skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you re-wrote company profits with all the subsidies, tax breaks, etc, factored in, you would see a much different profit landscape across the board.
I think it doesn't have to include fully qualified date. For example, Ubuntu uses date-based versioning, e.g. 13.04
the maps and mapping and location accuracy is not all that good though. If Google Maps allowed some kind of plug-ins or layers that supported speed trap reporting Waze would be done.

Battery suck on Waze for frivolous reasons is massive. No one uses it for much else than cop tracking.... sometimes to send out directions to friends and groups, but that is also something that Google could do when that day comes around when they get their glass studded head out of their nether-regions.
In the case of a company that is willing to cross the business ethics line and be blatantly misleading or run a bait-and-switch, I am extremely skeptical that they would respond to any request for billing based on lost/wasted candidate time.

You would probably need to take them to small-claims court.
This is neat.

Shlomib, you might be interested in SHRDLU [1][2] if you are not aware of it. It was developed by Terry Winograd [3] for his dissertation [4] at MIT. It is a natural language understanding [5] parser that allows you to interact with a small world of 3D solids.

I think you will find the paper interesting, because it goes into detail on sentence structure and associated parsing.

Here is a sample dialogue with the program, taken from Wikipedia:

Person: Pick up a big red block.
Computer: OK.
Person: Grasp the pyramid.
Computer: I don't understand which pyramid you mean.
Person (changing their mind): Find a block which is taller than the one you are holding and put it into the box.
Computer: By "it", I assume you mean the block which is taller than the one I am holding.
Computer: OK.
Person: What does the box contain?
Computer: The blue pyramid and the blue block.
Person: What is the pyramid supported by?
Computer: The box.
Person: How many blocks are not in the box?
Computer: Four of them.
Person: Is at least one of them narrower than the one which I told you to pick up?
Computer: Yes, the red cube.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU

[2] http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Winograd

[4] http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/AITR-235.pdf

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_understanding
Add your own sounds.

http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
I agree 100%. I think however that there are two projects: the "phenomenalist" and the "instrumentalist". In the former part it's a group of polygot philosopher-developers waxing philosophic about the nature of programs and in the latter it's "briefs for lead developers".

Whilst my inclination in being a Husserlian first-and-foremost is to engage in the former, I think the latter is definitely of interest.

The third choice, and this is i think what you mistake my current project to be, is this "binary reductionism" or "symbolic reductionism" where DSLs are either 0/1s or predictate-object statements. I disagree with this entirely, and i think it leads to the current "chose what you like" defeatism.

I would like to explore the middle ground for awhile, an "early heidegger" if you like. I think that's going to get a lot more traction in the implementation community. There is definitely a lot of space at this moment in time for some real substantive work in all non-reductionist areas.

NB. i think my use of "metalogic" has confused at least a couple of people into thinking im talking about something CSy. Logic in the sense a continental philosopher would use it: a mechanism of reasoning. As I say in my "notes on terminology" i mean to include things like the domain/business logic. I think that, for example, that "a car shouldnt start with no fuel" is part of the program (the metalogic of the program, not the logic itself: it is part of what we need to consider to fully understand the progran). Perhaps i shouldve used "meta-rationale" or something.
Lets put this into a bookmarklet :P
Do you have a recommendation for a good reference to learn all this lingo? I understand what a short is, but WTF is a 'put'? 'Straddles'??? 'Unhedged longs'?
Starting before 21 legally != Starting before 21 illegally

You'd be surprised how much of a difference it makes when you remove the rebelliousness and allure of doing something illegally. You see this time and time again with parents sheltering their children from certain activities or harsh realities.
This reminds me of a comment my former VP made. It was something to the effect of...

Oh, so and so is looking for a new job. I see he's adding recruiter connections on LinkedIn.
am I the only one thinking of combining this and the konami code JS for a great easter egg implementation?
Steve Jobs was wrong...
VP9 Bitstream finalization update
I'm dunno. My brother has a single core android, and it works fine.
You'll use it when and if Facebook buys it? That makes no sense. I can also promise you you will stop using it once you figure out that it's not really useful beyond reporting and being warned of cops.

There are alternatives for reporting cops, but they are also not really all that great of a tool.
Consumers Facing Subscription Service Overload Will Only Get More Choices
Well - which is more efficient?
But alas the taxonomy of programming languages is a solved problem. There is Lisp. And there is Blub.

Or less t-rolled: McCarthy and Von Neuman.

Or more poetic: Dionysian and Saturnial.

Rigor comes in many flavors. The starting point for all of them is rigorous thinking. One of the signs that my thinking is not rigorous is that I wind up proving the point I set out to prove. Then again, setting out to prove a point ought to be a warning flag.

