skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I understand your explanation. But you also said "The worse the code is, the greater the understanding of the language in these cases."

My question is, what if the interviewee is unable to give an example of bad code? I don't see how failure to come up with bad code implies a worse understanding of the language. I can also easily see how people with poor understanding of the language can still produce horrible code.

For example, at the end of this comment I write a simple assembly language interpreter in Python. That's a horrible solution to the problem. Explain to me how that shows I understand Python. Or for that matter, how it's a useful segue into a discussion of the factors that go into good code.

If the point is to discuss what "good code" means, then why not a question which is better targeted towards that specific goal? For example, give four examples of FizzBuzz, ask the interviewee to discuss the pros and cons of each one, and ask for a preferred ranking.

That's surely more like what happens in real life, doesn't have a failure mode where someone can't come up with really bad code, and actually leads to the discussion you want.

import sys

def execute(memory, code):
lineno = 0
while 1:
try:
line = code[lineno]
except IndexError:
break
if line[0] == "jeq":
if memory[line[1]] == memory[line[2]]:
lineno = line[3]
continue
elif line[0] == "inc":
memory[line[1]] += 1
elif line[0] == "mod":
memory[line[3]] = memory[line[1]] % line[2]
elif line[0] == "print":
sys.stdout.write(str(memory[line[1]]))
elif line[0] == "load":
memory[line[1]] = line[2]
elif line[0] == "jmp":
lineno = line[1]
continue
elif line[0] == "jz":
if memory[line[1]] == 0:
lineno = line[2]
continue
else:
raise AssertionError(line[0])
lineno += 1

def fizzbuzz(n):
memory = {"a": n+1, "b": 0, "c": 0, "d": "\n", "e": " "}
code = (
("inc", "b"),
("jeq", "a", "b", 1000),
("print", "b"),
("mod", "b", 15, "c"),
("jz", "c", 14),
("mod", "b", 5, "c"),
("jz", "c", 12),
("mod", "b", 3, "c"),
("jz", "c", 10),
("jmp", 17),

("load", "c", "Fizz"),
("jmp", 15),
("load", "c", "Buzz"),
("jmp", 15),
("load", "c", "FizzBuzz"),
("print", "e"),
("print", "c"),
("print", "d"),
("jmp", 0),
)
execute(memory, code)

fizzbuzz(100)
> people would probably question MIT if Joseph Goebbels were giving the lectures.

If Joseph Goebbels had something useful to say that would add to the intellectual discussion, then MIT should host him. This could be him trying to defend himself, or it could just be him lecturing on a topic completely unrelated to his horrific views.

Some people would surely strongly object, but they would be wrong.
Exactly? I'm talking about a situation where we both care exactly at a "casual Facebook friend" level. Like we would meet up if we were in the same town at the same time, but we aren't writing emails back and forth about what has happened lately. And that is great, IMHO.
It works surprisingly well. It turns out most people are happy just to have the pointless bikeshedding stop.
I took a look at cssnext while going through the source for the 'Solved by Flexbox' website which was front page last week (https://github.com/philipwalton/solved-by-flexbox/). It looks like it does a lot of what sass does, except that it will actually be CSS soon. I suppose it's kind of like using an ES7-to-ES5 transpiler rather than using some other compile-to-JS language; it's a matter of preference, but the ES7 will eventually run without dependencies as well when the transpile step is no longer needed.

It'd be nice to see CSS frameworks rewritten using pure CSS (transpiled with cssnext); in fact I might give it a try if I get motivated :)
The brain is quite literally a neural network (in a more traditional sense of the word "neural"). A biological brain (especially a simple one) could probably be modeled somewhat accurately and with reasonable efficiency by a cyclic NN.

Unless you have religious objections, it's also quite reasonable to call the brain a computer.
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> "We didn't understand what it was," says Maria Leopoldina Bierrenbach, a housewife from Sao Paulo. "I used to say it was a fantasy, because it was not real."

I was 14 during the URV period. It was like that, nobody really understand what URV was, nor could explain to other what it was.

