skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My primary annoyance when reading Wikipedia is when authors will generalize the opinion of two or three cited sources into something like "...many scholars believe X." At that point they're lending more credence to a statement than is actually attributable. In reality, it's more like "three people in the world think that X." It's probably not always done intentionally, but it's really quite sneaky how isolated opinions or viewpoints can gain acceptance as facts simply by how they're presented.

Ever wondered about all the things that this group of "many scholars" have concluded? Check out this Google Search:

http://goo.gl/OKkBWA
If you wait for the jobs to come, you'll be late to the party. Very few people will want to hire someone who doesn't know Haskell for a Haskell development position. Learn it now so you'll be up to speed when more jobs start appearing. Or better yet, learn it and then create the Haskell jobs yourself.
what risk does the average pilot in the USAF face - its not like they are facing any! air assets and any ground assets will have been obliterated.
Terrorists are unsure who will die when they set off bombs in shopping centers and street cafes.
Haiku lost its project founder and lost its way -- it has been captured by people whose day jobs are -- literally -- Linux kernel development.

Instead of shipping BeOS R5 and no more, which was the project's goal since inception, they're bolting on Linuxisms like package management and in the process getting completely lost in the weeds.
This is a standard that Haskell is held to a lot, but I'm not sure how robust a test it is. I never use programs written in Java, for example, and I use a program written in Scheme every week. That doesn't say much about their relative popularity, let alone their quality as programming languages.

Presumably I use server-side applications written in Java, but I've no way of telling. If server-side counts then most people with computers indirectly use Haskell via Facebook's Haxl project.
The thing to do is check how the trademark owner feels. I believe Visa and MasterCard are fine with using their logos to show they're accepted (those stickers every store has are surely legal?), but remember that Microsoft don't let you use the word Windows in a product name, except in the form "for Windows".
If you have any idea for an improvement, we would love to hear about it there: http://feathub.com/feathub/feathub :-)
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I would argue that neither the person with the most money nor best ideas has the best probability of making more money in this climate. It seems that the person with the most patents now has the greatest probability of making money.

While I agree that patents do enable "the little guy" to succeed in some cases, they also enable the current powers that be to maintain that power.
Implementing http://www.curlbuilder.com/ with progressive enhancement (without duplicate code) is trivial - in fact it would make a great tutorial on how to do progressive enhancement.

Just implement it as a regular form-based application, then add some JavaScript which Ajax-submits the form data and loads in the generated curl command on each keystroke.

(Or you could use server-side JS and share code on the client and server)
No, they don't. They looked horrible in Chrome for a long time because Chrome's rendering was screwed up unless you gave it fonts in a very specific order so it used SVG. Fun fact, Google Web Fonts never served it in that very specific order.
The reference is essentially to Orwell's general idea of euphemism in political language. The use of flowering prose where simple words would do, in order to misdirect. See 'Politics and the English Language'; just as relevant today as it ever was; 'racism'/'fascism'/etc as generic conversation enders for example.

Apologies for the mix up!
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I formatted their examples to appear like some real data I have that appears like this, obviously not names but descriptions of some projects. I was curious how this would handle it.

In any case, get rid of the "/" and its closer to real. Some people have more than two names in their full name. And on a set a little larger you could very well have something close to my second example.
so, and X, Y, and a Z axis.

Done.
I got a lot of mileage out of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu... All his examples are in Python, so if you already know Python it should work well for you. The only minor thing is that there are a few typos here and there in the code, but usually you can just use your common sense and figure out what the author intended.
No. You're all to heavy as it is.
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It's not, but I doubt that the people complaining about drone strikes are perfectly OK with air strikes. Drones are the most visible and most rapidly expanding facet of the problem so it's not unreasonable to focus the discussion around them.
A real life example?

http://ubercatbnb.com

Uber + Cats + AirBnB <- gotta be the perfect startup, right?
There is no reason to go from one extreme - the 'cops of the word' to quote Ochs - to extreme isolationism on the other. There are many stages in between.

FWIW, I believe many residents of Okinawa Prefecture would be interested in having US military off of their island, should the US withdraw. Should we do that, I suspect Japan would quickly develop nuclear weapons.

I also strongly believe many in Latin America would prefer a strict isolationist policy by the US. Many remember how the US supported right-wing authoritarian regimes in the 1970s and 1980s, don't want the US meddling in their country, and have little to fear from Eurasian threats.
> one of the few solids reasons ... was that I was 37 at the time.

I'm sorry but you have to give specific reasons. Otherwise this is just an imaginary persecution complex.
Really? In my Chrome they're super smooth.

Version 42.0.2311.90 (64-bit), Mac OSX.

