skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish i had not had to go dark, because this comment is so full of undefended, feel based dirigibles of nonsense i was having Red Baron flashbacks.

> Nor can you name a single device that is not built off of something non-war related.

The Gloobenstien. This is a device powered off farts. It is used to detect and avoid /b/ronies. You lose.

>You think that your psychopathy puts you in some elite category of non-labouring factory commander.

I think my Borderline Personality Disorder has put me in my parents basement with no job and a huge list of ex-friends and lovers.

>it just makes you {an} aberration to be tolerated until you all kill each other.

What do you mean, "you people", you racist melon farmer? Seriously though, thank you for the new script idea. A serial killer that kills killers via giant, killer death arena called the KILLER DEATH ARENA. It is perfect, because people are fascinated by death, and it is totally unbelievable [Harry Potter, Saving Private Ryan, Deathbed: the Bed the Kills People]. "We" tend to kill you guys. Tigers do not often hunt tigers, though they do attack them if their territories overlap.

>Your failure to ground your value system into your nature -- a fellow human -- makes you an evolution{ary} inconsistency waiting to resolve itself. That is why you are outnumbered.

Evolution is not an intelligent process, you cretin. "We" are outnumbered because "we" cannot hide from our own stupid, unlike some of my human cousins.

>If not,{sic} you'll find that the future holds unexpected surprises for you as your pet machine comes to crush your frail body, only after realizing through trial and failure that you weren't able to transcend your physical nature.

It is like you were watching I,Robot and you accidentally appended your comment with a point in a phantasmagorical argument you had with the cute, bony doctor type. I will not get to transcend my physical nature. I do not want to. I will help build a tomorrow where our future cousins do not have to see each other as adversaries or competitors to make some fuckhead proud of all that he has "gained".

I think you got all feel, and wrote without thinking. I do that so much that i have to take sabbaticals from my commentry. If you actually read this, i would love to have a full on discussion about what you perceive as "us" and where "our" place is in the world.
I also recommend people look into draftin.com For me, I write a lot of things while disconnected from everything - internet, cell phone, other people, basically a loner writing spot with some hot water.

Draft is a pretty good online experience though.
Personally I do something similar. I set up an alias in .zshrc from project names to commands. This allows me to do things like source environments as well.

alias proj="cd /this/that/foo/projects/myproject/ && source .hsenv/bin/activate"
When I read the title I thought: "well, must be an issue with internationalization (see Turkey test)". When I read the actual article I just thought "w..t..f... This just doesn't make any sense, who came up with this?".
I'd be interested in reading those anecdotal stories as I find it pretty implausible.
Ah yes, the great unwashed and their non Apple operating systems.
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It seems at least in this case they know what they are doing because they say thing like this "Great game, but give it 1 start so people see my comment". I think they are fully aware and are even "apologizing" for it.
I wish Connectix had stuck around and continued making Emuators. Virtual Game Station was awesome.
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Seems like just a large neural network (which could be of coursed used for AI purposes).

More detail is here in the original press release: http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/
This article from last summer speaks of 1% of human brain activity:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57597049-1/fujitsu-super...

It also says "The synapses were randomly connected" among other more even handed discussion of what happened.
Even if this was actually simulating a proper human brain it's still a silly comparison. Even now a modern computer struggles to simulate an old SNES perfectly at full speed. A SNES is vastly slower than a modern computer but the additional cost of emulating something can be very high indeed depending on how accurate you want the simulating to be. A computer is also very general purpose. I'm sure that some custom built chips and electronics would be much better at simulating these kinds of networks.
> A kid's first exposure to any interesting subject shouldn't have to be a college level course. Would we teach math that way?

University was when the fun math started for me. :)
Total layman here, but I thought one of the areas of significance is that a language that uses it can write code that is guaranteed to be bug-free, since the type system is rich enough to be able to prove correctness (given the problem being correctly stated).
I think the point here is not on the amount of contributions, it is about: can you build a Twitter clone using exactly the same opensource technologies as Twitter, or how easy is it? Twitter mainly use open source technologies and they will contribute back if they created something useful - even the projects are the core components of Twitter.

For Google, it would be much harder, as they use so many proprietary (backend) technologies, GFS, BigTable, Chubby etc.
The insane have no right to free speech?
This article only cites evidence that the gap is present at high school, not that it actually starts in high-school and not earlier.
"I design and develop websites at MasterMade or write at Newly Ancient."

