skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes.

Or at least, that's the best way I can express my feelings regarding it.

It's a mix. I don't like that it looks like I'm a sucker, but I can't shake the feeling that the BS is working.

Am I valuing it because it's "scientifically proven" and "the guy doing it is muscular therefore it works"? Certainly not consciously, but subconsciously it could color my decisions. That's an uncomfortable thought.

Further, if I buy into it, will I contribute to another statistic that gets flashed around business meetings that demonstrate that slimeball tactics like this work? I hate these techniques, am I making them more popular?

Maybe there's a tool out there that doesn't do stuff like this, and I'm not aware of it. I could be contributing to that tools growth rather than this ones. edit: there is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7152886

Do I become a hypocrite for using it?

To be blunt, this is sort of a post hoc rationalization of why I don't like it.

>The negativity in the comments around here astounds me.

Body training receives so much criticism because this is a category of self improvement that truly deserves it. So much snake oil. So much "science". The bar must be set very high after such a sordid history.
This may come off as jokative, but the people that are tricked could always ask for a picture of the person with a newspaper or a love note for proof that they are talking to the actual person, and not just some impersonator.

Personally, I can't get past the fact of falling for someone online. Just today I met one of my online professors and it was awkward, yet online we're both very chatty.
Actually, most of the wealth is created in the financial services industry, and one can make quite a compelling argument that most of this wealth is ill-gotten. Insider trading, market manipulation, government lobbying, money laundering, and on and on...
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Ask HN: Will efforts toward efficient Bitcoin mining advance computing?
My friend asked this question on Quora but has yet receive any responses, thought I would try this forum. "How will efforts toward making Bitcoin mining more efficient have an impact on technological development? There is a clear profit incentive that is motivating a lot of people to spend a lot of time and money on Bitcoin-mining research & development. Is this helping to accelerate specific fields of technological development? If so, which?"
3D user interface
You're more Neanderthal than you may think
wonder in amazement how a chernobyl or fukushima isn't happening every year.

Comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl is like comparing apples and turds. The debacle at Fukushima had nothing to do with the reactor design; it was due to the braindead siting of the backup diesel generators and their switchgear behind a seawall that got overrun by the tsunami. The reactor design itself was fine, and in fact has withstood loss of coolant conditions that, by any reasonable prior expectation, should have caused much more radiation release than they did.

Chernobyl, on the other hand, had:

* No secondary containment;

* A Soviet-run staff that thought running badly controlled experiments at high power levels was just dandy;

* A graphite moderator that ignited when exposed to air.

Fukushima is not even in the same league from that perspective.

That type of nuclear power generation really is that terrible.

This is a serious overstatement. Many reactors designed along the same general lines have delivered decades of power with no problems. (Not to mention that the US Navy has run reactors of similar design on its ships for decades with no problems.) I'm all for improving reactor designs, but I also think there are existing designs that could have gotten plenty more use without significant added risk. The fact that we haven't done that is a bug, not a feature.
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XMPP is XML, which is most probably sent over TCP. I think if you had a XMPP to MQTT gateway this might solve the "last mile" for XMPP and power.
Will they be visually cleaner?

Look at all those square brackets in the Bolt examples.

[[[[[self findAsync:query]
Just submitted my version. I think I cannot be beaten in numbers of characters... [1]

1: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/19692/1924
Leanpub is using markdown for books. And O'Reilly sometimes uses Asciidoc, which is similar to markdown.
No, we don't. Especially since it's really "X accepts Coinbase, but doesn't price in or accept Bitcoin directly".

It's the equivalent of having a new story every time someone accepted Paypal, Amazon Payments of Google Wallet.
We should grab a beer sometime :)
I was referring to companies classified as "money transmitters". Being classified as a seller of prepaid access, like gift cards, was actually the best outcome I could have hoped for.

And I personally think gyft is skirting the line and may well find itself in some hot water. I love them as a company, though.
Op here. I have done a lot of work involving hash tables in main-memory database research and therefore really like applying those optimizations. You are right though that it might be overkill :-)
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Will I?
That's what I was wondering too. It seems to be a style guide.
3000 dollars (the price of a used car)

a range which meant you were going to need to schlep it into your apartment/office to charge every day

taking up an incompressible 2-3 persons worth of space in an elevator/hallway/sidewalk/cubicle

no parking infrastructure

little/no ability to navigate grass and probably highly recommended not to drive off a curb

no extra carrying capacity

plus extra speed is either useless on a crowded sidewalk or makes you a giant dick on a crowded sidewalk and also useless if you're with some one who doesn't have that speed.

... so that you could walk a little less.

It was not a compelling product.
Citing the AngularJS FAQs:

Does Angular use the jQuery library?

