skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Source?

2-3) The idea that it should be painful to pay your taxes so that people won't want to pay their taxes is a political idea, not a technocratic idea. But I don't give a shit about your politics. Keep your politics out of my government services. Political meddling by ideologues is what makes government services so awful. Whatever the government is required to do after the law is passed should be done in as friendly and efficient manner as possible. Advocating for the most painful possible experience for millions of people is evil in my opinion.

4) Nobody said anything about "sole source". You could still get your taxes prepared by whoever you want. The rest of this paragraph doesn't make sense.
You're in luck! That's in beta now, too. I'll shoot you an email
Life, death, and free culture in the Mission
You would rather hire someone who knows hunger because it is part of your story. I know what you mean, my family story is very similar. But the truth is that people making hiring decisions are usually from that different background. Example. When I was in Greece and the crisis and unemployment was starting to explode, I had secured a huge implementation project and convinced the bosses to hire someone in addition to the current team. They did hire an LSE graduate and a Columbia one. I was telling them that it does not make sense when so many people are getting poor to give all jobs to people who do not have a money issue, but alas it is not how it works.
I raised this with them when I went through the process about 7 years ago. Seems not much has changed :(
For anyone wondering "why do we need jQuery plugins for simple things like this?", you may be interested in position: sticky. Here's an article: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/08/Stick-your-landings-po.... Worth noting that this hasn't actually been adopted as part of the spec, but it certainly would be a welcome addition in my opinion.

This plugin looks well-done, but I'm looking forward to a day when we don't need JavaScript to control layout like this.
It's definitely not critical for consistency; for boneless poultry, a coating of oil and a relatively quick cook on a very hot grill or grill pan gets fantastic results. Pounding it out to even thickness first is important for breasts or other cuts that normally vary in thickness, but thighs work phenomenally well with this method.

Brining is by no means necessary, but man, it sure can be great. It's just a matter of figuring out what your options are as far as cooking methods based on what it is you want to make.
"Besides, are there actually people so stupid that they would give their SSN/info to a site like that?"

Honest question. Are you saying that this particular site is less secure or all online e-filing services less secure? This is one of the options recommended by IRS[1] for e-filing.

[1] - http://www.irs.gov/uac/Free-File:-Do-Your-Federal-Taxes-for-...
"Transferring power and data wirelessly to displays as described in the patent is currently infeasible..."

So when someone does the actual work of figuring out the hard part of this idea... they won't be able to use it because of this patent?
Awesome, I have wondered at how interesting it would be to wander around those ships. Most look to be in pretty bad shape as you would expect. I'm guessing that it wasn't possible to get inside the Iowa at the time, as I recall back in 2011 it was probably still fitted with an existing combat information center (CIC) and wandering around inside would have violated a number of national security rules no doubt.

I wondered about why security would leave them alone if they had spotted them but it was pointed out to me that there are a number of folks who fish (inadvisably of course) around that bay. One wonders if there were any changes once this went public back in 2011.
Three-Parent Babies May Soon Be a Reality in Britain
First no remote working and now hiring based on credentials. Is Meyer moving Yahoo into the future or the past?
Moodmatch, determine contents mood in Python
Have you ever tried to work in a language other than your own? It's non-trivially harder. Also, Sony sell their SDK in several countries - why translate it into English, rather than say, Spanish (or insist they use English, rather than Spanish).
This is awesome. I'd really like to see a platform made for this.
How Flickr optimized for the new Yahoo homepage
I found that in some languages (Haskell, OCaml, Scala), a common way to write applications is to write the different parts you are going to need as generic libraries and then combine them together. I don't think this is the common way Go programmers do thing.

Go's packages make the practice described above explicit, and many go programs are made up of generic libraries (packages) which define protocols (interfaces) for the types which are passed in, and need know nothing else of those types in advance. So what you describe above as what Go should be like is the normal approach to programming in Go, and many parts of apps (packages) are actually reusable in other apps without modification precisely because of this.
I haven't used it much with Python, but I had a great experience with Qt with C++ and I know Python bindings exist. How much have you looked into it?
That probably means that the concepts you describe have to be common knowledge to those skilled in the art... basically a commodity. But what is described in this patent is unfeasible and whoever discovers the implementation could be only one of few who could do it.
You don't have to believe in free will to behave well towards others. You could simply have a rational belief that this mode of behavior leads to greater shared happiness, and that's enough of a justification for it.
The other day I was surprised to see that Go didn't have sets. After searching Google Groups, it was clear that the rationale is that "sets are easy to implement with hashmaps".

