skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not cheating if everyone is following the same rules. Cheating is almost by definition an unfair advantage, when this was pretty close to a level playing field.
I just bought a 5k and 2.7k versions from Home Depot here in Canada for $15.97 CAD each.

My only gripe is the ~22% markup over the US pricing when the Canadian Dollar is worth ~2% more than the American (and has been for some time now).

I found it funny the way they had their lights laid out in my local store. There has always only ever been one aisle dedicated to twist-in bulbs.

When I entered the store today, and walked straight to that aisle. All I could find were phillips LED bulbs. Rashes of them. Almost every shelf in the aisle featured a Phillips LED bulb of some sort, for twice the price of the Crees. There were even Phillips LED comparison kisosks where consumers could turn on and off all of Phillips' LED bulbs. It was really quite a spectacle.

I broke down and finally asked a sales rep, only to be told the Cree bulbs were in the "fancy/expensive" lighting section of the store. The one where they sell all of the chandeliers and lamps, and you have never been able to find twist-ins for sale.

My gut feeling is that Phillips is scared they're going to lose market share over this, and are using their massive Home Depot contracts to negotiate poor placement for the Crees (and possibly poor pricing?). FYI 90%+ of the bulbs sold in Home Depots are Phillips.
Is there a difference between a bot favoriting your tweet, and spam that claims to saw your facebook profile, and wanting to sell you something? Both are lies, and intended to get your attention.
While the headline doesn't really match the article, because the article talks about surveys and not customer development, I want to point out one error I see quite frequently in startups or SaaS-businesses when they talk to users.

It can be summed up as: Asking the user for some sort of interaction and then failing to respond to the user's action.

This can be blog posts where there's an open question at the end with the goal to engage readers and failing to answer to interesting comments.

But I see it more frequently when I go for some sort of SaaS-trial, my account expires after a week or two, they ask me for feedback and since I'm not convinced of the product yet, I might give them feedback and state my concerns. That is actually the last chance for them to make me change my mind.

And they miss it. They simply fail to reply or to address my concerns that I stated in my feedback.

I don't have any numbers but my educated guess is that they lose quite a few customers this way. Some lost me this way and I bet there are others.
In the given program "a" doesn't have to be an array, just something that can be iterated with "for x in a". So whenever you name it something definite you degrade the quality of your expression and obscure the potential for more uses. It goes so far that I actually time and again observe the projects where the same constructs are copy and pasted and the variables renamed once as "cows" an another time as "horses."(It's even worse people introduce different classes or types or whatever). Just like when you'd write:

2 * cows ^ 2 + 3 * cows = 48

instead of 2 * x ^ 2 + 3 * x = 48. In the history of the mathematics there was a time when x didn't exist, just "cows" - you weren't able to write an expression involving "the one unknown, no matter what it's supposed to represent." That was very long ago, still a lot of programmers today don't recognize the power of abstraction.
OK, so would you be OK with it if unauthorized access to a computer system (eg an ex-employers or some other case where the lack of authorization is clear and criminal intent is present) resulted in a charge of burglary?
"though it would let them monetize some debt"

And there you have it.

Yes the problems won't magically go away. "They have unsustainable economies due to excessive public welfare programs and unfavorable demographics" can be said about most countries.

But of course GDP growth y/y is sustainable ad infinitum.

Here in the USA, when we run out of money we can print some more and pass the cost to nations who use the USD in foreign exchange (Kudos for China and Australia for trying to get out of this hole). But in the EU, they have to appease the troika before they run some database queries. (And as we have seen with cyprus, now you also have to sell an arm and a leg, what's next?)

In the world where central banks are openly buying stock with their freshly minted database queries…what could go wrong?
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Same story, submitted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5599919

In addition, here is the same story, but with a happy meal, not a single hamburger:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/happy+meal?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1307783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647759

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1656044

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1798846

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799236

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1256516 <- This one, although dead, has the most comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1835272
Yes, and a bunch of other charges would exist. Since you're so convinced of your rightness on this, be specific, tell u which charges he would have faced in the two different situations, and calculate the different penalties he'd be eligible for.
I don't go out of my way to avoid EA games, but I never buy games unless they're on Steam or in a Humble Indie Bundle, so I probably haven't bought any recently (since EA launched Origin).
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QuantNet maintains a Master Reading List as well:

https://www.quantnet.com/threads/master-reading-list-for-qua...

A few words of advice for anyone interested in this field as a career:

1. I would caution anyone on speculatively learning a new programming language in the hopes of getting a job. Your boss will tell you what to learn when you get hired. Don't ask strangers on the Internet for how to allocate your time.

2. "Quantitative Finance" is a broad field. High-frequency trading and exotic options trading have no overlap. So putting together a list of what-to-learn-to-be-a-quant is really foolish. It's like creating a master knowledge base for all of programming without narrowing the field to web, embedded, gaming, etc.

