skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I found an innocent loop that had no test in it... It took me two weeks to figure it out."

I think you're right. How much time/money did that clever loop trick waste?
The entire Turing test claim is Kevin Warwick's media hype. He issues a press release to this effect approximately annually. Basically, the way to tell if a claim related to artificial intelligence is rubbish is to search for the name "Kevin Warwick". This is what I wrote for his 2008 effort: http://newstechnica.com/2008/10/13/turing-test-won-with-arti...
I just don't get how the simple 'hot' (or 'news') algorithm, only taking a single link's time elapsed and raw number of votes(?) into account, is the best we have for a community like this.

And I'm not talking about reddit's 'infinite but disjointed sub-communities'...
1. What does this code do?
2. Where is this previous code this replaced that was 3 times the size?
Thank you for your explanation, I was not aware of the "comma to separate an adverb" rule in written English.
Probably because they're developing very fast presently, and a fashionable-enough company that they get a lot of good applicants and can afford to be choosy with hiring.
So we can survive a punch to the face now but we can't breath while asleep. Thanks for nothing, nature!
XEmacs perhaps? I remember it being purported as "The Next Generation of Emacs" years ago.
I work in online real estate, and this is exactly the kind of thing we love to do when it comes to utilizing data. How can we take X, Y and Z data points and generate something useful? Taking into account crime reports, graffiti reports, available parking spaces, etc, can all help you decide whether this place is good or not. The requirements here are kinda strange (proximity to a grocery store? not crime rates or anything like that?), but to each his own, I suppose. I'm really impressed with the resourcefulness of the author, though. I think I would probably just go to Zillow or Trulia and see what they say...
The most interesting aspect of this story is that it apparently has a property of yielding infinite posts of itself on HN. I wonder when will be the next one :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7282617

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5758225

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5643818

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395931

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5269815

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3509450

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945288
Why do you care if you accidentally implement an interface?
I don't play much games on iOS, so without further information it seems both are directed at pushing friends to install/log into the game. What points fundamentally differ in your opinion ?
I work for a technology company in this industry, and its really cool to see this on the front page. There are some really interesting technical problems in figuring out the credit algorithms for loaning to small business owners. Banks don't have the incentive to care about $10,000 loans, but it makes a huge difference (as seen in the paper above and our own data) to these businesses.

Its definitely an example of an industry where technology is "disrupting" hard. Loans which used to take 2-12 weeks to be approved can be approved by a computer in literally minutes, and the number of businesses that can be approved efficiently is drastically higher.
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There was only one "his" in the title, it didn't need to be a global replace.
> Consumers just don't pay for games anymore

This is completely absurd. Look at Steam. Or every game console.
I'm so glad someone finally said this publically. Everyone always writes posts about how magical docker is, but the reality is that Docker more of a PR engine then a usable production virtualization solution.
The problem with this is that most programmers don't need statistics on a regular enough basis. That's how things get into standard libraries: people need these things so regularly that there's no point in reimplementing them forever.

You really think we need stats functions in libc more than we need, say, properly written accelerated vector and matrix functions? Which do you think comes up more regularly in practice?

You're better off reimplementing these handful of functions in a BSD-licensed copy-lib and forgetting about it. None of these are particularly tricky to implement.
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The problem with drawing these kinds of conclusions is that it's easy to invent adaptive stories that purport to explain changes in morphological features, but not easy to build a case that will convince an appropriately sceptical audience.

I've heard of over a dozen disparate adaptive explanations for why zebras have stripes or why human hair is less dense than that of other mammals, but none are necessarily correct.
I think most (all?) of the commands can be performed over the API with JSON coming back, so the order of output shouldn't matter too much.
It's great to be able to handle stuff like this, when it actually does prove necessary (and the degree to which Mel could apparently handle it is impressive). I agree that it is not what you should be doing if there's any way around it (as there more often is, these days), and that the apparent lack of documentation is appalling (though depressingly common).
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Oh come on. You know the poster was referring to mobile gaming, not gaming in general.
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I'm not sure the desire to not want things to exist that other people are choosing to use. I don't like many romantic comedies, sure, but I don't then additionally desire they not exist altogether. I am capable of accepting that there exists a segment of the market that doesn't interest me but (clearly) satisfies a large group of other people. Let's not forget that the flip side to this may be a return to just having a few AAA titles.
But those games don't run on phones, and we're talking about phones in this discussion today.
Yes, it explains why you've evolved an adaptation to being punched in the face, but not to being kicked in the breadbasket. It's a bit just-so.

