skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can actually use a copy of her own talkbackbot to do just that. Just wire up your own trigger like so:

def contains_twsrs_response_quote(chat_line):
return bool(re.search(r'~ [\w ]+$', chat_line))

Edit: This presumes the responses you're trying to detect match the form "Quote goes here ~ Author of Quote" seen in her quotes.txt.
"Never ever do ______ with ______"
Hope you see why this is utterly wrong.

Generalizations about country/etymology shouldn't qualify to be up-voted in HN, please.

I don't mind when people use bad words or flu as long as I can emphatically or technically understand why and the location allows it. In this sense I can feel and understand why Mr. Koch got upset.

I think he should've put the generalizations into Pandora's Box, because the internet is a public space that never forgets.

The victim's explanations are usually generalizations and overreactions, in rare cases I've seen people reacting accordingly. It's part of being gentle to react accordingly, we know it's hard to apply. You can be harsh when the situation requires it. That said, I'm sure there are better ways to "fight" for your right and the money. I agree that this looks like it's not worth the effort, but you will not know this for sure unless you try it. As long as all you loose is time, you can tell that you're enriched by another experience that will guide you in your next project into a better management.

(I'm not an Indian and my opinions aren't set in stone.)

One last word: Trust what your feeling tells you. If your customer replies after months you know you've a bad customer, even before the project starts.
"... something is making them uncomfortable, and so they attack it on 'rational' grounds. Most likely, they aren’t even aware of the gut reaction fueling their logic." <--- The most important words in the whole essay.

Twenty years after writing Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, the Arbiter of Badassness, wrote in Reamde:

"It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certainty and a conviction in her voice and her face that left him fascinated and awed. Because guys, at least of his age, didn't have the confidence to make major decisions from their gut like that. They had to build a superstructure of rational thought on top of it. But not Zula. She didn't have to decide. She just had to pass on the news."

I've noticed this in myself and other guys: even if our guts or our hearts tell us we did wrong, we tend to rationalize and defend our actions instead of simply apologizing.
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A lot of people from Eastern Europe are very sensitive about that sort of thing; Russia's domination of the USSR and various brutalities are still fresh in memory, and besides, referring to any Eastern European as a Russian is akin to calling someone from Guatemala as a Mexican. Some people are more sensitive about it than others. (I was born in Russia, and don't particularly care, but I'm aware of other people's sensitivities.)

This happens in other parts of the world, too, of course. I once asked a girl in college if she was from India; she gave me a hateful death stare and coldly declared that she was from Bangladesh.
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Can someone explain this? I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean what I think it means.
Agreed. But the blog post in the tumbler post you linked does not like satire:

As hipster racism has become more widespread, it’s also crept into more general society. Racist content appears in films and television shows, disguised as “satire,” it’s on the cover of major magazines, it’s in the pages of respectable newspapers. While explicit racism is viewed as socially unacceptable, racism disguised as irony or satire is evidently perfectly acceptable, especially if it comes from middle class white people with trust funds.

In fact, it's an awful article. Full of conjecture, strawmen and self-righteousness.

As for the bot, the ironic part is the creation and publication of it, not in the actual functionality. Sexism aside, I can't comprehend why someone would want zero-value-added noise added to a professional communications channel (I don't consider banter and joking zero value in this regard). Especially since this invited further noise, and now they're locked in: it's going to be hard to go and say "enough fun for now" and turn both bots of now without appearing sexist.
This mangles two issues - discriminating based on source versus path.

Source discrimination is bad. The Internet allows applications and services to run “at the edge” of the network and not centrally; this encourages innovation [1].

Path discrimination is more complicated. Many content providers already pay private networks to transport their traffic on faster than the public internet [2]. There is even a market for traders paying tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for low latency connections [3].

Given that ISPs charge each other for transporting traffic [4] it costs more to broker traffic across others' networks versus its own. It doesn't seem unfair for the ISP to charge less for the latter. This would allow Comcast et al to compete with the Akamais and Level3s that irk them today [5]. Sooner or later they will find it makes more sense to offer the discount for same-network traffic to everyone.

Comcast has made shitty statements about net neutrality before [1]. But it's not okay to vilify anything Comcast says by virtue of it being said by Comcast - that's straight up ad hominem.

[1] http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/Economides_Net_Neutrality....

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/level-3-lands-netflix-strea...

[3] http://www.highfrequencytraders.com/article/682/options-it-o...

[4] http://blog.teracomtraining.com/how-isps-connect-to-the-inte...

