skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. Now if only the kid actually was over there in the US.
The Classic "QA Team" is Obsolete
For 1 year or per year?
Watch an average user browse the web and use Google to make a search.

They will click on the top ad result returned if it is vaguely relevant and not bat an eyelid.

Average users do not even know those yellow sections or the right hand section are ads.

The natural instincts of geeks <> The natural instincts of average users
Pay per tweet, awesome.
I think it's possible, it'd just take serious computing power. There are a number of physically guaranteed symmetries which would be silly to make a machine learn:

a) Permutation symmetry of identical atoms
b) Rotational symmetry of system
c) Translational symmetry of system

I suppose it could learn them approximately, given enough examples, but why bother? I think it'd be kind of like not using a convolutional neural net for recognising digits in photos and just using a bazillion more weights and examples.

I'd say you'd start with a completely general learning model which respects the above symmetries and then see where it takes it.

However, I don't know how you'd make a transferable N-body potential from a model taught only on some number of atoms. Again, I guess it's kind of like training a CNN handwriting recogniser on 256x256 images and then applying it to arbitrary sized images, which you can only do by assuming locality and translational symmetry of the features.
"So the Gnome team simplified our 'forgot password' page according to the latest guidelines."
The performance has indeed improved greatly. Too bad it doesn't seem to support IPv6 though :(
Probably the first year, they never seem to have coupons for renewals.
9 Words to Kick-start Your UX Vocabulary
A nice deal, but it's not clear if this is only for those that retweet, or everyone. Or whether it's for a year or per year (the latter would be quite something).

If only there were decent .com's and .net's still left ;-)
> People are used to the instant gratification from a web app

Which people? The 1% inside the tech bubble?

Outside of the tech bubble people still download stuff. And smart phones like Android and iPhone with their downloadable apps don't really condition people to use web apps.

If you want to make bold statements about the software market take a look at the people outside of your tech savvy peer group.
Number 1 is a very good point and something those companies should keep in mind. Anonymous/Lulzsec are basically like children in terms of what they could do. Very skilled people could do substantially more disruption and damage.
Sound like the entertainment industry is suffering from a severe case of walter mitty syndrome cased by to much watching of 24 they will be asking for their investigators for the right to use enhanced interrogation techniques ala Jack Bauer.

They will be dressing up in multicam and running round the woods pretending to be devguru operators with paint guns next.
In general, standardized testing based on CS trivia is a good gauge of how well the candidate has prepared for the interview. To put it bluntly, it tests how many piss boring problems the candidate is willing to put herself through to get into your company.

If the problem is uninteresting and tedious, it's likely that your candidate simply doesn't _want_ to solve the problem; to accurately judge whether she is _able_ to solve a problem would require giving her a problem she feels like solving in the first place. Yes, some candidates do get nervous and break; you might want to filter out such candidates on the basis that they can't handle "pressure".

What I don't understand is how you minimize risk: picking a rotten candidate who has prepared thoroughly for the specific interview, and leaving out good engineers is an expensive mistake. At best, it probably works heuristically for freshers because she's likely to retain atleast some amount of the toy exercises she was made to do as part of her coursework.

I've personally seen too many cases of "gamification" of the standardized testing process, and am disappointed that companies haven't been able to come up with a better system.

For the record: this is not sour grapes. I have no desire to work on the proprietary codebase of any company, and am quite happy just doing what I want (contributing to real open source projects). My comment is just a general remark on the state of affairs.
This is a really exciting problem space, and I feel some envy at the thought of your task :)

I haven't worked with Quark, but years ago I did something similar working with Indesign. We needed to produce education resources at a fast pace, including work from many contributors into a single document, with editing phases as well.

I started thinking that Indesign was the centre of the system. But I had to change to a mindset where the backbone of the system was a chain of tools. Indesign was just one tool plugged into that system, focused on doing the things it was good at.

Building it this way, I was able to deal with textual issues in a different part of the toolchain, and had complete flexibility about what languages I could use to do it. (i.e. not stuck with applescript)

Here's an example for how this flow could work involving quark:

* Your users create their source material in whatever format. Some will give you word, others smile, others text.

* Consolidation phase. Consolidate the bulk of your content into a single place.

You could abuse quark for this purpose, but if you
do: completely ignore layout concerns. The purpose of
this phase is to get all your content (images, text)
in a single place, associated with one another.
Then you'd export to XML. Again: no layout in
this phase.

* Review phases. Here, use your textual tools to work with the text. Get all the content right.

