skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want experts? Try paying them like they're in the top 1% of their field and their work is worth at least 10 times if not 100 times the average salary to many employers. Make an effort to actually, you know, compete to get them.

The market for programmers is really inefficient for pay. Google has exploited that to the max and succeeded hiring a lot of very talented engineers at rates you pay for average tax accountants and attourneys. Just like the way they exploited Free software licensing by expempting themselves from the publish part by distributing access to the software not the software itself.
That's their two best tricks right there.

Where they crossed the line massively is when they engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Apple et al to act in a cartel keep those wages down. This in addition to all the other legal ways they try pushing the market down when it really should be a sellers market. Andrew Moreton paid less than a football player of similar standing? How about 2 orders of magnitude less.
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I think if you want to parallel Locke with the philosophy of the GPL, you need to reread your Locke.

You keep talking about freedom like it's a settled topic, but the debate on what is freedom and how to maximize is robust and vigorous, and Locke has not been the leader in liberal thought for a very long time and RMS is not taken very seriously in those circles either.
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I believe that's the IP address of Google Public DNS, not Google.com per se.
FINALLY, this is what crypto needs
Is this a language learning app or a spaced repetition studying app? I'd be interested in something with a smoother UI thank Anki, but that seems to be the established app for med school
Mori Javscript library – ClojureScript's persistent data structures and API
Everything you have said is false. Private prisons are not colluding to keep prisoners in prison or lobbying the state or doing any kind of action to increase the number of people that become imprisoned nor increase their length of stay. There is no evidence for anything you have claimed, you simply use "privatized" as if it were a dirty word and we should knowingly nod our heads in assent.

> I'm not sure

The way to resolve an information need is to engage in an objective search of facts, not speculate endlessly and make unsubstantiated claims of criminal behavior of others without some kind of evidence to base it on.

If you want people to spend less time in prison, you'll want the laws changed because that's where all this come from. Some of the laws in California are the result of ballots.
Being a High Schooler myself, it is actually really cool to see viral effects first hand. For example, when I released my first simple game app, Runbow, I thought it might catch on if I just played it in class. It did, within a day, 1/3 of the students at my school had it (school of 2000). I was also featured in the school newspaper. It was a fun experience. I wrote a blog post about it:

http://blog.sam.ink/2014/03/05/i-made-an-app/
I think we should implement an all-solitary-confinement prison system.

We can make the initial prison terms shorter by an order of magnitude (a few days to a few weeks, depending on the nature of the crime). This should be hard enough time to scare most first-time offenders straight.

If you get repeat offenders, start increasing the length of solitary confinement exponentially.

The benefit is that you need less guards, the guards are better protected, less prison gangs because there would be no intermingling of prisoners, and it would protect the prisoners as well. It would help first-time offenders because they will probably get scared straight faster, and they wouldn't be in jail as long. And if you get a really violent criminal, it would be akin to locking them away and throwing away the key.
Is that first photo [1] "normal" for an cell setup? I'd have thought computer access was similar to phone access (by appointment only).

[1] http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/08/1014_W...
> Imagine Stuyvesant without a computer science program.

Easy when I have no idea what Stuyvesant is.
Have you tried Mnemosyne?

http://mnemosyne-proj.org/

It may not have as many features as Anki, but it has a good plugin architecture and the UI is very simple.
Looks like a TV to me. I don't see a mouse or keyboard.
Thank you, Huffington Post, for reminding us of the importance of good editors (which don't seem to be a thing in what passes for journalism on the internet). Seriously, do they not teach contractions and homonyms in schools anymore?
BCG [1] claims the 2013 proportion of millionaire "households" in the US is 5.9%, which would be 1 in 20 (!). This seems really high.

[1] https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/financial_i...
Wow, the article didn't even mention the "original" solve of the 48 US city problem (one in each state) in 1954 (they included Washington D.C., so 49 to be precise)! For those interested, Dantzig (creator of the simplex method), Fulkerson and Johnson made quite the stir when they tried out the TSP at Rand in California more than half a century ago in their paper, "Solution of a large scale traveling salesman problem" [1].

The paper contains a historical context of the problem and their methods towards finding and proving (important!) that their solution was in fact optimal.

For those interested in Dantzig, he was the famed PhD student who came late to class one day and wrote down two open problems mistakenly thinking it was homework. He ended up using those solutions as a portion of his PhD thesis [2].

