skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right on.

Addendum: this marketing is facilitated by the fact that the culture is coming to appreciate that geekiness can equal power.
This article paints it like the purge is whimsical.

VC's are in it for the money. Mediocre CEO's aren't good for business. A good CEO way outweighs nepotism.
When I was in grade 4 (Jamaica) some kids picked on me. I remember going home and making some concrete balls, about the size of a large grapefruit each. I put four in my bag and went to school the next day. I don't remember why I didn't harm anybody.

Similarly, in grade 10, a 'jock' slapped me across the face, sending my glasses careening. It was after school, so I went home and made me a little circuit: a transformer rigged to step up the voltage, connected to a small battery, with two needles on the end, all assembled on a piece of board. I fully intended to kill the motherfucker. But cooler heads prevailed, and I didn't return to school with my little apparatus.

Unfortunately, I took all of that anger out on my little brother.

Reading this sure brought back a lot of memories. I remember the first time I read PGs "Why Nerds are Unpopular Essay." To say it was like divine revelation would be an understatement.

Now, at 22, 6'1" and getting built. I would happily beat the fuck out of anyone who 'violated', as we say in Jamaica. Enough with that 'violence solves nothing' bullshit. Violence is what stopped WWII.

It's easy for some to say he should get over it, but I understand where he's coming from. And I didn't have it as half as bad as he did.
That's what I'm thinking too. However, those are assumptions (which I share). I am thinking maybe it would be interesting to see this simulated in the web environment and get feedback on that - web file system.

I started playing with tags on Aleveo for that reason, maybe I should take it further on a separate test project. It makes a big difference using it and thinking how it would be used.

Also, I am not sure what would be best for executables but how are those currently seen - as having an "+x". Having an executable tag is not much different. That also means, tags are a bit "smarter" than the regular ones seen on the web.

I am mostly thrilled by the ability to see the relations of files and folders to others. Those are not folders anymore as "storage units" but "meanings".

Also currently a file can exists only in one place. Having symlinks is cruft in my opinion, compensating for the need of multiple context presence of data. Symlink is a separate file, a pointer different than the original. Windows is excluded completely :) I think file can be in several places depending on the need. After all this is not the physical world.
I think you tend to remember the things you think about. I don't think about the past very often myself, or the 'glory days' of high school or whatever, so it's all a blur to me. At least that's how I hope it works because if it doesn't, I have severe brain damage.
On another note, responding to the statements that no one "knows" religion isn't true, I offer this:

My friend Billy and I were sitting in my living room the other day when I told him that in the kitchen, there was a bottle of tequila. He went into the kitchen and saw some El Jimador, and when he came back he knew there really was a bottle of tequila in the kitchen. So we didn't need to go to ABC to pick some up for later.

Now, in a technical sense, Billy doesn't actually /know/ there is a bottle of tequila. He saw it, but many possibilities exist:

1) He was mistaken, and the power of my suggestion made him mistake a bottle of bourbon for a bottle of tequila all the way across the kitchen.

2) He actually hallucinated, maybe he doesn't realize that he's Schizophrenic.

3) I tricked him by placing a fake bottle of tequila in the kitchen.

4) etc.

So in the pure technical sense, Billy can't say for certain that there's no bottle of tequila. However, for the purposes of planning a party for later that night, we'll be utterly shocked if the bottle isn't there. I'm not going to grill him: "But dude, how do you KNOW the bottle is there?" -- he saw it, it's there. We'll say the probability of the bottle being there is ~1 (which means approaching 1, a la a mathematical limit. Mathematically we can treat it as 100% probable, but the ~ acknowledges that it's not literally 100%)

So let's say a religion formed around the idea that my kitchen contains a bottle of tequila. Someone who didn't believe it could plausibly say: No one really knows if the tequila exists, because that would require a PERFECT knowledge of the kitchen, and no one can have an absolutely perfect knowledge of Pete's kitchen. Humans are fallible, therefore we will never TRULY know if the bottle exists or not.

So to that person I say, you are correct. Instead of there being a probability of 1 that the bottle exists, there is instead a probability of ~1. So the rational thing to do is behave as though the bottle is present, because the overwhelming weight of the evidence suggests that it's there. There is maybe a one in a billion or one in a trillion chance that it's not. When we have the party later that night, I enjoy a Margarita on the rocks, with sea salt around the edges of the glass. I add my drunkenness (I had several margaritas) to the evidence that the tequila bottle exists. The party is a success. Yay!