But, it was simple to use. Prices are in URV now, not in the old currency name, not a new currency, it is URV. URV acted as a good parameter, was simple to understand and use in practice, even if hard to understand in theory.

It is not that brazilian had lost faith in the currency, but we lost faith in currency changes and readjustment. Brazilian money had changed names several times in the 80s. And several times government had cut zeros from the currency ("Hey, everybody, now 1,000,000 is actualy 1,000 ok?). So there were no point in just creating a new currency. It HAD to be a virtual one, something different, something that people could not say "yeah, just another name change like all the others...". So they created URV, and it worked.
In my work box, all are read. But in an old person account, 42250 unread. Mostly spam moved to a deleted folder. But still.
I hope this succeeds - I'm not fond of geeksquad, and using craigslist has highly variable rates of quality. Joe - how are you sourcing your contractors, and how can I be assured they deliver high quality?
New Firefox setting prevents tracking and improves page load times by 44 percent
Peter Watts is certainly aware of Julian Jaynes work http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=104 and the sequal to Blindsight seems to be more specifically about this: http://www.rifters.com/echopraxia/enemywithin.htm which has probably generated interest in Julian Jaynes and so I suspect Echopraxia is partially responsible for the commissioning of the submitted article.
I would hesitate to say it's very, very bad. I don't filter people on Facebook only because I disagree with them; I filter people on Facebook because, at one point, I really enjoyed the company of that person and their current tirade of hating (the police/minorities/the west/the east/obama/republicans/etc) stands to slightly jade our friendship. Anyone who can actively filter ALL opinions they disagree with is either delusional, locked in a cabin in the woods or much more active at filtering than I am.
I think HN has bombarded the site, it is down...
I wouldn't. But I'd trust Debian.
I'm from Argentina and a similar plan was implemented there. The REAL plan was to subscribe free market principles, sell state owned companies and reduce the fiscal deficit.
This fake currency was attached to USD price in Brazil. In Argentina was created from the beginning and it was also attached to USD.
Sorry to bother with the reality, I'd prefer the Big Fish style story that was told in this article, but it was a fake.
I'd love to, but they're all bloody open-plan
Gaana.com Hacked, 10M Users' Details Exposed
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Printing money is justified only if the GDP increases. If it's not the case, people pay the price.

All non-gold-backed currencies (directly backed like dollar before 1971 or indirectly backed like french franc before 1971) have failed.

Dollar will collapse too, probably this year (september 2001 - september 2008 - september 2015). Or soon after this year.

Be prepared.
ninite are awesome, and the paid service is well worth it.

Disclaimer and full disclosure: I am not affiliated with them, just a happy user for many years
That's palpably not true. We all get roads, police, fire, regulated utilities. Absolutely nobody is trying to wean us from those.

It takes a change in thinking to accept the basic income. I'm afraid a generation will have to grow old and die before it gains traction, because of the ingrained thinking that 'full employment' is a good or useful societal goal.
Mary Meeker's Internet: User growth slowing, but disruption full speed ahead
Two radically different cities, and the sustainability challenges they face
Mobile App Marketing Insights: How Consumers Really Find and Use Your Apps [pdf]
Nothing in the 4 criteria implies necessity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_...
I've trie this, but I never manage to deal with stuff once I file it. It piles up like my inbox.

How do you deal with the dozens/hundreds of tasks that may accumulate?
Show HN: Track your personal and business goals
It should also be noted that Ontario has the highest tuition rates in Canada. Also, Waterloo is typically viewed as the most prestigious Engineering school in Canada (the Stanford of Canada).

http://www.macleans.ca/interactive-how-canadian-tuition-fees...
yeah you get a custom installer
My feeling is they should remember that they are still handling pirated material - even though using it these days might as well be considered a zero risk.

