skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have quite a bit of advice on this topic, targeted directly at programmers on my podcast on fitness for software developers, Get Up and CODE: http://getupandcode.com
Agreed, just meta probably isn't a very good name (neither is standard meta-language for that matter, but at least the abbreviation sml isn't entirely hopeless). Just "meta" would be rather close to OMeta[1] as well.

I tried to see if there might be a more generic animal name to use for inspiration, and so learned that: "The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) are ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne approximately equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls), such as horses.". Which while somewhat interesting doesn't really reveal an immediately usable name. But at least Artiodac should be unique...

[1] http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/
You lost 25 pounds over 75 days (abysmal progress)? By forcing yourself into a calorie deficit that you can't sustain? And you're going to gain all the weight back? And you have to constantly monitor your caloric intake, ruining the inherent joy of eating and paying attention to your body's signals?

That's really awful man. I'm so sorry for you. Anyone can already see the path you're about to go down. You'll be moody, hungry, feel bad, and regain the weight. It's the same diet story thousands of times over. Your prediction and result is also not the norm. When closely measuring calories and energy expenditure, very few people achieve the desired weight loss. Not that half a pound a day is desirable. You can do much better.

It's incredibly obvious that if you're losing weight that you're in an energy deficit. It's also a worthless observation. As "dieting" has proved time and time again, it's unsustainable for humans and has no long term benefits. Sure you can go hungry all the time, but who cares? You're not solving nor addressing the problem. It's like liposuction. People get severely depressed because they attempt what you're experimenting with, thinking it will work.

At 6'4 and 250 pounds, you are clinically obese. You are going to die sooner than most people, and it's going to be painful. This is something to take very seriously, and something worth getting emotional about. People's lives are ruined by thinking being in a constant calorie deficit is a good way to get healthy. Debating calories in / calories out is why people end up obese in the first place. Unless you have a genetic condition, you're carbohydrate intolerant.
An article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/...

A video (Folding Ideas S4E7):

http://blip.tv/foldablehuman/s4e7-gamergate-7071206
common perception seems to be that women face a level of harassment hugely disproportionate to that experienced by men, however studies don't show such a large gap

#1) The study shows that 4x as many women than man have been stalked. It also shows that 2x as many women have experienced sexual harassment compared to men.

#2) This data shows % of people that have ever been harassed. It doesn't quantify the amount of harassment per person. It's a reasonable to think that not only are more women harassed, each one is likely harassed more intensely.

This is not a small problem.
A pilot installation of Wolf was made on 10 ec2 boxes, mainly m1.medium and m1.large if I remember correctly. 3 boxes for C*, 3 boxes for Hadoop, 1 for Kafka, 1 for Storm, 2 for everything else. You might be able to squeeze it in less machines as Amazon is upgrading specs all the time. Deployment scripts are very simple at the moment, just a bunch of shell commands. That might be upgraded in the future to some magic automation. Nevertheless, scripts were tested on Ubuntu 12.04, but are not specific to Ubuntu, other then the package manager (apt-get). Probably if you sed s/apt-get/yum the scripts, they will work on CentOS/Fedora. If you have a really strong machine you might even be able to squeeze everything in one box. I wouldn't recommend it though, keeping the state of all the clusters in one Zookeeper is a very risky business, plus reliability issues. Unfortunately, it's not so simple to get Wolf from nothingness to a working/trading system. To actually trade you will also need a data feed, and a brokerage account.
It makes sense because some companies see lobbying as an investment in future sales, either indirectly through policy or directly.

HP is a prime example of this, as many government computers and services involve HP, hence HP has such a high "investment" rate with lobbying.
While you're making some good points, that stat about online stalking raises a lot of questions.

The idea of online stalking covers a big range of activities, from the harmless (googling an ex) to the very invasive (threatening someone at many sites and IDs online), and the survey question makes no effort to distinguish them.
In either case i lose 1-3 seconds of my day pressing delete (note that I have received threats of sexual violence, and delete worked on them too). So yes.

If you feel differently I'd be curious to hear why.
The identifier seems more pseudonymous than anonymous.

In fact, isn't "anonymous, unique identifier" an oxymoron?
I haven't been to JFK from Africa, but I've been there from London, Amsterdam, and Berlin, flights which are (if anything) shorter... and I was sluggish for a whole week after getting back, just going to throw that out there.
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> In fact, isn't "anonymous, unique identifier" a tautology?

I believe the word you are looking for is "oxymoron" which is the opposite of a tautology.
I've used PostgreSQL for 15 years and missed upsert/MERGE for all of them, but my understanding from previous research is that MySQL's is actually unreliable in the sense that it can violate ACID in some circumstances. This is believable to me, MySQL's performance lead on whole table count(*) is because it doesn't actually count the currently visible rows for large tables. Complete violation of sql's count semantics, but most people don't know or care.

