skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall that he said something like: "I don't play a lot of notes. I just try to play the right ones".

I think that if a guitarist plays a lot of notes real fast, it often sounds like he or she is rapidly searching for the right one. Instead, BB played the right note at the right time -- with the right lead-in (slide up or bend).

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2015/bb-king-gives-us-a-guitar-l...
/r/all, until it gets to the weird subreddits (like MLP) or when I've had enough / it's time to go to bed. It's mostly stupid entertainment.
Also, they always lose custody of their children, one of the main points of marriage...
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It would indeed be interesting to see the corresponding charts for female employment, and whether there are any correlations between the two. I'll bet there are, and further that any discussion of their possible significance would make someone deeply uncomfortable.
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~1% of the adult population? Whoa.
I built a site that aggregates content from HN, I added reddit as a source and track it via there.

The current criteria are:
/r/programming top 10,
/r/dataisbeautiful top 5,
/r/Technology top story,
/r/science/' top story 1

The site's http://www.serializer.io if you want to check it out.

EDIT: code is here: https://github.com/charlieegan3/serializer
That is not the same test as the OP's. It's not even the same test between the two different algorithms, since you hide different information from LLVM under different circumstances. If you have to put `test::black_box` everywhere to get anything but zeroes, the only thing you can really conclude is that LLVM is better at optimizing than you are at writing microbenchmarks (I'll agree it can be frustrating at times).
My favorite is having a chain of memories where A happened after B happened after C happened after D happened after A. At least one of them is wrong, but I don't know which, and unless I think about the entire chain at the same time, they all make sense.
Xkcd: Emojic 8 Ball
The quality of the community on Reddit seems to have drastically declined in recent years. There is a dearth of bad information and the comments section seems to be headed towards Youtube levels of hostility... This isn't just in mainstream reddits, it's also prevalent in the niche technical topics. After seeing enough information that was blatantly wrong and wasting time sifting through comments debating the validity of said wrong information I unfavorited reddit and haven't looked back.

Maybe use it as a time waster but avoid it as a resource for useful information.
i have the same number but different area code as a taxi cab, and i used to get at least one call or voicemail a week in spanish (which i dont speak) to send a taxi. online translation isnt fast enough for a conversation.

finally saw the taxi one day in front of my office, and they didn't print the area code on the cab.
Lobbying isn't an inherently dirty thing. It started (and largely remains) a way for people with knowledge of a field outside the politician's bailiwick to inform them of pros/cons to an issue they may not be aware of.

Corruption has indeed seeped into the process, but I would prefer experts in a field (on both sides) to inform politicians than have them be clueless on the issues in question. The EFF, the ACLU? Lobbyists. Good lobbyists, but lobbyists nonetheless.
Why do you think that the presence of a correlation would be uncomfortable?
We used moodle a lot for courses in university a few years ago. It was horrible back then, still horrible now.
SAIC, CSC, CACI, Booz, Leidos? These are multi-billion dollar government welfare recipients.
hire a pr agency
I subscribe to a variety of non-default reddits: /r/programming, /r/python, /r/android, /r/programmerhumor, /r/gaming, /r/truegaming.

I'm also a mod of /r/science and /r/askscience.

I enjoy a few extra ones, such as /r/askhistory, /r/cleveland, and /r/daystrominstitute (star trek discussion), but usually browse them once every week or so. Other than that, my interaction with reddit has decreased over the years. I could say the same about Twitter and Facebook too.
Do they? I mean, let's say they changed absolutely nothing. They would not likely go out of business.
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That's actually why I like XML... the two-dimensional distinction between "metadata" and "content" can be really helpful... if and only if you need it. If you need it, then you are dealing with a fundamentally complicated format, and you will actually experience more pain trying to jam it into a single-dimensional format like JSON. By contrast, if the relevant data does not need the two dimensions, which is true of most things, XML is a terrible choice; left adrift without a meaningful way to distinguish between what should be "attribute" and what should be "content", both in theory and in practice all the choices turn out to be terrible.

And, again, if you really need it, the available third dimension provided by XML namespacing is a life-saver when you need it, and incredibly redundant when you don't.

I often dislike the phrase "Use the right tool for the job", because it is vacuous when not tied to some sort of suggestion on how you should determine what the right tool is, so: Match the dimensionality of your data to the dimensionality of the serialization format. The vast bulk of stuff you will encounter day-to-day is one dimensional and fits in JSON or a friend just fine. Use that. A nontrivial quantity of things fits into XML, mostly delimited text; use XML then. Every once in a while you need modularity in your XML format... do not reinvent XML namespaces, use them. (This is mostly for BIG standards, like XMPP or XHTML.) Use neither more nor less than what you need.
Just like CAs, nothing stops them.

