skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can only speak for Google, but I did get an interview for a SEng internship with them after applying online. However, for big companies it's virtually impossible to not find a friend of a friend who works there in order to get a direct introduction.
Why would I do that? cscope works great.
In a simulation where there are things such as awareness, there must be some sort of firewall protecting the computer from attempts to try and run our own software.
First you would have to find out how this computer works, because it is nothing like ours.

I mean our simulations are just code running calculations, we don't have code that gives our programs a self awareness.
I would say this would be many simulations, unless they are only running my point of view and you are all just simple code.
You see we are all giving output then we are all small simulations together
If it is just me then they are just looking at my output and you are just something I interact with, I cant tell if you can see, feel or make your own choices.

Anywho, whatever we are, we are.

And its not unrealistic for scientists to try and simulate something with as much detail as possible.
If we simulate 3 planets, we give them a (to us) realistic colour representation.
If you are simulating a world with beings that experience the simulations as if it was real life, you could easily make them all the same but not make them realise.
But why wouldn't you make a real representation.
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> stop bullshiting please

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Same here. Its infrequent that I go to CPAN and I am unable to find a package that will help along.

The concern about running the entire test suite on module installation really isnt a problem if you think about. Additionally you are able to force the install if it fails on account of a test.
> You only really need 1 counterexample to disprove a theory.

No. Don't be absurd. By and large the conversation people are having here is meaningful because we're talking about the extent to which people (mostly american citizens of the age of majority in this case) face substantial constraints to doing what they want, constraints which are imposed on them by a third party against their will. If your counterexamples substantially consist of people voluntarily making commitments for the sake of their beliefs in a world where avoiding that commitment is trivial, then your counterexamples don't really expose a problem and any remedies which would purport to address the problem would in fact act to reduce freedom.

You are, however, right to retreat from some of the trivial barriers you had been mentioning before and looking instead into the sphere of cultural sentiment and public perception. This is easily more relevant than availability of opportunities of employment by a religious institution.
returning a const char is absolutely fine - I assume your type name is allocated when the type is and never changes, and you have locking if necessary.
Lets just not blue-screen the thing! That could be bad.
For Skype, I compared with my phone service. Youtube...with my movie going...etc
Reminds me of Zelda
They released another teaser. This has to be zelda based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwkxwlL4SZM
Proofreading is one of the great unsolved technological problems. Human attention is a fantastically limited resource, and even multiple layers of checking frequently lets what subsequently appear to be "obvious" errors slip through.

The recent "cite crappy Whoever paper here" goof in a peer-reviewed journal is a typical example, and is notable only in that it is so egregious that it was caught and publicized. It is essentially certain that a large fraction of published papers contain at least one significant typo. I know of one case where two figures in a paper were identical (figure 2 was duplicated in figure 3) and it was missed by the co-authors (one of whom was fanatically careful) the journal editors and the referees.

We are never directly aware of our own inattentiveness, by definition, so the reality of how inattentive we are comes as a constant surprise.

To twist this vaguely back on topic: as well as being attentionally blind, we are also probability blind. I liken this to colour-blindness: we simply do not see probability distributions and have a terrible time thinking about them, yet we are completely immersed in them every day.

Between these two things--attentional blindness and probability blindness--we frequently end up interacting with the universe in ways that make little or no sense, as we behave as if we a) notice everything and b) live in a world of certain outcomes. The modern revolution of treating probability theory as logic is a huge big deal, and people who adopt it are likely to have a considerable advantage in years ahead. For one thing, it makes dealing with our attentional blindness easier, because it helps us understand and represent in our reasoning our imperfect attentional capabilities.
If anyone else is looking for a better iOS client (native or not), I'm using HackerWeb (http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb). It's pretty nice, and ironically feels more native than the native apps I've tried. Here's a bookmarklet to open the current HN page in HackerWeb:

javascript:var%20a=/%5B0-9%5D+/.exec(location.href);var%20n=a%5Ba.length-1%5D;location.href='http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/%23/item/'+n
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CF had most of their people based in the WTC. The majority of them were sole earners in the family -- they had kids in school, spouses (typically wives) who didn't work, etc. By all rights the company should have evaporated that day. Instead they rebuilt it. OK great, it's just some company and it survived.

