skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wolfram and Kurzweil are betting on opposite horses here. I work for Wolfram, but I'd be delighted if the ML-approach works. Personally, I think we need a diversity of approaches to really understand how to crack the nut of 'hard AI' (if that is even a sensible thing to pursue).
About 8 hours, sometimes more, sometimes less. I lift regularly, so there's no point in lifting if I'm not sleeping and eating right.
I'm with you. Asthetics actually have improved with many google services, quiet alot actually.

You hear complaints about Youtube's design evolution. They've improved much more than they've missed.
Probably not in both cases. There's usually no need to post - restaurants always have leftovers and organizations like City Harvest can partner with them. Scheduled pickups work just fine. If you're talking about posting individual portions (e.g. my dinner currently) there's no way it's cheaper for them to come pick it up than to cook something fresh in bulk.
What exploit? Someone was in charge that shouldn't have been, there was no glitching or botting or hacking.
Windows Image Backup and also disk2vhd ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415 )

I love the VHD format!

Also wim is a nice choice (created by the imagex.exe in the Windows Preinstall Environment based AIK toolkit, also used by Vista and Win7 setup): Not block level based, but contains all ACLs etc. needed to deploy an image
This may have been far more useful to you as a poll.
Yes and no. I think the poster does make an interesting point.

If the parent class is instantiable - which is a code smell already but also very common and even encouraged by some OO evangelizing[1], as is the case for the "colored point" example - then he's right, the derived class which adds fields does admit more values than the parent class does (excluding child values).

[1] encouraged by the commonly heard advice: "if you don't like exactly what the class does, then derive from it and supply your own customizations". Ie. this is the use of inheritance for ad-hoc customization, as opposed to a design-first approach which would have the parent be abstract (which has its own problems of course such as requiring great foresight).
Check out the real estate section of your local newspaper. It has a long and glorious tradition.
Average of six and a half hours. It was higher for a brief period when I returned from international travel and my body had no idea where it was anymore. Other than that, I wake up tired, which I mostly attribute to breaking a REM cycle, since once I get going, I'm pretty much great until the afternoon. I think a siesta would do me well, though, but I don't work in a siesta-friendly world. So, coffee. But never after 5, or I don't sleep until later.

My take on it is that I sleep when I'm tired, with the asterisk that I have work in the morning most days, and that means I should try to be tired before 11:30p. But I also look at it like I look at treatment of my laptop battery - if I spend more effort worrying about and attempting to optimize the thing than it's worth, then that is effort wasted. The best I can hope for is good sleep when I am sleeping.

All of that said, sleep is obviously important since we all do it. I wouldn't make a habit of not sleeping so I could ship, but I also wouldn't let shipping get in the way of many things, like time with my family. Maybe my priorities are messed up, but they're mine.
So does considering simpler cases of two posts (3), three posts (3 + 3), and four posts (3 + 3 + 3), then discovering the pattern (3(n - 1)).
One can shop at Costco for a 5% premium on purchases
I focus on JavaScript and its attempt at prototype-based OO because there's a huge amount of such code that already exists, and more is being written each day. It poses practical problems affecting many developers today.

While Smalltalk, BETA, CLOS, Haskell and other languages do have their own approaches, we really don't see them being used anywhere near as much as JavaScript, C++ or Java are. Realistically, Haskell is seen rarely outside of academia, aside from some very isolated projects. C++, and then Java, put an end to any real momentum that Smalltalk had gained during the 1980s and 1990s. BETA and Common Lisp see very little usage these days, too. They are pretty much irrelevant in a discussion of applied software development.

I wouldn't attribute C's success and C++'s success purely to UNIX or enterprise users. In fact, many of the most significant users are open source projects. They're successful because what they offer is what developers need. Flexibility, performance, portability and in C++'s case, sensible and practical object-orientation. People go out of their way to use C and C++, even when it isn't as practical (such as under Windows and various embedded platforms). This is quite different from people using JavaScript, which is used mainly because it's the only practical option available for browser-based scripting.
What is this blob protocol? I've never seen it before and Google just thinks I meant to say blog (grrr, google).

You get to it by clicking export: blob:http%3A//geometee.com/1692d5b3-b837-4181-bae4-7c6a997ab22a

Ah, found it, very interesting: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/#url
Kudos. For some people (like me) the caffeine has to stop around noon in order to get a good night's sleep. Caffeine metabolism is highly variable between people, so it is worth experimenting on.
It's the only language that has quality, actively-developed compilers, excellent support for multidimensional arrays and can be very effectively optimized. The libraries are a bonus, but support for proper multidimensional arrays (i.e. not arrays of pointers to arrays) in other widely-used high-performance languages it either crippled or non-existent. It's a bit baffling that something better hasn't come along, but I think the wealth of Fortran libraries and amount of work on compiling it would make it hard for a new language to get traction.
After reading "The Blind Watchmaker" I did something similar to this project -- in Visual Basic! (My excuse for using such an abhorrent language is that I was only 10 and didn't know any better).

