skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an aside from Buzzfeed, but I listen to a ridiculous podcast hosted by comedian Chelsea Peretti who happens to be Jonah Peretti's sister. He visited the show one time, so if you want a respite from the usual tech podcast schedule give this a listen:
http://feralaudio.com/32-the-case-of-the-three-gramas/

You'll also discover they had a viral hit with blackpeopleloveus.com from back in the day, if you didn't know that already. So Jonah's viral chops pre-date HuffPo.
> The fact that they're mistaken about evolution is not very important in the big picture.

no, its not very important whether they are creationists or not. The more worrying fact is that given the overwhelming evidence that points to the theory of evolution as being true, they decidedly deny it in favour of a less proven theory. I.e., they lack critical evaluation skills which is important in deciding matters - such as who to vote for.
No, it's actually a generalization about the homeschoolers that he knows...which is a subset (that he selected) of the greater homeschooling community.

Look, no one is denying that there are lots of religiously motivated people that homeschool their children. But for those that aren't, this is a completely irrelevant fact. If you've got an argument that shows me that homeschooling as an educational approach is fundamentally flawed because religious people are a majority of the early adopters, I'd love to hear it.
From my account it is pretty clear who is sharing data with them. They have 5 purchase records, and think I am into furniture and linens. Overstock.com and Jennifer Convertibles are guilty of selling out their customers.

Amazon is clearly not selling them information.

Overstock.com is now on my douchebag list.
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It's the exclamation mark that's always bothered me for some reason. Would make contracts and proposals look silly. "We will develop X for Yahoo!"

Dropping the exclamation mark would only improve their logo.
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Since it's data driven, your opinions are nice but apparently not correct; that is, apparently, people are more successful in the company when they are hired by impartial interviewers than by biased ones... The End.
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I love this as a commuting solution, hate it as a mountain bike. The last thing we need is some yahoo able to lay down more power than they can pedal and erode the trails. You want to use a trail, pedal up, or go to a downhill park where they have the resources to build on the trails to take that kind of abuse.

Same with the danger of using this sort of 'bike' on bike paths or crowded urban areas. I think their promo video is demonstrating that they are just asking for trouble.

Hopefully greyp, figures out the damage they could be doing to their brand and goes the commuter route.

I think the market for a powerful/fast power assisted commuter bike is big enough. Why go after the small urban rider and lazy ignorant downhiller markets?
> I'd rather watch an engineer take a minute to sweat through his memorized lines about X company's latest chips

Is that actually the kind of ads you see? I've been using AdBlock since forever, but I assumed all the ads were flashy commercials for everyone. Maybe my friends without AdBlock are just boring.
> In practice, Morwen and Gerard adhered to policies regarding transgender people that have been in place for nearly a decade, and advocated a course of action that is straightforward to anyone with even a passing familiarity with transgender culture.

I think that's one of the causes of this controversy - most people don't have a passing familiarity with transgender culture. I know transgender people, but had no idea that it is hateful to use their birth name. Later in the paragraph the author even acknowledges this, calling the editors on the other side "a crowd of people . . . approaching transgender issues for the first time."
So is it legal to ride this on sidewalks and bike-lanes?
As much as I agree with your point -- and I bet it gives people pause when you deliver it! -- I think that the reason they're giving is somewhat valid, but just worded very poorly. AIUI, what they actually mean is the social interaction aspect of things... which, coming back to your point, is still pretty twisted.

However, things like forming friendships and relationships and dealing with social adversaries, while bastardized, is still real. Of course it's not like these things can't be done outside of a school setting -- it's just the most likely place for a child with little or no options for significant physical mobility.
I read an adjective describing a noun, not a combined two word, self-defined phrase?

Perverse: inexplicably irrational: contrary to what is regarded as normal or reasonable, often for reasons that seem unaccountable or self-defeating

Incentive: something that encourages somebody to action: something that encourages or motivates somebody to do something.

Please, all knowledgeable one, tell me where you learned of this definition of "perverse incentive" (one word?).
I have my homedir in git too and also ignore just about everything. I ended up using gitignore as a whitelist instead of a blacklist, e.g.:

/*
!/.gitignore
!/.gitmodules
!/.gitconfig
!/.zshrc
!/.zshenv
!/.zsh
!/.tmux.conf
!/.vimrc
!/.vim
No doubt the mixing part of a MoS compilation is definitely the highlight. If they were tracks you could just listen to elsewhere then there would be no reason to buy one of their compilations. What I said was maybe a bit harsh as I used to religiously buy their CD's in my early teens. Some of their compilations are creative, but lets face it, you don't buy a Ministry of Sound CD for the sake of the track order. You get it for the wonderful expert mixing and complimenting choices of song.
When I interviewed with Google (April 2013), they got back to me a week later, which felt perfectly reasonable. On the other hand, the process of getting to the interview stage was ridiculously, unreasonably prolonged.
How CMU Increased the Proportion of Women in Computer Science From 7% to 42%
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This: «Second person thought is first person thought. It is thought of the self-conscious.»

