skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AIs are so much better that you have to use pointless handicap to get a fair game. One beginner AI played at a 10K to 5K level (as measured against MFOG). Plus sometimes you just want an even game - it's a somewhat different feel.
I've made several CLs like this commit [1], yet I am not seeing myself listed under contributors.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/912ec1990bd09f8fc128c3fa...
By the same token, most numbers are more than 8 digits long.

In fact, most are over a billion digits long. Although I've never see a single one in the wild...
A less-valuable (worse) idea may be easier to execute successfully than a more valuable (better) idea.
I know Angular is getting a lot of HN hate lately, but it really helped me get my feet wet. It was much easier to get basic apps running for me in Angular compared to messing around with Rails or Django. For a basic backend, I can use firebase. Surely doing it this way has limitations, but it allows me to get in a positive feedback loop so much sooner.
Disabled Bugsnag for now, thanks for catching that!
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The 4-hour-body changed my life. It changed how I look, how I eat, my health, my self esteem/confidence, my mood. I am a completely different person now.
We're hoping that better performance will let users build well-designed spreadsheets - they'll be able to show more steps and use less archaic formulas without having to worry about slowdowns.
It's wonderful what Google are doing with Google Maps, but I can't help but wish these maps were open to use by their competitors.

Imagine a world where all the effort Google, Apple, Microsoft and Nokia put into their maps all went into OpenStreetMap instead.
Starting? It really has been. Even Al Franken nonsensical public email or whatever. I'm assuming that competition is really reaping the benefits.
20€/person/night is cheap, but you can definitively find the same prices in many of the cheaper European countries. Here in Portugal you can rent a double bedroom in a nice rural house with all the commodities (AC, pool, etc) for that price, and when I went to Budapest in April, we rented a 3-person apartment (with heating, Internet, etc all included) for a week for less than 400€.
It'd be a very similar experience for users, where IO code/packages would be incompatible with node.js code/packages despite being, on their face, very similar.

But you're right, that situation might not last as long, due to the fact that one is theoretically trying to eat the other's users, rather than in the case of Python, where things are much friendlier.
It could also be self-fertilisation, which is still a form of sexual reproduction. Sorry for being so pedantic.
CuddleBids for iOS
I completely agree with your point. Teachers do spend a significant amount of time, and yet we have these consequences for them.
And yet here we have cab driver, who has spent virtually no time, and there are some who think he should have a right to this position.

Edit: I think the comparison of responsibility is appropriate here.. since a cab driver may have a minor, mentally disabled, or intoxicated individual in their care.
Keeping up with starbucks opening/closing stores would be impossible without the distributed power of their users, they pop everywhere, move regularly and aren't really critical for mapping. Luckily in SF you can't throw a stone without hitting a coffee shop, and of course, people here only use starbucks to meet people for craigslist transactions, no self respecting hipster would ever go in one.
'Outliers' [1], by Malcolm Gladwell, was the last book which changed the way I look on the world around me

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29

Highly recommended
- In Silicon Valley, all races collaborate, live & work together, and we thrive.

I'm a Detroit-area native here, living in the Bay Area for over a decade. I once had the same impression about the Bay Area - that it had figured out harmonious race relations. In fact, it was one of the things (in addition to the tech industry) that drew me out here from Michigan.

But I have come to the realization over the years that it was an illusion, and beneath the surface are actually highly economically/racially segregated zones (SV/E.PaloAlto & East SJ, Central SF/Bayview, Oakland Hills / Flats, etc). All these are juxtaposed by signifiant race and class divisions (I'm speaking in aggregate, we all know plenty of individuals who are exceptions).

I'm always surprised at how unwilling many folks in SV are to acknowledge the historical racial dimensions the of current inequality crisis in the Bay Area.

I attribute a lot of it to well intended idealism that is uninformed (as I was) about the tumultuous racial history of the Bay Area, which included many of the same factors as Detroit: white flight, inner-city disinvestment, corrupt governance, manufacturing decline, division/destruction of communities by freeways, and suburbanization.
Anyone have a similar list for developers?
It looks fine to me. I'm sure it could be better but everything could be better. It's not deceptive in any way. Having an unusual pop-op would make it more obvious not less.
Slideshows suck. Don't hide important information behind a slideshow.
Exactly. I played hundreds of 9x9 games against Hactar (which is probably 10-5K, but I thought it was supposed to be closer to 20) when I was starting. The freedom to quickly resign when I realized I'd made a critical mistake, the freedom to start and stop anytime- that gave me the boost to start really playing and got me to the low 20s.
This is pretty poor logic. The guns are close to the soldiers because: warfighting. Warfighting is difficult and stressful, regardless of the presence of Guns. Its like saying the presence of trading monitors or tall buldings causes suicide during a stock market crash.
Interesting. Link? I see some suburbs winning and some losing but don't have an aggregate view.
Evernote Context and algorithm fatigue
Another way to look at it is that the requirements changed. When the requirement is multiplatform then you pick the best multiplatform solution, when the requirement is simply the best engine for a single platform, that's a totally different requirement.

