skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks much for the feedback. I clearly didn't understand them as well as I thought I did, though after reading http://stackoverflow.com/a/3085516/337184 I think I understand a bit more.

I'll update the post with a correction, and eventually write a "how I learned to stop worrying and love the difference between foldl and foldr" post. :-)
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maybe you are right
I know this post is specifically about global warming, but I thought I'd talk about climate change and conservation in general.

We are at the point of no return for climate change in my opinion. I just don't see a global will to enact the kind of change which would be required to reverse this.

Tiger populations have decreased from an estimated 100,000 at the start of the 20th centry to around 3000. Lion populations have decreased 30-50% in the last few decades alone. ([1] and [2]).
I fear that we will see these, and many more iconic species go extinct in our lifetime.

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but the ice-melt could precipitate a "Day after Tomorrow" kind of event, with the warm currents changing course [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger#Conservation_efforts
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion#Population_and_conservatio...
[3] http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/05...
If that's what helps you deal with failure then go for it. I agree with most of the points mentioned in the article but I don't see how that leads to 'antifragility' as the solution. A healthy dose of realism (perhaps cynicism..) works fine for me.
High-profile bloggers' priority is not to get the facts right. It is to generate traffic.
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Just go google for the news, one of the latest victim is the families of Guangcheng Chen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Guangcheng), whose family members gets sued for protecting himself (as "attacking ferociously), etc.

And take a look at the whereabouts of human rights lawyers at the sensitive dates.

You can't miss that.
You could just simulate a run of your algorithm against all the possible configurations left. Even with the segmenting trick from the article, this will sometimes be far too slow; but e.g. trying it for 10 seconds before terminating the computation may help.
I thought the challenge was "can you waste billions of dollars over decades and keep 30 year old radios in the field, stalling all progress", handily won by JTRS.

(This is somewhat sour grapes, but JTRS really was one of the worst run programs in the history of the military. It got lapped by commercial SDR 2-3 times, and then, because it was the "program of record" for radios, went out of its way to block deployment of other radio systems in Iraq/Afghanistan. The USMC eventually was able to deploy their own hacked up wifi + satellite system in spite of this, and the Army, etc. switched to a bunch of commercial radios. Due to JTRS, though, there was a period where people were actually using FRS, those unencrypted short-range things, for military use.)

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/how-to...
MX is the best for now, but if Android VLC could get desktop parity, with streaming, encoding, etc all in one package, it would kick butt.

I have vlc on my Android tablet, but it doesn't utilize hdmi out to tv properly. I think most other media programs will take exclusive control of an hdmi attached screen if they are set into fullscreen, vlc as of the most recent beta I was running didn't.
However wasteful it's still a pleasant change from warrantless wiretapping and other NSA malfeasance.
I didn't know that, thanks. Seems less useful though.

What's the correct term for a continuation as I understand them? (eg: as they are in Haskell, Ruby, Scheme etc)
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/2.0.6/
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lol i have a friend who built up a pretty reasonable business in Australia that i used to help from time to time.....lol everything you said was 100% correct and the tone was totally appropriate.

The guy who said contracting is easy made me chuckle....you can tell they've never hired anyone before :)
how meta.
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All education is a form of indoctrination. When you teach a kid to read you are indoctrinating them, but you do so with the assumption that if you don't teach them to read they will be worse off. So you indoctrinate them. As we all go through life people are interacting making similar judgement calls based on time, place and circumstance. So indoctrination in that regard is omnipresent and has a good side. Sorry to be off topic but I felt like typing that. I agree that we should fight our shallow inclinations to sensationalize in ways that diffuse "robust" learning.
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Hi dizzystar,

Thanks for your congrats - it does feel good, although I'm sure some of that is the pre-Xmas drinks!

I'm surprised that when you added sharing buttons that sharing decreased - do you have any idea why?
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It's not what it seems to claim:

This Node module provides a fairly complete set
of wrappers for the RSA public/private key crypto
functionality of OpenSSL.

So it's wrappers for someone else's RSA code.
In any field in which there is a concentration of employers relative to employees. Which is to say: most of them.

This is true not just of the employment market, but of most goods markets. There are far more buyers of cars/computers/cheese than sellers. Does this mean that pizza producers have oligopoly selling power?

Your theory is too broad. It applies to virtually everything.

In the economy at large, the situation still remains true. An employer need pay an employee no more than that employee could claim at another job (or by going into business for him or herself), given the employee's skillset.