Yes, Angular can use jQuery if it's present in your app when the application is being bootstrapped. If jQuery is not present in your script path, Angular falls back to its own implementation of the subset of jQuery that we call jQLite.

Due to a change to use on()/off() rather than bind()/unbind(), Angular 1.2 only operates with jQuery 1.7.1 or above.

http://docs.angularjs.org/misc/faq
At what point is a pivot not a pivot but just a totally different company/idea?
It's another Coinbase checkout option, so Toodledo doesn't do any bitcoin pricing or assume any risk.
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Hahahahah. You beat me to it. I had that exact same thought -- "Zynga has enough money or credit to do spend that much?"
This strikes me as track behavior. They got a big winner by chance, and are back at the betting window putting the money into the next favored horse, hoping to come out ahead again. They'll do this until they lose big. Seriously, though, half a billion dollars?
This is fascinating to me since I'm already moving away from jQuery. I'm always looking for other ways to do what many people use jQuery for. For example, I'm now using CSS3 animations and transitions instead of jQuery.

I've also started using Angular.js quite a bit and have found most of the time, it requires less code than jQuery. It also has its own subset of jQuery "jqLite" which has a much smaller footprint so your app doesn't need to rely on that jQuery dependency.
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Op here, just wanted to say thanks. Of course it is not cheating in the sense that I tricked the system to give me a better score than warranted but my solution only works for this ONE dictionary so.. maybe it is not cheating but using tighter assumptions than those which were provided by the original task description :-)
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> 1) The fact that some people don't realize that JavaScript != jQuery scares me.

DOM != Javascript

That's the thing you dont understand and makes you say silly things.
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Look down at the picture of the Siamese cat. There is and example of Run Length Encoding. I expect that some of the other source materials will also show Run Length Encoding early enough that it would have invalidated a number of patents as prior art. But unfortunately, at the time these patents were being enforced, we didn't have such a rich Internet to use to find this info. Hopefully people will keep up the task of digitizing the past so that these ideas are not lost. The people of the past were more like us than we imagine.
pfft I'd rather not offer support for buggy/lagging-behind JS implementations.
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Why would they spend half a billion dollars on a studio that only has one hit game?
Go ahead and try it. Ask a question.
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Do you have a source for that? Wolfram Alpha shows a slight dip corresponding with the recession, and the data cuts off at 2010, but the overall trend seems pretty damming: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+power+usage
> If you're PayPal in this situation, how do you know the hacker doesn't have their own recording of the call?

If I were PayPal, I would asks the question: Why would a hacker keep a recording -- of obtaining information illegally -- that would only incriminate himself?

Obviously I have no way of knowing either way, but PayPal has earned the mistrust many have in their security best practices. PayPal has much more to gain by covering this up than the hacker would by lying about it.
They did exactly that for OMGPOP/Draw Something. Second time's the charm?
Their IPO left them with something like $2 billion in cash.
The advantage of their integrated LCD and Arduino is that it would only use 2 pins instead of the 6-7 that would be occupied by the shield you linked. This would allow you to connect other shields and have more room for add-ons. I agree that $89 is steep though, hopefully that price can come down as more are made.
NaturalMotion technology is excellent and this is a smart buy. Can't believe they sold. Quality products, above the bar tech, best physics on mobile probably. Check out Backbreaker and Clumsy Ninja.
I really had a blast doing level 1. I wrote my first real C program and it was as blazingly fast as I hoped. After that level 2 was easy but like many others I got stuck in level 3.
Nope, don't usually need it. Also that link locked up my mobile browser for a bit :/
jQuery still has it's uses... like when it's essential to have consistent support across browsers old & new. However I much prefer to tell users who insist on using out-of-date/poorly-built browsers to upgrade or fuck off, hopefully gently encouraging them to do so.
Not to mention how awesome they become when you feed them as a set of values to a function.

values = (f(x) for x in list)
g(*values)
Lots of people are rediscovering Functional Reactive Programming piecemeal on various different platforms. I agree with you that it is best to skip the piecemeal stuff and go directly to Reactive Extensions and its various ports such as the two links you mentioned. And for iOS/ReactiveCocoa, there is a good book on the topic https://leanpub.com/iosfrp
I think this is exactly correct. I've used ExtJS exactly once and it was for building an internal, administrative app.