I was just about to compliment on that actually.
I actually like the idea of a Holacracy, and you see it in alot of small startups intentionally or not. The generally tend to loose this as they grow. I recently read one of Ricardo Selmer's books on how he used Holacracy at Semco http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Day-Weekend-Changing-Work-Works-... which is a huge multi national company. I highly suggest it.
All this does is some fancy search and replace. I don't know why it is amazing at all. Using awk is almost as effective.
You don't have the moral upper-hand if you stoop to their level.
I am 68 and working as much as I want to. I had no trouble finding a job and am actually in demand. I guarantee this is not because I am a genius.

I have hired many people over the years, many worked out well. I have also rejected many candidates over the years. I am sure many of them would have worked out too, but I will never know. Believe me, when you need to hire someone you want to find the right person quickly. And often you know in the first few minutes if the candidate is a fit or not. Then to be polite and fair you spend the next 30-45 minutes even with the candidate you are certain you do not want. Think about the first 2 minutes, because that is where you lost it. Not in the code you wrote or the phone connection.
That's really the catch22, isn't it? Without a regulatory system, the people with money (power) can utilize all of it to nearly any extent directly for the purpose of exploiting that resource.

With regulation, they still have the money (power), it's just utilized to tailor regulation via lobbying in such a way that they _still_ get a better chance at exploiting the resource.

As sister posts suggest, it's the implementation more than a black/white "get rid of it" approach that I'd like to see examined, but I also have doubts that given the aformentioned lobbying and political climate, regulation can be done effectively and without corporate influence. So with that said; it's a matter of tradeoffs, which outcome is going to cause the most harm in the long run?

(I don't have any great answers, just mulling over the two options. I'm mostly erring towards "no patents" because even given all the cards, I've seen big companies fail to execute on excellent ideas that small players have then locked down; where in a regulated environment, this introduces significant and often unavoidable barriers to entry. (see the home automation/3d printing patent tieup that slowed down those respective spaces for such a long time))
Google's interview process is a bad joke, but frankly the (internal Google) recruiters I've spoken to appears to be as fed up with it as candidates - anyone interviewing with Google who has a bad phone interview should bring it up with the recruiter, as at least sometimes the recruiters can get the phone screens thrown away.

(source: first hand experience with Google recruiters, and first hand experience of being sent further in the process after explaining the long list of ridiculous flaws in the phone interview I had, all of which the recruiter agreed with me on. I declined to continue the process, though, after it became clear that if I had gotten the job I would have been managing the guy who gave the phone screen; I had no desire whatsoever to ever work with that person based on the way he acted).
Did you know the name "Query by example" was devised for a tool to generate SQL queries?
This! I wanted this feature to be in every text editor for years :)). Like http://nimbletext.com but show and tell instead of expressions :).

Thanks!!!
Nice idea and love the look, but not going to share with my designers lest they think we can start putting wheel-styled menus in everything we do just cause it's pretty.

This would be cool in certain UIs, but not always the best UX decision I wouldn't think.
this is true because the NAND has been crippled by imposing the FTL on it. if you could bypass the FTL, then the programming advice would be quite different, and if properly applied result in much better long term performance
i had the same experience with two different roads in chicago area where it would avoid a simple overpass on 55, instead advising to take exit, go around in a longer route and come back to 55. Only in the east / North bound direction.

Another one in Schamburg where it thought a left turn was not allowed at a big intersection.

both were corrected on my report, but after a year or so
I disagree with the entire premise; but that's not why I posted.

I take issue with the deliberate obfuscation employed. Rather than dealing with the elephant in the room (a cashless society is one in which commercial banks have far greater power than they do today), he says things like "resistant to change".

The point is that he is not elucidating the downsides fairly and honestly.
48,000 Windows XP PCs are still running at TEPCO  which are the risks?
If I'm not mistaken that case was concluded to be outright fraud, so it's probably a bad example to use here.
Besides must-haves social networks I visit only HN and Reddit on daily basis.
I've mentioned this before, but there's a lot of music stuff written in Haskell - tidal[0] (DSL for live-coding electronic music, not the 'save Jay Z from penury for $20/month' initiative that has just clobbered its google results) and Euterpea[1] spring to mind.

[0] http://yaxu.org/tidal/
[1] http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/
I can't speak for El Goog. What would you do:

http://www.bobheath.com/

http://www.aspnet.net/

http://www.visit-new-york-city.com/
It's not obviously illegal. Don't confuse trademark with copyright.
They've got fixed point code in a few spots (especially where it makes sense if you're e.g. indexing into a texture), but the original Quake source really says float all over the place.
You bring up great points, but I don't think the nyt actually cares. They bring this up because it will resonate and people will read it and that brings them money and it gives them 'Intellectual credibility'. If they actually cared they'd lobby against they'd donate their profits, etc.

