skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atheism makes the assumption there is no God (read creator).

No, atheism makes no initial assumptions, and through reason and experimentation comes to the conclusion there is most likely (to a high degree of certainty) no God, at least not as defined by most religions.

Now, your final two sentences...

Both make assumptions. Both have the possibility of being incorrect.

...do not imply the third from last:

There is no difference between the two.

There are many other sorts of differences beyond assumptions and possible incorrectness. From a rational perspective, the evidence supporting one is much more rigorous (i.e. evidence has a higher prior probability and more supporting data to raise posterior probability).

You could assume that if I turn the key in my car's ignition it will start. I could assume that it won't. Both have the possibility of being incorrect. However, one of us has actually tested this, so one of us has better information.
I suspect it tries to say "young" rather than "female"
You make the case that a low bar exists in myriads of markets, but your examples don't support the argument.

Where are the thousands of Gmail competitors?

The reason they don't exist (or they do exist but you never hear about them) is that you'll have to pry Gmail from people's cold dead hands. Firstly, Gmail is an amazing product, and it would be really, really, really hard to do better. Very few teams can attempt such a thing, certainly not thousands. Secondly, even if you build a better product, it's extremely unclear how it would be enough better to get enough people to leave Gmail.

Word processing and spreadsheet competitors?

Exactly the same reason. Microsoft Office is an amazing piece of software, and it would be immensely difficult to do better. Furthermore the barrier to entry is huge -- word processing and spreadsheet software that can effectively compete with MS Office would take decades to build.

There is something to be said for competing with Google's online office offerings (and I know some really smart people who are doing just that), but again, it's not as easy as it seems.

Where is a better DabbleDB?

DabbleDB didn't work as a business. That's why there is no better DabbleDB -- there is no market for it.
Experiments don't have to be 'fair'; your 'fairness' is not required for tests to be informative. Imagine an IQ test which spits out a binary yes/no result based on whether you're in the top 10% or not. This is a useful, meaningful test, which is 'unfair' in your naive sense. Issues of information content, discrimination, false positives and negatives - it's more complex than saying 'it is fair to do the experiment'. In this case, I got a reliable negative, rather than a less reliable positive.
> The best candidate I have ever interviewed [...] came to the interview with examples of his code and explained what his code does and why he did it this way. Everybody loved that. Unfortunately, almost nobody does it.

Almost nobody does it because it's not expected. Why not ask future applicants to bring in some code samples and walk through it?
Dreamweaver is probably used in corporate web design settings quite a lot being a part of the Adobe toolset and all. Perhaps he's pandering to his market?

What tweaked the nose of my bete-noir was the entry of HTML and CSS under "Scripting and Programming languages" - but I think it's fair to say he knows what he's doing, seriously impressive design work going on there.
Seriously - I want literally nothing to do with them after that. Incredibly bad behavior.
Hey, sorry to hear that you didn't get docker to work! If you want to try again, feel free to come by our irc channel, #docker on freenode. The people there are very nice and will be happy to help you out.
Right, there is some tension between the number of moves and speed. Having only 20 moves to solve the cube sounds like a great idea except that the calculations to find out these 20 moves take too long.

Speed cubists win despite having to make more moves because calculating these moves can be done very efficiently (and almost instantaneously) by our brains.
That's a good point. Perhaps the minimum/recommended transaction fees will also reduce because the operating costs of mining equipment now, electricity, is paid in fiat instead of Bitcoin.
Hardcore gamers are not a great source of income however a great marketing resource for nvidia. They are very influential on others when choosing products. They also represent a large portion of the review industry online.

Having the crown for best graphic card even translates to sales on low end laptops.
NATS is the pub-sub messaging protocol and implementation created by Derek Collision, who architected the first iteration of Cloud Foundry. It is a simple pub-sub service at its core, but the Ruby and NodeJS clients implement various messaging patterns similar to what is supported by ZeroMQ. It is used extensively within Cloud Foundry.
Find a partner :-)

It's much easier when two people can look for work, and on getting the jobs, you know that you can split it based on the bits you like doing.

Especially good if you both have an understanding of backend and frontend.
The example was only there to show that there are cases where editing the title helps. If you want to get to the best answer, don't argue against what someone said, argue against what they should have said.

Being right or wrong about dismissing a bad example doesn't matter. The important thing is to fix the example and then evaluate it.
You have a very curious definition of universe, not to mention you are reasoning by analogy.

Computer simulations are the interactions between transistors in a CPU, carried by electrons and photons. Dreams are impulses in the neurons of our brains that happen to get stored as memories when we awaken. Our imaginations are also physical processes that take place within our brains. All three of these are on a vastly smaller scale than the universe we inhabit.