3. The best way to learn is to get a job in the field. I'm surprised at how often I have to repeat this.
Without a mapping of a company's score to its value, these ratings are non-sensical. Considering probably only public data is the input and the actual function isn't open, there is great reason to doubt the rating.

I've made a similar exploration of W13. My scoring is my personal biased judgement. The whole effort isn't to get a US News Top 100 list, but to better understand the rating system itself.
http://blog.kirigin.com/angel

A simple thought experiment: how is this different from a random ranking? How would you know?
Really minor nit: The name for the all-bits-zero byte is NUL. NULL is C's null pointer value, which is also represented by zero (but does not fit into a byte).
I've had tons of issues. Especially around power management, multi-monitor support etc. When I "Hibernate" I also need to roll a d10 to know if it'll actually come back up. This is anecdotal but on same hardware there are no issues under Windows and everything works as expected. Eclipse seems less stable and slower under Ubuntu which is probably related to the Java run time. Firefox also less stable. Webcam sometimes doesn't work. Audio suddenly stops playing until you touch the volume. Couldn't get WebEx working under Ubuntu (tried lots of suggested workarounds). The kind of stuff that just works in other OSes.
I think the analogy is better than you are giving credit. I would say cars can in fact have much stronger influences in our lives than online banking can. For example, cars are much more likely to kill you. It's a much more important skill to recognize when your brake pedal is getting squishy so that it doesn't fail when you are careening down a mountain road, or recognize that an oncoming car is swerving erratically, than it is to realize you are logging in to an insecure phishing site. In the former case you end up dead, in the latter case your checking account gets wiped.
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Strange, did you ask their reasoning by chance?
To clarify, when I say "learn about SSL", I mean people should know how to tell if the connection is "secure" or not, and that secure ensures that there is an extremely high probability that the domain they are talking to is who they say they are, as verified by some people that Google / Microsoft / Mozilla decided were trustworthy. Similarly, I think people should understand that emails can travel unencrypted between sites and are easily spoofed. I'm not saying they have a working knowledge of the RFCs for SSL and SMTP. I agree with the way you worded it - perhaps I made it sound too involved.

edit: another, perhaps more humorous example. How many times have you heard about people "hacking" their Facebook accounts and getting "viruses" on Facebook. I've been asked by multiple people to fix their computers, when the real problem was they had no idea what they were doing on the Internet.
Not a Chilean company, although they did participate in Startup Chile.
My bedroom has exactly one lamp - aside from dimming (which I use) what do you recommend?

To "turn on less lights" I'd have to install "more (varied) lights".
The problem with this data is that it comes from Survata, which is one of those god awful spammy survey walls that makes users fill out a survey before they can access the desired content. When your data comes from being hostile and annoying to users, I don't think it can be trusted.
Ok... so I haven't had to handle this much traffic before, bear with me!
Gotta love that false consciousness.
I would rewrite the title to be "the death of being aware of the filesystem".

The filesystem is still there. They are creating an abstraction layer such that you don't care about it anymore.
And yet they refuse to do an updated M.U.L.E. game. Go figure.
It is comments like this that wish I could up vote several times
I don't think it's that simple.

Diablo was designed to be repetitive (at least it seemed to me, it's a hack-and-slash game), and the levels are quite frankly bland in comparison to Skyrim, not to mention it's played on third-person view-from-above tiles.

Is anyone aware of randomized level design in a first-person game? It seems like a much more challenging task to get right. If you want to avoid repetitiveness at the scale of Skyrim I'd guess you would need reusable assets on the scale of pieces of a tapestry, and creating unique dungeon layouts would be extremely difficult, as they need to be designed to hold the attention of the player. I believe it's difficult to create artistically interesting and attractive layouts randomly without reuse of large pieces of dungeons (the main pain point in Bethesda's modular style).
I still think Battlefield is probably the best of its genre, and am looking forward to BF4.
Surely one of the main points of the exercise was that, precisely because there wasn't a curve, whole-class cooperation can result in everyone in the class getting a higher score (20% higher) than they usually would.

Grading on a curve wouldn't be the same game just 'more interesting', it'd be a completely different game, and one that's lost most of the "To win at some games, cooperation is better than competition" aspect.
Haven't seen any yet and I've been using it all morning.
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I would be curious what the students thought of the process.

I am sure that the essay was good. I am sure that some learned a lot. But how many just road coattails and didn't learn much other than how to copy? In a game like this where everyone stands to gain, and nobody loses, the incentives are to let everyone participate because the cost of riding is free. How many took advantage of that?

Also on a task like this, individual personalities of key figures matter a lot. My guess is that just a few individuals were responsible for a lot of the dynamics.