[5] http://blog.comcast.com/2010/11/comcast-comments-on-level-3....
You don't know why TL is so big? Because it includes everything on CTAN that is compatible with DFSG. CTAN is an enormous archive containing numerous packages that do the same thing slightly different. How many packages are there like booktabs/tabulary/tabularyx/longtable etc? How many enumitem like packages are there?

What is so confusing?
There is a difference -- you can ignore miss manners if you want (at your peril) in this case you have the room equivalent of a screaming maniac yell at you (politely) each time you do something wrong.

And yes if you had that in real life, it would be considered rude.
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A good book to read is Tim Wu's "The Master Switch", which predicts this as something called The Cycle. Reading the book gives you a sense how history repeats itself with new and open technology and how these open systems eventually get molded into closed systems that only a few companies control. It's been done with telephones, the radio and television. It seems the internet is in the early stages of this transistion.

What Comcast is doing is testing the waters. I personally find it just the beginning, as if this is allowed, other companies will follow suit.
I frankly don't understand why some people are seemingly outraged with G+ and are trying to pin everything they perceive as wrong with google on its mere existence. I don’t see how G+ has effected search quality in any negative way, if SPYW is the issue here then it can be toggled off, and as far as I can see that is that.

The other point of contention seems the assumption that it’s not needed and thus it's being forced upon us, but the need for it is so clear that these questions strike me as insincere: 90% of G+ purpose is getting users to signup and create profiles then have these profiles manifest in the thumbnail pictures across Google’s products, whether they be commenting on Blogger, youtube, or any of their app stores, or clustering articles around the same author in search results. This sort of tech blog fodder of “Google is trying to compete with X and thus are destroying themselves” is the stuff of linkbait nonsense I wish would go away.
It depends on your particular flavor of CS. The less-theoryish flavors, like games or graphics, definitely do seem to be accepting of Word, and I've been to a couple conferences where Word was more prevalent.

Personally, I can't stand Word as an editing environment, because it doesn't offer a way of writing without worrying about formatting at the same time (seriously, if it had a markup view, I'd probably switch), and citation support is still a huge pain in the ass. However, LaTeX has many, many more pains in the ass for most people.
Lots of meaningful things take thousands of programmer hours. Projects where those thousands of hours are meticulously planned for by non-programmers (whether by using "Agile" or any other process that sits on top of the process of programming) are fucking doomed from the jump.
I bet it was more like 2 minutes. It only took me 64 minutes.
The notion that some 'good,' 'quality,' or 'talented' programmer is somehow entirely autonomous is entirely a fallacy. I'd trust a team of 'mediocre' programmers that follow process and get it done than place blind trust in a couple cowboys or post-docs who have some claim to genius in a prior life.

Sure, some are better than others. But to those who somehow believe that Great Programmers can do anything, get over yourselves. They (read: you) probably aren't nearly as good as you think.
I too solved it in 1-2 minutes just by looking at the patterns and deducing from the combinations, especially the ones with four of a kind. The loops never occurred to me until I read the "real" solution.

IMO the "fuck_you" of the currently most popular comment is what most people who are skimming HN during their morning coffee are bound to think, but most programmers and anyone used to deducing patterns would probably be able to figure the puzzle out in a relatively short amount of time. Not an hour. Sheesh!
Another major factor is geography. America could not have become the powerhouse she is today if she didn't control the entire Mississippi river and bordering lands.

The only other country that comes close in this regard is China.
And it wasn't just Tokyo - the USA's firebombing campaign incinerated 50-90% of the population of 67 Japanese cities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S21tC-JxWXA

The debate over this is almost endless, though, and I doubt we can settle it.
How well a team works together depends on far more than how smart the component engineers are. One clever engineer may be sufficient for a Suduku problem, but it is a matter of scale.
This fellow is basically arguing that we don't need government because people get along just fine on their own. Which is absolutely true on an individual scale, and not at all true as soon as two people live next door to one another.

In my experience 90% of software problems are social problems. He seems to care only about technical problems, and assumes those are solved by the magic of intelligence. I believe that if you can not explain to someone else how to do what you do, you aren't actually a master of your craft. Appeals to hire smarter coders sound incredibly hollow unless they are accompanied by techniques to make the average coder smarter.

There are much better critiques of Agile out there, mostly having to do with how it has been sold. I'm not sure what he thinks he is contributing to the discussion.

Any process can be harmful. It can also be incredibly useful, and the lack of process is at least as harmful as process applied badly. I recommend the book "The Checklist Manifestos" for examples. It proposes that the goal of process is to handle routine complexity and make cooperation routine, leaving human attention and effort free to focus on the actual hard problems.
Well that's a good point, but if a new hacker comes along with a DNS hack, that site can easily become more harmful than beneficial.
Exactly. And this shit makes me furious.

