skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some connections which the author doesn't make which I find a little surprisingly unsaid.

For example, of course you find the Sierpinski pattern under disjointness. Here's some LiveScript to handle disjointness with integers representing bitwise vectors of "x is in the set" (1) or "x is not in the set" (0):

fmt = (x) -> if x then 'o' else ' '
display = console.log . (.join '\n') . (.map (.join '')) . (.map (.map fmt))
display [[(x .&. y) == 0 for y from 0 to 63] for x from 0 to 63]

This displays the 64x64 Sierpinski just fine. Why does it do that? Recursion. Look at the (x, y) pairs when we go from size 2^n to 2^(n + 1): there are four quadrants corresponding to the original (x, y) pairs:

(x, y) (x + 2^n, y)
(x, y + 2^n) (x + 2^n, y + 2^n)

But this is just adding one more bit to our bitmask: clearly the pattern we see in the first three quadrants is simply the pattern we had before; the pattern in the last is blank. It's that recursion which does Sierpinski recursion.

Now, of course if you find a Sierpinski triangle under the is_disjoint_from relation, you find it under the is_subset_of operation -- because A is disjoint from B if and only if B is a subset of the set-complement of A. So as long as your picture "mirrors" in one axis under set complements, of course you're going to see the same pattern for subsets as for disjoints.

The same thing happens when the author says, "The binary operation I found in our little binary binomial table was NOTing n, ANDing the result with k, and then NOTing that: ¬(¬n∧k) = n∨¬k." If you have had a logic course, this result "either A or not-B" should look like the expression for "A implies B", a statement that in all the possibilities that we are thinking about, knowing that you are in a situation where A is true means that you know that you're in a situation where B is also true.

Or, put a different way, the situations where B is true are a subset of the situations where A is true. So you can take the subset-of relation and immediately turn it into that binary formula; and conversely this explains why the author complains, "I had to list the subsets in precisely this order to get the right result" -- basically, you have to count in binary to get the right result. (To go the other way you just need the "all true" value -- that is, this formula "A or not B" must hold for all circumstances, so subset-of would in the above code look like `63 == (x .|. 63 - y)`.)
My ecommerce business is based out of Los Angeles and our shipping clerk gets that. I wish he knew a dozen programming languages... unfortunately he is still training on email. He can pack the hell out of a box though.
At least they are paying. Check out this one for "volunteers"

http://letscreateapp.com/LCA%20careers.html
I clicked the link expecting a nice read about John Betjeman. Interesting to see this similar, but distinct opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman#Betjeman_and_arch...
Hating this coz of few assholes?? There is no perfect world..
Ask HN: Best way to monetize 'decent traffic' site?
I run a site that gets a moderate amount of traffic, see images below from last 3 weeks (Jan 27 - Feb 15):

http://imgur.com/4KKTr7y

http://imgur.com/kmbvjHE

http://imgur.com/cEGwbDh

http://imgur.com/1Usyjpv

Traffic: 50K - 120K uniques, 250K - 800K pageviews (depending on month).

We have been using AdSense & BuySellAds for monetization, but quite frankly the income sucks from both. We would like to explore selling more direct advertising.

It seems that BSA is the AdSense for any site in our range of traffic. But due to the lacklustre results I would love to explore other options.

The site is a news site.

A) Any marketers have clients that may be interested in this type of traffic?

B) Do you have any suggestions for how we can monetize this traffic? E.g. alternative ad networks.

Thanks.
I think this is actually a bit of a fake argument. Everyone is focused on "coworking" as a giant collective open office where nobody can concentrate.

The other option is private offices within coworking spaces.
I use this all the time these days https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC

related to what you are trying to do?
The most expensive part I think I ever bought was a SP0256 speech synth chip, $30 or so. I don't think I ever got it working.
The last piece for a wind-solar future. Ok, if this really comes to the market and can store 12-24 hours of a typical household consumption, we may be able to live off solar and wind.
Or, another version, "programmer who read an inferential statistics tutorial online".
There is a better summary of the studies in "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

From what I remember, the claim is that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice work best when:

1. You get immediate feedback on success and failure

2. The thing you are trying to master has a skill set that can be improved, and that improving that skill is sufficient.

That #2 is tricky -- a counter example is stock picking. We have no evidence that there is a skill that can be learned that will make you better at picking stocks, so 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, even with immediate feedback, won't help.

I think that Dan is following a reasonable deliberate practice plan with experts and that he does get fast feedback. What we don't know is if Golf is something that is primarily/mostly/all skill based. For example, what if there was a physical body type that made you better and Dan didn't have it -- then 10,000 hours might not help.