I'm digging up some references now.
This is crazy. Were I hiring, I'd kill to have someone that experienced and with likely far fewer "life liabilities" (I'm doubting he's going to start having babies or go absolutely insane over some girl he can't get out of his mind... or disappear playing video games for two weeks straight)

Have him keep at it. Someone will appreciate what he's got.
I got harassed the other day at the shops. This guy opened the door for me and said 'after you'. All men are pigs, what vile filth. I had to cover my daughters ears.
I see that Leiningen rules all. (As it should be, it's one of the best package/deployment systems I've used.)

An active ecosystem makes working in a language a lot nicer. While I could always borrow from the JVM libraries, it's nice to see lots of native projects. Hopefully we'll see the number of well-maintained libraries in the ecosystem increasing.
When I said youtube, I meant the fact that people upload their lives to it. Not the cookie or IP tracking stuff. Speaking of uploading lives, let me add Facebook. So there just can't be a Facebook?

Devolving the internet & its services isn't the answer. You'd also have to just stop using cellphones too. There is no hiding from a corrupt government. You can't expect the general population to do all this stuff you're talking about. You have to fix the government. Focus on corruption-in-USgov and NSA, they are the enemy. Anything else is a distraction because it's not reasonable to say "Don't make a useful service for millions of non-technical people". Somebody, something, will always be popular and become a major hub of communication. To prevent that, is to prevent the evolution of not only the internet... but even society in general. And you'd be doing all that to avoid a corrupt-government, which you will fail at because you cannot avoid a corrupt-government. Anyone who thinks they have is wrong; it's just that USgov/NSA isn't interested enough in them yet.

The only exception is Snowden, and we all see the sacrifice he had to make to do it. If we all did that then... well... there is no America anymore. If that's what you're advocating, then you're asking for a nationwide revolution. Which is fine, btw. I'm supportive[1] of that. I'm just saying that avoiding a couple of social sites doesn't put you out of reach of the NSA. You'd have to get a significant amount of US citizens to go completely off the grid and live like hermits... or Snowdens. If that happened, I will happily call that a revolution and celebrate.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458114
If there is a DSLAM right next to the crossbox, then these are the two possibilities:

[1] (Common and very likely) The DSLAM they installed there is a fiber node and feeds only VDSL over < 50 ft wire to the crossbox. ADSL also feeds into the crossbox, but not from the new DSLAM. It still travels from the CO (central office) and may still be 1-2 miles of wire away.

[2] (Uncommon and less likely) The DSLAM has VDSL and ADSL cards in it. In this situation the DSLAM can support high speed VDSL to very close residents and ADSL to further residents. The CO is no longer the source of ADSL signal, and this is typically a nice reduction in loop length for people.

In your shoes, I'd get in touch with the ISP and see if you're CO fed or not. If you're CO fed, there's little that can be done to improve the speeds =(. You could ask if it's possible to do pair bonding to improve your speeds. Just beware, switching to pair bonding means you'd need to lease/purchase a new modem that can do bonding and the ISP would have to roll a truck to wire up the 2nd pair.

Hope that helps!
> it's amazing that a language which makes noun phrases into words has a specific word for this concept we express as a noun phrase.

How are you distinguishing english "noun phrases" from german "words"? Being spelled with a space doesn't mean much, and english compound nouns don't generally get separated.

edit, some examples of what I'm talking about:

"throw away", in the sense "discard", what you do with garbage, is a word from a lexical perspective (a lexeme): it requires its own lexical entry, and is unrelated to the similar-looking construction "throw away" with the sense "without necessarily moving, use a violent arm motion to impart velocity to an object, causing that object to move away from oneself".

But "throw away" [discard] is definitely not a word at the syntactic level, it is two: other words can appear between the "throw" token and the "away" token, as in I had him throw it away.

The clitic 's of He's going to have a hard time later is also a word at the lexical level (exactly equivalent to is), and at the syntactic level (because it can be freely used basically anywhere, preceded and followed by any other words). But at the phonological level, it isn't; 's is a (usually) zero-syllable construction phonologically dependent on the preceding word, and unlike a normal word, it has no pronunciation in isolation (that would be difficult to manage in zero syllables).

It's easy to construct compound nouns such as "garage door opener" in English, and (I believe; I have almost no knowledge of German) easy to construct compound nouns that look like "garagedooropener" in German. It's never been obvious to me that those two phenomena differ in anything except their spelling, hardly a fundamental feature of a language. Once we've constructed the compound "garage door opener", it's very rare to manipulate it in any way we wouldn't be comfortable doing if it were all one big spaceless word -- in particular, other words won't appear between the "garage", "door", and "opener" tokens.