Conversely, an employee needs to accept as wages no less than the wage he could get from another employer. This is true of any market - a purchaser needs to pay no more than market price, and a buyer needs to sell for no less than market price.

All you are describing is market pricing. Are you claiming all markets are oligopolies or oligopsonies?
What your hacker can and cannot do is far more important than what he/she says. Your hacker can have perfectly written dialogue, but if he hacks into the GPS system of a Cadillac and turns it into a remote-control car it's not going to matter.

A lot of Hollywood screen-writers use computers as a form of magic to get around plot difficulties. Say your heroes meet a bunch of aliens and you don't want to dedicate a 30 second montage to the months or years-long process of a team of linguists learning to communicate (badly) with them. Have your hacker set up a nice translation program on his special unobtanium-core uber-computer and, presto! When those aliens turn out to be not so nice, again the hacker can save the day by slicing into their mainframe and blowing up their mother-ship with a mac virus!

You get the idea.

You can pick up all the hacker language you want, but if you don't pick up some real knowledge (or run your plots past real hackers) you're going to make the same mistakes practically every other Hollywood screenwriter does.
I have a question. How does one solve negative birth rate effectively? What are possible cases in which the trend was reversed?
I guess this shows how few people actually look at the source code. There's no Sass in the repo, just the compiled CSS.
Take a look at Mathics [1]. It's a FOSS Mathematica clone with browser-based notebooks. You can try it free online [2]

[1] http://mathics.org/
[2] http://www.mathics.net/

Disclaimer, I'm the Mathics vice developer.
There could be several reasons, but my research suggests that the practice of using social-sharing buttons blows up in your face more often than not. It may have been partly because of the location of the sharing buttons (this apparently is the number one issue). It could also be a matter of timing: I would have to get front-page here again with social sharing so I have proper data to work with.

I did have significant traffic from another site I won't name here and that didn't generate any social sharing. I honestly think people will share only if they want to. I've recently been paying more attention to the counters on other websites, and it is quite surprising anyone would publicly advertise such low numbers.

I guess you'll now have some gAnalytics to look at and you'll get a more clear picture of where your traffic comes from.
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A class that has a name that's not a noun should always be suspect, imo.
I'm so sorry for all the small local businesses that can't get any customers from Yelp, internet advertising, advertising on the side of a bus, putting up flyers, having an enticing enough storefront, providing a good enough product/service to get word of mouth, setting up a daily deal, advertising on the radio, or hiring someone to stand by the side of the road with a sandwich board, and have to resort to the frankly sociopathic behavior of wasting valuable time and resources mailing me trash to throw away.
There is a massive demand for talent in all the cities mentioned in the thread. Places like Amsterdam and Berlin have a pretty signifant skills gap. I tend to see people who would perhaps struggle to get gigs in London get relatively senior positions elsewhere.

As for London being expensive to live, that really depends on where you live, there are some very affordable areas if you are willing to commute and the other costs of living (bar travel) seem comprable in my experience.

Good luck
One might as well blame the <input> box.

No, seriously -- there's a context-free aspect ("Write a comment...") of a blank comment box that invites all range of interaction, positive and negative, relevant and not. Imagine if instead of a blank <input> box, users were prompted with a question ("Do you also like ice cream?") or statement ("Leave your condolences...") that guided the relevancy of the response.
What will programming look like in 2020?
But the climate models which we consider 95% accurate (and on which the scientific consensus surrounding AGW is based) say it will work.

If the models are inaccurate for predicting what might happen under a Pinatubo-like forcing, why do we believe they are accurate for predicting what would have happened absent anthropogenic carbon emissions? (Note that scenario also involved Pinatubo-like forcing.)
This is what one calls anecdotal overload and should set one's bullshit alarms blaring.

No data. No definitions. Just entrepreneurial feel good bullshit.

I stopped reading these types of articles for the purpose of trying to discern any type of value other than trying to understand how delusional people think. There are oh so many of them - I try to make sure I don't get freight trained by them.
In a sense, it's lovely that people living in the middle of nowhere in Alaska who require bush planes to fly hundreds of miles to deliver anything to them can get a letter for only 40-something cents courtesy of the US Postal Service. The American system of government is all about enabling people's selfish choices to live in the wilderness by forcing everyone else to subsidize their infrastructure, and that's a truly wonderful thing. Can we please find a better way of doing so than stuffing trash in my mailbox every week?
You sure this isn't the Onion?
It did work in my case. I have a design blog which did help me get a lot of design clients!

