skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I apologize for poor phrasing in the previous comment. Let me see if I can more clearly explain with an example.

Imagine the question is, "Is purchasing food with money perfectly fine?".

Most people would agree that trading money for food is fine so long as it's consensual and both parties agree (i.e. assuming there is no coercion).

If one party used violence, or threats of violence, to get the other party to make the trade, that would be coercion. Most people would agree that this type of "trade" is not okay.

Hopefully that helped. Cheers.
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Can anyone weigh in on whether the threat is a legitimate one and the detection works?
> the browser can easily cache the CDN resource as it does now... without a complicated new protocol

I know. But the use of CDNs has problems (CDN dies, cache fragmentation across multiple CDNs, extra connections).
Ha, it permanently ruined (Mercator) maps for all of us!
what is a 'black bar'?
I dunno... I found actually solving problems in a functional way much harder than the syntax.
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Look for a speaker icon with an "x" at the lower left. The page starts up muted.
> On a side note: there is no need to match the file name, only the hash matters.

Yes, but having names prevents accidental collisions.
Your comment feels like cross-examination—not my idea of a "fun exercise"! Conversation is ok though.

Calling people dumb fucks for trusting you could easily have been for comic effect. The combination of bravado and self-deprecation is something comedians use for shock value and laughs. Adolescent boys (and not so adolescent boys) ham up outrageous stuff up around their friends all the time. Those things aren't sociopathic.

I have zero idea what he meant, and so does everybody else who has only those words to go on. People are just projecting onto a blank screen a few convenient details to create the image that they want to see, a monster and a sociopath—in other words a cartoon villain. You don't have anything close to the information you would need to draw that conclusion if you were inquiring seriously. What really gives the phenomenon away, though, is the cartoonishness of the picture.

The interesting question is why people do this kind of projection. I think it's that the brain works with contrasts, and creating a bad picture of someone else is a cheap way to create a good picture of oneself. But who knows. What's for sure is that this phenomenon is (a) not intellectually serious, and (b) ubiquitous. Even the comment in this thread that was apparently based on personal experience showed signs of it.
You can check OpenStack project (http://www.openstack.org/)
It is an open source cloud platform written mostly on Python.
I teach Haskell and I'm working on a book http://haskellbook.com/ with my coauthor. We've been testing with reviewers and it's been going pretty well. We've even been testing with my coauthor's 10 year old https://twitter.com/argumatronic/status/593845481140133888 :)

My guide for learning Haskell is here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

You can get help in the IRC channel if you'd like as well. I don't recommend using LearnYouAHaskell.

I feel a bit bad as Hudak's books were the only ones I hadn't checked out before starting on my book. Rectifying that soon.
There was an Ig Nobel winner who did some work on this[1]. A doctor that cracked the knuckled on one hand and one hand only for decades, and found no discernible difference.

1: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crack-research/
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Usually, it means adding a black bar to your website header with a message commemorating someone who has passed.
> I also like Mercurial's hooks. I am not sure if other DCVS support that

Git has various hooks (client and server), Darcs I do not know.
My ankle does the exact same. My understanding is that for this sort of cracking, where there is no "refractory period" between cracks, the gas bubble thing is not the cause. Rather it might be a tendon "snapping" across a bone, like some sort of bistable system.

I also have another sort of cracking where the refractory period is weeks, rather than ~20 minutes. I suspect this is another phenomenon as well, though I don't know what it might be. I experience this in my wrists, sometimes sternum (perhaps snapping cartilage in the xiphoid process? I really try to avoid this one.)

My elbows also crack when I hyperextend them. The refractory period there is probably somewhere between 20 minutes and an hour, but I'm not convinced that is the gas bubble thing either.
> a .NET version of Minecraft

That would be really quick. It's only been about seven months since the acquisition, and Minecraft is not a simple game. I have no doubt they are rewriting the game (or a sequel) from scratch, but I wouldn't expect to see it any time soon.
Like I said, for someone that does this NUMEROUS times a day, that is some EXTREME self-control to be able to only do it to one hand that long.
I'm guessing that the default orange header bar would be black.
Nice to hear! And no, it's not perfect at all but still fun! We will try to find time to improve it a bit soon.
Royals, a lo-fi game from the designer of Threes
Googling revealed this: "When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect."[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990015
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You can see it when you do a video search for: Windows fast boot. Here are a couple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_vUZR2RtRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkKoggifsE4

(And you don't need to log in for your background services to start.)
The article refers to "messages that contain abusive language; accounts set up specifically to target individuals; and threats of violence" as trolling. That seems different from just anti-groupthink.
That too ;-)
On HN the top orange[1] bar is sometimes changed to black when someone significant[2] to computing dies.

