skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdote time: I once interviewed a new candidate for a Python job along with three other developers on my team. One of the people on our team who was not a part of the interview handed us all a list of Python interview questions about 30 seconds before we headed down to talk to the candidate. He said these were the "best practice" questions he just found and thought they'd be good to ask. We figured "why not?". Well, turned out the questions were pretty obscure Python stuff, that in fact none of us could answer on the spot. We did figure these out later as a group, but it certainly made me feel very unprofessional.

Since then I've stopped asking questions like this. Trick questions and logic questions I think are a bad metric. A person can be great at sudoku but be a horrible developer in terms of writing maintainable code. Instead, I tend to just talk about the macro-level stuff. "What have you built? Can I see it? How long did you maintain it? What was the trickiest part? I imagine it had performance issues; did you spend time optimizing it?" I do ask some tech questions. For example, for web developers I ask "Describe how an XHR request happens in detail." But that is as deep as typically go.
That sucks, but:

- It's not really Airbnb's fault - not much you can do about this aside from apologise and remove the listing (which I assume they did, or will at least investigate)

- You will get scammed if you use MoneyGram. It's the equivalent of sending an envelope full of banknotes. Don't do it!
Host usually do not get a person's email address until after they pay on airbnb.com. How did this scammer get the email prior?
My favorite part of the site is:

"Disagree with my choices? Fight me irl. Or submit a pull request."
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I'm saying there are reasons other than addiction why one might not be able to disconnect for a month (e.g. they are a remote worker).
We've all been talking about "The Semantic Web" for a very long time. I would love to be proven wrong but it all reminds me of EDI[1] which for more then 30 years has tried to develop standards around data formats. I think all of these efforts so far have been doomed to die a horrible death because they don't have an obvious benefit for those involved in the massive investment required to get it right. I think theoretically it's wonderful to imagine a world of infinitely parseable machine consumable information. If anything the robots will appreciate it when they take over the world. Meanwhile I'm not convinced that Humans can attach enough value to the effort to make it worthwhile. But I could be wrong, this wouldn't be the first time and I hope not the last time. :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_data_interchange
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"I Hate Ferengi"
What are must subscribe journals/magazines for software developers
I am software developer with 9 years industry experience. I am subscribed to Communications of ACM from past 3 years which I found quite satisfying, but now I want more similar stuff what magazines would you vouch for. esp generic ones which summarize future and state of art in field of software periodically(not very frequently).
we're not doing the analysis similarly, I don't mean research to make someone old and decrepit for an extra 30 years, I mean to keep people younger, longer. Just as a 60 year old rich venture capitalist might still be at the prime of their career today, maybe after 20 years of research the same will be true at 70. Those ten years, maybe 20% of their career after education, are free money. They would otherwise be unfit for or not interested in work.
I see your point, but i am not so sure you understand how expensive force maintenance really is. Healthcare is just one cost, as well as training, logistics, etc. By not having to maintain a standing army, there is a huge amount of available capital to spend on whatever.

I think it is a good thing, by the by, i just wish more Eurofolk were aware of how intertwined our countries are. Often times, it feels as if all that ever gets talked about is the 'bad' the US does, and the loudest tend to be the biggest beneficiaries of the 'evil' empire.
I was seriously involved only in debian packaging, so could someone tell me - how did RH do consistent package building without this tool? I constantly see people making silly mistakes when they package without pbuilder.
UberX is cheaper than taxis
Regularjs: live template for creating data-driven component
Just curious: Is Amy Ousterhout anyway related to John Ousterhout of Stanford?
Custom UITableViewCell basics
> Mea culpa. I didn't read the article

But then you commented anyway, with a lot of conviction and assumptions and no mention of you not having read the article. Why?
I think DS9 just got a little carried away with Ferengi episodes is all. Seriously, you can tell the team loved working with the Ferengi characters because there are so freaking many Ferengi stories. Some of them are pretty bad and extraneous, just tedious comedy episodes. The overall Ferengi arc is good, and the big key turning points are good, but they're probably the worst episodes for pulling out eye-rolling bad comedy.
I do plan on writing up a longer example, but I wanted to get the basic idea out there first so that I could just link to it in the follow-up post. The example I'm building up to is quite long and would have easily tripled the size of the post if I had included the entire thing inline.
In Li Deng's and Dong Yu's book on Deep Learning (March 2014) version they briefly relate Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) to the Convolutional Neural Networks which are popular for Deep Learning.

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2093...