They pretend to care about this change in warfare. And, realistically, even if they could affect US policy, there is absolutely no possibility they'd be able to affect how China Russia or Iran decide to use drones. Yes, the US is the one with drones in the news but not the only nation which will ever use them. The cat's out of the bag. It's not like we're going to go back to having people complain about the undue risk we put pilots under when we have less risky alternatives. It's also more costly to put pilots up there, they tire, make mistakes, etc. Drones can keep flying without need for rest.

I'm being cynical, but that's just how it is.
Does it work by a general library for learning patterns, or as a collection of heuristics to match common cases?

That difference would change the kind of examples I would try it with, knowing in advance when they're too complex to work.
The Udacity one (introduction to Machine Learning) is very practical in my mind. It only description some intuition and then show you how to call scikit-learn's function to do some simple machine learning works.
For the same reason "mass surveillance" is different than "targeted surveillance". The US government is performing "air strikes" orders of magnitude more often than actual jet-based air strikes, to the point where it now kills people based on surveillance algorithms rather than a proper investigation of the target.

It's going to be yet orders of magnitude worse when autonomous drones arrive (they are probably already in testing now) - and make no mistake, autonomous drones is an idea about as irresistible to the government as mass surveillance. Moore's Law will make autonomous drones too hard to resist.
We're having some problems because of the traffic (we didn't expect reaching the front page) it should be smoother in a little while.
If there is a need for negative nominal interest rates, then the solution is to increase inflation. As the goldbugs are forever reminding us, this can be done by printing money. And this time, distributing it to the public rather than just the finance industry.

In the Swiss case where the rate imbalances are driven by capital inflows, institute capital controls.

Also, what is the effect of negative nominal interest rates on asset prices? Isn't this just another attempt to keep the housing boom going despite all sense?
Windows and OS X use different methods of hinting where Windows attempts to stay true to the typeface and OS X attempts to provide a provide a smoother, more readable version. Webkit browsers give you some level of control with subpixel rendering CSS attributes, but fonts might still look awful in Firefox or IE on Windows.
I'm in my 40s and I've yet to hear "America" being used for anything other than the U.S. "The Americas" to me is more about North/South America.
It's nowhere near open. It's a proprietary hosted solution.
You're right, it's the complexity of the GNFS, not the GNFS - I'll correct that part of the article & the module README - thanks xyzzy123.
http://www.tenox.net/docs/the_design_of_the_unix_operating_s...
This was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9426542

Yesterday's article properly linked to the forum without HTTPS.
There's not just trademark, but also copyright. Somebody designed those logos. Does this fall under fair use?
Startups are funny, at least sometimes
This is expected behavior. I'm assuming you gave "a 1" as an example? Since your first line didn't contain the number 1, it is repeated over every line.
> “Amazon Web Services is a $5 billion business and still growing fast -- in fact it’s accelerating,

Revenue 2013: $1000
Revenue 2014: $1690 (+ $690)
Revenue 2015: $2518 (+ $828)

With those figures you could still argue that growth (in terms of extra revenue per year) is accelerating.
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For one the iCloud leaks had not one thing to do with cloud computing. Nor did the dropbox one you linked. Those were application level problems, and could well have occurred with on premises based storage (obviously with a public interface for an icloud issue). Let me assure you that bad synch algorithms have caused data loss before the cloud. Applications can fail to backup or record things.

Also I provided only links to ECC proof.
Get Rodeo - http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/introducing-rodeo.html
And start playing around with the data!
Colors are easily changed, and certainly expected to be changed for reach site; that really isn't relevant to the tech being present. And are you railing against flat design in general? This is another personal preference religious war that's been waged back and forth since the advent of digital design. Don't worry, the pendulum will undoubtedly swing back your way again in a few years.
Ask HN: Why are current web server log tools bad at analyzing attacks?
A little more info:
I've done some research about this, thus far. I'm wondering, why are existing web server analysis tools to detect intrusion/hacking attacks against a web server provide so many false positives?

Has anyone had experiences like this before?
Of course they don't know, there isn't even a declared war with congressional debate.

And just like the NSA scandals, the TSA nonense, etc, etc, the public will yawn and then forget about it a week later.
Indeed - funny how you don't hear people complaining about Volkswagen when they were pretty much founded by the Nazis.

