skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth keeping in mind that the interview is heavily edited and Ronson is being a bit disingenuous at several points, pretending to not understand things that he almost certainly must.

David Bausola isn't so much an academic as some sort of artist/marketer combo. He's done some interesting Twitter bot things in the past. Strange and odd, but interesting. I've followed him and his experiments for years now, and it's just one of his things. I think he, at least, is genuinely interested in online identities and how people present themselves through Twitter and other social media. I don't believe at all he's a troll, though I do think his fascination with Ronson's responses is rather cold and clinical, and a bit more empathy would be appropriate.

Having said all that, obviously they should have taken down the bot when Ronson was upset by it. My suspicion is they saw an opportunity to talk about what they do and get an audience for it, and they exploited that. Which is, of course, the wrong thing to do.
My impression is that they're buying stuff for you, then charging the user as a separate transaction that includes the original purchase price plus their fee.
I was under the impression that with a student visa (is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_visa ?) you can't go out and work everywhere. Maybe somebody in this thread can correct me.
Quite sad yet more women will die of heart disease than breast cancer.

Although I do like her request:

>Promise me, I told my friends and family, that you'll never say that I died after “fighting a courageous battle with breast cancer.” This tired, trite line dishonors the dead and the dying by suggesting that we, the victims, are responsible for our deaths or that the fight we were in was ever fair.

And the slamming of that marketing machine Susan G. Komen which has become a monster that congratulates itself, sues people and trademarks the colour pink; I'm sure that's important to their machine.
What guarantee of customer satisfaction is offered? If your fees are "bundled" how do you intend to refund in the event of poor service by the final provider?
Great MVP, great focus. Few thoughts -

Make sure top phone # is tappable on mobile browsers.

Examples that don't make me question your ability to deliver - airline example seems to be hiding complexity (I question it as I read it), others really good
Wow, everyone! This is truly amazing. We released Magic under 48 hours ago as an experiment and a side project, and now the traffic and requests are streaming in faster than we can handle.

Don't worry - we have a plan to handle it. For now we are closing down free registrations so that we can focus on delivering the product to the awesome people who have signed up so far and who are using the service.

I've replaced the phone number on the page you see here with an email opt-in waiting list where you can sign up to be notified when Magic is available to you.

In the meantime, I have added a Stripe button for $20 after the email opt-in where you can gain access now if you want to get in right now.

Thanks everyone!
MM is good, I'm a fan of Lazerhawk too myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co Drove straight from NY to IL one day with that on repeat.
I've been thinking about doing this for procedurally generated dungeon maps. Basically, randomly add some subset of grid squares, then work out naive as-the-crow-flies connectivity between the closest neighbors to generate the sparse graph.

For straightforward corridor and room maps, each corridor/room object just becomes a node.
In the early 90s during the era of game copiers, people made crack intros for Super Nintendo games and wrote SNES demos. I've been a fan of their music for years since zophar.net used to have an SPC collection (I can't find it on the zophar.net music page anymore, but you can find it from the archive.org version at https://web.archive.org/web/20070306011147/http://www.zophar... -- it's called "Public Domain SPC music"). An easier-to-access example is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMOaN9SrR0M . As a lot of the work was done by pseudonymous people and it involved underground scenes, it's hard to find reliable history about these groups. However, there's enough homebrew SNES music from that era that I wonder if someone wrote a tracker.
You can work anywhere regardless of your/company's physical location as an F-1 student. The restriction is placed on the company's and position's type. The nature of the job must be related to your major, and the employment is subject to approval from USCIS in the form of CPT and/or OPT.

Source:
http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/f-1-opt-optional-practic...

and I'm an F-1 student myself.
Paradox: spend more money does not lead to better quality
The vibe I get is that it isn't character they're really trying to judge. They're really trying to calculate whether a person is palatable to downstream players. I think there's likely some market risk associated with various personalities and they need to address it somehow even if there's no quantitative approach.

