skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I constantly have problems with people posting the same information on unit tests, again and again. I know how to set up (for example) RSpec, MiniTest, Cucumber, FactoryGirl. The thing that people struggle with is how to use these in a larger, practical sense, rather than in just the trivial. I think this puts a lot of people off testing.
I'm not sure how this solves the topcoder problem. That problem being is it attracts only certain kinds of software developers and while it is used as a recruiting tool it basically changes nothing when it comes to the interview and hiring process.

Even if you are recruited on topcoder you sometimes still need to submit your resume to some online resume eater "to get you in the system". And then you go on the same time wasting interviews as everyone else.

Personally, I don't play games of any sort but I like to write software and solve puzzles so I find topcoder SRMs more appealing than a programming game, but I'll definitely check it out.
Enabling VSYNC in games will usally "fix" 100% CPU usage.
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Access to capital is certainly another part of the equation that would have to be solved to build an economy around entrepreneurship.

Would it be so terrible to give people the option between starting a business after high school and going to college? Would you rather a bad student default on their student loans or a bad entrepreneur default on their business loans?

Then again, the market may be providing a solution to this capital problem. Have you checked your mail lately? I get a letter everyday from a credit card company offering 12-24 months without interest. That's more than enough time to start a small business. It may be subsidized by the financially illiterate, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.
>It's taught as the way to avoid plagiarism because, for students, the rate of "accidental" plagiarism is extremely high

Well it's wrong because it is teaching students to avoid detection, not to avoid plagiarizing.

Which is it? Can you "properly quote and attribute" or not? Your post seems to be in conflict with what you said two posts ago.
The human and the p-zombie are distinguishable because one is in the zombie universe and one isn't. For the purposes of the experiment, you're not supposed to be able to tell which universe is which by observation of the universe itself (i.e. there is no property of p-zombies that gives them away as p-zombies), but from the outside looking in I guess you have a label for one and a label for the other.

Like I said, it doesn't seem germane to the thought experiment anyway, which doesn't allow for epsilons, at least none that could have a causative effect on anything. Like, if you have universe A with no consciousness, and universe B with orange-flavored consciousness, and universe C with grape-flavored consciousness, and finally universe D with cherry-flavored consciousness, and none of them are distinguishable from the others except for universe A and universe D, then you're violating the terms of the thought experiment because you have two supposedly physically identical universes which are nonetheless distinguishable by dint of their underlying consciousness substrates (or lack thereof).

Anyway you're right, it is a weak argument, but only because it doesn't go far enough in outlining why p-zombies are ridiculous (which, IMO, the argument I presented instead, does).
Typically when Linus has gotten involved, and when it's been made news, etc... it's long long after the offending commiter has taken a hard stance and a large portion of other senior commiters have attempted to deal with the situation. At a point he steps in and "brings down the hammer" so-to-speak.

Linus' "rants" are fairly infrequent in reality, and are never targeted at random people in the Kernel community -- always someone who has been in a senior position for a long while and ought to be behaving more appropriately.
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I'd wager that most people here would go ahead and write their paper on their computers, then recreate a plausible handwritten rough draft afterwards.

And that seems about as difficult as recreating one for an essay you didn't write.
Don't worry about the guy who makes a lot of money today. Worry about his children, and the unearned influence they will have over business and politics.

It subverts meritocracy when a large segment of the population inherits enough wealth that they do not have to work, or can get any job they want through family connections without competing. This class of people will tend to favor legislation that reduces social mobility, in order to protect their interests. The trend toward inequality then reinforces itself.
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For a luxury thing like a yacht it wouldn't bother anyone. When it happens to necessities like housing, food and healthcare then it's quite rational to be bothered.
Quote: "If Disney decides to install those sensors throughout the park, a new world of data opens up. They could have Mickey and Snow White find you. They might use the park’s myriad cameras to capture candid moments of your family—enjoying rides, meeting Snow White—and stitch them together into a personalized film."

The governments of the world would like this, no?
That basically is today in America. Many of the poor have flat screen tvs, cellphones etc. I think we as humans will always focus on the inequality part bcuas were social beings.
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That people have managed well enough for years without monolithic frameworks?
Only if you like Apple's mice since no one else makes a half way decent Bluetooth mouse.
>4. I don't find myself needing many SQL features beyond the basics.

That's probably why you still like it. As it stands, MySQL has so many shortcomings it's not even funny.

Version 5.7 is the first one to support multiple triggers per event. Beyond that, and just to name a few, you can't have subselects in views, you don't have CTEs (good luck storing hierarchical data in an adjacency list), no materialized views, CHECK constraints are parsed but ignored.

