skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I don't want to give the impression that it's never warranted. Just that it's important to give thought to if a simple description or even a graph might be more efficient in each case.

I try to stay mindful of the limits of short term brain storage.. if there's over 7 unique variables or interval indicators, it might be tough for someone unfamiliar with what's going on to pick it up without wasting extra time noodling on it. When you've got a sum over 'm', a sum over 'm,n', a product sum over 'n,x' and another over 'x', etc.. sometimes it's just easier to bite the bullet and give a visual aid so the reader's not trying to envision all these overlapping regions in his head while still trying to remember what each is supposed to represent in real life.
This is someone's magnum opus.
In an ideal world I'd probably agree with you. But what you're proposing is even less likely to happen (particularly the pharmaceutical patent reform) that a national health system.
OK, I'm curious: DVD playback is definitely a bit of a fiddle (mostly for legal reasons), and I've heard of wifi problems (although I understand most recent chipsets work)... but wired network drivers? I've never heard about problems with wired networking, and none of the computers I've installed Linux on has ever had a problem with it.
The residents who fight tooth and nail against going up and more dense forms of housing are just as much to blame as the BoS. The city could ignore them, yes, but government is about what people want.

Most residents of San Francisco -- homeless, tech, lower-income, whatever -- want absolutely nothing to change except for what makes them happier. And in most cases, the loudest, wealthiest, Pac Heights/Sea Cliff voices want the "charm" of San Francisco to stay the same. Meanwhile, it's one of the most undesirable places to merely walk around that I've come across in my life, and I only work in the city because I have to. I will never move to the city.

Some of the comments are already popping up on TechCrunch; "do you want SF to be the next NYC?" My answer to that is abso-fucking-lutely. New York City is perfectly suited to dense living without gritting your teeth; the subways run 24/7, the risk of stepping in homeless shit is significantly lower, there are very few places in NYC that make me cringe as much as the TL after sundown, the varying cultures get along and complement each other instead of beating Google Bus piñatas at a dirty-ass BART station...

If San Francisco slowly became the next New York City I'd be pleased as a peach. (Imagine NYC with SF's weather!) But it will never happen in our lifetimes. Honestly, I think it's a California thing, because L.A. has a better shot at it and that's not going to happen either.
P.S Andrew is asking for feedback here:

A GIANT, searchable list with every single Mixergy interview. You like???

http://mixergy.com/a-giant-searchable-list-with-every-single...
I agree that he's renounced his long-held sweeping powers a few years ago, but he still has "editorial input", sits on the board and clearly still holds a certain influence.

I have nothing against the guy, to be honest.
Now try England!
It depends on who you talk to really. I remember visiting Boston and talking to a girl selling t-shirts on the street and being completely unable to understand her. I asked a gas station attendant in Atlanta for directions once and same thing. My friends from Chicago have very discernible accents. My wife, who grew up in rural Iowa, pronounces "stock" and "stalk" differently (among other things).
ah, good catch. I edited my post accordingly.
cool, i wonder if clicking a link to the beeminder site (or simply log in) would do the auto-resume, or if there is a specific engagement required to make it auto-resume. noble and awesome!
...what?

Being overly critical of yourself is not only no fun, it's also not particularly effective. Sounds like if you constantly reinforce that you're not good enough, you will lose confidence and motivation to continue.

I'm thinking an easy reframe of this is competing with your past self. See if you can do better than you did yesterday, even by 1%. A 1% improvement every day leads to a doubling in 71 days.
Yup! Same idea. Easily create playlists and share them. I decided to go with updating the address-bar instead of storing playlists server-side. That has it's limitations but saves me from storing anything on the server, for now.

Yours looks like you're going with accounts creation instead, which might end up being something I'll have to do.
Haha, awesome. That's principles. I was impressed with the hard facts in the hiring thread too. I browsed that thread and your company is the only one I remember. :)
The only people I've ever met that don't think that experience and age provides a value to decision making are the young and inexperienced.

This doesn't seem like a very convincing argument ;-). Of course people will value whatever it is they have and someone else doesn't.

... and probably not a parent.

I submit that experience being a child is just as valid in a discussion of parenting as experience being a parent, and is underappreciated.
Show HN: A REPL for Java
The word "cloud", in this case, just being an excuse to shift away from piracy to a subscription model.
Agreed. I chatted with Chad Whitacre (the creator of Gittip) recently and was impressed with how "all-in" he is on this. He's receiving 100% of his funding through Gittip, taking in no outside contributions and even doing no outside consulting work. He should certainly be lauded for this, few have the commitment to execute. I assume at some point either Gittip will be bringing in enough money to allow him to do this forever or he'll have to bail/get a side job. Not sure how long that'll take but I really hope he succeeds!
Are Wikipedia's explanations clear enough to you? Too long? Too formal or informal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
I am interested to get feedback on this. Obviously it's not a "real" REPL as I've outlined here: https://github.com/jacktasia/java-repl?take2#how-is-this-dif...
Love it! Simple is always good.
"Funding some local education or beautification initiatives could go a long way to reducing the gentrification backlash."

