skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You nailed it with the HR departments. I'm a manager at a large company and I've done a lot of hiring. Whenever I open a rec, it's always a fight with HR to limit the scope of the filter they use to screen out candidates. They always want a list of 4+ skills with number of years experience to include in any job ad that they can confirm an applicant has before forwarding me the resume. I mostly want to see code that a candidate has written, regardless of language. It took me a lot of arguing/debating, but I figured out that they can (be forced to) handle ORs in the requirement, so my ads now ask for 2-4 (depending on whether it's a senior position) years of cumulative experience in any of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Haskell, Rust, ML, D or OCaml.

But there are a lot of managers that won't bother to fight with HR for a month to avoid giving HR the simple filters that they seem to crave, so they end up with only candidates that have experience using the languages to be used in the position.
Officially? No

Unofficially? Look how many "charities" pay their founders/presidents 6-figure salaries.
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> web programmers are generally more vocal about programming than systems programmers and scientific programmers

I'm not sure you would find systems programmers doing much more math than web programmers. Sure, they'll focus on optimization and a few algorithms, but much of their job involves plumbing bits from point A to point B.

There are programming jobs that involve math, but programming itself is not math. It is more like plumbing and architecture. You are right in that much of the math is already done for you, in well encapsulated components that you might want to know about but often can forget. But saying "programming is math" is like saying "biology is physics"; it might be true at some level, but it is not often very useful.
Philip here from TAP. It can detect double taps as shown in the video on front & back of the phone, running in the background. We have trained our motion engine to only detect double taps.
@bdash Sorry for the delay; we had a whole bunch of meetings in the past few days. The video plays on Safari on OSX and iOS and IE on Windows. Thanks for reporting the issues :)!
Then you are not aware of very many other fields.
finally seems much more confusing to me -- the point of finally is that it will definitely be executed...
Wasn't comparing my situation to flyover country. I was arguing that for me, it's a turnoff to get any closer to a city than I already am, and we would actively be interested in an area much less populated if it offered quality of life benefits.
Reminds me of the Space Odyssey series: http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/2001.html

"In these, they roamed among the stars. They no longer built spaceships, they were spaceships.

But the age of Machine-entities swiftly passed. In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light. They could become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny of matter.

Into pure energy, therefore, they presently tranformed themselves; and on a thousand worlds, the empty shells they had discarded twitched for a while in a mindless dance of death, then crumbled into rust.

Now they were lords of the galaxy, and beyond the reach of time. They could rove at will among the stars, and sink like a subtle mist through the very interstices of space. But despite their godlike powers, they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea."
his linkedin profile looks pretty legit to me.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/candel
I wouldn't want to get into a ML dick measuring contest with him anyway. H20 looks awesome too.

I think you are misinterpreting what he is saying about grid search. The grid search is just to narrow the field of parameters initially, he doesn't say how he would proceed after that point.

Just curious, what do you consider the state of the art? A Bayesian optimization? Wouldn't a grid search to start be like a uniform prior?

The rest of his suggestions looked on point to me, did you see anything else you would differ with? (i ask sincerely for my own education).
From the docs:

"[This] issue should be prevented at all costs. The second [adding new countries] may be necessitated by changes to the world order, i.e. new countries coming into being. But unless changes are made by a single central authority, the first issue will quickly come to be."
>>> I'm not thinking about it at all like a math problem

The thing is, not even a mathematicien thinks always about math that way. In mathematics, one needd to distinguish between a phase of exploration, where you work along a fuzzy, intuitive process, and a phase of justification, where one try to prove one's conjectures. The second part is math-as-a-formal-system, the cliché of mathematics. So it's not a problem of definition, it's a matter of accepting mathematics as a complex process, practiced in various ways and different for each mathematician.
Not only that, the whole argument that somehow "women's bodies [are] commodified and sold to men" when they have sex in exchange for money is ridiculously objectifying. It completely ignores the actions, desires and views of the women involved in the trade and reduces them to passive objects that are bought and sold. It's not the industry that's doing this, or their clients, or even the patriarchy - it's feminist activists that claim to be fighting the objectification of women.
Place this entire line @ the bottom of your target's .bashrc

echo 'sleep .1' >> ~/.bashrc

By week 2 my poor friend had conditioned himself to work within 1 session since spawning new sessions became unbearably slow :)
Oh, that helps too -- it's an else clause for the conditional of the while loop :D
Does iOS allow this?
What are the moral implications of buying a Roomba now?

Same difference.
> So they aren't doing it to get bitcoin users they are doing it so that they get free publicity from the news media and bitcoin users going around talking about them all the time.