Even if it is inevitable that I do so. The key to rigor is recognizing that I am doing it. Lisp and Blub was where I wanted to go. My dissatisfaction led me to McCarthy and Von Neuman and that to another metaphorical connection between programming languages and literary criticism. And that fits with my larger interests; those being the ones which dispose me toward writing about software.
Feed Me Moar Game
Colleges Soak Poor Students to Funnel Aid to Rich
Why do the research in the first place if the only outcome is a number, floating in space, disconnected from anything and unreproducible?

You're still sort of operating on the idea that the unreproducible papers have some sort of abstract value to them, and therefore we shouldn't slow the flow of them lest we ruin their value. But they don't. They're worthless. They're worse than worthless. They're of negative value. It would be far better to slow down and verify that what we think we know is actually true, because in the end that would actually both faster and a more efficient use of resources. Basically, instead of learning worse than nothing (thinking we know something but actually being wrong), we'd learn something. That's a pretty decent upgrade.
A vimL API for parsing code, with AST, code transformations, and un-parsing would be a huge step in that direction.

This would allow plugins to all sorts of crazy stuff, with less magic, less regex, and more robustness.

This would make code completion better, too.
I don't see the relevance. The point is that the US did start it's rise to power in much the same way as China: By undercutting the established industrialised base and treating people worse in the interrim. Same with Germany (undercut the British). The position of slavery today has no relevance to that: China thankfully doesn't need slavery to be able to undercut the US.
When it comes to IT, I can buy it. However, ask yourself how you would run a manufacturing plant when you didn't know when people would be there? Or, how would customer service work if there was no one to answer the phones?
I work in biomedical research, and this finding has been discussed quite broadly. Most researchers don't believe it.

Exactly reproducing novel findings usually requires a significant investment into the underlying procedures, which most places will not undertake. Reproduction instead usually occurs as part of an extension of the initial findings. The complexity of biology means that the first findings are frequently not reproduced exactly the same way as the original, but this does not detract from the "direction" of the initial findings.

For example, the first finding might be that protein A promotes tumor growth by modifying protein B. An extension of these findings might be Protein A sometimes modifies protein B, and when it does tumor growth is stimulated, but it mostly does not modify protein B, it instead modifies protein C, which suppresses tumor growth. In this case, were the first results replicated? Yes, and no.

This is how most biomedical research proceeds...
cough https://www.google.com/#&q=231+in+base+2&oq=27+in+ba...
Or, you know, Windows Calculator? Or Gcalctool? Or, if you want overkill: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=231+in+base+2
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3260751
Oh, a CON. Hayek probably had some fun with that.
I haven't heard that. I just assume that there are enough people out there that I've conversed with that have uploaded their own contact list to LinkedIn to find connections.

Gmail has/had that behavior where anyone you email ends up getting created as a contact, and in the early days it seemed a lot more aggressive as to when it would auto-add someone to the list. So there are a lot of people who have spurious entries in their contact lists.

I know it wasn't worth the time to me to clean the list, up until I bought an Android phone in 2010. So I had six years worth of auto-added contacts, going back to when I first got a gmail invite.
I've heard the argument about people only being productive when nobody else is around before, sometimes it's even been me saying it. With the benefit of hindsight I know that it's just another symptom of bad management.

It tends to be caused by people being responsible for both support and new development, and the latter gets squeezed out by the needs of the former; or domain knowledge being concentrated in a few employees, who feel they are swamped helping others instead of doing the work they should be doing.

Being too busy is a problem in itself, people who are busy are less efficient in the long run because they are focused on short-term goals. It's why you see people fighting with terrible build systems, they don't have the time to fix them even though they are wasting time every day due to them.

There's no right or wrong answer with things like hours, we operate in the big grey area in the middle. It's about finding the best compromise where the happiness of the group is maximized without negatively impacting the business.
I agree that reproducing someone else's experiment won't help you get your PhD closer to completion (because you should be doing your own experiments and publishing no matter what, if you expect to land that lecturing position, i.e. publish or perish).

Reproducibility is one of the main principles of the scientific method (those papers shouldn't even been accepted if they don't contain enough information about how to reproduce the experiments they describe)

If an experiment is so complex that it can be compared to redoing someone else's thesis it can be either that the thesis is very simple or the experiment is so complex that it probably proves nothing.
Like Arrested Development!
What are you talking about. There are shit-tons of people where I use it on the east coast. When I'm in the fly-over states it's not all that great for speed trap reporting because there's just not the saturation, but it seems to be spreading quite nicely in bigger cities there too.

