skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't mean to seem like a jerk but I have the following things to ask and say :

1) Why would you go to a Google interview knowing that working for them would be a conflict of interest ? That seems very odd and questionable to me.

2) You're in debt and out of work (or so it appears). Perhaps dropping everything, selling your stuff and/or borrowing money to visit them may not be in your or their best interest right now. Consider that.

3) You seem to have a history of issues (googled your name). You may need to consider that your decision making abilities may be impaired - especially if you're upset about something. Have a discussion with your friends and family before you take any serious steps.

All the best and I hope it works out for your friend.
I also find this "crackpot" quite entertaining:

http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/PhD.html
Yahoo's head of sales is out just months after he was hired
Schrödinger's comment!
Opensource?
Wow that's insidiously addictive. Good job!
Interesting question.

Not really sure a bug is even possible in a system that wasn't designed. Any 'bugs' would have resulted in iterations that failed. Death has been there in every iteration including the ones that were successful. So I don't believe it's a bug.

It could be a feature because there could well be an evolutionary advantage for iterations of a species where the older, frailer generations die more quickly, thus leaving more resources for the younger generations.

It could also be a hardware limitation but everything we've learned so far about how we die gives us hope to being able to overcome the problems, so in that regard it isn't really a hard limit but more of a natural limit that we might be able to work around.

To that end, I'm going to go with 'feature'. But it's an old feature, and one we won't necessarily use in the future.

Thoughts are with you.
I haven't read the article.

What I've been repeatedly pointing out is that Einstein was appallingly poor at arithmetic.

I am also repeatedly pointing out that his theories are flawless, as far as we can tell through experiment.

When Einstein attempted to predict the experimental results of his theory, while the theory was correct, his predictions were wildly inaccurate, because he was really, really bad at arithmetic.

I'm not just making this up - I learned it in physics class at Caltech, from the president of the Institute.

Caltech is in pasadena, Mt. Wilson overlooks pasadena, the Mt. Wilson Observatory office is in pasadena. Mt. Wilson and Caltech are different organizations but work very closely together.
Blizzard finally detects and bans thousands of players using popular software
> The truth is, you can make a perfectly untraceable, very reliable, simple gun with out 3D printers.

... if you invest a lot in the proper materials, tooling, and skill set.
I'd better tell my optician to change the sign outside the shop then...
Google Define:

optician
ɒpˈtɪʃ(ə)n/Submit
nounBRITISH
a person qualified to prescribe and dispense glasses and contact lenses, and to detect eye diseases ( ophthalmic optician ) or to make and supply glasses and contact lenses ( dispensing optician ).
US
a dispensing optician.
Most web pages work really poorly through my Mom's earthlink dialup. In part that's due to metric fucktons of javascript, in part it's due to some problem with routing.

I've spent years trying to diagnose it. I've got some theories but nothing conclusive. It seems to help if I do something like:

$ sudo ping -f -c 1000 www.nytimes.com

... then repeat that for several other hosts.
Einstein excelled at mathematics throughout his schooling. There's no evidence that he was a dunce with arithmetic.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/albert-einst...
In Singapore, all grades are normalized using the bell curve (normal distribution), where 50% gets the "pass" grade (C+).

This means, if everyone does well, even if your exam scores are near perfect, you could still end up with just a pass grade.

It sucks for students, but this way, grade inflation just cannot happen.
I disagree. Having more than one competing implementation following the same standard would have been awesome. How likely it is that they would have followed the same standard rather than each branching off incompatibly is another question entirely...
Well crackpots are different from me, in that I don't believe I'm one, so yes there is indeed a difference between myself and "them". Sorry if I'm not politically correct enough for you. Just to clarify, I have no issue with crackpots, mentally ill people, whatever you want to call them. My only point is that trying to convince someone that they are a crackpot is not going to work, at least over the internet!
Why do you think it will take less than that? Why are you assuming that there is a magic bullet?

Yes, some people seem to find it easier than others, but acquiring another language takes time. For some people, a lot of time, and there is, to misquote, no "Royal Road to Language."[0]

People are always asking for the easy way to do things. Pratchett wrote about this[1][2] in the context of writing. Sometimes there is nothing better than taking a mashup of techniques and just putting in the time.

I've never mastered a second language, but I've got to the point of having conversations in acquired languages. I always use the same technique:

* Memorise 100 phrases from a phrase book

* Memorise 500 words

* Substitute memorised words into memorised phrases

* Read a book in the target language: preferrably an action novel aimed at 14 year old boys.

* Lather, rinse, repeat.

[0] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Euclid#Attributed

[1] http://terrypratchettappreciation.tumblr.com/post/6680240757...

