skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://intelligence.org/files/WBE-Superorgs.pdf

> Because such emulations could be freely copied and run at increased speeds, they
might quickly outnumber humans and be capable of performing almost any task more
cheaply. Standard economic models suggest this could produce tremendous economic
growth, perhaps doubling the size of economies every few weeks or less, but also driving
wages for most jobs below human subsistence level (Hanson, forthcoming). Many have
suggested that such rapidly replicating and evolving minds could cause human extinction
if not carefully controlled (Bostrom 2002; Yudkowsky 2008; Posner 2004; Friedman
2008; McAuliﬀe 2001; Joy 2000; Moravec 1999).
"Know that they can code" and "know how they code" are different things, and it's possible the latter could effect how well they fit into your team. Whether an interviewer can actually do a good job assessing that is another question...
RFC1918[1] defines 192.168.x.x as the private address space, so anything else in the 192.x.x.x range would not fall under that specification.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918#page-4
My first thought was obviously that of Santa Claus, and leaving coal in the stockings of naughty children. However the commentary here and the text on the website lead me to think it was perhaps referring to something more localised to America or its politics.
Hi, it's DH from Plivo. Happy to answer any questions regarding Plivo. :D
March 2013. From what I've been tracking, their reputation has only improved since. It seems running independently is going well for the time being.
Despite not liking the NYT example (too much clutter to my sight and using faces conveys little information because they are difficult to match and to distinguish), I really look forward to an age in which data analysts treat readers as intelligent and show data as data, not as nice plots.

The problem with charts is twofold:

a) They are very very easily turned into ideological tools.

b) They are very very easily turned into 'kitsch' pastiches made by uninformed people trying to make beautiful-looking summaries.

Look at the charts here (population density http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density): is it good or bad to have a population density of >500? Is it even good or bad to have it at 41-500? What would you have thought if the colors were reversed? Compare with this one (deforestation http://www.cryonie.com/en/world/images/map-deforestation.jpg): is it good or bad to have forests?
Agreed, it wasn't so much a real suggestion - health issues are a concern with too much of anything.

I do wonder if there's an extra insurance companies would have to pay if the insurers were aware that alcohol was provided for free on their premises. I tried to have an alcohol at an event and had to get extra insurance, provide security, had hard limits on amounts, and a strict 1 hour time limit.

The moment some SV-tech hipster beer fan gets killed driving home, there's going to be a big public about face. Or maybe not, we seem to be able to sustain a female-hostile culture in the face of plenty of bad events continually cropping up. Maybe alcohol related deaths would be ignored too... ?
If you need end-to-end, browser-based, testing as well, check out Protractor: https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/README.md

It's built on top of WebDriverJS. I've been playing with it today and so far it's working very well.
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I was interested in using the expanded range, but it needs to access administrator privileges which I can't use on my locked-down work laptop. The normal version is a lifesaver though!
I do not disagree. However, I have learned my lesson from previous discussions on this site, and I am quite sure that most of the upvotes-without-comments do not simply upvote because they think that this dichotomy is something to be questioned and doubted.
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Or c) a person applying at the last moment has enough confidence in his or her product that applying to YC seems optional rather than urgent.

That said, it would be strange if all the people who applied at the last moment, even all the successful YC alumni who did, did so for the same primary reason. I'd wager that it's more that there's a cluster of desirable founder traits that correlates with applying late, of which in any particular good founder a different one can dominate.
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This data has obviously been public for a while. A site with Senate/House staff salaries makes the rounds every summer when a new round of Hill interns realize they can look up how much their friends and bosses make.
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I try to keep an open mind about these things and just look at the data. So far, they seem to be doing even better under EIG but run independently. I hope it continues that way but I will just keep watching and write about it if it starts to change.
I'm a huge advocate of ideas like this (repeat, huge), but like many things in life, it is dramatically more complicated when you dig in.

First, hierarchies always form. They might be informal, or quasi-transient, but in the absence of explicit, implicit forms.

Second, things like this are great when the teams are small, or even relatively small. Though once the company grows they start to become impractical. And when you get to a certain size company they would be impossible. I'd love to see a multiple thousand person company in this form with some details on how it operates. I'm nearly certain we'd see "bosses" (in some sense of the word) emerge from somewhere.

Lastly, who mediates? Who makes the hard call? Who pivots the company? Who pivots the product? Who starts a new product? Who axes an existing product? Do people/teams/products/projects have budgets?

The point being, "bossless" (what a terrible term) is great when things are going well, but not so great when hard calls need to be made. If you have ever been in a death spiral for lack of money or bad-product fit, I'm sure you'll know what I'm talking about.

