skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon's HR guy was all over me like a cheap suit until I directed him to my website.

About an hour after that I got his "Dear John" mail.

At the top of every page of my site is a link to "Living with Schizoaffective Disorder".

http://www.warplife.com/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/

That's known as "Voluntary Self-Identification" under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I do not require any accomodation whatsoever. I write good code when I'm symptomatic. That's why I'm a coder and not a physics researcher.
I bet we'll see this in virtual worlds.
Silk Road’s Ulbricht Accused of Six Murder for Hire Plots
i found this http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_dithering.php

and honestly, i can easily tell the samples with dither because they added a LOT of white noise. the original and 8bit non-dither to me practically the same.
In JSON the server would have returned account as an array with 2 elements. In XML you are left to figure that out for yourself. It's hardly clear that there could be several accounts but never several ids.

(Yes, you can wrap it with an <accounts> node and make your data extremely verbose.)

What about attributes? Should we ever expect them on the user? What if there's an attribute id as well, is it the same? (Oh, just download a schema to tell you what to expect! Argh...)
Finally a gender-bias I can get behind.

That is, this finally proves women are smarter. Or at least less likely to spend 3-figure sums on an interconnect cable.
Yeah, if you are going to spend money, spend it on the reproduction side. A nice set of speakers will make you feel like you've never heard a song before.
Or, you could just go buy your own equipment and save the $8/mo that Comcast charges you for a modem. Exactly as the article points out:

“Go buy your own modem and router/gateway,
and save yourself both the headache of not
being able to control your own devices—and
Comcast's soaring monthly hardware rental
fees, which net Comcast $300 million in
additional revenue per quarter.”

I'm using my own Motorola/Arris SB6141 and am quite happy with it.
Kamcord is looking for a Lead Designer
Anyone else waiting for the Arist? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/236195807/arist-brews-c...

I have a feeling if it's successful, it's going to give Keurig some headaches.
Ryan Carson blogged about the 4-day work week at Treehouse: http://ryancarson.com/post/21708810513/4-day-week
Exactly. Perl's critics often completely overlook the degree to which liberal use of the map/reduce paradigm can simplify the graphical representation of your code and allow the powerful list processing features to be brought to bear. Consider:

use strict; use warnings; use List::Util

qw/reduce/;
map { print } join "\n", "Distribution of grades by letter:",
map { sprintf( "\t%s: %s student%s", @$_, $_ -> [1] == 1 ? '' : 's' ) }
map { my $c = $_ ; sort { $a -> [0] cmp $b -> [0] }
map { [ $_, $c->{$_} ] } keys %$c } reduce { $a->{chr(ord($b->[1]))}++; $a } {},
map { printf( "List of students with failing grades:\n\t%s\n", join ', ' ,
map { $_->[0] } grep {ord $_->[1] >68} @$_); @$_} reduce {push(@$a, $b); $a} [],
map { printf( "${^A}'s grade: %s\n" , $_ -> [1] ) if $_->[0] eq $^A; $_ }
map { $^A="Zsófia"; [split(/\s+/)] } <STDIN>

The use of strict and warnings making this particularly Modern Perl, you could almost be forgiven for thinking you were reading Haskell...
What kind of companies hire C developers
I like C and systems programming. How hard would it be to find a job doing this after I graduate next year with my CS degree?
I'm a fan of good sounding DACs.

By dithering you increase the perceived dynamic range. You change it from a listening test of the quality of the sound, to the character of the noise floor. Maybe this is why some "engineers" could tell. If you are trained in what to listen for you would know in these listening tests to completely ignore the majority of the sound and frequency range, and instead listen to the sound of the high frequency hiss on the noise floor (for instance in very quiet or completely silent sections. Just isolate a very quiet part and turn it up loud). This would be the tell tale sign of the dithering, thus 16 bit.
HashiCorp Announces Atlas and Raises $10M
Yup - Anchorage International is the 2nd busiest cargo hub in the US (after Memphis).
There"s no efficiency requirement on atomicity. Who said we need POSIX filesystem semantics anyway? Is it so important we should trade scalability? Obviously that wasn"t the s3 design choice.
Base62 encoded incremental IDs
some kinds of sysadmin are easily done remotely. So is tech support. It depends on whether the job requires access to the console, or opening the case to install cards.

