skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused. If it's a Japanese IQ test, why is the swf intro written in traditional Chinese?

EDIT: A less lazy comment--SmallCampus.net that the game links to is a Hong Kong website, which has a collection of puzzles. I still can't find a reference to this being a Japanese job test though.

EDIT2: And, here's the real source. http://www.smallcampus.net/htmlcontent.php?channel=maths_gam...
It's a brain teaser for elementary school children.
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There are already a couple big-name apps out there that do exactly this! (1Password, LastPass, etc.)
And most have desktop and mobile versions too!
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I hope Wayland innards gets similar efforts to be explained and publicised with this same level of quality as this piece on venerable x11.
Did you create a pull request?
Does it seem weird to anyone else that the first example is approximating XOR?
They also need to stop toying around with amateur designs at the expense of the whole AdSense programme:

http://adsense.blogspot.se/2014/05/a-new-look-for-text-ads-o...

I've seen the past works of the designers on the AdSense team and I'm not impressed. Plus it's quite naive to think that one design will fit all websites. Why can't AdSense, like other ad and affiliate networks, just open up an API so publishers themselves can be in charge of how their ads look and behave?﻿
Smart resource, but I'm sure those starting out with HTML/CSS/JS and the likes would not be using this for sometime.
Timing attacks still work in all browsers - http://www.contextis.com/documents/2/Browser_Timing_Attacks....
Just dual boot Arch on your current machine, it's pretty easy and you get to keep using the Mac hardware! :D
Exactly! I rarely do HTML stuff, but when I do I just want a quick reminder for how to do things. For that type of thing W3Schools beats everyone else.
This is genius!

Am I right in assuming that the decompression step is several orders of magnitude faster than the compression phase?
Software engineer in London? Thread (YC S12) is hiring full-stack engineers
greatest comment ever
http://qconlondon.com/london-2014/speaker/Dan+North

> The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Dan has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends
Sorted by sum of comments and votes, age is ignored.
Part of a series of posts, the previous one:
http://neo900.org/news/july-trilogy-part-i-the-past
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I'm curious to know how do you find places to rent for a month.
Case and point: http://pi.nersc.gov/cgi-bin/pi.cgi?word=alix&format=char

strlen(alix) < strlen(1188606148)
This is based on adsense partner network earnings, which is a small section of the total online advertising market. I don't think you can reach conclusions about online advertising in general (which is all affected by adblocking) from this.

Adblock may be playing a role, but I don't think that's what this data shows.

Several reasons:

_ 1 the centralization of the web. Adsense was built for the long tail web. Today's web is much more centralized with more impressions going to fewer, bigger sites. Google themselves play a few roles here. They run some of the big sites sucking up the traffic. Their search results are increasingly directing people to the big sites.

Fewer blogs more circles and tweets.

The data cited is from Google's quarterly results. Taken as a whole the data seems to support this theory.

Q1-2014 'Sites Revenues' : $10.47 billion, a 21% increase over Q1-2013
Q1-2014 'Partner Revenues' : $3.40 billion, a 4% increase over Q1-2013

Q1-2013 'Sites Revenues' : $8.64 billion, a 18% increase over Q1-2012
Q1-2013 'Partner Revenues' : $3.26 billion billion, a 12% increase over Q1-2012
4% increase in Network Revenues.

Overall, the growth in ad revenue actually accelerated from 19% to 22%. The growth just shifted from the partner network to Google's own network. Both are similarly affected by adblocking. There isn't an overall slowdown.

- 2. The market adsense ads are a part of is competitive, much more so than search.

For search ads, Google's reach, platform quality and ad quality is best by far. There is no competition. For content network ads, Google's inventory (the sites displaying adsense ads) and the platform is nothing special.

Competition is growing. Social media (including Google's own sites) advertising is the biggest new source of competition. In-app ads are anther. Those 'you might also like' content recommendation ads you might find on news sites on are another source are another growing segment 9and an important way of picking up that one weird trick for flatter bellies).