[2] http://jackscarab.tumblr.com/post/105468067469/i-get-asked-a...
If there is a bug in the mechanism used to ferry messages between the two processes, as that mechanism lives in the kernel, only that one mechanism needs to be breached to attack the computer: sometimes, "layers" are more like a "chain", which are only as strong as the weakest "link". (However, that is much less likely than an issue in the native GUI components, or the apparently non-negligible amount of unsafe C/C++ and JIT'd code used by Servo.)
It'd definitely be interesting to see, and one solution could be to recommend patients to practitioners and vice-versa based on their issues. Hopefully, I get to that point in the near future.
Read this aloud:
"[] that is passed from hand to hand. "
Why is it sad? At least they're doing something they enjoy doing with their time.
I suspect a lot of this would be more difficult now. I had minor surgery not long ago and (while I was still conscious) everyone in the room (including me) had to agree what was about to happen, sound off about their part in it, and confirm that they had everything they needed for their part, before continuing.

It did make me feel more comfortable about he process.
As someone who owns multiple WP installs, I have added "define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', true );" to all my wp-config.php files so that all my installs automatically self update with ALL future updates, minor & major
How come you stick to older versions?
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I think the author means "neural computing" when speaking of "natural computing"...

The rest is equally bad.

> Unfortunately, conventional fabrication methods used for today's computers cannot be used to realize complex systems to their full potential due to scaling limits—the methods simply cannot make small enough interconnected units.

That thing they build is huge compared to an IC, 1500 micrometers in width.
OK, that's a pretty good point. I still stand by mine as a reasonable, not overly-complicated design goal if I were making a general slides viewer.
Hackers are draining bank accounts via Starbucks app
Yep =)
Wordpress only has one track, which is the only one that gets updates. Once a new major release is available all support for the previous release ends. If you want the most secure version you need to be on the latest (4.2.2).
> Someone - a Mt. Wilson astronomer I expect but don't really know - had to point out to Einstein that he required an eclipse

What a terrible theoretical physicist, not knowing mundane details of astronomy.
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Just had a very bad experience with Godaddy shared hosting.

They have this Idle worker timeout set to 5 minutes, which basically means , if any user doesn't checkout your website in that time, the worker dies. And after that it takes around 15-20 secs to load it. For startups like us, that dont get much traffic, it gives a very bad experience to viewers. We have got a way around it, but this is a shitty setting, and it should have been provided to us or documented somewhere when we were buying the server.
Ask HN: What do you think about my startup, scription.tk?
I'd like feedback on the website and tips for promoting it. Thanks for looking into it.
"Feature". It is the fear of death that has pushed humanity forward.
Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
Grr! Then at least start your first comment with "I haven't read the article, but based on keyword matching in the title I want to say .." or something like that.

There's no reason to repeatedly point out that Einstein's theories are flawless. The article specifically says "To most physicists, such discussions are largely irrelevant, as these classic experiments were only the first ones in a long series of tests that showed the complete agreement between observations and predictions from special relativity."

See also http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1632 .
Discussing font changes: kerning, hinting, ligature adjustments and the like aren't imperceptible. The difference in how well letters group together to form words, and the internal space and connection of those letters, plays as much or more of a difference in other performance and user experience refinement (like, for example, page load sequencing and total loading time stats, as was mentioned earlier).

Extra space around your logo may leave it emotionally "stranded" from other content. Too little may crowd it and make content around it uncomfortable to interact with. Users actually respond to interactions through these sorts of emotions. Your 150k employee's work is attempting to perfect psychological reactions to your tool, in the context of myriad screens/monitors/resolutions/color profiles/design trends/etc.
> It should be up to me if my image is on Facbeook

It is, but it's not Facebook who put the images there. It's the people taking the photos and uploading them. Tell your friends not to tag you.

If you have a Facebook account, then you can disable you being 'auto-tagged' in pictures [1]. If you don't, then you can't be tagged properly (eg linked to a profile, obviously), and there's only the text descriptions that people put there.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=timeline
My parents and grandparents lived in Romania at the time. There was no prerecorded message, just fear and uncertainty.
If there's a potential risk that someone could gain access to your system by breaching theirs then I would raise it with them immediately.

As they're accessing your system you can probably safely say you always do a security check on hosts connecting to your system to ensure there aren't problems. In this instance it showed that they have an open FTP server.
or just remove wordpress and use something secure, not bloated and easier to develop with.
Doug McIlroy emailed me afterward to say that he's never heard of its being derided as not a real sieve. Certainly, no-one of his generation would do so, I imagine. But as the article proves, younger folks are more playful.