Which makes me think that this project is ripe for a "artificial selection" mode in which you get multiple mutated copies and pick the right one, slowly directing the parameters in a 'pleasing' direction. Here's a cool video that demos Dawkins' watchmaker program from way back when: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUkL2bLFiOU
Ra, Laplink. That bring back some fond memories. Laplink, PC Tools, Norton Utilities. The basic kit of every "sysadmin" at the time...
Google ToS rated: “keeps your searches and logs for an undefined period of time”
Range and capability are separate concepts. That’s what I’m getting at—conflating them is problematic, not least because it’s trying to statically specify dynamic behaviour.

Here’s a simple example. A 2D vector (x:ℝ × y:ℝ) is a subtype of a 3D vector (x:ℝ × y:ℝ × z:ℝ). The range of the 3D vector includes that of the 2D one, but there is no sane way to make one a subclass of the other, due to differences in behaviour—magnitude, for instance.
It's encouraging to see such functionality at least being proposed for JavaScript. While it doesn't do much to fix many of the other inherent problems that the language is riddled with, it does at least show some small degree of sensibility going forward.
Seconded. It does quite fast differential backups and gives you direct access to individual files in the backup.
I consider myself to have some pretty useful development skills. I keep up to date with things like HTML5, CoffeeScript, AngularJS, AWS, Node.JS etc. However, I don't know what my problem is, if its lack of social or business skills or no degree or what, but I have been living hand-to-mouth doing freelance software development for years.

A lot of my projects have been from outsourcing sites. But some of them have been from small companies that weren't trying to outsource, just didn't have the biggest budgets. There seem to be quite a lot of software projects that have fairly restricted budgets, and unfortunately those are the ones I know how to get. Sometimes things are good for a few months and I don't have to worry, but oftentimes I need to complete some aspect of a project and get a PayPal from the client right away or I won't be able to pay bills.

Maybe I am the exception, but I doubt I am really alone in this, and thought I should admit it in case anyone else is struggling.
South Bay for sure, during YC. MV, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Menlo Park etc. You can move to SF after YC.

Anywhere close to YC with easy access to the 280 is best.
This problem just means a better implementation of RJS is required, or of any other technology that similarly tries to abstract away the client-server divide with a high-level concept.
Steve Jobs on Apple's Resurgence (1998)
I kind of doubt that they have every phone conversation recorded and archived for all time. But I'm not sure what exactly the incentive is to tell people that they do. If they said, "no, we can't get any of that", it would encourage criminals to be sloppy (and us citizens to not scrutinize them too much). But they say, "yeah, we have everything", which encourages the criminals to use strong cryptography. (And if they've broken AES, they're probably not going to publicly reveal that to our enemies by using it against you in your drug possession case.)

It just doesn't make much sense.
It's the URI behind the File API:

http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/#url
That graph is misleading, if they were honest their scale would be 0%...100%

not 0%...50%

That's what disingenuous presentations do when they want to make a graph scary, they cut the axis to scale the data and ditch the sense of perspective.

Made worse by the fact that the author didn't need to do that at all.
Going from 10% -> 40% is a hell of a jump, even in perspective that's impressive.
Whenever you talk big-O you have to be aware of what your primitive operations are. When talking about normal sorting algorithms we usually assume comparison is a primitive operation, and then we're measuring the number of comparisons. This is not actually the case for strings (and several other data types), but that cost is the same regardless of which comparison sort you use, and so it usually doesn't matter in your analysis.

With radix sort, you're usually considering using it precisely because K is likely to be significantly smaller than log N, and so it's absolutely relevant to the actual problem at hand.

(For that matter, multiplication is not constant time either - it's O(N) in the number of bits, which is O(log N) in the size of the values stored - but this is conveniently forgotten in most algorithm analysis. If you limit the problem to integers that fit into a machine word, then this factor drops out as a constant, and nobody cares.)

Regardless of what algorithm you're working with, you have to be aware of the limits of the abstraction you use to analyze it. Fibonacci heaps are O(1), but nobody uses them because the constant factors swamp other simpler algorithms with worse computational complexity. And sometimes it's faster to use a red-black tree (or even linear search over an array) than a hashmap because hashmaps are technically O(k) in key size; red-black trees are too, for comparisons, but in a sparse key space the processor usually only has to examine the first 1-2 characters before it can bail out of the comparison routine while the hashmap has to examine every character.
My best understanding is that Watson would be too costly as compared to Google.
I find generic advice like "be good at marketing/sales/etc" to be really useless. HOW do you become good at marketing/sales/etc? Because each situation and company is different, the how can only be gleamed from details of stories. The meatier and more detailed the story, the more useful.
The undergrad class was back in 2011 and just went through the basics using Learning Perl, 5th Edition. I haven't personally been to the workshop here, but from their schedule it looks like they spend several sessions on basic programming concepts then spend one on OOP and hop to BioPerl, interacting with FTP sites, then "practical examples". The lab I know that uses Perl does use Moose though.
The first question that comes to my mind - is this technically and economically possible?

