skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"She hit "delete" on the duplicate. (I really hope she was simplifying that for me, because it scares me if they can actually delete anything.)"

I read a blog post once by a former IRS employee who claimed to have been forced to run major sql commands against a live db in his boss's office with a bunch of other senior execs looking on.

This was supposed to have happened in a regional office and the db was not of primary importance but not insignificant either.

Wish I could remember where I read that ...

Edit: Found it. Not exactly as I remember, but close enough: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Hastening-an-Inevitable.aspx...
I'd prefer them to be included in C++ as regular base types really, to be on equal terms with int, char and etc.
Yes, but I agree with the commenter above. Wrapping it in std seems weird. By your logic, one shouldn't use int and long too, or may be they should be wrapped in std?
"Sub-human"? Gimmie a break.

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> The difference is that in the software case the patent claims are completely divorced from the computer's physical operation.

I'd like you to show me a granted software patent that cannot be implemented on any computer. If you can find one, I'll show you one that should be chucked in with perpetual motion machines.

> You understand that it is possible to build a computer out of anything. Let's build a computer out of nothing. We want to perform a calculation without building anything whatsoever, so all we are going do is observe nature.

It's amazing that each of these three consecutive statements are inter-contradictory. ("build a computer out of anything" != "build a computer out of nothing"; "nothing" != "observing nature"; "build a computer out of anything" != "without building anything whatsoever".) I have no idea how to proceed.
How about https://www.ohloh.net ?
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It depends a great deal on what's your near-term and long-term professional goal. The first one will advance your career in engineering, and the second one will further you on the path of entrepreneurship. That said, these two paths are not so far apart that you cannot switch from one to the other later on in life. In fact, you easily can.

If you are not very clear of your medium-term/long-term goal, let me invoke Jobs' advice[1] that you should follow your heart and let the dots connect backwards.

[1]: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Don't forget the complete impossibility of reversals.
Wondering how a debugger would react to this code?
Sure! (I made the source code public at https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src btw)

So basically it's a Node.js app built in CoffeeScript. I'm using node-twitter-api to subscribe to the bot's twitter notifications (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffe...).

Whenever a tweet arrives, I check various stuff (is it a retweet? are multiple people mentioned? more than one hashtag?) to decide whether it's a command or it should just be ignored. If all checks out, I parse the tweet's text (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/app.coffe...) into a command and relay it to the backend for processing (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/lib/backe...).

Images are validated & their size clamped using a node graphics-magick module. Emoji scripts are parsed using a custom parser I cobbled together (https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/gdevbot/src/tip/public/js...) and JavaScript comes out on the other end.

The tiny game engine works with actors (or game objects in Unity3D parlance, it's very similar except 2D-only), they can have components (an image, one or more scripts) on them and can be parented to one another.

I've been building a cooperative game-making platform called CraftStudio (http://craftstud.io/) for the past 2-3 years and @gdevbot was just a kind of crazy "why the hell not" project inspired by all that work that I decided to build a couple weeks ago.
Agreed, nobody really understands that. Every dollar earned is a dollar invested without selling additional shares.

When they're building hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars worth of infrastructure every year you can't expect them to make much money.

Imagine a railroad had just completed the first trans-continental route and was very busy making money on that. Now imagine that they were also putting most of that money into building more track to service ever larger parts of the US directly instead of just NY<->SF. Should they be reporting huge profits? No because that money is going directly into more right-of-way and steel.

Amazon is doing exactly the same but somehow almost nobody manages to figure this out.
this might be a good lesson in why its so hard to have insights sometimes. in this case, you need to exert energy to not hear the words after you know what the phrase is. in the context of problem solving, maybe this phenomenon can cause you to stick at a local maximum- your brain is forcing the information to conform to your best mental model, and that makes your search for a more optimal solution even harder. those visually ambiguous pictures that have two or more "sticking points" are another example. in any case, that audio example is an absolutely amazing example!
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I'm not even sure I know what a geometric proof is, so I'd say no?
Our teacher would just ask us to solve this sort of exercises with a compass and a ruler, and then he'd grade the tests by checking whether the process to reach the solution made sense (i.e.: I'm pretty sure that level 20 was one of the questions in my midterms). He would have explained the resolutions for most of them in previous lectures, but others were new to us. I can't remember if an additional written proof was required.
I really don't like the philosophers anecdote about cognition and perception. Why is it so shocking that perception is simply a chemical reaction to sensory input and cognition is an identified repetition of such?
My usage is absolutely common parlance.

For instance, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence are not considered to be "regulation."