* Layout phase. Now quark, and layout. Feed your completed text into quark, and arrange it.

If new content arrives, have a mechanism so you can feed it straight into the review layer, and then into quark for re-layout.

> My goal is to script the editorial style guide of
> the magazine I work for, thus side-stepping a lot of
> formatting/spell checking that we do, so I can focus
> on fact checking.

If you were to break it up like I mentioned above, you could even have different phases from fact checking and regionalisation. And you could see your data flow through the stages, and have diffs available to supply to interested parties, such as the content author. This allows you to add powerful new kinds of markup that doesn't need to appear in the final document. For example, XML markups for fact-checking events, "<check time="20130527-1225" person="joe">Confirmed with call to witness, see full writeup at [blah].</check>".

You wouldn't be doomed to an existence of XML editing to do this - you might have a tool sitting on top of it. But to get it going you could just edit the XML manually.

There's other advantages.

Say you wanted to publish to web and and to paper and to braille all off the same content. No problem. Just take your textually-correct document layer, and pass it to the braille processor or the web processor. You'll get exactly the same content as went into the paper published version.

You could feed that layer into a datastore and run a textual search program against it.

Or you might want to publish a single volume of all of the year's content, with a single index. Again, it becomes straightforward.

Now you control the text.

If you want to discuss in more detail, feel free to contact me offline.
I use HappyFox and I like it because it provides a simple backend with a clean interface. It's not cluttered with icons everywhere. It just has what you need to respond to tickets and get them closed. It offers the ability to customize the colour.

They offer a hiding free plan underneath their plans and I've used them for my communities ban appeals and couldn't of wanted a simpler solution. Thanks HappyFox!
in case it's not clear - the "regular expressions" he's using are perl's (well, based on perl's - PCRE) which are notoriously extended past the theoretical definition, or past what almost all other regexp libs / languages provide.

the examples won't work in python or java, for example.
Typo or sarcasm?
How so? You can do anything you want. This idea that parents can't found companies is just a platitude that childless entrepreneurs (usually very young ones I might add) use to justify their insane work schedules. The belief that this is the only way to do it protects their egos from the thought they may be working their way to an early grave.

The uncomfortable truth is that 100 hours a week won't guarantee you success, and 20 hours a week may be sufficient to build a serious business. Every extra hour your work is multiplying the base value of your idea, expertise, connections and staff, but it is not going to magically cross some threshold of success when you put yourself on a perpetual deathmarch. If anything, I think those 70th, 80th, 90th hours tend to have dramatically diminishing returns, and time away from the office helps refuel creativity and lead to more intelligent decision making and recognition of opportunities.

Of course that's all just my opinion, but one thing I'm sure of: no successful entrepreneur got there without challenges, and they certainly never got there listening to the million reasons the rest of us said it wasn't possible.
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I do trust pirates more. I get the media I want in whatever format that I want it. I get it on time, several minutes after it airs. There is no DRM on it so I can use it with my home theater setup without any complications even when my internet goes offline. All I want is a site that lets me pay a reasonable amount of money for a television show or movie and download it in whatever format I want with no DRM. I want to give the creators and the actors money, but I refuse to do it in a way that harms me, or my access to the material I bought for doing so. That is not going to happen anytime soon, so for now I continue to trust the pirates more.
Well, that depends on what kind of operations armed forces are for. The opposite conclusion can be drawn from Operation Unified Protector, the NATO mission in Libya. Very, very few humans deployed into Libya. High-tech operations involving aircraft from carriers and airstrips in Italy supporting locals on the ground, with a set of naval vessels providing maritime support (embargo enforcement, some mine-hunting capability and no-fly-zone enforcement, as I recall). Afghanistan and Iraq were anomalous in terms of the kind of war (or rather, the kind of post-war) the most warlike nations (USA, UK and chums) expect to fight nowadays.

The appetite for that kind of nation-building has shrunk considerably following the experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Except of course that most historical businesses outside of the mobile/social circle jerk have been started by people who had families.The take-home point here is you wont get funding unless you new VC owners can be sure of exclusivity on your life.

The problem with valley funding is its basically reliant on the tails of the distribution,without massive IPOs buoyed by hundreds of millions of users(not revenue!) it is not profitable.The truth is there is a lot of opportunity for businesses which dont go webscale.
Here is an idea,find a business as a consultant which has an opportunity in a growth industry (They still exist in a recession). Deliver your projects,go to meetups and parties. Take on larger projects from your customer and get some staff. Then look for new customers,building a business which has revenue in the low millions becomes possible and they if you want "webscale" you can bootstrap it yourself.The return on this business would be a joke to a VC but to you would be life changing.
The US has a really bad track record of picking local partners. Mostly because during the Cold War, the "good" local people were more innately socialist, which the Communists exploited, so we got stuck with some pretty horrible people (either ineffective or outright evil) by default.

