skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but popularity on StackOverflow is related to "does it work for me," a metric that ultimately depends on evaluation by an impartial machine (or a human using their knowledge of the impartial machine to perform the same evaluation). You can't get popular on SO by answering with random snippets from TAOCP.

Or maybe you can and I'm missing a business opportunity. A TAOCP+OraclePropaganda bot sounds like something that might make bags and bags of money.
It is not impossible to crack the nut (and I’ve came across a few companies in the last month or so that are almost there).

As this is from 2011 (and the early success examples Groupon and Living Social are now, at least, doubtful); I would like to know which were these almost there companies.

And here is the next post about the solution...
http://www.muckercapital.com/the-local-innovators-solution-3...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but $tracking_co would just need to get their instore-tracker5000 approved by apple and then they are back to their old ways? I know that may not be cheap/easy for them, but still reasonably within reach.
Really cool post! I wrote a blog post on calculating/simulating these patterns: http://blog.kaistale.com/?p=1295
That's almost certainly meant to be 10 to the 9th.
"Democrats today worship education"
Well, they worship credentials, any way.
Cool, I'll check it out.

I don't think it supports anything like that yet. There is some talk about using glslify at runtime, to build "uber shaders" depending on particular needs, and it seems like this kind of feature would be nice.
As someone who has only just entered the `real world', I found it so incredibly odd that people's employers very often get involved in these internet dealings by firing someone because they use a sexist/racist/whatever-ist slur.

To people out there. If you are going to talk about somewhat controversial topics, the ``my opinions are my own'' you put on your twitter probably isn't enough protection.
Not when he wrote that (1991)
I'm genuinely curious, how does it being a problem for them benefit you? (I'm assuming you're not saying that out of indifferent malice but because you have personal gains, which is normal.)

Can you please elaborate on your point?
Also firing, what appears to be, a low rung employee for such behavior seems extreme for name calling.

Instead of simply punishing, maybe some type of rehabilitation as a first step would be more appropriate (some type of therapy or sensitivity training)?
Globally administered MAC address ranges are assigned to manufacturers. The slide said "random, "locally* administered" addresses, which aren't assigned that way. There's a bit in the first octet to distinguish them; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_address#Address_detai... .
This is great! I think one of the hardest things is to know whether or not the tech founder is ready and wants to be the CEO of the company. What makes a great tech founder is their ability to code and build things but a great CEO is very different. What do you think is the best indicator of whether or not a tech founder should stay on as CEO?
As I heard once at one software engineering talk, IT is the only field where one can buy a pair of shoes that explode randomly when tying the shoe laces and everyone will find it normal.
Yeah the turing test is often imagined as a writing/chat/email exchange - simulation of voice/voice recognition is not really a vital part of it.
> Soulskill posted more than 2 years ago | from the and-are-awesome dept.

I see that you noted this, as well. I hope Slashdot will reverse this. Some older posts are still very useful and relevant; however, knowing their context including timing is an important part of this.

Slashdot used to cater to "technical people", i.e. people who can cope with dated material that is older than e.g. "last week", and that is still specific -- some of us still remember calendars more than a year old and what was happening at specific times of those years.

I hope that is not changing. Such a change is not the kind of "social" that I want...

--

P.S. From the non-beta version of the site:

> Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @10:52AM
False Mathematics
When it ends it be non-linear: the debt system that we've built our economy and currency on is going to eventually throw up all over itself as we reach Keynes' "long run" and, at that point, experience consumers simply won't have the choice to screw themselves with unproductive debt.

EDIT: And, of course, the elephant in the room is the fascist government/corporate cooperation on student debt, which is now larger and more important than credit card debt in the overall economic credit environment. You kill student debt growth, you kill debt growth and, in todays insane economy, that means you kill growth period.
OpenBSD's ifconfig has a flag that will cause the NIC to use a random MAC address, assuming your card allows for it.
Finding Security
I'm very opinionated about colleges / tuition. Many people find value in it, or they justify it somehow like they couldn't get the education / experience some other, more affordable, way.

My thoughts on the solution is the same for housing increases. Get rid of the government loans. In this situation also make student loans able to discharge by bankruptcy, that way banks will think twice about it as well.

The easier it is to finance something the more people will likely buy it. Look at cars, houses, colleges, even the use of credit cards. Peope will be angry when the loans go away, because it has become a part of the American Dream along with owning a house. But this will cause a huge decrease in demand and hopefully lower the price. And maybe students will work a few years before attending college and know what they want to do in life (can't say I had much of a clue when I attended).