A wild experiment would be to test their judgment system by planting a few charming serial killers in their "character judgment" sample pool. My hypothesis is that the charming serial killers would pass at a higher rate.
Article is about movies, I feel it's the same for software development as well.
I am not sure whetehr you qualify for 12 months OPT program (optional pratcical training). This OPT program helps you get the employment authorization document for 12 months, which can be extended for another 17 months (so-called STEM extenstion).

First, you need to worry about the authorization to work. If you get such an authorization, yes, you can find an internship or a job. There is another authorization document called CPT, curricular pratcical training or something that is issued by the school itself.

The other visa ya shud look for is E3 visa.
I want to use my time in America under a student visa to meet and interview with potential employers who would then sponsor me for the appropriate visa. The grad recruitment process in Australia is usually 6-9 months before you start, I assume it is also similar in the states
(Solo-founder in the middle of a last pre-launch crunch): all the emotions I had (excitement, fear, doubt, fun, confusion) seem to have been dialled out to white noise and I find myself in a moment of almost zen like tranquillity. I know what I need to do and am just doing it. I get up, go to my computer, work and go to bed. I do this 6 days a week and spend day 7 re-assuring my girlfriend she's not in love with a robot.

It's not sustainable, the end's in sight but perversely it's quite liberating. I feel like I've finally achieved complete internal acceptance of what I'm doing.
Oh, I was about to say... Make sure you only expose a portion of Haskell's concurrency primitives ;)
Pumping fluid wouldn't give long term motion to the planet (can't travel further than it's own length). That would violate momentum conservation no matter how it's powered. You need to give it momentum to make it move, and then you just get a solar sail.
I just decided to try this out in Seattle. Here's how it went! http://brianbeck.com/images/magic.png

(the minimum was from the sushi place, not Magic)
In a NTSC-US style NES, there's a big 72 pin connector in the back of the NES that the cartridge plugs into. The pins in that connector are basically little springy metal tabs that grab the contacts on the cartridge when you plug the cartridge in. But through use, some of those pins get loose enough so that they just barely make contact, and even start to fail to make contact. When you blow on a cartridge, you're introducing enough saliva to create a conductive path and maybe get good contact at that 72 pin connector.

The connector is easily removed and the pins can be cleaned and bent back into place with a small flathead screwdriver. Replacement 72 pin connectors are also easily obtained on eBay and other sites. Top-loading NES models are less susceptible to this and thus they have been sought out by collectors who want a long term way to play the games in their collections.
Is there someone available 24/7 to reply?
Does it mean the singularity is happening when people consider googling to be too much work?
If the submission is "carpet cleaner in London", with a link to a carpet cleaning service in London, then I flag it without remorse. That's not something I want to see in HN. There are many other places for that type of post.

There are 232 links to questions in travel.stackexchange . Over 90% of them have an affiliation tracker id of /101 , although coming from different HN accounts. The questions include "Does condition 8115 mean you can't check your work email while travelling?" and "Can travel agents match automated ITA Travel Matrix prices?". These are only slightly less off topic than a carpet cleaning service advertisement.

For a while it seemed like I was seeing those links every day, to the point of annoyance. Just reading the travel-related title often meant that I knew that the topic would be uninteresting, and with the /101 at the end of the URL. My interpretation was that the operator of the account was more interested in the reputation gain on stackexchange rather than posting interesting links, and would switch accounts in order to get around HN flags.

There was another account a few years back which linked to an inane math trivia blog, perhaps several times per day. (I can't find examples now, but they were like "What's interesting about the number 120?") It wasn't really appropriate for HN, and not something I wanted to wade through every day. I assumed it was either to drive traffic, or a sort of way to spread a parent's love, metaphorically speaking.

For posts like that I usually point out in the comments that the topic isn't really that interesting, before bringing in the flag. I don't recall any responses, which leads me to think it's more to drive traffic than to find out what others might find interesting.

