skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're running a reproducible science experiment it's probably a good idea to include the actual data. For random noose this could be the generator and seed and then some good hashes but only if the experimentor used a generator and seed - if the experimentor just grabs noise from somewhere and uses that you want the actual data as part of reproducibility.
Diagrams, yeah, we need lots of diagrams.
It's certainly something you could do, but don't be discouraged when you realise that your potential clients aren't too fond of being told their current online presence sucks. Perhaps also approach local businesses that don't even have an online presence at all and sell them on getting one to supplement for that risk.
However we might postulate that at some point all subsistence related jobs will be fulfilled - food, shelter, clothing.

At some point we will need to make a big shift in our society. Who pays for the automated services, who owns them and how richness will be redistributed will be the big questions for three-four generations down the road to solve.

sure, the effects are unknowable, that's why whe should ramp up the talks about it. Speculation is followed by talks which are followed by research which eventually will be needed.

We need more insightful articles, to motivate new minds to find solution before future generations will find themselves truly automated out of all works in a society where work is essential to subsistence.

https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29ba...
Ha, these and a pinch of spices, are the only things I add.
Thanks for the nice article..
The original headline is
"A New Degree in Architecture, Computers or Health Is Worth More Than Decades of Job Experience" - in which the coma makes sense.
That sounds more like prostitution.

I think the important element is this: did person A attempt to coerce person B into having sex? If yes, then A raped B.

Let's apply that to your scenario. Is the boss trying to coerce the employee into having sex? No, the boss is firing the employ because

* Maybe they're a shitty employee, or

* Perhaps because the company has dwindling resources, or

* Fill in the blank.

In your scenario, the employee came up with a plan to try to sell sex in exchange keeping their job. That's prostitution: "the act of having sex in exchange for money." As a boss, I would decline that offer because, among other things, it would probably look like I was threatening to take away the employees job (i.e. coercion) if I wasn't given sex - even if that was never my intent.

If, on the other hand, the boss implied or suggested that the employee could keep their job in exchange for sex, that's coercion and is therefore rape.

It's not about "not wanting to do something", it's about coercion. If I'm legitimately fired and I offer sex in exchange for my job, that _is_ my will. If someone threatens (express of implied) to take my job away unless I have sex with them, that's their will, they're coercing me to have sex with them, and that's rape.
I think it's because our ancestors didn't have easy access to food in the way we do now. Our bodies are wired to consume and store energy which are necessary for survival in times of starvation.
Also as amusing, until I looked at the heat graphs, I didn't notice the tiny AppSumo advertisement in the right hand margin. Chen is right, we are pattern recognition machines. I've literally taught myself to ignore ads!
Compile-time typing really is valuable, IME. Maybe you should look at Shen?

(Can't help you on the brackets. I mostly stick to Scala myself)
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I don't get it. If you trained to recognize black and white, why did it find such a complex pattern where there were clearly none in the first example? Isn't it an example that it failed?
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I agree that there are some really unpleasant openly racist people in England.

Is it as bad as the US? Black americans make up half the US prison population; they're six times more likely to be imprisoned; as of 2001 one in six black men had been incarcerated;

http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet

Laws are unjustly applied, one example is the rates that black Americans or white Americans are arrested for cannabis drug crime. http://nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/high-time-the-injustic...
First of all, sugar isn't bad, it's bad in the quantities we generally eat it in modern diets. People also generally don't recognise that sugar you put in your coffee is pretty much the same as the carbohydrates in your pasta.

Evolutionary wise, in palaeolithic times sugar was probably very rare (you'd come across a bush of fruit every now and then perhaps but not all the time). Sugar is something extremely beneficial for your body if there's a lack of it in your diet and you're in a daily survival situation, it's pretty much pure energy. So evolutionary wise, when you come across a patch of sugary fruit it's beneficial to eat it all!

Nowadays we're surrounded by sugar and our diets are saturated with it. The food industries are advertising lies to us all the time. Seen those green cans of Coke with 'healthy' sugar in them? Pretty much complete bullshit!
Simplicity and collaboration
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In fact JVM is pretty fast. If you run a simple java app without dependencies and only displaying "Hello world" it will run in about 1s on modern hardware.
The problem with Clojure is AFAIR related to parsing and loading a big number of namespaces which is quite slow.
You could apply this argument to anything addictive, such as smoking...
The anti-smartphone I'd love to see is a small bluetooth communicator with a mic, buzzer and speaker in some sort of small badge, with an SDK like pebble's, but it has to be small and thin. You could do an awful lot of notifications with subtle sounds, and of course have phone calls, send voice messages or text messages (speech to text) via your phone. Love the filtered notifications idea here though.