I feel though that having a set, or a multiset, whatever... is exactly the kind of abstraction that makes it easy to think about your programs.

In the end I felt that my Go port of some Python felt much more error prone that the original code.
having an army of the top engineers in the world isn't worth anything if they're not working on something people want to use.

In the words of devops borat: "In startup we have great of capability for churn out solution. Please send problem, we are pay good money." https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/315549020326088704
+1 Hollywood Stock Exchange [1] might be a good model.

[1] http://www.hsx.com/
@igouy: you have now made three comments without any substance, but which question the expertise of the original commenter on the basis of a small issue of nomenclature.

If you have something specific to say, say it.
By looking at their code? Testing? Hiring based on their university instead of their chops is pretty narrow minded. I would be livid if I found a great candidate but was refused the approval to hire them just because they didn't graduate from MIT or Stanford.
Still a 4th year Epitech student, I don't agree with your 'scam' affirmation. I'm pretty sure that I would not have been able to follow traditional schools due to some attention problems, but going to Epitech allowed me to meet a lot of skillful students (including in my own promotion) and get better. Of course it wasn't free, but it was definitely worth it (I will start my first long term contract in may, before getting the diplom).

The concept of 42 is really the same that Epitech (but free), but I'm wondering how they will be able to apply it on a whole new school (since it means that the p2p model will not work for the first promotion, and that there isn't any school network). Furthermore, I'm wondering why it's free. "If you don't pay you're the product". So I'm a bit cautious.
Trying to make people do the right thing with math and technology sounds scary as hell. How will that work? What about edge cases and outliers?

What we need is philosophy and persuasion. People need to learn better and understand why there actually are benefits to doing the right thing, not have an algorithm monitor them and punish for deviations.

Doing the right thing already is in one's self-interest. The problem is bad philosophy claiming otherwise. The solution is things like Objectivism which explain why the free market is good for people like you, why smaller government is better for everyone, how to live the right way and be better off (and how to think well in order to understand these things clearly. a great deal of the opposition to these things is confused and up to low quality standards).
In Amsterdam on Thursday? Come and join us at Abraxas...
We're a group of English speaking Amsterdam based hackers who meet up over a friendly joint to discuss code, mvps and all things startup.

http://coffeeshophackers.nl

If you're in the Amsterdam area and fancy joining us, fill in the form on the site and we'll see you on Thursday.

Edit: Fixed Typo
At their level you're better passing over a few good applicants than letting in some bad ones.

If you don't like it thats something we need to talk about changing in our industry, not just shooting ire at a single company. Mentorship is not common, and we consider 5 years of experience sufficient for a 'senior' position. Until that changes they are going to have to find some way to limit their hiring. (note: I don't 100% agree with these new practices, but I do understand where Mayer and Yahoo! are coming from)
Interesting idea. Mayonnaise is more or less colloidal eggs -n- oil so a cool extension of the mayo experiment would be to discover if superior results come from what amounts to a baking eggwash or what amounts to oil basting or is it really the combo?

Probably too early to plan experiments beyond that point without the results, but if it turns out the key is oil basting, rather than using more or less neutral oils like in mayo, it might be fun to try flavored oils. A "hot" jalapeno turkey? Maybe a nutty walnut oil basted turkey? Carotene butter basted turkey sounds weird, yet "for science" I might be willing to risk it. Of course you can make homemade mayos with the above non-neutral oils if experimentation shows the presence of eggs is required for the skin texture...

Putting up a food story like this at lunch time is dangerous, making me hungry.
I bought my wife a five gallon bucket at the local home improvement store for a few dollars. It holds your average-sized turkey just fine. Around here, in the cooler months, it hovers around 40F over night around Nov-Dec, so we let it sit outside on the back porch in the brine until morning (with a secure top, of course).
Interesting. It is pretty amazing and unfortunate after all these years (18?) Sun/Oracle hasn't made the default JVM memory allocation more adaptive/intelligent. Could the JVM -Xms option be used to try to mitigate this defect?

One note, Scala uses more memory than Java does, so it appears not all of this usage can be blamed on the JVM itself: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?t...
>I have this burning suspicion - borne out by my own anecdotal experience - that the most important thing distinguishing the median Harvard undergraduate from the median Good State School undergraduate is a capacity to absorb the tuition fees.

