skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would be surprised how often you just... lie. Even if it's something unimportant, or a story that doesn't exist. You can lie about the most meaningless things. If you pay attention to your lying you will be horrified how often you do it, and how pointless the things you lie about are.

I guess I form part of this "radical honesty" movement. Once you learn to trick your mind out of lying it's so refreshing. Lying is extremely stressful, I have no idea why we have a natural tendency to employ it.

Instead of worrying if my wife finds out I've lied about drinking with colleagues ("I'm working late"), I know that I can ask her to fetch me if I go over the limit.

Although, there's a difference between being honest and being a dick.
Going against the ToS === malfunctioning moral compass?

Please. Games that introduce economies will always have people exploiting them, in various shades of gray. WoW trading sites (gold, accts) are against ToS, but there is no other recourse for a player to "cash out" of WoW when they've decided they've had enough.

How about the other side of the coin? Most ToS in these games reserve the right to cancel your account at any time, and are explicit that you don't actually own any of the stuff that you paid for, either with money or time. Is that kosher according to your, functioning, moral compass?

And to make a more abstract point, I would suspect that the majority of users here have had to make compromises between their moral ideals and what was reasonable/necessary to be done. (example: knowing that if your company fails, your userbase's data could end up with the highest bidder and whatever morals they might have; or growth hacking techniques that are as annoying as they are effective).

Edit* (premature post) ---

Things are rarely black or white. We tend to draw the lines ourselves, and in this case it is interesting that you've put him on the black side because (a) he's gaming the game (albeit without destroying it) and (b) participating in affiliate marketing.

My line would fall far further than yours, it seems.
Yes, you're right, I shouldn't have simplified it that much. Upvoted you because your comment deserves more attention.

The steering uses amplitude and phase shifting to create beams through constructive or destructive interference. All very fascinating stuff, and it allows for additional uses like jamming and directional communications links.
Thank you very much for your kind and helpful response. I expected this post to get very little attention, but in the overwhelming response it's been amazing to read comments like yours.

Thankfully my mother is still alive, and is enjoying checking off what she still can from her bucket list. We're very grateful she's done well with the chemo so far.

Hacking my life is exactly what I've been up to recently. I'm learning, as fast as I can, everything I'll need to know to be the full stack developer for the project I'm working on. I'm so thankful for the free resources available to learn from.
Regarding this specific case, if no other engineers in the team are good at iOS programming and the candidate is aware of that, most probably the candidate would not give answers like that. If the candidate does say things like that in this situation, I would feel negative about it. It doesn't sound an engineer speaking.

As for OP's question, I haven't figured out a good way, either.
We have a different perception of what a friend is, brutalhonesty.io.
I've been a Sonic subscriber for a few years now and I'm configured to use the affected DNS servers, but I've never encountered a block and I don't really see the problem (aside from not branding the block page.)
David Cope runs a workshop every summer at UC Santa Cruz, where he and several colleagues teach about algorithmic composition.

http://arts.ucsc.edu/programs/WACM

I went to this last summer, and it was pretty awesome. I did stuff in Clojure using Overtone; everyone else used a dialect of Common Lisp to generate MIDI files. I took off on this Overtone tangent because I had prior programming experience and a lot of curiousity about Clojure; most of the other people there were musicians, not programmers.

btw, these musicians were writing fairly sophisticated software in Lisp within two weeks of first being introduced to programming at all. :-)

You can see my own code from that experience here:

https://github.com/gilesbowkett/markov-bass-lines

https://github.com/gilesbowkett/clojure-circles

Caveat: my Clojure's a bit rough, and not properly idiomatic.

Another, very unfortunate caveat: there was an extremely inappropriate remark from Dr. Cope which, in my opinion, alienated a pair of Indian programmers, the only people there with any programming experience at all, other than myself. After Dr. Cope made this remark, both of them were gone the next day.

