skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. They did nothing illegal or immoral.
Well, as a European, that's actually interesting to compare it to high speed train. Outside the US, high speed train is not only something we can do, it is something already done.
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Only because they are then fungible. Once you dispose of that calculator that takes 4xAA batteries and lasts 6 months, you can whack the cells in a Furby's butt and charge them up once a week until your children get rid of the damn things :-)
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A similar point applies to the term 'Christian' and to the term 'Monarchist' - whereas it would be interesting to see the etymology of Marxist, Socialist or Communist.

'Capitalist' has the same issue, interestingly.
What does it mean for a home computer to become "gendered"?
People should absolutely be respectful of their applicants' time. And applicants should use how they're treated during the application process as a signal for how they'll be treated as employees.

One of the best interviews I had was very informal, was only with the hiring manager, and it was pretty obvious that there would be a good fit between myself and the company. I took the job and had no regrets over it.

One of the worst interview processes I went through had me doing two rounds of phone interviews and then a half-day in-person consisting of four one-hour interviews with various people. The selection of people conducting the one-hour interviews were fair enough -- HR, hiring manager, a peer, and someone from a related department I'd have contact with but wouldn't work with frequently. But you could easily tell there was no organization behind what they were doing, unless their strategy was to have each of the persons doing the interview have the same exact conversations with me. This was at a Fortune 500 company and it became clear from the interview process that the culture would be extremely frustrating for me to work in.

I think it's fair to follow a process like this to respect the time of your applications:

resume cover -> screen -> phone interview -> in-person interview -> tests/samples -> hire

And you drop people out of the funnel at every step. I also think it's best to keep your in-person interviews to two hours max, between however many people they need to talk to.
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>what language in your opinion has the most elegant syntax?

The Lisp family, Scheme in particular.

(define sum (reduce + 0 (iota 100000 1)))
>yet still amoral or can cause controversy. E.g. big corporations funneling their profits to other countries to avoid being taxed

I see nothing morally wrong with that.

I do agree the law has nothing to do with morality, eg. war on drugs, slavery, etc.
>Moved beyond grid systems? I can't agree with that.

Good, because I haven't said so. I said we've moved beyond static designs on top of some grid.

When you add different screen sizes, resizing and interaction to the mix, the grid itself gets dynamic, and relationships between items (constrains) matter more than visual placement.

>It's just that it is a detail. It's not layout, it's not the composition.

The thing is that seems to me a relic of print design.

In modern UI design there's no fixed composition as such. Even whole elements might appear and disappear at will, based on the app's state.
Three of my friends have done this specifically to found startups. Ironically they still have to come to the valley for funding.
I don't understand why the lottery commission would know and not stop this. If they are guaranteed to win I think that is the same thing as the state have a guaranteed loss.
It's metaphorical... PS, get well
It's not even technically accurate. At the very least it's a draw :)
I've never been to either place, but judging from internet photos, the iPhone factories are not nearly as impressive as where old iPhones end up at:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/14/ghana-dump-elec...
I prefer J:

+/>:i.100001

You could takeout the >: but then the range is 0 indexed and not 1-based:

+/i.100001
> So lets compare hyperloop with what you CAN do, which is fly or drive.

That doesn't make sense. You should compare other possible options as well.
You are forgetting something which everyone seems to ignore. There are no toilets and other facilities. With high speed rail it's either on board or you can get off on the next stop. With a car you can drive to a gas station etc. An 'extra hour' is a very long time for someone to wait and I would be surprised if anyone would want to be stuck without access to one for that period of time.
> The result is to provide memory elements as black box library components, defined and tested in a different, lower-level, language. But at the interface the two levels of abstraction are reconciled and composition can occur.

I feel the same way. Uniqueness typing can work as the clue between component and upper lever abstraction.
It correlates pretty strongly. See, USSR, Maoist China, and so on.
Huh ? The DisplayPort protocol won't be replaced. USB Type-C just allows using the DP protocol with the USB connector. It'a just a alternative.

Let's see how much time it takes for GPUs to remove DP ports ....
> It’s important to note that all HDMI cables are the same, so don’t go spending big bucks on HDMI cables.

This is only partially true, there are plenty of low-spec junk HDMI cables that people try to reuse only to find it doesn't support some part of the newer specs. Agree that you shouldn't spend a ton of money on them though.
"The possibility to change the minimum log level required to trigger the rule seems sensible because we might want to adjust it on the fly for debugging reasons. Nevertheless, odds are we never appeal to it in practice. So, we are better off removing this setting as well."

