skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think if people want to hide stuff like revenge porn, or obvious slander, then fair enough. But unindexing legitimate journalism is stupid.

The difficulty with following that logic is in the blurry middle area. Where is the line drawn and who makes that decision?
there is no explanation of what exactly the Discovery Channel is doing wrong here. the video says "what is the movement about" but never actually follows up by telling you what the movement is about.
He already searched, on google. He shouldn't have to search twice for the same thing.
Also everyone up to the guy who mined the iron ore. Even the people who designed the machinery used to mine all the way to those who designed the machinery that makes the knives, because, without them, knives would not exist.
Following the law is a joke? I may not like the law, but I rather like that Google does not get to be above it.
Shut up and spend: inside the electronic music money machine
They can change the code, but they can't force anyone to adopt the new version. Ultimately, it's the majority of the people running full nodes in the network who are in control, and if they reject a change made by the developers and refuse to upgrade, or even go with a fork, then that's where bitcoin goes.
No Swift for UW's Certificate in iOS
>I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at...

I've interviewed several people with lots of code on github and what looks like lots of accepted pull requests to many projects who still can't seem to reason through a problem described as "write a function that takes two unsorted lists and returns one sorted list".

I think I'll continue asking technical/coding questions...
Perhaps a better phrase than "jobs" is "earn income". The former comes with a lot of assumptions.
The one and only piston-powered airplane I've taken into a deep pre-buy inspection had a wrecked muffler core.

My sample size is one, so did I "win" the lottery? I have no particular reason to believe this aircraft is especially noteworthy for its airworthiness or level of care.
Compiling JSX with Sweet.js using Readtables
Worse, you simply have no way of knowing what their evaluation criteria are.

Maybe they want you to be slow and thorough (I've been nailed for not checking the exit status of print statements). OR maybe they want it quick and dirty, in which case you'll get nailed for "overengineering", or you just wont have time to do it the imaginary time frames they set for these tasks, if you go for any of the defensive practices that the other guy would have nailed you for. Fun, fun, fun.
New RFS: One million jobs
John doesn't have any trouble convincing me. But, generally, CloudFlare is still a place where the engineering team drives most the decisions. That comes with benefits as well as its own challenges.
They claim the physical copies are encrypted [1].

[1] http://blog.coinbase.com/post/33197656699/coinbase-now-stori...
I loved IndexTank. Was a great product. Someone could clone it and it would succeed again.
In Europe they're more serious about the concept of "spirit of the law". Particularly when circumvention is used as a route around a ruling.
Coding interviews don't ignore any facts - they are simply often the best signal/time tool available. Many people do not have time to root around in your personal repositories or wait for you to commit pull requests. They have a pipeline of people they need to screen, and you can't wait on everyone in a pool of candidates to take their sweet time before deciding on a winner.

Technical screens are synchronous and relatively well understood. If they are not the literally BEST choice of time for figuring out if someone is a good developer, they are at least a very defensible choice.
The remaining ones are on .NET. At least on my little spot in the World.
I wonder if Google is making a statement here about the ruling. They've been really vocal about how they are taking away "useful" (certainly in the sense of background checks) information that is in places people don't expect to be censored (like newspapers).

This will lead people to point out that they can go to the city library and look at the back issue of the newspaper and it won't be censored there. And that will lead to the question of what is, and what is not, the public record and what sort of damage to that record is tolerated in the interest of justice.
thanks! video is in the works.
Maybe in US law (I'm still not convinced of that), but I disagree with your assertion that this could be used in "most countries". In the UK you would have to prove knowledge that a crime had been or was going to be committed - which kind of seems sensible.
But why wouldn't a blacklist of people trying to game the system be unmanageably huge?
It's quite unclear to me - how much does it cost to store this data in the blockchain? I'm imagining the quantity must not be nil as otherwise it'd be possible to DOS the blockchain by supplying a large quantity of useless data.
HN's keepers aren't trendy
I prefer this site:
https://bitcoinaverage.com/#USD

It takes into account multiple exchanges, not just one.
He called the EU a joke not Google.
It would also be great to have some sort of feedback mechanism also given in anonymity.
thanks, will fix!
BOLIDES – Visualizing meteorites
Ok, here is my last reply. Clearly, you don't want to consider any opinion other than your own:

1. You said Increasing overall production doesn't necessarily do anything for the lot of the median person.

Prove it. Provide sources. This is contradictory to the past 100 years of civilization.

2. You said In a democracy, where the interests of the majority are paramount, a policy that reduces overall production but leaves the median person better off could be rational.

