skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I play and love both Go and MtG, and I think your assessment of MtG is not fair. The thing about MtG is that the real fun is not as much in playing the game itself but in the deck building. When I'm playing a game of MtG, I'm not thinking only about the current game or how to win it, but rather which cards/combos are working well, which are not working, what cards I should use instead, etc. to improve my deck for the next game.

Finding interesting combos among the thousands of existing MtG cards is also very fun and cannot be done in a minimalistic game with a very small number of components like Go. They are just games with different goals and scopes.

What I dislike about the evolution of MtG is the placeholder words that they constantly add to the rules, e.g. "lifelink" for "damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life". Cards with that ability existed before the word was introduced, so the word is unnecessary, it just makes the text of the cards shorter... but the constant extensions of the vocabulary make the rules harder to understand and remember. The actual rules are still mostly like in the nineties... in fact most, if not all, of the actual rule changes have been simplifications rather than complications (mana burn removed, meh). But they just like to make up unnecessary words, it's a pity.
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> it simply didn't work that well.

Can I ask what wasn't working that well?
Anecdote != data. Look at the overall stats.
simple advice - stay away from that chemical cr*p
> which by the way happened outside the office

The proximity to the office is irrelevant according to NY and CA law.

> you're only further making men not want to work with women

I hadn't realized this sentiment existed.

> while promoting a culture of oversensitivity and political correctness

There is a big difference between oversensitivity and a reasonable response to being treated differently because of one's looks/gender. Imagine if you walked into work every day and an executive said "Nice legs" or "nice blouse" to you. By your definition that is harmless.
Mexico has a higher rate of obesity than the US according to some reports I have read, but having been to both, there is something more I have noticed.

Yes, you see a lot of moderately fat Mexicans, but when you go to the US, there are people that get big on a level that you don't see in Mexico. I am fairly sure the figures would reverse if it was "morbidly obese" being measured rather than "clinically obese".
Compared to an imaginary meritocratic utopia? Hardly. Here in the real world ugly men are judged quite harshly, right alongside ugly women. Fat, bald, puny, nerdy, zit-faced, short, weakling, dork, creep, loser... humans are strongly attracted and hardwired to follow the beautiful and shun the ugly. It's beyond naive to think women only judge men based on their brains and men only judge women based on their figure.

My point is that at some point the crusaders on both sides of this should step back and realize that most of us actually have dealt discrimination and harassment to some degree, and I think the best solutions actually don't involve putting women up on pedestals or men in gags and blindfolds.

I think your belief that women are judged more superficially than men is driven more from mass media than scientific fact.
It just has the level polish that's difficult to get in a HTML web app like Postman.

In terms of actual features, I can't live without 'dynamic values' - being able to copy response body values (almost like a pointer) and paste into the header of another request.

http://i.imgur.com/aY8A0NJ.png

It means that things like auth headers and 'current user ID' are always in sync and current.
Indeed. Even the backgrounds are made solely of hardware sprites.
Until you posted this clarification, my first thought was - What makes it different from Shazam?

Thanks for clearing that up, good luck with your site!
Any link with the falling gas price?
It's unclear what machine and JVM configuration they're using. Using the JVM 1.8 (java version "1.8.0_20") on a 2010 MBP (2.4GHz i5) I get ~190ms (180~200) for their program.

By comparison, on the same machine using an equivalent program

- Lua 5.2.3 takes 20ms

- CPython 2.7.5 takes 40~45ms

- MRI 2.0.0p481 and CPython 3.4.3 clock in at 55~60ms

- Pypy 2.5.0 takes 85~95ms
Well go is often played online with a very tight time limit. Giving only a matter of seconds for each move. I wouldbt say its a matter of coordination, but, pattern recognition from noisy jumbled data at speed.
You're right, it's just a practical application.

For those interested, I came across this chapter [1], which is great for learning about hopfield networks.

[1]: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mackay/itprnn/ps/506.522.pdf
Totally agree! I hate questions asking about your "great" achievements, code that you're "proud of"...

We're not proud... It's always possible to reiterate the code your wrote and make it better (and again, and again) - but the question is: is this the most priority for today?
Would you feel less comfortable without the NSA? Or put another way, are you just cherry-picking the agencies you happen to like in order to make your point?
Should we hack the hackers?
If my reading is correct, the neural network was used to OCR the image, extracting the text. From there, it is indeed a simple brute-force string search.
"Study funded by a university finds that degrees are a good investment".
(eg: calling the save() function multiple times "just to be sure")

Who else does this for apps with a UI?
Yeah stroke me too as very US centric view.
From european view it's more about Belgium & Switzerland (for me personally Suisse, which has better chocolate, Belgium rules in pralines)
I'm not among your downvotes, and I don't believe you're minimizing rape (of the obviously violent or not obviously violent sort), though I can see how some could see it that way; the fact that you're a non-native speaker may also be contributing to it, though I think your English is quite good, and I believe I understood you the first time.