The whole exercise would have been more interesting - and more competitive - if he had started with a grading scale at the start, same rules, but said that he would rank answers against each other, with multi-way ties being ranked at the median of the group. (So if 5 people tie for 3rd, they will all be scored as 5th.)

This would push cooperation/competition to a new high.
I spent some of my highschool years in a differnt country in boarding school and grades and class rank where constantly posted for everyone to see It brought out a real competitive spirit in me and in the whole class and maybe a little shame for the the people at the bottom of the list . I thought It was a very effective tool in keeping the class as whole engaged but that type of thing would never be allowed in the US for multitude of reasons.
Why I turned down investor money for my company
I get IKEA ones which are really cheap. They've lasted me 4-6 years. There's a warranty too as long as you keep the receipt.
> many of them so tightly constrain what the people say, you might as well be talking to robots

I worked for a company (they were the U.S. market leader in their online communications niche) who took this to an extreme. They outsourced their customer service, and in a misguided effort at quality control scripted every single response a service rep was allowed to say. As in, they were literally prohibited from saying anything that was not a scripted response during a support call.

Eventually a rumor circulated that the folks responsible for retention and turnover decided to fight their poor numbers by manipulating the scripts to make it as difficult as possible to cancel service. Don't know for sure if that was true, but there was circumstantial evidence in the (sometimes comical) live chat scripts that infuriated customers posted online.
>> Rusts features look to be a superset of C++... You could substitute "too complex" with "too big".

Feature wise I'd say Rust has more in common with a functional language.

* Consistent type system. (base types like int are objects)
* Emphasis on type safety.
* First class functions and Lambdas.
* Pattern matching.
* All memory is somehow managed or owned. (#1)
* Isolated concurrent memory. (No need for semaphores/mutexes)
* 'variables' are immutable by default.
* Types with traits instead of a "class" system. (#2)
* No exception catching (#3)
* Generics (#4)
* No direct null/nil (Options are used instead.)
* Concurrency is built in.
* Can allocate on the stack, or via a managed 'box' on the heap. (#5)
* Has the ability to link to and call C code.
* Has the ability to break out into inline assembly.
* Macros. (#6)

The manual is reasonably decent: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/rust.html

#1) Technically you can break out into unsafe memory operations or assembly. You have to specifically mark your code as 'unsafe' when doing so however.

#2) Similar to Haskell type classes and way simpler then C++ classes.

#3) There is a kind of error/exception but they are way simpler and not meant to be managed like in C++/Java

#4) Don't confuse generics with C++ templates. (C++ templates can be used for the same purpose, but is WAY more complex and interesting.)

#5) Perhaps the most complex part of the language... Boxes are a bit like smart pointers but with way less code involved.

#6) I have not gotten into this very deeply yet but it looks more like Lisp macros instead of C/C++ macros/preprocessing.

For perspective... C++ has about 84 keywords. Go has 25 keywords plus several predeclared identifiers (true and false for example). Rust currently has 32 keywords. (Some of which are just syntactic sugar).

>> I thought this was an interesting and friendly conversion, not a flame war.

(Was trying to show that she saw the subject light heartedly.) It was meant more as a tease then an accusation :)
Use a simple license written with at least some vague grasp of the needs of copyright law for licensing, please. Much as I respect the people associated with Copyheart (Nina Paley, who I think created this whole Copyheart thing, is the "artist in residence" at QuestionCopyright.org), I find the way some people try to basically just pretend copyright doesn't exist as a way to fight against the problems it creates somewhat naive and/or irresponsible. If you want to make your works available freely to others in the same spirit as the Copyheart thing, feel free to slap a Copyheart message on it, but please add a simple, clean, copyfree license on it (such as the COIL, Open Works License, or WTFPL) on the thing as well.

The reason to do that is not for your benefit so much as it is for the work's benefit and that of the recipient. A vague, hand-wavy statement like the Copyheart message can expose people who copy, share, and possibly modify your works to legal difficulties down the road. Consider, for example, what happens if you get hit by a bus tomorrow and a week later your heirs start sending DMCA takedown notices to people circulating remixes or modifications of your work, even if those remixes are respectful, adhere to the spirit of your efforts, and give all due credit to you as the creator. Chances are very good that any attempts to fight such takedowns would not stand up well in court if the Copyheart message is all that you offered as "protection" for the people spreading your work to new fans.

Please, do the responsible thing. Use a simple license that is very clear and complete in its intent, such as the COIL, Open Works License, or WTFPL -- or pick anything from the list of Copyfree Initiative certified licenses that suits your fancy, I suppose: http://copyfree.org/licenses
Massive deposit of lithium found in Wyoming could meet all U.S. demand
Serious question based on this: Are DOM-based video games viable to make since it's just so easy to simulate DOM events like that?
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"Sticky Tape and Rust"
Design is fantastic. I actually will try using this site!