What made the story famous was the fact that the company went out of its way to support the families of its dead staff even when the company itself was in the middle of an existential crisis. And it has continued to be somewhat of a "good guy" (as much as you can say that about someone in that business). I am sure there's a lot of PR spin, of course, but I watched this happen in the news when they appeared to be struggling pretty hard and were not managing their PR at all. They tried cutting off the survivors but got hammered (and probably needed that password help!). Most companies just let their insurance deal with the dead employees' families.

(Hmm, by doing a quick search of "cantor fitzgerald 9/11" I see that they were indeed utter assholes before the event.)

Of course they've had a chance to burnish their image since then.
If Obama's drive for immigration reform uses the logic of "STEM SHORTAGE!!!" as a basis for expanding OPT, it means that hyperbole has won, and we here at HN will suffer lower wages and a more competitive job market as a result. I'm not actually sure that this is what the rhetoric is going to look like, but the rest of my comment assumes that it will look that way as it pertains to the expansion of OPT.

There is no STEM shortage; tons and tons of STEM workers work outside their field because they can't get a (typically very competitive) job in their field. If there were a STEM shortage, STEM wages would be skyrocketing, which they are not. Many people with PhDs in the sciences are underemployed and underpaid.

More STEM workers means lower pressure for wages to rise, thus saving money for companies in addition to allowing them to be more picky about who they hire. Increasing the pool of STEM workers is an easy way to please the tech companies (who appear to be coming into their own as political juggernauts) and seeming to make progress on "immigration reform" while circumspectly fucking over the employees of the most advanced sector of the economy in the name of progress.
So many things to fix in science this doesn't even make my top 5. Anyways, deciding how to show data is a great avenue for scientists to expose their inner artist. I wish more papers and presentation took pride in how well they read, how pretty the figures are, etc.

When we have finally made all public research freely accessible and reduced the perverse gaming incentives involved in publications and grants, then maybe we should tackle standardization of graphics.
That's assuming the outer universe is anything like this one. Maybe its entirely made of concepts and math. I have simulated things, and they don't resemble our universe; why should theirs?
The velvet paw concealing the remorseless fang which will for the next two(?) years be disemboweling any vestige of corporate accountability still left. I like the stance against patent trolling... but no thank you.
But how does one avoid having crates.io being flooded by bad/useless crates?

And couldn't the same crates end up occupying all the "good" crate names?
well, this is doing more than just object recognition+language labeling. Notice how it understands the the girl is 'in' the white dress. That is a lot more comlicated that identifying a white dress and a girl.
We almost need the inverse: APIs that are showing signs of death ala Netflix. It's usually the case that you have an idea for something and an API is pretty easy to find. Getting your integration pulled out under your feet is really what sucks.
I don't get it. Haven't they ever heard of vim/emacs?
Here are some tier lists for SF3 (Second Impact and Third Strike)...

http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Street_Fighter_3:_2nd_Impact#Tier_...

http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Street_Fighter_3:_3rd_Strike#Tiers

Shoryuken doesn't seem to have a tier list for New Generation...

http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Street_Fighter_3:_New_Generation

... but found these...

http://cyberfanatix.com/forums/index.php?topic=100.0

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-48991...
I'd say they are more culpable. They have created a payments system that demands that merchants trust them without reservation, and failed to back that up with technology that makes them unassailably trustworthy.

Then, when the fraud inevitably occurs--the crime as old as money itself--the credit card provider disclaims responsibility and places the onus upon the merchant.

The banking industry should arguably be a larger employer of top-tier cryptographers and cryptanalysts than the espionage and counter-espionage industry, but instead we get half-assed schemes from them like "How about we just print a secret code on the back of the card and don't write it to the magnetic strip?" Well, your helpful waiter then just swipes the card with his skimmer and photographs both sides before selling the info down the chain of fraud.

This is why new tech like digital blockchain currencies are coming into existence. The banks simply are not providing the level of service commensurate with the fees charged, and people are latching on to any available alternative, no matter how much it stinks, just because it is an alternative. Paypal, hawala, eGold, Bitcoin, Rixty, or whatever. People simply don't want to be vulnerable to a replay attack on their bank accounts. The market for credit card numbers and associated personal data would not exist if the issuers had a truly secure means of validating identity and authorizing payments instead of the hand-wavey pretend-secure system they already have in place on thousands of point-of-sale terminals.
It doesn't offer anything useful? Really? I spent almost 80 hours hand crafting the APIs.json for this release. I'm building federal gov versions of APIs.io with this to drive traffic to vital gov resources, and working to priortize the APIs.json + Swagger for vital non-profit resources ilke DPLA. WTF have you done notastartup to further the API community? eh? Links please!!
My question was more about how much more water is needed to absorb the same amount of energy from the server.