Also, I have to say, Emily Howell is mostly a probabilistic beat-slicer which works against sheet music. Like almost all artificial intelligence, as far as I can tell, she is much more artificial than intelligent. Her previous incarnation, iirc, only sliced up Bach measures into new measures, although this had the interesting side effect of re-creating several measures of Mozart, who apparently was a huge Bach fan.

Oh also - I'm pretty sure Cope put a ton of source code in one of his books. You can find them on Amazon and use "search inside" to find out which books have code. Be prepared for a little heavy lifting, though, if you're not familiar with Lisp.
I understand 3 months, or 6 at the outside, to be a fair deadline. Bugs not fixed after six months are never fixed.
Pesonal Blocklist Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
You're right. It's definitely a popular (and I'm sure profitable) game. And I don't think OPs comment really belongs in this thread, but like him, because it's a bad game, I lament (maybe irrationally?) that it's so popular.
Failed to Gain Traction, Goodbye to 4 years of work
So I started a SaaS 4 years ago. However, I can no longer keep up. I've issued refund to my customers. I'm closing shop.

However, I don't feel sad, quite the contrary. I feel liberated and excited because I will be pivoting to a service only business. I feel that creating a tool which will handle all the billions of edge cases on my own is tough, especially with the small revenues.

tl;dr: I'm ditching a software I created for the past 4 years, and I've just increased my prices about 10 fold, and have pivoted to a service business.
love the bitcoin acceptance
Hmm, I wonder what the long term effects of these drugs are. Medicinal and therapeutic use may be very promising for average people just trying to stay in shape. If the long term effects aren't too terrible, say like that of coffee, then greater acceptance may be possible.

Also, as toward the 2 hour marathon, drugs that are psychoactive may be of as great a benefit as the physical ones. Not just caffeine and other placebos, but getting into the right 'head space' is just as important to breaking such records. LSD was an integral part of one of baseball's no hitters, a terrific feat of athleticism. Many feats of the mind may be broken in Washington state due to the permissive pot laws.
"Militarizing Your Backyard With Python" - Perhaps the best presentation to a programming language conference in history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
If the servers aren't his, why is he in court? Doesn't that mean that the real mastermind behind silk road is still out there and that the FBI got the wrong guy?

That's the least effective rebuttal I've heard in a while.

Obviously the government is going to do whatever it can to prosecute the guy, rules be damned.
Are you asking if the antenna gets moved to illuminate the target once acquired? I apologize if I misunderstood. If that's the case, the antenna is a solid state phased array; no movement is required. Mobile communications (cellular and satellite) spot beams work under the same principal.

http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/MESA/Documents/a...
Interesting. Will you be sharing your email/conversation with him?
Shotgun is overkill. A .177 air gun is more than sufficient. And effective.
You're right, and I should have been clearer. I was referring to the implausibility of someone being awarded the Prize for working against abortion. I'm sure many laureates incidentally oppose abortion, but it's hard to imagine the leader of a prominent anti-abortion organization being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for that work.
> But will it be a thoughtful, well written response?

/r/subredditdrama

It's full of self-righteous people who enjoy watching other people fight. On the other hand, they tend to be people who are less interested in fighting and rather enjoy engaging conversation. I've had some brilliant belief-altering discussions in there, and most importantly, situations where both parties "respectfully agree to disagree."

You just have to find the sweet spots in Reddit - it takes a fair amount of participation to finds those places (but SRD is a good start).
I think hearing is also useful, from time to time. It's not AS critical as sight, but if nothing it allows drivers to share their emotional state in a very primitive way and to gauge how their engine is performing.
Anybody have a link to an actual readable text version?
This does also mean that the whole array can be pointed in multiple directions at once: The only limitation is the number of phase shifters coming off of each antenna (if the signals are directly sampled and then the beam forming is done in software you are then only limited by your processing power. I'm not sure if this is currently possible in radar but I've seen it done for sonar).
They've improved star fade, if that's possible... You keep scrolling down until you are certain that there is nothing left to see and then, suddenly... star fade!
Argument analysis: What is work, anyway?
I was going to say, 'Move Fast, Don't Break Anything But Your Local Code Branch"...API works too.
I was feeding some squirrels with my GF and this guy comes up and tells us that squirrels are ruining his trees in his yard and how he's been using his dog to kill them.

