers and CEOs know exactly what they're doing and have been taught that creating a culture of long hours rapidly creates pointless busy work zombies where everyone's losing.

And that's where you're argument falls flat on its face. Turns out we're not actually training any managers they just wing it and one of the intuitive fallacies everyone subscribes to is that more hours at the desk means more hours of production that somehow putting more hours means you're working 'exceedingly hard' instead of the truth which is 'exceedingly inefficiently'.

Perhaps it is time for government to step in as the free market's quite obviously failing at it as they refuse to listen to the scientists and worse are totally ignorant about studies done 100 years ago.
Thanks for your help. Well how do you get out of that niche? Using the below comment as example, seems like it can be a bit risky not having domain expertise entering something new, right? I guess it can help to have a partner who know's the niche, just wondering how you can avoid choosing the real estate industry to find out the grass isn't that green.
Samsung admits defeat with early tablets, but new announcements won't help
Yup, but all of the stuff in the Quick Start section of http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/ has more or less close equivalents in lxml.html.

That being said, I think it's great that he's still maintaining BS, and porting it to Python 3 in particular - it keeps existing code working and will allow more people to make the switch. And a responsible and committed maintainer is good advertising for a package in itself, of course.
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If by competing device you mean the Raspberry Pi, I wouldn't consider their hardware to be in the same market. That's like saying the HTC G1 is competing with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. They're generations apart. A 1.2Ghz dual-core processor doesn't come cheap, nor does the 1GB of RAM on top of that.

Your statement that it's only $15 worth of hardware makes me question the validity of everything you say.
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Firefox 11 has an essentially complete implementation of the IDB spec and it ships in two weeks. 10 definitely has the replacement for setVersion, but I don't remember what else missed 10.
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The software industry is not uniformly exempt from overtime.
This has turned into a debate on coffeescript. Would love to get more explanation from a Rails developer point of view about how the integrated javascript client/server model works.
A baffling article. There are many articles celebrating African success and progress. This article does a poor job, mentioning mostly mobile telephony and natural resources.

Sure, some parts of Africa are developed and some people in Africa are wealthy and there are interesting business models in Africa.

But this article fails to mention some existing severe problems:

Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho have almost one in four people over 15 living with AIDs/HIV.

South Africa has the highest population of people living with AIDs/HIV - about 17% or 5.6 million people.

Kenya has about 1.2 million children orphaned by AIDs.

Uganda - an African AIDs/HIV success story, has about 1.2 million people living with AIDs/HIV ( several hundred thousand of whom are children) and about another 1.2million children orphaned by AIDs.

Zambia has received millions of dollars of funding for HIV/AIDs programmes, but prevalence has not dropped and rates are stable; as high as 25% in some rural areas. Life expectancy at birth is about 40 years.

There are currently fifteen African countries involved in wars, or with post-war tensions and conflicts.

Africa has the only regional treaty in the world against the use of child soldiers (The 1999 African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child); yet most child soldiers are in Africa.

The article mentions Zambia - Zambia exports much copper, so should be reasonably wealthy. It's not at war. Yet poverty is rife and it has a very low life expectancy. There are human rights abuses associated with the Chinese owned copper mines.

The article also mentions Sudan. Sudan is one of the poorest countries in the world.

(http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=94858)
I actually had a Windows 95 computer that was like that. It had so little RAM that anything I was doing was being cached to the hard drive anyway. If I pulled the plug and then turned it back on, whatever I was typing in Notepad would appear right back on the screen without saving it.
Good reading to become a mature (ie not just childish) anti-authoritarian: "Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson and "No more Mr Nice Guy" by Robert Glover. I would also throw in "King, Warrior, Magician, Lover" by Robert Moore, and maybe an occasional dose of LessWrong.com (helps to know of cognitive bias pitfalls if one wants to dance to one's own tune). Rand, Aurelius, Thoreau, Emerson and Nietzsche might be cool too, for the philosophically inclined (what they all have in common is the belief in defining your own values, not just following others blindly).

Of course, the way I see it, being anti-authoritarian is just a corollary effect of being a mature, competent, self-validated man who is following his own purpose in life. Of course such a man is going to have trouble with those who want to foist their value-systems on him through threats, psychological manipulation, or subterfuge.
Let's hope reddit allows a custom robots.txt for subreddits by then... or else there is going to be some unexpected results showing up from /r/gonewild
The actual paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5533
Git was built specifically to scratch the itch of Linux kernel developers.

Linux kernel developers tend to like making sure the Linux kernel works on as many obscure architectures as possible. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_supported_archit...

Making sure Git is portable across system architectures is quite important.

Also, portability in the "being available to many systems" thing is important for a lot of developers. I build stuff that currently has to deploy on SPARC/Solaris, but there are plans to make it so that in the not-so-distant future, all that stuff will be moving to virtualized clusters of x86_64 Linux. Portability in the narrow UNIX sense is pretty damn important to a lot of people.
One of obsolete's definition is out of date. I used it in this sense.
Just about anybody with their self-esteem low enough can get diagnosed by those sociopaths.
Try running this through it. http://www.cheraglibrary.org/taoist/hua-hu-ching.htm
> Unless they felt the need to claim the quad-core bullet point

There you go.
Pixlr is Flash, though, not HTML.
A while ago I truly enjoyed his talk at CMU: https://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61 both as an introduction to high frequency trading, arbritage and stuff, and to FP in industry too.