Another side of effect with less graduates is that maybe we can get rid of the college degree requirements (you know, the ones that require a BA in any field).
Even if you don't indicate your employer explicitly on a social media profile, its not hard to track someone down via a personal website/LinkedIn, etc.
Why working late is not the answer
Right now, you seem to be making an "honest mistake" with my referents. You seem (atypically) weirdly consistent with such honest mistakes in these threads. What is the lie, exactly?
This isn't actually a case of the Oxford comma, though--it's just incorrect.
It reinforced the point of the whole essay.
Most people have to work full-time jobs just to increase an integer value in a very large database.
The point of comparing death tolls is not to ignore the psychological impact, but rather to argue that the psychological impact should be the target of the remedies.

For a country like the United States, terrorism is an allergen, and the reaction to an attack is anaphylaxis.

When a person is allergic to bee stings, the best solution is to convince the immune system that bee stings aren't really a big deal and should not have such a strong response. This is hard, but it's the best possible way to deal with the allergy if you can accomplish it.

Imagine if somebody was stung by a bee, and then the subsequent allergic reaction nearly killed them. Imagine if you use their near death as a reason to to be hyper-vigilant against future bee stings. Imagine if your proposed hyper-vigilance involved numerous measures to boost the immune system response against bee stings.

This is, essentially, current policy on terrorism. It's unsustainable and outright dangerous. The only long-term solution is to figure out how to get the immune system to stop reacting so strongly i.e. figure out how to get people to react to terrorism in a way that is proportionate to the direct damage it causes.

I don't know how to accomplish that outright, but we could at least start by not having the government play along with it.
Two decades ago (1994) I (well my parents) didn't even have internet. Got DSL around 1999, screaming 256 kbps. Now, we've (well, they) got 75 mbps FIOS. We also have 3-4 providers offering 10 mbps+ LTE. People on HN like to ignore wireless providers, but for your average consumer, wireless service is much more important than wired service. The average Comcast customer uses 2-3 GB/month of data. That's easily accommodated by wireless.

> [0] There was far more choice in ISP in the late 90s than there is today for most consumers.

Kinda. They all ran over the same copper phone lines. Consumers have a lot more choice these days between cable/wireless than they did back then. Also, as capital costs go up, the number of providers in a market go down. There were a lot of companies that owned fabs in the late 1990's. Today, we're down to a handful.

> [1] The number of people with access to broadband has increased, but that's partly due to the insanely low threshold for "broadband" speeds, as well as a function of time.

No, it's because over the last 20 years telcos have invested a ton of money in their networks. Over the last 20 years, cable companies upgraded their networks from simple analog networks usable only for TV to hybrid fiber-coax networks capable of two-way data service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_fibre-coaxial. Those upgrades didn't build themselves nor were they free.
True. What the example highlights is that the Turing Test is not about 'simulating any old conversation' but is specifically about holding a convincing conversation with a human 'judge' who is likely to take the conversation is a complicated direction if they are taking their role seriously.
Creating a Swift syntax extension: the Lisp 'cond' function
This is simply not true. My TDCT password is 32 characters long, and 8 of the 32 will not cut it. TDCT needs at LEAST 8 characters, one letter, one number, but no longer than 32 chars. I think some symbols are restricted.
Haha! Yeah that is quite funny. I know what you mean to an extent, at times those things get old but generally I'd say I'm a fan, still. Each to their own I suppose!

And as for the tax thing, I was going to put that in my post but on the advice a proofreader, I took it out to avoid a moral argument. Thanks for the tip though, I absolutely will (and have) been expensing relevant business purchases :)
on older r600 GPUS (4000/5000 series) the open driver is much better than the closed source one, over the past while it has been improving massively.
> and give the teachers a few things to decorate with smiley faces and Xs

This little snippet made it pretty clear to me that the vast majority of my teachers weren't educating, but ticking check-boxes on whether I had fulfilled X,Y, and Z requirements.
This has so many unforeseen consequences. Without even going into the environmental impact, it sounds like they have invested nothing in soil engineering. The authors stress the danger of subsidence, but still it is terrifying to think that people are actually going to build buildings on top of this stuff. Imagine a future where no one remembers that this large patch of land was actually created out of nothing and has not been tested by science (much less time) against erosion and seismic activity how many lives could be lost?
It's a prisoner's dilemma degenerating into a tragedy of the commons. If I refrain from artificially boosting my follower count, but you don't, I lose and you win, and vice versa. If we both refrain, we both benefit, albeit only from the real work we put into organically growing our followers. If neither of us refrain, the numbers become increasingly meaningless and we're left with no way to demonstrate our credibility.
Yep, absolutely. I haven't yet experienced this luckily but I suspect I will eventually. I can say that since I started billing as a Ltd company, I haven't been able to get paid because my business bank account is taking so long to be set up. That certainly doesn't help with the high-wire-ness of this act.
Tech Startups Benefit From Accelerator Boom
Awesome! I figured someone here would have studied/written something awesome about them. Is the code for your simulation available anywhere?
The first myth is a valid point, although it comes across as a little defensive. The person who wrote it is an elementary OS developer, I suspect, and I wonder if they are missing an important point: it would be FUCKING AWESOME if Elementary OS were "just a theme on top of Ubuntu."