Read: Self-consciousness (http://books.google.com/books?id=imqGN3b_K5IC&pg=PA194&lpg=P...).

The generalization here is that in order to increase the ranks of women, minorities, aliens, etc., etc., one must increase the potential for second person thought of persons of that kind. — This is why "awareness raising" is crucial to any endeavor toward social expansion.

By hiring more women, for instance, a company increases the statistical rate at which men, when using "you"-utterances, have first-person thoughts which involve the conceptual space of a woman second-person thought (which is first-person thought — though _considerating_ male consciousness). And vice versa.

From Georges Bataille's L'ANUS SOLAIRE:

«Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.»

«A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others.»

These are applications of Fregean thought.

Also see: "Reliably Biased: The Role of Listener Expectation in the Perception of Second Language Speech" (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.12014/abstra...).
You are correct, sir. I was being snarky and you called me on it. Thanks. I genuinely appreciate it.
> as the previous HDMI spec couldn't drive a 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 monitor at 60hz

That has been supported by HDMI since 1.3, since around 2006.

2560×1600p75 @ 24bit is about the highest standard resolution you can pump through HDMI 1.3.
valve doesn't limit you on the functionality that your game can use.
My current media player is a 3 or 4 year old ACRyan PlayOn Mini, which works wonderfully and has played everything I've ever tried on it. The only downside is that there are some video files which once you start fast-forwarding you can't stop. I _think_ this is due to mkv header compression which my version of the firmware doesn't support.

Since any new media player will be the replacement for my primary TV, it has to pass the wife and daughter test. :)
This is really strange.

Low price editions, or LPE's are the best things to have happened to Indian students. Without them I couldn't have cleared my engineering exams. And I have never faced problems like these in the past nor do I remember any body among my friends report such problems. In fact we only have praise for LPE's.

I am wondering if this is like a one-off goofup on the part of the publisher. Which it can very likely be.

And the price has nothing to do with it, basically because eventually everyone realizes that only thing that results from high prices is piracy. So you might as well sell at a decent price which customers are ready to pay.
Hi, I'm Kevin. Pleased to meet you.

Now you know someone who doesn't fit either of those molds :)

I'm co-moderator of a secular homeschooling group and your description doesn't really match anyone in our group (20-30 families). There are unschoolers, but there are also people who follow various approaches to varying degrees.
Haven't RTFA, but I hope this is a joke. For a company that boasts making all of it's decisions with solid scientific data, it's hiring process is an emotional ass grabbing parody of twelfth night.
It's not really about the design though. They (Yahoo) are trying to connect with people and get them engaged.

This is similar to the "design a bracket for a jet engine in 3D" campaign that GE ran - that resulted in absolutely horrible contest entries from people who do not understand materials/stress/strain/vibration... but looking visually appealing to a non-techie. I am sure GE had no intention of even considering any of those "designs" for anything other than pure entertainment.
> It isn't a shallow comment.

It is, because it reeks of irony, cultural chauvinism, and a fundamental Western bias.

> Receiving Justice in India is largely a function of gender and caste.

Replace gender and caste with money, and your statement becomes correct. In fact, there is quite a bit of reverse discrimination when it comes to the caste system.

Your earlier comments show a complete lack of understanding and context of Indian culture, so I won't bother picking them apart. All I can say is, it must take a scary level of indoctrination to draw the logical conclusion that "no wonder there are so many rapes in this country!" from "error in reprinted CS book".
We used to offer a $10 plan but we found the margins were very low. $25 allows us to provide great support and very few users need more than the limits on the plan.
Not really. What most opt-out cookies do is that they have a "DO NOT TRACK" or "IGNORE" in the cookie fields.

Let's say you run a DMP, you think you can be smart by tracking people with cookies that have a "DO NOT TRACK"==True field.

Very soon though, you will be deluged by more noise than signal, and it quite literally becomes useless. It's honestly easier for companies to not track people who have a opt-out cookie.

Source: Wrote a prototype DMP for my company once
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How big are these companies, how many people do they hire per week, and how many do they interview? Any number of perfectly reasonable interviewing strategies in smaller companies fall apart at big-company scale (1000+ resume submissions per DAY)
nor can I condone someone on that beast with a 40MPH top speed riding on sidewalks/bikelanes as they do in the video
I do understand your point. And you gave perfect examples of situations where BIG would be beneficial. My problem with the idea is that proponents ignore the negatives or severely downplay them. My biggest argument against that type of idea is that it kills human drive and ambition and progress.
We dont design them, but the canonical upright objects stand on one column... trees
Can you offer any more detail on what you were specifically forbidden from doing? Is it that you aren't allowed to offer updates outside of the App Store to App Store purchased apps? Or is it the method you were using with OmniKeyMaster that was disallowed?