With the future open-sourcing of MAME this stuff will be everywhere. And, unless you're playing Roto or Gridlee, you're most certainly handling pirated material. Doesn't matter if it's on your local hard drive or archive.org.
It's becoming more clear that we need proactive laws on the books to stop this kind of stuff because it keeps popping up again and again.
Play 2.4.0 “Damiya” Released
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Trig is the math of triangles and circles — it can be fully understood in geometric terms. Calculus requires far more foundation.

The linked article is interesting but the definition of differentiability looks wrong to me — maybe my brain needs more coffee but it looks like only linear functions are differentiable as defined.

I learned my calculus the pure math way — axioms and analysis. Epsilon delta arguments make more sense to me than "Ball". The fact that to clarify the examples the author resorts to epsilon delta description suggests to me that this approach is clever rather than clear.
"And your private language is not relevant to this discussion."

Since you've been trying to claim the right to define matter for all of us, and then philosophically force conclusions based on those definitions down our throats over our objections about how those aren't our definitions, it rather is.

Tu quoque. Your post is its own refutation. You can't insist on being the only person allowed to play definition games, and that everyone else is doing it wrong if they try because you know the definitions they are secretly using... or, rather, you can, but don't expect me to take you seriously as a result. Your thinking here is so solipsistic you appear to be just barely aware that there are other opinions, but you are not capable of engaging with them, only shouting at them to "shut up!" and then get back to the point you're trying to make regardless.
Probably part of AdWords Shopping campaigns. The products are already uploaded to Google, why not add another field for direct cart link? Google sends the click there and gets a cut based on the existing AdWords tracking.

Seem quite easy to me and all the merchants would be on board.
> but most people are wrong about something every day

Speak for yourself! I am always right. :)

> There will be clicks. Revenue will be steered

All that really matters. As long as it doesn't negatively impact search, i expect i'll be able to ignore it and others will be able to use it and life will be swell.
Applied Psychology, in the Financial Transactions Sector. *

I find it amusing that they named it 'real' once it was done.

*- a little inside joke.
While I was dating my wife 15 years ago, I was very self conscious of the fact that I had barely graduated high school, and here I was dating a professor and going to many professor parties. Many, many parties. I would be asked by almost everyone "What do you study?" as a little ice-breaker conversation starter. Since I had no PhD and was not even a college graduate, this made me a little uncomfortable and so I developed the above line to describe my business of buying and selling used capital equipment (which I did out of my pickup).

It went like this: They would ask what I studied, and I would respond with "Applied Psychology in Financial Transactions" and then steer the conversation to their work. I also learned quickly that I should have no opinions on THEIR work, or my night would be bad. It was a rare event to have to explain further, most people were delighted to talk at length about themselves.
Chemists discover key reaction mechanism behind the sodium-oxygen battery
As I was reading about bicameralism, I thought "Huh, this sounds like Snow Crash". Guess I was right!
Yeah a lot of people who like his writings have criticized that term. I don't really like it myself, but it kind of stuck. The word does refer to a real phenomena that currently doesn't have a mainstream name. So Moldbug gets credit for identifying the phenomena and picking some name for it. I'm not sure what a better name would be - the Clerisy? the Mandarinate? the Congregation?

But, it is a lot more accurate to see ideology and religion has basically the same phenomena, with belief in a deity being pretty much spurious, than it is to see ideology and religion as two entirely different things. So I give Moldbug credit for pointing out that progressivism is basically the same thing as a religion.
Wasn't ineffective for me. I think the final work would come out nothing like how I want it if I didn't put in conscious effort.
Because you're writing standards-track CSS. That's the reason. If that doesn't appeal to you, then that's understandable. It does appeal to some, myself included.

In addition, it's built using PostCSS (meaning you can use cssnext as a plugin into PostCSS.) Using PostCSS you can achieve all of your bullet points. Today.
That's not streaming, that's a download.
A Scope and Engine based, customizable and paginator for Rails 3 and 4
How does Patreon compare to doing your own Kickstarter or Indiegogo for patronage?
> The goal of a society is to eliminate as many people from needing government benefits as possible, and to ensure that only those who are truly unemployable receive government benefits.

