skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox only switched to Yahoo in the US so far. And Yandex in Russia, and Baidu in China. It's using Google everywhere else, for now.
"Odesk and Elance. Only hire people who've worked on multiple projects and have high ratings. There are plenty of talented people out there."

I am on Elance, but can't get any work because I don't have any history. Can't get history without any work. The logic in this is flawed. Interview the people who submit bids, don't automatically rule out people without a history on the site, you might be surprised what they've worked on in the past.
I can verify that I hear noise from this on my Macbook Air, faintly, and it also creates a buzzing sound on my iPhone 5s!
Re. anti-semitism in Islam: to claim that it's a response to Israeli politics is utterly false. It has existed in the religion for centuries, in a similar fashion to anti-semitism in Catholicism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism

Re. conscription: participation in Jihad is mandatory in Islamic states. Currently, volunteer Mujahideen are fighting an asymmetric war against Western countries on their own soil. Those who volunteer to fight are in fact more morally culpable than those conscripted into service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad

Re. sympathy for Sharia:

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...
I haven't seen it on hacker news, but have seen it on reddit and Facebook. Facebook I can see depending significantly more on your specific social network.
Curious: how does this differ from Zipkin (which I believe is also a Dapper-alike)?
Seriously? This bullshit source is what you use to call this article bullshit? This website's tagline is literally "psychopaths rule our world."

The topics have a section for "science of the spirit" and there's a blog post on the front page that keeps theme with the about page representing this site as a group fighting to be heard over the scientists who are repressing them.

PS. Your link's article isn't even talking about the same thing as the original article. Thought you might want to know before reading it yourself.
The majority of students who I went to Community College with were, like myself, there to take university-level classes and transfer.

Granted, we were a bit unique in that we were 10 miles from a university, and mimicked much of that school's courses.
Do you have a source for that? I read the actual FCC announcement from FCC.gov and it says:

"Marriott employees had used containment features of a Wi-Fi monitoring system at the Gaylord Opryland to prevent individuals from connecting to the Internet via their own personal Wi-Fi networks, while at the same time charging consumers, small businesses and exhibitors as much as $1,000 per device to access Marriott's Wi-Fi network."

In your room or in the conference center you should be able to use your own Wi-Fi without interference.

Source: http://www.fcc.gov/document/marriott-pay-600k-resolve-wifi-b...
I cannot upvote your comment ( and the parent ) enough. If the labor market in tech was a perfectly competitive market where all parties had perfect information, hiring would be a lot more straightforward. However, as you state, cognitive biases and lack of rationality on both the supply and demand side muddy the waters.
Original article is actual news about measles outbreak. Yours is about chickenpox from a shady resource. I fail to see how your input is relevant to the discussion.
As an Australian, when the former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard got up on stage a repeated the mantra "I am deeply offended by the leader of the opposition", referring to various things Tony Abbott had said, I suggested this was exactly the wrong approach for her to take and that she should have just rolled her eyes and laughed at him if she truly thought Tony is out of touch with the average Australia.

Not unpredictably I was shouted down by everyone in the room. Maybe this says something about the people I associate with. Perhaps.

If we disagree with someone why should we be offended? Wouldn't it be better to just say "I think that is a silly idea, lets move on", rather than heaping yet more attention on the opposing views.

I would possibly make an exception to my theorising above. When the marauding hordes are coming over the hill it might be time to dispense with the eye-rolling. It may be prudent to act prior to this occurring. I'm not convinced I know where we go from here.
Oh jfc. "I know about the counter arguments, let me just ignore them and wave them all away and invent a completely straw man argument".
Lockheed Martin Introduces New Open Source Software for Real-Time Analytics
The article mentions randomness, incomplete information, and how often to bluff, but I don't see anything about tells. Unlike humans, computers are excellent at hiding their bluffs and their excitement at holding a royal strait. Hiding tells doesn't matter in checkers or chess, but it's essential in poker.
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Here is Alan Kay from a talk that was just on HN today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY&t=8m9s

The amount of complication can be hundreds of times more than the
complexity, maybe thousands of times more. This is why appealing to
personal computing is, I think, a good ploy in a talk like this because
surely we don't think there's 120 million lines of code—of *content* in
Microsoft's Windows — surely not — or in Microsoft Office. It's just
incomprehensible.