Do you think Apple would allow other ways of supporting upgrade pricing between two versions of an App Store app possibly through in app purchase or similar?
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Exactly. This is an underpowered motorbike with a pedal-powered assist, which, due to some regulatory grey areas is likely legal for use on bike paths. As an actual bicycle commuter I don't approve.
I was expecting a command line tool.
A chiptune music composer done via WebAudio API
Reference information can be found at the following url https://github.com/rezoner/chirp/wiki/Chirp-composer---reference
Mine was incorrect too for characteristics. They have no other data on me which is weird because i never opt out of anything.
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This "service" seems extraordinarily twisted.
Looks like you are right. From the FAQ:

>What does the y-axis mean exactly? The y-axis represents the frequency of each phrase, as a percentage of all phrases that contain the same number of words. For example, if you search for from New York, the graph shows the number of times those words appear in exact order, divided by the total number of 3 word phrases in all of the articles

I think doing it at a per-article level makes more sense for an analysis like this, but 0.02% is actually pretty significant when n is on the order of millions.

Thanks for the clarification.
They may have included non-serious candidates as part of the experiment design, e.g. for control purposes, or simply to make up numbers.
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A reference can be found at the following url
https://github.com/rezoner/chirp/wiki/Chirp-composer---refer...
Not homeschooling a child can help but it can also harm them. It really depends on the school, the parents, the child, the style of education.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the "socialization" I got while homeschooled was far superior to that I got at public school, mainly due to the quality of the other kids I was dealing with.
I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook buys them

That would be a really, really weird choice. Facebook has an incredible number of editorial partners, I doubt they'd be too happy if Facebook bought one of their competitors.
It was being discussed in 2009; http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoos-humongous-new-hq-see-i... Not sure if there's any recent news on it though. It's pretty close to the new "SF" 49'ers stadium so it was probably a good real estate move on that front.
'On average, Google takes about 45 days to hire.'

That's a ridiculously long time to keep a candidate waiting.
Poor choice as a bike and poor choice as a motorcycle, yet looks like a nice means of commuting through town provided it's legal to use bicycle paths with that thing in your country, otherwise it's just an electrical moped. Too bad the price will probably be ridiculous and it will end up as the next segway.

If it manages to get actual demand around the world, they are probably to face regulatory nightmares regarding speed. F.ex. in Poland 65 km/h disqualifies it from the moped category (< 45 km/h), and the mopeds themselves aren't allowed on bike lanes anyway, so it'd be just a less comfortable less powerful electric scooter.
We are talking about choosing iOS versus Android for prototyping. My point is that the iOS development experience is far superior to Android in particular because of the strength of the simulator. How you "get your code running" is the most important part of the dev life cycle.
This sounds like a scary story that nerds would tell by a fire while camping.
Mine was pretty bad. They had some very basic pieces of public information wrong.

This is clearly not the same data I had when I used their web service at a startup I worked at in 2000. They had a service you could provide a phone number to and it would return a little story like this:

"Bob Smith from Portland, Oregon uses in-home pregnancy tests, drinks imported beer, and listens to alternative rock radio stations."

None of those sorts of rich details are in my data.
CDMA is another option for stratum 1 http://www.endruntechnologies.com/gps-cdma.htm
I don't see dfm mentioned, curious if anyone has used that? I haven't, but may be interested in trying it out. https://github.com/justone/dfm
I was at Yahoo! for the last logo change (from web safe red to purple), and that I was seeing the correct logo every day across the network is pretty impressive.
> I do applaud the Docker OpenStack team as getting a new hypervisor driver into OpenStack is no small feat!

Docker author here. The credit goes to Sam Alba (shad42 on hn) who lead this integration beginning to end - in addition to his day job of director of engineering at dotCloud :)
The killer feature that I like for 0MQ is that you can support message passing asynchronously, even when the other side is not currently up. For instance in a request/response pattern, one side might go away, get restarted, reinitialize, and then they carry on as if there wasn't a period in the middle where there was no connection. This kind of robust handling of network interruptions is very convenient for many use cases.

However what you describe isn't necessarily going to fit into that. The #1 thing that your description makes me wonder about is whether RPCs are going to be synchronous or asynchronous. So, for instance, if you hand me a data structure with a list objects that are references to data that I want to have, and I decide that I need 10 of them, do I have to pay for the overhead of 10 round trips, or can I say, "I need these 10" and get them all at once?
Readable by IDE's.