If you're looking for remote tech support work that's of a more advanced nature - NOT! "Click the OK button until it turns black" - apply with Luke Crawford - no obvious relation - at http://prgmr.com/

Luke's a good guy. If he can't hire you I expect he could refer you to someone who can.
Ask HN: What do you think of this accessibility widget I built?
Here's a demo: https://vimeo.com/114099107

I built this widget for my User Interface class. Part of our assignment is to have people we don't know give us feedback. I'd love to know what you think! Thank you for taking the time to look at the demo :)
"where there won't be any collision even if there are 1 billion+ entries"

This is a really complicated topic, and there are multiple ways to handle what you're doing. It really depends on your read/write ratios, typical volume, growth rate, and the underlying DB software you're using.

Because there are so many considerations that require knowing real-world use cases, it's a premature optimization. Are you going to have more than 1 billion records in the next few years? If not, don't worry about this.

However, there are other reasons to use non-incremental IDs (security, for one).

To answer your question as asked though, check this out: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-uuid.html
It's a late reply but national socialism only ran for a short time before being replaced with a wartime economy. In effect the program ran fine because it didn't run long enough for garbage collection to be an issue.
That's still incremental though. It just looks different.
Listen for "graininess" in the 8 bit undithered sound as the voice gets quieter. You should be able to make that out. That's quantization distortion. The dithering removes that, but adds the noise.
Why? Being serious. If you know something's that bad for the environment, why continue to do it?
Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying, are you implying that once a feature (law) has been pushed into production (signed off) there can be no issues filed against such feature?
couldn't someone also entitle this "the incredible clumsiness of human perception"
Go to Meet ups and you will get an introduction.
Whatever ;)
On Refactoring C++ Code – How I Learned to Stop Debugging and Get My Code Right
Atlas by Hashicorp
This sounds a lot like Taleb's Antifragile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile
Ask HN: Idea management
Hi there , i am looking for a portal or app which can be used for idea management/ wiki, here is the functionality that i would need.
* 5-10 people should be able to collaborate.
* anyone should be able to tag and it should be searchable
* we should be able to link the research with the particular idea

please feel free to suggest anything that you think might be useful.
Thanks :)
The TCP/IP of Money Mirage #ripple #stellar #blockstream #ethereum
Show HN: Beautiful digital art on Google.com every day
Hi HN,

I've created a project over the WE, "exhibits": http://getexhibits.co

Below is a quick pitch, feedback REALLY appreciated.

---

Exhibits is a social experiment where people vote for the artwork that will be exposed on Google.com the next day.

We favor hi-res digital art, photography or something relevant to current events. Don’t forget to mention where you found the image so the creator can be mentioned and get a visibility boost.
It has the Imperial March from Star Wars as the background music, which was definitely a bad idea.
I'm very skeptical.

Aging isn't there because our genes "need" it. It's there because our genes don't need long lifespans. The gain in reproductive viability that we'd get with a >60 year natural lifespan just isn't enough to justify the constraint that a much longer (or indefinite) lifespan would impose on our genetic "search space". We can live forever and be simple, or we can be complex and get a job done and die.

There probably is some anti-fragility in us. I don't buy the LNT threshold of radiation, for example. All that said, I'm not sure that hormesis is useful as a general concept. There are mild stressors (such as cold, when prepared and for short duration) that turn out to have positive effects, but there are a great number of stressors that seem to have no positive effects, whether you're talking about biological agents (e.g. cadmium, lead) or psychological experiences (e.g. rape, war).
Keurig adding DRM was equivalent to a plea to be hacked. But I was thinking, Keurig probably doesn't care about people who mod their machines as much as they want to target counterfeiters.
Why Vontu Chose to Wait for the “Right” Early Customer
Right. Belly fat is stored there because a central location is best for the body (although it was sufficiently rare in our evolutionary ascent to afford 40 pounds of belly fat that our bodies didn't adapt well to it, which is why it's so bad for us). In terms of structural imposition on the body, the backpack is worse.
I believe the British phrase that best describes the professor is "wanker". Very similar to jerk. :)
I have a strange need to watch Star Wars now..

