skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see what you mean by "the difference between hashes won't tell you how close you are" .... isn't that the whole point of this competition?

Say for instance you coded four stages:

1/ Generating a list of strings for analysis
2/ Parsing that list for sentences that made sense
3/ Hashing these sentences
4/ Comparing the hashes generated with the one being sought

to me it just looked as though a lot of gibberish was analysed because there is a lot more entropy than order to sift through and nobody tried step 2... does my logic make sense or am I getting mixed up and not really seeing the bigger picture?
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Yes. Question: does it matter? Not really, im sure this happens all over the place - M$ are just high profile.

I dislike the mud slinging paragraph at the end of the post - I dont see the relevance.
After reading that article, I feel like there are some streets in the Bay Area I wouldn't dare walk at night, lest I get jumped by ruby programmers holding their glocks side-ways.
the FF webdeveloper extension is the one I find easiest for live CSS editing - though I'm using firebug more and more - it doesn't have comment toggling (it's just a text field). Such tricks are handy.

Unless you're trying to work them around CSS comment hacks!
> beating 68 other contestants, mostly 11 and 12 year olds.

Not quite the same wow factor as beating, say, 25 year olds :) Title is a little misleading in that respect.
Can't you get Helium-3 from Asteroids (or so) in case someone blocks the moon?
Did anyone watch that video? I can't help but get the sense that the web world overestimates its own importance. One of the engineers that built FB video: "With this job [...] you can go home saying, I've changed the world."

Really?

I guess I'd make a terrible FB/Google/Twitter/Whatever employee. I understand that yes it's cool and communication is faster and easier than before, but - seriously - is it really world-changing?

The discovery of agriculture, the advent of organized religion, the dissolution of organized religion, the idea of self-determination, the harnessing of electricity - these things changed the world.

But adding a single feature to a single website - really? Would someone who was cryogenically frozen just before FB video was put online, and then was unfrozen after, be able to comprehend the world they were living in? Do the same thought experiment with organized religion.

"But people were skeptical of other world-changing technology or ideology at the time, too." Yes. You're right. And I'm skeptical now. Doesn't make me wrong.

I understand that they're in California and that it's apparently fashionable to imitate Jobs-like megalomaniacal optimism about one's own importance. I understand that self-motivation requires them to believe that what they do is the highest cause, and that it's important for one's career to appear to be a Jihad on behalf of the employer.

And don't get me wrong, FB is a great website and a really useful one which I use regularly to find people. But can we please agree that it's not world-changing. Here's what's great: it doesn't have to be. You do not need to be a hero. If your code doesn't change the world, that does not diminish you (if you never have a true, deep human friendship - that diminishes you).
If the Russians had painted the moon red during the cold war, the Americans would have written Coca-Cola on it..
A reminder to take nothing for granted. That being said, local technical work - where one's physical presence is required - continues to be in demand. The non-techies will continue to need hand-holding.

This applies even in technological backwaters such as I'm in - maybe even more so. Living out here does present some challenges for start-up work, but more and more luddite businesses are finding they have to be web-connected if not web-based. So they need me (and can have me - until my night job becomes my day job).
Switzerland has a decent army, but nothing like the US. When were they attacked the last time?
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Never underestimate the huge mass of non-technical people on the internet. I found it refreshing to stop by wifi-enabled cafes and just LOOK at what people where doing online. You will be surprised.
So what better solution are you proposing?
Well, it probably is world-changing - at least for the present decade. But then s/he may need to look to the next thing.

Adding video to web experience is becoming commoditized. To change to the world (for better or worse) means working on launching the next big thing -- which in turn will be commoditized.
Checked them both out, light-bot doesn't seem to have conditionals. Don't want to have recursion if its going to be infinite :D
I guess we won't colonize space with a profit, if we can't even colonize the seas economically. See seasteading (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading).
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Armed with just the basics in the Squeak programming language

Yes! \o/

Even more surprising than kids able to hack, are adults in school technology ACTUALLY able to push through real hacking tools, instead of the industry-prep crap often "donated" by big IT.

