skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked on the google Suggest team, and "facebook login" is way up in the most popular searches. I _think_ it was even above "facebook" but I'm not sure. (There is a self-boosting effect: seeing both as suggestions leads one to think there is a difference and deciding they need the "login" one).

Most ironic are people typing "google" or "google search" into address/search bar :-)
But I occasionally catch myself doing it to access some rarer search tools, e.g. typing "google scholar"...
And corporations try to commoditise labour even more aggressively.

Your point is...?
This is as good a post as any about the theory of why deep learning works so well - esp. if you know a little about spin models from statistical mechanics

https://charlesmartin14.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/why-does-de...

additional flavor: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.0233.pdf

and slides 16-22 of https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsd...
Non mono-spaced fonts for programming... An interesting idea but with one caveat I can think of. Many programmers, although not me personally, use command line based editors like GNU Nano or Vim which require keyboard based navigation of text. Mono-spaced fonts mean the cursor moves in predictable ways when dropping a line or moving about. With a font like this that would (probably) cause problems.
Really? There are not many developed countries where working 2 full-time jobs is considered 'acceptable' under any standard.
Yes, I am who you think I am. I'm sure I wasn't the only one using joe there, though :p
The rich highly skilled foreigners aren't really escaping poverty back home. The poorly skilled foreigners aren't welcome to stay.
This article didn't give much. I'll pass this along. I bought my first nice watch from a overpriced jewelry store in San Francisco. It was a glowing dial Tag F1. I didn't realize at the time, but it was considered a unisex size. I didn't care, I had small wrists. I bought it for $139.00. Jump ahead years later, and the company realized they could add $1000-2000 to that price and still sell watches? Yes, the watches are bigger with a bit more bling, but they still use ETA quartz movements. ETA movements are great, but not worth what Tag is selling them for; I guess you could say that for most luxury watch brands.

That said, all I want on my wrist is something that can tell me the time(analog) time, and maybe the date. I am already a nervous wreck--I couldn't imagine anything yelling/blinking on my wrist. If anyone get's into horology, you might see the value of a mechanical watch? A watch that will last a lifetime. Some of you will even be able to service the watch yourself.(A basic watch--nothing chronograph--books(DeCarle/Fried), tools, a lot of study through Internet videos, practice on cheap watches, etc.). If you do buy a mechanical watch, I can pass this along. You don't need to service it yearly. Service it when the time is off, or it stops. Change the gaskets every two years(if you go in the water). I guarantee most of you can change the back gasket and crown gasket without much study.

(Tag does use some ETA 2824-2 movements. I thought they were all quartz.)
I have a PhD in computer engineering. I regret it.

Unless you're really into research on a particularly narrow topic for 3+ years (and not a topic of your choice, one of your advisor's choice), you don't want to do a PhD and should stay away. Take the four extra years of income instead.

On a slightly different note, every PhD I know, self included, has a story about how they almost failed out of or otherwise left graduate school if not for some serendipitous event. I have yet to meet someone who doesn't have such a story.
Expensive watches are indicators of wealth. As are boats/jets/sports cars/etc. Tech might be a bit of an outlier, but non tech entrepreneurs/executives/businessmen often wear good watches. They're like hidden handshakes, in a way. They close deals (or at least get the conversation started).

I doubt existing "dumb" watch buyers will switch over to a smart watch. All smart watches I've seen so far look horrible (incl. the Apple one), in comparison to properly constructed mechanical watches. They also don't act as a status indicator.

(Not that I care much about watches. I do however appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into building a proper mechanical watch.)
Madeup: A Programming Language for 3-D Models
For some reason, this logic never seems to apply upper management salaries - irrespective of competence or achievement.

Here's the reality - the C-suite is already informally unionised. There's no explicit union structure, but there's a very cosy network of personal relationships, social signals, and ethical assumptions which relies on rhetoric like "We should pay talent what it's worth" to make sure that executive-level comp only shrinks in exceptional and rare cases.

Unionisation may not be the most perfect balance to that, but it's much better than any alternative which amounts to "Eh, let's just do nothing."
The cost of maintaining your optimized code adds up too. As does the risk that you introduced a bug. And this takes time away from newer features that customers might be willing to pay money for.

Occasionally performance is a feature, but a lot of times it's just an excuse for developers to have fun writing assembly.
Thank you for sharing this! I was there, and was hoping it got recorded.
Chicago is 16% more expensive than the U.S. average, while consumer prices in the U.K. are about 10% higher than the U.S. So it's really a wash. Comparing country to country would be pointless, because most U.S. teachers are not unionized. The point is to demonstrate the impact of a particularly dysfunctional teachers' union. San Francisco or New York would be other examples, but the cost of living there is vastly above the U.S. average.