Large Java applications have 200+ files. Its next to impossible to handle that kind of an interaction without an IDE.
Great example of real innovation going on in OpenStack...congrats OpenStack and Docker communities!
In 1990 microsoftland, most people were still using DOS. Borland had Turbo Pascal and Turbo C products on the market for a number of years - vt100 style text menuing systems were still king in MS-DOS.

Windows 3.1 was released in 1992, which was the real starting adoption point for the majority of the market.

By that time, the NeXT computer had already been out for four years, the Mac and X Windows were eight.

I was actually just pointing out that software development, as a discipline hasn't advanced that much since 1990. The number of KLOCs freely available to use within your code has increased dramatically. The documentation (which was on paper pre-WWW) has improved exponentially. The tools, OSes and languages? Pretty much a plateau there since the mid 80s peak.
Like I said, that requires a lot of physical speakers, not just encoded data.
Apologies for late reply. Who would I be astroturfing for, exactly?

a. Can you make a logical argument why data structures should not be patented, as opposed to, say, mechanical or electronic structures? Try to differentiate them using concrete, technical reasons rather than handwavy "software is math" (aka "mechanisms are just physics" or "electronics are just flowing particles") arguments.

Also, modifications have always been patentable ("a better mousetrap" etc.) The thing is, this patent is not even a straightforward modification; I still have not figured out a solid reason why anyone would use this, a single multiply-ordered linked list, over multiple differently-ordered linked lists.

b. That's not the "rubber banding" patent you linked, that's the "pinch-to-zoom-if-touch-input-is-multi-point-else-scroll" patent. Anyway. You could argue both of those are bogus patents, but you have the benefit of hindsight. Hindsight is a very powerful bias, which is precisely why US (and most other places) require examiners to provide concrete proof, in the form of dated, published documents, of non-novelty or obviousness to deny a claim. This is, as far as I can tell, the only way to truly objectively quantify a claim's contribution, and this is why you see the patents you see.

Not saying it's a perfect system, but once you decide that patents should be a thing, I personally can't think of a more objective one.

Also, if you think it's as easy as "fill out a patent application to get dibs on something", I strongly encourage you to give it a shot. Assuming a micro-entity status in the US, it should cost you a couple hundred bucks.
> They have files on 700 million individuals

Allright, let's sign up...

> State: ZIP:

So... USA only? Okay, let's see http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html

> 316,606,919

Not quite 700M, calling BS.
OK buddy - you be the first one to not give your fiancee a diamond...wait till she goes to work or talks to her friends who expect to see it...then come back and let the rest of us know how it went... not to be snarky, because I remember coming to the exact same conclusion you did before I got engaged...but not getting the rock is easier said than done...wasting a bunch of money on something you have no logical need for...let's just call that "training"...if you ever get married, you'll know what I mean.
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I've been using vim for 3-4 years now. The plugin system is alright, but it's nothing to brag about. It's an amazing editor, but I think I'm going to try emacs + evil for a bit.

I almost added some other claims but I couldn't put them into words correctly, so I'll just leave it at this :D
Okay, you do raise a good point about what happens if the timestamps happen to be precisely identical. Most of the scenarios I've had where the precise same timestamp was at all likely, the updates would also have been identical. If you want to have overlapping cells resolving highly concurrent writes (not even using wide rows to make precisely concurrent writes go to different cells anyway), Cassandra is probably not the right tool to you.

Of course, if that were considered a likely scenario (generally microsecond collisions at the row level would only be at high probability if you had high concurrency on a record), you have a number of paths open for resolving it, the one that I've usually ended up with is that the two concurrent updates actually should be to two different records ANYWAY (usually you add a client ID to the key, for example) because you want to have a record of them which is later resolved when any partitioning issues are addressed (so, you write with ANY consistency to a log, have sloppy real-time reads that are consistency ONE, but then have another process which does ALL consistency reads on the log and then resolves any conflicts using application logic, before writing with QUORUM consistency to the "source of truth".

Alternatively, you can simply provide a client generated timestamp which has a different scale/resolution with a lower order bits being truly random values. For example, if you have that kind of high-concurrency, you probably don't need to handle a range of timestamps beyond ~50 days. You can then use a client generated timestamp which is a combination of 32 high order bits for milliseconds since the epoch and then a random 32-bit value for the low order bits, which makes the odds of a collision on the timestamp pretty good even for highly concurrent cases.

I'm curious about the use case where you'd have all the concurrency with different but overlapping values, but you'd not want to record them separately and then have some custom app logic for resolving them.
Pedal-powered assist? Those pedals are probably purely cosmetic at that weight.

I'd love to see someone try to get that thing moving from a standstill using just the pedals.
as someone who spent 7 years at boarding school, they're not synonymous with corporal punishment either - if you have parents with jobs that cause them to move a lot (military) it can provide stability and a great education... loved it