Not true. Even near the upper end, the price tag is not insanely high compared to top state schools --

Harvard policy states that families with annual incomes below $60,000 pay only a student contribution of a few thousand dollars, and families with annual incomes between $60,000 and $180,000 pay the student contribution plus a family contribution averaging 10 percent of annual income.
15 hours of programming a day? Holy shit. There's no way I could be productive/attentive for that long.
I suppose nothing other than I didn't know that existed. I'd fall back on the old "I like owning my data," but I will take ease of setup for a company I trust. So, looking in to that tonight.
T-Mobile iPhone goes from myth to reality: $580, but no contract
Rejecting more people is not the same as being more rigorous. They can be the same if your rejection criteria are well-chosen, but I don't have much faith in "the CEO glances at your resume." For all the problems that Yahoo! may have with recruiting talent, I have a hard time believing they can be solved by any filter process whose sole input is resumes.
I suspect your reading comprehension is broken.
Just because the person in question didn't take another job after 8 weeks doesn't mean he didn't have offers waiting.
Obviously the patent is stupid.

But the idea is great, I've had this repeatedly. I carry around at minimum 2 devices that are mostly redundant. It's wasteful.

I'd like one "base device" (today it would probably be a higher-powered version of your phone) and several satellite devices.

A big screen that my phone snaps into or talks with is #1 on my list
C++11 Via TFL (Test-Focused Learning): Uniform Initialization
"What hasn’t? Graphs without labels on the Y axis." +1
for a more indepth discussion of django best practices, check out the excellent https://django.2scoops.org/ ...though I don't share their proclivity for CBV's
I am, and I've been using it as my personal calendar for about two weeks now. So far it seems fine enough, but a little wonky around editing events that repeat. Honestly, probably lack of training - I haven't spent more than 15 minutes with it per sitting, and stopped actively tinkering once I got CalDAV working.
jstreebin do you provide a pricing model for just address verification without the shipping?
Free will and self-awareness are different, but we seem to confuse them a lot. We are a cognitive agent and can know many different kinds of facts. Our lack of free will is just another fact that we might become aware of.
The culture thing to me has never meant doing things outside work. Is that a startup thing I'm not aware of? Even in the OP, I don't think that's quite what was meant. It's more a matter of shared interests and compatible personalities.

Maybe you're not the type to hang out outside work, you don't have time, whatever. But how well are we going to get along for the 8 hours a day we spend together?
I also am a Pascal refugee, having started using it with Turbo Pascal 3.0, and most of the versions until Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 and a few toy projects with Delphi.

What attracted me to Go initially, was Oberon's influence in the language, like the packages, method signatures, Pascal declaration way and low level tricks exposed via the unsafe package.

But like yourself after a while using the language, before the 1.0 release, I came to the conclusion that I am better served with more expressive languages.

So nowadays I play around with C++11, Rust and D.
I didn't catch the "peer-to-peer" part from the article, but that's interesting. (I'm not good with French.)

I understood that it would be based around doing a bunch of projects with peers and learning how to find information on the internet vs. learn it from a course/book.

So, how is this different from being a self-taught programmer? Does the peer interaction help that much? Are there any instructors to guide in any way?

Personally I'm a self-taught programmer (starting at age 10). I had slight pushes from my dad, and some peer influence from high school friends who were also self-taught programmers. Then I went to college and added a bunch of theoretical knowledge and more breadth (topics I didn't think to study) and depth (topics that I didn't care enough about to dive into on my own). Most of my practical ability to work is self-taught or on-the-job experience, but the schooling does help provide a better foundation for it.

So this sounds like it's meant to be a kick-starter to get people to be self-taught who didn't already teach themselves. Or is it more about getting some kind of "degree" so they are hire-able? (Whether a degree is legally necessary or just practically necessary.)
Right, debbugs is a definitely a bug tracker.

PostgreSQL is a better example of a project that uses a mailing list rather than a bug tracker:
http://www.postgresql.org/support/submitbug/
Yahoo's problems were almost entirely at the top. The products are bland and useless and there is no strategic vision. Refusing to hire from outside of top-twenty programs is a smokescreen, not a solution. Call me when Mayer is able to articulate what exactly it is Yahoo is selling.
Most important British innovation, heck, a case can be made that it is the single most important human innovation ever made. It hugely impacted everything from the purest of mathematics to the most mundane of modern practical concerns. As always, he stood on the shoulder of giants, of course, but he saw further.
Not mentioned: Mailing lists are idiot filters. If you can't use one, chances are rather low that you have anything of worth to say.

Just look at the issue trackers for many other open source projects: flooded with "me too!" comments.
Gravity assist
"Told people my name is Rupert, Tarquin, or Archibald"

Hey now, some of us resemble that remark.

