skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is, not at the scale they operate at. You're not saving any database lookups, and their bandwidth is probably cheaper. Plus the lifetime of their uploads is extremely limited - an hour or two?
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> $foo will grow stronger than ever.

-- Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Yeah, sure.
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in my understanding the jury is still out on whether D-Wave actually has a quantum computer or not, e.g. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954
Think of it like a really crowded dormitory whose lower floors are overrun by a never-ending frat party. The first person you run into when you show up will likely be projectile vomiting, or teabagging someone who passed out. Bored jerks are free to wander upstairs and urinate in any room in the building, and the deafeningly loud music and incoherent screaming is a backdrop (albeit distant at times) to every stimulating conversation that takes place.

If you want to enjoy yourself, you kind of have to know where you're going, and how to knock. Even on "quiet" boards like /lit/, the front page is churning with new threads. Everything is steeped in weird slang and inside jokes. There is no respect for newcomers. People who don't "get" the culture are dismissed with "lurk moar" or simply ignored.

Also, there is always someone, somewhere, who will find any given post hilarious.
"I'm not sure why charging people is considered to be a shocking idea."

A few thoughts. One obviously is taking the social proof of what others are doing and copying it.

The other is that "if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all". So having revenue of $0 is better than having revenue of $15000 (2nd number arbitrary just trying to illustrate that by showing a number you are likely to be judged differently then if you never charged at all and can point to eyeballs or signups and have the focus on that).
As I understood it, both the Paramecium and the amoeba have a single cell. The wasp has many. (I had to reread that a half-dozen times to figure that out...)

Original: "It’s pictured next to a Paramecium and an amoeba at the same scale. Even though both these creatures are made up of a single cell, the wasp..."
The Paramecium and amoeba, both of which are roughly the same size as the wasp, are single large cells; the wasp is multi-cellular.
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What kind of comment system do you want?

I'd write something in detail but I really can't guess what your complaint would be. Unless you want recursive threading or tags.
That doesn't answer the question of WHY everybody should have that skill set.
It may be a good idea to step back and try to understand what happened here more carefully before starting to bash Barclays as the politicians would have us.

First, remember it would be very easy to design a system for libor rate setting that was very hard to manipulate. You could require trading to happen via an electronic exchange and volume weighted average price would be libor. The reason we don't have a system like that is because the politicians and regulators prefer it that way, banks have lobbied for an electronic system many times.

Second, note that Barclays was consistently filing reports with rates at the upper end of the LIBOR range if not the very highest. Barclays was getting repeated messages through the British old boys network asking it to lower it's filings but was not heeding those calls, which given the pressure put on it was actually commendable behavior. Instead Barclays was publicly pointing out to all who would hear that submissions by other banks were not credible. There is now way for example that Citigroup or RBS was borrowing at lower rates than Barclays, yet they were consistently filing lower reports. Note that during this time the regulatory playbook was all about trying to hide the symptoms of the crisis so that confidence would be restored. Remember the genius move by the SEC to ban shorting of US financial stocks which was followed up by European regulators banning shorting of all stocks.

Finally, the assistant treasury secretary tells Bob Diamond that Barclays rates need not be at the upper end of the range consistently. Now the only reason for a call like this is to give Diamond an order to lower rates with plausible deniability.

Note also that this whole "scandal" happened because senior Barclays management themselves found issues, hired an outside law firm to investigate and turned over all evidence to the FSA. In light of this the UK serious fraud office wanted to investigate other banks but their funding was cut to prevent this so they abandoned the investigation. The funding was only restored today after the funding cut threatened to become a bigger scandal.

Maybe we need to pay more attention to what the politicians are doing and less to what the bankers are doing?
Badly worded paragraph. I re-read it many times before I understood.

The "both" refers to the Paramecium and the amoeba. It's saying that despite having all those other organs (and neurons), the wasp is actually smaller than the single-celled amoeba and paramecium.

EDIT: Don't delete your comment. You won't be the only one with that question..it'll help others!
PHP stole my sister's bike.
I can't vote this down enough.

I have worked with a lot of people and mentored quite a few at companies I've worked at. Some were designers, some weren't even in the IT departments. Any that wanted to learn something about we programming I lead in the direction of PHP which I cut me teeth on before moving onto other things (currently Scala). They could get a dev environment up and running in no time, and better than that they could actually host something they did on shared hosting for practically nothing (or actually nothing as I sometimes gave people sandboxes in my hosting).