Except that the site owner can choose what provider he trusts, and only the chosen entities can abuse that trust.
You can be disabled and still be able to do some types of work. But if the only kind of work that is available requires a strong health body (no chronic health issues), then going on disability is appropriate.
I came here to specifically mention this album. It is truly stellar. It's available as DVD audio too, mixed as 5.1 surround sound. It's one of the better 5.1 album mixes I've heard.

I heard B.B. was in the hospital not too long ago and hoped all would be OK. He was/is truly an enormous influence on the blues genre and will be missed.
These days when I get behind a classic car that has a carburetor, I close the vents. Just can't stand the smell of the unburned fuel they put out. Which is odd because I grew up with them (my first car was a '75 Impala with the malaise-era small-block V-8). These days there are many more cars on the road and individually they're far cleaner than any 70's car was. So much cleaner that collectively they're cleaner than the population of cars from back then too.
Would it be wise to say "raise by 1.5 or I leave" if they decline at first?

The very fact you're asking these questions means you don't necessarily want to leave, so don't put yourself in the position where you have to if your employer offers less than 1.5. If your employer is sensible any negotiation that uses the phrase "or I leave" will result in you leaving. They will pay you what they believe you are worth to them - any offer you have from someone else is largely irrelevant.

Also, check your contract and the large company's contract very carefully. There's probably a clause that says you shouldn't leave to work for a customer in your contract, and the large company shouldn't approach you with an offer in theirs. Accepting the job could be difficult, and if you leave before checking you'd end up without a job at either company.
"The west" has all kinds of interesting names. There's a "Jumpoff Joe creek" in Oregon, in addition to a "whorehouse meadow", a town called Boring, and a Donner and Blitzen river. And Oregon doesn't even have particularly 'good' names compared to other places, since most of western Oregon was settled by people who wanted to do boring things like farming, raising families, building schools and churches, and trying to stay dry. So you get more pedestrian stuff like Eugene, Springfield (the real one!), Corvallis (look Ma, latin!), Salem, Portland, and so on.
> what do you think is wrong with eslaught's explanation?

Who said anything was wrong with it? All I ever said about it was this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393447

Which says nothing about it being wrong.

In fact, to back up my opinion that his post is slightly more complex, and perhaps harder to understand, here's a thread where I in fact use an even simpler explanation than eslaught's, and the person I was explaining this to still didn't get it. Even they brought up C++ to try to clarify their position, and it turns out that by doing so they actually ended up proving themselves wrong.

So in at least one concrete case, using C++ was actually better (more precise with fewer words and examples).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9248590

But I really did mean that I was entertained by watching you make stuff up and repeatedly fail at whatever your goal is, so by all means, don't stop now :)
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Where is the data sourced from?
I'm not sure the Brian Williams situation falls under this type of shock/faulty memory. Didn't he originally recount the story correctly, and only later change it? And I think physically being in a different helicopter for an entire ride is different than mistaking details in a quick, traumatic event.
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Digital startups question links to ‘Tech City’
I follow certain specific subject matter with it. My particular interests include (but are not limited to r/formula1, r/cars, r/guns, r/karting, and any game subreddit I may be interested in...

Everything else is short-term, quick-look entertainment (r/gifs, r/funny, r/pics, r/mildlyinteresting, etc).
That chart understates the cumulative return of McDonalds by 20%, since it is just a graph of price appreciation and does not include the effect of reinvesting dividends. The proper cumulative return for McDonalds over that time period is actually 64.7%, assuming reinvestment of dividends.
I think the article assumes too much that college is just a way to get a job. Culturally, it's also a luxury good--an extended bit of adolescence with lots of socializing. And it's something that as a society we have tried to make possible for larger swaths of society, through guaranteed student loans, etc.

You're right on the point about disability, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544970
This post should be read in the context of the related posts in Milewski's highly informative blog. The goal is not to show a solution, it is to demonstrate some aspects of monads, and in this particular case, that the concept is not confined to Haskell or functional languages.
> Either way, switching to ISO 8859-1 for this makes no sense.

ISO 8859-1 has an important property: it maps directly to the first 256 Unicode codepoints (by construction, since Unicode was designed so that property was true). This means that converting from ISO 8859-1 to UCS-2 or UTF-16 is a simple zero-extension. That has direct performance benefits when doing any operation which mixes ISO 8859-1 and UCS-2 or UTF-16, which will happen often if the internal representation for String can use either. For instance, searching for an ASCII substring within a long UTF-16 string (ASCII maps directly to the first 128 ISO 8859-1 values, another important property).