From your website.
Here's a comment which suggests that at least some of them are thinking 1 star is the best:

Kubilay Tekin: I hadn't gave 1 star just because I want my comment gets shown on top, I actually think that the game is aweful aqws.w.wew..ws

(I've seen this phenomenon before - there are quite a few who associate 1 with first place, hence surveys and such often have the [1 = worst, 10 = best] next to each "rate xxx on a scale of 1 to 10")
Ask HN: Do you hire developers from bootcamps?
tl;dr Are dev bootcamps a good idea for military veterans? I transitioned out of service and it was an excruciating experience even though I had an advantage. I'd like to change this.

Would you hire a recently discharged military veteran if they had received bootcamp style development training? If so how long should it be and what technologies would you hire for?

Most of my fellow combat veterans have struggled to find good careers given that their military skill set doesn't translate to many civilian employment opportunities. I was fortunate in that I was a programmer before I decided to join the Army so finding a job when I got out was challenging but easier than my peers found it. For most veterans finding a civilian career and adapting to the civilian workplace is an excruciating experience, in many ways it can be much harder than some of the training they endure. The sad thing is most veterans have the habits of great employees. For instance in the Army's 7 core values were drilled into me: (L)oyalty (D)uty (R)respect (S)elfless Service (H)onor (I)ntegrity (P)ersonal Courage.

I'd like to help military veterans transitioning out of service get into good dev jobs assuming that programming is a good fit for them on an individual basis. I have access to training facilities at a low cost and have friends who are already trainers in this space but I can't in good conscience accept a veterans money if no one is going to hire them.

Would you hire a recently discharged military veteran if they had received bootcamp style development training? If so how long should it be and what technologies would you hire for?

Thanks for your feedback. Hopefully I can make a difference in the lives of these great people and save them from a string of dead end jobs and relying on the VA for job training.

Edit: Grammar
Hi, I can say Google translate did good enough job.

The speculation here in Turkey is that these are just kids. I see lots of complains from Turkish users on lot's of websites. Many Turks are switching to English just to get rid of this kind of comments.
Better writeup (cites sources!) and discussion from 5 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157157

And the Riken Lab press release

http://www.riken.jp/en/pr/press/2013/20130802_1/

This is a link to the poster presentation. There does not seem to be a full paper associated with this research yet.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/14/S1/P163

The NEST simulator (The researchers Morrison and Diesman are integral people on this project):

http://www.nest-initiative.org/index.php/Software:About_NEST
stereotypical myth about stereotypical myth.
I think a single character typo of '2' for '3' is a more plausible explanation. It also fits better with the message "Why is this special? It's the same thing I've had for years."
It could just be that the trend started amongst Turkish users first and the language barrier could be inhibiting its spread to other locales. This article having translated and explained the review ranking behaviour might speed things along.
I sure hope Overstock's opsec people are securing their bitcoin wallets. Worst news to hear would be that someone took their bitcoins out of their wallets the next day.
Oh, this is glorious!

The reason I like is because your attitude (without your realizing perhaps) also typifies Apple users' stereotype.

Trying to execute a slick low blow to Android users, you have it explode in your face, and are instead reinforcing the stereotype associated with the Apple users.

(Whether it is true or not, doesn't matter, it is funny that you are reinforcing it).
The problem there happens when you get a few years in and realize that "the other side" is far from guaranteed, and that there's a good chance that you've spent 16 hours a day, 6 day a week for the past several years working for nothing. Most people do have needs in their lives besides just working, and when you deny those needs for years at a time, eventually it builds up and you quit. The unfortunate part about this is that very frequently it's right before your startup would've succeeded - you can't predict when or whether your startup will succeed, and so you have no idea of knowing whether this hurdle is just the dip before your eventual smashing success or whether it'll be like every other hurdle with no end in sight.

There definitely is something very relaxing about focusing on only one thing, but it only leads to long-term success if you've picked the right thing. I know entrepreneurs that worked for a decade on their companies, and then folded them up without ceremony because they'd poured their life into them and yet they were generating significantly less revenue than a day job would.
Overstock isn't accepting BTC, they are accepting USD from Coinbase, who in turn accept BTC. Coinbase bears the security risk.
I don't think that's what that comment suggests. The commenter is acknowledging that some people give one star just to have their comment seen, even though they think it's a good app, but that he personally is giving one star because he thought it was indeed awful.
I do not think cavemen needed fire, unless of course everything was preplanned but undetermined. It is an interesting thought: a human society that develops without the accessory of tools. I think it is possible, but it would be so fragile.

To all your points about genetics: Edward Wirths, and all the accompanying links in the wikuhpuhDIEuh. I know they may not have known the were the early innovators, nor does their misguided research have a huge part in the modern attempt to begin refining our genetic structure in response to senescence and error. But their techniques are alive and well. If you don't treat the subjects like shit and you keep your mortality rates subdivided so they are not counted together, you can perform a buttton of research.