Once you start adding a screen, the battery requirements go through the roof and you need something very big, at which point it's like a cut-down phone without the internet connection and battery life and size become a constant issue. The Apple watch is chunky and ugly in its current incarnation because of these problems, and unfortunately this device is pretty big too.

We need internet connected things which complement phones and enhance our lives, not compete with them in different form-factors. Another thing that'd be nice is some sort of colour epaper scroll for a reader which winds up really tight into a tube. It is interesting to think about where the future could take us with printable electronics and better performance, but it feels like we're on the cusp of all these technologies becoming possible, but not there yet - a little like 90s feature-phones - promising but not persuasive.
I do mean 10 million new cars are sold yearly in the U.S.[1][2]

Without doing a lot of research, I couldn't decide how to deal with questions of:

- Including or excluding light trucks

- Including or excluding cars that are new but being leased rather than sold

- Large year-to-year variations in sales (esp. of low sales during the recession)

But I think 10 million is reasonable rough estimate.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unite...
[2] http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3022-autosales.html
I remember when I realized I'd become immune to banner ads.

I had to sign up for a college related thing on a website once and I just could not see that sign up button. They made it a flashing advertisement sized block right above another article, with big letters "SIGN UP HERE". A friend sent me the link and I literally spent 5 minutes trying to find it in navigation bars and other links in the article. My friend had to send me a screenshot of his screen with a big red arrow pointing to the sign up block before I noticed it. I now use Adblock but for the times that it doesn't work, my mental Adblock seems to always help me out as well ( Especially for those sneaky ads mixed in between real articles ).
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Uhhh, the mod operator is not the solution to that problem though.

In reality you'd only use a mod operator if you were doing things like sorting into 4 columns or doing an operation on every 3rd thing. And it's not a concept that is introduced at school. Now I try to think of it, I think I only picked up mod when I was learning rounding in my first language and the man page happened to mention modulus at the same time.
Naive Bayes on Apache Flink
The braces become "invisible" after some training.
Different elements of the program are distingishable.
"+" is different from "if", which is different from "42".
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Embedding an immutable language in a mutable one is a recipe for awkwardness - how would you expose host-language things to the inner language? Better to do it the other way around - mutable scripting language embedded inside immutable host.
Instead of just criticising, maybe you could suggest how parent should improve? I'm always very confused about what personal pronoun to use for organisations or companies.
What if Apple had failed ? This is what she is trying to say. The risk is taken by the public. And the rewards mainly goes to the private entities.
Another fake flash story
Evolution is "supposed" to make the genome live longer. Managed to recreate? Cool. You've served your evolutionary purpose.
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Ask HN: Does a 60 Day Free Trial Ever Boost Signups?
We are using a 14 day free trial for our SaaS but I was wondering if a 60 Day free trial would be more appropriate to boost our numbers after reading about a couple of BigCorp doing this (Google).

Can share your thoughts ?
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There's also the old saying that "anything in excess is poison".
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This is absolutely fantastic, and thoroughly technical -- particularly the SPICE simulations. After becoming equally engrossed in designing a "perfect" microphone capsule, I'm tempted to build one myself.

This was written 12 years ago -- I wonder how the author feels now. Specifically I'm curious if the author is still contented with the equipment. Also, apropos of nothing save for sheer curiosity, I'm interested to know what input media (i.e., specific recordings and formats) and output equipment the author used (or uses) for both testing and pleasure.
Hacking Python AST: checking methods declaration
The problem is the article contains actually useful advice for newbie/intermediate programmers, but it is framed in such a way it mostly appeals to experienced programmers with a superiority complex.
I'm not sure what ruleset OP is using for their analysis, but with superko in place you would also need the entire history of the board to know if a move is valid.
I wanted to say exactly this. The re-discovered holy grail of newsletters, drip email and popups will decline pretty soon.

The usual argument pro drip-emails is: Emails will sit right there in your inbox, next to important other stuff. Now, since everybody does it, it sits right next to a thousand other newsletters. Just like with RSS readers a couple years ago.
.doc is a must but only because of the technology being used. CV Parsing / Previewing is a lot more mature of .doc format.
It seems satire is lost on you.
From the follow-up[0]:

""Bad programmer" is also considered inflammatory by some who think I'm speaking down to them. Not so; it was personal catharsis from an author who exhibited many of those problems himself. And what I think made the article popular was the "remedies"--I didn't want someone to get depressed when they recognized themselves, I wanted to be constructive."

Which I think is fair enough.

Besides which, there's plenty of feel-good 'you can do it!' material out there. Some of us prefer a more vigorous pep-talk.

Frankly, my impostor reflexes were far more triggered by the 'interviewing is broken' posts on here in the last couple of days; I've got two literary degrees and a big vocabulary. I interview well, despite the fact that I know (counts) two algorithms. I am haunted by the idea that it was my vocabulary that got me hired, and not my engineering potential.