It did make this occur to me: http://newstechnica.com/2014/06/09/scientists-tony-abbott-ev... I can't tell you how happy it made me to find out there existed a photo of Tony Abbott getting punched in the face.
I don't think I can enumerate the number of ways in which I disagree with you.

- It's only obfuscation if you have the luxury of solving it in another way.

- the times have changed (1956), but the methods have not

- sure, it may be obscure but it shows perfect control of the machine and the issue at hand

- agreed, it is not maintainable, but back then feature changes usually meant re-writes and people thought longer about what they wanted before they started building. Machine time was more expensive than programmer time.

- being clever is (to me at least) exactly what hacking is all about, finding a solution to a problem where you thought none existed. Ask yourself this: if Mel's code was so useless how come some hotshot didn't re-write it using 'best practices' and zero 'clever tricks'? The answer: likely because it could not be done. Mel delivered.

- the rebel in me likes Mels attitude towards management. Sure, if you're in management you'd hate him twice weekly but I note that Mel did not get fired, instead moved on to greener pastures

- I compare this with the way a jeweler would make his little works of art versus the way a production welder connects pieces of pipe. Mel is the jeweler, you'd rather we all just join pieces of pipe.

- I've gone through some of the assembly code for 80's video games and that stuff was full of tricks like this (and without it would never have gotten of the ground). Making a computer output the right results within the margin of error visible to the user when lacking the 'proper' resources is where creativity comes in. And in that case I'd much rather have a guy like Mel by my side than any number of {insert high level language of choice here} pushers because if it is at all possible guys like Mel will find a way.

Anyway, as you can see, we're likely not going to agree on this one.
The facts are questionable ....

"Beer can reduce the risk of heart disease, by slowing down the digestion and absorption of food and reducing cholesterol levels. A liter of beer contains an average of 20% of the recommended daily intake of fiber and some beers can provide up to 60%."

http://instanerd.me/v/28

Guinness has 0 grams of fibre.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/guinness-draught-s...
At first glance, I agree with you. But then, customers are quite good on knowing what they get value from, and submiting their choice to the direction of the company they currently contract is a sure way to get suboptimal results.

If they get 95% of the value from the company, they simply won't change business that easily.
Justified text, my eyes can't even parse that headline.

STOP FUCKING USING JUSTIFIED TEXT.
Perhaps you meant something like 'within_bounds({X,Y}) when X > 0, X =< ?SIZE, Y > 0, Y =< ?SIZE -> true.' ?

As written the function would return only the value of (Y =< ?SIZE).
> (proximity to a grocery store? not crime rates or anything
> like that?), but to each his own,

Some people are not able to, or do not wish to drive every time they want something to eat. Proximity to a grocery store sounds like a good metric. It's the european model of shopping every day for that days meal, vs the U.S. model of stocking up at Costco.
The 3DS XL and PS Vita are also doing quite well.
I suspect Apple will end up making changes to ad-hoc provisioning which prevent sites like FreeMyApps from operating. This is very clearly not the way that ad-hoc provisioning was intended to be used.
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> There is a slight difference between name-calling and oppression. Oppression can only be done from a position of power, and it stabilizes the power of the oppressing. Namecalling can be done by any person who wants to do it, because it does not presuppose or enforce any kind of power relation.

A man using misogynist slurs against a woman seems to be oppressive by any reasonable metric.

Based on the rest of your comment, it seems you are confused as to what oppression is, if you think men are somehow oppressed by feminism. Awakening as a feminist is the most liberatory action I have experienced in my entire life as a man. It has made every aspect of my life better and if you are a man and continue to be a reactionary and an anti-feminist I genuinely pity you. I hope you have enough sense to stop holding the proverbial fire hose on the civil rights protest. I hope you can find it in your heart to let go of privilege, whatever the benefits to you personally might be, in favor of tolerance, love and respect for your fellow humans, and forward-thinkingness.
Why are phones magically different when we're discussing games? You're going to have to justify that.
It's not clear to me why the employer investing in training has somehow shouldered some additional obligation to the employee.
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For anyone interested in how machines like the LGP-30 worked, there's a book titled Basics of Digital Computers by John S Murphy, nominally in 3 volumes, though you'll most likely find the combined edition. Though the title sounds similar to modern yellow-jacketed dross, this book was published in 1958 and the ‘basics’ go down to vacuum-tube circuits for arithmetic and control.
Fair usage of resources and security isolation are two VERY different problems. Containers can be VERY good at resource isolation. Security has not really been figured out yet.
Credit rating by computers already is too prevalent. Who is a machine to decide if one is credit-worthy? In most banks, you can't pitch your idea like e.g. a startup founder can with angel investors because bank regulations say "computer-only decisions here".