Everything was going fine until I got to this point. You can't tell when you'll need to adjust the log level on the fly and he's right in stating most likely you'll never do it, but when you need to do it you need to do it - and predicting that need is impossible. This is one of those rare things where it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Otherwise this is a good article on addressing the issue of configuration hell.
At least the revenue generated from the lottery (in Texas, not sure about other states) go to pay for education.
So I suppose there's a sort of intergenerational underground community of advantage players at MIT that these exploits come out of? Hard to imagine that MIT just happens to be the source of unrelated rings.
> The problem is that the software industry doesn’t reflect the needs of society as a whole, she argues. ‘Twentysomething-year-old boys are solving their problems with dating or meeting friends, but there are different problems in the world,’ she says.

I very much hope Linda Liukas has been quoted out of context, because this is one of the most ignorantly reductionist portrayals of the role of IT that I've read. I can scarcely imagine any social problem that hasn't had software applied to it in some shape or form, even if it's just collecting statistics on said problem.

I also question the implicit assumption that the majority demographic for users of dating websites and social media is "twentysomething-year-old boys".
I don't know, I would bet on a new Magic Trackpad based on the new "taptic" trackpad in the 15" MBP. I'm really enjoying clicking anywhere and having it register properly and I can see it as a direct upgrade to the existing Magic Trackpad.
The good thing about dedicated video connectors is that with simple checks (pin 5 and 7 in short circuit), you can detect and output via passive connector adapters. That's why a DP to VGA adapter is so cheap: is is the PC that is detecting and generating the VGA signal. (See DP++ for when you are missing pins)
That's why you read the first sentence of the article... "long before Tesla unveiled its plans to offer autopilot features on every new car..."

Plus the roadster shipped to actual consumers from 2008 through 2012, and the model S started shipping in 2012.
The concept of a home computer and for whom it was for was biased towards a certain gender.
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This isn't the first time someone has been able to turn lottery odds in their favor. A woman named Joan Ginther, who has a PhD in Statistics from Stanford, won more than $15 million from a Texas lottery scratch card based game [1]. Though she has never spoken and exactly how she did it remains a mystery, her odds of winning the number of times she did as a random buyer of scratch cards were 1 in 18 septillion and should occur approximately once every quadrillion years. Here's another case, where a geologist named Mohan Srivastava cracked several different lottery scratch ticket games [2]. He warned lottery officials, who did....nothing.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kiriblakeley/2011/07/21/meet-the...

[2] http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/
For text and images and videos (which is what a webpage is for after all) if one sticks to a simple html and simple set of css do you need to worry about all those issues? Or do they just go away? e.g could a simple html version served to e.g. screen-reader using users also work for non-javascript using users?

>literally every site uses

Ironic that you would post that on a site that works without it...
Sounds like lottery officials didn't "get their pants in a bunch" - they were actually complacent in the scheme.

>A recent report by the state’s inspector general reveals more details about the scheme, including the fact that the Massachusetts Lottery knew of the students’ ploy and for years did nothing to stop it. The inspector general’s report claims that lottery officials actually bent rules to allow the group to buy hundreds of thousands of the $2 tickets, because doing so increased revenues and made the lottery even more successful. While the students’ actions are not illegal, state treasurer Steven Grossman, who oversees the lottery, finally stopped the game this year.
> Oh hey, published by the "Fluoride Recommendation Work Group"! Wonder what their agenda is?

It doesn't matter what theirs is, the link I gave you isn't useful as a source, but as a list of sources.
The site uses the StartCom CA, which offers free SSL certificates. I like their service, but I remember that my old OS X 10.5 box does not recognise them, either. It seems to be a relatively recent addition:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20091010/microsoft-free-roo...
You should have a [Show HN] Tag ! :-)
Well there is an addon for firefox (no script) that assists with it... I guess that that only has 100 users?
An anecdote...

My father did the same thing in a mid 80s scenario in the UK.

He took me to work. At the time, he was importing containers full of stuff from Taiwan for the the new PC clone market i.e. building PCs, assembling them and reselling them.

I spent an entire day slicing my hands open on cheap PC cases, box cutters, cardboard boxes and standing on dropped PC case screws and installing MS DOS.

To the child poster, as HN has stopped me replying, yes literally slicing my hands up - they were cheap pressed metal back then and had edges like razor blades.

This is why I did electrical engineering and now software :)

(incidentally his volume was 4x Michael Dell's back then but due to sod-all business sense, he screwed the company up)
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While it is a myth that Card Counting is illegal it is also true that no one has the right to gamble and casinos can just refuse to allow a person to participate in their own gambling floors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting

MIT students and former students did make it a practice to beat the casinos around the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team It is at least strongly controversial that they made millions by turning the tables on casinos. Unlike casinos who ask winners to keep coming back and playing as long as possible since odds are they will lose their winnings if they continue to play.

