skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just did some tests using "Edit > Find > Search Messages" to search (I'm not sure what asutherland means by the "global search mechanism") and based on a few tests searching for "contains" matches on the body text here are my conclusions:

1) If you use quotes, it is looking for the quotes in the text, so I'm surprised you got any matches at all.

2) If you don't use quotes, it is still looking for an exact match (except that it's not case sensitive), so searching for "open house" without quotes should not match unless the words are adjacent to each other.

3) It doesn't seem to pay attention to token boundaries, so a search for "house" (without quotes) matches "warehouse"

So, it is a little unintuitive (and really should have a help button that explains exactly what it does), but it seems to work for me. I don't use IMAP, though, and the comments by qznc about IMAP [1] seem like they may explain why you are seeing what you are seeing if you use IMAP.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9124667

Edit: I just noticed e15ctr0n's link to info on the global search -- I don't have that enabled (probably disabled it to save disk space a long time ago) so if that's where you are seeing problems, that explains why I never noticed.
I used outlook it was great except for the limit on number of folders.
You should really read the article but...

tl;dr It was 20% cheaper to just have a camel, than to also attach a wheeled cart to it, due to the absence of trees. So the camel beat the wheel for economic reasons alone.
Can I use this service with Battle.net? They don't support VoIP based SMS providers.
Not entirely true. Installing xubuntu-desktop on Ubuntu, changes the greeter (the login screen) and it takes some googling and editing config files to get back the more modern looking Unity greeter. If one cares about such details.
It's also a problem that there is no blood flow through your lenses. If you heat them via microwave radiation, they're going to stay hot for an alarmingly long time.
Capitalism is wonderful. A bunch of greedy business owners can act selfishly and thousands of poor Indians are lifted from poverty.

And yes, you are quite correct - once the Indian developers are no longer poor, capitalism will then attempt to lift others out of poverty. In fact, this is already happening - southeast Asia is the new "cheap" place, while India is becoming midrange on quality/cost.

Perhaps because of this thing called patriotism, a.k.a. "do not piss where you live"...

Note that as demonstrated by this thread, democracy will be far less effective at helping poor Indians/others than capitalism. A bunch of self-interested voters who talk about altruism while engaging in protectionism will do less to help the poor than even the worst bodyshop.
My wife and I opted for a home birth for a variety of reasons. In our own little anecdotal way we saw this play out. The midwives themselves were amazing, highly trained, professional, compassionate, etc. But the other couples in our pre-natal class definitely included some ((I don't have a polite word for this))

So in each session there would be discussion about some aspect of the process. As soon as something like Vitamin K shots came up we started hearing "Is this really necessary, I don't want any needles being stuck in my baby".

I am not good at not rolling my eyes

FWIW one of our main reasons for choosing homebirth was that we knew all of the very small number of people in the apartment at the time, and the common agenda held by everyone present revolved around my wife and daughter, not insurance, hospital policy, malpractice, etc.
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Katz's version of Scott-Heron's classic is excellent. Thanks for that.
is this running javascript in the page?

can someone make a page to extract all bookmarks it sees?
Still no one knows who I am... except dang it I chose poorly in the username department for this
> It has many caring and dedicated people, who want to make the nation, and the world, better.

I am 50 yo, and have seen 100's of politicians come and go over my years, and I can count on one hand how many I believe have these values that you mention.

They all certainly try very, very hard to project this fiction, but time and time again, their actions have betrayed them.

My experience, guided by intelligence, tells me that most people who dedicate their lives to politics are megalomaniacs whom are only in it for the power and glory.
I don't have any problem with them using ms-dos because maybe its a good system, and there is no need to change it. But the pic with the floppy disks...

Where do they buy floppies? drives? motherboards for those drives?
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I would just import them directly like a vendor branch.

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119495815518898&w=2

It works like this: (I just did this test)

#inside of your repo

git remote add vendor $vendor.git

git fetch vendor #grab their code

git merge vendor/master #imports their code into your repo

git mv vendorlib lib #move it where you want

git fetch vendor #grab the next version

git merge vendor/master #git remembers your mv from before

*update

of course since this is git there is yet-another-command called git read-tree to do a lot of this.

It's all described here: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Git-Tools-Subtree-Merging
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My 5 cents of consulting vs freelancing from my own experiences in Business Intelligence and Mobile/Web development.

With consulting, you are not necessarily responsible for execution. Your job is primarily to make recommendations. That said, much of my consulting work has also been comprised of executing on my recommendations.

With freelancing, the work tends to be either in reality consulting or in most scenarios executing on a spec, or under another developer's guidance.