How many minutes does the average person spend on the phone per day? I found some numbers in the range from 6 to 28 minutes per day. Let's just pick 15 minutes. This times the population of the states (313.9 million) divided by two yields 39,237,500 hours per day. Storing this at 8 kbps requires about 128.5 TiB per day or 45.8 PiB per year.

At $40 per TiB this is less than 2 million dollars per year. So technically and economically this should actually be possible. But that is just storing. Performing speech recognition, analyzing the data and extracting information is probably the much harder task and I would guess that it is still infeasible to do this with all phone calls.
I have worked with a relatively large JavaScript system (about 20k lines) and found that the vast majority of maintainability problems had to do with dynamic typing and late binding, not prototypal inheritance. This could be a feature of different codebases making different use of the language.
>Her school has to meet certain percentage-based "standards"

I went to a top-5 public high school in my state. "Standards" are so ridiculously low it's hilarious. I'm pretty sure you could still exceed the state standard for 12th grade reading with the reading level most of us (upper middle class, white, college-educated parents, high property taxes) had in 5th grade. Meeting standards certainly didn't mean you were even remotely qualified to go to college, and is orders of magnitude below the aptitude required to get into good colleges. So when I hear about districts where just reaching the standards is a stretch, it's shocking just how enormous the gulf in education quality in this country really is.

IMO this is a great argument to stop controlling schools at such a hyper-local level. There's no good reason for K12 education to vary geographically. The education that the professional world will expect of a kid in Chicago is the same as what it will expect from a kid in small-town Alabama or rural North Carolina. Why do we accept the argument that K12 education should be up to the community? Why is preparing workers for a global economy considered a local problem?

Because it's disgusting just how better-prepared I am than the children in your friend's school district. I didn't earn parents who can afford to live in an expensive community, I didn't earn the ability to take AP classes from talented teachers, I didn't earn a calculus teacher who refuses the school-provided textbooks in favor of illicit PDFs from a curriculum being drafted by one of her colleagues, I didn't earn a veteran teacher and former DuPont research scientist to get me a 5 in AP Chem. All our STEM AP programs get 4s and 5s save for a small handful of slackers; the teachers calm us down when we're getting nervous by reminding us that we're being graded on a curve alongside kids from the middle of nowhere. The opportunties we had that other communities don't is just staggering.
Sure you can. Per Microsoft,

ImageX currently does not support the following NTFS features:

- Extended attributes.
- Object IDs.
- Reparse points that are neither symbolic links nor junctions.
ImageX will fail to apply them.
- Sparse files. (They can be captured and applied, but they are
no longer sparse after they are applied.)

A decent disk cloning utility should support all these things.
Maybe. I feel that the context surrounding the number of hours slept is also interesting. That may be missing if this was a poll.
5-6h weekly. I live very away from work(2 hour trips) and I still want to get home and go to gym&OSS.

But in the weekend I sleep a lot. Maybe 12h a day.

I wish I could have more time to balance it(and my plan is that I will in the future), 8 hours a day would be ideal.
I have gimp love, I really do.

but I do not agree with your statement.
I feel like I lose productivity if I get less than 7 hours of sleep a night. I can't think as clearly and can't process as much information
Thank you, that's a better-written answer than anything I could get down.
I'd just like to add that (as the article does a pretty good job of saying) perl is /unparalleled/ as a text-processing language. There is no other language that even comes close to perl's ease and utility for string manipulation.
It's not a question of long-term vs. short-term thinking.

It's a question of cash flow.

It's a vicious cycle, too; the lower your cash flow is, the less you can exploit economies of scale, and the less you can save, keeping your cash flow limited. Catastrophic events (such as an unexpected illness) are more likely to create debt, and debt service (interest and repayment of principal) reduces your cash flow further.

While wealth, at some point, becomes self-sustaining.
HN polls are useless now. Too many trolls. :(
I told you I'd let you have the last word and I will, you've had it. Debate over. However, while I'm sure you will not admit it here, but maybe this will stick with you when you look yourself in the mirror later:

Much of Economics isn't science at all. So in many circumstances there is no clearly "right" or "wrong" answer. But in many cases there is. There are so many instances of you making factually incorrect statements here that it's impossible to enjoy any debate with you on this subject. A dozen times or more you say, essentially, "Two plus two equals five" and I say "No, it equals four" and you say "well, that's your opinion." That just makes you a poor sport.

