skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your argument is that it's unreasonable to store a list of every song play, even though they already do so?

Or that it's unreasonable to make them "accounting records"? Not a problem. They aggregate using the current method to limit the number of "accounting records", they can aggregate just fine using the new method. Have "accounting" start with revenue per song the same way it used to start with listens per song, after asking the database to process its 20 BILLION records.
I used to work in newspapers and it's still pretty common in that industry. But they also usually give you a word count to hit, so it's not like you can just write yourself a Mercedes.
I guess they learned the money is in the application store.
Sorry, I should have been clearer, higher brackets and rates.
I don't think we should strive to achieve 1:1. Instead, we should strive to achieve the ideal life-work balance for each individual.

For example, in the Netherlands, where (if I understand correctly) companies are incentivised offer part-time positions, 60% of women choose to work only part-time [1].

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/du...
file_fdw.

I have a file that keeps changing constantly. What was a file read/write at app level has been replaced. Less code, direct access to data and readily "ETL-able".
What do Adam and Eve refer to in this context? Also, what do you mean by "more recent"?
I'm not sure what you're getting at.

You're conflating the battle.net platform that they have built, which is the launcher, the updater, etc. with concerns that people had over matchmaking and chat support.

Uplay is a horrendous piece of junk that feels like a horrendous piece of junk that's horrible DRM. Nobody talks about chat channels and clan support in Uplay, because the only function Uplay has is to sell you games and stop you from pirating games.

Battle.net serves the same purpose, but it serves it much more gracefully. Apart from some complaints about no offline only mode for Diablo and Starcraft, it's been a pretty quiet system. Even with the new launcher it's pretty respectful to players.

I think it's pretty telling that you talk about specific functions like clan support and how Diablo 3 was a cash grab. It means you're talking about gameplay features, and not about the Battle.net platform at all.

The fact is, Battle.net is pretty quiet from a DRM perspective. You don't feel violated by installing the launcher like I did when I loaded Uplay. It feels like a tool for interoperability across Blizzard instead of an attempt to outsteam steam while screwing you over trying to lock down your games.

Battle.net's launcher got me playing hearthstone, it got me playing HOTS, it let me reconnect with people that I forgot I had on my friends list from when I played WoW. It was a useful tool. This is regardless of how long it took them to get clan support in SC2 or global chat channels or matchmaking concerns or whatever else your pet issue might be. Whatever the case, I didn't feel cheated just by installing it. Whether the games are good or not are different question.
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LISP-style syntax needs to die. Too many parentheses. Balancing {} can be annoying enough without having to worry about every single line with lisp-style ().

Yey for python for stepping forward on this issue, minus points for their incorrect approach to (multiline) anonymous functions.

(I know people will flame this and assume I'm trolling, but this is just my POV as someone who's programed in LISP and ~10 other languages for 20 years now).
Solution files are easy. Project files (I think you meant project files) are not too hard, if all you want to do is build. Integration with Visual Studio is part of the equation, too.
The article decries constantly checking up on the news filling your mind with things that do not actually effect you which leads you to a more unproductive day. I signed up for grasswire a couple minutes ago and at the first moment I'm bombarded with a twitter-like feed of random news events all that have nothing to do with me.

How is this addressing the frustrations you claim to have in common with Swartz?
Note, we like other apes evolved to climb trees not rock walls.

I will note also that compared to climbing rocks, climbing trees with slightly sweaty hands is MUCH easier than with dry or chalked hands. I think its due to bark being the grip target versus rocks.

Nothing more than my experience but sending a cliff is nothing like climbing trees.
Collaborative online bookkeeping app with webhooks
I assume: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
Why do you have to worry about balancing parens when you can use things like paredit?
I was paid for the word once and let me tell you, if they said 1500-2000 words, you can guess which end of the range I took.

But that situation was very rare and in the other five or six jobs I've had in the journalism world, it hasn't been the case. And in fact journalistic style is to pack as much into the first sentence as you can. This is a long, analytical feature piece by a major journal's news department. If you want the brief version, find a rewrite by AP or a blog.
The reason there's little point in memorizing these formulas is that it's easier to use a computer. If you don't understand it anyways, why not just plug it into a computer? How is it plugging it into a paper formula any better?
I think that was pretty much covered by the Pepsi Challenge.
It's crazy to see how far @aprilzero has come with this. Actually bringing his idea to life, and turning it into a profitable business. There's a lesson to be learnt here in regards to working passionately and finishing your side-projects.

Designers who can engineer are a step ahead of everyone else IMO.
yes, HN is truly exemplary in its rigorous self-examination
Thanks for a good laugh
New Jersey Allows Tesla Direct Sales
It didn't used to be that way. The academic job market melted down in the 1980s and now commuter marriages are the norm. These days, there are too many PhDs and few full-time faculty positions. It's horrible, but academia doesn't have to be that way, and wasn't always.
I see faces or figures in everything all of the time. I just now have looked at a 2 inch square of fairly coffee stained table and counted twenty of them. If I looked closer I could find as many as I wanted. String or hair tends to show me people in motion, blotchy surfaces are crammed with faces.