I'm glad it works for you, but the minute you need to do something slightly more complex, MySQL gets in your way.

I hope the situation will improve, though.
Stephenson considers much of his position in "In The Beginning..." to be out of date at this point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Com...
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Awesome. So much cleaner/easier to use than Muck Rack!
I'm leaning to something closer to a patron / member model, though with most content generally available.

We're seeing a reprise of earlier forms of media. Truth is: there is a social (and business) need for quality and reasonably unbiased information. There's also value to those who want to control such a feed (the dark side of media). Advertising has sustained the concept in some form or another for several hundred years, with a few big shake-ups. But there've also be (and continue to be) highly ideological organizations (see Fox News / NewsCorp / WSJ, well know, but also The Economist, and on the left, papers such as The Guardian, Mother Jones, or The Christian Science Monitor).

The problem, in an online era, of subscriptions only is that it closes your distribution down too much. Providing early access might be a way around that, though information tends to get out very, very quickly. Of numerous bad options, it strikes me as one of the less-bad (see LWN.net which uses it).

Another is partnering with someone who has a clear interest in your demographic -- DICE buying Slashdot, for example, though that doesn't seem to be going all too well from either a content or business stand point so far as I can tell. Hacker News follows the same model, more successfully (on both grounds) via Ycombinator.

Advertising, though, seems to me a dead end. And it's going to be all kinds of hurt for the current iteration of Silicon Valley if it plays out as I suspect it will.
Frankly my impression of Torvalds is that his reference to "management by perkele" was meant as a self-deprecating joke, that sadly the web has taken at face value.

The guy seems to have a sense of humor that goes over most peoples heads. Maybe they are too desensitized by the outrageousness of stand up "comedy" to pick up on it...
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There are a few non-Disney services in Disney. Not many though. Stuff like Starbucks are not directly tied to Disney.
I believe Microsoft was one of the few companies to challenge the NSA in the early 2000s. If I recall correctly Ballmer thought that the NSLs would eventually become public and Microsoft needed to be on the right side of history by challenging them.
Adblock is merely a symptom of a larger problem. Advertising itself is hostile to quality content and good practices.
Can't wait to see what awesome projects we get
I thought that too at first. But the NYT op-ed does a better job of explaining.[1]

Basically, they think that the NSA has the ability to index anonymous readers with pages visited, and anonymous editors with pages changed. Then if the NSA is sending that data to a bunch of governments around the word (Egypt, Israel, the Five Eyes, whoever else), dissidents around the world are at risk of being caught for browsing/editing Wikipedia for the crime of being opposed to the government in power.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wik...
I hope this is not considered a spam, but I had another related question today: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9178012
This may be a bit off-topic, but it's always hard for me to judge the trustworthiness and impact of such publications.

Here at least was link to the journal publication (http://elifesciences.org/content/4/e06054), and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELife says about the journal that it's a fairly recent (but afaict, well-backed) journal with impact factor 8.5.

I know that in physics, an impact factor of 8.5 is really good, and http://impactfactor.weebly.com/medicine.html lists only a few journals with a higher impact.

So my first conclusion would be "not a scam".

What else could I do to quickly get a feeling for how profound and trustworthy this is, in a field that I know next to nothing about?
Pivotal is planning essentially a PaaS for IoT and it'll be mostly open source
Wishing someones death is a spitting insult in many cultures and for good reasons.

Many insults are not meant literally.
> I don't see any point in re-litigating the whole thing on this particular thread though, it would be off topic.

Would you care to litigate it somewhere else ?
I'm the little guy.

Just the average 'little guy' with 3 spare apartments...

I'd wager the guess most $8/hr burger flippers (or $12/hr Uber drivers) might disagree with your self-assessment.
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IIRC, the finger print scan was only for entry into the park, not for Fastpass lines.

I was just there at the end of December, but it is all kind of hazy now.
It is rather interesting to know that it takes this much work into preparing and operating airport run-ways i learnt a lot from this forum it is very informative with enhancement of pictures fascinating!!
This immediately reminded me of the slightly infamous and almost certainly apocryphal "box" of the phreaking era for supposedly overloading and destroying your adversary's phone, or even taking down the local POTS switch. It was called a urine box most commonly, or sometimes a copper box or assassin box if I recall correctly.
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In my opinion:

The legal structure of a company should be tailored to its capital structure and owner's interests. Delaware C corps are a reasonable choice for companies that have passive investors and whose owners are striving toward increasing outside investment to fund rapid growth.