I know it does not need to come from war to be innovative. I personally believe that all inspiration comes from either fear or love. I think we as humans are exceptionally good at fear. I know i am shit at love.

I love your handle. I would love to talk further with you about some of those "other games".
Great, we're only 11 doublings away. By Moore's Law, that means we should have AI ready just in time for it to fix the Year 2038 problem.
As an iOS dev, you get a lot of crappy reviews based on really dumb, inane things by users.

People are very quick to give 1-star reviews without hesitation.
In at least the current legal framework, this declaration of intent is [supposed] to help avoid lawsuits.

In theory, the emulation of a system, in and of itself, is not illegal. The copying or unlicensed use thereof, is.
As I understand it, the Xbox One has a 360 API translation layer. There may be some nonportable assembly code around--there almost certainly is--but (speculative) most use of assembly I've seen in the real world tends to be developed alongside a "slow" C/C++ path which may not be so slow on the Xbox One.

It wouldn't be as purely simple as a recompilation, but it's a conceivable amount of work. Probably be more work than is worth it for many titles, but I'm surprised at least the Big Games don't have support.
Author here.
Yeah, the readme is meant to scare off people. Even with it I still get people on IRC or email asking me if they can play game X or where they can get a copy. The note about no downloads is for all those who download 360 emulators from shady YouTube links and such - there's a surprising number of fakes packed with malware and viruses floating around.

Status of the project is that it's coming along well, after a long period of inactivity. Many games get to title screens though don't draw much. I'm really hoping AMD gets its shit together and releases Mantle soon, as that will make emulating the GPU related things significantly easier.
JVM code hotswapping is still more feature complete than edit and continue for managed code, which is still way too conservative to be very useful. It is not a clear overwhelming win for VS (perhaps it is for native, but I don't work with C++).
Kepp him. I didn't want him anyway.

...stupid duck.

sniff
I'm sure you're right about infinite levels of undo being hard to implement in an imperative language. I do think functional languages have a lot going for them (even though I didn't think the original post made a very convincing case for functional languages).

I would be interested in hearing what advantage anybody thinks "infinite undo" would bring to a scientific simulation. I can sort of conjure up a scenario where you're doing a probabilistic optimization, and you want to be able to re-visit every single time step, in order to perturb the boundary conditions and watch how the system evolved differently. But the cost of storing all the meaningless "false" states that the solver generated as it searched around in the solution space for each time step, hardly seems worth it (compared to, say, some kind of way-pointing capability, which many scientific software programs have got already).
> The crude and seemingly insensitive way is to just prevent Turkish reviewers from commenting. Or even better hellban them and never account for their score.

Maybe don't provide a guaranteed way to appear in the displayed comments? I'd expect this to spread outside of Turkey pretty quickly.
that depends on who you blame for development of the differences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_gender_differen...), school district or evolution :)
If they have 1st Amendment rights, do they also have 2nd Amendment rights?
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I think he might be referring to his treatment in court.
Saying something is going to win is different than praising it.
And why is that difficult to believe? My previous emulation project (https://code.google.com/p/pspplayer/) was the same kind of exercise: do something no one else had done and learn a lot doing it. As a hobbyist the act of doing something is far more fulfilling than the output.
FWIW, in the UK:

- There is an important difference between MSBs and banks: banks can take deposits.

- Loan companies (e.g. payday advance, as you mention) are different: they need a Consumer Credit Licence and are regulated by the OFT/FCA.

To your main point: I don't understand how (even in the US) my accepting cash in exchange for 'not a product/service' would mean I'm acting as a bank. Would I be breaking the law if I were to sell you a single share of, e.g. Google stock, in exchange for cash?
So your only metric for "better" is the ability to leave? How do refugees fit into your world view?

[Edit]Excellent links. So much reading to do. Thank you. If the argument of which side of Korea is Better Korea, then it is obvious that it is the South. If the argument is about which side of Korea is Best Korea, then there is no debate.
What we mean by these things?
I think the kind of critique here is subconsciously and pedantically picking up on general tone and perceived lack of authenticity.

PG went on the defensive -- and attempted to dispel critiques with a negative attitude and a logical argument.

This isn't a problem you can logic away. What he needed to do was write from the perspective of social conscience, even if it's not logical, even if it's not strictly absolutely statistically true. He needed to prove that he is coming from a genuinely positive point of view, so that we can see that his great influence is not aimed simply toward the neutral or equal, but in fact good.

He failed to do this, and therefore he receives criticism. The arguments against him are focused on the wrong things, because they're not very self-aware, but they're fundamentally correct in the big picture.