And just speaking from the perspective of Xerox Parc where we had to do this
the first time with a much smaller group — and, it's true there's more stuff
today — but back then, we were able to do the operating system, the
programming language, the application, and the user interface in about ten
thousand lines of code.

Now, it's true that we were able to build our own computers. That makes a
huge difference, because we didn't have to do the kind of optimization that
people do today because we've got things back-asswards today. We let Intel
make processors that may or may not be good for anything, and then the
programmer's job is to make Intel look good by making code that will
actually somehow run on it. And if you think about that, it couldn't be
stupider. It's completely backwards. What you really want to do is to
define your software system *first* — define it in the way that makes it the
most runnable, most comprehensible — and then you want be able to build
whatever hardware is needed, and build it in a timely fashion to run that
software.

And of course that's possible today with FPGA's; it was possible in the 70's
at Xerox Parc with microcode. The problem in between is, when we were doing
this stuff at Parc, we went to Intel and Motorola and pleading with them to
put forms of microcode into the chips to allow customization and function
for the different kinds of languages that were going to have to run on the
chips, and they said, What do you mean? What are you talking about?
Because it never occurred to them. It still hasn't.

EDIT added last para.
HULHE has been known to have very strong bots[1] for many years, mainly thanks to the University of Albert and the research they have done.

There is the Computer Poker Competition that is held every year too[2].

Everyone I know has been staying away from HULHE for awhile, preferring either HUPLO or HUNLHE instead.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_(poker_bot)
2: www.computerpokercompetition.org
Right. Warships try to be self-sufficient and able to deal with battle damage, which means a large on-board crew. The biggest Maersk container ships have a crew of 22. Nimitz-class aircraft carriers have about 3,000, plus 1,500 in the air units. US Navy frigates have about 220.

If you want a sense of how many people are behind an airline flight, watch "Air City", which is a Korean drama series about a woman operations manager for Inchon Airport. The Japanese series "Tokyo Airport" is similar. Both were made with extensive airport cooperation, and you get to see all the details. (This, by the way, is typical of Asian dramas about work-related topics. They show how work gets done. US entertainment seldom does that, except for police procedurals.)

None of this seems to be relevant to computing.
> lets ask the opposite question - can liberalism (or any normal person/society) be tolerant of the people/religion/groups/ideology/society which mass-kills people for cartoons (even if those depict a paedophilic Prophet like Muhammad enjoying zoophilia)?

You have the kernel of the answer here. The problem is that "tolerance" is being poorly defined. Am I being "tolerant" of those I disagree with as long as I don't stone them to death? Or do I also have to refrain from saying bad things about them? Or thinking bad things about them?

Murder is to be condemned by society. That's just ground truth. People who murder for religion are murderers. Their actions condemn them, not their religion. Religious motivation is no exculpation. Society has to be "intolerant" of murder and violence in order to be "tolerant" of everyone's ideas.

But there is no way to prohibit bad ideas in the same way as we prohibit violence because people don't agree which ideas are bad. Having whoever wields the biggest stick choose which ideas can't be discussed isn't tolerance, it's censorship.
guide them: http://heelhook.github.io/chardin.js/
I've found that you can tell within 30 seconds if we're not going to hire someone. It's much easier to filter out the people that won't fit than those that will.
In online/computer poker, there are a lot less tells. In fact the only tells are bet sizing (which is static in limit hold 'em, which is the main reason it is easier to solve), and the timing of bets/checks/folds.
excellent reply @wwweston.
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> Since government started subsidizing higher eduction by underwriting student loans, college tuition has risen much faster than inflation, both for private and public schools.

Do you happen to have links to data that supports that? I was unable to find historical tuition rates for more than a handful of schools when I looked several months ago, but for the few I did find last it appeared to not be true. They were rising much faster than inflation long before the government stepped in, and did not show much if any change after that...maybe just a slight increase.
I wonder why they used such an old version of Firefox?
In the community colleges in my state (Texas) they make sure credits can transfer to UT, A&M and other Universities. So they are equivalent in terms of those classes (typically at freshman or sophomore level).
Not really. If the goal is to maximize profit then tells allow you to make (game theory) suboptimal plays to maximally exploit your opponent. Something the bot would never do. A real player could thus win more money off players with tells, or weaker players in general.