These children are loved.
Well, now I see why it works in the gadgets industry, with so much competition and Chinese replica manufacturers.

I still don't think that in software industry it works the same way. Most people I know would not care about new version of Windows coming out of the blue, unless there has been enough hype for long enough time.

And it is certainly so in the video games industry, where previews, trailers and detailed media reports are released in abundance sometimes years before the game is finished. Especially so for the more popular game franchises.
While I see the point you are trying to make I disagree. You can't possibly think that music and video as mediums have not played their part in fighting for or against certain causes.
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Suppose the hash for a specific phrase was completely random, but fixed. (Which is not too far off for a cryptographic hash-function.)

So unless you want to find the exact sequence, it does not matter whether you candidate strings make sense or not. And since the search space is so large, people just gave up on finding the exact sequence. They just use a lot of cycles to find any sequence, that is close in hash.
Suppose it depends on whether your normal language is rtl or ltr?
With this method you won't be able to tell converging sequences from diverging ones. Suppose I used your circle and put in the first hundred terms of the harmonic sequence (divided by 10 or so, to fit in the unit area).
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I agree that anyone can be creative. But I believe that most think that it "doesn't do it for them" just because they haven't discovered yet how and why it can be positive for them.
I'd disagree that the meaning of life is to have kids. Instead it seems like its just the best approximate solution to not to dying - pass on your DNA. To me the meaning of life is just to accept that you are alive and enjoy it as much as you can (which may involve trying to live as long as possible). Oh lord I just looked back at the title of this article - that's not what I'm suggesting :)
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[Edited to add more substance. Was: Constructivism FTW! :-)]

Isn't this another proof of the success of constructivist learning?

Learning by doing using tools specifically designed to
encourage this approach?
Exactly. I see cloud computing as more enabling than disabling since people don't have to focus on the mundane as much as they can focus on the things that are unique to their idea. This is progress! Not something to be feared...
I do not think anyone can be creative. There is such a thing as inate intelligence and it is not a fairytale nor does it not do anything.

Most people have an IQ of 100 so what these people create is pretty normal stuff because they see the world pretty much as everyone else does. Some people have an IQ of 115 which is the above average, these people are rarer therefore what they create is less common, hence creative. Not to mention that they do have a different way of thinking from the previous individuals as they do question and challenge assumptions which I would suggest is the basis of creativity.
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Libel laws have no place on the web.

What is the difference of NYT publishing a defamatory article and huffington post? According to your logic the former should pay a lot of money while the later is free to be as defamatory as it wishes. I do not think that is sane, the public whether on the internet or wherever else has the right to maintain their reputation and not be injured unfairly.
FWIW, I too gave this a little more thought, and from an engineering prespective, found that my proposed solution would tightly couple UI with business logic if greater care isn't taken. I am sure it isn't much overhead in simple news.arc to selectively render UI elements based on the status of a post, for example, but in larger applications, feature-requests could lead to a lot of conditionals creeping into display rendering.

What we need is to study and consolidate "Adaptive User-Interfaces" (a well stablished field of study, btw) with software engineering, and specially the web (and even more specially, with respect to dynamic programming languages and in my case Lisp and CLOS.)

Something I have been doing lately was reverse-engineering a few google apps from their rendered HTML and minified JS. I don't wanna throw speculations around, but I think Google has some sort of a "learning" engine which adjusts the shown content to the estimated level of user expertise. They do this with a "newbie cookie". See the sources for any google apps help pages, for example, and you will see this:

var global_newbie_cookie = "newbie_11";

Here is one:

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=77003

Your global newbie cookie should be different than mine.

Regards.
The GPL can't force them to work on getting the code included in the mainline kernel.

They did this for one reason plain and simple: competitive advantage over VMWare.
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Yes, let's all pretend that there are no federal levies on property.