[1] orange unless you've got enough karma to set it to some other value

[2] significant to computing is not the right phrase here, sorry for clumsiness.
I really wish I had a use-case for this powerful static language, but alas I am no ninja, guru, zen-master, sensei or rocket-scientist who is working on a problem that really needs this level of power/performance.

Python will always be "good enough".
I am guessing you are a glass is half empty kind of person. If every small progress was met with whining about naming nothing would ever get done and many would be fine with that because they are terminally committed to their "everything is getting worse narrative". It is practically the siren song of the Millenials. Do you want progress? Then encourage it.
Got my age at the time of the picture exactly right. Very cool.
I'm willing to believe that in the end it will all have been worth it. But I didn't find that enough to continue reading this particular series because after a while it didn't seem to be motivated by any useful problems for programmers, as was promised in the title.

Here's my heuristic for whether a problem makes a good example: whether or not it's the best tool for the job, would you write a program to solve it in C or Java or Go? If not, I'm skeptical it's solving a problem that exists outside the functional programming universe.

There are plenty of techniques that solve problems that only make sense within the particular ecosystem where you find them; lots of Java tools are like that, for example.
This looks great for more experienced programmers. If you're working with younger kids, using Minecraft as a way to introduce programming, here are some good options:

* Minecraft Pi - code and run Minecraft mods in Python (https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/getting-started-with-mi...). If not running on a Raspberry Pi, you can use Raspberry Juice (http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/raspberryjuice/) which implements most of the Minecraft Pi API.

* Scriptcraft (http://scriptcraftjs.org/) - create mods using Javascript.

* LearnToMod (http://www.learntomod.com/) - commercial service that allows modding using a visual language (I think they use Blockly which is similar to Scratch).
Sure, but I don't use emacs exclusively (as often as that joke is leveled at emacs users, nobody really does that).
The paper itself [1] and a Wired article covering it [2], were received very poorly on HN when they were originally posted before.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399090

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9398399

I honestly didn't expect that. My impression was that people are generally afraid that this will be used as a way to auto-ban people just for disagreeing with popular sentiment.

I think what people didn't understand was that this analysis is heavily based on community and admin actions, primarily banned users and deleted posts. While there is some analysis of the comments themselves, like readability and word similarity, this is not some SkyNet auto-ban bot.

They are predicting how likely a user is to be banned, based primarily on the community's response to that user.

My point is that if systems like this are used to flag or ban people for disagreeing with the group think, then the problem is with the community, not the algorithm.

Edit: typos and clarity
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No, trolling is harassment. That has nothing to do with groupthink.
Derived from "golliwog", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog
> Another work which always seemed made for the Internet is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcades_Project

I think http://www.thelemming.com/lemming/dissertation-web/home/arca... would appeal to you then.

It looks like Eric Meltzer, Max Fenton, and some others may be working on another project based on The Arcades Project.
Agree with the sentiment that the service is too expensive for the audience. Consider packaging a free domain with it? Yeah it'll cut your profit right now but in a year when it's due for renewal, that's when the money comes rolling in.
This is /Build week. That's why there are so many news about MS.
When I don't crack my knuckles regularly, they start to feel extremely stiff and experience a dull pain. There is no way I'd be able to stop myself from cracking one of my hands for that long. That really is extraordinary self-control.
1. You raise not for what you need today but what you need for tomorrow. They still have a lot to figure out and the money gives them the runway to do that. If things go wrong, they'll have the war chest to survive until the next round of funding.

2. Raising more than you need allows the founders to get back to work and stay out of fundraising mode longer. The last thing you want to do is finish fundraising and find yourself needing to fundraise again 6-10 months down the road.
I love that Minecrosoft under it's new leadership works harder on doing cool stuff. That really puts it back more in focus, at least for me. Maybe I'm even switching back one day, who knows.
Brainfuck compiler in Clojure
You can't strike up a conversation in public any more. Everyone is too occupied with their electronics.

You don't get to talk to a human when you call a business - at least, not without great effort. You don't at the grocery store either - self checkout.

Daily life has dramatically de-humanized. Yeah, it feels like I live in the future, but I don't like this part of it.
"The feature is not meant to encourage developers to use 'my_cat' and 'myCat' randomly within the same file."

I'm sure it's not, but it isn't doing a thing to discourage that. We stopped using case insensitive file systems a long time ago, didn't we?
It's an example where the law suggested is in place and for the most part no positive result is being achieved.
It'll help to separate the two problems:

1. Getting enough interviews
2. Clearing them

From my experience (http://InterviewKickstart.com), if you go to 5-6 onsite interviews and still don't clear any of them, then you have the second problem. But until you do/get 5-6, you should focus on the first one.