EDIT: it was already posted below.
Exactly my impression - a MS Paint clone with layers and filters. This lacks the most rudimentary stuff like select tools, calling it a Photoshop clone is just dishonest.
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Probably the most important application: quantum simulation. Solving any but the simplest quantum mechanics problems takes more computation than we can muster, but a quantum computer could do it easily. (Iirc, Feynmann wrote about this idea.)
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Tegra 5 was announced last year. Intel announced their plans till 2014 today. There are two forms of announcements. Announcement of plans which is what you are referring to. And announcement of a ready product which is what I was referring to.
Exactly. When talking about an ill person generally you just use the first name (more often not the real first name), and make sure it's not obvious who you are talking about.

I've read a fair share of psychiatric books and they all have this "rule".

The OP should at the very least edit out the name of the person and remove references to his work.
That's right. All I know is what I saw in that video, though, so you probably know more about this than I do.
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They do, but when you file a counter notice, you swear on penalty of perjury that you believe the original notice was filed "in error". IANAL either, but it seems like that means that if you want to take the most expeditious means of getting your content back up, you effectively surrender any recourse to call them on their perjury.
The whole series of Game of Thrones novels. Started out slow, but gets very engrossing.
I would have told them to get stuffed if they I knew they were trying to evacuate myself and millions of other people, it is recipe for disaster.
It was successful for Asus. Which is another Taiwanese brand.
Only if everybody has their own warehouse. Why would you want that though? It would be better to rent WaaS (Warehousing as a Service - you heard it here first folks) so that specialized companies can have warehouses build right next to the harbor the goods came in from, and spread load across many completely automated warehouses are required. In December store Santa hats, in July swimming trunks. As a seller you don't even need to care about capacity.
One thing about inheritance: It's not necessarily a good way to model things. Often it's a procrustean bed where you try to twist your concepts into what the language will let you express.

I've seen a lot of people use inheritance to save keystrokes. "I can save time if Plane inherits from Bus, they've both got wheels, after all." That's a kind of "typing" system . . . but not the kind that people expect :-)

Honestly, the world does not often cleanly decompose into a class tree. Usually it's pretty messy.
You should go in China for once, and talk to Chinese people to better understand their situation. They were miserable in the countryside, and the "sweatshops" you mention are already providing them with a better life than what they had.

LOL. They were "miserable in the countryside" because their old way of living and farming was not a priority anymore for the central government, that needed city workers to build the country's industry. So, in essence they gave them incentives to come to the city, and they also made it so they the old village system wouldn't work, stopped subsiding, redirected resources, etc. It's a centrally planned economy, it's not a "coincidence".

The sweatshops

--and no quotes needed, those are real sweatshops, and 99% of the HN readership wouldn't stand an hour there (we're people that are even annoyed by browser popup windows and such first world problems), and yet some consider them as fit for the Chinese people--,

don't provide them "a better life than what they had", they just make it so that they are kept alive, by eating, and sending some money to their families back home. The "better life" they are "provided" is working 14-hours at best in hellish conditions, then sleeping till the next day, and drinking themselves to oblivion on weekends. Yeah, slightly better than dying of starvation, if those are your only two options.

Incidentally, that was the way the old English industrial revolution thing started. They forced farmers to work in the factories, in similar hellish conditions.

"While the average life expectancy all around Europe increased, that of the average factory worker decreased. There were "almost no safety devices on machines, accidents were common.' (Wallbank, 490) Edwin Chadwick's 'Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Laboring Population of Great Britain' penned in 1842 provides a terrifying look inside the workplaces of the period. 'That the annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation are greater than the loss from death or wounds in any wars in which the country has been engaged in modern times. That of the 43,000 cases of widowhood, and 112,000 cases of destitute orphanage relieved from the poor's rates in England and Wales alone, it appears that the greatest proportion of deaths of the heads of families occurred from the above specified and other removable causes; that their ages were under 45 years; that is to say, 13 years below the natural probabilities of life as shown by the experience of the whole population of Sweden.' (Chadwick, available online at: http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/chadwick2.html)
Is there any way they could be used to replace our PC's in the future, for general tasks?
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Another tangentally related recommendation: Use Scrapy if you need something more than one-shot script using BeautifulSoup or lxml.

http://scrapy.org/
From http://www.losethos.com/LTHtml/Doc/TrivialSolutions.html:

"I was a National Merit Scholar with a 1440 SAT at Arizona State University. I have a bachelor's in Computer System Engineering from ASU, basically, embedded systems, and a master's in Electrical Engineering from ASU, control systems. I worked as a software, hardware and mechanical engineer at Ticketmaster from 1990-1996. I designed a 3 axis stepper-motor-driven milling machine 1996-1997 with a CAD/CAM package for a company I started called Home Automation and Robotic Equipment. I worked for a company named Xytec Corp. 1997-1999. We made FPGA-based image processing equipment for currency inspection, and I installed passwords on the machine in the Bank of England. I wrote SimStructure from 2000-2001 for H.A.R.E. I worked as head software/electrical engineer for a company called Graphic Technologies, 2001-2002, making replacement chips for toner printer cartridges so they could be refilled."