I'd love to see some case studies on how it worked at very large companies as well as how it worked when times were really bad.
Out of curiosity, how much does the Google Maps API actually cost for a business license?
> Akka doesn't have lightweight threads at all. You implement a message-handling method, but it must not block on, say, a DB call, lest it block the entire thread it runs in. An Akka actor simply must not issue a DB call: it's as simple as that.

That's not quite true. Yes, you block that thread but this is why you configure actors with blocking calls to use their own dispatcher. For DB queries you typically put querying actors onto a thread-pool dispatcher where pool size ~= available DB connections.

Selective receive is also quite easy to implement in Akka using stash().
Will you be releasing the core engine for other niche discussion sites? HealthTech and neuroscience come to mind.
This doesn't really look like a 'proper' refactor to me. It's a blanket 'all strings and attributes' isn't it? How does this apply to 'real world' code?

1 - What if I'm using an external library so I have some exceptions?

2 - What if I want to keep strings with underscores in them? Can it detect those strings that are used to reference as attributes and those that aren't?

3 - What if I'm using an external library so I have some exceptions?

4 - What if I have two entirely separate 'classes'/prototypes but they share a common attribute name. What if I want to update one but not the other?

I've spent a lot of time writing in static and dynamic languages and I intuitively don't believe that you can do 'proper' refactors in dynamic languages (although it's not something I've gone out of my way to look into).

I'd love to be proved wrong.
Selecting cancel during the login results in a 500 error and long list of django debug information that you might want to tidy up.
A few days late, but thanks
I think the point with mr.byrne is that everywhere the old big company labels have equity on the system it will be corrupt.
If you 'discover' music through Spotify and every song played will give royalty to an artist you might think there is more possibility that a RIAA song gets 'recommended'.

It might not be the case, though. Music produced my the RIAA labels have always been more popular, thats why they are commercialy successful, thus advertised, and with more possibility to be 'recommended'

But why independent musicians feeding the old monster? There are lots of really good music services without RIAA people involved. (i might be wrong on this) rdio, tunein, grooveshark, tunecore, last.fm, beatport

Today music services are the equivalent record stores. some of them have lots of RIAA produced pop music, some others will get only independent labels.
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> An Akka actor simply must not issue a DB call: it's as simple as that.

Must not issue a synchronous db call, if I'm reading you correctly. I assume most DBs also provide async interfaces, or you could create one yourself.
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>In that case, send some problems for them to work on at home. Hopefully, these are dumbed-down but real-world problems your company has faced in the past.)

As an entry level applicant, I can't stress how important this was to gaining insight into both how I function when given a deadline and what kind of work is in store for me. It also lets me know what I might need to study in the future or what I need to study immediately.
Presumably whoever lives here http://www.trulia.com/property/3075968468-123-Fake-St-York-P...
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See my other post on this page.

I would argue that this less difficult than you average image classification problem. Just have a look at what kind of challenges image classification can tackle, picking the correct class out of 1000s of classes. Porn is normally well-lit, the subject is at the center of the image, etc.

The main difficulty is to define what is porn and what is not ... It's easy see the difference between porn and pictures of bicycles. But how about porn and artistic nudity? You see it's actually a scale, but you are trying to make a binary decision.

Another problem (at least with the method I explained below) is that portraits sometimes get misclassified. Maybe it could help to integrate face detection. I'd suspect that more recent models would not have this problem (e.g. ones that take not only local features into account). Other times it makes mistakes, where you think "why on earth would think this is porn". Again combing different method should help to eliminate those outliers.

Outliers are also a problem, e.g. black and white pictures. Again an ensemble of different models (e.g. one color independent one) might help. Niches are not really a big problem. BSDM porn is as far as I have seen the only niche of porn that really different visually.
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I'm pretty good at getting timid people to come out of their shell (I actually like a lot of timid people). But it's not usually their interactions with me I'm worried about - it's their interactions with the rest of the team.
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anyone who can put together a coherent pitch in 30 minutes already knows the problem space and solution very well

I'd guess most of the successful YC companies knew the problem space very well when they applied. That's probably a universal prerequisite to making something people want.
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> Writing correct and efficient multi-threaded code is at once necessary and extremely difficult.

I do not agree with this. The original statement he is quoting says "can be very challenging". Yes, if you are designing something very state heavy and your design is somehow flawed or too complex then you can run into issues. However, in most cases threads are no more complex than callbacks, actors, etc. In fact, from what I've seen, concurrent code eventually all converges to some semblance of the actor model anyways.

Where the actors/green threads/etc. really shine is having huge numbers of them. OS threads still have very large overhead compared to lighter weight green threads, so you can spin up many magnitudes more of them than you have CPU cores.