Do you have some evidence that the actual universe is any of these things?
And for the 99.7% of users in the real world who drive their computers using a GUI and not a command line? Or those who do use a command line but aren't sufficiently competent with system administration to reliably get sudo-based access control right every time?
Why is it always cancer?

I'd be impressed if somebody was trying to cure ALS or Tourette's syndrome.
Meeting the frame deadline is about scene complexity, not code. Keeping scene complexity under the limit is nearly impossible in large, rich game worlds. On small console games it is done by putting in walls and strictly limiting the visual budget, but that would remove much of the appeal of a game like Skyrim.
Publishing a book often lets you double your contracting rate.
I wouldn't even classify "sorry for the rain" as an apology. I'd understand it as "I understand you have just suffered an inconvenience, and I express my sad feeling about that fact, thus showing that your feelings have an importance for me and you possess a status of an important person in my eyes". That is not the same as taking responsibility for the fact that it rains, which apology presumes. English is not my native language, but as far as I understand from many years using it as a communication medium, "I am sorry" is used in the former sense (expressing sympathy) at least as frequent, if not more frequent, than in the latter (apology: a written or spoken expression of one's regret, remorse, or sorrow for having insulted, failed, injured, or wronged another).

Of course, if you express the sympathy and show that the other person is important to you, people tend to reciprocate. I would be surprised if it didn't happen. However, if somebody really meant it in the sense that he feels genuine remorse or regret for the rain, I'd not trust such person - obviously I'm dealing with a dangerously delusional person that thinks he's either controlling the weather or should be. I'd suggest him to find a good mental health provider.
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FWIW, for most engineers the entire Search org chart, all the way up to Larry, is engineers. Larry was an engineer, Alan Eustace was a hardware engineer, Amit Singhal is an engineer. In my management chain there are two people with an M.S. in computer science (Larry is one of them), zero with MBAs, and everybody else has a Ph.D in CS.

If your mental model of Google is a bunch of MBAs who tell engineers what to do, you're quite incorrect. That's Microsoft.
Agree - conversions dropped by approx 50% when I increased my rate from £50ph up to £55-60ph.

It seems to be a super-sticky price point.
I get a 500 Internal Server Error on Congressman Raúl R. Labrador (R-ID).
Thanks for the feedback. We plan to add a relative index to represent how closely a congressperson votes with respect to one another. The main idea of the map is to show geographic voting trends among congress members. In the future we want to expand on the recent bills idea you gave and provide an in-depth analysis of the different bills people voted on.
> If your cycle is 7 days (which it isn't, but which I initially understood it to be), you will want to make sure that, with an experiment running for 2N weeks, you take the LSD-spiked water exactly N times on Monday and N times on Thursday, rather than relying on luck to get close to that.

I see. So you were suggesting throwing in a categorical variable for the day of week and including that as a additive covariate to control for fixed-effects on days. I haven't actually run into any of my experiments depending on day of week to any important degree, but I still try to avoid 7-day blocks to make that less of an issue. It's not like there's usually an advantage to running in a weekly block, so better safe than sorry.
It's just a way of demonstrating that as your host for the event they are concerned about your wellbeing and comfort.

That said I usually respond to such statements with "don't worry it's not your fault". Reflecting that seems a bit strange too.
Many times, the reasonable method of pointing out the part of a story relevant to HN is the exact kind of three sentence note you get on a slashdot story. It's very common to have something you want to show off without also having enough personal opinion to write a full content post yourself.

Is it really original content if my post gives context, and links to the original, and does nothing else?
Not me. The few times I've felt lonely, it was never when I was alone.
Would putting node behind a proxy like nginx mitigate it?
Ask HN: I have no problems to solve
It's interesting, everyone says to build something that solves one of my own problems. That's a valid suggestions seeing as solving ones problems can be both exciting and engaging. But when I think about it, I really don't have any problems of my own to solve. I have worked on side projects before but they usually end up on the back burner because I lose interest. Maybe I am not realizing that I do have problems that can be solved with tech.

So my question is: How do I find problems to solve (mine or others, doesn't matter)?
Curious: how is the Seiki working out for you? I've heard its not a great TV, but might be an OK computer monitor.
You need to look at the more discrete problems you face - there's probably lots of things you do that take 100x longer than they should because they haven't been automated or optimized for today's world.
Unless someone has observed otherwise, I'm betting continuous wouldn't work. The difference between "now" and "later" won't be as big, and it will take effort to calculate, which makes it feel smaller too. To effect people's day-to-day habits, you need to present a motivator to the affective decision centers.
Making public a critical vulnerability on friday night is not a nice movement.

EDIT: Oh and there's an exploit already.
Man that's depressing! I've been working as a freelance iOS & ruby dev in London for a year (experienced iOS dev, 10 moderately complex apps in the store) but really struggle to get above £50/hour whilst still attracting interesting work. Mostly the startups apologetically can't afford more than £40-50/hr.