Facebook is the real elephant in this room. Facebook ads work. The platform is improving and marketers are learning how to use it. They have an enormous inventory. They have user data enabling really powerful (or scary, depending on your perspective) targeting. Since so many Facebook users check in multiple times per day, campaigns can target (and report on) daily impressions and such.

Facebook ads work in ways other ads don't. A lot of ad dollars are flowing into Facebook, some would have gone to adsense.

_ 3 "content network" ads on adsense are in the more direct competition for ad dollars with the offline world than most online ads. This is a volatile market segment. Blue chip advertisers can cut 7-8 figure budgets to zero in a bad year (like 2011). On a smaller scale, it's still a volatile market

I'm not saying that adblocking doesn't matter. I'm sure it does. But these are two noisy datasets you are looking at. You need to correlate different things to make this point. Maybe earning per 1m pageviews for some site.
I think this is based on adsense partner network earnings, which is a small section of the total online advertising market. I don't think you can reach conclusions about online advertising in general (which is all affected by adblocking) from this.

Adblock may be playing a role, but I don't think that's what this data shows.

Several reasons:

_ 1 the centralization of the web. Adsense was built for the long tail web. Today's web is much more centralized with more impressions going to fewer, bigger sites. Google themselves play a few roles here. They run some of the big sites sucking up the traffic. Their search results are increasingly directing people to the big sites.

Fewer blogs more circles and tweets.

The data cited is from Google's quarterly results. Taken as a whole the data seems to support this theory.

Q1-2014 'Sites Revenues' : $10.47 billion, a 21% increase over Q1-2013
Q1-2014 'Partner Revenues' : $3.40 billion, a 4% increase over Q1-2013

Q1-2013 'Sites Revenues' : $8.64 billion, a 18% increase over Q1-2012
Q1-2013 'Partner Revenues' : $3.26 billion billion, a 12% increase over Q1-2012
4% increase in Network Revenues.

Overall, the growth in ad revenue actually accelerated from 19% to 22%. The growth just shifted from the partner network to Google's own network. Both are similarly affected by adblocking. There isn't an overall slowdown.

- 2. The market adsense ads are a part of is competitive, much more so than search.

For search ads, Google's reach, platform quality and ad quality is best by far. There is no competition. For content network ads, Google's inventory (the sites displaying adsense ads) and the platform is nothing special.

Competition is growing. Social media (including Google's own sites) advertising is the biggest new source of competition. In-app ads are anther. Those 'you might also like' content recommendation ads you might find on news sites on are another source are another growing segment 9and an important way of picking up that one weird trick for flatter bellies).

Facebook is the real elephant in this room. Facebook ads work. The platform is improving and marketers are learning how to use it. They have an enormous inventory. They have user data enabling really powerful (or scary, depending on your perspective) targeting. Since so many Facebook users check in multiple times per day, campaigns can target (and report on) daily impressions and such.

Facebook ads work in ways other ads don't. A lot of ad dollars are flowing into Facebook, some would have gone to adsense.

_ 3 "content network" ads on adsense are in the more direct competition for ad dollars with the offline world than most online ads. This is a volatile market segment. Blue chip advertisers can cut 7-8 figure budgets to zero in a bad year (like 2011). On a smaller scale, it's still a volatile market

I'm not saying that adblocking doesn't matter. I'm sure it does. But these are two noisy datasets you are looking at. You need to correlate different things to make this point. Maybe earning per 1m pageviews for some site.
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Only text and/or static images with strict limited on how they are displayed so that they are not annoying or intrusive. No scripts, so no viruses, and no third party trackers or creepy stuff like that either.
I'm trying: http://blog.mecheye.net/2014/06/xdg-shell/

Really, a big part of Wayland is that there isn't much there. It's not a ridiculously complicated system to explain with lots of extensions, you're just having clients pass image files around and get streams of messages for input. The easiest way to get a feel for the system is to use the built-in protocol dumper:

$ WAYLAND_DEBUG=client weston-terminal

... or so... and that's it, that's the entire system.