I got involved with this stuff before the term "Agile" existed. At the beginning, it was a bunch of professionals (mostly developers) sincerely trying to find better ways of working. Extreme Programming, for example, came to be because the developers were really interested to experiment with how their team got stuff done.

It breaks my heart that in the ensuing decade it has turned into exactly the kind of bullshit, top-down, PHB-fluffing idiocy that early agilists were trying to get away from. If you look at the Agile Manifesto, the focus is supposed to be on a) people, b) shipping working software, c) collaboration, and d) being adaptable. That is sure not what it has become.

In my view, we made a crucial mistake: we didn't think about money and power enough. Now the Agile industry is 98% selling idiotic certifications and homeopathic doses of process improvement to organizations that don't really want to change anything at all.

Mad. It makes me mad. Sorry we screwed it up, everybody.
This bit "Learn what makes her happiest and what stresses her out. See how she responds to difficult situations or murky ethical quandaries. Find out how she treats others (and herself) when things aren’t going well." is really important I think. Lots of people can get along when everything is going great. The difference between just being friends and co-founding a company is how you get along when things are going badly.
I don't really see a problem with this. From the Unity3D blog [1].

Adobe announced a brand new licensing structure for Flash games
You should definitely read the details as Adobe explains them here: www.adobe.com/go/fpl and here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/premium-fea... The short version is that Adobe is introducing a new revenue share licensing model where they will take a revenue share from some content publishers.
Adobe will charge publishers 9% of only the revenues directly caused by the game which exceed $50K.
If revenue is not directly caused by the game you pay nothing. i.e. An online teaser level for a iOS / Android game, a car company having a realtime 3d demo of their newest model which you can inspect and drive around, a 3d walkthrough for a library, etc, all would not pay the revenue share.
We see this as Flash positioning itself alongside other well known distribution channels: make money through the App Store, Apple takes a share. Make money through the Android Market place, Google takes a share. Make money through Flash, Adobe takes a share.
It’s also worth noting that the new Adobe license will prohibit scenarios where you’d have the first level of a game in the Flash Player, and the full experience inside the Unity Web Player. Alas, this is something you’ll need to be aware of if you were considering such a route.

You see, Flash is not web technology.Neither is iOS, or Android. Flash was web tech, a long,long time ago, but frankly the web hasn't evolved fast enough to keep up. HTML5 is still nowhere close to flash. WebGL is, but that's not exactly standard.

[1] http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/03/28/unity-flash-update/
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When a child who has all the toys is told they have to share, some children will throw a hissy fit. This is an apt metaphore for a "men's rights" movement which rares it's head when people talking about giving women as much power as men.
"tends to stand out"?

Understatement of the year. The closest preprocessor to pandoc that I know of is org-mode and the output is not nearly as nice and its emacs specific.
The XBox is not another set-top box though. It does not use the same network as their other boxes, it uses the customer's internet connection. The internet connection is capped at 250GB. If they are going to cap other services using the customers internet connection, they need to cap their own as well. Anything else is hypocritical & anti-competitive.
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I agree, but when that's the case then it's right to call it.

Actually, it's one of my greatest pet peeves. How so many things are so massively over-engineered. I could go on forever about that and there is not a single day I don't spend a while realising this about something.
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Obtvse was open-sourced for a reason: so that people could take it and modify it and use it however they'd like. This is open-source working.
$50K isn't really that much. This will basically affect anyone trying to make a serious commercial 3D flash game with Unity, UDK or a custom engine. This includes small indie developers that might want to target flash as a platform as well. The 9% would also apply to UDK games like QUBE or Antichamber, if they decided to release a web versions.
JCR, this really puts things into perspective...
When I posted this question, I was thinking of business, not life as a whole, and I think you raise an excellent point. I do have a lot to be thankful for, and I am incredibly lucky. This is something I will always keep in my mind when the "trough of sorrow" gets me...thanks for the comment :)
Maybe you were too stupid to solve the problem in a reasonable time?
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Yeah, TeX is a really broken tech in 2012. When I tried to look at the base languages to edit a BibTeX file, it blew my mind. I'm lucky that LaTeX has templates that I like, I have no possible means of making one myself.

It seems like the whole article misses the point. pdftex doesn't need replacing, TeX needs replacing. Pandoc (with some better extension method) + CSS style sheets + TeX algorithm layout engine would be bliss.