If pressed, my personal opinion would be that "garage door opener" is a noun phrase in English, and the analogous construct is also a noun phrase in German, even if it's spelled without spaces. But I'd welcome somebody else's informed opinion.
One every 50 days is

1) The absolute, lowest, background radiation level, of men hassling women.

2) Even despite that, demonstrably worse that what men get.

This is not the norm. This is what's still left when the volume of a woman's public presence is dialled down to infinitesimal above zero. Normal is way worse.
Discrete Mathematics and it's applications - Kenneth Rosen
http://www.bookdepository.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Its-Appli...

Once you finish that, get to Concrete Mathematics by Donald Knuth et. al.
Absolutely agree with this.

The project's obsession with compiling from source by default is ridiculous - not only does it mean that installing trivial packages can take an age, it means that major OS updates can and do often break the ability to build a package, while a compiled binary runs fine.

Case in point: it is currently impossible to install the Homebrew package for casperjs, as it relies on the package for phantomjs, which will not build on Yosemite. The phantomjs developer/team have said that they WILL NOT be fixing phantomjs 1.x so it will compile on Yosemite, because their efforts are all on 2.x.. which is not stable, and also won't compile on Yosemite.

When I mentioned on twitter that (quote) "The more I use @MacHomebrew, the more I miss Apt." I was asked by one of the Homebrew maintainers to not @ mention them - because apparently I was being "not nice" by mentioning a far superior package manager in the same sentence as Homebrew.

The whole thing has given me renewed interest in researching a better packaging system using the built-in package installer.
they oughta check their privilege.
I think it's pretty cool.. I know that it's a bit of an odd thing to notice, but thought it was almost odd that it is on Google Code, and not github. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it just feels like when I see something new that isn't on github that's open source related it surprises me a little.

But it looks like this was actually started over 4 years ago, I didn't notice the date of the article. Was curious if anyone else noticed it like I did.
If you're going to compile the software yourself all the time, why not just create a deb package for it?
I don't know if I agree with this, for me the past several years of indie software development have been marked by depression, alcoholism, loneliness, and heart-break. I released an iPhone video game back in 2010, took two years to make, 1000 graphic files I drew by hand, and 20,000 lines of code. And it fell flat on its face; how can someone NOT get depressed when this happens to them? There are probably thousands of indie developers who never make a profit -- is this article referring to developers with "normal" jobs or indie devs?
I noticed something curious in the comment section:

DARPA is mentioned exactly once in this article and then mostly as a tangential point. Despite this, it's mentioned several times in multiple critical top-level comments here in the comment section.
Note that this is not the MBR, but what is known as the "volume boot record" (VBR) which is located at the start of each partition. And to be honest, I don't think this code is significantly more readable than the Asm version... or maybe it's the lack of comments. It'd also be interesting to compare the compiled version's code with the handwritten Asm one.

Here is the annotated disassembly of the DOS 6.2 VBR:
http://www.tburke.net/info/ntldr/bootsect.txt
I'm surprised no one has considered how older aged workers fit in the software engineering industry. From my experience it seems like the older you get, the less viable you are.
Didn't notice earlier, but what has expired is only the posting the hiring is ongoing. Will have the posting corrected. Contact me directly (email in profile).
Only sort of. "Technology" (by which I assume you mean the sort of things produced by Google - namely, software services) and cyber-security are different from Lockheed's products in one extremely important way: anyone has the capacity and reason to use them. Only the government and a handful of large entities (airlines, maybe a few research labs) have any need for the things made by Lockheed and Boeing. But almost every single American uses a Google service, and certainly the entire population of the Internet can use cyber-security solutions.

They're similar in the sense that the government might spend incomprehensible sums of money on them, but that's where it ends, and in that sense airplanes are the same as potatoes. The potential issues with something like Google are very, very different from the steel-and-gears military industrial complex (which is also still going strong), where the companies and government seem to exist solely to justify each other's existence.
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100 calories a day is almost a pound a month - that's actually pretty significant when you get to the "almost in shape" phase and losses drop to the 3-4 lb a month range.
> The impassioned hysteria over 'ethics in video game journalism' is the problematic part, not the issue itself.

The fact that people like you are saying that others have no right to be concerned and angry about unethical journalism is the reason for the impassioned hysteria in the first place.

> And, to be frank, that ridiculous level of hysteria makes it clear that it's not really about ethics in video game journalism.

Really? Tens of publications proclaim gamers dead in unison and you expect a large diverse group of people to be completely calm about it.

Edit: Senseless downvotes don't make you right.

Edit 2: I am taking downvotes personally because I only see white comments for trolling and spamming on HN.
If you read "journalistic" as "has an opinion in public" and integrity as "is not a woman", then it all makes sense. The victims are women, they had an opinion in public.
Cold comfort if he has created a public health crisis in the city. He should have self-quarantined upon his return, in my opinion.
Dr. Jerry Cox is 89, leads his latest startup[1], remains a sr. cs professor @WashU[2], sold a company he co-founded (Growth Networks) for >$355M to Cisco in 2000, and is generally smart and inspiring. Also sat for a formal oral history focused on his contributions to biomedical computing[3].