Yes, it's not the most minimal representation, but since Strings are so common in Java, performance is important. And a lot of Strings use only the first 256 codepoints. It's mentioned in the linked article: "Data gathered from many different applications indicates that strings are a major component of heap usage and, moreover, that most String objects contain only Latin-1 characters."
I tried hailing a random security Githubber or two on Twitter about the lack of an issues-only oauth scope; no response.

I can only conclude they're holding it back deliberately, since it seems both a glaring omission and simple fix. GitHub, prove me wrong..
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Do anyone know the song in this video?
Well, you can at least limit it to only seeing your public repos and not the private ones[0]. Of course, that doesn't negate the fact that should the developer have coded the app to modify your code, you can't do anything to stop them.

[0] http://c.thisishugo.com/1bPz7+
It seems a lot more possible these days, both socially and economically, to go into "partial retirement" at around age 30.

Developers can pull this off without much effort. 2-20X the pay for our work, little expectation of company loyalty nor stigma for resume gaps or job hopping, crazy skewed market to ensure that a new contract is only a Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter update away. Why would anybody spend their 30s not taking several months a year off in that situation?

Naturally, I'm biased a bit, since that was me for a dozen years or so. But there aught to be a skinny little blue line on that chart for us. And I bet it's a lot less skinny today than it was back when I started doing it.
I have a couple of Zapier zaps set up to alert me of hot posts in a couple of niche subreddits. I use these alert mostly to inform my thinking and content for a blog I'm working on. It helps me decide what content will add value as I can see the type of questions people are asking, and it allows me to promote my blog as I can reference it in comments / answers.

Most of my interaction with Reddit is driven by these alerts.
Depends on the tax status of the owners, since dividends and cap gains are not treated in the same way.
I disagree, respectfully. I think people are so fast to condemn something that they have no way of understanding. It is so much easier to make judgements in a disassociated fashion.

Cops are usually extremely close to their partners. They take the responsibility of the other's life quite seriously. So if you want to even pretend to understand what happened, you have to imagine someone was attacking a friend/loved one with a hammer.

Personally, as you can no doubt tell, I think the cop was right to shoot the guy completely disassociated. But it's because I know what my reaction would be in the most extreme situation that I don't stand back and place judgement.
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"Should we design our tools so that you can pick them up immediately or should we design them so they give us as much power as possible?"

A thoroughly false dichotomy.

It's not either or, it's varying degrees of both.
There's also a song of the same name by Son Volt.
anyone else spot the patriarchy hiding in the blank line between the first and second paragraph? (and through the rest of the article.) i.e. when the author goes from talking about people to talking about men?

like, shouldn't there be some transition, explanation, or...something? The first paragraph made perfect sense on it's own, and then it's off to talk to about men.

Anyway, seriously... "why male models" (why men)?
I think I read that it needs to be a recent chrome. I can only confirm that it works as expected on ubuntu chrome `Version 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit)`
Partially my fault because I realize now that it should be "led to" instead of "lead to".
Java is the right choice.

Before I get into that, you may want to not focus on the framework so much, at least not before you choose the language!

Scala is great for the right purpose, it's powerful and should make you productive much faster. Yes, Scala is much less verbose which seems like it would be much more efficient. Enter one Scala developer who has small stylistic inconsistencies and you have set everyone back quite far (especially when using other sources to answer a problem).

Java is super easy to find answers if you need to and super, super easy for one developer to inherit the code of another.

But then again, Scala might be the right choice if you HAVE to use Play, as Play was written in Scala.
Film critic hulk had an interesting reading of this movie [SPOILERS GALORE]:

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/05/11/film-crit-hulk-smash-...

Namely that the main character is projecting his own views of what is considered patriarchal onto another being that's been trapped in a toxic 'relationship'.
This is a deeply strange article. Why are stock buybacks manipulating? If there are 100 shares of a $1M company, each share is worth $10K. If I own 800 shares and you own 200, and the company has some cash lying around, maybe it will buy your shares. Now there are 800 shares outstanding, and if the company is still worth $1M, each share is now worth $12,500. Did I manipulate the share price? What's the point of calling it that, besides to make it sound nefarious, when it's just an everyday business practice?
Interesting that the choice was to cut these an inch square but title it 2.5cm. Okay, I take it back. That isn't particularly interesting. Still.
Once we have strings that are made of 8-bit chars we can put UTF-8 in there ;)
Having worked in the hosting industry on many migration projects, my experience is that tools like this get scripted up from scratch far too often, resulting in bugs and many other issues that should never have existed. Thanks for sharing this!