YMMV, etc.

[0] http://www.yacoset.com/Home/signs-that-you-re-a-good-program...
Parsing and linting UK postcodes in Python
Your second version is too long and not nearly as tweetable. The automatic A/B tester will quickly pick up on that and train the story generator.
Thanks, you expressed the point I wanted to make much better than I did :)
Heh. I made it a point to do so for myself. :)
Freshly minted college graduates who majored in fields like
architecture, business, computers, statistics, engineering
and health can expect to start jobs where they earn more than
high school graduates with decades of experience.

Maybe, possibly, doubtfully true for architecture, or health, but I don't believe for a second that is true in business, computers, statistics, or engineering.

That’s the finding of a new report from Georgetown University‘s Center
on Education and the Workforce...

Oh, I get it, this is marketing material. Keep Dreaming.
Ask HN: How do you handle app store discovery?
My buddy and I have recently released an indie game[1] to the App Store but are somewhat puzzled as to how to achieve some of the crazy download statistics other teams seem to be achieving. Our social follower numbers aren't anything to write home about, and our wives would beat us to death with our keyboards if we spend any more cash beyond what we already have.

Most information out there says to spend an absurd amount of cash on advertising. Any other useful gems seem to be carefully hidden away because the few people who figured out the formula don't want the rest of us catching on.

For the successful app/game indie devs out there, how did you gain enough traction to make a living?

At the moment we're less worried about retention, we understand that if our game sucks evolution will take its course. We're more interested in how people get those 10k+ numbers in their first week or two for reasons we seem to be missing.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dungeon-slammers-drop/id962292082?ls=1&mt=8
The singular impersonal "it" when talking about Google as a corporate entity (its component personnel would likely be "Googlers"). So "Google pays its taxes" and "Google doesn't pay its taxes".
And BBC Radio Four's "book of the week" (serialised book readings" is Villani's "The Most Beautiful Equation in the World".

http://bbc.in/1KJSh33

> The Most Beautiful Equation in the World
Book of the Week, Birth of a Theorem Episode 1 of 5

> Rock-star mathematician Cédric Villani's magical mystery tour through the world of mathematics.

> He describes the journey which sees him wrestling with and taming a new theorem that will win him the most coveted prize in his field.

> Along the way he encounters obstacles and setbacks, losses of faith and even brushes with madness. His story is one of courage and partnership, elation and despair.

> His account unlocks what goes on inside the head of a mathematician and captures where inspiration comes from. Blending science with history, biography with myth, Villani conjures up a cast of mathematical greats including the omnipresent Einstein and Villani's personal hero, John Nash.

"Rock star"?. Don't let that put you off. Julian Rhind-Tutt's reading is straight.
> That doesn't work in real life. In order to know what level of force is necessary, one has to have a perfect knowledge of the opposition. That isn't possible, so you always respond with more force than you think in necessary - overengineering the carnage.

That's exactly the kind of thinking that leads to global nuclear annihilation, and when that consequence became clear, intelligent people finally realized how wrong it is.

But your argument is wrong anyhow. Either you're trying to end the war, or you're not. If you are, you try all avenues, including negotiation. If you don't try negotiation, you aren't trying to end the war, you're trying to prolong it. The US leadership knew they couldn't lose at that point, so they weren't trying to end it.

> The what if game is pretty boring.

It sure is when you lose right away, due to the US never trying to negotiate. Earlier you said that it was "risky" to do so. How?

And It doesn't matter that we don't know what would have happened if the US had attempted negotiations with Japan. It only matters that they never did.
Here is another "make your own incredible tube amplifier" from a Dutch gentleman. I'd be interested to hear from someone who understands this stuff, how it compares.
http://www.mennovanderveen.nl/eng/index.html

Also, I'd like to hear for myself how they both compare to the $20 solid state amps.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0049P6OTI/downandout...
Recent example of a coulomb explosion with sodium:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8
+1 for Prismatic Schema. It's not only an awesome way to validate your maps, but it is an extremely good way to write documentation.
Mazzucato gave an interesting talk [1] about this to the Long Now Foundation back in March 2014.

[1] http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/mar/24/entrepreneurial-sta...
> As for where the money comes from, doesn't that just fall out of supply and demand? As demand for electricity increases, prices will go up, funding the infrastructure improvements needed to accommodate the increased demand.

Looking forward to oil-shareholders claiming how expensive electric cars for the elites are making electricity unaffordable for the poor.
OK, I get the point you are making.

Thanks for listening.

The solution is NOT to see women differently

I agree with you there, and think many feminists would too - people just want to be treated the same.