If the water pumping into the server is 20-30 degrees (C) hotter than chilled water, it can't absorb as much heat energy from the server before turning to steam. So you need to transport more water through the same system to keep the cooling effect the same.
I've recently updated to 33 (on Linux and Windows) and had my startpage altered - hid a lot of the site links, added an unwanted search form. It did add a new cog, which usually means settings but in this case is a toggle for the pinned sites (completely breaking the expected standard-through-use, offering no affordance as to it's action, contradicting the use of the cog to access preferences).

Since the Firebird days I've been using FF (on and off, I had a dalliance with Opera, Chrome, some other variants) and even I had to first search what the newtab page was even called (I forget now, it doesn't tell me anywhere in the UI) then having read a few posts I noticed that some people had different size site links and tried scroll-zoom and so returned to my default of 3 x 5 sites shown.

It's tiny things like this - you open your browser and newtab has been altered (to make way for adverts in this case) and smack there you are. It's not "your" browser it's the company that offered the upgrade, it's theirs now .. until you can claw it back again. Then the next upgrade comes, some security fix and you apply it with trepidation.

Is it really 2 years since the addon bar was removed, the big orange menu button was removed and the new "burger" menu link was added, the new config for the menu link, the streamlined tabs, the removal of the menubar, tabs moved above the address bar. Time flies?¹

[Looking it seems the major Australis changes (removal of addon bar for example) came in 2013, this thread is full of rants against changing the UI and moving towards Chrome https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2013/05/27/major-compatibili...]

¹ - I genuinely don't remember. I also used to use fixes/addons to have a compact menu with chrome removed (using KDE settings) so I'm not clear on default UI.
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Perhaps we aren't highly advanced enough yet to care (some of us do, some of us don't - and relatively few extend that concern to say, lichens, admittedly). As to whether or not simulated beings could be sentient, well, if we're all living in a simulation now, I say the answer is 'yes' - I hope...
It's a bit sad that you see competition on a global scale as "being fucked over". If someone else can do the same job just as well as you, you think employers should be forced to hire you instead just because you happened to be born in the right country? That's just selfishness that harms everyone else.
Glad to see this here. I came to know about SETL long after I had acquainted myself with (and subsequently enamored with) Python. What was quite shocking and refreshing to me was how modern this much older language felt. One just cannot miss how much SETL had influenced Python. It grounded my then Python fanboyism a bit, I realized that many of the things that I had considered novel werent that novel after all.

Wish SETL had not fallen out through the cracks in terms of popularity and mainstream usage.
Bret Victor has influenced a lot of my thinking that has gone into APIs.json and API Commons, and the work I've done with EFF on the Oracle v Google case, and how we need to get APIs to the next step. Thanks for the observation.
This is one of those situations where it's impossible to point out the problem in the thread without adding to it. In the future, please email us at hn@ycombinator.com instead; it will get to us sooner and more reliably anyhow.

I've detached this subthread and marked it off-topic.
This strikes me as a really good strategy. Thanks for sharing.

At first I thought you were going to advocate the "just pick a prefix and then append the name of the site after it", like Go123facebook and Go123gmail. Which is, of course, quite awful because one plaintext reversing of one password may very well defeat all of the other passwords.
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You're lumping them all together again, but each issue deserves to be discussed by itself.

Regarding GMOs, what is interesting is not the fact that an organism was geneticially modified in a lab. What one wants to know is why it was modified. You can bet that your Roundup Ready crop is going to be slathered in ...Roundup. It's up to you to decide whether or not that's a big deal. The point is that this isn't superstition, it's basic fact-finding about the food we eat.

I never claimed that organic produce is more nutritous than non-organic produce. I did suggest that it's a reasonable working hypothesis that it is safer because of lower pesticide levels.

If anything on your list deserves your derisive attitude, it's the gluten-free craze. I have very little interest in that one; it strikes me as another diet fad and the testimonials are reiminiscent of other bogus complaints, e.g. re MSG. Which is too bad, since celiac disease is real and these patients are now being taken less seriously.

"the amount of money"
Spending 10 cents more per pound for the organic fair-trade bananas so I can practice the precautionary principle and possibly help improve the lot of the serfs that pick them seems OK to me.

"You would think it cured cancer"
Well, it is one of the things people are hoping to prevent...