It would presumably mean more frequent releases, less dependency on any given version of Ubuntu, smaller workload on the developers, and so on. Reinventing every part of the OS, including the bits that people hope to use as little as possible, might not be the best strategy at this stage. (I have no illusions as to whether they'll change their strategy)
All you have to know is God is perfectly just.

Are you having fun?

When you lose, you lose and when you win, you really lose. And then you lose, slowly and die after downsizing slowly.

Humility is the only way to glory.

God said, "Money or pride, choose one."

I am, literally, in some kind of CIA strange reality prison--there is no market -- no people out there, only CIA handlers. God talks. God is perfectly just. I hope God kills them.

----

I spend my days clubbing retard-niggers. CLUB! CLUB! DIE NIGGER! CLUB! RETARD! NIGGER! DIE!! CLUB! NIGGER!
Right now it's all going really well but I can see how one might end up rejecting the stress. I may do too, but I hope not! At least, not for a while. Thanks for sharing :) good to see empathetic people here.
I'm glad that the honesty is appreciated, thanks!
You're welcome, thanks for reading!
If you start your search term with the phrase "howto", chances are wikihow.com is among the top results.

There are many similar websites who focus on low quality content optimized for search engines.
How about no more scroll jank by just delivering plain useful content without the anti-usability bells and whistles? Even the cheapest hardware out there today is able to provide a nice user experience, and in answer to that we invent new ways to make everything bloated and choppy.
Wouldn't you also need to install their application? The previous technology used builtin features (wifi scanning).
> you sound like a self righteous ninny [...] Grow the fuck up

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't post anything like this.
This is how I do it too. Rules are only rules because someone said so.
If the bank is hacked they, if you lose your hardware key generator and don't report the loos to the bank you.
(The thief must have the device pin code to use it.)

Here is the device my bank uses.
http://www.vasco.com/Images/DP%20260_DS201109-v1.pdf
I think it largely depends on if the last two items in the list are a natural combination, either in the same category, or complementary things. The former is why you need the Oxford comma for "the strippers, JFK, and Stalin"; the latter is why you need an Oxford comma in "we brought the tent, bread, and butter".

Off-topic, but I like this version of the joke better:

There are two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, off-by-one errors, and cache invalidation.
Is there something like this available for Linux desktops?
Most people, if it explained to them, would be generally uncomfortable with the idea of their movements in a public place being so specifically logged.

How would you feel if every time you were in a store, an employee followed you around and took notes on your actions?
We learned during the prosecution of Swartz that MAC addresses are the analog of VIN number numbers, and that tampering with them is a sign of ill intent. I await the federal case against Apple or an Apple customer with bated breath.
I was honestly expecting a post about the accusations of being an "OSX clone/ripoff/etc."
Margin notes.
I agree with the idea of 'sensitivity training'. Sometimes empathy is only latent and needs to be showed the way to express itself. Harsh punishment is of no use in this.
Good point, well made. That's partly what I was going for with what I said (money/learning benefits etc), but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't being a little bit forgiving with my negotiation. Especially with my latest contract, I was particularly unwilling to stick to too powerful guns because I'd just moved back to the UK and didn't have a flat yet. Things still seemed (and in fact, still do - I haven't moved into the new place yet) in flux. It's hard to make hard-nosed business decisions when things are a little bit all over the place. Nevertheless, the new contract has worked out quite well even though I was haggled down a little.
Most people achieve success well past 30, actually entrepreneurs over the age of 55 are more likely to be successful than those under 55.

The reason why there are stories about successful 20 year olds is because its so rare.

The average of millionaires is 63 and billionaires is 60.
There's no need for the return to contracting to be "the end" though, merely a setback. Unless you actually want it to be, and to just drop it and start something else another time. There's no shame in quitting and starting again another time!
James Mickens: Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure (humor)
You think that perhaps danudey needed to stop for a moment and have a quiet think about that before posting it?

Yes, and he should produce a tree of possibilities and if he doesn't have evidence precluding them all, he should briefly hypothesize about the most likely positive possibility while making his request for further information.

Another way to interpret this: He should think like a creator as opposed to a consumer. I think it's fair to ask this of visitors to GitHub, as it's fundamentally a site facilitating the process of creation.

We all need to do more reflection before writing, myself very much included. Unfortunately, the reward structure of the Internet combined with human nature seems to encourage the opposite.
This can be fixed by editing your pulseaudio settings:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio#Automaticall...

I do agree, though, that it is weird that this is not enabled by default.
And further down:

/*

Yeah, there's some shitty code here.
There are some things that shouldn't
be done. I did them. Sometimes, I had
my reasons. Sometimes, I was just being
lazy. But guess what? You're sitting
there reading the source on some guy's
blog. So fuck you.