Here's an excerpt from Dantzig himself:

It happened because during my first year at Berkeley I arrived late one day at one of [Jerzy] Neyman's classes. On the blackboard there were two problems that I assumed had been assigned for homework. I copied them down. A few days later I apologized to Neyman for taking so long to do the homework — the problems seemed to be a little harder than usual. I asked him if he still wanted it. He told me to throw it on his desk. I did so reluctantly because his desk was covered with such a heap of papers that I feared my homework would be lost there forever. About six weeks later, one Sunday morning about eight o'clock, [my wife] Anne and I were awakened by someone banging on our front door. It was Neyman. He rushed in with papers in hand, all excited: "I've just written an introduction to one of your papers. Read it so I can send it out right away for publication." For a minute I had no idea what he was talking about. To make a long story short, the problems on the blackboard that I had solved thinking they were homework were in fact two famous unsolved problems in statistics. That was the first inkling I had that there was anything special about them.

A year later, when I began to worry about a thesis topic, Neyman just shrugged and told me to wrap the two problems in a binder and he would accept them as my thesis.

The second of the two problems, however, was not published until after World War II. It happened this way. Around 1950 I received a letter from Abraham Wald enclosing the final galley proofs of a paper of his about to go to press in the Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Someone had just pointed out to him that the main result in his paper was the same as the second "homework" problem solved in my thesis. I wrote back suggesting we publish jointly. He simply inserted my name as coauthor into the galley proof.

[1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gendron/IFT6551/LECTURES/TSP.pd...

[2] http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
Ask HN: Founders, what are your favorite interview questions and why?
Interviewing is hard for your startup - essentially the most important thing you will do. What are some of your favorite questions and why ?
Most likely they just filter out the safrole.
Are there any good resources to learn what is necessary to solve this puzzle?
#Twiticism: Broken Websites Go Through the Wringer on Social Media
ok, lets roll up the sleeves and code something :)
How are sales of Windows on ARM? Win RT tablets didn't do well and Chromebooks are now available as x86.
You don't say! From the article:

The Idea Builder is based on the Flashforge Dreamer,…
"Private prisons are not colluding to keep prisoners in prison or lobbying the state or doing any kind of action to increase the number of people that become imprisoned nor increase their length of stay."

You sure about that? http://www.dailypaul.com/312217/pennsylvania-judge-sentenced...
From quick Googling (and implied by the article) it's a specialized High School in NYC.

http://www.stuy.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School
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Its a flashforge dreamer with one extruder ripped out and the heatbed removed running autodesk 123 software. Dremel had very little to do with building it except deciding where the logos will go.
It is misleading to refer to the US prison system as privatized, when the percentage of the total inmates that are in private prisons is only around 3% [1].

Privatized prisons do create a huge moral hazard, but currently the pro-prison groups with the biggest scope and influence are probably police/guard unions [2] and the "tough on crime" crowd.

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-unit...

[2] http://www.economist.com/node/15580530
Which Is a Better City for Startups, San Francisco or New York City?
I have to imagine this is because the Apple Pay system directly integrates with (admittedly outdated) tech such as 3D Secure, Visa and Mastercard forms of tokenization, and the incumbents other systems. These are traditionally very different from a new technology such as PayPal which, IMO, doesn't seem to be a standard gateway at all.
Fake upvotes and accounts are a really bad idea here, not to mention comments that look like sockpuppetry. Please don't do any of this. Just let your work speak for itself.
That's not true at all. There was a real effort in the 1950's and 1960's to turn the justice system into one more oriented toward rehabilitation. In the face of crime skyrocketing in the 1960's and 1970's, voters went the other way, instituting our present system. Take for example things like three strikes laws, which are mostly responsible for the "he went to jail for life for stealing $200" horror stories. Those were pioneered in 1993-94, by referendum in progressive states like Washington and California, by overwhelming margins (80-90% voting in favor).
On the flip side. Texting was something my friends and I used to do years and years ago with flip phones. But it seems impossibly outmoded and limited these days. So we all IM/email/FB these days instead -- delivery is just about as fast and interactive. I think I send/receive single digit texts in any given 12 month period, and it's usually just to direct people to use email with me instead since nobody I know texts.

My Mom however, texts with her church friends like it's going out of style. I tell myself this exemplifies my attitude of it being out-of-date. But then I hear that young kids text like crazy, or they use an app that's so close to sms that it may as well be.
[learn about this] Middle School Dropout [and how he] codes [a] chat program that foils [the ability of the] NSA [to] spy [on communication]
Check out Skritter, it's for-pay spaced repetition which also has you practice writing the characters. (Also has Japanese)

Edit: oh yeah, they were previously turned down by YC and then accepted by YC, or something. Don't know the details.
Pharma and Ebola
How often does a K-12 teacher thank you for coding? Find out at Clever (YC S12)
Steve Jobs described education as one of the final frontiers still untouched by modern technology. Clever (YC S12 - https://clever.com) is building the data platform needed for great software to make its way into the classroom. Just like Stripe has made it simple for developers to build payment processing into their apps, Clever has made it easy for developers to build applications for schools using student data.