Have you ever heard of "Tyranny of the Majority"? What if the majority wanted slavery? Would you still agree with your argument? We don't live in a democracy in the US--it's a simple way to communicate public participation in society, which is needed. You seem to be mixing stats and political metaphors with no coherent point.

Finally, I'm confused with your last assertion that policy that reduces overall production but leaves the median person better off could be rational. How is that rational? Then again, humans aren't rational so maybe I'm mistaken.
He used to keep a blog on what it's like to work at Google from 2005-2007. In lieu of his response, it might suffice.

The archive is available below:
http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/12/xooglers-rises-from-ashes...
http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.html
I'm pretty sure we've already seen cases that prove that it doesn't, perhaps not enough to write a blog post about, but they are definitely out there (iOS 7's dramatic increase in the use of motion comes immediately to mind). I think it's a dangerous sentiment to promote in such a generalized sense and designers/developers need to be very cognizant of the value any animation provides to the UX. It's far too easy to justify the abuse/overuse of motion/animation, making any animation noticeable to "delight"/"tell a story" which contradicts any functional reason for implementing it.

I found the post overall to be pretty superficial. There was only one paragraph spent on describing the function/purpose of "motion design" and it placed far more emphasis on it's more marketable aspects than on it's utility to "educate your users about how to interact with particular elements".

"Motion design" is just one UI tool and one that really didn't need to be pulled out and promoted in this way IMHO as it's always been an essential tool in great software when used properly. I think it would have been great if it wasn't an "implicit announcement" but explored in detail what good "motion design" entails. It's easy to get carried away with it, and introducing motion with appropriate intent can be what makes an otherwise good application into a great one, but let's not pretend it's magic dust that can turn cole to diamonds.
I don't downvote people who reply to me, and in any case HN doesn't let you do so...

In any case, there's nothing contradictory in that statement. "Limited government" is a term with specific meaning in libertarian and neoclassical circles. It refers to a society in which the government, which may be democratically elected, has a limited range of powers and can only pursue certain ends. In such a society, the majority cannot vote to pursue a particular end if it is outside the proper scope of government.

The framers did not implement "limited government" in the U.S. They created a limited government, the federal government, but only against the backdrop of the un-limited state governments. In the U.S., the "government" (between the state governments and the federal government), can pursue nearly any end that voters might wish to pursue. It is, together, limited only in scope by certain Constitutional rights. The limited nature of the federal government is just a tool to divide power between the state and federal levels.
This satisfies your problem description:

def function(unsorted1, unsorted2):
return [1, 2, 3]

;-)
I do not know why everybody is being harsh on this. He is clearly being sarcastic, there is a message here.
I'd like to thank the gp for his comment and his honesty; I think his participation adds a lot to this discussion.

That said, I felt just as uneasy as you.

Here's my experience from the Funemployment thread, if anyone's interested -- not FU money, but a life that feels just as free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932707 (I thought about commenting on this thread, but I already commented on the 'Funemployment' thread).

I think that "emotional immaturity" is a cop-out, though, one that I've seen a lot. What's mature?

I've seen, known and met dozens (hundreds?) of expats, and I fear that the real reasons might be a bit more grim: I don't think people really know what they would run away to do.

It's easy to funnel people towards technology and startups if they want to get rich. It's 'easy' in the sense that, whatever the reasons you might want to get rich, technology can probably help.

But on the opposite end?

Where do people go once they've achieved functional independence (through retirement or other means) and can basically take work or leave it?

Well ... that's pretty personal. It fans out, sometimes to really weird and specific places.

In this case, the gp has found one really good friend, who 'gets' him. The two of them have a bromance going, and they have a hobby they enjoy ('debauchery'), and they treat other people (including some women) as essentially disposable.

That makes me uneasy, but what about it specifically would you call "immaturity?" It seems that you might mean that it's empirically immature, in that it sounds like the dream and the description (and, hey, this being the internet, it might well be a fantasy) of young people without much life experience.
You'd have thought they'd stop doing that after the Github email embarrassment:

https://github.com/blog/1440-github-enterprise-email-inciden...
I emailed asking for the slides. I got this reply:

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I can also envision a future where no one drives because all cars are driverless. I'm not sure why you'd want the future where we still have humans doing the driving or the cooking or the teaching or anything else for that matter when we can just let the people lounge around or create art and poetry.
The court ordered Google Inc to remove certain listings. They did not specify "only on certain TLDs" or "only from certain servers." Including them in search results is violating the court order. I guess if Google pulled out of the EU entirely, closing all European subsidiaries, relocating employees and removing all assets, then they could make a case that the court no longer has jurisdiction... that seems like it'd be difficult. IANAL.
I kinda like the concept, except there is no way to prove you were there in the first place. It just proves you inputted a set of GPS coordinates at a specific time and can prove that.
I personally figure the answer is something along the lines of, responsive design takes effort to add, and nobody on the development team thought it was valuable enough to go to the trouble.

