skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really?

1) Buy slowcooker
2) Buy a bunch of cans of beans, veges, ground meat, couple spices
3) Drop that slop in slowcooker
4) Turn on and go to sleep for 8 hours
5) Turn off, put in separate containers

Boom, chili meals for a week.

People who believe cooking needs to be expensive and time consuming really haven't put much effort into looking out for alternatives until some marketing scheme makes them believe they've solved a problem that didn't really exist.

I can literally put water in a pot and steam days worth of veges in mere minutes while I pick my nose. Or I take a roast and drop it in a slowcooker, or butter chicken, or any other myriad of choices that involve a highly nutritious set of ingredients. Bulk cooking can be extremely cheap and quick. If your priorities are time/money then put some effort into solving the issue.
I always disliked Walmart's selection. The prices are decent, better than I'll pay at most smaller stores, but they basically carry the same products at every location with no regional variation.

For example, in my college town there were two grocery stores: Walmart and Econofoods. Walmart carried it's typical products and was pretty boring. On the other hand, Econofoods had an impressive selection (more so because this was a small, 8,000 person town) of locally made products, alcohol, and ethnic food. It completely blew Walmart out of the water.
I took an intro Latin course in university, and while I didn't get as much out of it as you did, it did give me a great appreciation for understanding the roots of words, and why they mean what they mean.
I find it disheartening that the common talk of ads is so distanced from the original social justification for ads: to educate and inform consumers. Primarily, to help ensure that the economy engages in the proper degree of competition.

Unfortunately, ads are so full of misinformation and propaganda that there is no hope to be informed by them, so they do not help with the original goal: the very thing that makes them acceptable practice. An advertisement should inform and educate -- something that increasingly requires communication _without bias_ (how radical!)
There's a typo in the browser tab title - I see "Remarq - Beuatiful documents" in my tab title which probably isn't what you want.
Yes, and that's one reason they have lower status. But they are still people who work at your job site.
Use SSDs and the SunOS one works okay.
That's just the classic false attachment of Latin constructs to English usage. French, Italian etc. obviously derive from Latin while the Germanic languages do not, much to the disgrace of the self professed enlightened classes for the last several hundred years.
Roslyn[1] is open source, so nothing that is being listed there implies Microsoft is behind this project.

[1] - https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
> Programming is the applied knowledge of technology. Everything else is just learning - and being restricted to - someone else's idea of how you're supposed to operate that technology.

All of engineering that isn't programming disagrees with you, for starters.

Programming is one kind of application of knowledge of one specific area of technology. But so are lots of other things.
This isn't a rebuttal against the tragedy of the commons argument. Commercial fisherman "just don't want to have to deal with" catching less fish, but overfishing is still a problem.
You can't really take from this experience that people don't want private offices, though (you didn't exactly say it, but I think the implication is there). As you admitted, your engineers didn't actually get private offices, they got cubes with high walls! That's a pretty major difference.
> excessive speculation is the reason why bitcoin is in so much trouble. It never became a proper currency.

I'm not convinced such arguments have legs these days. CHF and ruble are seeing massive volatility, are they not "proper currencies"?

Bitcoin is a proper currency. It's just that it's economy is tiny, so just like little Switzerland the currency gets battered a lot by speculators looking to make money.
> Danielle and Alexander Meitiv say they are being investigated for neglect for the Dec. 20 trek…

'Trek'? It was a mile walk! Not a big deal.

This country has become insane.
it was a very good year
And predicting that it’d happen five years ago…
I do not believe so looking at the WhoIs:

References this company: www.eternix.co.il
The point I'm making is that we expect people to continue living their lives while going to school, that doesn't change. Getting financial aid isn't a contract to live a strict monastic life nor should it be. Also, the fact that not every single person who gets aid goes on to use it for some optimal standard doesn't mean that it is a waste or that we as a society shouldn't do it.

> I'm in college right now, on financial aid. I'm well aware of the complexities of the FAFSA and probably filed one much more recently than you. But it's nowhere near challenging enough that a bright, motivated student would find it a hindrance.

It wasn't very long ago when I did FAFSA and I knew quite a few bright people who struggled with the process. FAFSA is not a perfect process and leaves a lot to be desired as I'm sure you are aware of.

> Maybe for better actors it requires some intellectual ability, but I'm unconvinced that most of Hanks's community college classes had any impact on his career.

This is an arbitrary thing to say, as clearly to Hanks some of the things he's recalling were significant to his life and his career. We don't get to make decisions for what is important to someone's development, that is up to individual people. There were many experiences that I've had that make me how am I today as a person and professional and I'm sure some folks may want to write that off.
Awk & SED I have a hard time think about one without the other. I think they should be married.
I am looking for a house in part based on the criteria of letting my (future) children be able to get on transit or their bike and be independent as soon as reasonable. There is no reason I need to be in a helicopter over the children until they are 16 or whenever the government lets them drive.