Or maybe California could relax its constitutional restriction on city and county income taxes, which would make much more sense than relying on random benefactors to make the city more livable.
Confused. Why do a Auto-Cancel-Subscription model when they can do Pay-To-Use model?
In section 5 they talk about generating the passwords, but I think taking them from existing known password databases (excluding those that are within a typo of the real password) would make them more likely to get hits. It would also make them almost impossible to distinguish from the real user passwords, since they would in fact be real user passwords.
There's a difference between free-market economics and saying that poorer people don't deserve a voice in local government because they don't have money. I don't believe a particular public sidewalk should get preferential treatment just because richer people walk on it.
Ya, I've been the victim of "couldn't balance a B-Tree fast enough so you're not hired but you'll never see a B-Tree at work."

You mention that there isn't a better solution. IMHO, I disagree.

I think Github has figured out a way. They've been around 5 years and haven't fired anybody and nobody has quit.

Most firings are due to a job / job skill mismatch. At Github, they do a week long paid interview so both sides really know what they're getting into.

I don't work at Github, but am such a fan of their company.
A little bit, but not very much. That one did differ in any case: most people in Chicago I knew would say "you guys" for the 2nd-person plural, while most people in Houston would say "you", with a minority usage of "y'all".

It's mostly accents I didn't notice, though. Some wording changes, yes, but nobody in Chicago I knew had a "Chicago accent", like the Superfans on SNL, and nobody I knew in Houston had a "Texas accent". I could be missing more subtle differences.
Oh come off it. For one, that's a patronizing insultingly idiotic argument, it's a farcical shell game of transactions through various subsidiaries the whole point of which was to avoid scrutiny of the US authorities. For two, HSBC Holdings the parent company does have offices in the US, as well as other subsidiaries (HSBC North America Holdings Inc.) which were involved. For three, you expect me to believe that you'd buy it if MU had used a US subsidiary and pretended that the business units were separate?

>If you want to argue that HSBC the larger entity had a presence in the U.S.

No, I don't need to (they do), the purpose of HSBC's US subsidiaries is so that the parent may operate in the US.

>how do you deal with the fact that Megaupload had U.S. servers?

I guess if MU wants to have servers in the US and serve US-based customers, then the federales ought to be able to go and confiscate the servers (so long as they follow due process) if they have cause to do so. But this seizing foreign-based property is right out. I wonder why the DOJ hasn't raided HSBC and siezed a lot of their office equipment.
I see it from another perspective: Mentioning that kind of stuff suggests an appreciation for the finer points of the trade. No, I don't want to work with people who are all theory and no practice. But I do want to work with people who treat coding as more than "copy and paste from Stack Overflow until my boss tells me I'm done."
Find Edmund's Mug
It's clear that the author is very motivated and probably pretty smart, but I wonder if there might be some gaps in his knowledge foundation. I was surprised for example that he was learning about information theory, and yet he had trouble analyzing the computational complexity of a function that he coded.
I'll consider land use complaints from Miwok and Ohlone, but I'm not sure how "my neighborhood is different from how it was 15 years ago" is a valid concern. A vibrant city can't be a museum.
The example video linked on the page does not seem to want to stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbBj3v1F0gA

My one comment, from being on both sides of the journalist fence, is that journalists love be the ones that break news. If you live stream an interview, how are they going to be the first to report on the details?

I love the idea of being open. Though, it seems like most journalists will only participate in this scheme if they have to interview you.
Rents wouldn't be going up so fast if these protestors were protesting draconian building and zoning laws instead of Google employees. NIMBY-ism hurts lower income people first.
You actually have to have entered data on Beeminder in the last month to be considered active. If you haven't, we suppress the charge. So we just do that check every time before charging. Simply logging in isn't enough. And thanks everyone for the kind words about this!
I'm impressed that they had the balls to actively compromise the device before reporting it to Google... under normal circumstances, wouldn't most companies go after you in court for a CFAA violation or somesuch?

You certainly see lots of examples of lawsuits over changing numbers in URLs, so you'd figure downloading configuration info from a machine and then reversing a password would definitely provide grounds for a suit.