As for London--average police pay is 45,500 pounds ($67,000): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084505/Generous-pay.... So a Chicago police officer with just 2.5 years of service earns about as much as the average London cop does in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

The average Chicago police pension is $57,000: http://www.weareonechicago.org/documents/waoc_fact_sheet.pdf. The average U.K. police pension is $23,000: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/305105/Police-pensions-bill....
As far as I know there is no such things as stealth in aircrafts. If you are using modern radar then you can spot any aircraft, even those new stealth jet fighters that the US is about to start cranking out.
Actually it's quite smart. Look at their price point: $1000 (much cheaper than their other models). Which means this product is a "gateway drug" for young Android guys to get a taste of what a Tag Heuer looks and feels like on their wrist. Once they learn more about what they are wearing the theory is they will be sucked into the watch community and buy a more expensive model.

This watch is Tag Heuer's Mac Mini.
On general principle, no, and I'd name and shame both the B-school and the speaker (or, you know, be tactful. whatever). My gut reaction is it's complete BS.
Hungary does share a border with Serbia, though whether you consider Vojvodina Serbia or not could be debated.
You're right, this article could do with a tag.
I'm no expert, but it seems like you need to guess at some key ranges and start the BTree at some minimum size even if most of the leaves start out empty. Either that, or don't write anything until the tree grows a bit and rely on a writeahead log for durability.

Hotspots could still show up further down, though, if writes aren't fairly random.
Nemerle and F# may be functional, but neither is a lisp. One big difference is that this is a dynamic language, whereas F# and Nemerle are static.
Reciclado de Código Malicioso; una nueva modalidad que potencia al cibercrimen
I always saw mechanical watch collecting more like art collecting.
Hollywood actors, writers and directors all have unions. Professional baseball and football players have unions.

You really think any of those people feel like they don't have the opportunity to stand out? Or that their financial upside is too limited?

Don't generalize about what a union can be based on what unions for one particular type of workers are. When a group of workers' labor is easily replaceable, of course their union is going to focus on things like uniform pay -- that way the workers won't get trapped into a downward spiral by demands that they undercut each others' wages or lose their jobs. But unions for workers who aren't easily replaceable will have different priorities.
Both of these are total jooke from my experience. I've yet to see a proper freelance site for professionals.
Nice game. I think lots of concepts can be taught with these types of games. A physics quibble - should the raptor be able to stop instantaneously, even when moving right near the speed of light? Shouldn't slowing down happen over time just like speeding up? I'm asking both from a newtonian physics perspective and as a way of showing how time changes during the deceleration.
The FinTech Startups Unbundling Wells Fargo, Citi and Bank of America
> On a slightly different note, every PhD I know, self included, has a story about how they almost failed out of or otherwise left graduate school if not for some serendipitous event. I have yet to meet someone who doesn't have such a story.

Ya, neither have I.

The PhD for me was a personal journey that I'm better off personally for taking. It hasn't made me much richer, however (no one should go to grad school for the money!). Also, getting a PhD should NEVER be your plan B.
Clearly reading the JLS wasn't good enough for most people. So what do you turn to when people take a well-established programming term like "pass-by-reference" and apply it where it doesn't belong?

Seems to me like a good place is a modern, widely-used language which is similar to Java but also has both pass-by-value and pass-by-reference so one can illustrate what those terms actually mean and how they differ.

Seems like C++ is as good a choice as any
Feel free to use another language if you can do better.

Explaining pass-by-reference using Java, which can't express pass-by-reference, is one of the sources of the confusion people here are experiencing (the other is Java using reference to mean something different from established meanings).
It's just Saint Laurent as the name changed a while ago. And they do sell $1300 iPad Cases.

But yes "fashion" means you are paying the 99.999% premium over the raw materials.

Apple is going to have a blast playing around in this market.
Ask HN: I'm looking for a Spotify software engineer to speak to
Hey HN, I'm the author of a popular music plugin for streamers, http://sourceforge.net/projects/obsmusicstreamd/

My plugin takes the current playing song from several music players, and outputs it to a text file, so it can be shown on a stream. Spotify's most recent update broke compatibility with the plugin however, and now I'm being flooded with emails :(

Previously, it looked through all Windows using the win32api, and looked for windows with "Spotify - " in their title. Spotify's most recent update replaced the title with "Spotify Premium" however. And now I'm at a loss, I've tried contacting their support to connect me to an engineer, but they didn't want to.

I've looked through Spotify's Appdata/local and Appdata/roaming folders, but found nothing I could potentially scrape to get the currently playing song.