I saw a really good one the other day when I was looking unfocused at the floor and caught two patches of ground with either eye that resolved themselves really nicely into a stereoscopic image of a cartoon dog.
For me, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that both you and the parent are right.
You don't have to survive long to pass on your genes. You don't need to make it past 30 to produce a big range of offspring.
Virtual Database on Top of MongoDB and PostgreSQL
As another long-time LISPer, I kind of agree. I just wish there were an actual alternative.

And as for Python's multiline lambdas... I'll be a lambda heretic and say list comprehensions are the superior approach.
That may measure the average driving ability; but it doesn't give you any hint as to the benefits (more driver decisions don't seem like a benefit to me), and it also doesn't give a good way to compare with alternatives.
> Lisp uses the same number of parens as most languages per call

Furthermore, Lisp uses zero parentheses for grouping in order to override precedence. These parentheses don't exist in Lisp.

In print(2/(2+4)), we actually have two kinds of parentheses, because two different grammar rules use the same token.

C has even more parentheses. The parentheses in for (;;) are not the same as those in 2/(2+4) which are not the same as those in (double) p, which are not the same as those in p(42).

Lisp has parentheses that do one darn thing in the read syntax---at least when they are not literal as in "(" or #\(.
Woman whose rent was raised by 400% in SF made more from AirBNB than she paid
And a great way to get yourself some terrorism related charges when you inevitably fuck up and leak identifying information.
Here's an incomplete list of some related web-based coding/data analysis/Python services:

- https://wakari.io/ -- closed source, IPython, freemium/enterprise

- https://cloud.sagemath.com -- open source; more academia oriented; completely free (right now) [disclaimer: I founded this]

- https://c9.io/ -- open source, freemium

- http://runnable.com/ -- closed source, no business model

- https://www.pythonanywhere.com/ -- closed source, freemium

- https://www.terminal.com/ -- closed source; freemium

- https://www.nitrous.io/ -- closed source; freemium

- https://codio.com/ -- closed source; freemium (free for public)

- https://codenvy.com/ -- closed source; freemium/enterprise

- https://koding.com/ -- closed source; freemium

- http://www.wolframcloud.com/ -- closed source; expensive
After Six Months of Rejections, Launcher Returns to the App Store
This guys is wrong.

Why do I know that? Because I read the poem (didn't like it), clicked the LINK right below it and downvoted it, because it's - for me - a nutjob sort of thing.

That said: The post contained the reference to the original source. 'ohjesusthatguy' is .. that guy, and either misremembering things or lying. Again:

That thing was posted (and - there were only 2 or 3 top level comments _at all_ on this story), with a link to 'katsandogz' and that .. 'prophet'.

So for all the visitors here:

- Hit the down arrow for ohjesusthatguy for these false accusations

- Hit the down arrow for me for downvoting content like this because the last part of the poem and the linked page seem .. insane
When the mortgage officer hands me a check, so that I can buy a house, no new value is added to the world.

When I pay him off, slowly, over time, and somewhat enrich him, nothing of value has been added to the world.
CRT use != low light conditions. I bet the studies were focused on eye strain in work environments.
Why are people so concerned about anonymous functions? The facts that you ca Defoe a function inside a function, and that they are object make named functions as good as anonymous ones.
Syncthing-GTK works pretty well as an alternative to the web interface. Really should probably be advertised alongside their Android client.
There's already an indentation based syntax for S-expressions: http://readable.sourceforge.net/
Another heartstopper is this POV video of two Ukrainians illegally scaling the 650-meter Shanghai Tower while it was still under construction, which gets really nuts when they start climbing the construction crane at the very top:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDYtH1RH-U&t=120
Don't forget about the feedback loop... Do you think home prices would be as high as they are without the existence and wide availability of mortgages?
Why do we consider that the places who play 24/7 of pop music are biasing the system? If it were 1 cent per play, and Mickael Jackson was played 100 times during the day in one shop... shouldn't they get $1?
Lisp only has infix macros so that we can say "we have that".

Nobody in their right mind uses this stuff in production code.

It just overcomes objections. "Oh, if I start using Lisp, there is be a way to use infix, should I really need it".
Ten years and six Lisp project later, you still haven't used the infix stuff; the situation never comes.
Why Fantasy Sports startups like Draft will crush the sports betting industry
Laughed hard at timeoutSet()
Once again user experience trumps security
There's obviously a connection between driver's licenses and miles traveled, but if you have the latter number, why use the former? It makes the benefit more obscure and reduces the accuracy (for instance, if passengers of self-driving cars drive more or less than passengers of human-driven cars).