My dad had a friend who had won tens of thousands of dollars in Las Vegas. I still remember my dad talking with him in the 1980s on the phone while he was at the table. My dad told him to take the money and run. My dad's friend lost all of it in the 40 minutes and didn't listen to his advice.
What did they do?

BUMP: those downvoting. It's a serious question. The article doesn't explain the student's methods. I really don't know what they did to game the system. Is it well known?
The third one links to this same page. I was confused for a second, thinking that people copy-pasted their own comments from the last time or something.
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I would think fully electric buses on dedicated roadways would be cheaper and more flexible in the end. Automated driving is coming closer and the best uses are for those which travel well marked and maintained routes, hence long distance trucking, buses, and the like. It certainly would be cheaper than building any type of elevated rail system.

However with most transportation projects rail has way to much allure even when its financially stupid. Just look at the costs of some light rail projects in our cities and it never makes sense.
>There are no toilets and other facilities.

Any reason they can't be installed trivially?

>An 'extra hour' is a very long time for someone to wait and I would be surprised if anyone would want to be stuck without access to one for that period of time.

How's that different from most long-way (Greyhound etc) bus rides with lots of hours (3-4) between stops? Don't know about how's that in the US in particular, but had such in most of Europe, Asia etc, and people are perfectly capable of "holding it".
Not really. The guaranteed wins (presumably done by buying enough tickets to cover a large proportion of the available number space) would be taken at the expense of either any coincidental winners or at the expense of the rollover.

Lotteries are designed to take their cut from the tickets bought - some proportion of the money from tickets then goes to the prize pot. More tickets sold means more money for the lottery organisation, regardless of who buys those tickets.

So the loser in this case was the "lucky" lottery player, who would have found that, had they won, they had to share their prize with these guys.
Creative Commons licenses have simple tags communicating the modalities of each license quite clearly, and I believe the same can be done for Terms of Service. However, there are significant hurdles.

I think a ToS Commons labeling scheme could be successful in providing TL;DR information for consumers, as an expression of intent followed up by the inevitable multitude of kilobytes expressing the same thing in legalese. This is also where the tosdr.org falls short as far as I can tell: instead of providing a list of tags that describe what the ToS in question mean, they apparently only rate them. That is not enough information to go on.
I agree with your assessment, but for certain use cases, I've found it to be pretty useful. Box-based layout forces you to arrange your view hierarchy in a Towers of Hanoi kind of way, whereas constraint-based layout lets you define relationships between free-floating sibling views directly. Here's[1] a little test I recently worked on; the amount of code to do this was pretty small and conceptually simple.

[1]: https://github.com/archagon/ABExpandingViewController/blob/m...
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Of course IT has been applied to everything, but that doesn't mean the investment in the industry reflects the needs of society.

I also question the implicit assumption that the majority demographic for users of dating websites and social media is "twentysomething-year-old boys".

That's not actually what it says, though. It just means the problems that get solved are the most common problems affecting 20-year-old boys, not that those problems aren't shared by must vaster demographics.
Well by gaming the lottery, they are taking a little bit of money from a lot of (largely poor) ticket buyers and profiting big from it. It's the same kind of dynamic as counterfeiting. I'd argue that that's a problem mostly with the lottery system and not with the MIT students' ploy, but they exploited a system with full knowledge of how it operates and how their actions hurt others. That does not come without moral responsibility.

I can't find anything morally wrong about card counting though, Blackjack is presented as a game where skill can affect the outcome, even though in absense of card counting it's a game of luck. I'm sure that a fair number of habitual players develop some kind of card-counting heuristic innately, and in that case people who really count cards (without using some kind of device) are just better players and deserve to win (although I think casinos have good reason to forbid the technique, as the alternative would be to get rid of Blackjack).
Hi baldfat, I tried to be very careful with that wording. I'm not aware of storage platforms that allow you to embed actions into the I/O path using your own code. If you have examples where I am incorrect, please do share. Thanks!
This book should be added to your list. The examples in the book are from the 80's/90's so don't dismiss them - the software industry has the same problems it has always had, just swap out the programming language acronyms for whatever is popular at the time.

You will find many concepts about managing engineers in the book that might go against the open office, micro management styles of today.