So now, I'm looking for either someone with a lot of experience with Spotify who can help me out, or a Spotify engineer with inside knowledge...
Could Prolog be used in geometric constraint solving? Any examples?
I'm well aware, but I was just talking about the easiest case (deep intergalactic space with the CMB and minimal other exposure to radiation). There's a lot more complication than that, as you indicated, but I still don't think it's fair to call it undefined due to the lack of matter (I'd grant calling it undefined in some areas due to the complication of the different sources of radiation and of the matter, but that's another story).
They are not, but technology gadgets are driven to improvement with speeds and design, a luxury smartwatch will be just as prone to being out of date a year later as an entry level smartwatch
Is there something intrinsically bad about executing illegal arms dealers?
I too am a watch enthusiast and thought I'd give my take in case count doesn't respond with his. There are a few reasons for me.

First, check out this video. Personally I think the watch is ugly as hell, but if anything shows you some of the craftsmanship that goes into a watch, this would be it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIXPplShtg0

Another reason is that I'm a programmer and clockwork is a form of programming. I don't know much about watchmaking (I'm hoping to eventually go to watchmaking school - not for many years though I imagine) but I read quite a bit about it and it fascinates me. It's similar to how the idea of programming on an incredibly old computer with practically no resources fascinates me. Complaining about only having 2K of memory? At least you've got electricity!

There's a hell of a lot of invention and, well, hacking that goes into watchmaking too. Take the perpetual calendar, for example - a type of watch that only needs to be adjusted once every 100 years because it tracks leap years. Moon phases that are accurate for 5400 years[1]. Planetariums on your wrist, all powered by clockwork[2]. Dials that take a century to complete a rotation.

I also love the human aspect of watchmaking. The level of craftsmanship in a high end watch, such as the Patek Philippe you saw in the video, is incredible. I love the attention to detail and the care that goes into every single component: even components that are buried deep inside the watch are still polished and decorated by hand. Pointless? Yes! But I can't help but love it.

You mention supply chain sophistication and you might be right - but don't think that the supply chains for watches aren't sophisticated. If you're interested, Hodinkee.com recently published an article about their tour around the Rolex manufacture. You might be interested in the level of complexity: http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/inside-rolex
It's a long article but if you search for "Parachrom Hairspring", that section will give you a bit of insight into the kind of invention that goes into modern watchmaking.

However, after all of that justification, I'll fully admit that it's pointless. A $100 quartz watch is typically more accurate than a $10,000 mechanical. It's pretty much all about emotion, similar to how some people can become attached to paintings where all others see is paint on canvas.

[1] http://monochrome-watches.com/a-worlds-first-christiaan-van-...

[2] http://www.vancleefarpels.com/us/en/article/10935/midnight-p...

(Hm, I wrote quite a bit more than I intended to and must have given you at least an hours worth of reading/watching material! Perhaps I should write this up as a blog post sometime.)
Mandatory Mind Reading
So it's only an issue with small trees? I'm not really seeing the issue then, use smaller btree nodes if it's really an issue...
https://vimeo.com/66671255 - The Road To Basel Episode 2: Inside The Atelier With The Legendary Philippe Dufour
The way to prove someone is not a lucky coin-flipper is to identify them before they flip the coins (or, at the very least, by some attribute that was observable before they flipped the coins). For example, "took a class from Ben Graham in 1951" [1] might be such an observable criteria.

[1] http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/rtfiles/cbs/hermes/Buffett1984....
Maybe Better if you don’t read this story on public WiFi
Remotely, sure (though I usually use joe for that), but for local edits, I start emacs --daemon as part of my regular login procedure (along with creating multiple terminal windows) and thereafter use emacsclient (aliased to 'e') for almost all file editing.

Only annoying thing is the way it retains buffers for modified files when you exit, even if you choose not to save them.

emacs -q (or faster, -Q) could be used in a pinch, but I find default emacs almost unusable.
http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Basic_Part_De...

The above looks pretty 3d to me.
Citation? I visited last year and went to a tech meetup, and other than myself and a German guy who had been living in the area for 20 years, everyone else out of 60 people was Asian.

Quite a few people I spoke to were from China and said they came to the country to study. As I understand they are provided full scholarships if they stay to work for X years after completing their studies.

You are right about lower class workers though - Singapore and Malaysia, like GCC countries, also import a lot of construction workers from India.
One of the key things to recognize when considering rationality and reasonable behavior is that not everyone is reasonable.
Is this toó big for busybox?
Based on your previous reply, you are indeed confused. Reference is a long-established term, and using it to refer to C pointers is typically considered incorrect.

In addition, pass-by-reference and pass-by-value are very useful terms for anyone interested in accurately speaking about and understanding what will happen when they run the program they write.