I saved a bookmark for when your bandwidth isn't on fire ;)
What do you think about the CQF?
Gotcha - I grant myself my property, which I already had, by way of possession. :)

I see the subtlety of the point you are making - that property is defined collectively (otherwise it is mere possession) - but I am making an equally subtle point about the underlying meaning of that definition: that collective responsibility is just a statistic on a population of individuals, not a statistic about an entity.

There, I've tilted at my windmill for the day.
The problem with SLIME: A programmer wants to learn Lisp, now he has two things to learn. Lisp and Emacs. That's what is good about LispIDE. It's very lightweight (and being lightweight is also a disadvantage).

I no longer feel lost in Emacs. I was able to anchor it to my background with AutoCad - and there are huge architectural similarities between Emacs and pre-Windows versions of AutoCad. Both have a command driven interface.

The difficulty with the Emacs tutorial is that it is written around social mores. Thus it teaches the shortcuts which distinguish emacs community insiders from outsiders [1]. Yes, no sane experienced Emacs user will type:

M-x next-line

But it turns:

C-n

from cryptic into mnemonic.

[1] http://learncodethehardway.org/blog/AUG_19_2012.html
The first book on the list, The Big Short is an easy read that is interesting and will get you started. Start there and move down the list.
It was more like server error roulette. If you happen to not get a server error in the first two minutes you probably got a ticket.
Southwest has pretty good customer service, as far as airlines go anyway, and they're profitable, and operating on very thin margins.
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Revisions - A programming model for parallelizing conflicting tasks
Interesting. The anthropological and psychological definitions aren't really at odds with each other. When you face primarily external disapproval, it's natural to feel "I am bad", because people's outside opinions are not something you can control. When you face internal disapproval, the natural response is "I did something bad", because you know your own reasoning, you have control over it, and you can resolve to do better next time. Same basic principle as "growth mindset vs. fixed mindset". [1]

I'd argue that if devs shame each other all the time, something about your culture is broken. Why? Because the normal response to shame is to want to hide it. You see that in the description of shame vs. guilt societies in the links you provided, where "Shame cultures are typically based on the concepts of pride and honour, and appearances are what counts, as opposed to individual conscience in guilt cultures." Shame is positively correlated with depression, addiction, violence, aggression, bullying, and all sorts of other nasty stuff; guilt is inversely correlated with all of them. [2]

[1] http://mindsetonline.com/whatisit/about/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psN1DORYYV0#t=840
I wouldn't say it's a slight distinction. Humans may be able to behave like bots by mass-favoriting tweets, but they will never be able to achieve the volume that bots do.
IANAL either, but note that Heroku is an American company and that probably has implications due to the PATRIOT act. Check out what a Microsoft exec had to say about this: "Microsoft cannot provide those guarantees. Neither can any other company" - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...
That is and has always been a unity feature (or 'feature') - unity-lens-shopping. It's not even installed if you don't install unity, e.g. if you use xubuntu, kubuntu, lubuntu, etc.
> Huge money imbalances are always based upon exploitation.

Abracadabra, and there! It's now fact!

> Actually the huge imbalance itself is based on exploitation and force.

Hocus pocus! There's another fact!

What Native American lands are you talking about exactly? While it's true that European settlers did usurp some land that was in use by the natives, I hope you don't believe that the natives had claim over the entire continent. If the Native Americans of today feel that they can bring up evidence of property usurped from their great-great-grandparents, they have every right to demand a return of what's theirs. But by no means do they have claim to the entire continent. Think of it this way: so far, only Americans have walked on the moon. Do you believe that the US has a valid case to claim dominion over the entire moon?

> ... to the loyal employees who are laid off after 30 years of service ...

I don't think of myself as a sacrificial lamb. I like the work I do. There's not a chance in hell I'll dedicate 30 years of my life to some company unless I have very real grounds of knowing (i.e. in writing) that there's something in it for me. It's like someone complaining, after having had a series of abusive spouses, that the next one turned out to be abusive too.

Of course, one sleeps better after robbing the bourgeois if he comes up with magical facts to convince himself that the only way the bourgeois could have had that much money was by exploiting someone else.
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I'd agree, except for the fact that recent typical CD rates aren't really much better than recent typical savings account rates. E.g. 0.80% on a savings account and 0.90% on a short-term CD. You can probably find better deals, but the amount of money you'll earn for the amount of effort you'll expend finding, opening, and maintaining the CDs probably makes it not a worthwhile exercise.
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Most definitely. You are talking about the dot-bit DNS project in particular. See here for more details: http://dot-bit.org
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In which case, I suppose they won't be missing their colleagues who aren't also their friends. Sounds about right.