skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the exact same thing. I was really excited when I discovered codeEval, but after solving a few of the 'hard' challenges on there it became clear to me that hiring managers were looking for more well-rounded programmers with demonstrated experience in software development (something I've been working on through my own post-academic studies), not someone who can whip out a solid recursive algorithm to solve a brain teaser.

And it makes perfect sense to me, the former is more likely to be actually useful in the day-to-day of a software engineering position, and the latter might only come in handy once in a blue-moon, or for more mathematics heavy domain-specific positions that require less code ejaculation and more optimization anyway.
Hi!

I'm really interested in this, and all my anecdotal data (in the hundreds of points) points against what you're saying. I'd love to discuss your experience. I can also bring a few biologists into the discussion, to make it more interesting.

Could you please email me at my nick on gmail?
I'll give it a shot, but I have absolutely no experience with cryptography.

I found this video to help explain the concept:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulg_AHBOIQU&feature=c4-overvi...

The relationship between P and Q (two points on the elliptic curve, see the video) allows someone to predict the RNG behavior. This is alleged to be used by the NSA, and the paper above predicts this relationship being used to provide an escrow-like ability for a 3rd party to access encrypted data.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, as I would like to further my understanding as well.
> If The Valley was sad at the start of 2012, it was doubly sad at the end of 2013.

wow, good thing I left the Valley in 2012, it was sad indeed.
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The City became part of "the Valley" when meaningful startups took up residency there starting 5 - 7 years ago. The "Bay Area" is probably the most accurate term if you want to talk about the region but few use that. Yet calling it the Valley is fine as everyone knows you're talking about the Bay Area and startups. Secondly, Richmond isn't the Valley and probably never will be.
You may find some help here http://www.reddit.com/r/iwantout
China Formally Eases One-Child Policy
> For those interested in learning more about privilege, read these two essays by John Scalzi, Being Poor (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/) and Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...).

I don't know what you want to achieve by posting the first one, since I have never seen anyone with any good arguments who argues that being poor is not a significant disadvantage when it comes to things like social mobility. HN seems to lean more to the idea that structural/systemic issues on a societal scale does matter and hinder individuals, as opposed to the thought that an individual can forge his own way and make himself into whatever she wants to be no matter the circumstances, which is another school of thought.

I was hoping the second one would give some arguments for how being a straight white male (emphasize male since being white is pretty obviously an advantage all things considering) is a ridiculous advantage. But then it turned out to just start with the initial assertion, explain it with an RPG analogy and then ... return to the initial assertion. But it's all so clear to me now that I can relate things like leveling up and playing through a game on maxed attributes to my own sex... not.

By the way, is the difficulty the same for white geeky males?
It does sound like you wanted it more or at least had a way of approaching the problem that made it possible for you to get what you wanted more easily than my student did.

But let's teleport all the people pg or anyone else here would consider "hackers" into your situation at age 13. How many would've kept at it?

I'm also wondering why you left out the most important dimension, IMO, which is social support. Did your friends antagonize you for pursuing this as a child? Were there any other people in your life who understood even the faintest bit of what you were doing?

Anyhow, this isn't battle of the anecdotes, as if one has to win. It's easy to see the way out from the outside; it's another question when you're on the inside. It sounds like you were a precocious and intimidatingly determined child. I'm sure that's served you well in many things! :)
My explanation is not to be understood easily( that doesn't mean it is very clear( or good ) ). Your best bet here would probably be to study big-o notation(+math, function limits) and think of the solution for yourself( there definitely is one ), as it can become quickly confusing as to what are you measuring really.
Which model fits reality better? I think the answer is clear given the evidence.

Edit: what are the priors you are speaking of.
^ this, is very likely to happen
Semantic HTML doesn't necessarily equate to being more maintainable/scrapable. Have you ever come across the mess trying to emulate table-like behaviour in css with spans/divs?
Where did you get "non citizens" from?
OP here. The page that links to "designers, recruiters, a people with good ideas" get linked to an HTML page with a animated loading gif.

Reference: http://atriangle.github.io/fordesigners.html
This was a great way for me to get back into programming after the holiday break. Your optimal number seems off, though; I ended up with a solution in 27 rects:

http://imgur.com/hAOLUaD
Type safety means well-typed programs can't go wrong. Corrupted memory is surely a case of going wrong, so memory safety is a part of type safety. (In this sense, C, C++, etc. are not type safe.)

By the way, it is possible and sometimes preferrable to do all type checks in runtime. Haskell provides this option: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DeferErrorsToRuntime
The most hilarious example I know for black hat seo is in japan, where expired domains for congressional candidates get bought up by these spammy companies for their link quality.