Your proposed terms of "good regulation" and "bad regulation" ignore my explanation of support or violation of sovereignty and are just a poor attempt to discredit my (correct) position.
Doesn't really work on me, maybe because I'm not a native speaker?
Your hypothetical situation is not very hypothetical. We already let food rot to get the benefits from letting it rot. Accounting for the whole production process we throw away 1.3 billion tons per year.[0]

In Before the wall came down I see a supermarket in East Germany where products in the process of expiring got new price tags 2 or 3 times. But in the west for as far as I know we just put the vegetables and the fruits on display, people can pay what it says on the label, and the rest is all thrown away, every day, all of it. If food doesn't fit the high standards set in that scheme is it thrown away even before it goes there. Then, much of the food that does get sold expires before it is eaten.

To simplify: The supermarket has to guess if you are going to buy the strawberries. If you chose beans in stead the strawberries go in the bin. The supermarket will try sell you the strawberries a few more times but eventually they will just remove them from the assortment and a scale down of the strawberry production will follow.

[0] - http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/74192/icode/
I see no inherent value in writing 2x3=6 as:

2 x 3 = MULTIPLY 2 3 :⇔ (λ abc.a(bc)) (λ sz.s(s(z))) (λ xy.x(x(x(y))))
= λ c.(λ sz.s(s(z)))((λ xy.x(x(x(y))))c)
= λ cz.((λ xy.x(x(x(y))))c)(((λ xy.x(x(x(y))))c)(z))
= λ cz.(λ y.c(c(c(y)))) (c(c(c(z))))
= λ cz.c(c(c(c(c(c(z)))))) = 6

This makes Brainf*ck look elegant!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3839205/where-does-perl-s...
This is the biggest danger we face - the slow deterioration of our privacy to the point where when things like this emerge, a large part of the population's reaction is "why didn't you expect this?"

In fact, I would NOT expect the post office to spend millions in technology to track letters. They shouldn't have any INTEREST in doing that - it isn't important to their main function of delivering mail.

I expected them to use tech to better be able read zip codes & route more efficiently, and to count mail to better place people and resources where most needed.It should stop at that.

Simply because something is public does not mean the govt should be spending resources tracking and storing it
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In terms of individual taxi drivers who took out massive loans this is a valid argument. In terms of the rent-seeking institutional investors who lobbied the government to create an asset class which diverts most of the profits away from the people actually doing the work and makes taxis more expensive for no return in public benefit.

I have no issue with government regulation of the taxi industry - quite the opposite. Certainly I think that it's important to mandate vehicle safety inspections. But if taxi licenses are going to be supply constrained, they should be issued by the government for a flat fee on a first-come first-served, use-it-or-lose-it basis. They should only be purchasable by the driver that will be driving the taxi and they should not be transferrable.
Same here. It sounds like someone playing with a weird instrument and is not even close to a human voice. It reminds me of the beeps from R2D2 in Star Wars, but with less abrupt transitions.

After many tries still no comprehension.
There is no conflict of interest because it is clear that Uber's goal is to maximise profit for its shareholders - and that is fine. We let Toyota and Starbucks manage the 'algorithm' for pricing cars and coffee, so why not let Uber do the same for rides? If their price is too high then some other company (eg. Lyft) will offer a lower price and grab the business - seems like a free market to me.
The expectation was generally that government services would not proactively record non-targeted information about services rendered, ie, that they'd have a specific cause they could articulate before they'd use their position to gather data about citizens for the purposes of tracking, profiling, etc.

When the laws governing this were written, it was generally impossible to do what they're doing now, so it wasn't specifically addressed.

Claiming that impossible to predict growths were not specifically covered does not mean that they shouldn't be covered, merely that the people who write our laws aren't oracles.

It may not be illegal, but it's clearly against the intent with which the law was written, and should be addressed by a new law which reflects the growing power of technology in society.
I have to agree. The issue is isn't about the USPS having access to the information on the outside of mail, but that they are cataloging it. When I send a letter, I am providing my information for a service to be fulfilled and not for it to be put in long-term storage. In some sense, I think this is comparable to email. If Google was giving out a record of the addresses I've sent email to and received email from, I would consider it an invasion of my privacy. Services need to be upfront about what is being done with our data--anything else is dishonest. When I know what is being done with my information, I can make an informed decision on what services to use.
I participated in both. The RHAT IPO was tricky because a lot of us were new to investing and there was a requirement to prove otherwise. This was regardless of whether you were willing to put up with the risk. Keep in mind that this was when online trading was in its relative infancy; there just wasn't the kind of access to information about trading that we enjoy these days.
Why don't cities issue taxi licences for 1 or 3 years, instead of permanent medallions?
There are many more recent articles on the same topic — internet technology may have changed a lot, but consumer behavior hasn't. Consumers still want simple and predictable pricing.