There are people who consider accuracy and understanding to be pedantry. More often than not, in my experience, they are a larger source of bugs than those who strive to truly understand how their tools work.
Ah, home. Keep reading about the flood until you encounter the sad fact that many of the survivors of the waters died in a secondary fire.
Here's the associated HN discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420274
Is it maybe time to start allowing software professionals to have a portfolio? I would guess that companies are the main driving force behind not having portfolios that can be shown, but at the same time they are thereby hurting themselves because they can't properly evaluate employees.
This is a great way to handle offline search, but as the article mentions, indexing is still a pretty heavy operation to perform on the client-side. I'm curious to see if it'd make sense to invert the index server-side, and pass the pre-inverted index along with the documents via REST when an app loads. Then, you could still perform offline queries, but the client would only be responsible tokenizing/analyzing the search terms, comparing them against the index and doing the BM25 scoring piece.
On the topic of things unable to be said however, disagreeing with Stallman seems to result in immediate downvote shitstorming.
That's very hard to say without knowing the NDA. What's covered? How long does it apply? Are there limits on damages should the guest speaker decide to sue you?

Can your university's student legal department review the NDA? In at least some universities, if a student works on corporate projects and has to sign an NDA then the NDA must be reviewed by the university first. See http://www.utdallas.edu/utdesign/students/ip-and-nda/ for an example of that requirement.

As a matter of principle, if you decline to sign the NDA, what will happen? Will the inability to attend the lecture affect your grade? Were you informed about the NDA requirement before signing up for the class?

Peronally, it stinks. You paid your money, with the expectation that you would get a full education. Consider that a student might work in the same field as the guest speaker, but in a competitive organization. Signing an NDA may be virtually impossible. While you may not be in that circumstance, your teachers can't make that assumption about everyone.
So you want to answer the questions 'when did i fall sleep last night?' and 'did i get enough sleep?' I have to wonder why.

It suggests you are wanting to ensure you get a healthy amount of sleep by getting the answers to these questions. But really, you don't need to answer these questions at all. Instead just time-box the amount of sleep you should have (whatever you determine that to be) and then just set alarms on your phone/laptop around your schedule to instruct you when to go to bed and when to sleep - sorted.

I sense your overly elaborate, approximate solution to your problem is a result of you suffering from sleep deprivation! ;)
Everyone is worried that this will be the next iPhone, and do not want to be left behind this time. So they are exploring projects at this stage. Not a bad thing.

The same thing happened with the plethora of tablets a few years ago.
I believe that a strong economy will ease the transition from an autocratic society to a more liberal one. Singapore appears to be loosening up socially.
Thanks for the article, read through it. True that Vancouver may have higher public transit ridership, but what they neglect to mention is that different cities may have solved the public transit problem in a different way.

First off, many major tech companies SF (and to some extent in Seattle) offer private buses. Automatically, these people are no longer counted by the study. In a city like SF where there is a huge Google/Facebook/Adobe/Company XYZ population, they all offer buses or shuttles from urban areas to Palo Alto, Cupertino, and even within other places in SF. Nonetheless, almost 100% of the people I talk to that lives in SF either doesn't own a car or owns a car but almost never drives it because their companies offer alternative transportations. They also don't ride the BART or Muni or CalTrain much because of Uber/Lyft.

Secondly, places like NYC, SF and Seattle have a big ride sharing culture. Obvious Uber and Lyft are prevalent around the city with their staches' and U's. Recent stats in NYC indicates that there are now more Uber drivers than taxi drivers. These ride sharing economy definitely takes the ridership out of public transit. In fact, on my recent trip to SF I decided to take Uber to my door instead of the normal BART because they cost similar except I don't have to get off at a BART station and transfer somehow. Compare that to Vancouver, where Uber and Lyft are outlawed, with the city even going to extra step to make sure they don't even get a start over existing taxi services, it's definitely going to push more people to public transit.

Also, I don't think this article or study is even non-partisan at all because of the upcoming city-wide transit referendum. Honestly, I am taking this with a grain of salt.
> The runtime is like 90mb, yes, but the source itself is 4mb

Not to be too acerbic, but, first of all, 4 MB is already huge for an applet. Secondly, how does the fact that the source is 4 MB excuse the 90 MB runtime?!
tldr of the talk:

facebook is evil

instagram is evil

itunes is evil

amazon is evil

youtube is evil

angry bird is a malware

and so on...
You should be able to find a image of a Mac disk with the software needed to read FAT12 floppies.

And I do mean images that you can just use dd to write to the floppy. Then you just need a USB floppy drive.

It has been a few years since I tried that though.
I would be interested to know if the care he received changed his own perception of his actions. And I mean not what he would answer publicly to this question, but if he wondered while recovering in the hospital bed the paradox of the situation.
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With the productivity / efficiency to be had by buying a quartz watch, how can mechanical watches compete?

This question was answered in the 1970s "Quartz Crisis" : watches aren't about functionality.
"Tag Heuer Chief Executive Jean-Claude Biver declined to give any details about pricing, functionality or design."

"unveils"
Is there something like this for Google Chrome? Thanks
You can edit remote files directly in Emacs or simply use sshfs.