With respect to kidnapping, abuse, etc, the larger danger is friends and family, not strangers. It is a fact that America is much closer to 1950s levels of safety in the 2010s.

John Paul Jones joined the Navy at 13. Why hold your children back?

edit: I see these stories come out of NYC, DC, etc. Are there similar reports from places that are, ahem, more known for freedom, i.e., Utah, Wyoming, etc?
But Baidu doesn't have the Babelfish.
why do people want to goto space when There aré so many undiscovered gems on hour doorstep!
I grew up in Manhattan in 80's, early 90's... by 4th grade/age 10 pretty much the whole class came to school by themselves - there is no school bus service in Manhattan kids get buss passes (handed out at school) to use on the buses and subways...

Additionally, most of our parents gave us $5-10 dollars that we were not to spend but keep with us at all time as "mugging money" - so that we had something to give up if we were mugged.

Apparently, a whole generation of parents were "neglecting" their kids...
but people are more afraid.

The media has taught us to be afraid. Not maliciously so. It makes us better consumers, the metric they're paid to optimize.
I biked to school from grade 6 to grade 13 (Italy, we have 5 years of high school). Walked to school before, but it was only a few blocks.

I moved to Texas for university, and people looked at me funny because I preferred to bike around if it was less than a couple miles.
In gwt, reflection isn't supported because it makes it hard for the compiler to do dead code elimination.

Supporting reflection might make it difficult to reduce the compile size of the javascript code in the future.

Or does c# reflection work differently from java?

Looks great by the way.
The only reasons open offices are popular is because they're cheap and flexible (w/r to layout). That's it. People responsible for office layout make the wrong prioritization, that office space is expensive vs. knowledge worker productivity. But this keeps being demonstrated to be flatly wrong. Humans make dumb prioritizations all the time, even when there's ample data refuting it. Open offices exist basically because of broken belief systems.

Knock yourself out with some studies showing that open offices offer higher productivity. From anecdotes to data, it's been shown over and over and over agains that, in the general knowledge worker sense, they don't...and the body of studies that keep showing this is growing faster than any that show it's a good idea to pile a bunch of people who's job it is to think into a noisy crowded cluttered space full of distractions.

There are specific cases where they might, call-centers for example, but that's simply because you can pack more people making more calls per square-meter and thus productivity is easy to measure. But call-center workers are basically the same as production-line workers, they're measured in calls-per-hour in the way a worker at a car factory is measured in body panels mounted per hour.

There's been a very long road in management science, a road that's still being walked, where each step along the way, the field comes to the realization that knowledge workers are not in fact the same as production-line workers. You can't measure a software developer's productivity in KLoCs/unit time, and you can't make development go faster by throwing more people at it. I'm using software here, but any knowledge job works the same way.

If you need to think to do your job, things that distract you from thinking will cause you to not be able to do your job.
Is that a new C# 6 feature? Cause in C# 5 delegates can't be implicitly typed.

Func<string> blah = () => "im a function";

var blah = new Func<string>(() => "im a function");
And then there's the neighbours, Timelines Inc., who aren't shy at all: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-07/facebook-timelines-...
for me, the key in that sentence is "integrated in Visual Studio", implying it comes or will come bundled with Visual Studio, English is not my first language so maybe I'm misinterpreting this.
Wow. Thank you so much for the positive outpour of support, we are near the point of tears of joy with today's launch!

I'd like to take a minute and get back to all your questions and comments:

* Bugs and glitches: please keep the feedback coming! This is a version 1.0 product, so we're standing ready to fix issues ASAP as they come up.

* Technology choice: the iOS app is entirely native, written in Swift. The API is written in GO, and the web app is Angular.JS. Very shiny new tech all-around!

* Native vs. Web: We have a native iOS app on the AppStore right now, all other platforms can access full functionality via our web app http://m.timeline.com

* Maps and geographical exploration: Can't say much except "coming soon". If you have an interest, experience, or actual technology in this area we'd love to work with you.

* Contributing: We'd love to hear from you, and we'd love your help. Shoot us an email: beta@timeline.com
Here's an example from real life (in person, not via this app).