If submissions aren't flagged, and there are no mechanism put into place to remove off-topic or almost-off-topic posts, then there will be a lot more uninteresting content to ignore, like Photoshop Experts For Hire: Cheap!

Do you want that?
What IDE did you use? Can this workflow work in Visual Studio using NUnit?
Resource Optimization with Java SE 7
I always wonder who is pocketing this money. In the simplest case you have two operators. You own (local) and the 'foreign'.

In the simplest setup you would have a price structure that is foreign charge + local charge. What probably is inflating it is that both local and foreign operator charge a service charge, which is where the insane prices come into existence.

So who are overcharging here? Both?

My old company explicitly stated that international prices were foreign operator plus current charge, but the foreign operator prices were quite inflated compared to what friends in those countries were paying at the time.
Yes, it's off topic. I think HN shouldn't be a person's private army to dislike/downvote/report content on other forums. Common on Reddit and 4chan, but please not on HN.

The video is meant for high vitality, professional made and promoted and probably fake anyway.
I think the reason they used it was to make the

i==argc? '\n': ' '

part of the print statement cleaner.
sexism of any form is still sexism.

#shame
So, this article highlights important issues with convenience foods, with a minimum of fearmongering relative to the standard of this topic.

The article claims that rosemary extract is Bad because it substitutes for BHA/BHT, a preservative. At this point I stopped reading due to an overwhelming urge to bang my head into the table. Preservation is in fact a major reason for seasoning-- in a preserved meat, no less! (And BHA/BHT are antioxidants-- which makes them Good...)

Similarly, it's not surprising that yeast extract (nutritional yeast Good) contains the Bad MSG. Glutamate is a fundamental building block of life. If you've ever tasted yeast extract, you will immediately notice that it's very salty. The only reason to eat it is as a flavor enhancer, because as a major constituent it's too salty-- except for various Commonwealth countries that like to put it on toast.

Etc...

Shit, I bet the egg yolks in my cake batter are Bad because they substitute for cholesterol, an emulsifier and flavor enhancer which is linked to diseases (it also tastes nasty on its own)

Crappy food optimized for convenience, scale and profit is a huge problem. I hate-- the actual, painful, comsuming hate-- convenience foods and I double hate franchise restaurants etc. because they reduce the amount of "real," freshly prepared, flavorful food immediately available to me. But that doesn't obviate the need for critical thinking.

Finally, as a practicing biochemist and excellent cooker/eater I'm Offended by the insinuation that one cannot be equally comfortable in a kitchen or in a lab.

Derek Lowe's several article[0]s should be boilerplate at the end of any chemicals vs food piece.

[0] http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/04/30/is_that_food...

Edit: after skimming the remainder of the article, it becomes clear that its author has never cooked anything
What are you guys using to manage in-bound text messages? Something like sendsonar.com or something home-grown?
Your DNA is everywhere. Can the police analyze it?
Just to sign up (before I asked for anything), the credit card form is for a $20 initial payment... with no explanation if this goes towards your first purchase, or not?
http://i.imgur.com/J5TKJO5.png

Also, they're using a Stripe account managed by this company: https://bettir.com
There have been a lot of companies opening up offices in Phoenix, AZ. Specifically Scottsdale. If I remember correctly Weebly and Yelp have offices on Scottsdale Rd. Usually Phoenix is known for it's Real Estate investing but tech companies have been getting more more and more recognition. I think we're calling it Silicon Desert.
Your general point about the slide recoil is correct, but your comparison isn't. Kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity. k = 1/2 * mv^2

In your example, the projectile has...

1/2 * 20g * (365 m/s)^2 = 1330 joules

...of kinetic energy. But your slide has...

1/2 * 600g * (12.2 m/s)^2 = 44 joules

...of kinetic energy. Solve for the slide velocity...