Although, I do have to say it feels like there are less users now than before some of the recent updates that seem to have really kind of messed with the mapping and routing.
You can only get true free market in health care if people have the choice of when, where and how they fall ill and can evaluate quality of care themselves before buying it. Unfortunately getting sick is not like buying a TV.
What drives me crazy about LinkedIn is that Google isn't going after it with Google+. If Google had a "Resume upload" feature, it would slaughter LinkedIn, by allowing various circles of interest, friends, etc to cohabitate with the work stuff. You don't have to worry about sharing with your boss....

I like the technologists at LinkedIn, but I fucking hate the product. It's bullshit. The "Communities" are nothing but recruiter spam, I have people who have never worked with me in particular fields voting me up in these areas (if you have never worked with me on a project involving web dev, why would you upvote me for that skill)....

LinkedIn never rethought the resume. They just took it and put it online with Facebook clone features.
Why do you assume that those intelligent people would not engage in some other little value add activity that can make them a lot of money. How much value add do most web social startups provide? The main feature of capitalist economy is that it allows people to work on whatever they want and not on something that some higher authority deems to be "useful"
Is there a global Internet slowdown
I'm hearing from all over the world that the internet has been choppy and slow. What's going on?
What's important is that neither stinks.
Well, I once attended a party where a guy typed a 128 bytes program in binary form (using ALT + number) in edit, run it in DOS and the thing did what was expected. That was amazing and totally worth the wait :)

The 90s, don't ask.
> such a thing seems to be the exception from my experience

Here's an interesting thing: from my experience (and I've worked for many companies over 25+ years) this is not a rare exception.

However, such a culture absolutely requires mature, responsible, reliable and honest employees. Maintaining such a culture requires everyone's active effort, not just that of the boss. Companies select for that, those qualities often carries more weight than skill or experience.

Time and time I've seen people bitching about their work environment in a way which immediately sets of alarms about that person. I wouldn't hire them, and I'm guessing neither would ColinWright.

Don't take this personally, I don't know you or your experience, but I think many people who complain about good employers being rare should take a look in the mirror.
Greece is a rather small country, so are Portugal and Ireland. If anything, being small makes things worse, as it is more likely that there is less economical diversification.
Can't say I've been hearing that myself. Seems fine to me. Reset your router? :P
awkward moment looking at this whilst interviewing an intern
How is that pathetic?

Looks like a nicely engineered _PHONE_ with dual sim capability and can also check your emails/web sites/etc. To top it off they come with a battery LIFE that puts the whole industry to shame!

I think you are greatly overestimating the power of "android smartphones"; especially the cheap Chinese stuff. The hype is impressive.

Many people just want a _reliable_ phone they don't need to worry about charging every 12 hours. After having used a "smart phone" for 6 months I'm back to my cheap 4 years old Nokia phone: makes calls, receives calls, needs charging once a week (also does radio and flashlight, how cool is that!).
Everyone's switched to TalkTalk?
I'm guessing you have not read Proofs and Refutations by Imre Lakatos. It is worthwhile.

Also if you read on the history of mathematics, the various back and forth foundational issues raised by infinitesmals, Fourier series, proof by contradiction and the like are very interesting. Sure, it is possible for a modern mathematician to look at all that and say, They just didn't know how to do it, HERE you go. But over decades and centuries people were somehow successfully continuing to do math, even though they knew that something serious was wrong in their understanding.
Odd how three people all responded to me with the interpretation that I was being a moron rather than the interpretation that I was asking a tough question.
Leadership Books Got 1 Thing Wrong
Code Fellows Launches Women-Only Ruby on Rails Bootcamp
Yeah.. It's not just my office internet, my home, A webservice in the UK I use, some US web services. Gmail has been choppy recently.
See, now I just want to make a virus that injects this into random webpages.
In Safari on OS X Lion/Mountain Lion, the rubber banding effect will continually trigger it if you keep scrolling up at the top of the page.
Mr. Carmack. Linus is famous, but not a particularly good programmer, and doesn't use C over C++ for technical reasons, but for "ability to offend people" reasons.
Sketchnotes: Curating the ideas of creators
By "the writer", you mean yourself, right?
I think the GP is just pointing out how unusual in style such articles are compared to, say, US tech websites. I very much doubt you'd see a sentence like "There are many things that might steal your heart away at this device" there.

A more cynical man than I might label it a gushing puff piece garnered by some expenses paid Nokia PR event, GP points out cultural differences that might belay such an accusation.
Job description of a big data consultant
> The implementation is not yet entirely done, but most core features such as transaction verification, database interaction and network connectivity are tested as working, and the company has released one component of the system for public review...

I have a different definition of "full".
This one only works for some people. I am not one of them.
Data Modeling for NoSQL (recorded presentation + slides)
One question (and the most important one for me): does OpenPhoto/Trovebox deal with RAWs?

If so, how? E.g.:

What if the RAW doesn't have an embedded preview JPG?

What if the RAW comes with a sidecar JPG that contains the RAW developed through app XYZ?