Jokes aside, this is a neat hack but I wonder if it would be possible to remove the DRM check from the electronics side itself. I don't have a Keurig machine myself, so I wouldn't dare opening up one (after making a cup) to see what you could hack at.
AFAIK, the original reason for the DRM was to prevent other companies from selling K-cups, so it would need a way to validate each cup, not just prevent reuse.
The culprit allegedly paid 5000 rupees to Delhi Police and got "Character" Certificate.
If they're living off welfare, we're living off the reduced food prices that welfare provides. It's effectively a regressive subsidy to those who most need it, low-income households for whom food is a significant expense.

I come from a suburbanized semi-rural area, and farms and dairies are shutting down all the time because it's not profitable. It's not like they're living large on government largess, at least not at the local farm level with a few square miles of land or a hundred dairy cows.
They could have used thermo-sensitive ink (using same technology that fax paper used some time ago), on a hot cup it would have automatically destroyed itself. However, they very likely don't care about the replay hack.

The authentication scheme is there to prevent mass-manufacturing counterfeit cups. Hipsters who modify devices are below noise level on their bottom line (them bragging about sticking it to the Man is free advertisement for the brand so even if there were a loss on a machine it's hard to tell if there is a net loss or profit).
Oh, suuuuuure, some kind of magic mathematics company run by a reclusive genius who got a Ph.D. from Cal Tech when he was twenty, and/or college dropout and/or megalomanaic bald silicon valley mogul.

answer for those following along: all of the above :)
My point, and one of the lessons of this book, is that the things we see in nature are actually NOT that complex. Sure, they are endlessly varied and superficially very complicated, but the rules that govern them are pretty simple. We're able to describe them pretty well with simple computer programs and don't need to be a god to do so. Complexity and endless variation can result from extremely simple systems that are often easily understandable And follow directly from basic laws of nature.
Rape is a hate crime in India
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/as-india-responds-...
In what ways do you not find Perl self consistent? There's lots or criticisms that can be leveled at Perl, but I'm not sure I follow that one.
You could do kernel and embedded work. Actually there's quite a lot of that. And device drivers.

That would include Linux for desktop (including ChromeOS), as well as mobile (Android), embedded Linux.

Buy an embedded target board, then learn ARM and Thumb assembly code. Even if you never actually write any, it's quite helpful to know the instruction set architecture. The Raspberry PI is quite cheap, but I have a gumstix overo fire as it is rather more featureful.

Also look at really low-power, cheap targets as the ARM7TDMI. That's not something you'd use for mobile, but is quite common for embedded. Atmel makes oodles of target boards with ARM7. There are also storage chips from Oxford Semiconductor. They sell target boards that come with gcc for ARM.

Also look at embedded powerpc. I haven't done it myself, but powerpc is quite a nice architecture. More or less the difference is that powerpc is more powerful than arm, but typically needs to be plugged into the wall rather than run off a rechargeable battery as with ARM.

Motorola 68k is still important for embedded. I think that's what the dragonball is, an embedded 680-something. I once bought a Mac SE with a 40 MB scsi drive, that still booted into system 6.5, for nine bucks at a thrift store.

I used to dream of the day when I would have enough money for an SE.

Whatever box you presently have, install Linux or BSD into a VM. For Linux, read "Understanding the Linux Kernel" by Bovet and Cesati, as well as "Linux Device Drivers" by Corbet, Rubini and Kroah-Hartman. They're both published by O'Reilly.

If you're going to do embedded, while not strictly necessary, it is helpful to know how to build your own cross-compiler from source. Doing so will deepen your understanding of the target architecture. It's also a huge PITA.

You'll need to know at least one scripting language to get a job. Getting really good at any one of bash, python, perl or will be just fine, in addition to GNU make.
that'd be the cholesterol, and there's not a good link between it and blood cholesterol
It might be a turn off to ship your coffee with instructions on how to cut the top off a 2.0 K-cup. But if your K-cups just needed an "adapter"[1] then many consumers would probably not think twice about it. We use adapters all the time to make one thing work with another.