I just looked at him funny and told him about the invasive bugs in the area that've been ravaging the trees and how he's managed to make his own situation worse by getting rid of the very animals that eat insects like that.

He just walked away stuped in cognitive dissonance.

That said, I do enjoy watching videos people put up that show squirrels trying to get into bird feeders and getting flung off and stuff. It's interesting and funny watching squirrels trying to defeat these things.
Ever play EF2000? It's not a modern one but it's an older realistic one that I remember fondly. That and Echelon (not realistic)
Yes, I'd really like to hear what it does.
For those old enough to remember 1-900 phone numbers, there used to be 1-900-4INSULT (or something like this) that you called and paid $10. The person who answered would just insult you until you couldn't take it anymore. This reminds me of that.
Looks pretty nice and clean! Great job!
The marketing of the game gives me honest concern. It is the quintessential "list of features" that is indicative of technology made without acknowledging a critical, artistic perspective - that's even true of the title "Voxel Quest." If you can correct this and gain understanding of what the game _represents_ and what areas you _want_ it to be critiqued on, it will become both easier to design and to market. Narrowing always clarifies things.

There is one aspect in which you do show a definite perspective, and that is in the use of a simulationist philosophy: Everything done in deterministic, procedural, emergent ways. Now, one of the ways in which this philosophy gets challenged is the issue of "you don't know what you don't know" - if your simulation is built upon bad premises, then it's garbage in, garbage out.

So then, if you want to find the same kind of successes with the approach as something like Dwarf Fortress, Spelunky or Minecraft, you have to actively acknowledge where your simulation becomes intentionalized by the assumptions you make about how the world works. At that point you are in the business of making critical arguments through your game and the workings of its systems: Things like how the economy is tuned, frequency of combat, or average NPC reactions to violence, all send unavoidable messages about the totality of the world you make.

You can literally pick just _one_ thing that characterizes the world, consider it in depth and tailor every other system's features around it, and have a fine game. Even Dwarf Fortress, which is extremely deep, shows intentionality in that the details it focuses on are descriptive and categorical(types of rocks, individual organs) vs., for example, being spatially accurate like the physics simulation of a racing game. What makes DF's detail cool - and what makes it a big, complex game instead of a tiny one - isn't that it attains atomic precision, but that everything adds up to a specific, detailed, believable narrative about fantasy characters doing the "everyday things" we expect to see in a fantasy world.

To put it another way: Eliminating things from the game makes it impossible to criticize those things, and every game eliminates something! But the things a game does show should have a ton of care put into them.

If you're doing all of this right, you'll be up at night with some fear over the internal struggle of the design decisions, instead of the actual production or marketing; you are already demonstrating the necessary skill to do those two - you have very nice graphics to show off in your trailers, which is a great entry point.

The only reason why the marketing looks hard is because there's a lack of design intent, and thus nothing but bullet point features after you show the graphics. But the design can act as a master plan for the marketing, as it allows you to go on at length about the things being conveyed through the systems, vs. what the systems are, where your effort on details is going to go, and how you want the overall play experience to expand over the coming months.
Siri should implement a service based on Mad Magazine's "Don Martin's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions".
I believe Ulbricht has just been given grounds for appeal if the trial goes against him. I find it highly dubious that the FBI has legal authority to access that server without the permission of its "owner" or a warrant. Regardless of whether Ulbricht was in possession of the server (as renter) or it belonged to someone else, the FBI would still need permission of that person or a warrant to search the server. In this case, I suspect that a U.S. warrant would not do as the server was located in Iceland. Probably, they would need cooperation from the Icelandic police and a local warrant. On top of all of this, don't forget that the FBI does not have authority to operate outside of the U.S. without cooperation from the locals.
How Preschoolers Can Predict Disease Outbreaks
The video is good for a laugh (not the first one - couldn't get through that, but the one farther down in the page). Reminds me of this scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGiQOCX9UbM

Ah, Austin Powers.