I'm not a web developer, but to my memory responsive design isn't something that just comes by default.
Long story short 0 or 0.0001 BTC.

Long story - It depends on the inputs to the transaction you want to make.
Their code is on github [1]. I am a C++ programmer so I'm happy that C++ came out on top, but the comparison is obviously flawed (as these sorts of comparisons always are). The problem is that the implementers don't have the same level of skill in each language and who knows how much time they spent analyzing and refining each version. See Russ Cox's response [2] to a Google paper [3] of a similar nature comparing C++, Go, Java, Scala for an example of a similar boondoggle.

The R code, for instance, is obviously unidiomatic. If you have a four levels deep nested loop in R, you're doing it wrong, and it's taking every ounce of willpower to keep from spending the rest of the afternoon trying to fix up their code and make it faster.

1. https://github.com/jesusfv/Comparison-Programming-Languages-...

2. http://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs

3. http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37122.html
What would you recommend as introductory reading to a person interested in market microstructure and market making? (Background in finance and programming)
There are definitely some isolated places in Alaska, but how lonely a place feels depends on a number of things. My town is big enough that I don't feel alone at all here.

I live in Sitka. We have ~9000 people here, but you can only get here by boat or plane. It's really nice to be off the road system. If you need to get out, you can take a plane and be in Juneau in an hour or two, in Anchorage in a few hours, and you can get to Seattle in about 4 hours.

That said, you can climb to the top of a mountain, drop down the other side a little bit, and see no sign of humans for hundreds of miles. That's a pretty nice balance. :)
Does "job" refer to the traditional sense of a primary source of income? I guess what I'm asking is, do services like TaskRabbit and Airbnb also fall in this category?
I don't see how this is complicated or confusing and I completely disagree with you. I think this is absolutely the right direction to be going if coinbase (and bitcoin) want to become mainstream. An exchange is mainly for traders and most people like myself don't want to look at candlestick charts to know when to purchase or make a bid without any certainty of obtaining coins or worse compete with bots. On the other hand many people I know have kept away from bitcoin because of how seemingly complicated and confusing it is to supposedly keep secure -don't keep coins on exchange, use paper wallet, encrypt backups of private keys. This is definitely a step in the right direction towards attracting a more mainstream audience. As for a 'Pay with Bitcoin' button, are you kidding, how do you think overstock, newegg etc accept bitcoin payments - this is one of the first things they did.
This is a great idea, I can keep my skills up to date and be employable, if my Canadian startup fails.
How did you get started in real estate? In a good year, it is sometimes difficult to choose what to do with extra money - and the usual 0.05-0.10% the banks offer certainly isn't cutting it.
If that were really "all you were saying" the comment thread wouldn't be so deep. But earlier you said, "that's enough to make someone culpable," implying not that a prosecutor would test it, but that someone would be convicted. There simply isn't a sturdy argument for that proposition.
> Zetes is a crossplatform lightweight framework which allows the user to develop console or native-looking GUI programs, written in Java, that could run on a machine without any JVM installed.

Awesome, sounds great.

> And in addition it has a beautiful GUI (based upon SWT).

Hm, I had a bad experience with SWT (which was over 10 years ago, so probably irrelevant). But what annoyed me is that if Windows could do X and Y, and Linux could do Y and Z, then SWT could only do Y. I found its lack of features a problem. I felt like I had to create my own components by hand a lot of the time. Swing, on the other hand, would let me do X, Y and Z and make sure they look decent on both OSes.

> The main feature of the library is that it makes a thin wrapper on SWT and basic system libraries that makes it possible to make an app which has a native look-and-feel under different platforms. For example, the "Exit" item is in system menu on OS X, but in "File" menu under Windows; about box has "OK" button in Windows, but doesn't have any on OS X and so on...

Mind, it's been over 10 years, but how is this different from plain SWT? Is it just that it can run without a JRE?
I'll write more when I have time/inspiration.

What would freemium look like?
I compiled this list a while back, in response to an Ask HN, because I see the over 30 discussion frequently.

Turns out, almost all the uber successful tech entrepreneurs were over 30 when they hit their stride. The wunderkind thing is almost entirely a myth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7864053
Why isn't SNS/SQS a "real" messaging queue ?
google is not python docs.
I recently realized one aspect of why it is bad:
https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

is probably the first thing that pops up when you search of python and tutorial, yet it reads like it is adressed at people that are looking for a way to augment their unix shell. This is not very helpful to most people. Thankfully, there are many alternatives, however it is bad that this is the first thing that pops up.