If I were to put it simply, consulting stems from offering recommendations and direction from a place of knowledge and experience related to your skillset, whereas freelancing tends to be more the application of your skillset.
Or for that matter, while we are drawing arbitrary lines and applying economic protectionism, what's the intellectual argument against bringing back Jim Crow?

If one wants an economic "justification", I'm sure a quick google search can find articles a lot like this one - a quick stats dump with no controls showing that black people get paid less. Look at those greedy employers lowering wages by hiring black people!
Funny how the nerd stereotype is used in different contexts.

In the context of diversity in tech, nerds are a subculture dominated by White males. This culture has a misogynistic dark side, and it is important to show that you don't have to conform to this subculture to succeed in tech.

However, in the context of the corporatization of tech, suddenly the nerds are the good guys. And funnily enough, nerd culture was actually part of the counterculture movement. The old guard of cyber-hippies need to stop the slide into corporate monotony.
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Obviously the rules and parties involved would be different for an electronic equivalent to the concept. I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
Star Trek was originally a show to address racism and not just science fiction! It might take a reminder from a baby-boomer to realize what it meant for a black woman, Russian, Japanese, Scottish characters to all share the same bridge in close quarters in 1968! Then we can't forget all of the aliens, strange encounters with other cultures, etc...
That's how a lot of industrial towns in the early US looked.
windowmaker on my dev workstations and xfce (or chromeos) on my laptops.
TIL the third most down-voted question on Stack Overflow has 3,735 upvotes and almost 1000 favorites.
tldr: Pumas that are scared off their food by humans are still hungry and go and kill another deer, which might not be so good for the pumas and might help scavengers. Isn't this somewhat obvious?
I've been using fastmail for a while. It's been solid. A trickle more spam gets through (like, 1 every 2 weeks instead of 1 a month). The android client is solid (had been using K9 before its release). $40/yr for email is more than reasonable in my books.
Do you seriously think people in 1968 were different to people today?

People have always been people, they are and always have been intrinsically nice to others at a personal level. Most people then and now would have responded in a compassionate way.

It's in groups and at higher levels they can be more uncaring.
You might have missed that the examples cited in the post which I assigned were all NSA programs. That said, any serious program is unlikely to make a rookie mistake like this.

The one remotely plausible explanation would be something like this being a way for a mole to spin a backdoor as an innocent mistake. Even that's stretching it a bit because this is so easy to find that it'd have a pretty high risk of exposure – if you're going to invest that kind of time, a more subtle bug is only a minor increase in difficulty.
No, you aren't missing anything. Maybe it's the Stockholm Syndrome of using PHP every day speaking, but I'm personally quite satisfied actually having to ask for output.
Given that the paragraph you've quoted from is followed with a description of how acids denature proteins, I think the author probably understands that all the other stuff he's working with are "chemicals" too.

However, I think this works as a reasonable shorthand for non-specific synthetic food additives in this context. Laypeople like myself understand that butter substitutes include artificial flavors to attempt to recreate some of the flavor of butter, but they fall short. The author can favorably compare his curdling approach to the fake butter flavors of those familiar commercially available products without stopping to specify them, because it doesn't matter which specific chemical additives he's comparing to. If he instead said " ... a depth of flavor that can't be replicated by adding acetoin or diacetyl" (which wikipedia says are the common fake butter additives) what would that really add for his readers?
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We need to disrupt "disrupt".
I don't know about the others, but this one works by using ext/pcntl, which isn't available natively on Windows. Try under cygwin? Crappy workaround...
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The problem with pilot wages though is entirely due to the pilot unions of the various airlines. Those with seniority get to pick the best routes and can earn $250-300k. The new pilots however end up working terrible routes and earn 1/10th of that. Overall there is a huge amount of money going towards pilot pay because pilot unions have huge negotiating power. But the unions have determined how to distribute that wealth.
Can someone explain to me why H1Bs are problematic? They are an immigrant workforce just like the people who cross the border illegally. Yes, immigrants, by increasing supply do have a depressing effect on wages, but, in a global economy, don't we also believe in a global workforce?

People seem to have a problem with H1Bs, but people are happy to enjoy the benefits of cheap fruit and vegetables possible with labor of (illegal) immigrants --farmers, even descendants of immigrants oppose amnesty because that would result in the help actually getting legal jobs which pay more. But here, in the case of H1Bs, people seem to have a strong dislike for them. They are just people looking for jobs like anyone else.

Is the implicit argument we should have a different system to allow a greater supply of tech immigrants but with a more flexible visa, maybe even grant residency status thus eliminating this kind of soft exploitation?
The article references data from 2013.