It's also correct that building an administrative interface with Rails or Django is much easier. In the case of the app I was building we had to interface with some Django code, so I wrote this Python meta-class that would inspect Django models and produce classes that would then produce ExtJS models, widgets, etc. that could then interact RESTful interfaces provided by the Django app. It worked great but was slow due to javascript blocking issues. So like you said performance issues were a barrier, but I doubt in that case it was ExtJS's fault. I've thought about posting that code somewhere but I'm kind of embarrassed that I actually tried it. After that little experiment we scrapped ExtJS and built a strait Django application that did what we needed.
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Oh yeah, definitely. There shouldn't be any mix of assets. You need to keep them separate if you're trying to make the legal case that they're separate.
Not Islamophobia, just a wary eye on those who would chip away at the Christian and Jewish foundations of the nation. Others are welcome, but not to destroy the foundations.
My dad was a salesman, and a really good one. He absolutely maintained that it was both counter-productive and morally wrong to sell people things that they didn't actually need or want.

On the other hand, if you have a product you believe in, that is high-quality, and that improves the lives of the customers who could really use it, he felt it was morally wrong NOT to sell it to them.

YMMV.
Thank you. What you have to keep in mind is that I do databases research for a living so many of the problems involved in each challenge are very familiar to me. My suggestion to you is to get a stronger systems programming background, I figure that's what helped me the most.
Thank you. Its astounding how much of this thread does not seem to be catching this.

My project currently depends on libraries which in turn have dependencies on mutually exclusive versions of jQuery, so we conditionally load a whole second copy some of the time. I've been meaning to fix the libraries that require older jQuery so we can fix this, but the bugs run deep, the libraries are pretty unmaintainable, and I'm under pressure to keep shipping features.
Http://stackoverflow.com/questions/724043/http-url-address-encoding-in-java
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/724043/http-url-address-encoding-in-java
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Non Tech Founders – Why Do You Not Listen to Tech Advice from Tech People?
Here are 3 scenarios that have happened in the past week or so:

1) A client wants to build his frontend on Sqaurespace while hosting his backend on the cloud (AWS). I told him we should just put it all on the cloud but he insisted on Squarespace so he can edit the frontend whenever he wants even though it will render data from the backend. He insisted so that is the route we're going. If you know tech, you know how incredibly stupid this is.

2) A different client considers a 20-minute run through of an app I developed to be adequate QA. I constantly tell him we need to put it in the hands of other people for many many hours to test. He disagrees. More accurately, he politely agrees then ignores everything I said.

3) Related to #2, said client keeps adding new features literally hours before deployment deadlines. I keep advising against to no avail. Again, polite agreement, zero compliance.

Non tech founders, seriously, wtf? What is this universal impulse to disregard tech advice from knowledgeable people who you pay to help you? I don't understand the mentality. If my doctor told me to stop eating dairy, I don't challenge his assertion - I simply stop eating dairy. Can someone explain?
Microsoft will name Satya Nadella as its next CEO.
Well it's only speculation, but Bitcoin mining is a specific activity. It's true there's probably plenty of money going into making the fastest double-sha1 + nonance chip; that activity alone isn't likely to advance computing.

There's some money going into making better Litecoin/Scrypt miners, which is currently only gpus so that's positive.

The question you should be asking is how will Bitcoin advance computing. That question I think will get you a lot more answers:

- Security is essential. People require secure computing to safely operating in Bitcoin.

- etc.
Event capacity extended for product guru Olsen's talk on lean product analytics.
Generally you have a senior programmer paired up with a more junior one. They then take turns typing in code, and discuss what they are doing as they go. Kind of like working out a complex math problem on the chalkboard in school.

The benefits are: 1) transfer of knowledge -- you have at least one other person that knows the thought process behind the code; 2) cleaner code -- when paired up, you are in a semi-teaching mode, so you are more likely to use clean and understandable code. That is, if it is too hard to explain it, and you are required to explain it to the point of understanding, then you will have a tendency to not be as obscure.

The main drawbacks: Often times, when something is sufficiently complex, you really need to concentrate for hours to develop a solution. And having someone (either more junior, or more senior) throwing out random suggestions, when they have no clue what data structures you have built up in your head, is somewhat counter-productive. Another major drawback -- too much transfer of germs. You need to make sure each person has their own keyboard/mouse, and preferably some extra space between them (such as pair programming using remote displays, and not being right on top of each other).

Disclaimer -- I haven't worked in a full-time developer role in any shop that uses pair programming extensively, although I have paired up with other developers from time to time to help them through some C code that they didn't understand.
That's not really an argument, and that isn't standard navigation to begin with. It's for in-page links and the links highlight as you scroll. I would argue that it's perfectly intuitive.
So why is that a big deal? There are trillions of nano-machines being powered and dumping their waste heat in you right now. Or rather, they are you.
Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle
Thanks.

No, I'm not on the team.
kinda of missed the point.