Nice to see Google not overreact here.
Data & the Value of a Smashed Car
How do poorer people lack a voice in local government? It seems to me their issue is that they want to extend their control over local affairs far beyond what is their right. It is simply not the right of local residents to determine what kind of person gets to live in that neighborhood. This was a block "party" to make a very specific kind of person feel unwelcome. And then they think of themselves as oppressed when the police break it up.
Ahh, cool -- got it. Thanks!
We know that some algorithms are fundamentally harder than others. Deciding whether two regexps are equivalent requires EXPSPACE which is known to be a strict superset of NP[1]. We just haven't proved whether P != NP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXPSPACE
"Meanwhile, it's one of the most undesirable places to merely walk around that I've come across in my life"

How so? I know the city only as a tourist, and in that capacity thought it pretty pleasant to walk through.

Politically, San Francisco will never be New York: New York incorporates its own suburbs, and the outer boroughs can outvote Manhattan.
Hi there, I apologize for delay: posting on HN before flying looks like a bad idea :-). We are not at all collecting your friend list in our DB. Just your name, gender, and email. We may have erroneously asked fb login to ask for friend list too, checking it right now. But again, I guarantee you we are not storing any information in DB apart from name, email, and gender!
> And while every mother could once identify measles in a heartbeat, now even the best hospitals have to call in their eldest staff members to ask: “Is this what we think it is?”

The Wakefield con has started to deliver. At least one death and over 800 cases of measles in Wales.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22198749)

(Population of Wales is just over 3 million people.)
Spending time preparing your answers to these seemingly trivial questions can have a big impact. "How's it going?", "What do you do?", and "Tell me about yourself." are three great questions to spend a few hours thinking about. It's worth it.
And potentially shutting down the HVAC for the web servers has no relation?
Being serious for a moment, quality documentation is an area where many lisps could use improvement.
The smartest person I know taught himself German and ancient Greek while working the night shift at a gas station. If you're young, that's another job with lots of down time to work on your own thing.
I wish Gittip all the success in the world but I'm afraid this is a big barrier to getting anything written about the company, and that can only hurt. It's not only TechCrunch that's going to balk at this, I can't see any news organization wanting to get scooped by their own source. I don't think taking the other party's needs into account when running a business is necessarily bending your principles. Maybe recording the call for release after the story comes out is a way to meet in the middle.
JavaScript - Front-End Page Manupulation/Server-side quering with ajax or serverside programming with NodeJS or other frameworks
PHP - Web programming
MySQL - Quering Databases
C# - Programming applications
Ruby - Programming applications, and other stuff if used with frameworks
Rail - this is not a language, its a framework
Python - Programming applications, and other stuff if used with frameworks
Hey -- I didn't spend much time exploring SVG, to be honest. It could very well be faster!

And you're right that it would be much better on retina screens. I've had it on my to-do list to make the canvas implementation take the device pixel ratio into account, but it hasn't been a huge priority.
Good question! Maybe we should have that as an option as well -- like pay 10 cents per datapoint you add to Beeminder. But I feel like that's harder for the user to reason about. They don't place value on individual datapoints, they value the, y'know, being minded, as we put it.

But, yes, any startup using pay-as-you-go is exempt from my objurgations. :)
> No. Charities have to maintain efficiency because they are not subsidized, if they want to continue to operate they need to prove to contributors that their contribution is going to the cause to the extent that a market critical mass of contributors cares to know.

Having worked for a number of charities, I can promise you that not all charities are efficient. In fact some are even worse for wasting money than government bodies.

What's more, most people pay even less attention to just how efficiently their money is put to use in charities because: 1) it's considered bad etiquette to question charitable organisations, 2) it's assumed that charities are full of volunteers working for free on a shoe string budget out of the goodness of their hearts.

The reality is, many charities are run as businesses - with high paid salaries and paid expenses just like any other business. Obviously I don't want to tar all charities with the same brush, however my experiences certainly call BS to your generalisations.

> Effigies should only be burned in street protests when there are teeming masses to rile up. They are less effective in print.

That doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. I'm assuming you're objecting to my comment, but given the brevity of your previous post and the context of my comment that preceded it; it's hardly surprising that I took your reply to mean what I suggested it may have meant.

However with you now expanding on your point, I now realise that your lack of comradeship is based on blissful ignorance rather than pure selfishness (though I suspect there's an element of selfishness driving the lack of motivation to investigate this topic otherwise you'd be advocating people giving up their free time caring for the less fortunate rather than complaining about who gets your money)
> it's one of the most undesirable places to merely walk around that I've come across in my life

I hear that. Every time I come to SF I'm reminded of why I never want to live there (I live in Seattle).

> "do you want SF to be the next NYC?"

+1.