1/2 * 0.600kg * (x m/s)^2 = 1330 joules
0.300kg * (x m/s)^2 = 1330 joules
(x m/s)^2 = 4433 m^2/s^2
x = 66.58 m/s

So the slide is initially traveling backwards at around 65 meters per second. Probably faster, since only a fraction of the deflagration is transferred to the bullet.

Another nitpick: I think your example is not representative. A 20 gram bullet and 600 gram slide are both very heavy for a handgun. Using typical numbers: Hydra-shok 9mm +P has a bullet weighing 8 grams, which exits the muzzle at 350 meters per second. That gives 490 joules of kinetic energy. I weighed the slide on my Sig Sauer P239 at 300 grams. Plug those numbers in, and you get a slide traveling backwards at 57 meters per second. Not too different, but worth mentioning.

That said, I completely agree with everything else in your comment. Thank you for explaining the intricacies of handgun and ammunition metallurgy.
You could ask how the starch is "modified," for starters...
I just hope that it's backward compatible with ls, as of the moment, it's not a replacement.
what a great testament to her life and to its worth
That's (partly) provided by running this REPL:
https://github.com/rocky/go-fish
with this eval for Go code:
https://github.com/0xfaded/eval
This is an example of a completely useless title.
What were the extra pieces?
That's terribly ugly. Can they not do escape analysis or something to avoid allocations in obvious places? Or only allocate when the value is moved off the stack?

Doesn't Android use a different flavor of Java anyways, allowing them to make these changes?
Ask HN: Part-time/remote data science?
I see a ton of jobs around the web for part-time or remote work as a {language, platform} developer. I am a graduate student in statistics and newish to data science. When I look around for part-time or remote work related to data science/R (yes, I know about R-jobs) the pickings are considerably slimmer. Where do you find your data science gigs, HN?
Degrade the service for everyone to possibly defend against a theoretical problem?
I think one of his points is that in some cases private frameworks can be modified in new updates and the changes can go undocumented. So reliability will just about always be in question.
I personally think the answer here is fantastic. It shows several important things: the candidate keeps up to date with the tools, he thinks about problems formally and systematically, and has a solid grasp of theory. Not only did he decompose the original template into one that leverages existing utility functions, but written the solution in a mostly functional way where mutable state is localized in specific functions. You can easily extend his solution with more analyses.

The interviewer asked a simple question designed to screen the clinically incompetent, and this guy used it as an opportunity to show the extent of his skills and knowledge, which is the whole point of an interview.
That's because it wasn't actually the blowing on the cartridge that helped, it was the reinserting it: http://mentalfloss.com/article/12589/did-blowing-nintendo-ca...
Presumably what their fee covers is their work arranging it. I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense to charge much more for ordering a plane ticket than a pizza; it's not so much more effort that a percentage makes much sense. On the other hand, "get me a Philly cheesesteak delivered" (which someone mentioned) may entail both "find me a cheesesteak" and "find me a courier" - so you charge more because it's more effort.
Jarvis charges a large upfront fee. This charges per use.
I think remote data science jobs are hard to come by, especially for a junior/newer developer.

I would check we work remotely. They have quite a few Database related jobs. https://weworkremotely.com/
My Credit/Debit card offers concierge service but I've never used it. I'd have to find the number (or put it in my phone..), then speak to an operator, and then trust that they could deliver on what I expect.

This service is based on SMS though, and I'd presume they hold all the pertinent info (address, credit card etc) so that I wouldn't have to keep repeating it. I'd still have to trust that I get what I want, but the crucial speaking to an operator component is reduced to a fire and forget SMS. I'd use this if I was in the States.
=)congrats. care to share what volume looks like?
We are always available, though we might be a bit slower during the wee hours.
Sorry, I read your original comment about "the evidence points in the other direction" as being about the original incident, that's why I was expecting you to justify the point you didn't, in fact, make.