Also, in lots of languages multi-core != concurrent. You can have 10,000 actors using a single core. In fact writing a scheduler that can efficiently distribute actors between different cores is probably where the complexity Doron Rajwan refers to lies.
Mentioned in this article is "The Third Culture" by John Brockman of Edge.org. That book is worth a read, even nearing 20 years in publication. It introduces the ideas of several fascinating scientists (among them Dan Dennett and Lynn Margulis) whose work manages to transcend the stated "two cultures," bringing science to bear on what were traditionally seen as "humanist" problems and vice-versa. These are thinkers who've taken responsibility for bringing their ideas directly to the public, rather than waiting for writers, journalists and, ahem, "insight pornographers" (if you follow HN) to do it for them. I first read it after obtaining my English degree, and it felt like I'd been shot with a sudden antidote to a haze of intellectual nonsense. I wonder how well it contrasts against the current trend in glossy pop science, which I suspect may be the flip-side of the same coin.
What you propose is to simply replace the dichotomy science/humanities with another, that of applied/theoretical, which necessarily moves the division and fault lines. That way, in addition to the humanities, a number of theoretical subjects also fall off the cliff, namely theoretical physics, non-applied parts of mathematics, logic etc. This, in fact, does not transcend the dichotomy, it makes it worse by imposing additional limitations and essentially directly applying useful/useless as a criterion.
The question isn't whether the 5c is selling less then the 5s. It's whether the 5c is selling more than the 5 would. Too early to ask.
I think her point is not "everyone goes on a raging bender" her point is more...if one person, one time, goes on a raging bender... was the tradeoff worth it.
The answer of course is ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!

Culture decisions should be in the best interests of everyone in the office. If you have one recovering alcoholic in the office, or one person who might act irresponsibly...

This little harmless perk becomes a massive liability, and more importantly...is completely unnecessary and possibly inappropriate.
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Or very cushy, (if you don't mind not getting paid).
There is a surprising lack of new details here.
If only I could get it back onto my phone... Jailbreak can't come soon enough.
Most HTML is sent multipart with a text version too. You might consider setting your mail client to favor that version.
He is very very rich, if he had particularly cared about protecting the fields rather than shooting elephants perhaps he would have paid for the installation and upkeep of a fence.

His own comment on the affair was "These people have literally nothing and when an elephant is killed it's a big event for them, they are going to be able to eat some protein." Now personally I supect that there are better ways for Bob to go and increase the protein in these people's diets, other than shooting elephants.
I'm Andy, the author of the post and creator of the project. I'll watch for questions here or on the post.

It could setup a conference call, but that's a trickier API so I didn't use it.

- Andy Fundinger
I know many people who were furloughed this week and not a single one of them is happy.
I don't like working in solitude myself. I'm a social person, and I need other people to bounce off of.

I'm not the only one, either. I was trying to recruit an old colleague (and I'm not done trying to recruit him!), and his biggest concern about going to an early startup was the lack of a team to work with. He's one of the nicest and most easygoing people I know, and a natural leader. I'd love to have him leading a team of developers for me. But first, I'd have to get him a team.
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That's not the situation the parent is talking about.
"Certainly the business people who power our economy and command great sums of wealth are capable of such modest feats?" => unfortunately no, IMHO. I used to be a consultant, and I can tell from experience that there's no chance that any tool like R could possibly penetrate an audience of business people... Though, I share that dream with you!
Is the thing I'm asking for possible. Will I ever be able to connect 2 individuals by creating an automated call with Plivo.

Problem: I hate having to call in some number to do a conference call with a pin code etc....

Is there any way I could get something to automatically connect two people at the same time using Plivo?
I think they should consider having it outside of US, or if they think the US Constitution has a good chance of protecting them, then at least have 2 offices (one in US, and one in Brazil), with redundant data between the two. In case one gets shut down, the other can still report the news about what happened.
My results
http://pastebin.com/C1crTA1S

Code from https://github.com/rofrol/go-examples
Plenty of people on the cryptography mailing list mined the first coins like Hal Finney who wrote he is leaving them for his kids which is why they havent moved. Satoshi buggered off the day Gavin announced he was presenting BTC to the CIA seems odd he wouldnt stick around and try to influence development if he was a gov agent. His opsec was perfect though, which could mean he was an NSA or GCHQ employee doing this as a secret side project for himself. Nobody has had better opsec than Satoshi not once did he talk about anything personal even in PMs to Gavin or leave indicators to analyze. Somebody even scanned for every unique word Satoshi used to match it up to existing whitepapers and mailing lists, nothing turned up
From the wiki, perhaps it wasn't as much of a general food shortage as popularly claimed.