When's the last time you paid at a paywall? It's just that the mental cost of calculating how much I'm spending when I'm spending loads of fractions of pennies everywhere is pretty big. To cancel your ads, just pay the monthly $10. It's simple, predictable, and covers you for all ads all the time.
Is there any real point now though? The raw data is publicity available.

So anyone who wants to remove the anonymous fields and get the underlying driver is free to do so.

Meanwhile anyone who is not interested in the anonymous fields can just leave it alone?
> I see no inherent value in writing [...]

There isn't, in the similar sense that there is no inherent value in spending two hours assembling a bicycle then traveling with it one mile instead of simply taking 20 minutes to walk one mile.

Lambda calculus was not created as a better way of multiplying two numbers, just like you do not construct a bicycle to travel one mile. They have grander, or more ambitious, purposes. Multiplying two numbers or travelling one mile in over two hours simply serve as demonstrations of some of the capabilities of what was constructed.

Lambda calculus was created to help study computability; to explore mathematics with mathematics.
> If Google was giving out a record of the addresses I've sent email to and received email from, I would consider it an invasion of my privacy.

Yet you're sending this in cleartext over the internet...
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If by intelligence you mean something along the lines of information processing/synthesizing ability, then intelligence has been shown (hedging- strongly suggested) to be dynamic as the result of neuroplastic brain events. Assuming you believe some version of the brain = mind identity theory (otherwise, your intelligence may not depend on physical events and my example fails).
I was looking for a similar app for android. Is there one?
Even if this analysis was correct, it doesn't say anything about the margins of the rest of the business. There is plenty of gross margin in almost every business Amazon is involved in, but it will never show up in the net profit line until Amazon decides to stop reinvesting every cent of cash flow.
> The mental image was one of separate computers sending requests to other computers that had to be accepted and understood by the receivers before anything could happen. In today's terms every object would be a server offering services whose deployment and discretion depended entirely on the server's notion of relationship with the server.

1993 called and wants its micro-services. That is great. At least it seems like he is describing Go's channels, Rust's tasks, and most of all Erlang's processes.

It is interesting, perhaps it is a reflection on how some of these concepts are abstract that anything can be read into it, but it seems that the initial design and motivation behind OO has been perverted by C++ and Java.

I started with C++ and Java in college. To me OO was inheritance, composition, and polymorphism, and so on. Years later, when distributed and scalable computing is talked about other languages and platforms seems more OO than the classic OO.

And finally one more excerpt:

>

---

1. Everything is an object

2. Objects communicate by sending and receiving messages (in terms of objects) Objects have their own memory (in terms of objects)

3. Every object is an instance of a class (which must be an object) The class holds the shared behavior for its instances (in the form of objects in a program list)

---

Pretty funny. Replace 'object' with 'process' and you have Erlang, the last language you'd call OO : 1) everything is a process 2) processes sending messages to each other. Each process has an isolated heap (won memory). 3) Functions in modules hold the shared behavior of many possible process instances spawn from it.
The question to which I responded did not inquire about performance nor about portability

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
Does this map to offering different loan rates for different degrees?
Monstorously smart. I consider him one of the top CEOs of all time because he succeeds on so many levels: Business design, technology enablement, hiring, surviving market ups and downs, investor relations...

I had (wrongly) assumed he was a business person first since he had most recently worked at Bankers Trust and DE Shaw. Thank you for the clarification. This explains his insights that would drive AWS.
That pages looks auto-generated and awfully spammy. Apparently Elizabeth is a boys name, too [1].

[1] http://www.babynames.it/boyname/Elizabeth-meaning.htm
Do you think the underlying theory would ever be a practical way for humans to coexist?
These truly are cartels. The big change that happened years ago was the owners realized that they weren't in competition with each other on the field - the important competition was with other leagues and recipients of entertainment dollars. Then they started to cooperate, collude, exclude entry....
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He makes the assertion that slavery (pg 71, section 3), where somebody rents you out to another, and wage labor, where you rent yourself out are an equivalent arrangement. This is an emotional appeal, rather than a logical one, and this type of 'reasoning' seems to be at the root of more assertions in the paper. You take the job that is available under the circumstances, primarily to put food in your mouth and a roof over your head, and secondarily, you work and hope for better to reach your goals and dreams.
I can't figure out what your thing does. Is it like PrimoPDF?
You really want zero.
>Minor thought : this leak is still a pretty big deal. But it feels like wikileaks is the wrong place for this - like the main media organisations should have already got their investigatory acts together and made wiki leaks irrelevant.