I don't believe it's feasible to occupy a medium sized country which actively resists using modern militaries. It's certainly not worth it. I'd just focus on keeping a limited presence to rain death from above (like we do in Pakistan, Yemen, etc.) or via limited JSOC strikes (Somalia, Afghanistan before 2007 or so, etc.), and then using armed but civilian organizations to interface with the populace and government.

In a place like Somalia or Afghanistan, foreign organizations should run important infrastructure and logistics services for the local government and population, with the cost subsidized by international donors. i.e. a local Afghan should be able to buy electricity at 0.10/KwH, sell their pomegranates at the world price, and have clean water, Internet, cellphones, etc., without any other focus on building the government (since that's probably hopeless). The organization providing that infrastructure needs self-defense capability, but you don't need much beyond what Blackwater had to do this.
the rules are listed on the page as:

you nave to retweet

and

you have to follow namecheap

to qualify
Does anyone else think it would be easier and less bloody to just get the Taliban addicted to heroine and subsidize their cost of living?
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Having unsuccessfully attempted to use Freelancer.com to complete a relatively simple job (I could do it myself but don't have time at the moment), I was wondering if HN could suggest a good freelancer sourcing site for relatively straight-forward work? Unfortunately the freelancer marketplace sites seem to be dominated by weak PHP developers.
Designing a radar beam scheduling algorithm
Most sane organizations are going to turn off ping

Why? That never made sense in my world. Now, I'm not a network ops guy, but .. why would you ever do that?

And that ignores related moves (like blocking all of icmp, while we're at it).
POPLmark seems to generally be considered solved. There are multiple good solutions using different tools for all of those problems, I believe.

And the real goal has largely been reached. At this point, if you're proposing new PL theory and you don't have a mechanised proof of it, the entire work is viewed with considerable skepticism.

That said, reuse and productivity are still not much better than that of real-world software. My peers who do that sort of thing are in very high demand for post-doc positions on projects funded by various governments/militaries to "prove the X property about software system Y."
What kind of job are we talking about?
Is it possible to be a software billionaire and don't live in Palo Alto, ca?
Really, is it possible to be successful in software business, startups, apps, web, etc and don't live in California?
Only valid for 24 hours, at $10 a piece i'm sure theres not a whole lot of people waiting to register names... so this is probably going to cause a bunch of people to register names they don't care about :(
How did anyone argue "Afghanistan is not a failed state", other than the "it was never a state, so it didn't fail, it just never won" (although in the monarchy it was OK in certain parts, for about a decade).
There are rumors Bjarne Stroustrup will lead the design decisions for Yahoo! after Marissa Mayer was impressed by the cover of the 3th and 4th edition of The C++ Programming Language book.
You're right, though there is some profit in shutting down computers. Even right now there's a proliferation of ransomware[0] [1] that locks out machines. I've removed several of those from computers in last two years and even once been paid to do this.

Moreover, if computer-locking DRM malware becomes commonplace, a market for cheaper-than-police unlocking will emerge, with incentives favouring hacking the DRM to then earn money on fixing it.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_(malware)

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_security_software
Hydrogen electrons 'orbit' in shells, not a uniform sphere
Why does it make it less interesting? Overall they achieve more overhang for the same number of bricks than the other construction, n^(1/3) instead of log(n).
Ehhh, it would be ok as long as I still got my toast and coffee. I'm really grumpy in the morning without toast and coffee.
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A survey I think worthy of consideration-

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22687870/most-startup...

People in this industry -- moreso than any other, it seems -- often have some need to project their own lot as the ideal way to be in the business. If you're 20-ish and childless, well that's just the bestest way you ever could be, am I right? And so on.
Not all of them. Watch this documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYglCDgpu0

It might just change your mind.
I have a start-up company as well as a 1 yr old (as well as a wife, which also is an important commitment.) What I noticed after my child was born was that I was even more focused at work and more focused on effective triage to ensure that my time is spend on the most valuable aspects of the business. The strange thing is that as I've gotten more important commitments in life I've been more efficient in business, probably because my triage filter is so specific now and I'be been able to effectively delegate.

My start-up has the advantage that we make money (i.e. profitable) thus I can afford to delegate. If I was single and my company had no money I think that a child both in terms of expenses (they aren't cheap) as well as time would be more problematic.