This is actually a nice little kit, especially the price point. Competitors all seem to be significantly more expensive (and often more full of features):

* SparkFun RedBot Kit
* Parallax Boe-Bot Robot Kit
* Pololu 3pi Robot
* Sparki
* Arduino Robot
* Lego Mindstorm
I haven't really saved any music. But you should try the code out for yourself! Pretty impressive for a computer!
And of course the best way to get a detailed informative reply from an expert for free is to post an incorrect answer, and then get your ass flamed off and handed to you on a platter for being wrong.
PDF here:
https://db.tt/Ag5evB1x

(converted from the epub)
Thanks, I just checked this out -- pretty awesome.
So...the government gets to have it both ways? The reason it didn't require a warrant for a search is that it can't be shown that it was his server, but the case itself hinges on proving that it was indeed his?
The article has 1.2 the amount of words it needs, at least. Apropos.

Strange to use Florida as an example, with an 8-lane local road! Suburban Florida is empty and flat very spread out and every road is basically a highway. People need to go fast because everything is far away. Not like urban environments where most time is spent stopped at corners, not moving.
Show HN: Rosetta Stone of Coding
The radar discussion in the video is pretty good itself. It begins at 30min 31sec: http://youtu.be/uU3pmXvnc0k?t=30m31s .
Sure, what the heck.
Dissolvable silicon circuits and sensors
Because the benefit is pretty small compared to what you can save in cycling. Now it's certainly there, which is why you want to save the extra 5% for the 2h mark, but it's not the 40% you get in cycling on the flat (drag grows faster than linear).
Twitter's head of news Vivian Schiller leaves
Here's Jordan's first email:

-----------------------------

Hey there,

Thanks for buying Brutal Honesty. What can I help you with? Ask away.

Cheers

Jordan

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And then this is my reply:

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Hi Jordan,

So I was hoping to get your honest opinion on a business idea I'm working on. It's a bit similar to your business I guess.

Here's our site:

http://talkshopwithus.com

Let me know if you think this seems like total bullshit, or if it's cool.

Thanks!

-Alex
Here's a short film on Dock Ellis's no hitter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14
In FBI logic, something you use is not protected from search, if someone else owns it. The logic goes, that other party could conceivably one day break your trust and divulge your secrets, therefore you have no expectation of privacy. Same argument they use to read your mail when it is in your mailbox.
Tumblr continues to have a higher and higher percentage of unreadable "blogs" because of the increasing number of horribly looking themes being created. Just like MySpace, it will flame out and Facebook will out live it.

Personally, I don't enrage in any of that nonsense.
The end of Traditional Supermarkets?
In 1990, the Win32 API thing seemed to be simply prohibitive for me to approach. In Microsoft's defense, my impression of the Apple Mac was even worse, but my Mac had HyperCard.

The introduction of VB is what tipped the scales for me, in favor of Windows, as it was apparent that Apple's interest in HC was waning.

Naturally, it's a horses-for-courses thing, but I agree that VB was huge.
You're the second commenter who believed I didn't know this stuff.

I know that, and more. But go and explain each and every flag to a student that just want to extract the first lesson of his first UNIX course. At this point, this is all magic and arbitrary.
I apologize. I was sure to be dealing with a troll and was sloppy with my sources (i.e. I was sure to have once read it in the official docs, but here I just linked the first official looking google hit that was not the solaris docs).

there is nothing specific to ZFS that makes it require ECC any more than any other filesystem

This statement still troubles me. I was under the assumption that ZFS scrubbing may indeed lead to compounding corruption as described in the blog post I linked. Hence the ongoing(?) debate in the ZFS community.