Wall Street and the mainstream media go hand in hand. That is why this would never have been leaked by them, and why they won't give it anything except the most cursory reporting now it is leaked.

If you're waiting for them to get their investigatory acts together you'll be waiting forever. Wikileaks exists because they refuse to.
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The EU's right to be forgotten says that you can ask search engines to remove search results about you. It has nothing to do with government surveillance.
I'm a native speaker who used to commute to work by train every day but have been living in Japan for 3 years (rural area, no other English speakers in my town). I was a bit curious because after hearing the phrase, I could only hear the resemblance and not the full phrase. So I did an experiment.

I replayed it a second time to try and remember the sounds. Then I went and did some work for 2+ hours before coming back to HN. I played the clip and the sounds became gibberish again until I reheard the phrase.

I'm going to try this again tomorrow (if I remember), but my guess is that the ability to hear & unhear the sound is dependent on how much natural English is used around you. The less it is used around you, the less your brain is actively trying to match sounds to an English pattern. In my case, my brain is most likely trying to map sounds to Japanese rather than English because that is all I hear around me.
Maybe this is me being pedantic, but I'd disagree with that they aren't designed for assessing babies, and say that there's a more elegant explanation of a second layer of filtering which informs on the validity of a first layer of assessment. Stupid does define a baby, but this definition holds contextually different connotations; and this context is what makes there be "nothing wrong with" those "traditionally bad" assessments.

Not sure where this (my rambling) came from off of the parent article, but it spawned some interesting thoughts at least :)
Would you suppose there's any value in writing it as:

2 * 3 = (1 + 1) + (1 + 1) + (1 + 1) = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 6?

Generally it's kind of pointless, but consider:

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = (1 + 1 + 1) + (1 + 1 + 1) = 3 * 2

Interesting (imho), I just swapped the operands without assuming multiplication is commutative.
> But it treats humans as emotionless agents, and the "punishment" as an abstract, theoretical, rationally navigable scenario. Place real human beings into the Prisoner's Dilemma, with real-world consequences, and you get all sorts of unexpected results.

No, that's actually the entire point of the Prisoner's Dilemma - it's not a framework for evaluation, it's the tension between the rational decision and human action that is exactly why the Prisoner's Dilemma is a prized example of game theory.
Thank you this is great.

About the first section where it talks about lack of anarchism in academia. My friend is actually working on her master thesis (on history) about anarchism (here, in Mexico). She's always telling me about how she struggles with her teachers and how some of them just want tell her off with no arguments like just telling her that anarchists are violent.
Bordeaux has a lot of swill too.

Rising temperatures in WA will raise all the ships. Everyone's wine should improve.

Do you have a need for financial technology castaways in helping build Silicon Vineyard? :-)
fast food restaurants like chick fil a and checkers do this. I fill out a lengthly survey on the receipt and get a free sandwich. I don't see many sit-down restaurants doing this and it is surprising. I think you have something. What I don't like is the signature thing. Don't recommend adding/implementing that.
You don't need multiple megawatts. You just need to be louder than the original transmitter. And that's not all that hard, especially if you can use a directional antenna pointing in the direction of the drone.
Is that before or after you read the text?
What's the point of posting non-descriptive link text? The ridiculousness of this policy is demonstrated here.
> Together, the two programs show that postal mail is subject to the same kind of scrutiny that the National Security Agency has given to telephone calls and e-mail.

Uhh, I'm pretty sure the NSA scrutiny included the bodies of said calls and emails. I'm slightly offended by an agency tracking who I'm in contact with, but I've very offended by an agency knowing why I'm in contact with said person.
You missed the biggest player in numerical weather forecasting -- the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Everyone agrees their models are the world's best. Regrettably, the American models are pretty far behind: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-us-slips-to-fourth...

The ECMWF forecasts are indeed quite expensive, but all the major players in weather forecasting, including The Weather Channel and the National Weather Service, buy them.
Had you read the sentence prior to listening? I found that just reading the sentence once in the article caused me to understand the distorted version without having listened to the plain version.
I wish I was an absolute dummy to get all of that...
You take the master that is willing to take you, primarily to put food in your mouth and roof over your head.

edit: for the down voter(s). Take the time to argue how this is different (feel free to downvote me still) I don't really care about internet points but would rather engage in conversation about this topic.
I'm surprised the article did not raise the point that the US government effectively maintains a huge database of everybody's handwriting.
yeah, TL;DR

My ADD brain just ain't up for that particular challenge tonight.