Unfortunately, the engineering required for that would need some really committed people, and the people committed enough to typography seem to have put all their eggs in the TeX basket, because that's all they know.
You get ads in your newspaper, you get ads when you watch TV. Are those also distasteful?

Frankly, I prefer ads since I can ignore them, where as if I ignore paying I don't get the service.
YCombinator turns its sight towards offline with funding of iCracked, I guess.
Absolutely agree, thanks fezzl.
You should actually read the details of what the discussion is about.
I'm an American, I'd just eat the whole damn pizza.
Sphinx is cool for what it is but it is not even a zygote of a potential latex replacement...
Its a great start really. I think the balance is to get a user base, which means they get a lot of value, easily, from your content. Ads may get in the way of this, but I understand your desire to be 'profitable' for a class project.
Well, the Agile approach is to break them down into smaller things that can be accomplished in under 1,000 hours.

"There's nothing that can be accomplished in a single chunk taking more than a 1,000 hours that will produce a system with a manageable and maintainable level of complexity unless it is broken into smaller, well-defined and loosely-coupled components," perhaps.
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Stretch a string over the middle of the pizza. Stretch another string over the middle of the pizza perpendicular to the first.
interesting, i get similar results. (with a similar background of not being very interested in the game, but having watched a few youtube videos)

with iGoogle active i get exactly the same skyrim results, plus laptop, "way to loose weight" (no idea where this comes from) and a few others which may really be related to some of my former searches.

without iGoogle i get a totally different list: smartphone, tablet, number, source for windows compatible scanner-driver.
Mirror: http://www.businessinsider.com/giving-you-more-insight-into-...

OP link is returning a blank page.
You take bold statement too literary. 20 million died in the WW2, they were murdered by Germans.
Just a suggestion on your pitch:

This part of the article sounded interesting: "think of TenFarms as a real-time map that displays who is nearby and lets you skim through pictures, videos, events, check-ins and conversations happening in the area."

Everything else, including your official pitch, just kind of made me glaze over. It all just sounded too high concept for me to get a grasp of until the tangible idea of the map came up. I'd focus on that.

I know you do mention "planting" objects in a location in your pitch. And that the location bit actually does imply a map, but it takes a little more thought than it should to realize that.
She definitely did the right thing by not complaining to management but a startup is not a suit company and therefore there are things that go on there that would not have been accepted in a suit company.

There are plenty of employees who like their company that way and if she didn't she is not really suited for the company culture. She can (and should) seek employment elsewhere. She will be better of there.

Finally she didn't beat them at their own game. Yes she wrote a bot, but it takes a bit more cleverness to match phrases that to simply reply to a string that is going to be the only thing that bot ever quotes.

Too bad too, since she could have made her bot do something that would have been impressive, and perhaps convince others that the bot was sexist by calculating how often the joke was mad at the expense of a male ('it is small and hard to see') versus at the female. That bot would have been impressive and it would have been a much greater hack.
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It varies by sub-area, but artificial intelligence is also my area, and I don't see that dominance anymore, especially in the more interdisciplinary areas (anything that overlaps with HCI, psychology, cognitive science, etc.). I also don't see the stigma anymore among younger researchers; I detect that attitude from older people mostly, and some of the "harder core than thou" people in math-heavy sub-areas, but there's a bigger mix of preferences among people under 35 who work in less math-y areas. I use TeX myself when it's my choice, but I've collaborated on Word papers as well, if I wasn't the primary author/instigator, and it seems common/expected these days. Especially if someone from industry has been the instigator (e.g. on DARPA-contract type research), or if it's interdisciplinary with someone not from CS/math, they've preferred Word.

AAAI, IJCAI, and AAMAS now provide both options, and my informal observation is that more Word papers are being submitted than used to be the case, especially but not exclusively when it comes to authors from industry. CHI recently officially deprecated LaTeX as a supported option, but still provides the old (no longer maintained) stylesheets as a courtesy. Several universities (e.g. Georgia Tech) have also stopped officially supporting LaTeX stylesheets for theses and moved to Word as the only official option, though they do distribute student-edited LaTeX stylesheets as a courtesy. I assume that one's because nobody in the IT department knows how to edit the stylesheets. The unofficial GT thesis stylesheet is a hilarious example of copy/paste cruft, too, with bits taken from 20-year old U. Texas stylesheets and various other places.
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Yes, I think this does really help. I didn't really notice, but I do take time for these things, I have to, I am married and have 2 daughters, so it is not really an option not to...but I didn't reflect on how that balances the hectic start up part of life, even though being a mom in itself is hectic! Thanks for the input!