Also, the point of the 10,000 hours is to train your intuitive mind (System 1, the fast thinker) to be as correct as your deliberate mind would be (System 2, the slow thinker) if you had time and attention. This whole thing is much better for thinking-based activities, like say, programming. I don't remember if the studies looked at physical activities and "muscle-memory".

Caveat: this is all from memory -- read "Thinking, Fast and Slow" if you have interest in this.
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"Which site do I submit to" shouldn't be as hard of a problem for certain.

Heck they removed a lot of options from that close reason to minimize this, as anything database related go punted to the DBA one (which is only for professional questions not minor schema questions).
There needs to be a decentralized marketplace that gets out of the way and doesn't have everyone at the mercy of its platform.

But that's hard to build. Once it's built, the two sides can compete on reputation, cost, or whatever else, crafting their own strategy and the overall wealth of the system will go up. The gatekeepers often hold the system back - even the ones who built the system.

I believe that platforms should be decentralized and free, enabling wealth creation at smaller scales more in touch with the individual.
I don't have much experience with stretching before sleep, but sounds like it would work, and work well! I only use meditation to clear my mind so I can get some peace and away from the problem I've been trying to solve during the day, otherwise I would be awake all night!

I really do prefer weight training an hour or so before sleep, it just gets the blood flowing without increasing the heart rate too much.
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To outsiders, everything at the forefront of innovation will look like a fad
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Those ones really crack me up. Its the first filter of the clowns that have no idea what they're talking about. The other glaring one that normally gets/got me back in the day that Java == JavaScript to all agencies.
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You're replying to a different person than the one who stated carbs were unhealthy.
I'm not suggesting no girl ever liked Lego, I thought that would go without saying. But the discrepancy was very significant. Consistently something like 80% of Lego sets were purchased for boys, if I remember correctly.

Of course that meant that there was a large untapped market of girls, and Lego have tried various approaches (mostly failures) to get at better hold in that market.
The H1B that is mostly talked about when it comes to IT jobs and imimgration requires companies to pay at least the prevailing wage for the area in question.

So on average, it should either have wages stay the same OR raise them a tiny bit
For a historical perspective, LEGO's gender policy in advertising and product development seemed to swing around every 5 Years or so in the 70s.

http://thinkingbrickly.blogspot.de/2012/01/lego-gender-gap.h...

Compare this to the still great and gender encompassingly written, but still clearly gendered approch from '74 to introduce the homemaker line:

http://helpemptymyattic.co.uk/vintage-lego-little-girls-thin...

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?C=c74ukhom

funnily enough the now internet famous introductory text was always cited out of it's context:

http://io9.com/these-lego-instructions-from-1974-are-awesome...

There was another version other of the same year clearly aimed at boys (sorry only dutch version here). [1] Correction, its actually quite generic and very inclusive/neutral compared to the 1976 UK version [2]

[1a] http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?q=97875

[1b] http://worldbricks.com/fr/my-instructions/download/file.html... [pdf]

[2]http://worldbricks.com/en/my-instructions/download/file.html... [pdf]
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haha..gangs of Stackoverflow huh..i can see that happening..i dont have many friends thgh SO but I agree people groupup through SO chat rooms..
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Slavery, really? That's your analogy?

What's your viable way to replace coal today? Include explanations of how your replacement can be as reliable as coal, and how the developing world can afford these sources without sacrificing other government services.
Apps Don’t Fail Because They're Bad Ideas, but Because They Fail to Get Traction
I have to deal with a large, legacy Rails app, my strategy is to cordon it off and treat it with kid gloves. In this case it's quite literal, my main work machine cannot run a development server or even deploy the codebase. Instead I use a separate laptop. 95% of my time is spent building an external architecture with the eventual goal of pulling out successive pieces of functionality from the main app until nothing is left. When things are planned I push hard for building on the external architecture rather than extending the legacy app.

When I first got to the job I thought it might be worthwhile to refactor and upgrade the old codebase, but eventually settled on the cordon strategy because it's ultimately more flexible, and not having to touch the production site every day gives me a lot of peace of mind.

Anyone in this situation, I would recommend re-implementing your Active Record models with an external database connection using Sequel or even just regular SQL queries. I have a giant query with a crapload of joins that can retrieve product data, it's among the very first things I built at this job.