One question that springs to mind: does this handle round robin DNS entries? With things like Alias records at Amazon becoming more common, and other pre-existing round robin setups out there, i could see those being important to consider. I would test it myself now but i need to hit bed for the night :-) If no one answers i'll post the answer when I get to test it out.
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There's a subreddit dedicated to this idea, although I warn you it's largely terrible.

http://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence

Basically the only reason most people struggle financially in the US is due to their own financial illiteracy and living above their means. If you manage not to fall victim to either of those then you can save a substantial portion of your income towards a very early retirement should you choose to do so.

Kids are pricey though, so this approach is most viable for those who've eschewed the traditional family.
Robert'); DROP Table Students; was also not in the database.
Could I demand for even more than 1.5 at the project's company -> Yes absolutely. First, decide if you want to move for double the salary. Then ask for 2x. If they say yes (they likely would), tell your employer: I love it here, but they're doubling my salary, I have to take it.
This does not do away the distinction between attributes and content -- that attributes are flat strings while content can be nested.
8 years on the site and this is still my daily routine.
Semantics has two senses that could apply here.

In one sense, XML itself is semantically neutral. The association between elements/attributes names and real world objects is merely suggestive.

In another sense (that of semantic analysis found in compiler design), validating XML parsers could be said to be enforcing semantics expressed in schemas. I suppose it is in this sense that your objection applies. In the case of XML Schemas or DTDs, I would have to agree. You might find RELAX NG to be less of a semantic mess given its basis in finite tree automata.
The 20-something MBA is just a conduit for the knowledge and experience of the firm and its partners. Their job is to take the established rules and apply them to the customer's specific problem.

That is also a practical reason why consulting firms hire from Harvard and care about SAT scores. Getting a 1600 SAT doesn't mean you're a good manager. It's probably a good indication you're good applying abstractions to concrete situations.
I have a question. I haven't read much about this type of youtube video until now. How do you upload one to youtube, and is it just a cylindrical projection of a sphere as texeltexel suggested? how do you produce it, in practical terms?
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It's a little odd to write:

if color_enabled:
print(added(r2.answer, color=True))
else:
print(added(r2.answer))

wouldn't you rather write:

print(added(r2.answer, color=color_enabled))

after adjusting color_enabled to be None or True?
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This is beautiful and really functional (UI & UX).

This is now my homepage, so you've got your first contributor, at least. :)

I'm really glad you chose to serialise articles rather than attempt to cleverly aggregate them (it feels like there's less noise).

The many indicators (time to read, link to autosummary, articles/hour, tweet count, filetype indicator, ...) are crammed in without crowding anything out. :)

At this point I'm just listing off your site's features so hopefully more people will notice your link amongst the comments. ;)
Moodle as a project really makes me sad. I'm glad it exists, its marginally better than nothing, but I was working on a private product in 2006-2008 that was so far ahead. Sadly they were crushed by the mighty BlackBoard Inc. and the source was never made public. I would love to get back into online learning and try move it forward.
Your questons are very basic, if you actually want an answer start reading some books on evolutionary biology.
You are grossly underpaid at your current company. A company as large as the one that wants to hire you might be paying above market salary, but not by 3x. Say you are making $50-60k, and they offered $75-90k but other developers make $150-200k. Staying at your current company is holding you back financially, do you should take the offer at the new company if everything else looks good (hours, workload, people). Don't bother with a counter offer from your current job for a jump that big. 25% is about as big as you want to go when threatening to leave. I would start the negotiations by letting them know you are aware of what people make and that you should be in line with that, or there should be a valid reason why not. That should get you somewhere between 1.5x and 3x. Big companies usually have strict raise guidelines so you might be capped at 5% a year so you need to get all you can in the initial negotiations.
Reddit is mostly entertainment for me.

I read /r/cfb for a good overview of what is going on in college football. I glance through /r/nfl to get an idea of nfl and when I want extra entertainment I read the frontpage.

There's a few work related ones I read occasionally to keep up to date on issues with our products, but outside that it is mostly entertainment tbh.
This is a good view of the situation:

"While I can’t know what is in his mind, given what we know about memory it is reasonable to give Williams the benefit of the doubt. It is absolutely possible, even likely, that it is his memory that has shifted over the years, in a fashion consistent with memory research."

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/did-williams-li...