Multiple middle names are good, especially if one of them is St. John. Now that I think about it, that's going to be my go-to first name. "How do you spell that?"
Love it. Each year, I do March Madness brackets and Fantasy Football. The only thing that surpasses my interest and knowledge in sports, is my interest and knowledge in the tech space, with special focus on investment injections and long-tail performances. Would love to see this become widespread. Keep it up!
Similar story with Sony patenting brain interface[1] . Funny thing was after watching the Matrix the first time, me and a friend were debating why people would want to insert something directly into the skull and mess around with neurons possibly. I suggested using sound waves to trigger nerve signals, he laughed at silly idea and it was forgotten . A year later saw the Sony patent on slashdot and for a few minutes i really did think they had done some work on this, till i realized they had just called 'Dibs' on the idea.

[1] http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18624944.600-sony-pate...
I've never really understood the fascination with dressing like you're still a sloppy college kid.

Some of us actually enjoy dressing like a grownup.
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Is that what happened in this case? Again, this is turning into an anti-government diatribe. The original assertion was that the IRS would apply heavy penalties for getting math wrong on the return. No, that's incorrect. Then it was that they'll assess a 12% penalty. No, that's wrong too, it's just a 4% APR.

Now your claim is that they're... what, lying in wait? Deliberately maximizing penalties? That's not my experience (our mistake was caught after about 5 months I think). You have a counterexample?

(Edit: and reading the replies, the discussion has now slipped yet further afield from the original assertion, and in two directions: on one hand, it's now outrageous -- yet somehow still an argument against the reforms in the linked article -- that some people merely have "bad experiences" with the IRS. On the other the IRS are apparently now highway bandits literally robbing people with threat of force. I give up.)
That wasn't the moral lesson I was aiming for ...
Can you elaborate on this? Where would you go to meet these people?
> So, how is this different from being a self-taught programmer? Does the peer interaction help that much? Are there any instructors to guide in any way?

If it's just like Epitech, it means that the teachers will be the students. 2nd-year teaching to 1st-year, etc. It's not as bad as it sounds, since it's possible to pick the 'best candidates'.

Also, I really think that peer interaction helps a lot. You definitely learn something when you have to work with people which does not have the same mindset than yours. You also have to deal with a lot of things such as "do not work with your friends", or "if you fail, the whole group fails", or "always have a leader in a team" etc.
> other p2p streaming applications don't either,hence why they fall down upon high demand.

This patent does not claim anything novel. This idea of "clubs of peers" or groups has been around for a while.

This well known paper from Torino, Italy, written a few years ago: "overlays are maintained by peers organized in clusters that represent sets of collaborating peers", http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2010.2077623

Disclaimer: my research team is part of the open IETF Internet Standard on P2P streaming which is directly competing with this patented technology, http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protoco...

Anybody else has an even older citation of prior art?
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Sounds like recruiting people like me which is never a good idea - could lead to problems with accusations of discrimination.

And it all depends on interpretation as what is a top university I worked on campus at Cranfield University in the Uk.

There was a joke on the CIT campus was they looked down on lesser institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge Harvard etc as "they offered BSc's as well as Masters and Phd programs"

Cranfield at the time only offered higher degrees
Given Niel's [nee-ell] outstanding track record, in terms of turning upside-down old markets paralyzed by established fat cats; given how firmly education belongs to this category; and given how badly it needs to be reinvented, this experiment is really intriguing.

For a bit of cultural context, higher education in France works quite differently from the US: it's mostly tax-funded; what we call cheap education is a couple hundreds € a year, full medical insurance included; a very expensive school would be €4-6€ a year. The best schools are cheap (a few select ones even offer a modest salary to their students). The worse ones, "universités", are cheap as well. Expensive schools are in the middle, for kids of wealthy parents who do OK at school, but aren't good enough to pass the best schools' very selective entry competitions.

Of course, these institutions being run by academics and civil servants, they aren't exactly reactive nor modernist; I've recently read a prominent school official explaining that Wikipedia wasn't trustworthy because it was user-editable, as opposed to journalists' papers... They offer a very solid mathematical and scientific background, but usually not much in terms of immediately employable skills. I'm not sure whether it's a good or a bad thing: school ought to teach you what you won't learn by yourself, the rest you'll pick up at your first employment, in exchange for a junior salary. But I've got the impression that schools filter mathematically-gifted student more than they train them.

Niel seems to concur, and to believe that maths/science gifts don't correlate well with actual development skills. Even if it's not true, there certainly are potentially skilled developers who do poorly at maths and science, and this talent pool is totally unexploited today, so he's right to try and valorise it.