> anti-government nutjob

Cavalier assumptions coupled with ad hominem FTW.
local technical work

That's only partly true. What matters is competitive advantage. No company is more competitive because its (say) email server is more reliable than its rivals. Therefore email is ripe for outsourcing. But in any area where IT/software/computation is a competitive advantage, that will stay in-house (possibly using cloud-like technologies, but that's not relevant to this analysis).
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Gripes:

* All communication is done via strings. This is really a hack which takes advantage of the immutability of strings in JS. Maybe some kind of queueing/message passing system would be better but that is another can of worms.
* Loading workers via a separate file is nice for the web, and I get the point that it makes sense for keeping workers out of the global namespace. However, I would have liked to see something function (or even object) based.

All that being said. I think it is a good start and is coming at the concurrency problem from the right angle (i.e. no threads/locking).
Screaming bloody murder is how we earned those concessions.

Why should we stop? This nonsense is not acceptable.
I was impressed when my five year old could multiply large numbers in his head. I think the difference between a 4 and an 11 || 12 year old is quite significant.
This would be the killer app for my mother who uses her GMail account to store photos people send her to her ISP email where the quota is low. But, she uses Internet Explorer, despite my attempts to convert her to Firefox. This is great bait.
Or words, or anything else that can be used in a variety of ways. See real-user discussion here: http://friendfeed.com/seemsartless/d4728c4a/saturday-june-27...
Which programming languages and tech stacks would be the least difficult for my young sons to start programming with? I want them to be able to do something graphical, 2D or 3D with motion.
My point, though, is that the law isn't really going to change much.

First of all, even if people in high places (why yes, I am that good) start thinking legalization of <your-favorite-chemical-here> might be a good idea, it'll take years, decades even, to come up with a sound policy about exactly how to do it, what degree of legality is involved, and how to enforce it.

After that happens, do you really think many peoples' lives will be changed? You can't even smoke cigarettes in bars anymore; do you think you'll be able to smoke pot on the street? Probably not. Will you see high/spun/tripping people everywhere? No. You'll go about your business as usual, and if you're the sort of person that wants to do these drugs, you'll still be doing them in the same places, under the same circumstances, as before. Maybe 50 years later culture will get around to adjusting to it, but I can't see it. Maybe I'm too young, or too old, or just too cynical.
..hmm, very interesting considering Justice Eady's track record. Read almost any Private Eye edition and they'll mention some bizarre ruling he has made.
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Good point; the article is pretty academic and I appreciate it for that. I am tired of the argument I anticipated (and, to my dismay, it seems, created) here.
With all due respect, creativity and intelligence(at least, one as measured by IQ test)are not strongly correlated. Not everyone can be creative, but you don't have to be very smart to be creative. On the other hand, smart people are not necessarily creative.

Sure, one can point to Einstein or Feynman as positive examples of high intelligence and creativity. However, does the intelligence of Picasso, Dali or even Warhol play a significant part in their creativity?
The point is there are people out there highly trained and experienced at focusing on the mundane, and if their jobs go away, what will they do?

Besides, poking about with hardware and sysadminning can be pretty fun, in limited short bursts.
"...thinking hard about a problem can save countless man-hours in development..., debugging...and maintenance..."

Interesting.

I find the exact opposite is just as effective. When I stop thinking so hard and just release the problem, a much better approach often comes back to me when I least expect it. This is a very hard thing to do. Once it worked a few times, I learned to develop a little faith in my inner "background processor".
Of course not. All the reports I have seen say it is driver code. Therefore it very well could have been a Nvida style Blob driver if they wanted to keep the source buttoned up.
If you've already got a data plan on your phone, you can tell Google Voice not to forward texts to your phone. Then you can just send and receive texts through the mobile app without an SMS plan.
Say what you will about TC, but they know how to write a headline for the Internet.
As Voice matures and more people use it Google will continually get a larger dataset to draw information from. Perhaps it could feed into a better probabilistic transcription approach in the veins of Google Translate.
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You have a bit of an accent (no offense, so do I), and that would normally throw the voice recognition software off.
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Odd, Chrome downloads a .mov file when I visit that page.
You are probably right but there's a certain enjoyable irony to Google getting dinged for this being they, more than anyone else, are responsible for devaluing the word "Beta"

Hopefully incidents like this will make them realize the word had an important use after all and that maybe it isn't the best idea to tag every product with it for a virtually indefinite period of time.
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You're right -> when you're stuck it's often a good idea to step back.