My apologies for deriding a made up argument.
Is your markup a percentage/amount or do you make it up each time?
HackerNews -Android Malware Can Spy on You Even When Your Mobile Is Off
Upsetting the Apple car |
Prediction, they will switch to a simple app soon.
Normally we will charge you one overall charge and handle everything including tipping, but if you prefer to do the tipping yourself then just let us know!
Yes, we did hang out on IRC! Good times!
The first few google hits suggest that current fakes are made of resin, etc. with some frog meat thrown in for scent. So they're not so expensive that people don't sell whole horns, unless they're all fake
I wonder if it is easier to 'learn from it' when a) it is clear what you did wrong was in breach of the rules of the conference you were in, b) you get a job pretty shortly afterwards, and c) you aren't threatened with death, rape and doxed out of your home and city.

I can imagine it is pretty hard to learn from it, in that case. So my natural default is to give her a huge amount of empathy in the situation. Especially given that I have no real likelihood of ever having to go through that myself.
Pretty sure no JIT. Because the Mono guys had a few compat issues due to requiring ahead of time compilation for iOS. If JIT was an option then it'd certainly be used.
This is pretty much what the perl5 VM does on scope exit to blow away unused temporaries.

Weak references take a while to figure out but once you have, refcounting is so much more predictable than GC.
University of Texas has an exchange partnership with UNSW I believe. Austin is a great tech city and also just an awesome place to enjoy life as a college student.
EPIC CAGED SPIDER PRANK
Very related. I was about to write a js to shell script compiler when I came across https://github.com/BYVoid/Batsh it takes C/java-style code and spits out a bash script. The shell script will run on windows osx and *nix.
Awesome demo! Can you update the shot while swiping left to show the timestamps?
as mentioned above, it's a POSIX thing.
Chinese Farmer Builds His Own Bionic Arms  YouTube
That's awesome. And I think it scales for just long enough, too. I don't think hiring real, intelligent humans to make on-the-fly shopping decisions like this (think, an old-school concierge desk at hotel) costs more than the incremental value they'd bring in. If 90% of the requests can be handled automatically, then you can afford to make magic happen (and delighted customers) in the 10%.

It falls apart at a certain global scale, but I'm sure the business has pivoted twice by that point.

Nicely done.
A behavior model for persuasive design [pdf]
So then you play pass-the-strong-reference in a destructor - i.e. if A goes out of scope the A->B ref is weakened and the B->A ref is strengthened, then vice versa if required.

We did this for DBIx::Class in perl, thereby keeping full liveness but still getting timely destruction for connection objects. It was a trifle insane to get right, but it works extremely well.
There's an Android app by the same name that does the same thing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=br.com.intelco...

Not available on iOS though...
looks like you guys blew up and had to limit orders. bummer. would love to give this a shot as I get my invite! great idea, hopefully the execution is good.
Show HN: Monitor Your Terminal from Your Phone
You're joking right? A 1911 is one of the most accurate pistols ever made. Go to any firearms competition and your shooters will have them. They do require maintenance, but it's not unreasonable, it's on par with keeping a rifle or shotgun clean.

You're absolutely right about more complexity in the design though. Modern "hole punchers" like M&Ps and Glocks are far simpler and exceed a 1911 in reliability. But a 1911 will wipe the floor with either of those pistols in an accuracy contest.
> At best you can know when a dealloction might possibly occur, but this is whenever a reference changes or goes away and usually not pretty helpful.

After a while working with refcounting, I found myself writing code whose natural flow meant I was actually pretty sure, at least for deallocations large enough to care about. I don't even think about it any more, really, I just continue to enjoy my objects going away when I expect them to.
good luck folks!
Fun fact: The term "inflation" usually refers to price inflation. Indexing passive income to price inflation makes sense in the short term.

However in the long term, especially when talking about retirement income, wage inflation (which is usually higher than price inflation) can produce more insightful results. Using wage inflation in an analysis means that you build in the increases in living that can be expected over the decades.

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Just use Go with C or Assembly when its needed, no big deal