They buy wifi only ipads because the form factor is embarrassing to use with 3g anyway.

a clumsy ipad is still less clumsy than a phone+power pack+cables
(Pasted from an earlier discussion)

That's not correct. What it actually does is reserve some markup for use by third parties that have reverse engineered various old programs (including programs that competed with Microsoft programs), so that if those people have workflows that depend on features of those old programs that cannot be represented in OOXML, they can still use OOXML as a storage format but add in the extra information they need.

Here's the use case this is aimed at. Suppose I run, say, a law office, and we've got an internal document management system that does things like index and cross reference documents, manage citation lists, and stuff like that. The workflow is based on WordPerfect format (WordPerfect was for a long time the de facto standard for lawyers).

Now suppose I want to start moving to a newer format for storage. Say I pick ODF, and start using that for new documents, and make my tools understand it. I'd like to convert my existing WordPerfect documents to ODF. However, there are things in WordPerfect that cannot be reproduced exactly in ODF, and this is a problem. If my tools need to figure out what page something is on, in order to generate a proper citation to that thing, and I've lost some formatting information converting to ODF, I may not get the right cite.

So what am I going to do? I'm going to add some extra, proprietary markup of my own to ODF that lets me include my reverse engineered WordPerfect knowledge when I convert my old documents to ODF, and my new tools will be modified to understand this. Now my ODF workflow can generate correct cites for old documents. Note that LibreOffice won't understand my additional markup, and will presumably lose it if I edit a document, but that's OK. The old documents I converted should be read-only.

Of course, I'm not the only person doing this. Suppose you also run a law office, with a WordPerfect work flow, and are converting to an ODF work flow. You are likely going to add some proprietary markup, just like I did. We'll both end up embedding the same WordPerfect information in our converted legacy documents, but we'll probably pick different markup for it. It would be nice if we could get together, make a list of things we've reverse engineered, and agree to use the same markup when embedding that stuff in ODF.

And that's essentially what they did in OOXML. They realized there would be people like us with our law offices, who have reverse engineered legacy data, that will be extending the markup. So they made a list of a bunch of things from assorted past proprietary programs that were likely to have been reverse engineered by various third parties, and reserved some markup for each.
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According to wikipedia: "Used by over 80% of the 10,000 most visited websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today."

Despite it being ubiquitous, it is still an open source javascript library. Just a guess here but, different applications use different versions and I'd imagine relying on one version supplied by the browser could cause issues for developers using JQuery especially if their application depends on an older version of the library.
There is just no need to.

It's small, so the overhead of fetching it is minimal. Once fetched it can be cached practically indefinitely and re-used by any sites that uses the same CDN, while still making live updates possible.

Bundling it would only provide a stale version, add bloat and open up a floodgate for other inclusions.
Ask HN:  What is needed for a successful Series A?
A startup I'm advising just closed a successful seed round with enough funding for ~18 months of runway. All eyes now turn towards the Series A, and on figuring out where they will need to be in 6-12 months to raise a successful Series A.

So my two questions are:

1. What are the things VC's need to see in a seed-funded company after 6-12 months of work that enable them to join (or lead) the Series A round?

2. Are there things that typically cause a Series A to fail, that VC's see and it triggers an automatic "decline" decision, that we need to be careful to avoid?
Wow, I didn't even realize they had 527M to spend on anything, yet they are closing studios, canceling games, laying off good people...
Distributed streaming quantiles on PySpark
The problem with that kind of articles: it works.
Something very common in the poker tournament world is equity swapping. In any given tournament a player might swap 5-10% of their action with one or more other players. This is a way to reduce variance while maintaining similar equity (assuming roughly equal skill levels).

Why isn't there a service for allowing employees at different startups to swap their equity to reduce their variance?
Interesting, we should propose a combined "squatting for work, eating and various other bodily needs" cubicle on Kickstarter ... Never leave your squatting position again.
Outbox (stealth) hiring LEAD Eng and Product (Austin, TX)
My condolences. I have such aversion to Police types and I wish there was more local civilian control over police departments. If there is enough support here we should seriously consider what we can do to deter poor police behavior.
Satya Nadella's Wiki
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That was never an option. Why do you hate America?
jquery is really just an abstraction for dom, it is not an api for application building. When I have to use the dom, I definitely turn to it. I'm not sure why people object to having additional helper functions in jquery for a measely 100k or so.

You don't have to use plugins you know, its not a law.
When it's a different team. Otherwise it's a pivot.
The arLCD is 3.5", whereas the $39.95 from Adafruit is 2.8". That still shouldn't account for the price difference though.
The original use for that code was to build a list of parsing objects to create a single parsing object that was the OR'ing of the basic ones.

Aw, heck, code speaks louder than words:

https://github.com/PhoenixBureau/PigeonComputer/blob/master/...
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