However, I consider myself disqualified from this discussion and sorry again for my tone. I'll read up on the current state of the argument.
App to help you remember what you did when you were blacked out
Q: What's the difference between a contractor and a consultant?

A: A contractor knows the difference.
Especially when the debt was resold for a small percentage of what you owed, and entity you borrowed from absolutely refused to negotiate with you in any way that would allow you to pay them back at a reduced cost, or even at less than 20%+ interest and late fees. (Eg: Standard Operation Procedure at Bank of America.)
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It sounds like you're on track to be a very excellent project manager. Instead of engineering, you might consider being a technical project leader.

Looking back I'm shocked at how much I've learned, and if I had to do it all over again I might cry.
Seems counterproductive to claim that this is a "bad idea". The only point you prove is why you're not going to be his customer. Lets see how many people take him up on this to wait and see if its a bad idea.
I agree with @mindcrime that the spirit of this is right and the details have probably been implemented by an amateur.

I read an article on this topic recently which said something about people who grok what a meme is.

Let's say that you are in that club and also agree with the author in spirit.

Some trolls are paid to be disruptive because you-know-who doesn't want our geek community to be too unified. Oh, and the shills are sometimes armed with big-data insights, too.

...Yes? Okay. :)
My personal experience is that after a few messages almost every user used to it. It is obvious there will be users who won't like it and it's not the best messaging app for business talks or conversations where msg history is important.
I understand how painful economy-ruining exploits can be as a player who has been through that multiple times when exploiters acted in carelessness or disregard. I didn't express it well enough in the article, but one of the most difficult parts of the business was finding the balance where I could please the maximum number of item-buying players without even putting a dent in the value of those items in the economy. It was just as important to me that the items retain their maximum value.

Due to everyone's obliviousness and doubt about the exploit, I think I was successful in maintaining that balance. I believe I was watching the economies at least as close as the game developer. It wasn't until after foreign gold-selling companies got their hands on a different dupe method years later and acted with complete disregard for the game's economy that anyone had even noticed.
Mindfulness and Kindness: Inner Sources of Freedom and Happiness (2012)
you deserve to get it published. :)

Really impressive update since last year. :D
I just rolled out a measuring tape to 12 feet and I'm quite certain my local traffic lanes are nowhere near there..
Re "They don't support the cheating": this person struggles with debt and death. Great if they made desperately needed money from some gaming corporation's bugs. By playing a metagame which is probably more fun than the intended game.

Unless there's some awful crime I missed, I commend the author's hacking (if they want such a commendation).
On your site, in viewports less than 768px wide, the header background image disappears, leaving a light background that makes the text very difficult to read. The image should probably not disappear, and the background-color should also be changed to something dark like the image, so that in case the image doesn’t load the text will still be legible.
No, because chaining that with an additional filter operation will create intermediate lists.
I own and am currently using an Actiontec Q1000 with a CenturyLink DSL connection.

I'm trying to work out just how exposed I am, and whether there's anything practical I can do about it.

Presumably I can:
1) buy a different device not currently known to be vulnerable
2) reflash with an alternate firmware
3) disable as many admin options as possible to reduce surface area
4) pray

Are there other alternatives for the luckless home router owner?
I'd point out that cheap ram is about $10/GB right now, and a cheap HDD is $30/TB. So if you need an extra GB of ram for each TB of storage, you're increasing storage costs by a third.
Honest question - Is there like a useful version of this for ,you know, hard CS/ML/... questions. Like what ML model should I use for training this dataset, & some advice on hyperparameter tuning ? That sort of thing. There's a void between the completely free stackoverflow ( even with bounty ) and an odesk. Some in-between system where you pay $10 for 5 minutes of legit expert advice. Anybody ?