There's a difference between simple absence of evil, tactless neutrality, and genuine good. We like to hope our idols and influences are as far toward the good as possible.
But I do apologize! It seems to me like this misunderstanding has made you a bit grumpy. I apologize if that's the case. If it's not, then I apologize for being wrong!
This would seem to be true as long as mathematics is discovered rather than invented. Otherwise I beleive that one may be able to invent generalisations that result in a simplification of mathematics.
I'd be really interested in scientific information about this.

I have been practicing Qigong for a little more than a year and a half and I can absolutely say that it is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It feels like it's tapping right into what it seems you're talking about. It's amazing, the power of the body (which, in a dualistic culture like I've grown up in may be an overly reductive word).
This reminds me of the case where an Indian politician's facebook page was found to contain a lot of 'likes' from Turkish users.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/rajasthan-chief-minister-a...

The city where he was most liked changed from Jaipur to Istanbul which helped detect this.
Elon Musk on Being Acquainted with Problems
Commenting because you asked me to on Twitter:

Do startups at a similar stage usually measure things as diligently as Everpix seem to have done?

Frequently, no. There exist companies with revenue in the $X0 million range who have less numbers floating around the company. You'd be surprised.

If they kept an eye on of all this on a monthly or weekly basis while they were still running would they have been doing too much or too little?

I'm going to respectfully decline to answer counterfactuals about someone else's business. In general, software businesses have two tasks: Make software. Sell software. Analytics is a very useful thing to have if it lets you accomplish one of those two tasks. There are many software businesses at which it does. There are some at which it does not.
>Stop giving girls dolls to play with and give them a toy that requires them to think more.

actually the first toys i remember are dolls that i inherited from my cousin sister. Didn't help though - top math/physics grades through school, regional math/physics competitions 2nd place, math department at one of the top Russian universities (dropped from PhD at the end), and programmer for the last 2 decades. Left brained to the point of moronism. (My father about the same. His single mother couldn't afford nor legos nor dolls, pretty much nothing. And from what little i know about my grand-dad on this side - his left brain ruled like crazy too).
I don't know but it looks like there are connections...

http://jakartainformer.com/96869/ghost-of-suharto-gives-life...

*Indonesia’s autocratic former President Suharto left office in disgrace, his political empire and the economy in ruin, but 15 years later, his old ruling party hopes nostalgia for his legacy will sweep it back into power.

Polls show the Golkar Party, which Suharto created as the parliamentary rubber stamp for his 32-year hardline rule, is running around second place.

...Aburizal Bakrie, 67, head of Golkar and the party’s presidential candidate next year."
Typed Racket and Classes
I hate the iOS review system. People rarely leave a review if the like the app, but as soon as they have something to complain about they will leave a bad review. Also most people if they have an issue will automatically leave a bad review instead of contacting the support email to get it resolved.

What's even more annoying is people that write things like 'Best app ever' and then give it a 3 or 4 star rating instead of 5.
You are right, it's not always appropriate. However, in most cases, it's just fine. Here's a list of companies that I think could open up at least 95% of their code: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Tesla/Ford/GMC/Toyota/BMW/any car manufacturer, Apple, Home Depot/Walmart/Safeway/any retailer, Mint, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and many more.
Is pretty funny in a law of unintended consequences kind of a way.
Yeah, a currency that has no transactional cost from a third party thus offering a 2-4% discount to either buyer, seller or split by both, that maintains one value globally, and isn't controlled buy a particular nations government, probably is of no interest to the retailers of the world and likely just inflated bits that will never become an actual system of payments down the road. If you believe that, I have a plethora of REAL investments to sale you.
Well, he said 'or'.
Since I discovered `z` I haven't typed in cd, except for changing into $HOME quickly.
There are different kinds of lock freedom, but in this case if you read carefully, that's a normal operating state and does not block consumers. It's the race I mentioned. The consumers have to be written to skip over a limited number of null entries and then check the actual producer index. In most cases that means a little extra iteration. It would be very rare to need check the producer index, which makes it fast.
OpenStack is less a stack and more a collection of components that may, if glued together properly, work as something vaguely resembling infrastructure orchestration.

Its flexibility and desired modularity are its weaknesses. OpenStack means something different to everyone you talk to. I believe this is a direct consequence of its governance model, and lack of a benevolent dictator for life. It's decision-by-committee hell. Jason alludes to this:

> “You have a process that’s like governance, governance, governance, governance, governance. Run VMs, run VMs, run VMs. And what the process needs to be about it accessibility, accessibility, accessibility, accessibility, accessibility, accessibility. Platform features, platform features, platform features, platform features.”

I, too, expect the steam to run out. Of course, I thought that the first time I had the misfortune of working with it.