skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the scripting system for the custom scenario editor for the computer game "Realmz". You had a list of 8 text fields to enter numeric commands in, and 8 fields for arguments. There was a dropdown to use for reference for what the commands meant. If you needed your script to be longer than 8 commands, you had to create "sub-macros" and call those.

I can't find a screenshot of the macro editing screen, but here's a different screen from the level editor to give you an idea http://rlmz.org/divinityscreens/divinity05.gif
The whole idea is to decrease a number of "different problems" as much as possible. I don't know if it would help schizophrenics, but why not? At least it can get one off street by providing means to pay rent (which can be administred by his/her legal guardian).
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Those are the unexpired jobs (posted within the last 60 days) that have been clicked the most frequently. I could probably tighten up that wording a bit. :)
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I don't want to seem mean or anything. So, please don't take offence ^^; but: why didn't you parse it a more readable format and change it back into goobledigook when you wanted to use it?
Similar experience. Took 4-6 weeks to get a reply to my application email (I'd actually forgotten about it). 4-6 weeks after that (and a few emails from me chasing it up) Google were able to schedule a phone interview. Interviewer was really friendly, and I was pretty excited. Got an email shortly after saying "great that went well, can we fly you to (nearest Google office)". Replied sure - I'm free anytime. 4 weeks later (and a few emails from me chasing it up) and I find out the recruiter has gone on holiday. Another 4 or so weeks later (and more emails from me chasing it up) and I'm told they are having trouble finding someone to interview me for the in-person. Another 2 weeks later I'm finally told the position was filled, but as a promising candidate I should consider applying for other positions.

The idea of working at Google is interesting, but I don't really have the months to invest in the interview process.
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How did things hold up? The RVs I've been in look like they are definitely built on the cheap. Cabinetry assembled with staples, faux-wood paper veneers, plastic plumbing fixtures, low-grade foam rubber upholstery, etc. Fine for something most people use a few weeks a year, but actually living in continually... I'd think things would wear out pretty quickly.
> Those who advocate for a BI have nothing against wealth and entrepreneurship, and would probably withdraw their support for it if they believed that it would result in the outcome that you predict. BI isn't about everyone being equal, but rather about establishing a minimum income level.

I get this; I just wonder about the effect that funding it would have on wealth and entrepreneurship, given that decreasing the value of a unit of work through taxation tends to retard economic growth, and heavy taxation would be necessary to provide for these kinds of programs. If we can manage to pay for them without over-disincentivizing entrepreneurship, everything is dandy. Given the scope of the proposal, that seems sketchy - we have already seen a tangible effect from things like the ACA on employment (that is employers are willing to sacrifice raw economic output in order to avoid higher effective taxes) and that's a relatively small drop in the bucket compared to what would be needed to bootstrap a BI system. I may just be mentally overinflating the issue, but it seems like the capital necessary to fund a BI system would be so gargantuan that it would have a significantly detrimental effect on low-margin businesses, kicking us into a feedback look of reduced supply and higher prices.

> many wealthy people continue building wealth because it is a side-effect of something that they love to do, not because they want to make even more money.

Definitely, and isn't that the ideal here? To get us, as a society, to the place where we can devote all our time to things that we love to do, rather than the things that we have to do? I half-joke that I love what I do so much that I'd do it even if I wasn't making money at it, and I think that's true for a lot of people, but I can also say that I think the fact of the matter is that most people do what they do because they have to, not because they want to; squeezing out the wealth incentive leaves little there for most. If we can get everyone to a point where people do what they love and society still functions smoothly, I'll be the first to sign up for that. :)

> What makes you think that we aren't already near the price equilibrium that would be reached under a BI system?

Back-of-the-napkin math suggests to me that it would require much more capital to implement BI than current entitlement programs require. If this is not the case, and it's just a matter of liquidating current entitlement programs, then there's absolutely no issue at all. My entire argument is predicated on the assumption that BI would require far more in the way of entitlement resources than we currently have available.
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I don't know why, but I've always had more luck asking people about lawyers than I have getting lists off of legal organisations. Perhaps because the interactions people have with lawyers are more refined than just whether they messed up the case completely or not?

That is good advice though ^_^
> It has nothing to do with Bayesian, we're talking logic here.