We're a small, highly technical team with deep experience in education. In under two years, 1 in 5 schools in America has begun using our APIs, meaning that Clever moves data for eight million students every day.

Our newest project is essentially Facebook Connect for education: one identity to tie together all of a student’s learning applications into a cohesive experience. We’re making that happen with our Instant Login service, which allows students to log in once and immediately get access to all their apps: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-05-14-no-more-passwords-cleve...

And while we have all the startup perks (a beautiful loft office in SoMa, free lunch, unlimited Amazon credits for learning..) – hands down the best part of the job are the calls and emails from schools describing how much Clever helps them.

As an education company, we’re all about learning personally too – it’s practically a prerequisite to work here. In the past few weeks we’ve done tech talks on things like exoplanets, set theory, and kitesurfing. (We also love a good round of bughouse chess – just ask Magnus Carlsen http://screencast.com/t/xD7umWfo)

We’re looking for full-stack engineers who can hack in Node, Go, and Python (or are willing to learn), but more importantly, we’re looking for people who share our passion for improving education. If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you.

https://clever.com/about/jobs

At Clever, we want to work with the best people - applicants of all backgrounds and beliefs are welcome to come improve education with us. We're committed to making our office a safe and comfortable environment for all employees.
Yes, it is Zigbee based, it works under the same standar (802.15.4 radio frequency). For being connected to internet it needs a module that bridges the device with the internet.
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That looks more like a small tv maybe? Or perhaps it's just a monitor and they have designated hours to use a monitored laptop or something.
Q: If you could excel at one skill you currently do not possess what would it be?

What I am looking for:
- Desire to learn
- Acknowledgment of a weakness and desire to fix
- Its easy to give a cope-out answer but the good ones won't.
Using a disassembler to get the "source" (deadlist) assembly code rather than stepping through with a debugger.
The portions of assembly code in the article are deadlists

This thread is bringing back a lot of memories :)
The percentage of private prisoners is single digits. The policies that lead to high incarceration rates today, namely long drug sentences and three strikes laws, were promulgated in the 1980's and early 1990's, when the industry was essentially nonexistent.
There is no evidence that suggests increased or harsher sentences serve as a deterrent to crime.
"What we really want is a flattened struct"

That's what we call struct embedding.
Check this http://talks.golang.org/2014/go4java.slide#33 for more details.
Oh, I wasn't actually the poster who saw it down for 48 hours. I guess it's more that since YQL is accessing a bunch of external services there's a good possibility that something else was going on. As a 3rd party service it's a bit harder to debug, but that's just the nature of things.

ql.io looks interesting, I'll check it out.
Nothing fake, just sharing the link with our community networks and directing them to check it out here.

Hopefully our work does speak for itself.
In the future, hosts will be able to make their own "products" which will be free of charge - like a nearby hike or beach that they recommend. I think free activities mixed in with paid tours, combined with a host's custom recommendations per (paid) activity (which is currently implemented), should make an honest, wholesome and reliable guide.

Also keep in mind that it won't always be just touristy tours. Along the lines of crazypyro's comment, we'll be adding other services like transportation and restaurant reservations.
How does this compare to other benchmarks? It looks like you're using the sentence-level dataset out of Cornell, based on your Github. Even a naive unigram baseline easily beats the 70% threshold you mentioned in your post. A few years ago, I co-authored [1] a publication with very similar graph-based features on this dataset that achieved 77% accuracy, and the state of the art has moved beyond that since then. Without a comparison to baseline it's hard to tell whether this (much more sophisticated) technique is adding value.

[1] Shilpa Arora, et al. "Sentiment classification using automatically extracted subgraph features." Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text.
Why is the bottom of the green area jagged, but the top smooth?
While I appreciate the lyricism, I'm not sure this is an apt metaphor. After all, you can deflect laster pistol shots with a lightsaber, but you can't hardly deflect a lightsaber using a laser pistol.

But honestly, I'd rather learn to use the force. Better get that midichlorian shot.
I have worked with UDT in the past. It certainly had its advantages though wasn't always as robust as I'd like it to be. I hadn't noticed much activity with it the last few years though. What's with the current interest?
I think the real tragedy is not the missing root beer, but the apparent fact that there would be no way to lift that ban now, given the bloated and corrupt bureaucracy we're dealing with.
Seems like a nice guide and I plan to read it through fully. Does anyone have suggestions for other "how to test software" guides?
The FDE's shouldn't have been doing any core software development unless it was some kind of bespoke one-off code, some kind of helper app for a specific SAP program or something, and that software, code and all, now belongs to the government.