Those earning £100+, any tips?
I think it was a sarcastic post :)
This is because you are dealing with clients for whom £50 is the upper bound rate of the developers they deal with.

If you want to increase your rates and have a skillset for it, try doubling your rate and going after clients that are used to paying double your rate.
How to work around accelerometer bias on the iPhone 5S
If your renderer can draw 40fps in the highest density scenes (lots of polygons, particles, and effects) on specific hardware, then that is the most you'll be able to guarantee to that user without sacrificing detail. That will be your "fixed frame rate".

However, in simpler scenes the same renderer is likely to output significantly more frames (even up to thousands) at the same detail level.

So in this scenario, all you're doing by setting a fixed rate is throwing away tons of frames in low density scenes. Most gamers would prefer to have the most fps possible at any given moment, even if it means variability.

The most hardcore gamers I know use 120hz monitors, and machines that can deliver 241fps (120 * 2 + 1) in the highest detail scenes. They then set the engine to cap frames at 241fps which will eliminate tearing, negating the need for this technology. However, their gaming machines cost a LOT, so this would deliver similar results for a much wider range of hardware.
There's a burrito chain in the northeast US called Boloco, and while their prices seem pretty arbitrary, all of the post tax prices are always whole dollar amounts. It's the only place I know of in Boston that does that.
I think prior to that it mentions its cloud based, so the head end is probably only 1U.
UCSD Pascal was slow because the compiler was written in Pascal and compiled to p-code itself (the source is available: http://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/19327.htm... ).

It was not a good benchmark. It was prevalent because it was trivial to port, not because it was good.

(Note that UCSD Pascal was based on a part of Wirths research groups "porting kit" - their intent was not for p-code to be used for production systems, but as an easy way of getting a Pascal compiler running on a new platform to be able to then use the target platform while retargeting the code generator)

> It had to be implemented contrary to beliefs common then: it was itself written in asm,

That was nothing out of the ordinary at the time, though not something Wirth himself did, as a large part of his mission was to teach the development of compilers.

But compilers for small systems were often written in asm at the time. It'd not be very viable to write compilers in high level languages for a C64 or other home computers, for example, yet there were plenty of compilers for small systems. When I wrote my first compilers on the C64 and a bit later on the Amiga, it never even occurred to me to write them in a high level language until a few years later (incidentally when I got HiSoft Pascal - an integrated Pascal environment for the Amiga very much in the spirit of Turbo Pascal)

> it was never just a compiler but the editor and compiler at once, kept everything in memory if it could, produced the pure native code processor specific and never produced obj files.

That's technically true, though the compiler that became Turbo Pascal was actually originally a separate, stand alone compiler.

Combining the compiler with the editor was fairly uncommon and certainly innovative. When Kahn at Borland decided he wanted an environment like that, though, he went out and bought an existing, standalone, commercial compiler, from Anders Hejlsberg, and brought him to Borland.

Producing pure native code on the other hand was not unusual - UCSD's p-System was an aberration in that respect, and it's greatest lasting legacy was in inspiring VM based systems; e.g. Bill Joy has cited it as one of the inspirations behind the JVM. Not producing object files was also quite common - for many small systems there was no tradition of object files at all, as they were too small for separate compilation to make much sense.
Thanks for the comment. I agree it's a good starting point but theres a lot that can be done. One plan we wanted to implement was a filter to match congressman based on different topics they voted on. Ex funding, etc. For aggregate patterns we would have to look at prior voting records as well, but it seems like a great idea. All our code is on github, and we'll slowly list all the features we want to add on the wiki there.
This actually happened. The site's unavailable now.
They should have tried "I apologize for the rain" and counted how many times the answer would be "Oh, so you are God Almighty? Nice to finally meet you in person".
Likewise!

I started in Basic then moved to Turbo Pascal so I could compile my code & distribute it - mostly on 5.25" floppies as cover disks on magazines.

Later by uploading them to BBSes via a 9600bps modem
(yes 9.6Kbps was super quick in those days)!
I said the same thing, but it appears that the article is actually flawed... The paper for the study defines the control groups.
I see crawlers as enablers - I've even gone so far as spinning up a dedicated server instance to serve content to the bots - so they get good response times which increases relevancy in search results.
Don't work for a startup. At least, not as a "developer for hire" to work on whatever they need.

In my experience (albeit in U.S./ USD), those rates come to people with solid programming reputation, IN ADDITION TO a deep domain knowledge in a market with a lot of money.

(knowledge of the finance world like HFT algorithms, marketing skills like conversion optimization, high security clearance, etc.)
£20. I'm a student, and I work part time, remotely, for a company in SF. It's good experience, which is added value, but I still think it's a bit low.
I went to PyCon this year and last year.