Of course, none of this touches on the other reasons one might be picky about how their food is sourced, namely environmental and labor concerns.

What frustrates me so much about your post is that you see people doing things for stupid reasons and conclude from this that there aren't good reasons for doing these things. There are plenty of smart, dare I say skeptical (seems to be one of the fetishes on HN), people thinking about these issues who don't share your perspective.
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Well, that's a problem waiting to happen. Infringing source? Malicious material? It's a publishing facility and so will be abused.
I think any site that wants to have an ad-free version that subscribers pay should do so without Google's involvement. I cannot imagine anyone voluntarily giving money to Google for something like ad filtering when ad blocking extensions to Google's own browser accomplish this for free. What I do see as realistic is someone loving The Onion or WikiHow so much that they pay for additional features that enhance your ability to use that site or enjoy your experience on it. For example, Urban Dictionary offers an option to print any definition onto a t-shirt or mug (although I don't know how successful this model has been for them, especially considering how vulgar most popular UD definitions are).

Right now content creators are implementing freemium in an unattractive way - I completely stopped reading wsj.com after recent changes to their paywall, and I will immediately close a news article that throws a video in my face. But if the motley banners of Adwords are merely converted into "thank you" messages after I pay a couple bucks every month, the website hasn't suddenly become attractive to me, just less unattractive.
Even green light suppresses melatonin production:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11763987
Because she's (sort of) a public figure and if it was revealed she was lying, it would look very bad for her? She also hasn't had a history of lying about such things in the past, so there's no reason to suspect she is now. She is known to have lied about certain other issues, but not in a way that's relevant to threats or harassment. She also doesn't come across as mentally unhinged or malicious. I dislike her, but I don't think she lied about any of the threats.

The other person being discussed, KingOfPol, is known for his narcissism and fabrication of stories, so it's a bit different.
I'm working on APIs.json collections of deprecated APIs, as well as working on APIs.json references to building blocks like pricing, and TOS...then allow for inverse searching for APIs that do not have pricing, or have TOS that are not friendly. The next project after API Commons is to take TOS Didn't Read work and incorporate as part of APIs.json, so that APIs.io will have this type of data to search by.
What about requiring JavaScript even for the bare minimum of functionality? (That is, even loading the main page.)
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A lot of this is culture dependent I believe, but i am under the impression that at least on western countries you cannot do this a lot of times without a high cost, specially if you re not a manager.

If someone comes to your desk directly, you are supposed to stop what you are doing and give your attention to that person, even if you are working on something really urgent.

Refusing meeting requests is also not well seen unless you have another appointment, meetnaping happens all the time.

A lot has to do also with open space offices, where everybody is just sitting there and makes it even more awkward, and you are right there available to be interrupted.

Interruptions from persons on your own team are to be taken with even more priority, the modern open office is just a high-interruption environment and there is nothing to be done about it.

In the end it might be really a good thing, because if a person is blocked it walks to the desk of someone else and sometimes can be unblocked and the company as a whole goes forward.

Doing what his boss did of cutting another person off with a 'not now' is not something that his boss can get away with a lot of times, even if he is under pressure: its demoralizing, it just ends up creating a weird atmosphere.

One solution might be: one or two days of remote work a week for everybody.
It'll be more than two years unless there is a major outcry.

The next election's all-too-predictable swinging back to the Democrats will not result in anything changing. After all, the Democrats wouldn't even be running in the elections if they hadn't been handed corporate cash. Sure, there will be some mumblings about progress in social issues to win them the votes, but they won't think that corporate domination is a real social issue.
I first posted on it at the same time you did.

There's probably no less effective way to persuade people than by pointing out that people who disagree with you "deserve derision". It's a uniquely bad rhetorical strategy. It makes you look like you care less about the underlying issue than you do about status.
Very informative to someone who's not a designer. I found the part on text on images
especially interesting, and like the arrow in the FedEx logo, once you know about
white text on images, you'll probably start noticing it everywhere...
It's morally wrong, but since you usually only ever want to print two IP addresses, it feels so right. In any case: it can't break otherwise-correct code.
I got it to run by setting compatibility mode to Windows 7.
Chinese concept train doesn't need to stop at stations
Because US students under piles of debt need more job competition. Not.
Appears to be down or broken.
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I find it odd that Medium, a company that preaches design from every corner of their soap box, can't even create an enjoyable reading experience. From top to bottom the entire site is just a UX mess.
Not sure why the site advertises "Just for OS X" as if it's a feature.