I asked for suggestions for alternatives not as a challenge, but as a sincere question. I don't think it's the worst idea ever, but I think there is risk involved. The kind of person that would use a phrase like "real rape" s the kind of person that would use the new term to minimize the experience. And, there is also risk in saying that rape that does not include bruises, blood, kicking, screaming, etc. is not violent, which is probably the biggest problem with using terminology like "violent rape" and "not violent rape", because all rape is an act of violence.

And, just in case there is any thought that I am exaggerating about the existence of assholes who would claim rape without obvious violence isn't really ape. An American lawmaker used the term "legitimate rape" a couple of years ago when explaining why a woman shouldn't be able to get an abortion even in the event of rape, because if it was a "legitimate rape" she wouldn't have gotten pregnant. This is a pretty widespread opinion about rape; that a "legitimate rape" is an obviously violent one, with screaming and fighting, and anything else doesn't really deserve to be called rape or treated like rape.

Source on the "legitimate rape" comment: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/19/todd-akin-abortion-...
Does it include music from oft-used music sources in YouTube videos such as AudioMicro and Incompetech[1]? I'd guess it's not really possible on the AudioMicro front as they're paid-for music that'd cost you a fortune to index but may be worth adding the latter

[1] http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/
Where I'm currently working (computational neuroscience / data analysis) we've just had to upgrade our servers and 512GB is only just enough for some datasets. A couple of the labs nearby (genomics) share a cluster of ~10 machines with 1.5TB RAM each. So no, 512GB isn't stupidly high (though it's still uncommon!).

(Large SQL servers, etc, often have this much RAM)
My guess would be that they are replacing a significant part of their Chinese sales team. Tesla mentioned on the earnings call that there were some major challenges with parts of their team, among other things salespeople misinformed customers about charging options.

My impression is that they expanded a bit too quickly and ended up missing some important cultural details. Analysts read this as "Tesla expects China sales to be 30% lower than expected", but there is no reason to draw this conclusion yet.
I've used clojure for some weekend hacking and have found that the biggest challenge is feeling like my code is non-optimal. I can get stuff to work and could build real stuff in clojure, but I hesitate because I feel that it's not necessarily idiomatic.

I guess I need a clojure mentor for the first non-trivial project. There really isn't that much idiomatic web-related code out there to read, and with clojure there is also quite a lot of variation in how systems get designed (b/c of the power and expressiveness available).

This is not an excuse, just noting the factor that has turned out to slow me down. If i had more leisure time I'd just power through and build stuff until I arrived (through trial and error) at my own sense of best-practices / design tradeoffs. That has yet to happen but will someday.
While I love Pebble, I feel like this is similar to when the iPhone (and iPod Touch, which was also a huge deal at the time due to the popularity of MP3 players) came out and suddenly made people realize just how much a well-designed touchscreen UI could change their interactions with an historically button-based product.

I think the battery life is going to still be the catching point that nips apple's momentum, but we shall see.
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2013/12/09/le-truc-quun-codeur...
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Because its round and made of wood? ;)
"Using whatever syntax is necessary to break out of the model, then writing the remainder of the program in their familiar language's style"

This one really rang home with me, having previously dealt with developers who worked in both .Net and PHP with frameworks that handled models very differently.
I've worked on the echoprint-codegen algorithm for my current project ( trak.rocks ) and I'm curious about how you reimplemented the matching logic ?

Do you plan to document/opensource you work ?
One thing that felt weird to me about Spring Boot when I looked at it a year or so ago was the idea of enabling features based upon which libraries are on the classpath.

Has that turned out to be useful in practice? Seems like a simple method for unpleasant surprises.
He still bought an Apple Watch, instead of a Moto 360.

That's far from 'nightmare scenario'.

Reminds me of Tim Cook embracing cannibalization, because it still results in Apple customers.
Why was it hard to debug?
I remember having a Super Nintendo and playing a Neo Geo system at Epcot and being blown away by the graphics and apparent processing power. This thing had arcade quality graphics on a television set! I remember wanting one, but even at the age of 12, I realized that $650 was a hard sell to my mom, and also the system had mostly fighting games.
Where do you get the MP3s from in the first place, and how long did it take to index 7 million?
The risk is taken by the public and all the other investors. The loss/reward is proportional, which is something that's being glossed over.