So many companies and countries have regrettable histories that pointing fingers seems redundant to me.
It didn't work for me either. I guess the someone's friends are downvoting people who find flaws in it!
No it won't happen. Europe being America's hand puppet is the cornerstone of US power.
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We don't interpret the data, we only change the format. Since "November" doesn't literally match anything on the first line, it is repeated for each one of them.
Having been monitoring the software development market in Europe for quite some time (being European and always wondering what it would be like to come home and continue my development career) it astounds me why anyone would pursue development there given the advertised salaries for developers. With the high cost of living and the ridiculously low (comparatively speaking) salaries, it's a wonder any software developer would even take an interview - especially given that software developers can make 3-4 times more in other markets with comparatively lower costs of living.

The only market that appears to differ from this (based on advertised salaries) is the banking/finance sector. But despite the fact that they're not doing anything that the rest of the technology sector are doing (from a technology perspective), their incestuous hiring practices make it all but impossible to get in unless you know the right person or already specifically have banking/finance experience. So you could have 25 years of extremely relevant experience from other fields spread across various startups, small businesses and huge multibillion dollar corporations, have in depth experience writing platforms and APIs for leading corporations with highly scalable web facing platforms with all the latest technologies, have spent 5 years at some point in your past cobbling together antiquated technologies such as Access databases and Excel spreadsheets, just as many of these companies still are, but unless you've specifically got experience in the financial sector, they're not interested... despite their common claim that it's really hard to find good developers.

It's not hard to find good developers if you take your blinkers off and ask yourself what is it you're doing that's so special that you can't hire someone with all the right personality traits and technological experience but because of some arbitrary bias that they don't specifically have experience in your sector, they're unsuitable.

So that's my two biggest gripes about hiring practices - one specifically pertaining to hiring software developers in Europe, but the other equally applies in North America too.

Agism isn't nearly as evident as cronyism and incest.
> after a couple of posts in which you try to ignore the first paragraph of eslaught's post

I wasn't ignoring it - it was irrelevant.

> This is very different from your initial claim

No it isn't - I never claimed anything about eslaught's post, directly or indirectly, before that.

> 'exponential' [...] it is still a claim that any such alternative would be inordinately more complex

You repeat this as often as you can, like it's somehow your only real point here. And every time, I point out that I made no such claim. The only claim I made was that your specific explanation (which you never actually wrote), which you said would include stack frames, machine addresses, and the like, would be much more complex than referring to C++, in my opinion.

You haven't refuted that, even though I am amused that you keep trying.

You also haven't changed my opinion, and as you can guess, I'm equally amused that you keep trying there too.

Continue, please.
and what is the practical purpose of marital status and whether you have children?

Those are also obvious things that allow discrimination, but I can't think of a reason why they would be of interest to my employeer.

EDIT: sorry this sounds a bit adversarial, but it was meant as a genuine question.
Lowering interest rates is how the fed prints money. The issue at hand (well, the US economy might be beyond this point now but go back a year or three) is that you can't lower rates below zero. Certainly (as you hint at) the government can also implement fiscal policies in addition to the Fed's monetary policies but few people believe that fiscal policies can be effective on their own.

You are certainly right that if the fed goes too far asset prices can inflate too heavily. As with many things in life finding an appropriate balance can be tricky!
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The VA has an overview of the research:

http://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/researc...
Also, with respect to color, Material is by no means limited to (or even promoting) primary colors: http://materializecss.com/color.html
Exactly. Another obvious example were the bombings done by the allies during WW2.
Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Dresden (less known because they didn't use nukes, but with no less destruction: [1][2]) would have been classified as war crimes for certain had the allies lost.

[1] http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/2003/02/20030230.php
[2] http://timewitnesses.org/english/~lothar.html
What is the advantage of using this over pngs?
The idea reminds me of this SciFi story from 1949: http://escapepod.org/2013/10/28/ep419-expediter/
It's not. But drone strikes are far more common currently, and are killing far more people than any traditional air strikes being used lately. If we were currently carpet-bombing Tehran and killing thousands of civilians, I would be more upset about that. But right now, drone attacks are one of the least defensible things our government is doing.
There's a difference between an unsuccessful lawsuit and a frivolous one (i.e. one without merit, intended to harm or extort). All evidence indicates that she made the claims in good faith.

The purpose of discovery in these cases is that you don't know what has been said about you. That's why, if you think you might be a victim of discrimination, you often have to sue in order to get that information.

In her particular case, she found no proof. That said, she couldn't have possibly known before the discovery process that it wouldn't be there.

If she were sifting through the files to find breaches of irrelevant, outdated laws and regulations, that'd be a fishing expedition. In this case, the communications that were discovered were relevant to her (justified, because even though she wasn't able to prove gender discrimination, she did prove that, except for John Doerr, they were unprofessional and horrible toward her) grievance.