If you are not clearing onsite interviews, then what you need is a video-recorded technical mock interview with someone knowledgeable. Then dissect that video interview with a 2nd knowledgeable person, who will be able to point a finger on the problem, if there is one.

Good luck!
Isn't this out of the designers hands by now? Doesn't Bild own the design and isn't it their problem to enforce its copyright?
This is pretty awesome. Hopefully they figure out a way to allow me to write my mods in C#, that would just sweeten the deal that much more (I know Minecraft is a Java app, just saying that would be a cool feature if they can work that out).
Weekend Hackathon with Prize $ – save the world, in real life
The smallest of embedded environments would love to have language options besides C and assembly, thank you very much. :-)
Videopixie is hiring engineer #1, Front-end
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The Challenge

Calling all developers, programmers, gamers, designers, artists, storytellers, and creatives who want to change the world! N Square—a collaborative of the world’s largest peace and security funders—invites you to a weekend Google Cardboard hackathon to develop an app or experience that sparks public imagination and conversation about the threats associated with nuclear weapons.

Think you have what it takes to hack a nuclear narrative and change hearts and minds in a creative way? Join us to test your programming, design, and storytelling chops!

A grand prize of $750 and one first prize of $250 will be given away to the best concepts. The expectation for the final product is roughly a 1 to 2 minute cardboard experience (can be film, game, or 3D VR experience) that educates, inspires, and generates awareness of the issue.

Why Cardboard? Why N Square?

Google Cardboard is a low-cost virtual reality viewer that transforms a smartphone into a basic VR headset. N Square’s mission is to create the conditions for innovation in the field of nuclear security. One way we can do that is by educating people about the threat and engaging them through powerful, connective experiences—hence the Cardboard Hackathon.

Details

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I'm not sure how you're coming up with "2.8% annually". This is an ongoing effort, not a one-time investment; the local government is spending money every year, and each year they estimate they're saving $1.32 for every dollar they spend.
Well, if you are feeling adventurous,

https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hgit
Ray Kurzweil current photo - 39 (actual age 67). Damn, those meds are working (no sarcasm here, I think the overall accuracy of this tool is stunning).
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> It sounds like you are using the more recent use of "trolling" to mean "to disagree with someone".

That's not a definition of trolling. That's people in arguments mistakenly calling their opponents trolls.

I don't think parent is saying "people who disagree are trolls" but is saying that some forms of groupthink encourage trolling behaviours. When your wikipedia edits get stomped on by Twinkle-using 13 year olds on Vandal Patrol who are gathering reverts to apply for admin some people react by leaving; others react by trolling.

(As I understand it WP has tried to address Vandal Patrolling; Twinkle misuse; reverts for adminship; etc).
Bitcoin's growing popularity in Argentina shows why it's not a fad
I always get that I look younger by like 10 years but this algorithm nailed it exactly. Bummer.
Are these questions targeted to bootcamp graduates or fresh graduates? Then they make sense.

In my experience (http://InterviewKickstart.com), questions in the Valley tend to be deeper and harder, especially with some experience. e.g. HackerRank is much more prevalent and the questions there are proper data-structures and algorithms questions.
Sorry it must be one of those days where I'm having trouble making the connection. Would you mind elaborating a little bit?
>with the events of Baltimore

Those rioters are thugs trashing their own neighborhood for a laugh. SJWs will pretend it is about poverty but blacks who live there understand exactly what is happening and were even trying to protect the police who are majority black.
I wouldn't recommend playing with OpenStack to a total beginner. There is more beginner info about AWS and to really get any use out of being able to set it up yourself or look into the parts work you need to have an understanding of the concepts already.
Microsoft is having their Build conference this week, so lots of new announcements and such.
Same here; though the guess was nine years older than I am! I am just going to assume that they don't have enough folks that look like me in their dataset.

I'm curious to hear more about the accuracy of their machine learning algorithm though. I'll need to read into that later.
This could be an API on top of Face ++ ( which also predicts the age ;) )
This project of mine may interest you: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/TrueCraft
Unfortunately my girlfriend still hates the sound...

I crack in my back and neck before sleeping. It helps. It may go pretty bad if I already have some kind of pain so I don't do that anymore. I wish I could teach my girlfriend to do it properly so she could fix me but well...she hates it ;)
I think the deeper troughs must be where a lot people rage quit Mathematics in K-12?
"As Bitcoin takes root around the world, it will provide an effective floor on how terrible a country's financial system can get."