[1] https://www.gourmet-coffee.com/Keurig-DRM-Freedom-Clip.html
seems like responses here were assuming you meant the french press somehow had chemicals, but you're saying that the coffee beans have substances that maybe a filtration system removing from the coffee makes it better? Can you source that, because people have been drinking coffee a long time and I don't think that's a concern. After all, coffee is a plant material harvested then burned grinded up and suspended in water. Like most plants it probably contains substances, which in great quantities could kill humans, but if it were toxic we'd know by now. Plus the fact that you can buy chocolate covered espresso beans, where you consume the bean entirely. That would surely be the most toxic no? Never seen a warning on those.
How to Stop Your Toddler from Saying Bad Words
Doh! I totally forgot about that part. LOL
Netflix and videoconferencing in '01?
How One Woman's Discovery Shook the Foundations of Geology
If the company I worked for hired a STA without appropriate coal face experience, I would quit. Simple as that. Any system such a person designs is almost certain to end up being a death march project.

Any management who would hire such a person would also be suspected of gross incompetence.

As you say it was only a bad dream. Hope you never have to face such a reality.
What Is a PGP Software and Encrypted Vault?
In the limited research that I've done about Bay Area real estate, you're best off selling the Tracy home while prices are high, because the schools in Tracy aren't great.

There is likely a minor market correction coming but you could see a lot of the homes lose 20-40% of their value in places like Tracy. The homes that will retain most of their value will be the ones with really stellar schools (9+ on greatschools.org or higher) because there's always demand for them. They won't correct much beyond 10-15% at the most.

If you're dead set on buying, I would go with Pleasanton if you can afford it. Solid schools, and a somewhat reasonable BART commute into the city. Otherwise just save your cash until you can drop $1 mil into a house.
The Portland Rescue Mission as well as Portland's Blanchet House of Hospitality.

It's because of the first that I did not freeze to death last winter, the second that I did not starve.

There were lots of coders, game, 3D and web designers at both. One guy I might at breakfast had just been fired by microsoft because he was a Windows 7 MCSE, but at the time Microsoft wanted Windows 8 - and was unwilling to train him.

I suggested he get into web design, started to give him some SEO tips. It turned out that he was G-d's Gift to Web Design, and inadvertently stumbled across most of the SEO techniques that I myself know. (Writing articles - they get lots of organic links if the articles are really worth reading.)
For this analogy, a bill should actually be a pull request and a signed law is a merged request. I think the problem is that an 'issue' should be a proposal, a bug report, etc. In this case, none of the 'issues' being created are intended to be closed.
That video player is amazing! What is it?
They do. Type up a bill and mail it to your Congresspeople.

I don't see how the medium changes proposing laws.
super unreasonable steps for normal users to take.

Only because people have "forgotten" how to build offline apps.
haha, anyone remember the linux coffee machine controller?

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee-1.html
There are extensions that will rewrite the referral links back to the original link, or prevent the link from being swapped in the moment of onmousedown or whatever they use.
Sunlighter here (though this isn't my project). This was mostly done to test our IFTTT channel (https://ifttt.com/sunlightfoundation), so I think we were limited in terms of what actions we could trigger. We've talked about doing a non-IFTTT version that would extend the metaphor way further, but haven't (yet) actually made it happen.
The difference is that in elisp there is no importing. Either the files have been loaded or they haven't. The convention is that you prefix functions from your package with a common name.

This has a few drawbacks that are obvious. It also has a few benefits that are perhaps not as obvious.

To list a few. If I want to override a function that a lot of other folks use, I can just redefine that function. I don't have to find a way to convince a module system that for every importer of "Foo" I want to override "do-baz." I just provide my own definition of "foo-do-baz."

Similarly, if I want to find all of the places that this method is used, a very simple textual search works. (This is debated in that thread a little.)

Finally, since emacs is ultimately made for direct user experiences, if someone wants to try their hand at creating some things, they don't have to learn about any module system. Simply prefix your functions with a name and you are done.