In the side project state or early prototype state, another simpler less costly form may make sense. An LLC can be acquired by a C-corp when and if a C-corp becomes more appropriate to the immediate future capital structure of a company. What matters early on are:

how control is structured
how new founders may be added
what happens ifwhen a founder leaves
what existing assets [intellectual property] are assigned
to the company.

While it may not be long lived for a company that takes off, there's a cost for optimizing for a growth model that may not happen.
How can I export my data? I know there is an API but it will be incredible useful to have a link to download everything.

Google Reader had an option to export your data when they closed their web service.
> Why is this bad?

That is an excellent question. Part of it comes down to the fundamentals of ethics. If I believe, for instance, that the bedrock of ethics is "do whatever is best for me" and I happen to be one of the rich folks, then this may not seem so bad. If I take as one of my basic ethical principles "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." then a high Gini index is patently unfair.

If the answer depends on what basic principles of ethics you accept then in a certain mathematical sense there is nothing to say here. Once a proposition has been proven to be true or false depending on what axioms you use, there is no sense in proving things anymore, we can just argue about which axioms we like best, or perhaps just stop discussing it. Philosophers have spent (literally) centuries arguing over what fundamental principles to base ethics on, and nothing has been permanently settled.

But I will make this observation. Human beings seem to have a basic, built-in sense of "fairness". Researchers have conducted experiments where two participants are given something (like cash) and one picks how much to take, then the other decides whether both get their amounts or get nothing. Many (perhaps most) participants will split it 50-50. More interestingly, if the first player splits it 95-5, the second player will usually get indignant and decide that both will walk away with nothing. Most humans would rather give up a free $5 in order to prevent someone else from getting "more than their share".

Now, I can't say whether you are one of the people who would act that way -- as mentioned before, different people have different takes on the fundamentals of ethics and I don't know what moves you. But this example may help you to understand why many people have a visceral distaste for high Gini indexes.
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And I unlazied myself a little and found this:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/

If marketing is to be believed, it does seem like MariaDB offers many points of attraction over MySQL. The fact that Oracle does not provide test cases or has proprietary extensions is a bit alarming from a software freedom perspective.
They have it bad enough already without adding felony charges for destruction of government property.
I listened to Matt's talk, and I was one of the break-out speakers at RedisConf 2015.

I think people (and possibly Salvatore) are over-reacting slightly when claiming Matt wants to take over the project. What I got out of the talk was an explanation of Redis's development cycle (warts and all) wrapped in a lot of satire. I gave Matt the benefit of the doubt that there was no truly ill will towards Salvatore or Redis.
"that is definitely not true for a large % of the population today"

What you're seeing is rationalization as a defense mechanism. Also bragging about low level jobs is a peculiar form of conspicuous display of wealth for trust fund babies, who are pretty rare outside the largest cities so their behavior is fairly irrelevant on a very large scale (like country wide scale)

Another issue is we have various untrue slogans about everyone having a political voice or everyone being equal under the law, in practice that is strictly financial wealth based, and when wealth is relatively equal the cognitive dissonance is very low and doesn't usually matter very much, but consider the social effects when wealth is very unequal and the sloganeering doesn't pacify the masses anymore.
In other words, positive liberty, a concept I think many Americans have yet to wrap their heads around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty
This can happen, but it shouldn't happen. There is probably something wrong with your app.
The key word is "active". 1/6 of people have the virus, but far fewer have it an active outbreak at any given time.
So, MySQL, as of 5.7, no longer accepts dates with year 0, and it also stopped converting unrecognized date strings into the date 00-00-0000? That would be a very positive change.
Banning Tor unwise and infeasible, MPs told
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http://www.safentrix.com/ -> quite dangerous, doesnt quarrantine!

http://mxguarddog.com/

http://fakemx.com/

http://www.spamfence.net/

https://www.boxbe.com/

or run your own mxhero, scrollout f1, xeams, baruwa or http://spamcheck.sourceforge.net/ as gateway..
I'd like to strengthen the case for this suggestion. At this point in my career I put an extremely high premium on being able to work remote. I wouldn't even be tempted to relocate again except for salaries that completely price me out of the market.

I'd be willing to take a non-trivial pay cut off my most recent salary for a fully remote position (possibly even a larger one for the right company/position), but would require an equally significant raise (plus relocation expenses) to consider relocating anywhere.
Do you think he's tested it?
What do you find most useful service provided by an accelerator?
We're curious to generate discussion on what tech entrepreneurs find to be the most valuable service offered by accelerators? To re-phrase if you wished they offered one thing, what would it be?
People are hopeless at drawing the Apple logo, and what it tells us about memory
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As Gini approaches .5 ---> Instability rises
As Gini exceeds .5---> chance of 'revolution' increases exponentially

Gini of .333 is 'ideal'
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The article mentions the book talking about how we don't care about other peoples kids as being one of the problems. I think that is a symptom of realizing that the world at large doesn't care for us, and if we only have so much time and energy to give we give it to our own.