Etc., etc.
>> I'm sad to see VimScript de-emphasized, having invested a good bit of time in getting good with it, but VimScript is pretty slow, so this is good news.

I'm a Vim enthusiast who hasn't tried Emacs, but one thing I've heard that makes me jealous is that they can script their editor using a flavor of Lisp. This is extra awesome for devs whose primary language is already Lisp.

Sometimes I wish for a Vim-like editor with a nicer scripting language, but "Vim-like" is such a huge target at this point that any effort is bound to displease most users by omitting the one tiny feature they personally love.

If Python becomes useful for scripting Vim, that would be awesome in my book.
Ouya games console follows Kickstarter funding with $15m VC round
Public domain calculator
Tooling in the golden age of JavaScript
Solution implies there is a problem.
Crap. Agreed. Too late to edit. I don't know why I did that. Typing too fast. Also, I speak several languages.

English can be really inconsistent at times: "lose" and "loose" are pronounced exactly the same yet have different meanings. Yet "lost" is not pronounced "loost". Another one I hate: "read" can be pronounced "red" or "reed".

In sharp contrast to this Spanish is regular and consistent. I'll venture to say that even French can be more consistent than English.

That said, I am launching into learning Mandarin, which I understand can be tricky due to subtle pronoun inaction [see edit] and tone details.

EDIT: Damn, every time I type on my iPad there's something to regret. Here "pronoun inaction" was supposed to be "pronunciation". Time to turn off auto-no-help. Just try texting in multiple languages on your iPhone for some ROFL fun. Cute until you email or text a business contact and auto-no-help corrections make you sound like a total idiot.
This is exactly my worry when asked to do some 'real' work for a company I'm interviewing with. There are many unscrupulous companies out there so you have to be careful.
A better way might be to get the candidate to do a task that isn't on company todo list, but instead is something the candidate is interested in. That might even open up a few conversations about the candidate which may help the decision process.
Just a thought anyway, no idea if that could actually work. I do know we need something other than the series of pointless brain-teaser style questions companies are asking these days.
Do they deliver internationally?
I found the way the information is presented in this article really nice and easy to digest. I'd love to see more topics covered in this style.
People laughed when it was said that perhaps The Onion could save Journalism.

Who's laughing now, eh!?
Sort of. AOL Broadband is actually a brand operated by Talk Talk. They acquired AOL UK excluding the content business back in 2006.

You're right that probably does account for a lot of AOL addresses, though. But the size of Talk Talk as a whole (don't know the breakdown between the Talk Talk brand and AOL brand for their ADSL) is too small to account for even a majority of the AOL addresses, and there are disproportionally many AOL addresses vs. market share compared to other operators like BT.
As I said towards the end of the piece the intention is to come up with an abductive process an, "inference to the best representation", a formalized method for deciding between languages. I am aware that there are various taxonomies, and perhaps I shouldnt have made the aristotleian comment because it was rather misleading.

My intention was to take an honest (you may say phenomenological) look at programming languages: to have a system by which the idioms of the language, its communal metalogics, etc. are all part of how we assess a language. Not the reductionism of the "procedural-functional", pre-existing landscape.

I guess my point in referencing this landscape was to point out how inadequate it is, and how there might be a more complex and useful way of reasoning between languages.

My next article on the subject, which I'd imagine will follow soon, will certainly be slightly refocused and clearer. This is very much a just-finished-typing first draft that I put out to see what the response would be, and what the appetite for this kind of analysis in the programming community is.
I think full here may mean in the sense that it actually verifies the entire blockchain, rather than relying on an instance of bitcoind to do that.
As a digital document it is easy. Because printing requires substantial coordination, it is less practical. The subscription model common to the scientific journal industry makes it contractually problematic.

I wonder what portion of academic research is equivalent to content farming.
The market will never be the best judge of what the most useful language is, but it is a correct judge. 'Best', being a relative term, takes an idividual's ideals into account, 'correct' being what is actual in practice.

The Best is chosen by the market that which is used to create the most successful product. By that measure, PHP is the best because Facebook is written in it. Best to the individual is much more complicated. The two will rarely coincide due to the uniqueness of the individual and the typical rejection of authority by intelligencia.

I would never say that PHP is the 'best' language for doing high abstraction, but it can be done. I also would not use it for such things, but you said you have (if you are the author of the article).

The 'Best' language is what you do your best work in, whether paid or not. Just don't expect to use it at work, and if you could, you would think something else would is best and pine for that.

It's the job, not the tools.
Really?

Meaning that either there's another unaccounted variable(s) that controls the effect of A in B and C, meaning that we cannot conclude anything from the experiment.

Yes and no is not acceptable...
tangentially, you also cannot detect the number of thread-able cores for tweaking webworker spawns