I am confused by the why is "X so slow" argument. Conceptually and practically, Python might be slower than native C code, but the tradeof lies in the relationship between runtime and "design"-time. It is a little slower, but it is faster to learn, read and write. Demands for "more performance" should be driven by actual numbers: How many people should your webservice serve in a second, minute? So far python has been fast enough for anything I wanted to do. For everything else there is numpy/scipy - fortran for the win!
This is where, for some people, "It won't happen to me" attitudes guide the policies they advocate.

Why would I care if stolen domains aren't recoverable? I'm too smart, nobody will be able to steal mine
Republic, Lost[0] is a really good read on this (even if it is by Lessig himself). He lays out how he would see the process working, I believe at the Presidential level. The basic idea is running on a platform that promises change as well as a commitment to step down once said change is accomplished. With the amount of money already wrapped up in politics (especially between two large parties), it strikes me as a tough sales pitch for either party's old guard.

To your point about there not being enough money in politics: I'd agree with you if money existed in a vacuum for its own sake. The question should arguably be is there enough/too much purchasable influence in politics.

[0]http://republic.lessig.org
It's like Chatroulette[1] for technical interviews.

[1] But without the dicks

I laughed at this...
.+@.+(\..+)+

is good enough for me
> Women have almost no intellectual curiosity. It is just how they are wired. If you want to have great conversations about anything meaningful, you must find a man.

It makes me burn with shame to see such horseshit on Hacker News.

This account is banned as a troll. Do not post anything like this again, and kindly keep the douchey Maxim-magazine pastiche off this site as well.
Labels are troublesome, but the specific use here seems appropriate: it's a man who is in a technical field and who people see as having an immature attitude towards women and perhaps even life in general.

Sure, "not all men" and all that - but, well, yes this man.
indeed! Yet, in the interview I'm thinking of, he didn't even get this far.

poorly specified questions are very important to ask IMHO :)
The motion in the Google IO videos really reminds me of the motion design in some of the better Flash stuff from 5-10 years ago. Think most designers who have been in the game for a while already have pretty good motion design chops.

The tooling these days is kind of lacking since Flash got killed though - you end up doing things twice, first design in AE, then coding it up.
They still show the results on non-EU TLDs.
There is plenty of stuff to do. hobbies, sports, traveling, socializing. people often do "work" as a hobby. cooking, working in the yard, hunting, fishing.

It's thought that hunter/gatherer societies only worked 15-20 hours per week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
To have auto-suggestions is already a great achievement.
I really like this perspective. Computers are tools that can enormously increase the power of a single individual. There are huge opportunities to increase both human productivity and computing productivity if we can figure out how to create tools that foster more symbiotic interactions between humans and computers.
> Can execute lots of spawn(...) statement and now there are multiple threads of execution running.

You would end up with lots of processes running. Sure they are implemented differently than OS processes, but that is an implementation detail. If you had an OS that could keep up with Erlang's demand for processes you could implement Erlang processes as system processes and see no difference in behavior.

The point was more Erlang processes can talk to processes on another box fairly transparently. Clojure can not, their concurrency primitives are intra process only with no way to reach out to another box without developer effort. If your definition of concurrency is limited to a single process(and call Erlang processes threads) then Erlang and Clojure are about equivalent. If you drop the single process requirement(still calling Erlang processes threads and running multiple copies of the VM) from your definition then Erlang supports more types of concurrency than clojure does. It can support inter process concurrency.
...a constitutional convention that would amend the Constitution to overturn Citizen's United.

That's a great deal of effort to overturn a ruling which was literally this: a few dudes who made a video critical of Hillary Clinton are allowed to advertise for the sale and viewing of that video. I haven't seen the video myself and don't particularly care to do. I'm sure it's a horrible movie made by horrible people. However, it seems like really basic political and commercial speech, which ought to be protected from government interference. If Lessig wants to overturn that, I'm glad he will fail. Why not a constitutional amendment for Eldred?
To reinforce this idea. The database is a bunch of flat files.
I believe that (pseudo)anonymous contributions should not be allowed for political and public interest purposes. In this case, Mayday PAC collects full PII, but do they validate?
The “New” New York Times: Free Speech Lawyering in the Age of Google and Twitter
Citizens in countries with high inflation could piossible benefit.
I'd rather not wait 20 minutes if that wait is occasioned by the chefs performing a visual entertainment instead of cooking my food, would be a more pertinent analogy :)