This is a more complete list:

http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-by-companies-2014-infosys-limite...

http://visadoor.com/h1bvisa-by-companies-2014-tata-consultan...
I strongly disagree with not using linear models, at least to build some theory and intuition before continuing with more sophisticated algorithms. What I find to be more egregiously misused when doing machine learning in practice is that everyone too often flocks to the state of the art with little understanding why. There's no reason for example to spend weeks (or months) tuning a incredibly deep neural network if the current predictive ability is enough and there are higher priority matters to work on.

Moreover, there's just too much of an emphasis on prediction. Design and analysis of experiments, handling missing data and the context of the data sets, and quantifying one's uncertainty about parameters in a principled manner for robust estimators are very underappreciated skills in the community. Using p values arbitrarily and "95% confidence intervals" based on an unchecked normal approximation is incredibly more harmful than not doing anything at all. There's just so much more to machine learning than supervised learning.
LOL What an article. "Now that the tech industry is cool, the pretty people are taking over, flooding out of top-tier universities with MBAs and social graces and carefully coiffed hair, shouldering the misfits and weirdos out of the way." Good luck with that :) Don't judge the book by its cover! "While we do, though, we need the weirdos, the rebels, the counterculture, to be gathering together and founding companies." Not sure what misfits and weirdos they mean maybe "Pretty People"
Not just pilots. The wages in Hong Kong that you can get (source: headhunters approaching me) are literally multiples of US or EU rates. Amongst others I was offered USD 350k + bonus to head a data science team - and all I have is an unrelated engineering degree and three years' experience. This kind of package would be hard to get for a freshly minted Harvard MBA at a major bulge bracket bank...

In finance, I've seen some eye watering packages in China for the same reason, including base salaries of 600k and 750k respectively for someone who was making 300k, at a large institution and a small hedge fund. Obviously, with the local cost of living the difference is magnified.

Personally, moving to Asia was the best career move I ever made; the local economies grow at 15% a year, the local companies grow even faster, and there's a real lack of talent locally vs the ultra-competitive US market. Whenever I can, I try to convince companies here to hire Americans or Europeans remotely or relocate them.
Yeah, but I find the Mint experience often more polished vs Ubuntu. In Ubuntu (at least in previous versions) there was always a bug somewhere that annoyed me, in Mint it's almost flawless.
Techcrunch puts out so much garbage and fluff these days that I just don't bother anymore.
Can you save yourself a lot of time on HN by applying Betteridge's Law?
Yes.
I'm kind of ashamed I missed this ..

Thanks!
I don't see how that gives decision-making power to the people.

I do think that sets an extraordinarily high barrier to making any changes; far higher than a citizenship test or a poll tax, two other things that have been discarded as antithetical to a democratic right to vote.
As you pointed out the transforming features is powerful, I believe that's the exact reason which makes SVM powerful. Though the way features can be combined with SVM is limited, the limitation makes SVM training fast in the dual space.

On the other hand, if you wanna compare logistic regression with SVM. While the detail is pretty tricky. One simplified view is to compare linear SVM which is essentially hinge loss with L2 regularization against logistic regression with L2 regularization which is essentially negative binomial log likelihood loss with L2 regularization. If you plot the loss functions, it's easy to see how they penalize negative & positive cases differently.
The mention of asphalt roads in pioneer-era America was rather anachronistic. Tarmac (or tarmacadam), what much of the world calls asphalt, wasn't created until 1901 (though earlier variants date to 1834). It's a combination of macadam, or crushed gravel, and tar -- bitumen, or the heaviest components of oil (also what's principally present in the Canadian tar sands). Though yes, asphalt was used locally as early as the 6th century BC.

Tarmac is also a topping material for roads. It stabilizes crushed gravel, but doesn't of and by itself provide much in the way of load-bearing capability. For that, substantial earthworks are required. Roman roads required earth removal, a layer of land, gravel and concrete, crushed stone and concrete, and finally a topped layer of dressed cobblestones, as well as drains to either side.

http://spqrlive.com/communities/8/004/007/457/098/images/452...
http://spqrlive.com/roads/4536983176

While that makes for an excellent load-bearing surface, it's a bit rough for high-speed travel. That's where tarmac comes in.

For wagon trains, occasional travel over largely unimproved dirt roads was possible, but any amount of water would result in mud, with wheels and wagons sinking into it. Wheel ruts from pioneer crossings from 1840-1869 are still visible today, 150 years later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail_Ruts_(Guernsey,_W...

This bit on the first macadam road in the U.S. might be interesting:

http://web.en.rmutt.ac.th/highway/eng-macadam.html

The first macadam surface in the United States was laid on the "Boonsborough Turnpike Road" between Hagerstown and Boonsboro, Maryland. By 1822, this section was the last unimproved gap in the great road leading from Baltimore on the Chesapeake Bay to Wheeling on the Ohio River. Stagecoaches using the road in winter needed 5 to 7 hours of travel to cover 10 miles.