(The Japanese govt pages have high page quality, and link directly to these candidate domains, thus giving these candidate pages high link quality status in google's eyes. The candidate pages become info-spam-blog pages that peddle things like cosmetics and link to the mother payload pages to impose so rank.)
Depends.

Some users don't need Office-type documents on the laptop -- they have a work-issued computer or it's not a requirement of their day-to-day needs. Similarly with photo management -- maybe they don't have a camera, or they just leave photos on their phone without a copy on the computer.

Other users believe in the Google vision, which is Google Docs and Google+ Photos. (Picasa's web interface is basically dead now.)
To some people perhaps. But there is and always has been a clear distinction between "the valley" and "the city" - we still talk about city startups vs valley startups - which is why this rant struck me as a little odd.

Regarding affordable living, I think you'd be suprised what you can find. In just about every county there are affordable housing developments and less affluent areas. Those people taking your fast-food order for minimum wage and cleaning your house have to live somewhere.

Of course even entry level jobs in tech preclude you from the government assistance many poor people here rely on. But "I make too much money for affordable housing" is bit different thing to say than "SF has no place for you to fall ... There are no slums. There are no marginal areas."
What does number of submissions have to do with anything.

You've truly turned into a elitist fuckwit. All them internet points must have gone to your head.
> Try to read them without being reflexive or poking holes in them. If you find yourself getting riled up or defensive stop and ask yourself why you're feeling the need to respond that way.

So, why did you feel the need to respond as you did? If that's your response, it seems to me like you should really grapple with the challenges they present before jumping in here to comment. As someone who grew up very poor, it makes me chuckle that you can't see the connection. They're deeply, profoundly related. Some of my other comments on this thread might make it more clear how — I don't want to retype them here.

If you find this comment grating, well, let me translate it into geek-speak: before jumping in to comment, please Read The Fine Manual. :)
>If you don't know Git, you don't know shit

>If you have a Tumblr site you haven't updated in six months and you call yourself a programmer, you're an embarrassment to the language you claim to know.

>You know who gets acqui-hired? White guys. The occasional cute blonde.

This is written by someone who thinks git is the end all be all tech skill to learn. This is person is not a dev, but is telling devs what they should be doing. Not only that, but this is another example of the tech elite 'shitting' all over the homeless, and she's exhibiting racism and sexism in this article. Pass on this ugly post...
10% of sales... to businesses?

Wow, really thought that would be the last safe haven, due to MS Office entrenchment.

I guess it's not clear what businesses, or how they use the machines, but... if enterprises get comfy with Google Docs, we could be on the edge of a huge destructive shift.
It kinda made sense to me up until

"If you don't know Git, you don't know shit. If you have a Tumblr site you haven't updated in six months and you call yourself a programmer, you're an embarrassment to the language you claim to know."

Like, really, is a tumblog now the way a programmer's skill is evaluated? Git? No one cares if you know git, it's not a core competency unless your job somehow directly involves maintaining an SCM system. Are we from the same planet even?!

I kind of agree with the rest though. I had to visit SF a couple of times and really really didn't like it. Don't understand people who choose to live there, I'd rather put up with the rain and the grey of Seattle.
It seems though that they're not disputing the ethics of the thing, and they even acknowledge they were busted by Google for unethical tactics. Not exactly confidence inspiring.
Outside of US and EU, it is quite difficult to find a reputable and affordable dedicated hosting provider. We use AWS extensively in ap-southeast-1, and their new C3 Compute Optimized instances are actually very competitive in price-performance ratio. Previously, we mostly used C1 instances, which were just okay. I never like the M1 / M3 instances.

Besides, in this region with messy peering agreement, AWS network also has the lowest ping time and the fewest hops.
Get rid of money. And if you can't do that. Tax, tax, tax the rich
I disagree; In general, I prefer Info. I would explain why, but that would be repeating myself; I instead refer to my previous post on this very topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6656656
On the flip side, though, those assumptions are also what lets a runtime actually do things for you. In the limit, a runtime that assumes nothing is simply machine language. Even C has a runtime, whose assumptions can be violated quite thoroughly by other languages.

The less the language actually specifies, the more likely you are to encounter the situation where two Rust libraries can't work together because they actually work under Rust-Alpha (some twiddling of the knobs) and Rust-Beta (some other incompatible twiddling of the knobs).

I don't know that this is a problem for Rust yet, but it is the first announcement from the Rust team which has actually dropped my level of interest in the language. Is there recognition that this is a tradeoff and not something you can think of as purely a "feature"? Do they realize that this was a huge step towards potential fragmentation of the language? (Not just in this particular decision, either, but the general mindset that leads towards this decision leads to fragmentation.)
This reads like the ramblings of someone who enjoys living in a country where you get whipped for spitting out some gum.