If anybody has any more questions on Wayland internals, I'll certainly consider writing a series of articles on it.
No. I have had numerous interviews in Japan and never had a kind of test like this. Maybe be one company has used this, but it is far from the norm and as the z2 mentions, the intro is Chinese.
How? He's had a successful startup under his belt and he's also a programmer, companies pay a lot for that type of experience (I know because I'm doing that right now, I also got bought out).
Sandboxed applications for Gnome
What is the goal of a college calculus course?
You could use one of the user stylesheet solutions to add your own styling. I like Stylebot, but I think it's only for Chrome.
Don't try to butter me up. We all know you are still angling for cyan with Wilma from accounts. Well that dream is dead my friend, the CFO was spotted playing golf and all his clubs have turquoise handles.
Perhaps simply because the article's author doesn't know or can't tell the difference and just therefore assumed it to be Japanese. There's also a link in the game to smallcampus.net, which appears to be based in Hong Kong.

EDIT: Just saw your edit. Ignore my repetition!
I wrote the server from scratch JavaScript, and I can't verify its accuracy towards real server behavior:

https://github.com/magcius/xplain/blob/gh-pages/src/server/s...

It's fake in a lot of ways, especially in its input model. It's well-commented and designed as a codebase to learn from, not as a real implementation of an X server that's reusable.
Not to mention the knock-out punches if you make a wrong move.
Did not expect Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years to start with Babbage :)

Great stuff though.
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I like the concept of the web jumping to the next device/interface.

After the desktop, after mobile, there might be VR in a few years. The pattern will surely repeat itself, with faster experiences for native, compiled applications, but I wonder if the "good enough" will come quicker thanks to webgl.

Looking forward to what Vladimir Vukićević and Josh Carpenter ([0] from Mozilla) and Brandon Jones ([1] from the Chrome team) are doing!

[0]: http://www.roadtovr.com/firefox-gets-vr-api-browser-based-vi...

[1]: http://blog.tojicode.com/2014/07/bringing-vr-to-chrome.html
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One of the daughters has to bring the boat back, then the father and son cross the river, sell the boat, then they use the proceeds to start a company selling IQ testing services to lazy HR departments. Did I get the job?
> Did your instructors or TAs pair program with you? If so, what school were you at?

Yes! As with many things in life, you get back what you put in. There were plenty of TAs and Lecturers who would happily sit and work through a problem or alternate solution with you. The key factor was them knowing you weren't just trying to avoid doing it yourself.

> Sure, but asynchronous feedback on code certainly isn't something that can only be had at a university.

The point you made originally was alluded to that this sort of thing not happening at Universities. I was simply using my personal experiences to assert that, in my case at least, it did.

For what it's worth, I went to University in Glasgow - the University of Strathclyde.

> That may be true of many places, but at I can claim with certainty that FB and Google will both give interviews and even recruit engineers without CS degrees.

I'm sure they do, and I know the company I work for does as well, but I also know the people who don't have a formally educated background tend to get grilled harder on CS theory than those who do. Having a degree in CS is not a useless thing.