Have a bad mark (e.g. you were in jail for pot in your youth) and don't get a credit for the rest of your life. This is the brave new world of full automation.

edit: also, this introduces a total lack of accountability and basic rights: "when the regulations say that I am only allowed to accept new tenants when they pass the computer check, I cannot give you a home. Even if I like you personally, you have 100K+ income, and that pot jail sentence is 20+ years past - but the computer says no because you are black and a drug offender". Just think about the scenario. It is totally possible today if you feed the computer with the wrong data.
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I for some reason can't reply to your other comments but the difference between consoles and phone games is that free games actually exists for phones. You can't buy an XBox and have access to hundreds of the most popular games for free. People buy an XBox knowing that they will have to buy games. People who buy phones, know that the app store or google play contains thousands of free offerings.
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That's just the fat model approach. It suffers from similar issues as fat controllers, whereby unrelated functionality tends to accumulate.

Why do models know how to persist themselves? Or send themselves over the network? What does that have to do with the concept they represent? It conflates technical concerns ("how do I serialize myself?") with business concerns ("am I valid?").

It doesn't help that Core Data forces you into the framework superclass antipattern: http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/michael_feathers_blog/201...
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It's the employer modifying the at-will employment arrangement and attempting to restrict the employee's freedom to choose jobs at will, which should result in a symmetric obligation. The default situation in most U.S. states is at-will employment: either side may terminate the employment relationship at any time, for any or no reason, with any notice they choose to give or none.

If a more durable arrangement is desired, so the employee cannot leave tomorrow with no notice (thereby giving up the normal freedom to work only willingly for employers, and leave when it is no longer willing), then IMO it should be set out in advance and honored by both sides, e.g. by using a fixed-term or minimum-term contract, with penalties for early termination by either side. That way both sides can plan on the stability of the relationship (barring serious misconduct).

For example in my current job, either my employer or myself can terminate the employment with four months notice, after the first six months. This gives us both some guarantee that we will be able to plan for major changes— they will have time to find a replacement if I give notice, and I'll have time to find another job if they give notice.
That's right, because they generally have their own proprietary source of data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_listing_service), which is a big part of the appeal of working with a realtor -- they learn of new listings faster than you can by relying on public, "open source" data.

And realtors aren't stupid; they noticed what happened when other professions that were built on closed data opened their databases up to the public. Travel agents, for instance, used to be the only ones who could search the SABRE database (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_%28computer_system%29), which made it valuable to work with an agent when making your travel plans. Then in the '80s the company behind SABRE started opening it up to the public, first via services like CompuServe and AOL, and then later via the Web. Suddenly travelers didn't need a travel agent anymore; they could get the same booking data right from their computer. And travel agencies as a business sector promptly collapsed (http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/03/travel/travel-agent-survival/).

For this reason, the real estate agents have little desire to see MLS data show up in publicly-accessible services like Zillow. The current state of affairs appears to be that it does eventually flow out to them, but with a significant (1 week+) delay -- which lets the agents preserve their status as the people you have to talk to if you want the freshest data.
I have no idea because I have no idea what your objective is...

Which eludes to my original point of why one would engage with them... what did he hope to accomplish?
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$100 for something vastly inferior to a Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, etc. that cost 1/2 to 1/3 of that. What am I missing here?
I won a Tessel at JSConf this year and love it.

Are there ways to make our own module attachments? The $50 parts seem a bit steep.
A lot of these "facts" seem like they came from a Quora article from several months ago. Even the wording is similar on some of these, including "If you ask someone a question and they only partially answer, just wait. If you stay silent and keep an eye contact they will continue talking" which is word-for-word what was posted there.

I mention this because some of these seem dubious, and I'd have loved sources. If they came from potentially unsourced Quora answers, the dubiousness just gets passed along.

Link: http://www.quora.com/Tips-and-Hacks-for-Everyday-Life/What-c...
I believe the point is, don't believe every unsubstantiated claim by default. Some plausible evidence is required.

The vested interest is often a sign of an unreliable claim; I would argue back that GMO-haters have just as much (more) vested interest in hanging SOME crime on GMOs, and are too willing to believe anything bad said about them.
My gripes:

* half git-syntax/half package manager-syntax is cumbersome to me.