PHP is a gentle introduction to server concepts and have a fairly simple and not-too abstract syntax. Yes yes, when you really look at it there are some fairly glaring inconsistencies but the reality these people were not at the stage where they would notice or care.

It's also embarrassing to me as a professional who, like most, believe that some knowledge in programming will be of great use to people (in business or otherwise) and try my best to support anyone I know wanting to learn something or better themselves that this attitude is so common and outspoken with no logical justification or attempt at rational counter argument. Programming is hard. Good programming is harder, and the levels at which some of us seem to hold everyone around us (and yet somehow I doubt they hold themselves to every minute at work) are unrealistic and can push people further away than do what we should be aiming for which is bringing people in.

I'm really proud of every one of the people who stuck with learning and letting me help them and I think it's appalling to belittle their efforts indirectly with comments like this.
$1,200/month goes a long way in the bay area, too, if you have any idea what you're doing at all.

As a graduate student at Berkeley, I had my own room in an apartment with a roof deck and uninterrupted bay view for $400/mo on a month-to-month lease in a great neighborhood. This was 6 years ago, but the same guy was still subletting the same rooms for the same price, when last I spoke to him.

When I moved to the peninsula to work at Apple, I had a small house with a yard and fruit trees in the nice part of Menlo Park on a month-to-month lease for $1000/mo. This was 4 years ago, but similar deals can definitely still be found (the same house was rented for $1300/mo recently).

Up to a year ago, my wife and I shared a lovely house with 1.5 acres in Palo Alto for $1800/mo, though we did need to sign a lease for that one.

When I travel back to the bay area now, I get an airbnb-type room in Palo Alto, and don't typically pay more than $800/mo short-term. A lot of things are listed at higher rates, but you can often negotiate pretty successfully. It certainly doesn't hurt to ask.

The ridiculous rents that you hear about in the bay area are partially due to a genuine real estate crunch, but they are largely also due to people having too much money and not enough sense. Paying $1200/mo for a dorm is nuts, no matter what city it's in.
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>It attracts people too stupid to realize that their own level of knowledge should make them avoid teaching others.

There are many very, very smart people that try to teach others as a form of their own expression and learning. People coming from other programming languages that are extremely talented in that language, often take on this role as they are confident in their abilities. That doesn't make them stupid, nor should it disqualify them from attempting to teach or help others.

> As soon as someone points out an issue they almost immediately switch to "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!".

I don't think that's a fair assessment at all. In my experience dealing with precisely that situation, I find that most are actually very willing to accept and admit to their fault. Even in the chat room, over the many years I've been there, there are far more people willing to accept their incorrectness over people who take offense.
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I'm Swiss and respectfully disagree.
What are the major technical barriers before we can identify the input and output channels to this insect's brain and start iterating through all possible input values, recording the corresponding output values? And once we can do that, could we use that data to fly a virtual insect around a virtual world?
That makes me wonder about what the economics of having a dynamic number of articles in the front page instead of the fixed 30 would look like.
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Your leave of absence causes demand for Erlang programmers which triggers interest to teach it and a flod of workforce. No more $blub. Hopefully.
You realize that writing an ironic page like that is very "hipster", right?
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Well, the fact that you mention "tied together by a proprietary program" means you guys are talking about two different things. He's talking about BSD vs. GPL whereas you are talking about "something" vs. some GPL/proprietary hybrid. Seems something like a strawman to me.
Who knows how it will work anyway. I also envision something like a TiVo (or other DVR). They would be constantly capturing video but only keep so much in the buffer. If something happens, you have the chance to actually record it (including the buffer in case it took you a few minutes to recognize it was worth keeping). I seriously doubt very many people are going to end up with 12hrs of raw video to review. More likely a hand full of clips. Depending on how big the buffer is, the clips would probably not be any harder to review than say 300+ digital photos from a day of sight-seeing.
Funny how much education you can afford when you're not overpaying for basic necessities.
"If you're going to cite Twitter and Facebook as an example, the odds of you creating a similar company are akin to finding Willy Wonka's golden ticket."

Most people I know doing startups especially in the Bay Area want that golden ticket. Odds are very low but that's what people aspire for.

Taking it to basketball analogy.