It's worth noting that most people doing Deep Learning aren't trying to replicate the brain, but just want to do a better job at Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence. Here's how I see it as someone working on Deep Learning; someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Deep Learning:
Trying to do ML - yes
Trying to replicate brain - no (for the most part)

Numenta (HTM/CLA):
Trying to do ML - yes (not sure how much they succeed)
Trying to replicate brain - yes, but
(i) we don't know exactly how the brain works
(ii) they make approximations

Projects like Nengo (http://nengo.ca/):
Trying to do ML - no
Trying to replicate brain - yes

I'm not very familiar with Nengo.

Edit: formatting
Important to establish Quark's relationship with that klingon lady though... it comes up later.
Show HN: Everlasting AA battery (just shake it)
Your mother is an excellent judge of sci-fi character.

I've seen many arguments that the role of Sisko was heavy handed in many ways and there are some truth to that, but with the exception of a few, any episode featuring the brilliant Avery Brooks is likely to be a good one.
On a popular misconception regarding “literally”
Check out the 100 on the CW. Seriously
Show HN: Interpose, the fully http.Handler compliant framework for golang
Ask HN: Do VCs make money if a company doesn't go public?
The question can be interpreted in different ways. For example: (1) "Which of these infinite takes the longest to run to completion?". Another interpretation could be: (2) "We want to write an infinite loop, which of these two ends up with the most efficient code?".

I don't think anyone is missing the point that an infinite loop takes infinite time to terminate, it's just not a very interesting point to make. Getting "hung up" on (1) means missing out on potentially interesting insights found when answering (2).
The Chinese have a very "measured" manned space program. They launch about every three years. They make a lot of progress between launches. I dont know if its finances or careful engineering. They have the advantage of two previous space programs to study. And they arent racing anybody.
No, but I was lucky that Airbnb existed when I needed it.
> the only way the average person is able to improve their financial situation is to be more efficient

AirBNB doesn't provide the average renter a way to improve their financial situation in the long run.

For renters in non-regulated units (ie, no rent control/stabilization), if you can make an extra $200/week on AirBNB and your landlord knows it, he or she will simply raise the rent by $800/month the next time your lease is up for renewal. (Or, if he knows this in advance, this becomes the market rate for your initial lease to begin with). This is very easily corroborated by the studies showing that AirBNB led to an increase in rent in several cities (linked in other HN discussions, and also very easy to find elsewhere).

This isn't a statement about AirBNB; it's just basic economics. Absent regulation or other market "stickiness", the money eventually flows to the individual or entity who owns the capital - in this case, the real estate. (The etymology of the word "capitalism" is not coincidental!).

For property owners, the math is different (though still not as good for the owner as one might think).
Yes. Sounds like OP's girlfriend wanted to circumvent Airbnb's escrow service to (presumably) drop the associated fees.
The Buffer Culture (with a new 10th value)
An Unbiased Overview of the Israel-Palestine
If you need any help with agda, just ask.
I was just perusing that chart myself when i read your comment. Bangaladesh... who knew?

I think you are not taking into account the real necessities and logistics of an actual war. The cost of the Kerfuffle on Terror would be a pittance, both in lives lost and in wealth use, compared to a shooting war in East Europe.
Additional dev here. I've done most of the video player work on the web and just recently did a little API work. Feel free to ask me specific questions about that or anything else.
> com.arbesfeld.marble_drop_test

The game's humble Android start are still evident in the link to the Google Play store.
The slashdot[1] effect has been around for a long time.

Auto mirroring would be nice but at the same time it leaves a lot of open questions about content ownership, ability of the content owner to edit, monetize etc. The New York Times would not be happy if HN links were automatically mirrored and I imagine they'd be quick to protect their rights on that front.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdotted
Yes, I've seen it. In old version (2.x) it could only install Fedora, in never version (3+, called supermin) it doesn't install chroot environments.
I've been doing this for Stargate by reading the reviews on Gateworld.

On advantage of gateworld which this website misses is that they rate episodes both on quality, and importance to the ongoing plot. I have chosen to watch a couple of episodes which, while rated lowly (mainly because they were disappointments after buildup), are important to the ongoing plot of the show.
I do this once per year or so. I call it "sock bankruptcy". I've also started doing this more recently with undershirts, underwear, etc.
The type of place who needs people who can develop under that type of pressure doesn't sound like a great place to work... That type of pressure sounds a lot like cowboy coding.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you
Sorry, only with a Springboard on a newer Visor.
Jammer's Reviews are pretty good for that.

http://www.jammersreviews.com/st-tng/
Ah yes, involving Worf in "Looking for ParMach in all the wrong places".
If I accept what you've written at face value (which I do), then it also strikes me that Seoul is one city where the emergence of Uber would have little impact on the taxi industry. But if Uber actually does have a significant impact, then it seems that the people want something that they are not currently being offered. Seems like a good experiment, not something that should be shut down.
I hate poorly styled code. Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted for this. That kind of mentality inherently churns out bad code.
oh, also, given the expanded capability of remote control warfare and logistics, a government could conceivably push the edge of eligibility to at least 50, maybe higher.