You really don't understand this at all. There is no such thing as single Platonic "logic" independent of any qualifier. There are many different kinds of logic. There is propositional logic, first order logic, higher order logic(s), modal logics, extensional and intensional logics. Bayesian reasoning is a (particular kind of) logic. Specifically, it is a logic of probability, which is to say, the kind of logic that applies when you don't know for certain whether something is true of false. Which is to say, the only kind of logic that actually applies to real-world situations.

> A human can decide to stop lying,

Can they? All of them? Are you sure? There are humans who can't decide to (say) stop smoking, how can you be certain that there aren't humans who can't decide to stop lying?

> a sign can't decide to suddenly have predictive scientific properties.

Of course a sign can't "decide" anything because it doesn't have a brain, but that doesn't mean it couldn't suddenly start to have predictive power. You can't rule out the possibility that the laws of physics could change tomorrow on any logical basis. The best you can (logically) do is observe that there is a ton of EVIDENCE that thaw laws of physics don't change capriciously, and conclude that therefore the probability they will change tomorrow is low (and Bayes's theorem will tell you exactly how low if you want to crunch the numbers).

Likewise, there is a ton of EVIDENCE to support the theory that the boy in the story is a pathological liar who is not capable of deciding not to lie, or for whatever reason chooses to lie notwithstanding that he might have the ability not to. The only issue is how many lies it would take before one's estimate of the posterior probability of the boy telling the truth was indistinguishable from zero. This has to do with one's Bayesian prior on the probability of a particular random individual being a pathological liar, but that's beside the point. The point is that there is some finite number of lies after which the theory that what the boy says is in any way correlated with the truth (except by chance) is no longer logically tenable.
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For the sake of the sanity of your future co-workers, I really hope you are kidding.
> The trick to getting it right might well be to just let decent female writers write female characters.

I realize you say "decent", but well... Twilight.

> Heh, at least then if we still get the same, it their fault!!!!

Not really. One of the points that feminist theory makes is that patriarchy is internalized. This is a difficult ground, because it risks becoming paternalistic, but there is non-gendered evidence of the same effect: Stockholm syndrome, for instance, especially in cases of domestic abuse.

The problem isn't that women aren't getting what they want; the problem is that women are seen as wanting qualitatively different things. This is true to some extent, but we've exaggerated and stereotyped the differences so much that we forget there's a gigantic overlap between "what women want" and "what men want".
Unity scenes already support text serialization in the YAML format.
>I guess that's as close as you can get to socialism, and there's a lot of controversy surrounding it, since brazilian government is provenly corrupt.

I would say that is as close as you can get to capitalism (while having welfare). In the current welfare systems, the government funds specific programs to provide for the public. With a BI, the government gives money to individuals, and allows the market to arrange itself to provide for the public.
I've noticed this as a "dumb-phone" user who often forgets it at home. Walking around with your head up, you feel like you're amongst a bunch of half-asleep people. You can look right at somebody and they won't notice you. Lots of bumping into each other, not making way for somebody who needs to get by, things like that. Many people who are engrossed in their phones don't react to loud noises or other things happening that are out of the ordinary. It can be unsettling.
Depends on which modern day activities you are comparing those with.
I like how you immediately made up a bunch of circumstances to justify it.
> The true value is having a real "off" switch.

Despite the conspiracy theories, your phone already has an off switch.
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This seems way over the top. How muuch extra reliability does this get you when compared to RAID+1 locally and amazon glacier or s3? For the super paranoid, add a non-amazon based online backup as well. This seems to have made sense before these services were available, but just doesn't seem worthwhile anymore
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There's a few things going on here that I think are going to have serious influence on the next 10 years.

First, the 9X kids, as I mentioned before, want what the rest of the world already has. They've had a taste and I don't think they are willing to concede.

Second, a lot of Viet Kieu (Vietnamese from abroad) are returning and they have a lot of money. They're going to also want to maintain some semblance of what they've grown accustomed to in Canada, US and Australia. If there is anything I've learned from living here, money can buy almost everything.

The rest of SE Asia is growing at a faster rate. Vietnam is only really beating Indonesia.

I think what most people don't get is that communism here doesn't mean what you probably think it does. Capitalism is huge here and it's only going to get bigger. So, one or the other is going to have to give.

Finally, this decree is kind of toothless. They have neither the money or the knowledge on implementing it. Their idea of blocking facebook was (Facebook is generally available anywhere now) to block some DNS entries.
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An "untraceable one-way communication device"? Really?