EDIT: And what does this line mean "...using Git to keep your work cryptographically secure..."?

Weird.
In particular, large enterprises buy a lot of computers CTO (custom to order). CTO is not preconfigured.

Also note that this NPD report is for the commercial channel only. If a school bought Chromebooks for every student, then that gets counted. If a business decided to use Google Apps for corporate groupware, and bought Chromebooks as a bundle, that's also counted.

But all the discussion above about how great Chromebooks are for girlfriends and grandmas? That's not what this NPD report is about.

NPD tabulates retail sales separately from commercial sales. The latest public figures from NPD give a 3.3% share for Chromebooks in the retail channel during back-to-school season (July, August, and the first week of September).

> Also, other big news is that Mac sales(not sure if absolute or as a percentage) seem to be dropping.

I would say that the 8.5% increase in Windows desktop sales is bigger news. Especially since it contradicts the dominant narrative of the impending death of Windows.

As for declines in Mac sales, Macs are practically nonexistent in the business world, except for its majority share in the media industry. Remember the backlash over Final Cut Pro and the delays to the Mac Pro? That would not have been good for Mac sales to the media industry. But now the Mac Pro is out, so Mac numbers should go back up next year.
Within the context of my work, at the level of maintaining and creating the markup col-xs-4 has a much clearer meaning than main-sidebar and it is much more reusable.

It's almost irrelevant from the standpoint of interacting or consuming the markup, and even then there is no injection against telling the world an element is a main-sidebar in addition to being a col-xs-4 which will pull-left and be a list-unstyled.
I still don't understand what to do with the concept. Anyone would be a fool to think that you can group people by some attribute (like ethnicity) and show correlations with other attributes (like income). (Granted, we might want to do a bit of work to see if the correlations are stronger than would be expected in a purely random distribution of attributes, but we can assume this is the case.) And, given those correlations, anyone can recognize that they are statistically likely to follow those same correlations based on their own group memberships. If that's what privilege means, then so be it, but it's not much more meaningful than saying "I'm thankful that I'm statistically more likely to be successful than people who die as children. John Scalzi could just as easily write an article about how not being born with a terrible disease or deformity is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
No it wasn't. It was that it was rare, and that it was pretty, and so rich people (the rulers) tended to buy it.

And then, promptly, they also repeatedly ran their economies into the ground by conquering and mining tons more gold, and inflating their currency into worthlessness.

And this happened over and over - the Spanish did it, the Chinese did it, the French did it. Every gold economy before the invention of actual economic thought destroyed itself with gold.
how bout we look into nenad who looks like they are really active on a "blackhat SEO forum" and gets tons of links from there. seems legit.
Beautiful essay, and a beautiful idea that you quoted. I will have to read more of PG.
The young may be more easily cajoled into working long hours and on a dream of becoming rich or well-respected.

While hard work is a great way to learn, "getting used" is a hard lesson to learn. So, as a "youth", be wary.

There's more out there than VC funded startups. Much more.
Yes, remember that this is a utility calculation. The cool thing about buying Xbox One now is that I can play it now. So let's say these are my options:

* Buy it now for $300 and play it for 10 years

* Buy it in ten years for $30 and play it then

(I have no idea how much an Xbox actually costs.)

So the question is whether that $270 is worth those ten years of playing it. A lot goes into that: what interesting things could I do with $270? How about in 10 years? How much do I want to play the games available for Xbox? Won't all my friends want to come over and play with me? Etc. Buying now might be perfectly rational, depending on your utility function.

"I won't buy it today because it will be cheaper tomorrow" is an argument on the margins. That's why temporary bouts of deflation don't cause everyone to starve to death because they keep putting off buying food.

But those margins do matter a great deal! There's some set of stuff that I really am going to wait on, because I only kinda want them now. There's certainly a discount rate for the Xbox that could cause all but the hardest-core fan to wait. So the deflation spiral doesn't take much to get started.