I would also make the argument that all humans are cousins, meaning we are all one family, meaning a draft in any or all countries is a big deal, but i bet i would be called crazy.
Identifying Foreign Key Dependencies from ActiveRecord::Base Classes
Bad news. I've had a javascript library named Rome that I created over a year ago, https://github.com/Akkuma/Rome/commit/0cdcd210351d5c546064be...
Russians have a different view on what happened to MH17 – and it's a problem
Right, and I don't have a problem with them fighting the system; in fact, I believe as most of us do that the regulations may be too strict in most areas.

However, this "half-fighting" when you criticise the regulations and at the same time you claim you're outside the law because you're just a "service" -- this rubs me the wrong way.

It is this "half-fighting, half-outside" approach that is most evident in corporations. It's similar to corporations dealing with censorship -- everyone, even executives, agree that censorship is a bad thing but the company still wants to make money in China, so they have to obey it and respect it at the same time.
Verizon launching loyalty program, includes tracking for targeted ads
There's a reason that I put 'closed' in quotation marks. Many important parts of .NET are indeed open source. It is also unfair to discount Mono, which is a very functional implementation of the platform. But even if you assume this 'closedness' for the sake of the argument, his/her comparison was still unfair.
My grandfather lived through that era.
he grew up before planes, mass cars and electrifcation.
And died after the moon landing, PCs and TVs.
Didnt make it to smartphones.
Dr Who is fantasy, not sci-fi.
Looks like you forgot to land-grab the npm package name :)
Dr. Who is no less sci-fi than Star Trek.
Thanks for your response. I actually didn't realize the duck had that much logic built into it, so my question was more tending towards what could be done. Now that I think of it, the English language is so large that any kind of client side brain would be massive. Still though, I've seen multi meg JS so a fully in browser solution is not totally abated. Good luck with v2!
The entire series of interviews on the site is very interesting. Nice to see a variety of perspectives on the demoscene.
In the majority of text boxes, it won't spam; OS X doesn't do key press repeats in most text modes. Long-pressing a vowel (or a number of other keys) brings up a popup that lets you select a variant with the number keys.
The problem with TNG is that it didn't necessarily get better in linear fashion, the way one could argue that DS9 got better as it "found its voice" and established a continuous storyline. TNG has some high points and some clunkers in almost every season, though there are slightly more low points in the first two seasons. Having recently rewatched the run of the show, in chronological order, I'd guesstimate that 10% of the episodes are bad, 50% are decent, 20% are great, and 20% are spectacular. [1]

So something like this would be especially helpful for TNG, where a) there are a lot of episodes in total, and b) there are no useful rules of thumb or shorthand (such as "skip season X," or "it gets better beyond Y").

Now, the great news about TNG is that it's mostly episodic. Which means she can watch any episode, at random, and enjoy it as a self-contained story. (Aside from the two-parters.) TNG really lends itself to randomized viewing. DS9 needs to be watched in chronological order (at least for the first-time viewer). TNG can be watched in any order.

[1] Some people will find this assessment overly generous, and others will find it overly harsh. That's the beauty of Trek fandom; there's plenty of room for disagreement. :) Just about the only things TNG fans can agree on are that: 1) Riker with beard > Riker without beard; 2) "The Naked Now" is probably the series' worst episode, although it's enjoyable in a kitschy, ironic sort of way; 3) Wesley Crusher sucks (although Wil Wheaton himself is a pretty awesome guy).
I feel like the term "sharing economy" would be better suited to something like where you share tools with your neighbors or something.

Uber is a great business, but it's not sharing anything. It's a bunch of contractors and a communication network. If you are paying for the service it is not sharing, is it?
And I wonder why photons like to entangle. It must be depressing to be apart from parent wave
This is very interesting, thank you for the perspective. Clearly it must be somewhat popular if the government feels it necessary to step in and stop them. Is that assumption wrong?
Preface: I'm a huge fan of Uber & AirBNB and use (and love) both extensively.

That being said, I have to say I'm impressed/shocked/in awe of their respective strategies. One of their biggest innovations isn't necessarily their use of tech (which is huge of course), but the adoption of their regulatory strategy, which is basically:

"Screw the law. We'll do what we want, get people to love us, then appeal to the masses / out-lobby the politicians when the governments attempt to enforce the law"

I bet most attempts to start AirBNB/UberX/Lyft (in their current form) would have been met by "Sure, great idea, but it's totally against the law, and you'll get shut down." And that would have stopped most people.