It's not that the picked the wrong tool for the job, it's that the job changed.
It's easy to paint Joyent as the issue, but the root cause is the core contributors are split on their expectations and how they choose to handle them.
Good luck on your journey Todd & Paul!
Deep neural networks essentially transform input data into a vector space where the data is "easier" to model. So while the input vectors may not be linearly separable in the input space, the network learns how to transform the input vectors into a space where they are.
I almost guarantee that any HN reader lives in a section of California that is radically unrepresentative of the state as a whole.
> Let Joyent handle the risk-averse companies that require a stable tool.

Node is stable.Like too stable without even hitting v1.

I remember a video where Douglas Crockford predicted that,saying Joyent behavior has been childish.

http://youtu.be/8HzclYKz4yQ?t=22m32s
This goes against generally accepted mathematical jargon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_jargon#Des...). For countable sets like integers, "almost all" has a meaning "all except a _finite_ set". Obviously the set of numbers that do _not_ contain 3 (or any other digit) is an infinite countable subset of all integers. Frequency has nothing to do with it.
Looks like it's my turn to provide the cliche hipster answer:

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruku Murakami:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Wind-Up-Bird-Chronicle-Novel/dp/06...

If you're familiar with Murakami, it's par for the course and considered one of his pivotal novels. If you're not: surrealist, dreamlike modern fiction often centering around ideas of masculinity, post-war fallout, and urban ennui. Incredibly strange and beautiful stuff.

I've read more in 2014 than I have in the past five or so years, but Wind Up Bird Chronicle is the one that has stuck with me the most. Even if it didn't exactly change my morning routine or lead me on the path to riches, I wake up most mornings and its taste is still in my mouth.

(A comparison, if you're familiar with it: Earthbound, less in terms of tone and more in terms of setting. Shigesato Itoi, the writer of Earthbound, actually published a bunch of short stories with Murakami and they've been translated into English: http://letsmeetinadream.blogspot.com/)
Does that strengthen my original point? Trading floors are also known to produce the occasional asshole.

I'm not trying to be snide. Is the asshole stereotype founded? Do you the think it's a consequence of (necessary) aggression?
I would hope that it is because educated people would realize that above a certain amount, an increase in revenue is only an incentive to something illusory.

http://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489.full.pdf&embedded=t...
I don't think hate is the right term. Same goes for "one way", since it's genuinely not clear to me which way that is.
This is a very detailed article. Most people do not appreciate how much work is put into building these digital maps, so it is great to see these kinds of articles.

While not as detailed, for contrast I want to post how Nokia's HERE maps builds their maps.

http://360.here.com/2014/11/17/made-usa-people-fargo-make-ma...

That is from the company blog. It shows a couple of our tools, but not nearly all. I work for HERE maps and my opinion is my own.

I just thought that people might be interested in how other companies like HERE build maps. Despite all the automation (at both google and HERE), it is still a human intensive process and there are people on the other end making it as correct as can be. Also, I can't go beyond what is written on the public blog as I am not a company spokesperson.
In the early days, Uber was just about the coolest thing you could do with your phone. You could press a button and a black car would arrive in minutes to take you wherever your group wanted to go.
When not convicted, that is some serious time.
Congress needs to act NOW to save lives by passing a law that makes suicide illegal.
5.73x10^1000000000

There you are then. Not that impressive, is it?
One of the founders here. Thanks to the community for all the support and encouragement. We couldn't have gotten this far without people getting excited about our software. 2015 is going to be a great year for open source time series databases!
The underlying technology is pretty cool and the team behind it is quite smart, glad to see they are being successful.
Continuous Deployment with Docker at Battlefy
Spending money which will eventually support a government that throws gay people in jail is probably less than ideal for a lot of people as well.
Those notification screens can't be any clearer. This is just complaining because no one likes to pay 6.25x their normal fare for a cab, but it can't be any more obvious than what those screens showed. Now you have to even manually type the multiplier out to let them know you are really sure.
I think the article was indicating that Uber penalizes drivers for communication problems even if it's the passenger's language barrier. Or should every cab driver be expected to be fluent in every language that a tourist to NYC might have as their first language?
Not needed... USA is the only place worth reporting on so it's implied.
I think Uber is being unfairly maligned here - too long for a comment, long piece at https://medium.com/@sriramk/in-defense-of-uber-in-india-f81c....

tldr: Uber just can't do the same checks it does in the US in other parts of the world which don't have records. And even though it did actually get the right certificate from the cops in this case, they should have thought of doing more.
I really dislike these numberphile videos as they deliberately construct their arguments such that the answer makes math seem like a magic trick and that math is truly confusing, which is the opposite of helping people gain an intuition around math.