The bot just plays an unexploitable strategy where at best you break even against it, given you never make a mistake.
As I understand, to use Zipkin you either need to use Finagle or modify libraries you use. Pinpoint is about "without changing a single line of code".
What if it was done like healthcare, something like where the government caps the tuition they're willing to spend per student and negotiates lower tuitions by having numbers? I that possible?

Maybe that would force universities to cut costs. But would that be so bad? I feel like a lot of university spending is trying to be fancy to attract more students not because it's valuable to student learning or well-being.
Bad for what ? If you had a full HD resolution on that size you would lack proper display on Linux for high DPI screens (it's still not perfect at this stage).
It's not nearly that simple. Look, I get it: you're a fan of Rust. That's great. Use whatever language floats your boat.

But, it takes more than language features to solve security issues. Memory vulnerabilities are only a small piece of the wide range of potential defects that exist in software. These are also defects that largely go away with training and experience.

I can teach most C / C++ developers how to manage memory and pointers in a way that avoids all of the pitfalls that Rust is designed to prevent. It is absolutely possible to write reasonably secure software in most general purpose programming languages. This is true for C, C++, and even Rust. Don't believe me? Spend some time studying the formal proof behind the se implementation of L4, written in C.

All of this being said, I am a big fan of high-level languages. For my personal work, I write 80% of my software in Literate Haskell and around 20% in a lower level language like C++. But, I also understand the limitations that comes with abstraction, and they are big. System level code operates under a lot of constraints, and the abstraction that come with "safe" languages can come at the cost of this code working at all.

A good software engineer uses whichever tool he / she needs to build good software. If the process is followed, then there is no reason why we can't have an ecosystem that uses whichever languages are best for the problem. For most system level stuff, C/C++ are perfectly fine. If you want to use Rust, great. But, don't delude yourself into believing that your language choice trumps good engineering practice. It never will. Don't believe me? Write some software that can work around the Halting Problem in Rust, and get back to me. Because, that's the sort of intelligence you would need in a compiler or a tool to replace good practice.
I'm not so sure about that. What _drove_ the Spanish to drive out the Arabs from Iberia and execute those that stayed behind? What made them act like that? Or what made the Huns go and conquer half of Europe and kill about half of those and subjugate the rest? Was there something which could have prevented that had the Europeans just been different in some way?
> Many of the students that I started with are still there (3 years later)

How many of them are working full or part time while taking classes?
How come HN isn't displaying anyone's submissions to HN?
I click on a number of Hackers News user's submissions and nothing appears. Hope it gets fixed so. Or HELP!
They used to call that "music" in my day.
I live in Los Angeles, so there are usually native speakers of every language around for practice. For Japanese (which I learned a decade ago back in college), I watched a lot of anime, dated Japanese girls, and ate at Japanese restaurants before spending a few months in Japan. For Italian, a have a few Italian friends so I tortured them with my terrible accent for practice, and listed to opera. French was easy because both my parents speak it, so I practiced on them, plus watched a lot of French movies. Mandarin I practice with my coworker (although as a Cantonese Malaysian, Mandarin is not his native dialect so he has an accent just like me), and whenever I go to a Chinese restaurant. My latest language is Brazilian Portuguese, which I am learning in anticipation of a trip to Brazil. I'm also learning Capoeira and learning to cook Brazilian BBQ, so I practice a bit at my local churrascaria.

In addition to these languages, I also learned Spanish starting in pre-school, and I speak a little Tagalog (my wife is from the Philippines). In answer to your question about getting the languages mixed up, not really. I learned them at separate times, so I think they're stored in different places in my brain.
You just helped me figure out a bug I was trying to track down. Thanks! Also, sorry. Please stand by.

Edit: should be fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
its like this. say a friend says he wants to build a system to enable smartphone turn by turn navigation indoors.. my first thought would be..apple/google/mall developers/nokia all have more millions than we have dollars and what have they done about it? why you? what advantage do you have over them? or what has changed in the circumstances or context to make this indoor navigation thing interesting? i guess thats a rather adversarial way to phrase things, but are questions i actually want to know the answers to..
I am reasonably experienced programmer who has delivered numerous web applications and websites. I could not explain to you how a linked list or binary tree worked - although I am sure I could look them up on google and understand the concepts given 30 minutes.
I read somewhere that most mass-shootings in the USA occur at schools and in shopping malls, where conceal-carry is prohibited. Is this true?
Little question it's removing growth from the economy.