The usage of the word famine is a misnomer. Although the potato crop failed, the country was still producing and exporting more than enough grain crops to feed the population. Records show during the period Ireland was exporting approximately thirty to fifty shiploads per day of food produce. As a consequence of these exports and a number other factors such as land acquisition, absentee landlords and the effect of the 1690 penal laws, the Great Famine today is viewed by a number of historical academics as a form of either direct or indirect genocide.
Well Image Hashing is distinct from normal MD5 hashing as the hash does consider similarity of colour, etc. so it's not purely binary.
A Google search produced a library called pHash.org that might do something similar.
I totally understand - I wasn't nuts about it, either, since I really do tend to like serial textual information, rather than more undirected visual information. It's grown on me, though (looking at it for hours on end will do that!), and it's been hard to argue with the analytics!
That's our vision at qunb! :)
Essentially your complaint boils down to why are educational institutions providing education instead of the training their students actually need. Part of the problem is most people do need training more than education, but for social class reasons "every child must attend college to obtain an education" and so on.

We have an excellent vo-tech system for training, its just only for lower classes. Like $100K/yr plumbers. The middle upper classes are supposed to get a degree in french lit before becoming life long minimum wage coffee baristas.

This creates a certain level of social turmoil and confusion.

There is a secondary issue in that if you're young enough, modern K12 only teaches to a test, providing no education or training, merely memorized trivia as an elaborate daycare operation, as you describe. You could have gotten an education about the native american experience, its an interesting topic... pity all you got was trivia to answer multiple choice questions on a test.
I am really looking forward to where actor frameworks like Akka are going, but that seems like a leaky abstraction to me.

I shouldn't have to define extra actors or figure out thread pool concurrency levels to do blocking operations like lock acquisition, waiting on conditions, IO etc. A framework that that doesn't allow that adds zero value to me because I am not willing to ask others to reason about that sort of thing.

Not having that kind of transparency makes it difficult and dangerous to convert existing code bases that use traditional concurrency primitives.

I would like to have thousands or millions of actors, but for now I am stuck going to 1:1 with threads.
Interesting to see YC's increasing excellence in estimating the right candidates vs increasingly number of 'How to' tutorials to influence or hack the YC selection. I'm curious whether YC is observing an applicants-getting-better effect in interviews.
for anyone who's interested, i generated a link to this sorted by the base salary (descending): https://bits.enigma.io/s/t/8b6aa881e02d8c2b851a3d5140c263f4

and here's a link to a full export (csv): https://s3.amazonaws.com/enigma-data-export/shutdown/enigma-...
or a scheduled call
This looks pretty interesting, but, as everyone said, security sounds like it will be a huge issue.
Will there be other methods of verifying a user for email, now that it can be linked to your bank account?
There is a dichotomy inherent in the task: some things will be taught as part of a general education, and some things will not be. I would argue that "usefulness" is a pretty great criteria for making distinctions to that end.

Also, "usefulness" does not automatically exclude theoretical fields. E.g. geometric proofs and logic and microeconomics are all theoretical, but I'd argue are also useful as part of a general education.
def reverse(string='abc123'):
for pos in xrange(-len(string)+1, 1):
string += string[abs(pos)]

return string[len(string)/2:]

Fair?
Metadata is data. There is no difference (obviously, because they deem it worthy of collection), and no excuse.
Most of the people who are making 100-200k would make at the very least double that if they were in the private sector. A GS-15 is equivalent to a Brigadier General(Who would be in charge of thousands of people). Now, keep in mind that some technology positions have inflated GS ranks because it was the only way they could get the salaries high enough to attract talent. Security analysts and programmers don't come cheap.

Working for the government can be great, depending on who you work for and whether or not it fits your personality, but don't be deluded into thinking that the majority of government employees have cushy, high paying jobs.

Note: Politicians and Senior Executive Service employees are a different story, many of them are overpaid and ineffective at their jobs.
stash is not the same as selective receive at all. With selective receive you can do simple, intuitive nested receive blocks (see the Pulsar Clojure examples here: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/49445260575/quasar-puls... or any Erlang code).

And yes, you can configure Akka for certain types of usage, but it is anything but simple. We value the simplicity and intuitiveness that are at the core of Clojure and Erlang.
Right. And even it was implemented as a subprocess, it's still idiomatic shell code, i.e. what you would Actually Do.
If you are looking for talented programmers start contributing to some open source projects. You'll get to work alongside some very good people.
Wow, I should have gone into medicine.
Not to mention wrapping the whole thing in pseudoscientific claptrap.