So, my point is that it's not correct to act like ~1 is the same as .5 -- many people try to say that because perfect knowledge doesn't exist, that the chance of God (the God of the Book, anyway) existing is 50/50. It's actually more like ~0.
It's funny that newspapers think search engines are the problem. The real problem, it seem to me, is that most stories of any value that I find in a Newspaper are AP wire stories - and regardless of which Newspaper or other source I go to, those stories are exactly the same. It greatly reduces my motivation to buy any newspaper as long as even one of those with AP wire stories (or any other AP story source) is free somewhere on the net. I worry about how good investigative journalism can be maintained, so am not celebrating this - but the days when so many newspapers could profit from the exact same content are over. Maybe newspapers with large enough local markets for non-AP local stories can provide enough value there to keep themselves afloat - but there are increasing alternative sources of local information, too.
Maybe.

But if we look at the historical significance of the Internet, it was built by and has been largely dominated by introverts. The Internet has always kind of been the one place we can all "find each other" to have interesting, stimulating conversation while the rest of the world gabs about trivial things.

However, Facebook, Twitter (to some extent), et. al, have really brought extroverts in full-force to the Internet, and to some extent they are encroaching on our "space." The hype has definitely clogged up the noise-to-signal ratio, and weeding through all of the extraneous fluff can be tiresome.

So maybe it's not that introverts are exactly "critical," of the new narcissistic "lookie at me! lookie at magazine cover!" vibe the Internet has taken on, but that it subtracts substantially from what makes the Internet interesting.
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Does anyone have a working, non-invasive way to collect small payments per article that is poised for widespread adoption? If not, I don't see this happening. Most newspapers don't have the balls to require subscriptions because they know they're not worth it. I pay for the FT and could see paying for the NY Times or the Wall Street Journal and maybe my local paper. (The local paper just out of guilt. Local politics goes in one ear and out the other. I'm ashamed.)
Marketing is fundamentally different from the normal exchange of ideas. Using language to explain to your fellow tribesmen where the herd you're tracking is located is not "marketing."
If your future plans require being credentialed as associating with similarly credentialed people, then you should go to college. "Certified Impressive" I think is the term du jour.
Yeah, even if some of the more popular news websites would start charging for their content, people would just migrate to other websites (eg. the BBC which doesn't need to charge).
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Ideally, you are correct. But every society has their preset view of normal. To skate too far outside of that view will, inherently, cause a reaction.

Right or wrong, this is the way our society works.
A company wants to enable people with autism to get a job in computers!

What next - a scheme to enable gay men to break into the world of musical theatre?
Disciplines which place an emphasis on live sparring make an enormous difference. See boxing, Muay-Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and the emerging amalgamation of various sparring disciplines, Mixed Martial Arts.
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Zihuatanejo, here I come!

(Cue Thomas Newman soundtrack here)
That's an honest and emotional piece.

I don't really have bad high-school memories, mostly indifferent memories. Fortunately our high school system separates the potential construction workers from the potential scientists. I did find it hard to socialize with people whose primary interest in life seemed to be the irrational idolization of musicians, with a surprising lack of musical taste. There I was with my interests in physics, economics, politics, philosophy, classical history, etc.

Isolation is what made me play with computers, become really good at inventing and engineering new systems, and brought me to an incredibly fortunate life.

I didn't go to my first reunion, but as the stories got out I felt sad for how poorly most of them had done. I grew up thinking the world was our playground, and for me it still is. Maybe I'll go to the next one, hoping they did a little better.
Rule 5 from the contest:

"5. In the case of a tied Hamming distance
(entirely possible), the winner will be chosen
by lottery among people with the best distance"

This says: don't take me seriously.

Hopefully for their sake they get 1000s of people running implementations and by chance someone will get 19 and win. They won't even have the best algorithm, but it will test permutations randomly.

I wrote up a solution, but I prefer scratch off tickets.
I'm going to try to crank out a little program to work on this over the weekend (what's the worst that could happen, I wasted a couple of hours?).

Unless you have some really serious hardware at your disposal, or you have a good knowledge of how to attack the SHA-1 hash algorithm, the best bet is going to be to just have the computer try random combinations of the words with various capitalizations (plus the extra couple of letters you're allowed to put at the end). Best case scenario, you get lucky and happen to find a fairly well-scoring string that you can submit.
Sorry, but if this is true, everyone should know about it:

Didn't most of that AIG bailout money go to Goldman, and didn't AIG owe it to Goldman because Goldman bet against their own products? And wasn't it former Goldman CEO Hank Paulson who pushed it through?

I really liked the Rolling Stones article which said that Goldman basically has captured the government.
That definition more accurately fits the typical usage of the term 'dork'. The word 'geek' is usually used to indicate someone with a great deal of specialized knowledge (such as a computer geek, or a math geek, but also sometimes less technical topics, like a literature geek or a band geek), and typically a lack of social prowess. A 'nerd', on the other hand, is more typically one who displays heightened scholastic ability in all (or at least most) areas, but a significant lack of social skill.