Not only do I disagree that this is the goal of society, I don't see any reason to think that this should be the goal of society.

> Employers must pay a wage which ensures that basic needs are met.

It seems to me that this is a paternalistic and feudalistic approach that presumes that every member of society must be dependent on a particular employer.
A lot of people stopped using those things.
With a good methodology and a UI component approach, you will find yourself to not need mixins loops etc.

I stopped using Sass some years ago and I can definitly live without those features. Maybe one missing thing is extend, but it's comming, a CSS spec is in draft ;)
Men Are Actually Faking Long Hours at Work. Should Women Copy This?
I only know about it because I'm exploring it as a serious end of life option in the event biomedical advances don't come quickly enough.
Big deal. Note that the rules (not laws!) are proposed, not final, and they "tighten" what appear to be non-existent restrictions on Ann and Rachel and Barbara and Wilford Brimley's sonic clone, and those asswipes that try to tell you that your non-existent Google Business listing is out of date.

Oooh! Look, the FCC is going to tighten up their rules! I'm so glad that tight rules will prevent calls to my do-not-call number.

The only thing that will work on these animals is a little frontier justice.
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In some cases they probably are infringing too. But it seems worse in my opinion using copyrighted media as your main background for a promotional site. Putting a meme into a presentation slide, you may be right, it may also be legally infringement, but we kinda look the other way because it doesn't seem as promotional in nature.
http://www.morguefile.com is a handy resource for finding 100% safe images.
Is anyone else driven nuts by how hard it is to get at the data behind so many articles?

For instance, the bit about how it's important to have attended one of three universities - "Stanford, MIT, or Harvard", made me wonder what kind of disadvantage you are at if you attend a very strong but public CS program (Berkeley, University of Washington, Illinois).

The article has a link to the reuter's analysis here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-usa-startup-con...

Which includes a link to a graph (I'm thinking, ok, great, here's the data!)

http://www.reuters.com/subjects/series-a

If you hover over some of the dots on the "unconnected" companies, you can see a few of the other universities attended. So it does appear that yes, attending Berkeley or other top public CS programs does put you at a significant disadvantage where it comes to getting series A funding [1], though this was as far as I could get. Maybe I'm bad at web searching, but I just couldn't find the raw data.

You know, as an aside… ycombinator set up an amazing series of talks from founders and CEOs for a truly exceptional class at stanford (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325479). There was a posting about it on HN a while back, and they did make the videos available… but there's nothing like actually being there, possibly with the opportunity to meet a high up in person.

There were a few objections, some down-modded (for a variety of reasons), about possible class issues here. I would say this: there's a reasonably good CS program across the bay at a university that enrolls more low income students than the entire ivy league combined. If middle and low income students appear to be having more trouble becoming founders and getting funding (as opposed to becoming high value employees for those who get series A funding), this might also be a great location for another round of this course.

[1] this is highly relevant, since students from top public CS programs don't appear to have significantly lower mid-career salaries as workers (in fact, worker bee salaries may be slightly higher out of Berkeley).

Also I may have made a correlation causation error. Could be that the university itself has little to do with this.
I think you are getting to hang up on technicalities of definition of matter.

Is your thesis that there are things that are non-physical? If so what evidence is there for that thesis?
> For that matter, could you use a subreddit for the purpose without obviously violating Reddit's TOS?

If I remember correctly, that's actually one of the continuously rotating suggestions on below the button on their home page.
At GitLab we already have one-click importers for GitHub.com, Google Code and Bitbucket. We would love for someone to contribute a SourceForge importer.
And if you require employers to pay a living wage, then more and more people become unemployable.