In many cases, your reasoning is foolish. For example, suggesting that China would have some "political" reason to usurp the USD and hurt the US economy when China's own economy would crumble without their US exports. China is a country with weak domestic demand. They are a country of exporters. But your poor reasoning here isn't what I'm talking about. You're entitled to poorly thought out prognostication. But so many times you speak mumbo-jumbo gibberish and come across as though you truly truly believe you know what you're talking about.

You'd probably enjoy actually learning about this stuff so I hope you do. I don't have all the answers nor even half. I'm wrong often, about a lot of things. It's OK to be wrong. And me pointing this out isn't about trying to make you feel bad. It's just about... trying to virtually pull you aside and pat you on the back and point out some of this silliness.
That just shows that the FBI don't have access to everything all the time, which is probably true. I've worked for groups before where you'd know that someone else in the same group had the data you were interested in but it was less bother to go and get it yourself than it was to make a freedom of information request and wait a month for that to process.

One of the few advantages that smaller groups have against big systems is that big systems don't totally trust other people in their own systems. Even the police classify their information hierarchically - maybe this bit of information only needs to be known by inspectors in firearms units, etc ,etc.
You can often sift through McArdle's post to find the Yglesias or Salmon post she's citing and just read that instead. Here, the analysis seems to boil down to "sure, Walmart could pay every worker $3000/yr more and have Costco's margins, but who cares about a paltry $3000?".

The rest of her argument appears to be "I don't know if that would work for Walmart". Neither do I, but "I don't know" isn't a persuasive argument. :)
Maybe you need to give HN readers a bit more credit. This is like posting - What is Vim?

Likelihood of HN reader not knowing this is probably pretty low.
God's I.Q.

God says...
breathedst multiply gleam South_Korea hale counts essayed
abroad VII blunt sometime passed final join ourselves
black presuming Eternity

----

Ray trace gleam off of particles of breath, to the quantum limit of the universe?

God says...

72:6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that
water the earth.

72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace
so long as the moon endureth.

72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river
unto the ends of the earth.

72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his
enemies shall lick the dust.

72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the
kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

72:11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall
serve him.

72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also,
and him that hath no helper.

-----

Maybe you quantize this equation or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation

Using a computer with all the RAM in South Korea?

God says...
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pursued neglected wring towards test_pilot recognises
weapon subordinate rein One morrow Knock_you_upside_the_head
lie green father's withering Free comedy roused Permit
'it codes monastery Trust agents baptism communication
deceivers comprehending Prepared joyousness irritate self-will
One bespotted daunting Universe which DON'T dotages No
evident imperturbable disprove devised whither overflowing
frightful religiously wavered skirts hint province evermore
safer endlessly stayed wedlock GUTENBERG-TM exterior toiling
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Well I don't deal with them... so I don't care. They don't have to worry about me crossing them.
Universe as an Infant: Fatter Than Expected and Kind of Lumpy
What's nlogn for a known n? A constant - therefore O(1).
Kurzweil is awkwardly reminiscent of the connectionists of yore. I'm surprised nobody's taken a similarly hostile attitude towards his (as yet unsubstantiable) predictions.
It just sounds like ebay's affiliate scheme is/was wide open to abuse.
The key ingredient of success: Motivation? Creativity? Perfectionism? No.
I wish this kind of problem were only limited to HN...
Neat idea, but I dont like the concept. The animations instinctively make me think some action is occurring, which isn't.

I think those would be better served to indicate the processing of an action, like the pin wheel/hour glass of old.
Liberal democracies don't particularly care about principles. I guess they are just a rhetorical device with which the masses beat the government upside the head. The government officials are numb to this.
By "security agency", most ancaps mean something that fills the role of government. Capturing accused criminals and holding them in jail is perfectly legal if you're the government, otherwise it's considered kidnapping.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Xun_Zi doesn't seem to have it; perhaps an update's required?
Here's an HN post (with comments) from couple of years ago on same article (though it was via DrDobbs) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1568109
Socialsync meets the definition of synchronization in the assemblance of a synchronism. I don't see how them failing to meet the authors rather loose choice of definition justifies them being called liars.
CanDo – The Lavatory Workstation
> COBOL with over 200 billion lines of code in existence and with an estimated 5 billion lines of new code annually

Yeah, almost all of those 5 billion new lines are first copied from those existing 200 billion, then patched.

My last job had a big system where they wanted to enable a new country to be processed. The IT staff started to analyze how to modify it, but an executive for the user department gave the order: "Copy the entire codebase of the existing system, add XYZ- to all the program names, then make the changes". No-one dared disobey. Happily the existing codebase wasn't impacted, but there was now twice as much maintenance, operations, and standby support to do. I'm guessing that executive's gone now, and maybe the systems are now being supported overseas.