PS: What might work for someone maynot work for you. You have to find that unique thing (idea) that might work for your case. Based on your skill set.
My unseemly ranting about a popular hosting service was pinned to the top of HN for about a day. It was good for about 20,000 visits.

If you think 20,000 visits in 24 hours is a lot, it's not. It just isn't. It hasn't been since 1998.

But the audience is valuable.
With all due respect, I don't believe you. Your comment history on HN is "Should buy the .com" and you have conveyed zero insight around today's question. I judge you are trolling.
You do realize that Lion/Tiger populations have basically nothing to do with AGW, and have dropped due to hunting by humans and habitat destruction, right?
Despite having No-No sticker on my mailbox, I'm still getting a bunch of junk mail. It is frustrating.

What's even more annoying is mail sent to a previous tennant.
Not marketing. Definitely not marketing. I spent $50 on marketing and it got me about $3k worth of business on the first two weeks. Just some flyers and self-printed business cards.
Mac OS X' kernel is Xnu, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xnu , which is based on the Mach microkernel but with pieces and bits from FreeBSD bolted on, for a hybrid approach.
European train company leaks over 1 million customers personal data
The leak contains data about EU Parliament and Commission officials.

https://nurpa.be/files/sncb-europe-data-leak-europan-parliament.png

https://nurpa.be/files/sncb-europe-data-leak-europan-commission.png
I'd like to see a hologram or something as the stamp, only accessible to people with a code key that proves they have been invited to send me mail. A company can send a request via e-mail or a social netowrk to "schedule a delivery" that I will read. If I decline, no code, and no permission to send mail. Then, every mail without a hologram can be thrown in a designated bin by the delivery guy (trash, recycle, or what not). It is a huge social cost for CCC million usa citizens (and other around world) to have to wast time with this <sorting> of junk mail everyday. Since the mail guy is sorting it out, this would let him also sort the trash from what is actually useful.
Literally speaking, the problem with Tim O’Reilly’s 'Key' is that someone might've changed the 'lock'
I think that this article underestimate the ability of Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux developers community. Leadership, dispute resolution, technical choices, compatibility or new features, and teven flamewars. It's very difficult to be a BDFL.

The idea is that if Linux were not available, the open source community would have been working in Hurd and not in Linux. But without Linus perhaps the community could not exist (new member leave after a few quarrels) or all the effort is lost in complete rewrites.
Totally agree. Even worse is when someone tries to shove another language down your throat in a JavaScript tutorial i.e., CoffeeScript.
This came up a few times already and it really isn't as wrong as it sounds. In Haskell all "side effects", which include memory stores, are in the IO monad (with a few exceptions).

Writing a global variable is a side effect, because you change something other than the return value of a function. Reading would still break functional extensionality: Calling a function with equal arguments might yield different results in different contexts.
Ever heard of web-based software?
There is a large percentage of users on HN who are neither tactful nor socially competent.

I've been here for 6+ years and while much of the time the discussions can be insightful, many other times you get people who are overly aggressive and downright mean because they're either unable to control their jealousy or throw away all decency for the pursuit of Truth and Accuracy.

I really don't know if it's because of something like Aspergers, or that maybe hackers tend to be overly analytical and take pride in that over being civil. I find myself complaining about it from time to time.

This is the norm here.

Edit: OP, "A Dribbling, Selfish Jerk" should be the title of your blog from now on.
As you're pointing out, the private sector has relatively little interest in employing scientists. That's fine--I was mainly talking about business and engineering.
Congrats you're on the front page of HN now! Nice insights on the post though.
I did not do the math, but I think a huge, huge object would be needed in order to shadow even 1% of the Earth.
Exactly my experience. I've been running a private OpenVPN instance for a couple of years now -- a month ago they started blocking it. Switching ports works for approximately three hours.
It almost is, most Indian newspapers are quickly becoming indistinguishable from satire..
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I wonder what companies actually use these for. I've worked for a couple of companies that gave them to all the employees and then completely ignored the results. Probably just a ritual thing, I guess.
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Actually, it is happening. The western world's wealth has been decreasing over the past 10 years while the rest of the world has been rising out of poverty (for the most part).
Lots? The whole state has about as many people living in it as the Columbus metro area, and the price of housing has been bid through the roof. ND isn't going to make a dent in the national unemployment statistics, and with a 2-bedroom apartment going at USD 2500/month no one moving there is going to get rich either.
Mark Zuckerberg is the John Wilkes Booth of Privacy
Seems good. Has anyone tried to order photos?
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Myers-Briggs is the corporate equivalent of those "Is He Right For You? - Take Our 10 Question Soulmate Quiz" things that have done a brisk trade in magazines since time immemorial.
> As you're pointing out, the private sector has relatively little interest in employing scientists.