I'm not saying humans are rational (though I will argue that corporations do better here), only that the Xbox One example doesn't prove they're not, and that it's still consistent with the deflation spiral concept.
You Don’t Need To Learn To Code and Other Truths About the Future of Careers
Along those lines, check out this link: http://appsterdam.rs . I've heard Mike Lee give a pitch on why geeks should move to Amsterdam, and it sounded pretty awesome.
C:\TAD\Text\PARADISE.TXT

And vital virtue infused, and vital warmth
Throughout the fluid mass; but downward purged
The black tartareous cold infernal dregs,
Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobed
Like things to like; the rest to several place
Disparted, and between spun out the air;
And Earth self-balanced on her center hung.
Let there be light, said God; and forthwith Light
Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure,
Sprung from the deep; and from her native east
To journey through the aery gloom began,
Spher
Is there still a chromebook with 3G or even LTE access built in? With a (worldwide) google data plan? I would buy one in a heartbeat if that were the case.
There is, in fact, a terminal app. It's not very advanced though (i.e. doesn't support tabs), but I use tmux and it solves most of the issues (tmux has its own version of "tabs" and even lets you split your window horizontally/vertically)
OpenSSL homepage hacked?
> If you don't know Git, you don't know shit. If you have a Tumblr site you haven't updated in six months and you call yourself a programmer, you're an embarrassment to the language you claim to know.

That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about this writer. It doesn't seem hard to imagine that if you're a hacker wannabe who thinks things like having a tumblr are important to selling your skillset, or doesn't realize that outside trendy startups in the valley git is still far from universal, you're gonna have a bad time in the valley. And I say that as someone who hates the valley and couldn't be happier that I chose Boston instead.
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try it again without overlapping the rects.
OpenSSL.org hacked?
It's actually even worse in my case. I do have 1.5 years of actual engineering experience at a real company. That tells me that CodeEval (and maybe "code challenges" in general) have at most very little and at worst negative signal value. (Well, either that or I'm a terrible engineer, but I think they would have fired me long before a year and a half if that were the case.)
How is this different from any other scammy altcoin? I don't get it.
I have a hard time believing you're genuinely interested in understanding the concept since you're putting up resistance at every step. I'm not here to make you want to learn — I was presuming you already did.

If not, my mistake for engaging.
Quick guide to mid-tier cryptocurrencies
I was all interested to read the article you linked until I saw the by-line. Read some of Shanley's posts on Medium - her opinion can be safely discounted. Not because she's a woman, but because she's a wacko.

Thankyou for putting into coherent thought what I was never able to - a lot of these arguments you hear from the 'leg up for women in tech' crowd are just that - unfalsifiable. They can never be wrong.
Looks like an alternative Litecoin blockchain:

http://cryptolife.net/in-depth-altcoin-analysis-megacoin/

Nothing particularly interesting.
That's a recipe for disaster.
cuz, it's got animations!
I make the money, she spends it and pays the bills. I hide in app purchases as music purchases (she sees the bank transaction, but not the iTunes receipt). Sometimes, if I get a big project, I keep a portion of it and buy myself something expensive without a coupon!

Seriously, though - shared bank account. Bills come first, then home improvement, then vacations / toys, etc...
> Yes! Of course! August 28, 2013!
That was the day I invented time-dilated difficulty gravitational wells. The black holes of difficulty formulas! I remember it vividly.
I was standing on the edge of my toilet about to upload a standard fork, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink, and when I came to I had a revelation!
A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of this! [1]
This is what makes time-dilated difficulty formulas possible: the Kimoto Gravity Well! It's taken me nearly sixty six years and my entire family fortune to realize the vision of that day.
KGW = 1 + (0.7084 * pow((double(PastBlocksMass)/double(144)), -1.228));
Marty, we don't have much time, we must release it upon the universe today.
The future of Megacoin depends on it.

After a few minutes of browsing their Github and about page it looks like it is based on this forum post [2]. edit: After further investigation it looks like it uses MurmurHash3 and scrypt... but it's definitely less interesting than Dogecoin.

1. http://i1367.photobucket.com/albums/r783/megacoin/KimotoGrav...

2. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240861.msg3040291#ms...
Gold isn't a currency at the moment. Even if no one wanted gold for its store of value properties, they'd still want it for electronics, science etc. at which point the market would revitalize.
I'm putting up resistance because there is still very little I have heard that makes sense. I do consider myself a skeptic, and I think skepticism is a requirement for critical thinking rather than an obstacle to it.
Well, just lost me here. What is the point of recognising privilege if you are not trying to get rid of it?
Literally 3 seconds on Google for "lead cost benefit analysis" yields this 1985 study by the EPA: http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eerm.nsf/vwAN/EE-0034-1.pdf/$...
Oh, another scrypt based altcoin. that's refreshing.
So it is starting to look like the pump and dump schemes now have money behind them.
That's incredibly myopic. You have no idea how informed I am or am not. My point is not that I'm uninformed; my point is that often anything I say gets misconstrued into something I didn't mean, and then torn apart. So I avoid it, because that scares me.

I'd like to discuss it, without judgment, and come to a way I can help. The process of getting there is hard when it's so easy to jump the gun and assume that I, as a white male, am definitionally likely to be discriminatory. That occurs a lot.