This provides a nice base to build on, the database is the heart and soul of the business, and it is far easier to work at that level of abstraction rather than trying to mess around inside the codebase.
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Oh, so that explains why Office 2007 had such a massive takeup.
Seems to be a dynamic binary translator. If you like these types of things, then check out Valgrind, Intel PIN, DynamoRIO, or QEMU.
In case anyone's curious what their site is actually built with: http://builtwith.com/mnmcouture.com

Funny how they mention Magento, but the site is actually on Volusion.
Personally, I'm learning to code in Python, and once I do will probably work for $3 per hour doing remote work via a freelancing site. At the moment I'm going through Flask— which shouldn't take more than a couple of days to grok at a basic level. I made a CRUD site a few years ago, so it's not like I'm starting for zero.

Anyway, working for below minimum wage is economically rational. Once I have more experience I'll command more money, or create products for myself.
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Interesting, thanks for the link!

Google implementation of an office suite is very popular at middle, high school, and online universities (even though most of them offer the free Office365).
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I would love to use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, but there are still minor things lacking that I require. For example, I need to search and replace manual page breaks. This is not possible in Writer, yet seems a simple and obvious task. There are a few other simple omissions that keep me stuck on MS Office. Maybe 4.5 will rock.
Yeah,but the achievement consisted of 44 individual triggers, and for the test they had to trigger all 44. You couldn't give them a state with 43 already triggered. Not to mention that if you change the achievement triggers you have to wipe the save data in make the new triggers work, so they had to start from scratch every time. But fortunately it only had to be done twice in the entire project.
I don't have a problem with Stack Overflow, I have a problem with its community and, as a result, have completely abandoned the site. I no longer ask questions there nor do I answer them. If I need help my circle of friends is often able to provide enough information for me and if I take to Google the vast majority of the time the first search result is a link to a Stack Overflow page with someone asking the exact question I'm trying to find an answer to. And it's closed as off topic. It's a great site and for a while had a great community, but these days it's just too toxic to be worth the bother.
That's pretty damn shady if true.

Also likely illegal in Europe at least. There have been cases of prices magically increasing as items are moved to the cart/checkout, and companies have been fined (see EasyJet for one example).
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Why not offer a partnership? If you really do know how to triple the revenue, then you would have a most compelling argument.
Perhaps someone could give me a real answer. Thanks!
Is it something you can't uninstall?
I think Radio Shack could have been saved if it was managed better. In Sweden there's a chain (Kjell&Co http://www.kjell.com) that's doing great doing pretty much the same thing you'd expect from Radio Shack and they're doing well expanding all the time. One thing they do right is having a whole catalog of SKUs in even tiny locations, available upon request (someone goes into the back). They also have knowledgeable staff and even publish a book of electronics knowledge along with pamphlets on different topics.

Being a one stop shop for all those cables, adapters, batteries, bulbs and mobile accessories that's aways nearby, usually open, you can rely on them having what you need, and bring able to help you figure out what you need is a good business idea. This stuff is more confusing than ever and a lot of people have no idea how to get help online.

From all accounts, Radio Shack didn't fulfill any of that, with a poor selection, poor prices and poor service.
From familial experience the best way "kids these days" can experience a Radio Shack store from 30 years ago, is simply visit Best Buy. Imagine the small legacy physical media section replaced with a small parts section, that's about the only difference. Then shrink it at least 10x to physically fit the smaller RS store footprint.

A Best Buy IS just a giant 1985 radio shack with lower prices, more selection and legacy media instead of parts. It really is that simple.

Journalists can't talk about "big box annihilating small retail" without offending the very popular big box advertiser contracts so we're being treated to an absolute flood of "it must have been feng shui" or "it must be those darn nerds" or "it must be bad luck"
You would prefer a world where only the rich can afford electricity and warmth? Because that's the world you describe.
What is it you imagine Gladwell's "claim" to be?

Because he's repudiated the idea that he or any other informed researcher claimed 10,000 hours was some magic number, or that practice alone is a substitute for talent: http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/complexity-and-...

It would have been more accurate to say "It will be interesting to see how well a gross mischaracterisation of Gladwell's claim stands up to empirical testing".
Sorry don't read Dutch but the pictures aren't 'aimed at boys' in any way at all. Unless you're projecting your own prejudices - trains and trucks are only for boys? Explain!
Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice tend to crash on me. I stopped using them, but my wife still does and they still occasionally crash/hang on her. So in terms of stability I cannot recommend them.

They also just look uglier. I have not looked at this new LO version yet.
http://reviewsapp.in
Microsoft is interesting again
> and the reason why software is a good career choice IMO.

I wouldn't know, I can't even get an entry level gig.
If you look at their web sites, they're clearly used to crappy developers so they'll think this is the norm.
All the Things that Don’t Matter (when building a product)
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/los-angeles-web-developer-...
Is “Work from Home” Losing Its Luster as a Recruiting Tool?
> Don't get me wrong, I hated Flash as much as anyone else. And yes it required a plugin, but it was ubiquitous, and did run everywhere.