It does no such thing. Your phone is completely traceable when on, and it's not one way, and the pouch does nothing because the phone can still record where you are and what you say when in there, and then transmit it later.
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2012 Federal Tax Receipts: $2.45 Trillion

This is where it falls apart. To implement this program, you would need to double tax receipts. 98% of income taxes, which account for about 46% of all receipts, are paid by the top 50% of the population. The median income is around $30k. At that level, about $4050 goes to federal taxes. If we double all tax sources, that would increase the tax burden to $8100. (This is assuming the BI is untaxed.)

Effectively, the median would see an extra $5,950/year from this program. People making above $70,000 would start to see their taxes increase more than the $10,000 BI. People with incomes of $200,000 would be paying an extra $35k per year.

I think it's an interesting proposal, but with these sorts of increases, you're going to encounter a lot of resistance from upper-middle classes and higher, the sort of people who tend to be much more influential in politics...
Since you're looking at alternatives... you might as well include: zip( arr[0::3], arr[1::3], arr[2::3] ) It's pretty fast, especially if the array is pre-allocated rather than a generated iterator.
And how exactly do you plan to use your phone?

As soon as you take it out it can transmit everything it captured while in there.

This thing is useless for a cell phone.
The biggest problem I found with Cocos is trying to google for something. If you're developing for iOS, then it's fine. But if you're looking into, say HTML5 canvas, finding a working JavaScript example for something is like looking for a needle in a heystack.

This is one of the main reasons I gave up on Cocos and used EaselJS for my last project.
No it doesn't. Not to anyone who knows C anyway.
The guy is an sad combination of brilliant and stark raving mad. If he were medicated, I think he'd be a decent guy. In the meantime, he appears to be a homeless guy wearing a sandwich board and yelling gibberish into a bullhorn. Who made a complete operating system.
> Is the theory that if there were more movies about female bank robbers, there would be more real bank robbers, in turn making us believe movies about female bank robbers, which would lead to more movies about female bank robbers - goal achieved?

Yes.

Just like if there were more movies about female Nazgul there would be more real female Nazgul in turn making us believe movies about female Nagul, which would lead to more movies about female Nazgul.
Read "Code" by Petzold.

As far as practical computer skills, study any book on A+ certification (maybe even get that cert), then learn Linux/Python
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I started down this path a month or two ago and you're right - it's actually quite a big job. I've been working on a real time system for rails / ember that moves all data over a websocket and allows subscribing to updates, however it has been very hard to get working with ember-data. I've currently have it running with my own (terrible) data layer but I would really like to get it running with ember-data again before I get it up on github.
It's not that easy.

I put a cell phone in a metal lunchbox with a metal lid and it still rang when I called it.
Text Classification with Clojure
If it was in the pouch and you wanted to hide the time it was in the pouch during that time you never took it out, then yes that would work.
I remember feeling that before smartphones; I think it might just be the nature of people, especially outside of a university context. I also notice a lot when running and trying to get by people using up all of the lanes on the sidwalk (and the people aren't using smartphones then.)
Sigh.... I'd forgotten about this (used to do this in a previous job)

Parsing airline flight bookings straight from raw sockets was not fun.

Thing is, it does the job, and if you watch users requesting and making bookings with the system (or other similar travel service bookings using things like VT320 terminals), I'd bet a web interface couldn't actually be faster. But only if you know how to use it.

Rather ironically, about 4 years ago, they added a "web service" to this which just wrapped the console output directly in a single set of XML tags - I kid you not - no attempt to nicely separate atoms into separate tags.
What nonsense. In a free market economy, you vote every time you voluntarily accept an offer. Not voting for a corporation, a vote that costs you your own money, is a vote against it, because corporations die by default. If ever people stop accepting new offers, the corporation will die. They can't force you to accept an offer or to pay for an offer accepted by someone else.

With a government -- or a corporation supported by crony capitalism, which is just more government -- a program doesn't have to convince the payers that it's worth paying for. It just has to convince those with the power to take money from others by force to do so and give them some of it.
I was recently playing with a GBA emulator on my iPhone and I quickly started searching around for some actual GB hardware, because a touchscreen d-pad is complete bullshit. I'm especially fond of the old Game & Watch collections. Simple, brilliant mobile games, but they need hardware buttons.

I'd buy the heck out of a Nintendo-designed gamepad for 4" iOS devices. They could charge a premium for the hardware and the games, and they've already got the sales channels in place. And if it doubled as a Wii U controller then I'd buy a Wii U too.
Showing and Hiding elements with AngularJS
I think it's fair to say just about anything is dangerous in C if you don't understand it...
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