There are millions of basketball players out there and all of them aspire to one day play in the NBA. Chances are slim since there are only about 450 players in the NBA in a given season.
This is not flippant, but if you think about it, it's what separates us from animals.
I suppose. I used to find it fun, but some of the changes made more recently have drained much of the fun from it, for me.
Homeopathy is woo-woo at its worst. But it seems plausible that the majority of practitioners believe as much in its efficacy as do patients. When you say they are selling lies, you ascribe malice where self-deceit may be the more likely explanation. Of course, no manner of good intentions will help those desperately ill people who would have been better served by conventional medicine.
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Use the php `date()` function. Your server time should be UTC, your app time should be UTC

I think that this is advice that should never be given; it's too easy for someone else to change the timezone PHP uses somewhere else in the code. I agree that the servers should all be on UTC - and sync'd at that! - but it's unrealistic to hope that this will be the case in all instances; I've seen all kinds of weirdness from clients' codebases after taking their first steps off shared hosting / "my first VPS."

Use "DboSource::expression('NOW()');"

Basically, the only realistic option - and last time I searched (I admit, a while ago) really buried away ;)

I think the biggest problem with PHP is developers not truly understanding the API they are using, and then writing spaghetti code that happens to work.

Agree 100% with you. From some of the client code I've repaired, I've also stumbled over PHP developers apparently not understanding the very basics of programming, and crossing their fingers when it comes to running it ;)
> Anyone care to explain what these advanced patterns are useful for?

It's not intended to be used by newcomers. It's for people that write Flask extensions that should work in a wide range of environments. The word “advanced” is in there for a good reason.
Good point. But the idea is not to suggest an exact match but recommendations based on the user's preference/inputs. It could be different for everyone of course.
This! I think they may have other issues and this is just the way it is coming to the surface. IMO the copy on the site as is is not that good, It does not flow well, I would have liked to read it before/after the changes.
> I don't see why kids would sit there all with their phones/games out and not talk during the entire meal.

Because as this thread has pointed out, $200 meals aren't cool to everyone. Those kids couldn't care less; they'd rather be socializing with their friends (on Facebook, obviously) than talking to their parents.
Looks good - I'm also a big fan of http://www.leandomainsearch.com/
Freenode's IRC channels tend to be very good. ##c also has great resources on the C languages, for instance.
What do you guys think of my new site?
I wanted to get feedback on my new portfolio at http://masswerks.com

Went for a simple and clean look to really put focus on my work. Also used some jquery on page load to add some effects.

What do you guys think about the overall approach? Too minimal? Just right? Need something more?

Thanks
haha. No way this is the next iPod.
> What monster keeps inflation so low as to make it impossible for regular people to earn anything on modest savings

How would higher inflation help savers earn more money? Seems like higher inflation would hurt savers, not help them.
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Compare to the Japanese (I think?) law requiring cellphones to make an audible sound when a picture is being taken.

I wonder how those laws and courts will deal with Google Goggles there.
great post, thanks.

i also highly recommend using popular frameworks and libraries, since lots of them use the tricks mentioned in your article.

Another thing that's worth noting is the JSON Object Notation:
http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Mastering_JSON_(_JavaScript_Obj...

very readable form of declaration.
When I say "Add in interoperability of hashing functions", that is pretty much exactly what I mean. I realize I left out the specific method for converting the hashes over. And your separate column for when the hash has been converted is the equivalent of my suggesting for a HashVersion column. Also, you will likely never be able to "quietly remove the old way" because not all of your users are guaranteed to log in again. But yes, the idea would be to verify against the old hash, save the new hash when the user logs in.
Argentina has direct elections of the president, multiple political parties, and mandatory voting. How does that make them a "non-free country"? If anything that makes Argentines more free than citizen of the United States.

Also what is your criteria for a hard currency vs a soft currency? It seems weird to group the US Dollar and Euro with gold and put the Argentine Peso in a separate group.
Unfortunately, it's still the wrong definition. Ideally, journalists shouldn't feel obliged to make any distinction.
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A great model of what would happen if they go with the seemingly easy way out.

http://www.cavallo.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Greece-...
Does anyone know what the actual problem ever was?
I think the main difference is that if these routers came from the factory with FLOSS software that I could recompile and reload onto the device then Cisco would have a much harder time actually enforcing their particular implementation.
> People coming from other programming languages that are extremely talented in that language

PHP wouldn't be this worse if this was what would actually be happening, because these people would assess the situation and take away the control from the PHP team, due to its inability to do its job.

More realistically, people see PHP and run away screaming. The only people using PHP are those unable to see how unbelievably bad the language and its libraries are designed and implemented.

> I find that most are actually very willing to accept and admit to their fault.

- So why is the standard library in such a bad shape?

- Why is the documentation in such a bad shape?

- Why aren't there any established processes in place to prevent repeating mistakes (see above)?

- Why are large parts of the implementation barely maintainable?