So, I suppose, kudos to the respective founders for taking a different (and bolder) approach. Like it or not, it seems to be working through sheer brute force.
I can see non-constant conversion times, especially with floats. Floats have lots of weird edge cases involved in them, especially when you get to the very big and the very small scales. If your number's too big, you have to see if you need to just throw back infinity and/or negative infinity. If your number's too small, positive and negative zero. Finally, if you're hanging out with tiny numbers near zero, a good floating point library will start to have to worry about denormal numbers, where you will start padding with zeroes, sacrificing precision to denote that the number isn't quite zero. So yeah, it would be N in respect to the size.
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You didn't ask for an explanation. You complained. This is wrong.

"I find it incredible that, judging by the downovtes, people seriously think I am obligated to respond to someone who has shown so little respect to me."

This is not seeking clarification. You didn't even assume people were mistaken. You made a judgement call. You were complaining about down votes. Don't do it.
Urban Compass at 18 months: $360M valuation
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5) Best scale model imitation of the US space shuttle.

6) first failed Mars probe (and second, and third, and fourth, and fifth...)

It's possible to commemorate LANDING A MAN ON THE MOON, on its anniversary, without it necessarily having to be a political dick-waving contest you know.

But since you brought it up, it does make you wonder how the US so completely outleaped the USSR to the moon, given how far ahead the USSR was in space development. The USSR wasn't even second to putting a man on the moon, no one has done it since Apollo.
The easy target that is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation
Any suggestions what a dev portfolio should look like?

Most of my work is corporate enterprise. I have a side project, so that code I can share, but I don't have an open github or anything.
Not necessarily. Escort can fly lower and behind the plane outside the visual range for pilots. And commercial planes don't have capability to "see" military planes (unless military planes want to announce their presence).
I wasn't really intending to turn it into an npm package as I wrote it for browsers due to its use of MutationObserver.
I submitted a related link before - Unpythonic Python

http://skien.cc/blog/2014/04/09/unpythonic-python/
Thank you for those - I had only encountered one already.
Indeed it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_compression_function
Well, because it's 1am, and as you say, assumptions. My bad.

But less assumption than you might imagine. If there had been massive investment by billionaires in "alternative" approaches to anti-aging like deGrey espouses, I probably would have heard about it. Of course it's possible that it's happening in secret, but unlikely.

I guess I also just have a different mindset. Maybe that mindset changes when you're a multi-billionaire, but it just seems so conservative. I mean, forget anti-aging if you like. A team in Japan reckons they can build a space elevator for $8B. You're dying, you've got $20b, fuckin' give it to them! If they succeed, you go down in history as the man who enabled the space elevator. If they don't - well who cares, you're dead. Whose kids need $20b?

Like I said, maybe this mindset changes, but shit, at age 90 and with that much money, I'd certainly be prowling the VIP section of kickstarter for some big ideas to make a dent in the universe.

I don't mean any disrespect by all of this. He seems a very decent man. But I think the reason Elon Musk gets so much love around here is that he's a billionaire who's actually willing to make some crazy bets, and that's so very, very rare.
You make a salient point with the invention of the remote drone, but if I'm betting on it, I'd wager the bigger worry is them taking the draft age DOWN to tap into that primo gamer demographic.
If not auto-mirror then at least links to Google Cache and Webarchive in the interface would probably be welcome.
And it's gained so much traction. Bevacqua absolutely has to change the name!
33% of developers make games but 57% of those games make less than $500/month
> Europe's long vacation is over; the US troops that have for so long enabled European governments to spend money on healthcare

Every OECD country, and probably every country in Europe outside of the OECD, as well, spends less -- and this is true whether in total, per capita, or per GDP -- than the US on healthcare, because they have systems that are more efficient than the system in the US.
Also a lot of of good information in this document: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/hrst/archive/1029.pdf

(Much of the Apollo Guidance Computer and software was developed by the MIT Instrumentation Lab, the predecessor to Draper Lab.)
Fair enough, but that introduces the idea to me that you've just eliminated retirement.

Even if I'm fit and healthy age the age of 90, I can't imagine wanting to, y'know, do things beyond care for my grandkids and such.
This is true, but it is possible that less regulation is necessary because of improvements to tech.

E.g., I've found both Uber and Lyft drivers in SF to be way better than cab drivers. I've had cab drivers that seemed visibly high, stopped to open their door and cat-call women, etc. -- nothing like this has ever happened in Lyft or Uber for me, and it would be very unlikely, because a driver that did that would get low reviews and be kicked off the service very quickly.

The drivers I've talked too have been really happy with the services too. It seems much more equitable and less exploitative than the standard cab setup.

(Something like Airbnb seems much more a mix of good and bad.)
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I think they should use COBOL, it's built in :)