Flash was more ubiquitous than other GUI toolkits, so I'd say it was as close to the dream as any proprietary platform developer ever achieved. However it never achieved anything approaching the web's current reach in sheer breadth of platforms.
There are a plethora of plugins to do monte-carlo simulations, linear programming, statistical models and anything else a business user would do in the data analysis world.

Vendors include SAS, Oracle, IBM, Predixion.

Also Excel is used as a self-service BI tool. It has ETL, OLAP and dynamic dashobarding.
This will not kill it.

The Gig Economy will be a thing, and it should be.

But it needs to be legitimate, and it should lead to more autonomy and freedom for the Giggers, not less.

To accomplish this, businesses that treat contractors like employees should absolutely be punished!

If we really are to replace the old "master-servant relationship with a purely economic one, between equals," (like Paul Graham said so beautifully in his fantastic 2005 OSCON talk) then autonomy is important.

Those people who worked for Handy -- they were ostensibly contractors, but only labor contractors. The value that they create is cleaning + peace of mind. But as contractors for Handy their relationship isn't with the client; it's with Handy.

Okay, so they're labor contractors. Extremely fungible.

But, as independent contractors, one of the freedoms that the law guarantees them is a certain degree of autonomy.

They get to choose (varying from state to state, and the nature of the work) where and when they work, whether to listen to music, when to go to the bathroom, whether or not to scratch their butts on the job ... or at least that should be the case.

If it wasn't, that's a problem.
Nothing is going to beat touch typing until a generation grows up with something else - kids today are using tablets and phones for years before they're able to get any value from computers.
Great spin off on the word average here. It makes you average at table tennis. But we are talking about being an "expert". So 250 in England does not make you an expert at table tennis. Also if you knew what you were talking about then you would know that if I want to get ranking ( just for the ranking sake) I would craft my schedule in a way so I play weak tournaments just to get ranking. Ranking and expertise correlation is very flawed. Ask any athlete about this and they will tell you that there are a lot of players that would play weak tournaments just to get ranking. They would be even top 50 in the country but it doesn't make them experts.
What do you mean by "people who are not scrappy enough"?
Straight (unsalted) hashes are typically reversed with the help of a rainbow table - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
CFR Title 14 § 399.88 (a): Prohibition on Post-Purchase Ticket Price Increases.

http://airconsumer.dot.gov/rules/EAPP_2_FAQ_01-11-2012final....

Section 399.88(a) states that it is an unfair and deceptive practice for any seller of scheduled air transportation within, to, or from the United States, or of a tour or tour component that includes scheduled air transportation within, to, or from the United States, to increase the price of that air transportation to a consumer after the air transportation has been purchased by the consumer [...] even when the fare is a “mistake.”

This is done specifically in case an airline decides to publish a $1 transpacific business class sale, too many people jump on, and then the airline retroactively decides the price was too good and voids peoples tickets out or comes knocking for more money.

It will be interesting to see which side the DOT takes this time around.
I like how it's a Magento site but knowing Magento isn't required however knowing Scheme is.
SWI-Prolog? DrRacket? This has to be a joke, right?

They're obscure enough that a non-programmer wouldn't likely know they exist, yet nobody with a clue would request that of a web developer. The only plausible explanation I can fathom is that they Googled a list of IDEs and picked a few at random... or that this is a joke.
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Think we have it in Aussie, the 417 ? visa, whereby you can undercut locals with very, very shit talent. These guys should hit them up.
Hi :)

I am trying to put together a little team and right now I am looking also for front end developer.

It will be more a free lance position than a standard position, but if you are interested feel free to write me, you should see my email in my info contact...
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There is an abundance of strip malls in the US, but generally, I think more apt comparison to the British high street may be the town square commonly found in the county seat[1] of most all counties in the US (for states that have counties as such). The county seat is typically a small town in a rural area.

The central building is typically the court house, surrounded by local businesses and variety of churches, maybe a jail. There is a vast variety of architectural style among the courthouses. Some historic, some not. Some even hosted old west gun fights [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_seat

[2] http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-gunfights3.html
Just make sure you buy the self-driving remote-controlled kill-me-now-intelligence-agencies model. It will be just so much easier for everyone.
This will never occur, as businesses employing these workers want employee level of control with independent contractor costs.
The US Chess Federation title directly below Master is Expert. It'd be a bit more nebulous in other countries.
and what career do you think "business/economics" would have led to, and what do you think it would have paid?
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