I'm not trying to say that any other use of these (or any other) words is, in any sense, wrong. But these are their current, common, usage.

EDIT (since the urban dictionary link wasn't there when I wrote the above): Remember that different people use words differently. An urban dictionary definition is just what the people who use and vote on urban dictionary definitions (in particular, the urban dictionary definition in question) agree that a word means. This is why lexicography isn't trivial; there is significant sample bias in, for example, the set of people who care enough about how urban dictionary defines 'geek' in order to change it.
"Obviously, with sets, the location can be described in several ways, so it is not a Unique Resource Locatior - only RL."

Wouldn't it be possible to implement the filesystem with tags and then specify an ordering of the tags to map the graph into the usual hierarchy? The first part of the URI would specify the mapping (maybe just a name for a particular mapping), and the second would traverse the hierarchical view in the usual way.

This way, legacy apps could still think in terms of a tree while exposing a more powerful structure to new apps.
Your argument contradicts itself. It seems as if you are calling for a level playing field so that Apple and Palm products can compete against each other on their own merits.

But remember, Apple out-competed their iPod opponents by making not just a hardware MP3 player, but also a best-of-class jukebox and wholly innovative online music marketplace and integrating them all together. This integration has been shown time and time again to be the force that gives iPod an edge over competitors. In short, iPod "just works".

Enter the Palm Pre which is just a device. No jukebox. No music store. At this point, if Palm wants to compete, it could invest in building its own media jukebox and online store. Instead, it decides to use 2/3s of the technology of the product it's supposedly competing against by masquerading as the competitor itself.

It's as if you take a Boxter, replace the steering wheel, and then call yourself a competitor to Porsche. At best you are partners with Porsche, and at worst you're ripping them off. In either case, it hardly looks like the level competitive playing field you call for.
He neglected to say what program to use to make the graphs. Any suggestions?
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My understanding is that it uses pulseaudio to avoid null pointer dereference protection, but the hole is in the tunneling driver.
## cross posted to blog as well.

Assume the xor of your test hash with their desired hash is just 160 random bits. Furthermore, choose a certain number N, and assert: they must be white!! What is the probability that this is true:

(0.5 for each bit)^(number of bits you chose).

So given 160 random bits, what are the chances of there being atleast N bits set to zero?

(0.5^N)*(ways to choose N from 160).

(0.5^N)*(160!/(N!*(160-N)!)).

define d = 160 - N

0.5^(160-d)*(160!/((160-d)!*d!))

So I think that you are miscalculating by a bit, that is why & how.

NOTE: difference is in the 0.5^(here)
It would be fair to say, "use your discretion". Any topic can be presented in an inflammatory manner.
"Goldman, famously, made a lot of money selling securities backed by subprime mortgages — then made a lot more money by selling mortgage-backed securities short"

I haven't heard this before (admittedly i don't keep up very well) but if its true, Its brilliant. It reminds me of a 12 year old kid playing bumper bowling except he's aware of how to use the bumpers to guide the ball into the strike zone.
Given that NaCl is open source I would expect to see it running in all webkit-based browsers as well as mozilla, not just chrome.
It's not impossible, just a horrible experience. Most likely your network drivers will break, their new version of X doesn't support your graphics card/drivers, etc. I have never been able to upgrade Ubuntu without using Ctrl+Alt+F1 a lot. I'm not going to give that to my family.
I've done the same, and I agree with your post entirely. There are a few tricks to making nested sets perform reasonably well on large data sets.

I've tested this model on trees that contain up to 100 million items within the scope of a single tree, and I have a pretty good feel for how well it would perform beyond that.

- The first and most important consideration is what defines the scope of a tree. For example, if you are building a discussion board, and using nested sets (I've done this) you would want each post/reply set to be a separately scoped tree. That decision alone vastly reduces much of the write contention.

- Next, if the tree is going to be heavily used, store the tree in a separate table with each row fixed width and the primary key of the item it refers to. Databases are much more efficient at reads and writes when rows are fixed width and do not contain nullable or variable length data.

- Additionally it's important to maintain the data for the adjacency list within your structure, so that if you ever have errors or corruptions with your tree, you can rebuild it correctly.

- Next if you need to insert some type of sub-tree into a larger tree. You can compute the sub-tree and then insert it into the larger tree in a single operation, instead of doing multiple inserts that lock the entire tree. This is a relatively difficult optimization and something I don't typically build until it becomes necessary.

- Spend some time working through the math of how Nested Sets work. It's relatively simple, and really understanding it will help you implement efficient bulk operations on your trees.

- It's important to get a write lock on the tree before you get your left and right values for the tree. If you get your left and write values before you get exclusive access to the data you are working with, someone else could have done an insert while you were building your tree, and when you do your insert, you will have corrupted the entire tree.