The trick here is that they start with the intuition of counting, in which each number is itself a single thing, but are actually doing a calculation based on each number being a string of single digits.

It's much less shocking if you say:
Picking a random 10 digit number is the same as randomly picking 10 single digits. The more digits you pick the more likely it is that you'll get a '3' somewhere in there. So as your string of numbers increases in length the less likely it is that you're string won't contain any given number. If I said to someone "The more dice you throw the more likely it is you'll get at least one 3", I don't think I would get anyone who was surprised by that.

The unfortunate thing is that math and number theory in particular are full of genuinely fascinating observations that don't rely at all on a tricks of phrasing to be revealed, and rather than making less math literate people feel 'dumb' (as these videos tend to do), spark in interest in exploring math further.
"How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk" - by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

This book has been life-changing with regards to my relationship with my 3-year-old.

It also changed the way I communicate with adults.

http://amzn.com/1451663889
From the personal experience (I was born in USSR in mid-70ies and have lived there since) 50% of the GDP should have been military expenses, including space program. Everyday life was more like to the poorest Latin America or African countries now, plus common shortage of anything but very basic food items. Even these were also often grown by people themselves. Common joke was following. Lecturer: "By 1980 Soviet Union will bypass USA economically". Student: "Better catch, but not to bypass". "Why not bypass?" Answer: "Then they would see that ass is naked".
I love that book. I read it all the time, especially on those weeks when I feel burnt out. It pairs well with one of his other books called The Warrior Ethos.
okay, but what do you call it if the frequency is diverging to zero for infinity?
The common part is the special operator UNWIND-PROTECT.
You can use it to define a function (not a macro).
This is in fact a recommended way to design your program: define a CALL-WITH-X function and write a simple WITH-X macro that expand in a funcall to that function, with a more convenient syntax (see http://random-state.net/log/3390120648.html).

Scala resource management techniques are built upon try/finally blocks, aren't they? If you want, you can use Scala ARM, which is a non-standardized library. Then, you can use a monadic approach, an imperative one, etc. This boils down to convention and idioms, which are not standardized either.

You seem to think that there should be an autorithy which acts as the gatekeeper between the good things and the bad things that are added to a language, and that the ability to "mess" with the abstract syntax tree leads to chaos (I guess you alignment is Lawful Good). We disagree. CL is designed to evolve smoothly over time, and macros are one of the features that enable this.
I think it's important to distinguish what we are talking about here. We aren't talking about a hidden law, we are talking about internal procedures that attempt to make sure the law is following by identifying patents likely to cause problems and looking at them closer. The same published laws apply, they just look closer to make sure it in line with them.

It's important to remember that the patent system is for the benefit of society. It achieves this benefit by incentivizing the individual. We must be sure to make sure when we apply the rules for the patent system we aren't capricious and discriminatory, but we need to be very aware that the benefits provided to the individual by a patent are not the purpose of the patent system, but simply the method used to a achieve it's true purpose. That purpose is very clear in the constitution as "To promote the progress of science and useful arts."
Better performance, debugging, and a simpler developer iteration loop for polyfills that require a compilation step.
I don't think I'm going to ding what is clearly intended as a general-audience presentation for failing to precisely conform to an uncited definition on Wikipedia, under a section with the word "Informality" in its name.
I can see cars, buildings,greenery but I could not see a single person in any photo. Why is that? Why there are no people on roads?
Having them used out of the box would make them more robust.
Don't you know anyone who loves to proclaim "I can't start my day without a cup of coffee!"? To me that is praising dependence.
You can do that, and also call them on phone, website & app. Here is an Indian cab company which follows laws & regulations: http://www.merucabs.com
I'm curious: does the app tell you that their surge pricing is in effect before you request a ride? A little googling found this: [1]

"Using the latest version of the Uber app for iPhone you can estimate your fare before requesting a pickup. Just tap the 'Fare Estimate' option after you've set your pickup location and enter your destination address.

"After entering your destination address, you will be given a fare estimate. Note that fares may vary due to traffic, weather, and other factors. Estimate does not include discounts or promotions."

The terms "latest version" and "traffic, weather, and other factors" are worrying. Also the fact that you specifically have to request it seems off-putting.

[1] https://support.uber.com/hc/en-us/articles/201830936-How-do-...
Just a quick list:

1. You use the name "snapshots" in the header, yet call it a Snap everywhere else.

2. You don't outright define what a Snap is anywhere on the page. I have to infer what it is from the screenshots and specific, single words you use.