Actually, the thing I like about basic income is that it gives you the freedom to eliminate minimum wage laws. People wouldn't have to work degrading jobs for subsistence pay, because they would already get subsistence pay, but if they earned even $3 an hour, that would be on top of basic income rather than in place of it.
It's funny: I had to write this stuff back in 1985. After that, we did reports and special inventory breakdowns added onto an existing 3rd party system. Still, I guess it helps to know where projected purchases and sales are being logged.
Trying to make experimental UI for group photo/chat. Help with app test-feedback?
My friend and I threw together Pic Thread, an iOS app, so friends can stitch images together and message each other. We call it a photo chat/stitching app. We're looking for people to give us feedback in Beta. So far we have a couple people who are "addicted," So it might be more interesting experience than typical messaging... What's your opinion? You can add your email at http://www.picthreadapp.com/ to get an invite from the iTunes store.
That's true but then in that case you don't have an option. I think OP's point is when you do have the option of buying a $100 but you think it twice because the high cost. If you can't afford a $100 textbook then you have to go to alternatives (renting, public library, free alternatives, etc.)
>so perfectly explains the obsession with physical idols

Those primitives! (clutches cross around neck and looks out window at the towering skyscrapers, all of them flying American flags on the ground level).

Personally, I think the narrative of ancients being that different from us is fairly out there and deep into crackpot territory. Seems to me that a lot of STEM majors haven't read the ancient sources. The idea that Herodotus, Plutarch, or Aurelius had some pre-modern mind is asinine. I can't see how someone who sat down and read The Meditations would walk away with such a conclusion. Jayne's Illiad argument stating that every character has no freewill and playthings of the gods is super weak sauce. Greeks simply weren't that devout in real life, and stuff like he's seeing is a story telling narrative. Not understanding something that simple about the Greeks further discredits him. Imagine if our society and entire conscious structure was judged by the Twilight books.

Even if we step back another couple thousands years, Egypt had a full blown society with professional tradesmen, government, militaries, etc 2500BC. Before that, Mesopotamia had all those things in 3100 BC. The Code of Hammurabi invalidates this guy's thesis pretty easily, although I can imagine him weaseling a more technical and strict definition of "consciousness" to avoid being completely discredited, but at that point this is all useless sophistry.

Also, are we ignoring ancient Hinduism and Buddhism's near obsession with consciousness here?

> perfectly explains

I find geeks seeks out "perfect" and "simple" solutions, which make sense in code, but in the world of history, anthropology, etc are reductionist and wrong. There's also quite a bit of atheistic evangelism here, which I think is why its on HN and not in the dustbin of bad history.
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"Absolutely necessary"? No, of course not.

I would say that, for most people, the best approach includes a degree. Probably a CS degree; mathematics or other engineering disciplines may work as well. That will change somewhat the kind of exploration you need to be doing outside of class. Any which way, you need to be doing quite a bit of exploration outside of class.
Sorry, but that's exactly wrong. There was widespread indexation before the URV or, more precisely, before the Real Plan. Salaries, pensions, interest rates, fees, etc, everything was tied to an inflation rate or another.
The Real Plan did away with the indexation.

See motoboi's comment for more details.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=motoboi
anecdotally, I work with a lot of Italians and they tell me the salary for developers in Italy is around 2k per month, though that still seems really low for a western country to me.
> An integral is the inner product of a function and a suitably-dimensioned unit.

Does that mean that ∫f(x)dx is f.(dx, dx, …) = f(x_0)·dx + f(x_1)·dx + f(x_2)·dx + … for all x in the domain?
True, although http://www.gimp.org/donating/ states that "The GNOME Foundation has graciously agreed to act as fiscal agents for us." Maybe they could hold the GIMP trademark?

By the way, the trademark you mention was Caughron, Mathew K. INDIVIDUAL UNITED STATES, who seems to have been responsible for the old WinGIMP and MacGIMP distributions that cost money.
A nice little book, "Seven Wonders: Everyday Things for a Healthier Planet", counts public libraries as one of the seven "sustainable wonders" (along with bikes, ceiling fans, clotheslines, and other low-intensity means of doing good things).
Anyone aware of evidence on comprehension & retention of audiobooks? Obviously that medium is not ideal for all subject matter but I've been recently listening to a mix of fiction & non-fiction and found I'm immersing myself much more than on paper or screen.