- Finally if you are interested in this topic, I cannot recommend Joe Celko's books highly enough. SQL For Smarties has a thorough discussion of the different models. Additionally he has a separate book that only deals with Hierarchical data models, and he delves further into the various issues and implementation tricks with these data structures.
And his prize is for economics. Which, to my mind, is a bogus subject. It's worth knowing that there is no "Nobel Prize in Economics".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi...

Alfred Nobel did not leave money for an economics prize. There are no 'discoveries' in economics, it's a flight of fancy.
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What's a good functional language for desktop scripting (like Python)?
I'd like to get some time in with a fairly pure functional language and I'm not sure what I should be using for practice. I've played a little with Scheme and Erlang but neither one seem to have the chutzpah I need for doing Python-like scripting/programming. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

(EDIT: Removed Windows from the title because I want it to be cross platform)
dork also means whale penis

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Economics is a bogus subject?

What other subjects don't you approve of? Psychology? Philosophy? History?

And: as the page you linked to properly points out, the fact that Alfred Nobel didn't leave money in his will for an Economics prize didn't stop others from funding a prize in Nobel's memory, which is awarded by the same people who award the other Nobel Prizes, following the rules set down in Nobel's will. If the prize is good enough for the Nobel Foundation, it's good enough for me.
The headline is a bit deceptive. Obama isn't stating, or even implying through policy, that 'everyone should go to college.' The policy is promoting enrollment in community colleges, not declaring that it should be mandatory.

Personally, I do think that 'office clerks, home care and health aids' should have a couple of years of post high-school education under their belts, if only to learn the things that they should have been taught in high school.
I think that you should take a comedians word with a grain of salt.

What Bill Hicks was literally getting at was that to use your talent as a wordsmith to create wants where there are none and to pursue money without any consideration for ethics by trying to translate each and every human emotion into the dollar equivalent and a 'hook' by which to gain acess to peoples wallets is a very wrong thing.

Comedians will exaggerate grossly in order to make their point. See Carlin, Connolly and many others for more examples of such behaviour.

It's up to us to separate out the core facts from the poetic license.

The kind of marketing that the great-grandfather post of this comment referred to is exactly the wrong way to use marketing.

There is a book by some guy called 'how to win friends and influence people', it is a great example of how not to use skills with words, it is simple manipulations and there is a world of a difference between manipulation and reasonable discourse between consenting parties.

The latter is what sets us - amongst many other things - apart from the animals, not our ability to 'market' or to 'sell' where no need exists.

Marketeers now routinely employ psychologists in order to learn better which of our buttons they should push in order to get access to our innermost feelings so that we go and do what they want, consume their product.

For a nice example have a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi63rXnuWbw

And tell me what you think of that.
Yes it would, but then the need for it is dim.

This was my biggest concern, to be backward compatible with legacy apps. And it is possible.

"C:\Program Files\X\Y\Z" - "C"+"Program Files"+"X"+"Y"+"Z"
"/usr/local/files/" - "usr"+"local"+"files"

The only thing is that "usr" owns the file and so do "local" and "files" but the app doesn't care about that.

Legacy apps do not access the files directly but through the filesystem. If the filesystem knows how to convert these conventional paths into sets, there is no problem.
Best Buy calls Twitter a job qualification
FTA: "When the mafia ran this town, it was fun. [...]" This from a cabbie there 27 years.

Howard Hughes bought the Desert Inn 42 years ago on March 1, 1967, ushering in the corporate takeover of Las Vegas.

The takeover was finished by the time I worked in Las Vegas, 35 years ago -- really. Co-workers Ed M. and Cliff L. were old-timers when I got there. They had the same sentiments as the cabbie. The mob kept the town clean, but now the corporations had taken over and were ruining things. E.g., forcing each casino department (gaming, restaurants, showroom, souvenirs, ...) to turn a minimum profit or be axed. Casinos run by MBAs with diplomas but no common sense.

Net-net, I believe the moral of the story, but not the story itself. 27 years isn't long enough.
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That's an interesting way of looking at file systems. I think among the pipe dreams of reiser4 there was a plan to make the fs itself more relational-like (but I also think this was relegated to a plugin and then promptly forgotten).
Part of HTML 5 that Google and others have been pushing is the ability to run browser based apps offline (think Google Gears), where the browser is basically a rendering engine and javascript sandbox, rather than a means of accessing remote resources. This is what they are referring to here.
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GEB is much better. I didn't get very far in "I am a Strange Loop," but GEB is easily one of my favorite books.
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The point being however that the only person that it affects is you.

You need to get over the anger to affect yourself. To hell with the fool that offended you.