3. Platforms in the header are disjointed. Put both on one side. Information should be modular--the OS X/iOS parts should be close together--so the user doesn't have to look around for it.
This video was posted on april 1st if no one has noticed.
Already been done in 2001-2004: Sensage (http://www.sensage.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensage), followed by Vertica, etc. All the columnar-storage big-table timestamped data collectors and data aggregators. Sensage failed at the market. Splunk succeeded, perhaps with a different underlying data storage model, but certainly with great marketing.

What's different about InfluxDB?
Similar articles about TomTom from 2 years ago: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/115883-how-tomtom-maps-are-m...
> is how to provide reasonable levels of services to a vastly-reduced population density.

You don't. Populations shift, and Detroit has clearly lost that battle. Sure, it may be a "rising tech hub", but most people aren't going to move to Detroit for a job if they can avoid it.

Incentivize residents to leave sparse housing for more dense housing near the core, raize the old properties, and explore urban farming. Cheaper then attempting to maintain a vast network of infrastructure for a dwindling population that can't afford it already.
Sure, but who cares? Four hundred bucks is nothing if you're working commercially.

There are way better criticisms of Xamarin than the price.
This looks very interesting, and the applicability to software maintenance seems obvious. Just ordered a used copy with Amazon prime shipping; so thanks for the recommendation.
Well, you could start by linking to it yourself.
The Book - Alan Watts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Taboo-Against-Knowing/dp/0679...

I sometimes get stuck in a loop of existential questions, and even though I still do, that book taught me how to deal with them better.
That turns out not to be the case:

> almost all
> A shorthand term for "all except for a set of measure zero",
> when there is a measure to speak of.

In this case there is no measure to speak of, so it is normal to talk about taking the ration in a finite initial segment and then letting the size go to infinity and seeing what happens to the ratio.

And a set of measure zero does not have to be finite, either. Almost all numbers are transcendental in the sense given above, and yet there are infinitely many non-transcendental numbers.

So I think you are mistaken, although I would be interested to hear a more complete statement of what you mean, in case I have misunderstood you.
CoreOS got a dedicated meeting the previous week. I pitched all this to them in person and seemed to get a cautiously optimistic response with agreement to follow-up soon. The next day, they announced rocket without warning.

I'm happy to spend as much time as needed with everyone to build a great ecosystem together. But if someone is not interested, they're not interested. I can't force them.
Someone has to be below average. Dunno why it's sadder to have unemployed Californians than unemployed Virginians.
there are plenty of good ideas, the hard part is the execution on those ideas.

its akin to music. there are a lot of good musicians but it is much harder to put together a great band.
Can't understand the reasoning behind expecting a company to pour hundreds of millions of dollars and resources into something for free / no return at all.
InfluxDB is one of our favorite database (we host and run open source DBs ...). Most people can get more from their data by recognizing time series problems, and it's nice to have an easily accessible DB to put that sort of information into.
http://www.economist.com/suburbs
I worked at an ISP in the late 90's which was bought up, together with several other small ISPs. Before the acquisition it was a bunch of techies working their asses off. After, dozens of non-technical staff came on board who all got huge paychecks and a BMW, bossed the techies around in clueless Outlook 98 fullquote e-mails but contributed zero to the bottom line.

The money, in our case, came from a large north-european telco with deep pockets. They turned a blind eye to the burn rate for almost 2 years before pulling the plug.

I've heard of a German tech company hiring a philosopher, you know, just for fun. On a superficial level, this might seem comparable to Google hiring Ken Thompson, Guido van Rossum and tytso. In reality however these folks not only boost Google's reputation among developers, they innovate and make a technical contribution to the company. That precisely is the difference between 90's dotcoms' thrift-spending habits and how companies work today. The article misses that completely.
I can't believe people use it, it's embarrassingly bad. It's impossible to trust.
Grumpy Cat: The First $100M Meme
with kate upton? Thats a totally different company/game.
Lots of the puns also come out when spoken with a Southern accent. Add a drawl and "hour" sounds a lot like "whore".

And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:
Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale.'

Edit: added Act II, Scene VII from As You Like It for context.
Awesome. That should be interesting to people who use Apple's maps.
Mosaic Manufacturing 3D prints a flashlight using just a single extruder
One-fifth of enterprises have no written plan for a data breach
AMA with Yann LeCun which confirms they are using it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/25lnbt/ama_...
I think I started Code Complete some time ago, I need to get back to it.
While interesting, it leaves me wanting to filter down and isolate different categories to see how they may impact other numbers. Its difficult to really understand what is driving these trends on its own.
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