In Doug's email he also pointed me to this little nugget he wrote:

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/sieve/

The late Dennis Ritchie 'wrote the first coroutine sieve' using Unix pipes!

What a wonderful reminder of the power of Unix compositionality, which is at the heart of the laziness experiment known as Haskell.
It's quite sad that even a relatively smart and educated community like HN fell for the "oh, they're putting restrictions on surveillance" thin veneer of bullshit when it's pretty damn obvious as soon as you look at the details that this act is doing exactly the opposite of what it claims to do.

If we here are not smart enough to see through this bullshit, then the vast majority of the US certainly will also fall for this.
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For starters, Twenty is free and I can play it in the browser on my desktop.

Its graphics are, in my opinion, better than Threes!. Why that should matter though is beyond me, since the gameplay is quite different.

I also fail to see why elegant simplicity is somehow a bad thing in this case.

Maybe you're new here, but games featured on Show HN are usually side projects and don't necessarily have studio-level production values.
Why do you think it will take less than that? Why are you assuming that there is a magic bullet?

Because surely by now someone has hack disrupted this space with a webapp using DJango and swift across the whole stack with a leveraged angel investor buyout round.
there's a damn good reason some physicists are theoreticians.

While Caltech had a physics laboratory requirement - for everyone, not just the physics majors - there was a way that one could be excused from it, typically as a result of the destruction of expensive equipment.

I don't really know but would be unsurprised were Einstein one such, when he was an undergrad.

It's not well known but it is well documented, that Einstein wrote his four historically-important papers in the simple hope of getting a modest raise in pay.

Patent examiners with doctorates were paid more than examiners who didn't have PhD's, you see. He hoped one of the papers would be accepted as his dissertation.

(E=mC^2 was derived from one of the first four.)
Trusty [1] and Utopic[2] already have the fix. Vivid should be unaffected since it uses 3.19 anyway.

[1] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-trusty.git/log/?q...

[2] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-utopic.git/commit...
Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by "bloated," and could you give an example of something "easier to develop with?", explaining why it is "easier" to use?
Okay, here's my first feelings: for me it looks like regular company website, but with very specific kind of storytelling (a bit of gamification maybe) - the customer has a feeling that it is not just a regular company website, but in the end I think it is just like that :)
"Immigrants are a Big Force in Driving American Innovation" but h1b workers are not immigrants. They and their family have very little rights as workers in the US.

If the motivation is really to bring innovation to the US, cancel the h1b status and simplify the green card sponsorship via employment. But let's be real, that's not the goal. The goal is to bring servile underpaid peons to the valley to drag tech wages down.

I was an h1b for 4 years.
There is always the Internet.
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Memorize the 2000 or so most common words via spaced repetition with Anki or Super Memo using pictures.

Learn the grammar.

Start reading simple books / websites about stuff that interests you, accompanied with a dictionary website, as you'll need to look up a shitload of words.

Once you can read well enough, interact with people via forums or web chats in the language, which will improve your skills further.

If you want to sound like a native you'll need lots of speaking practice until your brain adapts.

Some people will sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger for life though.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Dirac_statistics...
In my understanding, a dispensing optician is a different thing than either an optometrist or an opthalmologist.

There are some good reasons one requires a professional prescription from eyeglasses; if you wear the wrong lenses for any length of time, it can screw up your eyesight. Although the effect is commonly temporary it _can_ be debilitating.

So a dispensing optician would be someone who sells eyeglasses, given a prescription from an optometrist or an opthalmologist.

It is quite definitely the case that opticians make telescopes. From time to time I call myself an astronomical optician. I don't grind glass much anymore but I am quite good at making astronomical telescope optics.
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I am trying to understand what you do exactly. From your FAQ, here is how you describe yourself:

Q: What is the scription service?
A: scription allows anyone to create the software they need. While many companies
and people will charge you a lot to write simple pieces of code, we provide a low-cost
service. This allows anyone to get the software they want, even if there isn't enough
demand for it.

So unless you managed to write a program that can write custom programs, you are something like a consultant, and a very cheap one. When you say that "most requests can be made" (unless projects that are too big or involving mobile app), what does it mean? Can you write some custom crypto modules? An excel plugin? You don't provide any example of things that you have already done, so why would I trust you? (In fact, I wouldn't trust you because your prices are very low, so I am suspecting something might not be right).
Without any examples or testimonials (that I can check) there's no way I'd use your service.
This isn't strictly a citation about illicit money, but the NYT has done a yeomans job of trying to understand who is buying so much high end real estate in NYC.