Frankly, I see a lot of the same shit (not literally, but you get the idea) here in Seattle, and I find it incredibly disappointing. There's constant hand-wringing about the lack of affordable housing, but the minute solutions are proposed, all of the once-upon-a-time hand-wringers vociferously cry out "Not in my backyard!"

The NIMBYism has to stop. I can only hope that as people in their 20s grow older and turn into those louder, wealthier voices, that they remember just how much it sucked for them to live in a city that didn't properly increase population density when it should've.
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I share many of your thoughts here - we learn so much about using mathematical tools but we don't know why they were invented in the first place. I was wondering if it would be useful to understand the history and basis of concepts like the sine function - would that help me connect to them better?
San Francisco is one of the only places I've ever commuted where the question isn't if you'll step in human shit, but when. The quality of my workday usually begins with "did I get a face full of hot, evaporating urine and avoid a pile of shit on the way here today? no? gonna be a good day."

The people that live near my office on the ground level have put up "please don't defecate near our door, this leads right into our living room" signs. Good luck getting anybody to care. Nobody cares. I bet if someone dropped a deuce in front of a New York bodega, there'd be a dozen locals competing to rinse it off. I love New Yorkers. Tough as nails and been through some shit, man, and you really get that in the culture.

Walk around late enough in the same neighborhood and appear vulnerable and see what happens, too. If you stuck to the various places that we keep squeaky-clean for tourists, that's why you didn't notice.
As a student, I still feel like their subscription model needs work. $20 a month is too much for a single application, especially when it requires a year-long commitment. $30 for the academic subscription is a good deal because it includes everything, but I only use a few of the programs. Again, this option requires a year-long commitment.

For an educational license, I'd gladly pay $10 for Photoshop. For a commercial license, I'd pay $20, but only if I could cancel at any time.
I think it would be better if google would let webmasters just tell them if you want them to treat your domain as gccTLD or not. I had some cool ideas for .mx, but if they want to treat it as Mexico-only, then what's the point of buying one?
It's not just SF... a lot of people complain about the Bay Area housing market in general - just not the sellers.

Even if you can afford to buy a house, it's damn near impossible to find one because sellers are getting many offers on the first day/week (a lot of which are in cash). And a lot of these offers aren't from homeowners, but rather investment companies. There was a good article in the SJ Mercury News last month about it [1]. Even if you want a house (and can afford one), the market just doesn't have enough supply, so people are then stuck renting. It really is a pretty big problem.

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22930687/bay-areas-av...
I wonder how many commenters here actually live in SF or know anything about it... San Francisco has one of the most tenant friendly laws in the entire country. Rent control is very strict, and the whole "rent has gone up by X%" ... well it has gone up no more than 1% for existing tenants. Because that is the legal limit.

New units are not subject to rent control, but if you don't move, then you will never really pay much more for rent. People in my building pay 50% what I pay for the same layout, and new people will probably pay 2x what I am paying for the same layout as well.

Commercial property tho doesnt have rent control however. But that's kind of a different argument, right?
I agree 100%. This is why I keep all my crappy old code... to see how far I've come. Sustained practice makes a big difference in a short time, but you don't always see the progress unless you've got old code to compare with.
Github and many other high profile companies have the benefit of a much larger talent funnel than more average companies. They can literally sit back and wait for the proverbial rock-star ninja to make a passionate appeal to come and work for them. They can filter anyone without a 4.0 from a top school (not that they would, but that's not the point) and still be working with a bigger pool than lesser companies do, pre-filtering. Never mind actually selling yourself so those you might want to hire will actually accept your offer.

Lesser companies simply have to take more chances on people if they want to have a shot at growing their teams. They will naturally fail more than companies that don't have to take that shot.
Just a reminder to anyone interested in doing this kind of research, what Billy did here is illegal under CFAA. As we've seen from recent cases, he could be prosecuted and imprisoned even if Google declined to press charges.
Fifth Gear is along the lines of Top Gear, but a little more fact based.

My personal favorite is Evo car magazine based out of the UK. They do "long term tests" for a lot of exotics like Aston Martins. As an example here is a review of the V8 Vantage from a few years ago: http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evolongtermtests/202705/asto...
Senate Backs Bill to Force Tax Collection on Internet Sales
How Startup Founders Can Identify Their Core Values
This comment really lit a a lightbulb on me. I also know that I'm a good developer and I've learned a lot of technologies, helped out Open Source software projects and lots more, but I recently realized that I suck at interviews. I've been interviewed (at least remotely) on every company I was interested in and nearly made it.

I really have to work on this.
Anybody else watch the video? There were at least as many cops as protestors present. It's eerily reminiscent of those pictures from OWS where the cops were lined up outside banks.