The unfortunate reality is that they are not. We should change that.
the point is to free yourself to focus on semantics rather than endlessly learning syntax
I don't think it's misplaced. As far as I know, you can use it (or at least it's used) in English as a shorter way to say 'and', especially for headlines.
At least some of the people he interviews were involved in controversial events that were discussed on HN for days on end so it’s not surprising (to me at least) that these excerpts are also getting a lot of attention here.
How is this relevant to the parent? You're talking about someone with a CS degree, which means they have no experience. How can you ask them about the technical aspects of what they did on a project. "What parts of the system did you write? And what problems did you hit. What solution or bug were you proud of solving?".

A degree is not experience, CS != programming.
Hell, the DC metro, for all its faults, is quite a bit nicer than NYC, but granted, it doesn't go as far.

Even for outer residents it is not great. My wife's family lives in Queens and it is inconvenient as all hell; there is a good reason people pay to live in Manhattan. NYC is bizarrely centered around Manhattan as its central hub, and all of the other boroughs are subservient to it; in a way they are deserts, devoid of all but the most basic businesses and services, as the arts/culture/jobs/education are in Manhattan.

To get to Manhattan takes 20 minutes by bus just to get to the L or M train, then another hour (or often more) to get to the outskirts. If you miss the bus, enjoy a 45 minute walk - the bus only comes every half hour, but is hardly regular, as it goes down the area's only main thoroughfare that is absolutely choked with cars, too many streetlights, and parking.

Maybe for some an 1:30-2:00hr commute daily is normal; at the best of times, in Spring/Fall, it's bearable but annoying. In the hot summer or cold winter, it's awful. I think, why go through all that - is the area really all that spectular? Can't you have 10x more (land,time,sanity) living in the Midwest or the South? Why even bother living in New York, if you're not going to live in Manhattan?
I see. So, basically, whenever a woman has a trait which we consider bad, it is because they are actually men under cover? It is not very surprising then that by defining "woman = good" we are going to get "woman == good".
The problem with having an amazingly transparent signal chain (although I doubt that valves are the way to achieve this but he seems to know what he's talking about,) is that it pushes all the responsibility onto you the listener, to choose program material that is well engineered and artistically resonant enough to justify all that outlay. It's like having special eye surgery to visit galleries. It doesn't quite add up.

Consider that the gear Miles Davis made all his music through sounded completely fucked by this guy's standards. For some reason, harmonic distortion produced before the 80s is art, and harmonic distortion produced after the 80s is an affront. Its like some kind of analog/digital existential nostalgia. I blame postmodernism.

The more transparent the amplifier, the better the music has to be, or you really are wasting your time. If you just want to build high performance electronic equipment, there are much more interesting areas to work in than simply applying gain to a pair of AC signals while preserving their phase relationship.

But yeah, each to his own I guess. I expect these questions are half the fun if you're into designing your own amplifiers.
1s to print hello world is an awful lot I would like to point out.
There aren't many languages that have radically fewer parentheses than Clojure / LISP.

Clojure:

(defn blub-extra [a b]
(blub (inc a) (inc b)))

8 parens + 2 brackets

Scala:

def blubExtra(a: Int, b: Int): Int {
blub(inc(a), inc(b))
}

8 parens + 2 braces

Java:

Integer blubExtra(Integer a, Integer b) {
return blub(inc(a), inc(b));
}

8 parens + 2 braces

Ruby:

def blubExtra(a, b)
blub(inc(a), inc(b))
end

8 parens

Python:

def blubExtra(a, b):
return blub(inc(a), inc(b))

8 parens, one colon

C:

int blubExtra(int a, int b) {
return blub(inc(a), inc(b));
}

8 parens + 2 braces

It's roughly the same numbers of brackets (or equivalent) in Clojure, Scala, C and Java. A bit less in Python and Ruby.
It's all about people, so there are likely not cut and dried answers, but I know I have always found C style code a bit easier to read than Lisp style code. Part of this may be due to other conventions, such as larger indents in C code.

Like you say, with training, the differences are probably not that big a deal, but I don't think they are something to completely ignore, either.
I know I'm anthropomorphizing, but quotes like the one below give me new and increased empathy for rats and their cause. I know that without us killing them "for science" lots of drugs and medical treatments wouldn't have been discovered, is just that seeing us, humans, forcing anxiety-related feelings on other beings makes me, well, a little anxious.

> Naloxone treatment also appeared to make the rats more anxious, as they spent less time on an elevated apparatus that lacked walls on either side.

Monuments dedicated to lab rats like this one (http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1hhyta/a_monument_to_l...) make me just a little bit happier on the inside.
Isn't "they" used sometimes as well? At least it's frequently used for "police"...
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4500 daily calories

That requirement puts you several standard deviations from the mean, yes.
Clojure is an immutable language built on top of mutable hosts. Interop is handled beautifully. A go hosted Clojure (gojure?) would probably be fine.