This article is a kind of index summary of their very comprehensive multi-part series. It's worth reading if you are interested in how opaque this stuff is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/the-hidden-money-...
Considering that a "grade" is an artificial quantity which doesn't represent the "mass" of anything real, the given scale is appropriate. The axes are also labelled very prominently, so I'm not sure what kind of false impression you think a reader would get from the first graph but not the second.
Isn't your TLD one of these popular with scammers? Not such a huge deal but that was my first thought :-D

Anyways it looks like a consulting operation.
Pardon me while I drop by the chemist's shop to pick up some fuming nitric acid, sulfuric acid and glycerin.
You could try to use European data protection laws. Photos of your face, and your name, are both personal data.

This approach might be tricky. Are you an EU citizen? Does Facebook have any EU presence?
Thank you - that's got me started - I'll see if I can get more time to explore this later today.
It's better in the long run as you can compere results across cohorts fairly.
My Python is a little Rust-y (PyCon 2015)
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> As I understand it, they mostly did this for themselves.

Wouldn't say so. All these people do the best work they can - the average consumer might not consciously tell the difference, but they will notice carelessness, at least subconsciously.

Companies spend loads of money on Corporate Fonts. Most consumers will tell you that they can't tell apart Arial and any other sans-serif font; yet many companies decide that a proprietary font is a vital identity asset. Doesn't that say a lot about the meaning of typography?

The Siemens Sans font [1] is particularly fascinating: It is a very subtle modification of the ubiquitous Frutiger font [2]; most people would probably tell you that even Frutiger looks like Arial too them. And yet, Siemens spent loads of money on Siemens Sans Global, a version that "includes all of the world’s major script systems". Personally, I think that Siemens Sans is maybe the most beautiful sans-serif font ever designed. See for yourself: Do you feel a difference?

[1] https://www.urwpp.de/graphic/pdf/SiemensBooklet.pdf

[2] http://www.identifont.com/show?LY
Starbucks has a great idea, why not link your bank account to a software app. It is definitely going to be profitable.
Corn can be transported across the border. Real estate cannot.

The real estate market needs slightly different analysis from normal free market dogma because it's subject to the constraints of physical space: you can't just make more of it. If high prices increased the availability of plots in downtown Portland then the problem could solve itself.
Age related/involuntary death is a bug like any other disease. I suspect people who think otherwise are just rationalising. If it's any consolation, dead people can't suffer. What distinction do you make between bug and hardware limitation? I believe that the only real limitation is the "heat death of the Universe" and anything else scientists will eventually fix (barring an extinction event).
So half the students in each year fail and have to retake the class? That seems hard to sustain over an entire education system. Or am I misunderstanding this?
If you don't pass your exams, I expect you could still stay in school. At that point you might not be required to take any particular courses.

I don't know about your school, and I was not a CS major. But at UCSC, the qualifier exam is given just once a year, shortly _before_ the start of classes in the fall. That's meant to enable really smart students to get out of taking any classes at all - if you pass the quals, you get an instant Master's Degree.

But yes, before we took the quals we did have specific course requirements. Very difficult ones.

I left graduate school because I became psychotic, not because of my grades. I'll tell the story but not just now.
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Systems are so complex these days that saying "it was a misconnected cable" doesn't make justice to the dimension and professionalism of the experiments, and the sensitivity of the equipment.

"Instead, it took this particular receiver 73 nanoseconds to acquire enough light energy to fire the starting pistol and trigger the electronics; in effect, the starting pistol was fired 73 nanoseconds after the neutrinos left the starting line back at CERN."

73ns. Almost 22m at the speed of light.

And you're trying to get that kind of synchronization between things kms apart.

It's very hard, and sometimes mistakes happen.
It has been done effectively converting a privately owned company to a worker coop. But this normaly happens towards the end of ones life eg John Lewis and Baxi in the UK.
Half the students will get terrible grades, but retaking the class is required only if the grade obtained is F. If you end up with too many poor grades, you will be ineligible for honors year (4th year/senior year).
Hypothetically, if no more evidence for or against this claim surfaces, we probably should give him the presumption of innocence on this point -- and since "avoiding the proper channels" is likely illegal, we have to assume that he tried.
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Relates to this, not sure whether by the same creators.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numbe...

>The Fibonacci clock lets you know the time more subtly, by changing colours and requiring you do some adding up.
I've thinking of putting up examples, but since I've just started I don't really have examples of things requested and some of the other things I've developed I can't really post much more than screenshots of (which means it would be hard to know whether they were made by me). Would this still improve the chance of you using my service? Thanks for taking the time to give feedback on my website.
We have not too much of plans purchased till now. So I have a qeustion to all of you - are you ready to buy the access to all the museums? Or not? Why?
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