Also, it doesn't offer a good way to compare against things like air travel.
It's clear from this other shot there are no teeth there, and not much of a face either.
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Agriculture created surplus which meant that someone could feed a larger family.

If you are a hunter gatherer you need to be a very good one to support more than one wife, even if you are the chief.

With surplus generated by agriculture, spare time can be spent innovating to increase the surplus. Inequal skills in building a personal surplus - whether by conquest, investment or thrift - means that some people get richer. Richer men gain power and are able to not only attract more females but rewrite the rules to make it so.

A few generations of this and you change the population considerably.
Google's Gordon MacKean Hints at OpenPower Plans
PR are not the place for jokes. Developers have enough to do managing their projects, they don't need to waste time sorting through jokes.

You might say, "it's just one joke, what's the big deal?" One joke, attracts others. Everyone thinks they're funny and their joke with worth everyone else's time to read it. If PR become a place that's acceptable to make jokes, it'll be flooded with noise.
This can't be all that new. I feel pretty sure that the group of bands who don't go on tour much, and still want money, is basically the same group as "bands who don't go on tour much".
> while not exactly managing costs well

In what way did they not manage costs well? Even if they pick up 10% across the board, they're still not making money.

Per diem of $20. Not per meal--per day--$20 for 3 meals.

$5K for insurance--we paid that for a group with WAY less liability.

$125 per day for hotel room. Okay, that's about the only thing that might be a little high. But you aren't going to find much under $80 that isn't a dump--and you're packing 2 people per room. Even if that line item is 50% high, they're still not making money.

There is very little I would call fat on this breakdown.
The question was where
are the people now
who did well in Math Olympiad
in middle and high school.

Good grief: Lots of people in middle
and high school get pushed into
math competitions such as the Math
Olympiad but don't go on to be
math majors in college and grad school.

My point is that the middle and high
school Math Olympiad directions
basically don't help people be
good at math later in life or good
at anything later in life. So,
bingo, presto, people
who were good at Math Olympiad
show little or no good effect
later in life.

But if want to study some math that
has a chance of having a positive
effect later in life, then follow
what I outlined.

Net, sadly, Math Olympiad and other
middle and high school math
competitions are unpromising
for doing any good later in life.
Such middle and high school efforts
would, could, and should be
helpful but not by pursuing
recreational math, etc.

Seems totally obvious to me --
sorry you don't agree.

Difference of opinion is what
makes horse races.
13-inch Broadwell MacBook Showdown: Should You Go Pro or Get an Air?
The road to obscurity
StandupMail – Progress Reporting for Small Teams
Twin Prime – Fast Mobile Apps. Everywhere
Eh, if you can wrap your fingers around something like a branch, then it probably doesn't matter. I find that for that first ten feet of bare trunk, however, dry hands are better.
What's the limit on structures of this type? It seems unlikely that the radio towers we have now are the best we can do; it sounds like they just stopped making them bigger because there wasn't anyone that wanted a bigger one badly enough to justify the cost.
Upon Googling, I think this comes from genetic analysis which suggests that people alive today have 4-5x as many female ancestors as male.

I don't know if this statistic is actually limited by "recent history" or not.
In those times, they really wanted to get the point across.
Is there a resource somewhere to see how do they build a tower so tall?
WiGig-enabled smartwatch enlightens dumb phone and tablet
Found a way to pull my runs out of Nike Running and export to Strava, Runkeeper or MapMyRun:

https://mattstuehler.com/lab/NikePlus/selectMyRuns/

Download your files, unzip, then upload the GPX files directly to the app of your choice.

Enjoy :)
Does anyone else think it kind of shameful that the author could live in Austria for 12 years and still speak such poor German? Now you can't understand everything your child is saying. Congrats.
From memory CMake was only producing VS 2010 project files which then had to be fiddled a bit to upgrade them to 2012 - so a version bump would be appreciated.
I'd presume they are posting to Reddit cia TOR, so I doubt subpoenaing Reddit would give much new information.
Now comparing destroys value? TIL.
I've enjoyed using Racket and Clojure, and I see definite advantages to Lisp-style syntax. There are also disadvantages, but I don't think too many parentheses is the main problem, at least not for me. The simple syntax means there are fewer visual cues for language elements, and I think this reduces readability. Clojure is a move in the right direction because it makes more use of punctuation.