- Why is the ecosystem still in such a bad shape?

- Why is the core team spreading bad practices instead of good practices?

- Why is the language so unbelievable slow?

- Why is the runtime and the garbage collector of such bad quality that it is completely impossible to run sufficiently complex applications over a larger period of time?
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Some people find fade-ins to be annoying, particularly at the duration that you're currently using.

And I imagine some HNers will not like how your site is blank when JS is disabled.
And/Or setup tons of cheap and easy hosting services. PHP bashing has jumped the shark.
Hypothetically could it be a good investment to buy all of these for $500K/yr?
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I'm in the pharmacy business, so this is of obvious interest to me.

>"but it's not yet something your doctor would prescribe you."

Because it doesn't require a prescription. There is nearly unlimited information on the product (including efficacy), and I can go into any pharmacy in North America and buy it off the shelf, no questions asked.

>"particularly when there are no patents"

The idea that you can't make money without owning the patent on something flies in the face of everything done in the hacker world, doesn't it? I don't buy into that theory, but can't really back up my opinion. The world is filled with companies who sell commodity products at a mark up, though.
I agree that the basic problem is familiarity. Even beyond syntax, OO code carries with it a certain set of idioms that are obvious to anyone versed in an OO language (e.g. instantiation). Likewise, functional programming has its own idioms that are not obvious to someone not versed in any functional language.
The Venezuelan way is faking the value of the Bolivar and pushing everyone to the black market to buy dollars.The official rate is Bs.4.30 per dollar. The black market rate is almost Bs.10 per dollar.

Are you aware that most of the products we consume here are imported? Venezuela almost does not produce anything other than oil.

So , the clothes you buy, the medicines,food,etc,etc, everything has to be imported. Not everyone gets access to dollars from the government , so you have to buy dollars in the black market to import products. This causes the 25-28% yearly inflation rate we have. In the end, the people pay the price.

The solution from the government against the black market rate : make it illegal to even talk about the black market rate. Basically,censor it.

I hardly think that is the proper way to run an economy.
Exactly. No way is this competing with legs or a bicycle. Legs can go on sidewalks and are free. Bikes are way more portable, cheaper, have a higher top speed (for most people), don't make you look like a goober (depending on your lycra addiction) and have no range issues.
Yes, it used to be next to impossible but they prominently display their number now, and I have yet to speak to anyone incompetent. It's almost like the missing limb of Paypal all these years. Super knowledgeable people who have been working behind the scenes that I haven't had access to.

I'm not saying Paypal (or any payment service) by any means is perfect or ideal. I just know my interaction with Paypal increased after I could access them by phone.

There is a certain peace in saying "I told you my entire business model before I started and you cleared it as a good fit with Paypal" and documenting it politely.

You'd be shocked how much a heads up of "I'm about to launch or might have a crush of traffic from x" does for their risk management department.

It doesn't mean we should notify them of every business decision through them, but it's kind of like building credit, in the beginning it will take a bit more effort on your part to go out of your way to do the right thing.

Otherwise, we're just a random unverified account with zero history with them. If they get to know you, like anything, things get easier. Scammers wouldn't want Paypal to get to know them, right? :)
Online newspapers post the rates daily. Buying from the black master is just a matter of heading downtown and looking for people offering exchange in the streets. It's accessible for anyone.
Good call. Definitely hard to please everyone - will have to do something that detects when JS is disabled. Thanks for your reply
"Um, could we talk about your edits?"
What's wrong with http://domai.nr ?
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Does anyone know how the nucleus destruction happens? Is there any analogy to regularization/sparsification in machine learning? Is there some kind of process that destroys the nucleus of the least useful neurons?
Are data hackers gravitating to R? Given that Oracle and (surprisingly to me) SAS now both support R in their offerings, it seems that at least the enterprise will be taking up more R for analytics.
Have you actually built all the sites you mentioned on the page ? The designs look great to me. Very clean.
I think it is just about right for the content. Anything more will make it too much.
Actually, your example includes the best reason for restating the objection. ""Why did you change my copy? I carefully selected each word" ... where the word selection refers to co-founder's response to Jesse.

Why choose words carefully when communicating to the public / investors, and not to team members / partners?
It's also summertime, so there's plenty of summerfriends already. Remember to read the sticky at the top of the first page.
>Let us know if you find anything good :)

I was surprised saalty.com wasn't taken. It sounds so damn cute. I just bought it on impulse because my heart melts at the drop of a hat for some dumb reason.

Now I have to draw something cute to put there, like a little deer licking a salt cube.