I full life for myself includes kids and start-ups. I don't think it is an either/or choice.
Too bad. :)
I was in the .mil until right before 9/11, like I got my final honorable discharge papers in dec 2000. So I'm older, but not totally ancient (like, say, my grandfather who flew B-17s and B-24s in WWII). And I also have a cousin who did peace corps time in one of the South African townships in the early 80s. My cousin and I are, um, kind of different in outlook, lifestyle, equipment, training, attitude... The fundamental problem is sending the army to do the peace corps job. Even worse, the same army that did the "pacification".

A simple analogy is if you ordered a navy destroyer crew and my army ordnance company to swap jobs, it end up as a hilariously ineffective reality TV show (Hmm, this might actually lure in viewers...). Something even more extreme like assigning an infantry platoon to peace corps work is going to be even more of an epic fail.

There is another interesting issue that the peace corps is not supposed to accomplish any major long term changes. So if they had a mission there, with the same results, they'd be considered to be doing "great". The S.A. township my cousin served in, remains a morass of poverty and crime and ignorance, maybe a little better than it would otherwise be, but no one has any crazy illusions that his 2 year term or whatever it was would result in the township turning into "leave it to beaver"-ville. On the other hand its considered a military disaster to spend decades basically accomplishing nothing. So you need a perspective change. For a bunch of soldiers doing someone else's job, they're about as successful as the correct set of workers would be.

Interestingly to the best of my knowledge the peace corps still considers hand chalk to be appropriate technology. If you want to do nationbuilding you send in guys with chalkboards and excellent native language skills and maybe some special technical skills (or maybe not).
Lulz may be brief, but it is hardly clear.
Yahoo had design? Great!!!
The median household income in NYC is $48,631, as an average software developer at an average startup you'll already be earning significantly more than most families.

Sure if you work in finance you can earn more, but it's about funding a more lavish life-style than a necessity. Pretending anything else is insulting to the millions of families who are living on less.
The problem is, it's the short-term that matters on quaterly reports and that moves you up the corporate label. Long-term changes take too long to benefit those who introduced them.
Would that require disclosure?

A problem now which is more frightening (I can secure my network from the media companies, not worried about that one bit) is the remarkable number of companies with known security problem that won't and don't disclose it. Going on the offensive should be illegal unless they can disclose damages which justify it and then their customers can sue.

I don't see this happening in a healthy world, defense will get much much better much more quickly if it was to be legal though, ultimately it would involve violence though.
I'd even rather use BASIC
Afghanistan: a graveyard of empires.
This is why I sometimes defend the people who want to abolish copyright. I don't think it would actually be optimal, but neither would it be a serious catastrophe, and by making the argument and convincing people of the plausibility of it you create a rational baseline from which to contextualize the naked batshit insane power grabs of industry executives.

The trouble with all of this is that it's ruining politics. The way you optimize social utility is for each side to negotiate in good faith and give up the thing which is more valuable to the other side than it is to them. But in a situation where each side has a veto on getting anything done, refusing to compromise is an extremely effective strategy for exactly as long as it takes the other side to mirror it, and then it becomes a high stakes game of chicken where everybody goes over the cliff unless both sides blink. Because a screaming contest is ineffective, but one side utterly and repeatedly capitulating to the other is even worse.

And that's the situation we're in until the extremists at the heads of these companies give up on demanding absolute control over everything.
The problem with some AMOLED screens is that the different colours efficiency decays at different rates. Which is why early versions of the galaxy(or similar samsung phone) always has that horrid blue-green tint to it.

Another problem is ambient light. if you're wearing a red tshirt, and there is a source of light other than your monitor its going to throw out the colour balance.
Just this month I saw sale for .eu domains per 1EUR. What's up with these specials? They sure have to pay much more for them.
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The Taliban were actually pretty hardcore counter-narcotics in the late 1990s, with western support. They only partnered with the narcotics industry after 9/11 when fighting the US.
Afghanistan was a modern state (and do research instead of simple downvote) as recently as 1960s. They had women studying at Universities, they had modern hospitals, you name it.

War radicalized the society. Put them back in stoneage. They have had wars for the past 30-40 years.

USSR death started with Afghanistan. USA death will start with it too. The place is a graveyard of Empires.
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I honestly don't desire to belittle or discount your anecdotes, but equating failed state = drug abusing population seems problematic when you look around in the West.
Best freelancer site for me: twitter.

Make sure you regularly post useful links related to your craft (using eg: buffer).