Also it seems like inequality is multifaceted. Everyone has more now then they have ever had, more stuff, more tech, more access to everything you need to survive. At the same time I see folks having a hard time making it, buying a house, saving for retirement, they are constantly drained.

Unless you have both spouses working, which is another conversation all together. I only see discretionary spending happening from dual income houses, or single youth not yet concerned with retirement.
> There have been a few times I've seen an ad on a website that looked like it was for something I wanted, and wanted to click it.

Absolutely. IMO, Banner Blindness alone is the biggest reason why web publishers are facing difficulty in monetising web inventory.

Many a times, people don't notice ads even if they were relevant to them, just because of banner blindness. In fact, 3 out of 10 display ads are never seen [1]

[1] http://www.adpushup.com/blog/banner-blindness/ (Disclosure: I wrote this)
Great job guys, looking forward to seeing the submissions to this competition!
Mashable isn't a tech site any more, really, so their target market doesn't use Adblock as much. It's a bad HuffPo / BuzzFeed clone. Started when they took funding two years ago and has gone way downhill ever since.
One of the joys of the internet economy is that citizens fund the development of the surveillance state (or at least the technology necessary for it) through their own private-sector consumer purchases.
The bands are nice for people who go casually, maybe once a year at most. People who are really into the parks or go more often feel the weak spots more.

The old FastPass system was far better for those who knew how to work it, we used to be able to do FastPass for most of the day and never be in a line for more than 20 minutes, though the new system makes the system more apparent to everyone.
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A reasonable alternative to this would be to require a hardcopy draft with visible editing marks as a draft. Going to paper at least once helps alot in the editing process.
> It seems to me that it takes quite a bit of prejudice to misparse someones sentences like that. Or is this some kind of joke I don't get?

Its a fairly common way to discredit someone. You parse their words not for their intent but to push whatever viewpoint you have. Its made quite a bit easier that most people will only look at the tweet, quoted sentence, or sound bite. It works as you can seen from that twitter stream.
Monocultures are easier to mechanize/automate.
They probably needed a few people for events.
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AMD should be running with Samsung's/GF's 14nm FinFET process. Even if it's not quite as good as Intel's, at least it puts them in the general area of competitiveness. At 28nm, AMD has no chance, no matter what market we're talking about. This is why I'm a strong believer in AMD getting acquired by a rich company that is committed to take on Intel in the chip business. AMD will never get anywhere on its own. It's just experiencing a slow-motion death. It's getting less and less money, which means it will have less and less money for research and high-volume production, and it's going to fall further and further behind Intel to the point where nobody can save it anymore.

I'd rather AMD was acquired by someone like Samsung or Qualcomm (which already bought AMD's mobile GPU unit) and "lose its independence" or whatever nostalgic issue we're talking about, than see it die in slow-motion over the next 5-10 years with its "independence" intact.

Outside of an asteroid falling from the sky and destroying Intel's foundries, I just see no way for AMD to become competitive against Intel again without spending billions of dollars in research, marketing and partner deals over the next 3 years. If they get those billions now, they might actually have a chance in 3+ years from now.
It depends on how rivalrous the goods are. If everybody had enough money to buy a yacht, that would mean that the world had enough resources to create a yacht for everybody. However, the world could never have enough prime docking space for every yacht, nor would the world have enough people to crew every yacht.

Land, human labour and political influence are three of the most rivalrous goods, goods where the price goes up as fast (or faster) than the supply of money.

In a world with little poverty but vast inequality, everybody could afford TV's and video games; food would be expensive but affordable. Labour intensive services like education and health care would be unaffordable. Owning or renting a nice place would be unaffordable.

(I am not an economist)
This [1] seems to indicate the urine box and the assassin box were actually different, even though they seemed to achieve similar results. I'd be curious to find circuit diagrams.

[1] http://www.aboutphone.info/lib/phreak/boxes-2.html
The only experience I have with OSX is toying around with a little Mac Mini. What is special about Apple's touchpad? I'm honestly curious.
Be outraged on someone else's behalf, get attention, ???, PROFIT?
I don't see why the startup capital should be limited to Canadian investors.

I thought about it, but noticed that I had enough points to qualify for the Federal Skilled Worker program, so went for that prior to the revamp.

The stability offered by Canadian PR visas are much better than almost any other visa I have read about.
Do you have some support for that statement or are do we just have to trust you?