I should have said "thinking clearly about the problem (which is ofter hard) can save ... ".

I've seen too many people writing code that "looks like it's solving some part of some problem that's similar to the problem at hand". This might actually work when the problem is ill- or undefined, but it shouldn't be the default (and only) way that software is developed.
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This is a really cool idea.

My only issue is I dont see how it could work for anything except the odd message or image.

Unless you can specifically set the exact time it lasts the thing becomes a bit hit and miss...
Does anyone know whose engine they use? There are only a couple of Speaker Independent Speech Recognition Engines out there. Have they developed their own or licensed it from someone?
The sister is eight though. My cousins are 9 and 5 and they work together well - probably to the standard of a 10 yr old or more.

I doubt the gap is that massive (and more in "maturity" than intellectual)
One of the things I think is most corrosive is the culture of selling drugs. Why go to school at 15 when you can drop out and make twice what you're parent(s) do selling drugs. Even if little changed for the users or even the level of violence, simply removing that cash flow would fairly quickly have a large positive effect.
I misread that as "just release the product", which is the iterative development that perturbs Dijkstra. I think it can work really well for hill-climbing problems, where you have the right basic idea, and just need to keep tweaking it. But then you get enmeshed in those initial assumptions, like vines dragging you down... and you can never leave that hill.

However, you wrote "just release the problem" (as a contrast to "thinking hard"). I agree that straining over a problem often doesn't help. I think that the kind of elegant solutions Dijkstra admires are more likely to come once you've absorbed the problem, and be receptive to solutions from your unconscious. Henri Poincaré It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent

But I don't recall Dijkstra ever speak of intuition. Maybe for him, straining did work? One thing I've found is that straining to create a better representation (simpler, only the key things) does seem to help. It's fairly straightforward, but hard work. It helps because I can then see the problem - and my intuition can come into play.
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mine is newbie_11 too - on all the computers I tried in the office.
It depends on whose freedom you want to promote. The GPL is for protecting the freedom of software recipients. The BSD license if for protecting the freedom of software developers.
You're right. It probably does happen all the time. Just last week in one of those GPL vs. BSD threads someone posted a link to a story about how the author of CLISP was more or less coerced into using the GPL license. In any case, through coercion or not, releasing Linux drivers under the GPL is probably the right thing to do. Many users are strongly against loading proprietary binary blobs into their kernel. Still, not all vendors open source drivers so that ones that do could potentially enjoy a competitive advantage.
Anecdote: the speech recognition works unsettlingly well for me.
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Well, on iPhone, it would get deallocated with the next pool drain, not garbage collected (since garbage collection does not exist for iPhone as of now.)

foo = myshinyobject is ok if you use instantiate it like [[SomeClassThing alloc] initetc] rather than one of the convenience methods like [SomeClassThing thing] since those are supposed to be returned with a retain count of 0.

I forgot what I was getting at.
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I would kill to know what that variable does. Maybe they're ranking the technical expertise of the user based on what section of the help pages he is? Say, asking for help on gmail SMTP relaying is different that asking for help on how to use the calendar.
Is it me or 20k+ lines for a protocol implementation sounds like an over engineered system which is bound to fail?
It's been amazing. A good friend was laid off from what should have been a job for life there. I don't see how they're going to operate while eliminating people from nearly critical positions.

If this would happen to my company, I'd expect the doors to close. If it happened to any of our competitors, we'd be throwing a victory party.