That's almost certainly part of the story. But the only reason they get free publicity that they believe will benefit them is that some people are genuinely fans of Bitcoin, enough so that the negative effects of potential customers who hate Bitcoin will be outweighed by the positive effects of potential customers who love Bitcoin.
Aww, c'mon, it's not that hard… npm's a really nice package manager.
Interesting! He says he got by mostly with high school math. That analytical solutions are used more in physics simulations. But that in general if you time slice enough, simple approaches work well enough.

When I was 10, I had the opposite reaction. I started writing a game, but having a busy loop just constantly figuring out inputs and updating state seemed so ugly, I gave up, figuring I obviously lacked some knowledge. After all, I couldn't write a space invaders game without "brute forcing" it. Later when I found out that's actually how pros do it, I was really disappointed.
Yes, iOS does allow the use of the accelerometer running in the background.
this is my favorite quote from this book. thank you for reminding me.
I don't think there's any dishonesty behind those arguments, but just economic misunderstanding.
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Thanks for chiming in. I find it easy to conveice of a multidimensional reputation, eg your HN karma encapsulates one vector, the number of upvotes on Reddit or some special-interest forum another, and so forth. The bit I don't fully understand right now is how you approach convertibility.

Say I'm into motorcycles, and I am a regular at motorcycle-forums.com where I dispense helpful advice on everything from tire pressure to tappets. Over time I deservedly acquire a reputation as That Helpful Guy, and the grateful votes of other users accumulate. One day I decide I want a new bike, and head over to the marketplace subforum to purchase one. Turns out that Alica has just the bike I want! Naturally I want to use my accrued Biker Points to get a discount.

Now, in a closed economy. Alice might be delighted to have my BP - she could trade them for other goods and services with other bikers, and there might even be a social value in having dealt with me (a good few specialist websites maintain informal 'trusted buyer/seller' lists which saves members money vs. low-trust high-fee markets like eBay). But what if Alice is done with biking and just wants to get rid of her Vroomatic 5000 so she can take up windsurfing or something? My BP will be of little use to her on the ocean wave, and there may not be enough transitional activity between the Biker and surfer communitites to establish a maingful rate of exchange, so instead you end up with a bunch of shady pseudocurrencies, sort of like penny stocks.

One way I can see it working is if quality websites charge a small joining or membership fee and a portion of that constitutes an initial pool of points. Alternatively, a portion of ad revenue might be convertible into points, as those members who consistently make valuable and informative contributions are a key part of the site's draw, so it makes sense for the operator to subsidize the most 'productive' members.

I may have got completely the wrong end of the stick here, and you only meant to substitute reputation for cryptographic proof-of-work, but I'm guessing form your slides about inequality and different concepts of value that you're looking to examine the notion of wealth in more subjective contexts, rather than just authentication.
> Why do Quora articles continue to make the front page when we can't read them?

We can read them, by signing in.

> How do the people upvoting this read the article? Do they sign in?

Yes

> What possible benefit is there to signing in?

We get to read the article.

> If the HN homepage had a popup saying "Login with Google or Facebook to read all of HN," would you tolerate it?

Yes

Btw, dude, there's a close button.
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Thanks to this wonderful resource I've been keeping a personal Twitter for Mr. Darwin for almost two years, narrating his voyage in "real time" (and in Spanish). He's in Chile right now, but he's having some vacation, coinciding with mine ;)

http://twitter.com/DarwinViaje
'Did the Banks Have to Commit Fraud?'
all YC partners get a share of the profits, and they help allocate the YC pool of money.
If each instance of the supposed crime is victimless, where do the supposed victims come from?
I probably should have said this in my previous comment (the GP), but I mainly work in embedded systems. I need to be able to reason about the low-level behavior of the system more than I need better high-level abstractions.

And getting to write large amounts of my system inside monads (because of lots of mutable state)... that doesn't look like a solution to me. It looks more like a problem.

Are there high-level abstractions that would simplify my view of this? Probably. Would getting those abstractions to behave as needed on the low level be a net win, or a net loss? My money is on the "net loss" side.
forgive me for being snarky. The real challenge is surviving voter manipulation.

Parties would intercept communication, and compromise machines.

Voting machines have to remain secure, despite opponents having physical access to the machine, and currently security doctrine is basically "Once your opponent has physical access, you lose."
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Would be nice, but both shortcuts "make sense" to me, which makes them easier for me to remember.

Though considering "close window" is so disruptive when you hit it by accident, an optional "close the window?" dialog would be nice.
Of these I think UX is the most significant. UX is where the proprietary walled gardens and centralized services always win.