I have taught high school math and science for about 15 years now. My father was a software engineer in the 70's and 80's, so I had played with programming all my life. When my father passed away a few years ago, I went through his computer and saw the programs he'd been working on for years, which would never see any actual use. I decided then and there to take my own programming more seriously, and try to do something more meaningful with it.

I was incredibly intimidated to go to a professional programming conference as a non-professional programmer. I couldn't believe how positive the experience was. The first year I went to PyCon I got a clear sense that I could do something meaningful. The second year I made all kinds of connections that I continue to build on, and I have a couple really meaningful projects started.

Short version: Going to PyCon helped me jump-start a second career, and makes me a much better teacher as well.
You can almost hear the article author completely misunderstanding what he was told.

I'm betting it was something like, "For Jeopardy, Watson was using 15 Terabytes of data stored on 90 servers. And those servers were large back then, now they're your standard pizza box 1U's. And because of advances in storage technology we can store a lot more in the same space."

Isn't there some sort of basic tech literacy class for people who write these articles? It's like reading the sports section and seeing "The Seattle Seahawks are a group of big men and they ran at another group of big men, and they've been doing that a lot, and faster lately. Some of the men in the Seahawks group are smaller and faster, so they are harder to catch by the other group of big men. The Seahawks grouping of men is like a successful business, because they've been winning competitions against other groups."
If not having problems is a problem to you maybe you can start there.
The dangers of dry ice
Skyrim exists on at least one console. Isn't it possible to make a game with a similar level of richness of skyrim within a budget? can hardware help with enforcing the budget? I intuit that there must be some kind of trademark you can make to get under the deadline- like for instance, perhaps, progressive rendering of a frame, so that if the frame doesn't finish in time you get a half resolution frame, instead of just the top half of a frame?
Instead of Jeopardy, I always wanted Watson to go on "are you smarter than a fifth grader" and throw questions like "think of the second color of the rainbow. What large bird starts with the same first letter?"

Or: "If I call A 5, B 4, and C 3, then what do I call D?"

As a scientist (working on cancer, no less), more than just churning through terabytes of data, it strikes me that THESE sorts of questions are the ones you'll need to be able to answer. There's also a lot of "reading between the lines" you'll need to do, and a lot of "small pattern extrapolation". For example, the drug candidate I'm working on is one of a family of about let's say, 16 known compounds. All of them kill cancer cells, fourteen are cardiotoxic. The two that are not, lack a single oxygen atom. Maybe that oxygen atom lets the molecule block the mitochondrion (sort of important for heart cells)? Why? Because the molecule family looks sort of like Coenzyme Q10 - if you use your imagination and remember some of your chemical reactivity rules from Grad-level Ochem - and supplementation of Q10 alleviated the cardiotoxicity in one study on rats for one of the molecules.

Ultimately, my previous boss was bold enough to latch onto that and give it a shot - can we take this molecule that is the most potent of the group (but unfortunately cardiotoxic), delete the homologous oxygen atom and make something that still works and is less cardiotoxic?
Reading that, it sounds like triple buffering is already a better solution to this problem. It sounds simpler than requiring a specially embedded DSP from Nvidia in your monitor to talk with your Nvidia card (and only with your Nvidia card).
This doesn't sound like a typical high school class. Were you at a specialized high school? Can you say a little more about the class itself?
> Somebody even scanned for every unique word Satoshi used to match it up to existing whitepapers and mailing lists, nothing turned up

Really? Who was that, I don't recall ever hearing about a real textual analysis being done.
How much would it cost to hire someone to do this?

Non-technical guy. I would love to try this out. It is attention grabbing. I have used bobble heads, cakes with my sales proposals to get into the door. Corny, but stuff like this works. I sent Robbie a message. If anyone else knows how to do this or something similar please message me.
What do you do besides programming? Most of the projects I end up taking on come out of my non-programming interests.
iGoogle is closing in 14 days
Actually you could, by using GetMem() to allocate the amount of space you wanted.
I have been told by people who received emails from Satoshi that he was sending even his emails over Tor. Aren't most Tor exit nodes in the USA? That could explain why he got a gmx.com address rather than gmx.de
Team Foundation Service by Microsoft
I am wondering, where do you find clients?
Do you have better docs on the Parse query calls. Im new to Parse and trying to figure out how to customize the query / collection inside of this. Trying like equalTo and those type of methods I just don't understand what part of the code to use. Do I write a custom service to pull it in or do I use ParseQueryAngular in a directive?
> https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/085dd30e93da67362f044a...

Looks like a flood of concurrent requests will just fill up the memory
Pretty sure you're right, based on some other articles I read. But one consideration:

https://medium.com/p/2a48bc6ffd57

I'm kind of surprised that Kickstarter gets as much discussion in some circles as they do, because they seem to thumb their noses a bit at "us," or at least the "us" in software (hardware and other creative projects are in the clear, of course).