I have a buddy who is blind. In the US, paper currency is all the same size and shape, so it's impossible to distinguish them by feel alone. He uses a system of folds to remember which bill is which, but if he drops one, or the cashier doesn't tell him what the denominations are, etc..., he ends up not know which bill is which. Occasionally that means he has to ask someone, despite having a 'routine' that is generally very effective.
Nice designs, but my eyes almost fell out of my head when I saw the pricing. The regular price of the mid-tier is double the price of the highest Adobe Creative Cloud package!
That Dropbox office was a big damper on my enthusiasm interviewing there. "Wow, this is the most beautiful office I've seen... but how do you all concentrate?" They had some answers, fwiw, and maybe I'd have adapted, though my experience of similar setups over a few months says no.

This is a real problem for recruiting if the recruitee is me.
That's already the goal of children's television programming. Shows like Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood are prime examples.

If a narrative were introduced to this program as robmcm suggests it could even accomplish both goals, just as those television programs can teach both basic literacy and ethical values.
Very well done article.

General question: when would one choose to use an awk script over something more general purpose such as a python or ruby script? To me it would make sense to use the latter in most cases.
Most of the application of Latinate concepts (those systems you mention) to English grammar are pretty faulty. It's what led us down the path to people complaining about split infinitives, and all that nonsense up with which I refuse to put. It leads to situations that are akin to someone trying really hard to write a Java program in Ruby.

Which isn't to say that learning Latin doesn't improve grammar skills, or push you toward thinking more analytically about language. My argument, though, would be that learning any second language will give you pretty much the same benefit.

5 on AP Latin, here.
For reference, I graduated HS in 2005 so my childhood was mid to late 90s. My friends and I used to tell our parents were were all going to each others houses and then ride our bikes all around town, through construction sites, abandoned factories, down highways, etc. None of us were abducted, died, injuries happen but who doesn't fall off their bike now and then ;)

The only times cops were involved were when someone called them. Cops would show up, talk to us, then leave once they knew we weren't making trouble and were safe. Never followed up on us or our parents. The only scary situation is once we were playing paintball and someone said a bunch of kids with guns are running around, cops showed up, searched us then went home laughing.

I think the difference today is all related to liability and the helicopter culture it created. Maybe the cops are just CYAing themselves by involving CPS. Maybe the cops didn't like the parents attitude and involved CPS. There is a huge stigma today about being up your kids ass and if you're not, you're a bad parent. Politicians and the media bank big time on pushing these "morals" and punishing anyone who thinks differently. It's not something that will be fixed tomorrow.

I look at the kids in my neighborhood and I feel sad for them. They wont have the experience I had. I am sure everyone feels that way though, the only difference is 15 years ago no one was going to jail or losing their kids over politics.

My comment is a little all-over-the-place but my point is, raising a kid in America is too dangerous of a risk for me and it's a sad thing to think about. The cultural fixes are all very obvious but then what will the news talk about? What will politicians campaign about? How can our leaders show they are "tough on the issues" unless they are relentlessly hammering insanity?

I always think of a quote from The Other Guys when topics like this come up because the solution is so obviously simple but so obviously never going to happen...

Gamble: What about nine million socially-conscious and unified citizens, all just stepping up and doing their part?
WSJ and NYT are the papers even if you're reading them online, because they literally are newspapers in real life.
Build Newsletter: Predictions, Security, Mobile, Agile, and DevOps – January 2015
Children already have way too few rights. I don't like the direction our society is moving in. You can't just take away rights of a minority, especially children. Getting taken in by the police is probably more harmful and scarring than anything that could have happened to them (with a non-negligible probability) on their short way.
Meteor Security Essentials
Great beginner tips!

I think your suggested rate calculation (15% above salary divided by 2080) undervalues the rate. Your overhead as an independent includes additional employment taxes, retirement contributions, hardware, software, utilities, and space. In addition, you are taking on risk that is built in to your company-provided salary.

I believe you should strive for 100% above your salary. If you make $100K, your goal should be $200/hour, especially if the engagements are small/ side work. You probably should not settle for less than 50% above, as you are setting a rate that you will use if your side work becomes full-time (which it very well may).

Don't undervalue yourself. And don't count on going in at a low rate and raising it later. Set a rate that reflects your true value.

Remember, companies pay $250+/hour to large firms for specialized consultants whose take home pay might be $100K. That's who you're competing against.
A quick googling shows that people are still having some problems with fortran to javascript, as there's a bit of a dance between toolchains that needs done there. However, the best bet for if you wanna keep people from turning your code to javascript seems to be PL/I. Finding even less there for tools to convert it to javascript.
It's interesting to wonder if the owner thought anyone would find it.
Yes, specialty hospital seems to be a great model. Atul Gawande talks a lot about this type of practice in his "Complications" book; a great read if you haven't seen it.
That's overlooking some rather obvious differences in status. Employee versus contractor for one.
// JavaScript code generated by DuoCode
GetBestMove = function(board, player, winner)

That line will garbage the global scope..
I will only assume that crossing the road is not a huge problem for blind people. I am sure most know how to do it safely, traffic light sounds or simply asking someone to help. I doubt anyone would rely on internet/videochat for something as high precision as that.