Good UX is unbelievably, grindingly hard. If you want to make a product with a good user interface and overall experience, 90% of the work is going to take you about 25% of the time and the remaining 10% is going to take you 75% of the time. Most hackers decide a product is done when it works, but in reality they're not even half way there.

Apple is probably the overall king of UX. If you look at their process and their culture, they obsess and obsess over tiny little details that are irrelevant to core functionality as understood from a purely technical point of view.

Closed silos have a clear revenue model. That enables them to invest in pushing product quality and user experience the rest of the way, past where hackers and enthusiasts would take it and into the realm of polished usability that real customer bases demand.

Who's going to pay entire teams of designers to obsess over the filecoin.io client's "experience"?
It's my opinion, albeit a considered one. Weigh as you see fit.
It is relevant, as it shows us that the general public is now being informed of solutions and approaches that we've known about a long time.

This serves us in two ways: It reminds that most people do not live in our world and reminds us that we do not live in the world of most people.

If we are to be successful in our businesses, we must leave the echo chamber and understand life outside.
Looks like a stylized version of Climacons http://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/
Actually, if you are going in the opposite direction, a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of negative Y-intercept.
"One who uses short term spikes"

Exactly. And you are doing it. You look at the weekly average (short term), while I look at the quarterly average (long term). Please understand that taking the average on longer periods of time will hide/smooth out short time spikes in a way that is statistical and purely objective (unlike your subjective interpretation of short term spikes).

In fact, the peak of number of transactions you said happened around March-April 2013 was precisely due to one of these short term spikes: a bubble where BTC went from ~$15 on January 1, 2013 to ~$260 on April 10, 2013: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg730zczsg2012-1... (people were all buying/selling/trading BTC like crazy).

You are inferring too much from BitPay's post deletion. For all we know their numbers in the immediate 2-3 months following Bitcoin Black Friday 2013 were down (Black Friday sales were great, hard to sustain). Maybe they felt a bit disappointed by them, so they took them down. So what? Their overall growth is indisputable: "BitPay processed $5k/day in May 2012, $18k/day in Sep 2012, $160k/day in March 2013, $300k/day average through 2013, and now $1.0M/day." It does not matter if they are doing $500k/day or $1M/day or $2M/day. Growth is here, which is why they got bit VC funding.
I went back into the archive and tried to run into a hardware hacking post before a framework post. It went, startup, startup, Google buys YouTube, startup, startup, then this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981 (2694 days ago). I couldn't find evidence that this site cut its teeth on hardware hacking.
For a series of operations, is that one monad or a series of monads?

If I have to use a monad for each operation, that feels like the same order of magnitude of effort as checking for null after each operation. If it's just one monad, then it feels like the monad saves work.

For that matter, the monad may still save work, because I only have to think about how I handle Nothing in one place, at the end of the series of calls. Whereas with null, I have to think about how to handle it after each call that can return null.
There is never a balance of power between the employer and the employee.

If there were, the employee wouldn't have to work for the employer, since he'd have just as much money and influence in the first place.

Your argument condemns all employment.
The hair that's split is ours (free software) so we care, but we should probably be more concerned about the 5 year wait to get a decision! That is unreasonable to the point of unworkable.
> The reality is that since women make, on average, 2/3 of what men make

False.

The actual reality is that, when adjusted for skill and seniority, women make just as much as men.

This is one of the most malicious feminist lies out there, eclipsed only by the 1 in 3/4/5 rape lie.
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Article is from 2011?

Here is something more recent:

http://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
There's a reason why toddlers learn so "easily": They must communicate in order to get what they want.

If you were placed in a similar situation, where you cannot get what you want unless you speak the language, it would not take you very long to learn. I went through this twice in my life: Once between ages 5 and 16 (French), and once between ages 31 and 35 (Japanese). In both cases, it took about 6 months to get the basics, after which the rate of learning slowed a bit due to the decline in novel situations requiring new usage or vocabulary.
For the sake of the victims, let's hope the investigation team get complete access to relevant data so we know what happened. Despite the rush to judgement and political posturing, all possible avenues must be explored.

>Ukraine finally admitted yesterday that its military shot down a Russian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea last week, killing all 78 passengers and crew.

Evhen Marchuk, the chairman of Ukraine's security council, conceded that the plane had probably been brought down by "an accidental hit from an S-200 rocket fired during exercises".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/135...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
Ask HN: Which markup: ReStructuredText vs. asciidoc vs. ??
I need a markup system to publish something like blog articles. The origin will be a unique file composed of text in two different languages (human languages), the destination will be two html files (one per human language.

What are you guys thoughts on:

* ReStructuredText

* asciidoc

* others????