That last really needs underscoring for some of us. You want to try your hand at writing an emacs extension? Simply start defining stuff in the scratch buffer. If you want to make sure it is saved, do so in a file. No need to setup any sort of module system.

Now... all of this sounds like I am against a module system. I honestly just don't know enough to care at the moment. I suspect they are oversold. I also suspect they are somewhat useful at times. Don't know which way the needle ultimately falls.

Edit: Looks like I removed an opening sentence. Apologies. I meant to lead this off with, "Ah, that makes sense. I think I can see the difference..."
it's like the server in a restaurant asking you if you enjoyed your meal...

...and then being able to get you fired, steal your identity, or otherwise affect your life without your knowledge because you happen to enjoy a certain kind of food your boss doesn't like.
Isn't humor obviously within the spirit of colleagues? It certainly has been, any place where I've had colleagues.

There's a kind of caricaturing wit that could be called uncharitable, but only if it's meant to distort, in which case the humor is a means to something else and it's the something else that's the problem.
I'm going to play with this to observe the behavior of the ciphertext, but I'm a priori skeptical that the ciphertext size will not approach the summed (compressed) size of the original cleartexts. Otherwise, you'd achieve theoretically impossible compression (e.g., a million 1k texts compressed into n<<1Gbyte).

I probably don't understand the requirements for the keys; do they need to be at least as long as the cleartext? Otherwise, there's a bug:

With copies of keys and cleartexts from /usr/bin, I tried

./lenticrypt.py -e eqn shotwell -e grep php -o f1

php was the largest cleartext at 4388Kb. Memory use by lenticrypt stopped growing at 474Mb. The eqn and grep keys were both about 148k. After 15 minutes (on an admittedly rather old laptop, though very high end six years ago) and 57% encrypted, the program suddenly exited with no error and status 0, and f1 at a size of 6468K. Regrettably,

bash-4.2$ ./lenticrypt.py -d eqn f1 > shotwell.d
Found length header. File format version is 3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./lenticrypt.py", line 773, in <module>
for byte in decrypt(args.decrypt[1], args.decrypt[0]):
File "./lenticrypt.py", line 630, in decrypt
file_length = struct.unpack("<Q", raw_length)[0]
struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 8

[Edit] the 15 minutes were spent with one core at about 100% CPU use. L1 cache 32k, L2 cache 4Mb, no L3 cache. DDR2-667 memory.
if by right gas mixture you mean 100% nitrogen, it's inert, and is used in tires and bags of chips. When the bags of chips are opened, however, the other special ingredient 'crisp' that they put in escapes
There have been some cool tools coming out of Hashicorp, but I haven't read any experiences with people using their "full stack". Does anybody want to give their own anecdote or maybe have a link to related article?
we're getting very efficient at permanently extracting wealth from the middle class
How many lives have been lost as a result of ISIS beheading westerners?

Two Americans so far.

Now I expect they'll start torturing Americans as well.

Consider that poison gas isn't really outlawed, it's just that everyone has agreed not to be the _first_ to use it. No one used gas in WWII, because Hitler was injured by gas while serving as an enlisted man during WWI.
Also:

"Paraquat is the chemical name for the active ingredient in Agent Orange."

In reality, paraquat is very different from the active ingredients in Agent Orange (2,4-D and 2,4,5-T).

For instance, a molecule of paraquat contains 2 nitrogen atoms and no oxygen atoms whereas a molecule of 2,4-D or 2,4,5-T contains no nitrogen and 3 oxygen atoms.

The only similarity between them that I know of is that they are both used as herbicides.
They're not quite complete yet. I wish this was made more clear. Terraform has several bugs, some of them that will try and destroy perfectly good infrastructure for no reason (though it will warn you first).

That said, their work is always good, it's just not complete yet, but it's branded as if it is.
The problem is that when you start to make things like that illegal, you are actually just banning numbers.
You might be interested in this paper, if you haven't seen it already: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6247
Is the source for the Chrome extension available? Otherwise installing something (and thereby giving it permission to inject code in to Google.com pages on your browser) is very, very dangerous.