From the look of it, the author is trying to make it seem like the public funds it, and the private people reap all the benefits. Weird scenarios aside (such as the NSF research grant stuff), we should see the "public" in the same light as all the other investors.
But maybe he wasn't good at explaining things. Did you try asking if he could apply regression to a simple problem?
And there is such a thing as water poisoning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Got it. That said, I use "game theory" in the sense in which it's defined, not least because my thesis was in the subject. :)
It'd be good to have an option to provide an email address which results could be sent to once it has them, rather than keep checking an open tab.
Just got started on this over the weekend and was really impressed with not only the content but the presentation as well. Really enjoy learning through iPython notebooks (now Jupyter) and can only imagine things getting better in the future.
"When HotWired showed banner ads for the first time in history, people clicked just to check out the experience. Same for being the first web product to email people invites to a website – it works for a while, until your customers get used to the effect, and start ignoring it."

Well, duh, people tend to avoid unrewarding experiences. And advertisement is basically the pursuit of pushing unrewarding experiences onto people. Of course once they are onto you they won't fall for the tricks again. People have just become much, much better at filtering now (both mentally and digitally).
Why do you need scaling? A single machine should be enough to monitor thousands of others.

Or, in short, if you do need scaling you probably can afford to implement it.
I think a lot of people vaguely remember the Neo Geo from the early 90s - it was this mythical beast of a home console that actually looked like read arcade games rather than the obvious down-ports we had at home. The article adds a lot of background that we might not have remembered (since we were 9 the first time round).
Great Job !

Could you describe the usecases ? Is it for mixtapes uploaded on youtube by DJs, or Over-The-Air recognition in music festival videos ?

Because Music ( single tracks ) uploaded on youtube is usually already identified so it could be found.
There's an argument to be made that its easier to charge a device every night, than wonder if your 30% will get you through to the next day and figure out when you should charge it.
This seems like a good place to link to the UsVsTh3m one-word-wordsearch generator:

http://games.usvsth3m.com/one-word-wordsearch/#MTAsS0FZQUssN...
Looking at the submitter's id, I'd guess he's still happy.
Please don't tell me this central planning fad is coming back. The last time people were infatuated with the planned society 200 million people died.
xonsh: A Python-ish, BASHwards-compatible shell language and command prompt
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I believe you are right. If my smartphones battery would last 2 days instead of one, I would probably still charge it everyday, just to be sure I don't run out of battery.
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In my experience I cut out a lot of candy, sugars, and sweets from my diet at a very young age and haven't looked back, so I don't have that much experience with the "cravings" or withdrawal symptoms people describe (I don't drink coffee either). I like to believe the reason for this is that my tongue was a little more sensitive than normal and so I often got "overwhelmed" by sugary foods and simply started avoiding them (I still do). Grownups used to tease me about this whenever candy came up, they were flabbergasted that a child would reject candy as a reward or present for doing something. What? A kid that wouldn't do anything for a candy bar? Impossible.

I also avoid soft drinks like Coca-Cola because they produce an almost allergic reaction with my tongue (it aches for the rest of the day) though that might just be the preservatives. As a result I mostly stick to "vanilla" foods and drinks as I like to call them, like plain water and milk.

I might be wrong and still be getting too much unhealthy sugars and stuff from other food, but I'd like to think that it's not so severe since I live in Finland and not the US. I'm also slightly underweight so there's that, though I suspect that might be due to my genes. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm sort of glad they way things turned out in my case.
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As a californian who recently moved to the midwest (IA) the only thing I really miss is the mountain biking.

On the other hand I love the road biking scene in IA.
Fuck Newsweek.
>Interestingly, here in Belgium

This clued me in as to why someone might call google 'he.'
As someone who does not (yet) do recursion and looping-by-recursion in his sleep, I deeply appreciate Clojure's hand-holding to make TC situations completely explicit.
Mix tapes is an ideal use case.
"6"

Was this number written by a human or a computer?

If you sift through a stream of mumbo jumbo written by a thousand chimps and selectively extract meaningful words, is it written by chimps or selected by humans.

That is just to say, an algorithm can't be "judged" by single outputs, much less output selected by a human.
Its quite easy to get a second SIM, and multiple SIM-slots are one of the reasons for Androids' popularity in various non-US markets, namely: Asia. Its very common to have two SIM's per phone - one for private, one for work, or one for calls and one for Internet.
The sane people have long forgotten GG even existed. And the idea that academia is needed for games to be recognized as art is absurd. It is even more pathetic than the "Please mr Ebert say games are art, waaa ..." 10 years ago.

Games are art ... when the current generation dies off the next in line of succession are gamers.
One of the most common comments on YT videos I see are people asking for the name of the song used in a video.
Two assumptions you seem to be making:
1. That profits are paid out through salaries. They aren't. They are moved via clever financial mechanisms to large shareholders and as retained funds. This is why the existence of so many tax havens is a big problem.
2. That Mariana is a male. The person in that interview is quite clearly male.
She just described one of the main benefits of having a state. It allows people to flourish. Of course, excluding obvious scenarios of nefarious uses of public money for personal profit.