The point here of course, is whether it's right for the OP (:
The online ad market is growing 25% YoY despite ad blocking.
It used to be that large sites were filling their unsold inventory with AdSense, but not anymore. Ad exchanges like AppNexus and Google AdX are performing much better, with the benefit of an open environment (vs adsense blackbox).
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Best solution ever.
Adblock Edge is included, as is every plugin or proxy that acts to remove advertising from web pages. Unfortunately, we can't specifically distinguish adblock edge from the others right now.
I agree with your using this quote even after knowing the "truth". It seems rather futile to try to re-educate the entire population on a quote that is highly ingrained in our society now. If it conveys a message that helps the populace understand that it's okay to resist the forfeiture of liberties, I say keep on quoting it. I know I will.
Go and travel, I would say. Do not change places too often, it hurts productivity, 1 month is ok.
The truth of course it that lots of MPs do understand how people interpret this kind of thing. Truth is, most MPs are intelligent, reasonable people. Sadly they are often judged for the actions of the few reprehensible MPs that more often than not make it to the front benches.
Yeah I noticed that too :( Logged here: https://github.com/artsy/scroll-frame/issues/10. Hopefully there's a way around this.
Between at least 80% and 100% lies the possibility, that this figure is even closer to 100% than anyone would love to admit...
Thanks to the link about the DEFCON badges, really cool :)
Pagefair is basically "Clean ads as a service." If they detect your using Adblock plus, they'll server you an ad, adblock plus won't block, because they pay adblock plus. (And because they claim to follow adblock plus's policy of 'good ads').

Which is annoying, because if you aren't using adblock plus, you don't get decent ads (just the standard ads), so ultimately it defeats the goal of adblock which is to make all ads non-obtrusive, for all users, not just the chosen few who use adblock.

Adblock edge will block pagefair ads, because adblock edge is a not-for-profit adblocker, unlike adblock plus.

Also hosts blocking remains a completely viable option.
I think it's deeper than that, though.

Look at r/shutupandtakemymoney. Of the 25 posts on the first page right now, 11 are either kickstarter or indiegogo. Is it Kickstarter and Indiegogo's fault that individuals are using that form of venue to market and sell a product that doesn't exist yet? Is it reddit's? Or, is it the creator's fault for submitting the link?

I pose that it is inevitable that these sort of sites are used this way. People want to market their crowd funding opportunity to enable their company to get off the ground. It is easier to market a future product compared to a donation, so creators and marketers are going that route.
You can easily do it without a browser add-on. They're called keyword bookmarks.

For firefox or chrome, right-click the search bar on any site and select "Add a Keyword for this Search" ("Add as search engine" for chrome).
Let's get Heroku to back Xiki
Lots of proxy servers (mine included) are banned as well.
At Lonely Planet we've had a good experience using OpenResty directly behind our CDN. We use it to perform rewrites, route requests to the appropriate applications, manage splits for a/b testing, block malicious traffic, gather metrics, and more!

We touch on our use of it a little bit towards the end of http://velocityconf.com/velocityeu2012/public/schedule/detai.... The last slide is still true- we're hiring! Ruby (remote possible), javascript, devops, and more. See http://www.lonelyplanet.com/jobs/
You could go to college in a country where that's free or affordable (northern Europe). You could even just go for one or two years with the intention of dropping out early. Learn a fascinating topic (not necessarily tech related), see a different country without being just a tourist. Code in your free time when not doing typical student stuff.
The only solution I found involved leaving the thief alone several times - is that not worse than leaving the thief with a family whose parents are apparently dangerous?
One of the concerns I have about openresty is that so much of it relies on agentzh. He does amazing work at an insane rate - a rate that I'm a bit concerned (as someone who uses openresty & luajit extensively) can't be sustained in the long term, and is in serious jeopardy if he gets a better offer.
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Is it Jesus Christ? Does anyone have the answer?
And this is where meaning is relevant. Good naming is important to convey the level of abstraction. What you describe is as if you were to compare the functioning of, say, the liver, by looking at its cells. Proper naming conveys what you are looking at and you can chunk things together. If all the functions are named at the same level of abstraction, of course the code will be much worse to read.

If all the names are just a and b, well, of course it is harder to follow the flow of a program because the use and meaning of the functions has to be infered by their definition. Good names help identify paths of flow, but I rarely see this separation in a clear way, resulting in the problen you describe.
No, that's a pretty standard trivial example for NNs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedforward_neural_network#Mult...
I never know what tone to take with writing letters to MPs. I don't want to waste a load of time on polite and subtly persuasive when they might be more influenced by the generic "angry voter". Equally, if I received some angry voter letter, I'd be inclined to vote against them just because I don't like angry people.