I don't know anyone blind, so I might be wrong on some part(s).
I hadn't thought of that. I'd forgotten to install the "Blocklist" plugin for Deluge and configure a list.
AWK is very easy for C programmers to learn.

You can also try 'info gawk' from the Unix or Cygwin prompt for a good tutorial.
Parents do not routinely expect to be murdered by their children, nor is moral to expect or require such.
There is also Script# [1] which unfortunately seems to be no longer maintained. Even the domain of the homepage expired at the end of 2014. I used it for a couple of toy projects and it worked pretty well.

[1] https://github.com/nikhilk/scriptsharp
5 minutes walk

10 minutes by car

Winter (during snow): 20 minutes by car
See following stackoverflow question, I'm the highest voted answer but some good info from others as well.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra...
It's a bit out of date because I now use windows 7 and Vagrant with a command-line for a lot of things but screen reading software is still the same.
Ok...that is just cool.
There's a very interesting discussion in Scott Aaronson's "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity" (http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf).

Briefly (as far as I understand), a lot of philosophical thought has been dedicated to computability, not enough to computational complexity, i.e., the resources needed for computation. A naive "lookup table" implementation of the Chinese room simply wouldn't fit in the Universe. You'd need to throw in a great amount of compression, and then you get something that could possibly be considered "intelligent" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize)
A 30 year old iPhone? (If it was, as suggested in the article, lost about 100 years ago.) Sure, the gun will have retained its resale value, but the owner will have also had years worth of use.
Speaking of awesome, check out other stuff Fred Hebert wrote.

Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

His blog posts are great too: http://ferd.ca/

And his new (free) book, Erlang In Anger: http://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
Running R in Parallel (the easy way)
Max, great analysis. I was curious if you researched whether or not
BuzzFeed is using the tactic of multiple titles for a single
(partially generated) article?

The multi-title tactic was mentioned in the "The King of Clickbait" article and discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810670

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/05/virologist
Actually, I haven't abandoned it--literally working on it this very minute, in fact. :)

The problem is that multi-platform video interchange is a hard problem. Very hard. SIP only gets you so far even with web RTC, then you hit issues where server X doesn't like delegating authentication to anything else, Y does but requires super-indepth knowledge of the protocol, and Z may or may not but it's got so many modules it's hard to tell. Then there's the issue of needing some degree of call control so connections can be terminated for using too much time, which the hosted SIP services I looked at don't seem to allow. And, unfortunately, the hardest problem of the launch list is the one I need to get right, meaning I've spent months looking for a good, low-cost, cross-platform (desktop, Android and IOS) video exchange solution and have only recently found something that may work. It's possible that I've just used bad Google keywords or something, but none of the legacy SIP servers seem to like being plugged into a web app as opposed to managing everything themselves.

So, yeah, definitely not abandoned, I've just spent way more time than I liked finding a possibly good media server, plus continuing to earn money so I can keep the lights on and pay the rent. :) Hoping for a launch in the next couple months, assuming my current path pays off.

BTW, how the hell do you accessibly (I.e. via the keyboard) click the button to submit comments here? :P I have to poke around on my touchscreen until I find it, then double-tap. Surely there's a better way?
> Latin (...) will be the key to artificial intelligence?

Deus ex machina. We knew that for hundreds of years. ;).
The third oldest living organism ever documented was a Bristlecone Pine dubbed "Prometheus" in Great Basin National Park (the same park as the story).

It was at least 4862 years old before being cut down for study!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28tree%29
I'm 45. I walked alone to and from school every day of my youth since I was 7. My kids do the same. This is totally normal.

However, some states are still ruled by people who want to teach creationism, or legislate that pi is 3, because America values freedom to ignore observable evidence in favor of opinion.
It's stating that it's available as a visual studio add-on, so you can set it as a build target.
I voted for Mark Udall for Colorado Senator last November, mostly for his work on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Does that count?
The trail of tears architecture anti-pattern
The Under-appreciated Benefits of  Creative Consistency
It just means that it will likely come as a Visual Studio add-on which doesn't require any official support from Microsoft. [1]

[1] - https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/
I walked to school, about a mile each way, every day from 3rd to 5th grade. We routinely walked to a pool over half a mile away in the summer. We walked to the dentist, we walked to the dairy store for milk. My mom would give me 75 cents and tell me to go get a gallon of milk, which gets heavy quick.
This is an interesting concept because until reading this, it had never occurred to me that the torrent indexes are typically centralized as opposed to the decentralized nature of torrenting.