It also details some of the intermediate phases between macadam and full asphalt concrete roadbeds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarmac
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There is an important thread connecting the two:

In the context of diversity in tech, nerds are a subculture dominated by White males. This culture has a misogynistic dark side...

This is a popular and powerful attack line used by "pretty people" seeking power in tech. It's used to demonize the old guard. When the old guard tries to intellectually dispute it, as is their custom, one can then attack their person directly ("creep", "racist", "nerd").

It's a fairly general purpose attack that can be targeted at almost anything. One of the more dangerous places is in hiring and evaluation; witness how objective and meritocratic nerd hiring practices (e.g. hire-by-github, death by brainteaser) are now attacked. Similarly, the idea of an individual contributor is also under attack ("you can't have a 10x programmer, you can only have a 10x team"). Once objective measures are eliminated, we'll just descend into petty politics of the sort that "pretty people" are very good at.
Fair point that. lightdm got itself installed on my Debian laptop a ways back, it's sufficiently non-annoying that I've left it be. The GNOME desktop manager bugs the crap out of me. I'm old-school enough to still somewhat like xdm, though I've used wdm (windowmaker / GNUStep) and kdm.

I interact with any of them so infrequently that it's really not a concern.
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I'm on a vegan diet for health reasons. I can't eat meat or dairy without a lot of pain. I also can't have alcohol, carbonated beverages, or a number of fruits and vegetables. I arrived at the diet with the help of a GI specialist and a nutritionist. Even on the diet, I still take a fair amount of painkillers every day (mostly non-narcotic, but all by prescription).

I don't eat pie except on a few special occasions (e.g., birthdays and Christmas). I do make my own bread and muffins (mixed berry) so I know what's exactly in them. A recipe like this is good for someone like me as I'll know what's in it.

Assuming that someone goes on a vegan diet and ends up unhealthy because of it is a bit much. I know I'm not the healthiest, but it's because I don't get enough exercise largely due to a number of chronic medical conditions.
Yeah, I couldn't stop laughing when read the article.
I find the overall attitude to be fascinating, and self-defeating. They refer to the pretty ivy league people elbowing in, basically; taking over.

Well what use do I have for those people exactly? They can't stop me from building what I want to. They have no say in the matter, no influence over me. They only become part of my equation if I allow it. For $30, or $50, or $200 per month I can build almost anything I care to in the software realm. Today my biggest limitation is time.

The tech industry is lacking in (or no longer dominated by) geeks, nerds, weirdos? Even if that's true: 1) who cares 2) it has no impact on me 3) that would be the fault of the geeks, nerds and weirdos that are allowing themselves to be told what to do.

I'm going to build whatever the hell I please. If I allow one of the so-called pretty ivy league type to stop me, then I have nobody to fault but myself.

I don't need venture capital. I don't need pretty ivy league types with freshly printed MBAs. I need sales, and a product worth paying for that makes sales possible.

Customers provide growth capital. Anything else - including allowing the types dreaded by this article to be on the playing field - is optional.
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"But we still tend to measure their success wholly in terms of millions raised, billions in valuation, revenues, profits, and timeline to IPO. That’s not genuinely subversive. That’s not truly disruptive. That’s establishment talk."
Eh, I feel like a lot of that is an overreaction. The sort that makes it hard to have an honest discussion about stuff like diversity from either side.

For instance, I've done a lot of interviewing with the Google-type whiteboard coding questions, and all it's really told me is that they don't show crap for how good they're going to be at their everyday job (e.g. will this person consistently submit un-tested code to code review, will they pay as much attention to detail in their job as they do in interview-mode...).

It make sure people all meet a minimum bar for a certain sort of smartness, but that smartness doesn't have a lot to do with most development tasks.

It works pretty well for identifying the superstars—there's always that tier that blows through whatever you give them way faster—but if you need to hire more people than you have superstars applying, it's kinda crappy. (Except for all the others that have been tried...)

In the meantime, when not stuck doing interviews, I'll continue to pay attention to details, deploy code that's been tested and handles its edge cases, get stuff done, and get my hair cut regularly, play basketball, and buy nice clothes even if others in the office are in flip flops. And sometimes I'll wear flip flops too, depending on how I feel that day, whatever.
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But the people making these attacks are mostly actual feminists, liberals and diversity advocates. They are not business people or MBAs.

Maybe the MBAs jump on the bandwagon, but I think they mostly do it to pick the winning side, not because they fear the latent power of nerds.

That said, I think you've very accurately described the various attacks on traditional nerd/Silicon Valley culture that are occurring.
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