This time I think I went too angry, because last time I think I was too polite:

Dear MP,

I sincerely hope you will be voting against the ridiculous "Emergency phone and internet data storage law" on Monday. Blanket surveillance of millions of innocent civilians is short sighted, reckless and dangerous. I am well aware that the excuse is to prevent terrorism, but is there any evidence at all that it will be key in terrorism prevention? We seem to be doing a pretty good job of preventing terrorism already, and any extra (possibly non existent) benefit this may bring is certainly not worth the MASSIVE loss of liberty of the people.

I am disgusted and horrified that so many intelligent people in Westminster are so short sighted to think that surveillance, with is horrific brutal history, is going to "work this time".

Yours sincerely,

Me
I know this is Serious Business, but all I can think is -- have these people not SEEN Star Wars?
Pruning the search tree, E.W. Dijkstra:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/EW...
> iOS apps are full of "you have one unread message!"

Android isn't any better.

I have used adblock for years now, practically since I started using the internet. About 2 sites are whitelisted: hackaday and reddit. They show reasonable ads. I absolutely hate flamboyant flashing ads. Especially those that go full-screen on mouse-over.

If all ads where like the ads on reddit and HaD I wouldn't complain, I proably wouldn't even have an adblocker. But that malicious bulk? No thank you.
I would advise you to start investing if you haven't already done so. Keep things simple to start with. Invest in index ETFs (similar to VTI in the US) and make sure you diversify enough. Keep some money aside for "risky" investment and always have cash available for emergencies.

If you are interested in starting another company find a mentor and start building relationships. Above all, eat healthy stay healthy.
The last line of my comment was tongue in cheek, sorry if the ";)" didn't make that clear.
This is another reason why most of the services will shift to apps. Its much harder to stop apps from tracking you or shoving ads in your face.
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Merely populating your DB was infringement of their copyright. So is "just you organizing data on your own machine". Making copies, and making derivative works (transforming the work in some way), are both exclusive rights held by the author of a work. Distribution is another of those rights, and infringing any of the rights is illegal. You do not need to distribute anything, or induce distribution, to be infringing someone's copyright.

The Copyright Act isn't terribly long or complex, and there are many good summaries of it online if anything's confusing. You might want to read it. Ignorance of the law is not a defense should you be sued.
A great project built on top of openresty:
http://coronium.io/
Sorry to be that guy, but your use of the hyphon ”-” makes it hard to read your post. A hyphon with no spaces around it joins the two or more words into a single concept. A man-child is a single entity. In your usage here and above, all you need is a space on either side. A "yes-which" first parsed as a typo of "yes-witch", which I supposed would be a witch who agrees a lot. On the other hand, "Yes - which..." Now it is easily parsable as a transition. :)
Unfortunately, it's not just the politicians who don't care. The people don't seem to care either:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28235699

I loved this line: "I don't think the governments are in the business of disrupting passengers' travel plans for no reason."

I think we just have to accept that this security state is going to be a permanent state of affairs. Leave while you can.
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Here's the website:

http://boxpx.com/

Hi guys, I'm an active photographer who takes lots of photos and I was looking for an easy way to share them. So I made a web tool. It's similar to Imgur, except it integrates with your DropBox, so you can share any photo from DropBox, make albums, resize them, etc., All of it's done at high quality (JPG quality 90) so your photos look good. If you take pics on your iPhone, you can easily upload your iPhone pics to DropBox so sharing pics from your camera or iPhone are both done the same easy way, and you can merge the pics into a single photo album like that too.

It's free, so please check it out and let me know what you think.
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"Who would allow money to influence the presentation of content? Who,I say, WHO?!"

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