Thanks.
Any publicity that isn't negative will benefit them even if it is a neutral story for most people it still gets their name in front of the news watching public.

>enough so that the negative effects of potential customers who hate Bitcoin will be outweighed by the positive effects of potential customers who love Bitcoin.

I don't think people who hate bitcoin will avoid a store because they accept it. I mean I'm pretty vocally outspoken about bitcoin in that I don't think it offers anything for consumers and I don't think it will ultimately succeed but its not like I'm going to avoid Newegg from now on. :)

So ultimately by accepting bitcoin even if you don't get a single bitcoin customer you probably get spoken about in the news a bit which will maybe add more general customers. Thats more of a belief in free publicity then bitcoin though.
Not all feminists are against the decriminalization of prostitution. The new generation of feminists (mostly those under 30) are very much for sex workers' rights.
So I assume I'm safe if I have no PHP on server?
You're overlooking the followup where they restored access the next day, with a clarification that account closure isn't supposed to cut off access to your already-purchased content.

http://www.dailydot.com/news/amazon-linn-nygaard-deleted-acc...
Electrons don't do much flowing in circuits either. The drift velocity is something on the order of 1meter/hr.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194791.The_Old_New_Thing
Where did you see that? The KLL page is still up and accepting Prime memberships, and the Kindle Select (author program behind KU and KLL) terms are clear that authors can opt their books into or out of either or both.

Edit: I do notice that the website doesn't display the KLL option for me on eligible books, but I assume that's because my KU subscription enables less restrictive access to the same book.
Well, it's certainly truer for prostitution than it is for conventional relationships. Use fuzzy logic to process the truth here.
Oh boy, I should have seen this one coming :-)

By "this mess" I meant the LibreSSL fork/chroot mess. I think crypto libraries should just use whatever the OS provides and not try to implement their own CSPRNGs. But git-crypt is a cross-platform application, not a crypto library. Implementing my own cross-platform wrapper around OS CSPRNGs would be decidedly less sane (and more error-prone) than just using the crypto library's CSPRNG, even if I disagree with how the library has done things.
Wouldn't the loop sleep between frames?
Everything in the universe is impacted by everything else that happens.

That's a useless tautology.
This is true, but at the same time a company making $100k in a single year probably doesn't need to hire "the best of the best" (even if they think they do, because everyone thinks they do) and can actually get by with local college grads until such a time as they hit a scale where they need outside help, by which point they can hopefully pay for it.
This is almost exactly the same idea that I had - it may differ in specifics, but they map to the same thing, so I'd be interested in following the progress of its design. Have you thought of the possibility that, for example, universities could issue coins to their graduates, and scientists could issue them to papers they have reviewed (and the value, in that case, could well be the actual review)?
… and discover that over half the videos on YouTube are not available to the HTML5 player.
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the force...Jedi is coming
Programming is So Not Mathematics [sarcasm]
$400 or so was about one month's budget for me for media, though that included games and my $100/mo cable bill.

I'm way ahead with KU (was using Oyster), Netflix/Hulu, and Rdio. If someone comes out with a decent all-you-can-eat gaming service that doesn't make me juggle discs, I'll be way, way ahead.
If you can remember to use $@ rather than $*, you should be able to remember to use "$@". The only reason $@ exists is that it behaves differently when enclosed in double quotes.
For that matter even humans have a weird metabolism compared to what the quote says - sugar/glucose is not the only source of energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis
Maybe you could also expand to also allow poeple to mine by running a distributed search engine. So they can basicly decide wether they offer simple storage or storage + processing power + low lattency.
His assertion is true, i have traveled to 4+ countries in africa, and live in one.

I have yet to be without signal in all my travels. You would need to go really remote to find a place without signal.

Even sparsely populated areas, backwaters are covered. The reason is communication infrastructure was pretty bad here, hence we leap frogged and mobile is primary means of communication.

You also have the other challenge of copper being stolen, hence in some areas the only way for you to get comms (internet/phone) is via mobile.
Coins can really be any data, issued by anyone. So they can almost be thought of as contracts in some cases, assertions in another.

When the video of my talk is up you'll see that comes up in the Q/A.

Part of the reason I'm being late-binding about the technical implementation is because I know I haven't come up with anything exactly new.

I've been working a long time to solve the database sync problem, and now that we shipped, I'm thinking about what we can build on top of it. Which particular key scheme we use is of secondary importance, the important thing for me is exposing crypto primitives as part of a distributed database.
The movie "The sleeping Dictionary" is based around that http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242888/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Looks great, Thomas. If you'd like to use Diffbot [1] to generate clean content summaries of the links for mobile, ala premii, I'd be happy to hook you up with some calls. [1] http://diffbot.com