Edit: I forgot to add that whatever the disadvantages of Lisp-style syntax, saying it has to die is ridiculous. It is sufficiently useful that it has survived all of these years, and will continue to survive for a long time.
Apple is developing really slow after Steve Jobs, but if they play their cards smartly they will dominant this Online TV industry with their devices in every people's houses and pockets. They already have the fundamental background as hardware, only thing they need to do is signing contracts with shows and channels.
It's really easy to memorize if your teacher presents it to the tune of pop goes the weasel... Whether it's worthwhile to memorize or not, use a computer or not, the valuable conceptual struggle teachers need to focus in on is in what the answer means, and when to apply it, not in deriving the formula, though that can be a useful struggle if you doubt the power of proof or the rules of algebraic manipulation.
This should be using a -nathanford- vendor prefix for these library-specific CSS properties :/.
Nevermind jpeg compression, this is a simple example of pareidolia. Could be anything, really.
Are we becoming mole people? Only half joking here.
You proposed enrichment materials such as number theory puzzles and other recreational mathematics. That's already what the math olympiad contests consist of.

> Good grief: Lots of people in middle and high school get pushed into math competitions such as the Math Olympiad but don't go on to be math majors in college and grad school.

This isn't true at all. Most people in high end math contests are just smart and do no preparation. They just accidentally scored high on the AMC. A lot do some practice for fun, because the contests are fun. Possible exceptions are a handful of people at Philips Exeter++ and maybe Thomas Jefferson High School, I'm not familiar with that dynamic. Contests like the ARML are oriented around making local friends more than anything. At the most local levels it's like, some high school teachers will corral their students into doing a contest at the nearby college one afternoon.

For example some friends of mine in the Philadelphia area thought it would be neat to enter the Harvard/MIT math contest (which is way more fun and difficult than the Temple School of Actuarial Sciences contest or Drexel's). It was the kids telling their parents they were doing this, and deciding to practice for it. I think the same happened with a group of students in Albany.

++and they were recruited after performing well on middle and elementary school math contests that parents are completely unaware of.
I have to say that I find the artificial shortening of life of otherwise durable hardware to be disgusting. We have enough trash in our world.
Oh wow. That's crazy how it seems never to be mentioned in the history of the "PayPal Mafia," or at least not the ones that I've read. Cool info, thanks.
Any Bengali scholar can join the work for $75.
I created an account a while ago, but it still just shows "we'll email you when your account is ready" - am I missing something?
You absolutely were being an annoying prick. The best thing you can do is own up to it and apologize. Definitely not what you're doing right now, what with the whole "jees, what is your issue" thing.
Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (1996)
It certainly is a different echo chamber than hn... but with some overlap. I was think more in the direction of general news, not tech news.
@npdoty JSONSchema for education technology policies is something I've been thinking about and I'd love to build that as part of these documents.
The author notes "if each one were to receive $17,500 per year, that would mean an annual cost of $4.38 trillion, which is more than entire $3.5 trillion federal US budget" but then quickly jumps into taxation modeling forgetting such government trivialities as Medicare, Social Security, national defense, interest on previously issued government debt, federal highways and various other federal expenditures.

While you have a new expenditure category that is "more than entire $3.5 trillion federal US budget", the old categories are still around, so that 50% tax rate should perhaps be doubled up.
Ask HN: Who are hiring junior engineers fresh out of college?
Some of my friends fresh out of college told me that it has been hard for them to land on an ideal startup job. They do not have a lot of industry coding experiences, but all of them have a solid training from great university programs.

I did not believe it until I tried to refer them to some startup companies. 'too junior', companies said. Some of them even prefer bootcamp graduates over university cs degrees, which I have no idea why.

Why don't you hire junior engineers fresh out of college? What does it take for them to become startup-hire-able?

If you are hiring junior engineers, why then? What do you see in them?

Please also leave your email if you are hiring them. I might have some cool candidates for you.
Visual Studio changed to using MSBuild for C++ at the time when the project file extension changed from "vcproj" to "vcxproj".

The change was explicitly to make it so that a C++ project file was an MSBuild script.

Visual Studio absolutely uses MSBuild for C++ projects.
I thought about that, but you never know. There are other bits and pieces available...email, which might lead to a real IP via another subpoena if the person isn't careful, ad/tracking cookies, etc. I would guarantee you that some of these people aren't being that careful with their clearnet activities.
Well, if you are moderately progressive, you still want to be sexists and follow tradition, but you don't wank to sink money in diamonds. I just wanted to say there are alternatives.
Oksaki's thesis, the basis for the book, is available online for free:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf

The book itself is available on Kindle.
This is some fascinating research.

I feel like there should be some other correlates if light is a dominating factor, such as between geography and myopia (should see some trends around super-cloudy vs. super-sunny areas).
'forced to read'?

If I'm evaluating several products, the one who makes it harder to get information is the first on the scrapheap, unless it clearly has a killer feature.
> "Allowing some individuals to make the decision for lots of other people" is the purpose of a representative democracy.

Lots of forms of government do that. The purpose of democracy is to provide a more graduated use of force spectrum for countervailing force than 'get screwed' or 'civil war' to attempt to keep those decisions roughly in line with what the electorate would choose were they in that position.

Results vary.