They should have been doing implementation and FSR duties. If they were doing core product development while on Federal Contract, the government owns that software now. If it hasn't been turned over, source and all, it could be grounds for an IG investigation.

That is very serious stuff, so I hope you can qualify what you mean by "serious software development".

As for FDE's doing sales, just look at the current job openings. The BD team is full of FDE openings. What exactly do you think those FDEs do on the sales team?

Since everybody who touches the customer has the same title (except for Mission Specialists), it's easy for Palantir to start a deployment with non-sales FDE's, then swap them out for sales FDE's and start working the organization.

It's sketchy, but it's super smart if they're careful about it.
google have permission
It's an interesting piece, however, I think it's misguided as to what needs to be done. Detroit fell not as much because the auto makers moved away, but because once they did, there was nothing left. This is a huge problem that I see in this area; friends with skills and desire in professions like medicine end up having to become sysadmins because it's the only way to make ends meet in the upside down economy of this area. You can't have a sustainable area economy if the working class has to commute from Stockton to do the "menial jobs".

Among other things, I think it's high time that the big players -- Google, Facebook, etc -- started growing upward rather than outwards. Sprawl is a terrible waste of land, and pushes prices that much higher, and that much more out of the way of the other people who live in the area. In order for this area to remain awesome, we really do need the Google Tower, the Facebook Tower, etc, in order to give enough space for new and small people to be able to get a foothold. Otherwise, I have a bad feeling that the Fabulous Ruins of the Silicon Valley is going to have stark photographs of abandoned sprawling compounds, much like Detroit's ruin porn has now.
Thank you for the advice! It means a lot.
More likely to be smacked carelessly into things as you move around, though.
As I understand it this is not guaranteed to find the optimal solution. Does it find the optimal solution in this particular case?
Your comment prompted me to look up Katja Kladnik. I hadn't expected her to have passed in (edited) 1995.

http://spth.virii.lu/coderz1/lucky.html
http://www.st-news.com/rex.htm#lucky

The e-zine this is from (http://spth.virii.lu/coderz1/ / http://vxheavens.com/vx.php?fid=177) was pretty interesting, too. Harks back to the time of small, independent online communities with dark webpage backgrounds.
That, my friends, was a powerful blogpost. Raw, exuberant, and purposeful. I learned much.
Another type of fermented non-alcoholic drink that looks like beer is Kvass. It is popular in Eastern Europe. They would sell from a large barrel on wheels on the corners of the street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass

It is made from fermented bread (toasted croutons), maybe some flavourings, and yeast.

And it is one of my favourite soft drinks. And I don't drink sugary soft drinks, but I would drink kvass. It is slightly tangy and earthy (woodsy) flavour. When it is hot outside, there is nothing better than a large mug filled with cold kvass with a nice head on it.
I never had a card or pin number at school. Please enlighten me, what do the cards get used for? Lunch koney? Coursework? What are some potential abuses?

Can the pins be changed? It doesn't seem like this story is getting any traction, so maybe you better provide more details.
No, it's still current. If you take a peek at their careers page and look on the Business Development Team (that's the sales and partnership team) openings, it's chock full of Forward Deployed Engineer positions.
Why not just bring back the lash? http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/featu...
http://8.8.8.8 just times out. Why not point it to http://www.google.com or just serve a little javascript redirect or something?

Sloppy work Google.
I feel like I'm the only one that feels this way about Ruby.
Facebook for highschoolers is redundant. Once you hit college is where you really get value out of it, as you meet and network with way more people through campus, class, events, etc.
It was massively overhyped at the end of the previous year. Prices are steadily converging to its 'true', unhyped price.
I think Instagram (along with Twitter) is used a lot to interact with a wider base of people than just your friends, supporting your idea of image-based networks, but I don't think it has to do with their particular media. Reddit, and other forum-like sites, are popular in certain cliques (mainly tech-savvy ones -- anime/manga fans, gamers, etc.), but hasn't really broken out in mainstream teen culture. My hypothesis is that teenagers like the more personal, if you will, aspect of Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/etc. in that they are very user-based -- even if you find content based on a hashtag (say, on Twitter), who posted it is just as important as what they posted, unlike forums, where content matters significantly more than its poster. (How many Reddit usernames do remember? Now what about Twitter?)

I think pseudonymity is perceived in a very different manner than anonymity. With a pseudonym, you can piece together the scraps of information someone leaves and maybe make a good guess at who that account is; at least, that's how one feels when using a consistent pseudonym, even if it's unrealistic. With anonymity, you have no sense of responsibility for your actions, because each one post is unlikely to reveal much on its own.

Again, I probably have a skewed view of things, but hopefully this was at least thought-provoking!