* Inability to compile Docker from source without using the Docker Project's provided "black box" binary Docker.

* No formal explanation of how to create your own base image from scratch (ie. not using a Docker Project provided base image).

* Defaults to storing images in the Docker "cloud" repo. (would have preferred a git-like setup where pushing my images to a repo of my choice was more "normal")

* GO Lang is still pretty obscure for most developers, and an interesting choice given the language's youth and likely-hood to change rapidly as it matures.

* Docker is built on-top of existing Linux technologies, mainly LXC, making it more-or-less disposable in the future (as someone else figures out how to abstract/manage LXC better)

* Docker is mainly built by Dotcloud - a for-profit company. Dotcloud has been very generous in their effort... but, being for-profit, what is their take out of it? (It can't be "just for the goodness of Linux").
I personally actively dislike Trulia/Zillow. More scams there than on Craigslist even.
My advice is the wrong tagline is up. If you want an embedded device running JS or higher level than C anyway, you toss in a raspi with much better hardware specs for much less money.

The secret sauce appears to be (at a glance) great software support (edited to add, I'm talking about "high level bindings" like JS... there's plenty of C for arduino, not nearly as much non-C) for a bunch of off the shelf compatible debugged plugin hardware. Also deeply buried in the docs section it appears to draw a Lot less power than a pi when doin "stuff". Of course if you want to blink a LED I think a PIC 10F220 might just slightly have you beat by approximately six orders of magnitude (no kidding, well 4 to 7 depending on blah). Anyway that kind of stuff should be the primary advertising focus, or at least thats what I found interesting.

I'm fuzzy on the "how easy is getting started" part, at least only after five minutes. Not being clear means it must be as bad as gearing up for FPGA work (just kidding I'm sure its not that bad). If its good, this might be an additional secret sauce. Here's a 60 second video from opening box to blinking LED (or, whatever)

At least that was the first five minutes impression from a hardware guy who knows the market. And I've now spent more time typing and thinking than I spent looking.
Stories like this are why I'm inclined to consider programming as much as an art as it is a science. Artists, too, can use their media (such as brushes or musical instruments) in a completely novel and unusual way. The end result is often not pleasant to casual viewers or conventional artists (that would be coders who write clean, maintainable, kludge-free code) but it can just as often leave you awestruck by how interestingly and differently a tool or a feature or a language construct has been used.

For a philosophical discussion on this, see [1] and [2], both from PG, who actively advocates for a playful, prototype-first approach to coding, which more resembles a painter painting a picture than, say, a sociologist conducting systematic research. ([1] is a transcription of a talk by Don Knuth, [2] is Paul's own essay.)

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html

[2]: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
For those not in the states nor in the trade, could you elaborate on why realtors dislike Trulia and the likes ?
> The requirements here are kinda strange (proximity to a grocery store? not crime rates or anything like that?), but to each his own, I suppose.

You're right. I've been working with open data in the Portland area for years now [1][2][3][4] and have a lot of built up internal knowledge of the neighborhoods and locations so I chose not to muddy the map with those things.

1: https://github.com/Caged/portlandcrime
2: https://github.com/caged/portland-atlas#examples
3: https://github.com/Caged/portland-census
4: http://labratrevenge.com/pdx
No, a 'supercomputer' did Not pass the Turing test for the first time
The "Minnesota Model" on IP owership is also very important.
Needs a [1992] in the title.
No livestream but they'll be posting videos after the conference.
Why does this link just take me to the iTunes download webpage? This is bait-and-switch web design if nothing else.
JSON over HTTP is not an alternative to a good CLI interface. As such, your comment, although true and happily so, is a non-sequitur.
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Your example of the autocrat who has a magical means to alter everyone's behavior is totally artificial and has no corollary in the real world, and therefore isn't relevant to the real world concept of agency.
You win, please, just stop the pain.
I think many bristle against feminism for exactly the reasons you give: they want tolerance and respect instead of blame. The blame-language is endemic to the feminist literature - e.g. men are 'privileged' when they exercise ordinary rights that women would like to share.
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This is like arguing that Walmart should be banned. You might think the products are stupid, but there are enough people that don't spending money on their preferences to create the current situation. If there is a problem it is with consumers.

Admittedly this does poison the well for many other game developers, but the reality is getting attention in the current mobile market is close to impossible without an enormous spend, so conservatism of business model is going to rule the roost now.

It also doesn't help that self professed hardcore gamers undervalue mobile titles enormously, and that touch controls just aren't good enough for many purposes either.
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