*/
From Wikipedia: "Without a serial comma, the above dedication would read... a phrase ambiguous only if the reader accepts the interpretation..."

In this case the serial comma isn't creating any ambiguity, the bad writing is (and the serial comma shifts the ambiguity to the second/third item being listed). When they suggest a better way to write the example sentence, it uses the Oxford comma both times (though I'd argue that the second sentence isn't a solution).

I agree that nothing is ever absolute (hah), but the Oxford comma takes care of ambiguities most of the time, and merely shifts the ambiguity around when appositive phrases are thrown into the mix. And reducing ambiguity should be the goal of every writer.
It's an interesting claim. Basically the AI's success is because it covers its shortcomings by claiming to be 1) young (plausibility for not knowing commonly known things), and 2) speaking in a non-native language he's not fluent in (cover for not communicating well).

This leads to the question: where do you draw the line? Could a computer pass the Turing Test if its "parents" claimed it's their baby mashing on the keyboard, and the computer just outputs random characters?
My favorite explanation of why tuition continues to rise is simple: people are still willing to pay ever higher prices. One step removed from that, the explanation hinges on student loans being too cheap and easy to get.

I've always found it baffling that anybody expected to solve the college affordability issue by making student loans cheaper and easier to get. When we do the same thing with mortgage rates, we expect the prices of homes to rise. Why do we expect any different of college tuition prices?
"Road to Serfdom" indeed.
> Any use of commas in a list for something other than separating items, regardless of Oxford comma, makes for ambiguous sentences.

I've always felt that the use of parentheses for grouping is under-explored:

To ((my mother (Ayn Rand)) and God).

Of course, this conflicts with the well ingrained tendency to subconsciously delete parentheticals, but, while pipe-dreaming, one could imagine different marks:

To {{my mother {Ayn Rand}} and God}.

I'm actually serious about my belief that this sort of thing is logically sensible, but recognise its practical drawbacks ((a) everyone likes the visual appearance of Lisp, right? and (b) everyone speaks Esperanto or Lojban because of its logical primacy, right?).
just a wrapper for requestAnimationFrame.. useful.. but not game changing
Only the 'whoishiring' account is allowed to make those threads and Dang has already rejected an idea one on that account.
thank you! Every serious economist that has ever discussed college tuition in the US acknowledges that the issue of guaranteed loans and the ability to declare bankruptcy is a major factor (whether or not they think the status quo is acceptable).

However, in this 3 page article it isn't even mentioned once. Instead, he jumps immediately into the trendy topic of inequality. He might as well have just tweeted #1% #wealthgap #taxtherich
Conclusion: if I haven't seen the network graph I know absolutely nothing about what 'number of followers' actually means.
Its a legitimate disgrace that companies play into this bullshit. The idea that someone can send an out of context screenshot to a company that results in someone losing their job is unbelievable.

If there was even a slight link to the workplace I could completely understand.

This person didn't do anything illegal, at worst he was rude and foul mouthed but because there is an issue in tech, unrelated to him accept that he is seen as the embodiment of the oppressor, he has lost his job and possibly his career. Potentially a family has lost an income that might never be regained.

Someone being fired should be a huge and painful decision for a company not one taken willy nilly over the weekend because someone got offended over something on the internet.

I think this sort of thing does a dis-service to the 'women in tech' movement at large because it is effectively an abuse of the power they are given by the sentiment that there is in fact a problem with inequality and attitudes in the workplace.
The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic (2013)
No, I hadn't noticed it until testing it for that comment (actually I didn't notice an ad started playing for the first video I clicked on and even the ad itself was webm), though I do feel like I've gotten almost all html5 videos for a while now (I have click to play on for plugins, so the ones that are ready to go stand out).

> After this the next step is probably to start delivering HTML5 in preference to FLash, where possible. Wonder what the plan is for that transition?

Notably, if you go to the html5 youtube page (http://www.youtube.com/html5) in incognito mode in Chrome, it actually says "The HTML5 player is currently used when possible", so I assume this is the default now. That isn't the case in Firefox, where the option to request the html5 player to be the default is still there. Maybe it's a vp9 thing? I don't believe Firefox has included vp9 yet (and the player says: 'codecs="vp8.0, vorbis"')
I quit my full-time job a month ago in order to pursue my Master's degree, which begins next month. To keep myself busy in the meantime I advertised myself for several short-term freelancing gigs.

To my pleasant surprise, I actually managed to earn the same amount as I was before, while putting in about half the hours. Really opened my eyes to how underpaid I was before.
What positions require "BA in any field"?
If we're presenting comics, then: http://explosm.net/comics/2215. (It's not an Oxford comma, of course --but then, the article was about punctuation in general.)