Also may want to look at the history of articles from Joel Spolsky - Joel On Software.
I think that to many who are not mathematically inclined, the statement "They used mathematics to beat the lottery" is more or less equivalent to "They used magic to beat the lottery".
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In this context, it's not what you say that matters. Communicating your accomplishments do not matter - It's the way you make people feel. Do people feel 'good' after interacting with you?
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But i need to use my server, parse force me to implement the parse database.
"the whole thing's a wash" Truth. However, alternative theoretical models can be constructed for possible experimental tests or at least anecdote collection.

Surely all progress comes from the unreasonable man. Also we only hear about the most famous / rich creative geniuses. I have no particular problem switching off creativity and hanging out (going hiking or something), I am also not famous, not even internet famous. That would lead to the theoretical model that famous people can't shut off their unreasonableness, perhaps at all, which makes them completely cantankerous and anti-social yet also somewhat more productive than better balanced individuals. All kinds of interesting experiments could be devised. Are they able to shut anything at all off, or are they OCD/addicted personalities? If someone who can shut off is converted intentionally or otherwise into someone who looses control of their creativity, are they more successful? College binge drinking to emulate an alcoholic might be monkey see monkey do emulation of creatives... does someone naturally somewhat creative who gains an uncontrollable addiction have the bleed over into uncontrollable creativity?

Another interesting model revolves around the only socially rejected people the general public ever hears about, are the top of the line creatives. That probably tells a lot more about our culture than about the individuals. For example, I suspect the panhandler at my freeway onramp is socially rejected, at least by most, its just "we" will never hear about him unless he becomes a famous painter or poet. Given his cardboard signs I think he's not creative at all, at least not WRT the graphical arts, yet he's got more rejection than most of us. IF most people are socially rejected to some extent or another, thats kind of the purpose of mass media and big cities after all, and the only rejects we hear about are creatives, then a very weird conclusion could be drawn that creativity only comes from rejection, although the reality is almost everyone is somewhat rejected. Much like they all drink water and all creatives drink water so creativity obviously comes from drinking water.
> here's a book on Cotswold Dialect, mentioning we'm and you'm. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SNS8AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA11&ot....

That's a wonderful reference! Thanks so much!
Hi laggyluke, thanks for your comment. I'll check with a few developers I know - most of what I've seen has been the reverse but I'm not in node on a daily basis. Cheers
Texas resident here. That claim is dubious. http://www.kcbd.com/story/14579932/kcbd-investigates-is-the-...
You, sir, are quite clearly not the parent of a pre-teen child

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Hi eatonphil, I'll check with Kevin (he's not on HN very often) and get back to you. Cheers
Really? Or does it just mean that money from general taxes that would have been spent on education is spent on something else?
>Well that's entirely theoretical too, since that also doesn't exist.

Doesn't exist in the US maybe. It exists just fine in Europe and Asia.
GA and FL as well. The problem, though, is that some states replaced instead of supplemented education funding with lottery revenues. So what could've been a nice boon (normal budget $xx million/year, with lottery add $yy million/year) meant that nothing actually changed (for education). It may, depending on the state, have freed up tax revenue to go to other projects.
I honestly can't fathom any legitimate reason for that. How was there not a revolt when that passed? It seems incredibly arbitrary and nonsensical.
It is well documents that lottery income replaces standard taxes and does not increase the money spent of education or senior citizens. So it has switched taxing all tax payers and puts the burden on people who play the lottery, which are vastly made up of the poor population of the states.

http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2014/09/09/nearly-states-p...
It was perhaps unfair to single Rust out given that it is so young, but there are costs to any innovation, and the first cost that leaped out at me was stories of long compile times. Besides, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Personal anecdotes of increased productivity remain anecdotal - it may be more a property of the programmer than the language. I don't personally have a horse in the race, but pointing out cost points is needed.
My favorite definiton of the lottery = a tax on the innumerate. I wish I could claim that.
Two developers have worked full-time on Kantree for 6 months. We're a four-people team with 3 devs and a business guy.

It's pretty classical stack with Python + Postgres + Redis on the backend and Angular.js for the frontend.
I think we've jumped the shark. You're pleased that you got a TL;DR for a non-clickbait, well written article, just because you despise blatant clickbait headlines?

With a story like this, a barebones explanation loses something - there's a reason all those other words are there (to convey feeling or emotion, to place you in the context of the story, etc).
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I certainly heard it, and I grew up in a large Midwestern city...
I can't visualize what's happening when they move the jacks and let the roof collapse. Obviously they don't let it trap them, but I don't understand where the face, cutter, and jacks are in relation to the tunnel that lets them in and out. Does anyone here know?