Boston, San Diego and New Jersey might disagree with you. That's where the pharmcos are.
Now that you have all your analytical installed, I'm interested in seeing what they produce :-)
These kinds of solutions scare me because of their short-sightedness. I haven't seen any comforting explanations of how these reflective particles leave the atmosphere and where they end up such that their effects can be stopped. Solar energy has been and will continue to be the only actual source of energy on our planet. All other resources are finite and will eventually be depleted, many within our lifetimes or those of our children if reserve estimates are accurate. If our strategy for using finite energy resources is to block out the energy from our only infinite (at least millions of years worth) energy source, it would seem that we are shooting our grand children in order to have a bigger party today. Once the prices of oil and fissile materials get high enough, we'll be facepalming at a global scale when we have to rely on solar-derived power (biomass,PV,wind,etc) to fill the gap. Even if there are no unintended consequences (which I do NOT believe is the case), the intended consequence of reducing the total solar energy input to the planet seems like a simple case of short-term fix, long term problem.
I think that's a large part of it - just a cargo cult.
"But I never approached strange women on the street, only people that I knew or was introduced before."
Good for you to have broad circle of friends.

Also rape is not common in any first word country, but feminists claim 1 in 4 women will be raped... (had nice link about that claim but can't post it now).
Analogous to this I found category theory gave me a better/different view understanding of modern algebra and set theory.
Yeah I don't see any reason for this to be PiCloud over PyCloud. I don't know how long it's been named PiCloud but it seems like they're trying to cash in on Raspberry Pis success.
I agree these practice gives the feeling to do something without the burden of actually doing something. A more optimistic view would be, it creates some dynamic to introduce the idea of doing something. In any cases, the hard work remains to be done.
Have you seen Choremonster? https://www.choremonster.com/.

We've used Choremonster and it seems like one of the most engaging.

Your suggestion of taking photos sounds innovative, but in most cases you'll be there to witness the chores happening so the photos wont be adding anything other than maybe a bit of fun for the children. And the photos themselves may become repetitive, as the chores generally are. Perhaps there's another app idea where photos are used to communicate/manage something between parent and children.

We've used choremonster and its not bad at all. It's quite a challenge to get the balance right in terms of volume of tasks and granularity, so there's some upfront investment - and patience - to get things right. The children do get incentive from it though, but their interest quickly wanes, particularly when you've had a busy couple of days and haven't reviewed their completed tasks )
Yes, I know. If they implement it properly it's alright.

But my concern is that a it might get a security vulnerability when a nifty hacker finds a way to automatically submit the SMS.

And in my opinion omitting the feature is the best way to avoid that problem.
I actually think you got unlucky with this one. I've been fortunate enough to get a few posts onto Hacker News over the years and I've never received any remarks like the one you had.

Once bitten, twice shy (though also it appears twice on the front of HN so not all bad ;) however my experience is that most of the discussion and feedback from Hacker News is very good and that which is rude or genuinely unfair gets downvoted pretty aggressively. That doesn't of course account for private messages but for one reason or another I don't tend to receive those.
When you say 'because' to which of my questions is that the answer to?
In my local market there is a weird phenomenon. The price difference between premium and standard clients is around $5. I tested a lot of different price points, but there was always about $5 difference. Standard customers did also not want to pay anything above $30 for an exterior/interior wash/cleaning. My average sale was $20, if which I made about $6 (30%) in net profit. Not bad? Awful, due to the low volume aspect of the business. I could only do one client at a time, and spent about 45 minutes on each client. Could only book around 8 good clients in a day. It was hard work for little money (unsustainable). Then why did I do it? Because I thought that if I put out an app for people to use to book car washes through their phones, then I could scale the business by selling the sales leads to other on-site car washers and thus removing myself from the hard aspects of the market. I would get $1 for each lead while not lifting a finger. Problem is the app did not test positive at all. Not even in the iPhone (premium) market. I supposse it is a local thing, but I can't change that.
Is there any particular reason you are using GitHub issues instead of a more traditional todo list app?

I'd be worried about strangers opening issues about my house...
This reminds me of when we have deliberately or accidentally introduced a new species into an environment with very negative results. We then follow up by introducing a second species to attack the first species. We know how that has usually worked out. Just one example here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia
I thought Myers-Briggs was obsoleted by the Big Five, anyway.
Genuinely curious, what do generics have to do with this?