That in itself would be a great contribution for Bitcoin.
> They're not mutually exclusive, to be honest. You can make a profit AND help the target group. Additionally I hope you're honest as well,

Exactly - and talking about the app "helping the needy" is especially dishonest. Sure she can pay $3 a week instead of a $35 over-draft on her Bank Account -- and if you think that's help then I assume you've never had to live on minimum wage.

> Additionally I hope you're honest as well, and say that's okay instead of bashing them for "making a profit" while helping the needy.

To be clear, I did not bash the company. They picked a particularly scummy industry that hasn't been disrupted by technology and they are doing their thing -- and the job of their PR department is to sell their technology and part of that is playing up "help the needy".

On the other-hand I have a real problem with this as an article. It doesn't start off talking about an app, instead it introduces a particular person, draws in the reader's sympathy to that person's difficulties and then resolves that into marketing a product - basically making a joke of the actual problems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United...).

No, I don't seriously believe there is any such journalist who interviews someone living on an unpredictable near-minimum-wage and whose honest first impulse and thought is "they need an app to help them". This is a shill if I've ever seen one.
You must not use grep with regexes very often.
How to Send a Pitch
Heads-up: This is nothing to do with "deep learning" in the machine-learning sense.

It's mostly about the need to "unlearn" things that you learned about a topic while on the path to understanding it, because some of the things you learned may have been simplifications or generalizations, that ultimately end up confounding a true understanding.

The period of unlearning will allow you to grasp deeper / more fundamental / truthier concepts, but it can be hard to do.
Thanks. Can you explain it in simpler English please? I'm not native and googling for "cavity" results in pictures of teeth with holes not ankles. If I transfer "hole" to the topic of ankle I don't see the difference between the bubble and the hole theory.
I'm always told I look older. This tool seems to agree... 10 years older.
Don't apply at Reddit. Their CEO is a crook who filed a frivolous lawsuit against her former employer to try to cover losses from her husband's Ponzi scheme. The reason many people haven't heard about this before is because she orders her employees to delete posts about it. They also have questionable hiring practices (screening candidates for political beliefs) and Pao has banned salary negotiations during the hiring process. Nobody with a conscience could work for a company engaging in such behavior.
http://Glassdoor.com
http://Careercup.com
http://InterviewKickstart.com (me!)
GitHub extension for Visual Studio
This would make a lot of sense for Microsoft, since the Minecraft brand is so strong. If anyone has ever played Project Spark from Microsoft (Team Dakota), there are quite a few synergies there as well.
Believe it or not, I implemented powerset() as a joke in Gosu years ago:

var set : java.util.Set<String> = {"a", "b", "c"}
print( set.powerSet() )

prints

[[], [b], [c], [b, c, a], [a], [b, c], [a, c], [b, a]]

You can try it here (until the Heroku dyno goes down):

http://gosu-lang.github.io/play.html
By use it is pretty obvious he meant incorporate it as part of their products (ex. utilize a GPL library). Microsoft is a software development shop after all.
Or for the interested, TileMill would be better as you can print exports in PDF as vectors. I spent a great deal of time trying to manually create transit maps for one of our 'archaic' transit agencies, and this was before Mapbox Studio's time. I use Studio a bit, but TileMill does the better job as it caters better for offline usage.

I do agree with others though that it would have been a great amount of effort to invest in understanding CartoCSS for his requirements, and getting to create it.
It depends on how you define greatness. Is it long-term consistency or is it in the highest peaks reached?

O'Sullivan has more talent than anyone else who ever played the game. I don't think any interested observer disputes this, including Hendry. It's harder to admire high-level consistency that is less dazzling; it's harder to empathize with, for one.
"Which is worse: them being the same variable or different variables?"

Them being the same is worse. I agree that both are pretty darn bad, but it's also pretty clear to me which is worse.
I tried to use this, but I kept getting mysterious error messages like "the avalanche has already started it is too late for the pebbles to vote" and "divide by zero".
Argentina's inflation has been momentous at times. It averages around 10% a year with the historical 1991 20,000% rate.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi
I hear the same thing. This tool thinks I'm 20 years older than I really am.
Depends on the company.

Wherever I've worked, they all expected deeper knowledge. How else would you distinguish good vs mediocre ones? It takes time to get good at anything and getting good means deep knowledge of at least one thing, plus the requisite breadth. Mediocrity misses the first part.
I feel that we should do it.
So is this the first time they have release any footage of their rocket? This looks rather impressive.

I remember Elon Musk ridiculing Jeff Bezos sometime back. The only thing I knew about Blue Origin by then was they are making a new engine for United Launch Alliance to replace their Russian RD-180 engine on Delta rockets.
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Looks like there's finally a proper git support in VS with that extension, gonna try it out and see if it is easy to integrate into my workflow :)
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