The US Government is printing immense profits from the student loan racket presently. $600 billion in new debt has been added to the government's pool of that in just the last six years.

That $600 billion just for those six years alone, will probably end up costing over a trillion dollars with interest. That's capital no longer available for production or consumption.
Tells, in the sense of ticks and such, are mainly ignored by good poker players. The board situation is where the info is at. A good player won't go thinking "its sweety! he could bluff", but instead "his range based on previous hands on this position is X so I estimate a chance Y for him to bluff".

Computers do have a great advantage by ignoring the whole psycho layer and focus on data only.
Tells in online poker amount to bet sizing and bet timing tells. Both of which good humans find easy to hide.
It's important to keep in mind that Pomplamoose made a conscious decision to hire 6 people to tour with with them and spend to put on a significant production. If they had instead chosen to tour as a duo with minimal production (not unreasonable considering they were playing to crowds of a few hundred outside their home base of SF), they would instead have made ~$20k each in a month. Not so bad.
When I was in Community College back in 2010, absolutely nobody wanted to be there. I didn't understand why the experience wasn't the same as portrayed in the movies. No dorm rooms, crazy parties, or bonding with other students. You were either there because you were stuck making minimum wage, to transfer, or because you were in trouble (a lot of kids made some deal with their parents or parol officers). You got in, and got out. I only stopped going because I got an awesome job at a startup.

Just recently went back to Community College, if nothing more than to say I've a degree too. It still feels a little silly though. I've been programming for years, and I still have to take "Computer Programming Fundamentals", which is a waste of time, and money out of my pocket. Oh well.
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well my question was a bit more customer development/support related but I've been looking for that library for a long time (just the name was tough to remember), thanks!
I have two identical monitors. One of them makes a high pitched sound on this page, and the other is perfectly fine.

Weird.
My girlfriend and mother both started at community college, both transferred to Berkeley and both did very well there. They saved a lot of money in the process. And while those success stories are great (and not that rare) the more important role of CC may be preparing people with sub-par high school educations for a more rigorous college experience.

Having said that, I'd rather see a push for universal pre-school education.
I believe this is about the Lisp Microprocessor that Guy Steele created in Lynn Conway's groundbreaking 1978 MIT VLSI System Design Course:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/MIT78/MIT78.html

My friend David Levitt is crouching down in this class photo so his big 1978 hair doesn't block Guy Steele's face:

The class photo is in two parts, left and right:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/MIT78/Class2s.jp...
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/MIT78/Class3s.jp...

Here are hires images of the two halves of the chip the class made:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/InstGuide/MIT78c...

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/InstGuide/MIT78c...

The Great Quux's Lisp Microprocessor is the big one on the left of the second image, and you can see his name "(C) 1978 GUY L STEELE JR" if you zoom in. David's project is in the lower right corner of the first image, and you can see his name "LEVITT" if you zoom way in.

Here is a photo of a chalkboard with status of the various projects:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/MIT78/Status%20E...

The final sanity check before maskmaking:
A wall-sized overall check plot made at Xerox PARC from Arpanet-transmitted design files,
showing the student design projects merged into multiproject chip set.

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/MIT78/Checkplot%...

One of the wafers just off the HP fab line containing the MIT'78 VLSI design projects:
Wafers were then diced into chips, and the chips packaged and wire bonded
to specific projects, which were then tested back at M.I.T.

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/MIT78/Wafer%20s....

Design of a LISP-based microprocessor
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359031
ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-514.pdf

Page 22 has a map of the processor layout:
http://i.imgur.com/zwaJMQC.jpg

We present a design for a class of computers whose “instruction sets” are based on LISP. LISP, like traditional stored-program machine languages and unlike most high-level languages, conceptually stores programs and data in the same way and explicitly allows programs to be manipulated as data, and so is a suitable basis for a stored-program computer architecture. LISP differs from traditional machine languages in that the program/data storage is conceptually an unordered set of linked record structures of various sizes, rather than an ordered, indexable vector of integers or bit fields of fixed size. An instruction set can be designed for programs expressed as trees of record structures. A processor can interpret these program trees in a recursive fashion and provide automatic storage management for the record structures. We discuss a small-scale prototype VLSI microprocessor which has been designed and fabricated, containing a sufficiently complete instruction interpreter to execute small programs and a rudimentary storage allocator.