[1] http://blendics.com/team/

[2] http://cse.wustl.edu/PEOPLE/Pages/cox.aspx

[3] http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/oral/transcripts/cox.html
But it probably takes a lot of work to get there (not sure how many pounds of muscle that is offhand.) Also, to actually build the muscle (rather than improve your CNS) you will need to bulk for awhile.

I personally (when I lost as much as 60 pounds and started lifting for the first time in almost a decade) found lifting to be very helpful from a motivational standpoint, but it was controlling my diet and running that caused most of the weight to come off.
We just design new programming languages.
And if you lived in Brussels, you'd see the effect of this. Freedoms in Brussels, whether we're talking freedom of speech (constant violence is opposing it), freedom of ideology (honor killings, anti-Jewish attacks, ...), freedom of marriage (again violence and killings), freedom of ... they're all under attack from exactly that group. And the presence of that group is making security measures that also limit freedom a necessity (I mean that the presence of these groups is pushing other political factions to reduce liberties). Those security measures include limiting freedom of speech, e.g. "correcting" history books on the Armenian genocide, downplaying the fact that Turkey was on the wrong side in both world wars, "correcting" away that Muhammad committed religious genocide and re-introduced slavery. Holding up Moorish Spain as a bastion of tolerance, removing mention of the constant massacres the Moors committed, and of course stating that the hatred of the other city states against the Moors was caused by racism, not by the constant attacks, the massacres against Spaniards, or the fact that Moors kidnapped citizens from the other city states' ships and sold them into slavery, or the fact that Moorish piracy and raids destroyed their economies, isolating them within their walls, for centuries. Hell, even the positive statement that muhammad had something to do with the spread of the legal principle of jurisprudence had to go.

I have little doubt that the same is happening in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, ...

> It would be a mistake to reduce the Western model to hardcore profit driven capitalism.

True. But hardcore profit driven capitalism is pretty much the only western value that's not under attack from immigrants. Actually, it is a little bit, but only a little bit.
So the average woman gets more harassment than a woman running a popular gaming site? That seems to contradict the narrative that gaming is full of trolls.

Do you have data suggesting that the average woman receives anything close to recruiter levels of unwanted mail, or is this just a guess?
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It's no contest: you want to learn Python.

Other commenters (or their links) haven't mentioned Theano, which is excellent for deep learning, so I'll contribute that to the discussion.
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I don't think this is exclusive to software engineer.

In most professions with a technical aspect, the majority coast through most of their career simply applying with what they learned in college and in their 20s. Far fewer spend a considerable amount of energy not only applying what they've learned already, but also digging deeper into the fundamentals and staying on top of new developments in their field. It is this latter group who simply become more and more valuable over time, while the skills and abilities of the former group becomes less and less relevant with each passing year.

Basically, it boils down to a majority that learns a trade and a minority that learn how to learn.

The key to changing this is to change our educational system to one where teachers focus on learning as the primary skill being taught. The maker movement most closely embodies a culture that values learning to learn.
Seems similar to Apple's Spotlight phone-home thing: unsolicited extra data being sent, a somewhat buried disclosure that it's happening, people having difficulty getting their opt-out preference honored (possibly caused by several confusingly-similar options to disable.)

It does sound like Verizon's is more a case of simply not honoring the option, though, unless some commenters here have just not found the magic checkbox yet.
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If he's open to remote contract work, I'm always hiring freelance developers (knowledge of Python & JavaScript).

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Those are the stated reasons.

It's worth noting no such review was ever written for Zoe Quinn's game.

GamerGate has now doxxed and threatened a number of women in the gaming world (developers, critics, actresses) and Phil Fish the creator of Fez. They publicly organize to drive advertisers away from publications which disagree with them or call Gamergate out as misogynistic or threatening.
Based on the timeline, he had to have contracted Ebola pretty much the day he left.

That seems pretty unusual, isn't it? How long was he there, a couple months?

"Symptoms usually occur within eight to 10 days of infection and Dr. Spencer had been home nine days when he reported feeling ill." That's not including travel time local and international.

That's a tight schedule!
The psychological impact of "I'll drink your blood out of your c--- after I rip it open" [1] is very different from that of recruiter spam.

[1] https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/504718160902492160
I wonder if address-to-gps mapping is complicated by reversed street directions....
How recently has the website been updated?
Don't think anyone understands a long-running complex topic by giving it a passing glance.

http://techraptor.net/content/understanding-pro-anti-gamerga...
I would if I could, but the privilege of voting is a fickle thing and we Americans are easily stripped of it.