The state creates an environment that allows individuals to make profit in a safe way (contracts, violence, laws, etc). An underlying bit of information that is ignored is that the individual profiting means that we all profit, in small and not necessarily measurable ways. And sure why not, why can't the public be the one to bear the risk in the examples stated? It does for everything else. Isn't this the "collective" way?

And I have seen this line of thinking elsewhere, particularly when discussing the merits of having a state at all. The idea that somehow we "owe" the state for all these nice things it gives us beyond what we already pay in personal taxes.

"Go live in Somalia", they would tell me, if you don't like paying taxes.
I don't agree with your last point, but very much do agree that we become acclimated to the high levels of sugar. Just last year I was eating a lot more sweet than I do now, usually in the form of a Starbucks or a Jamba juice. I cut that out completely, (not caffeine, just caffeine from Starbucks) and haven't had anything from either place in many months.

Last week the kids needed a snack and we stopped at Jamba. I ordered my old regular, Orange Dream, which I split in 3, and when I took a sip of mine, I literally spit it out. It had somehow become disgustingly sweet to me, I couldn't even drink it, just threw it away.

As we were walking back to the car I was just shaking my head, thinking, how the hell could I have ever liked that?!
Is there any evidence to suggest that they would?
Dropwizard keeps getting heavier ... JavaEE keeps getting lighter. Dropwizard has always been friendly to developers, JavaEE took a long time to "become useable" (I was ready to give up on J2EE completely with release 1.4).

It would be interesting to compare the demo Dropwizard application with an equivalent one written in JavaEE 7. Is anyone interested? I'd be willing to run through both sides (I always learn something!).
Twitch reactions are what make it real-time. You might be more interested in a turn-based strategy game where you can plan out your moves before striking.
At 20% on the pebble in the evening I'm pretty confident I can make it through the next day, but that's not really your point I suppose.

I really don't get that argument, you can easily charge it up every day if you want to. It stops you worrying if you're going away for a few days though, I know if I charge up my pebble before the weekend I can go away without worrying about needing a charger. I don't have to worry about my watch in the evening because I've used it quite a bit today.

It's like saying that Hummers have the advantage because you have to keep stopping for fuel every petrol station, rather than wondering if you can make it to the next one.
Ellis' new employer hired her before this happened.

Some people will hire her, mind you. It just reduces the set of opportunities perhaps ten-fold, or reduces the level of those opportunities by one or two rungs on the corporate ladder.

That's a career killer in most cases.
Just to be pedantic, that's a monument to lab mice, not lab rats, for their use in genetic research experiments.

If you know what happen to mice used in these experiments then I'm sure you'll agree they deserve their monument.

It's a bit worse than anxiety-related feelings but we do need things like cures to cancers, cystic fibrosis, etc. so IMHO ...it has to be done.

So we try to do it as little as possible and minimise suffering as much as possible. Again, IMHO, it's also one of the ethical arguments for why all information from sequencing experiments should be in the public domain.
Good idea we'll keep it in mind. Bookmarking the ident page and coming back later to check on results will work too
My Machine Learning professor uses iPython notebooks to teach the content in a format much like this. I think its a fantastic way to present it. You have working code snippets right next to theoretical LaTeX formulas and all of the text and matplotlib graphs to explain it.
Optimal Crosstalk Cancellation for Binaural Audio with Two Loudspeakers [pdf]
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That's orthogonal to this discussion. Google never received Belgian research funding.

(I'm Belgian)
as someone already pointed out on twitter:

F#:

let blubExtra a b = blub (inc a) (inc b)

4 parens.
.04 is user time. The elapsed time was .12 - this is how long you have to wait. Still it's a fair point: 120ms is noticeable but not painful.
The dog repair guy very much reminded me of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.

Funny how fiction sometimes becomes reality much quicker than expected :)
It's not a question about whether you speak out. It's a question of whether you do it through proper channels.

And yes, I'd much rather accusers speak out only through proper channels, at least when those channels work pretty well. In the US, they're not perfect, but they do work pretty well.
The great IT myth: is cloud really less secure than on-premise?
Full Source for WebGL Game at GitHub (VoxLords)
Hello World execution time benchmark in many languages:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-03/m...

With Haskell:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-03/m...
http://qz.com/340304/degrees-dont-matter-anymore-skills-do/

My opinion is you should hone your skill after you have graduated.
If I were you, I'm focus on my health instead pursuing perfection.

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What evidence do you have that it's an uninitialized variable?

It's a code fragment; it's not in a function body. The way I read it, it was simply to document the type of x. 'x' could be a global for all we know.