skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your hypothetical of Google contracting out its programming (maybe on oDesk?) instead of using in-house employees. I agree that that would be a major shift. Uber seems to be the go-to example in these kinds of articles, but is not very convincing as an example of a fundamental market shift, because the taxi market already operates similarly to how Uber operates. Taxi drivers are typically contractors, and companies like "Yellow Cab" just handle dispatch services and such in return for a cut [1]. So Uber vs. Yellow Cab is an example of a new market creator competing against an incumbent for the taxi-dispatch business.

[1] Example of a Yellow Cab "non-job" posting: http://www.yellowcabaustin.com/driver.aspx
How could I not think of that! Hiring a kind of SJW-ey guy to write Rust docs is just a small step in the direction of clear-text passwords and the removal of HTTPS from Firefox. Better switch to Gnome Web, then.
In a ideal world, yes, this is how it would work. But in practice it is not. The vast, vast majority of documents using non-straight quotes use ’ (U+2019[1], the Windows-1252 \x92 right curly quote that Microsoft Word <3s) for apostrophes. There's not much that can be done about that.

Unicode has to strike a balance between what's most "correct" and how the real world actually uses it.

[1] I was looking at that codepoint and thought it must be wrong. It's too big a number for a Latin-1 codepoint. Aren't the first 256 characters of Unicode just Latin-1? Well, exactly. They're Latin-1, rather than Windows-1252, which is where the now-infamous curly “smart quotes” come from. The two encodings are easily confused, because they're mostly the same. The difference is Microsoft replaced the extra control codes in the high byte (who needs those, really? ASCII had too many already) with more useful new printable characters.
Abstract interpretation/symbolic execution should still work, but it would require basically reimplementing the semantics of perl, yes.
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Makes a real effort to completely gloss over a very common English use of apostrophes. From the article:

> Consider any English word with an apostrophe, e.g. “don’t”. The word “don’t” is a single word. It is not the word “don” juxtaposed against the word “t”. The apostrophe is part of the word, which, in Unicode-speak, means it’s a modifier letter, not a punctuation mark, regardless of what colloquial English calls it.

> According to the Unicode character database, U+2019 is a punctuation mark (General Category = Pf), while U+02BC is a modifier letter (General Category = Lm). Since English apostrophes are part of the words they’re in, they are modifier letters, and hence should be represented by U+02BC, not U+2019.

> (It would be different if we were talking about French. In French, I think it makes more sense to consider «L’Homme» as two words, or «jusqu’ici» as two words. But that’s a conversation for another time. Right now I’m talking about English.)

OK, I've considered an English word: "man's". In the sentence "That man's pants are on fire!", this is usually considered a single word, the genitive case of "man" (personally, I'm not a huge fan of that approach, since the "genitive" 's attaches to phrases, not to words, but it is the mainstream position in linguistics).

In the sentence "That man's about to jump", on the other hand, the "word" "man's" is two words joined by an apostrophe, exactly as in French "l'homme". These clitics aren't exactly rare in English. The author shows some linguistic training in the comments to his piece, but never once mentions clitics, and fails to address them when another commenter brings them up.

Use U+0027 for English apostrophes. ;p
solar would seem to be safer, presuming you can manufacture the cells without causing environmental degradation.
You don't end up with 2-3 billion people competing for the work of 320 million. That makes no sense. You just end up with an economy of 2.32 or 3.32 billion.

The 2-3 billion require services and products too, so it's not like they're not consumers (even if their spending is lower if their wages are lower). Plus, the labor pool as a percentage of the population is shrinking in many western countries, and so immigration from countries where the workforce is expanding is required regardless
Could you elaborate? Are you talking about the number of people? I feel like some other low-tech jobs, like truck driving or cleaning people, are more wasteful. Say, for example, that the 3.5 million truck drivers become automated out of a job then they work in finance, technology, etc., wouldn't society be better off?

Consider, for instance, that a company like Renaissance Technologies has over 100 PhD's in physics and math.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
It hasn't flown back, but the comet has moved and is now closer to the Sun, so there is more light for the lander.
There's a bit longer piece on a related topic here: http://www.therandymon.com/papers/emacs-for-writers.pdf

Looked nice when I found it, but I'm not a writer and I can't judge how useful it can be.
You know what's uncomfortable? Being around people who feel the need to be offended by anything.
Any evidence that the "men looking for sex / women for LTR" hypothesis, to the extent it is true, is more prevalent in online dating, as opposed to dating in general? I think it mostly comes down to anonymity and low cost of rejection. Men online are just less embarrassed to express thoughts and desires that they wouldn't to a dating prospect that is, say, friend of a friend due to the increased social cost of coming off as a creep.
There's no science of attraction, once you realize that the whole thing is easier. Who "rocks your world" will be defined by a very complex and impossible to control set of interactions.

Remember both sides (you and the other) like to have a fantasy to invest in. Leave room for the fantasy, be a little daring and a little assertive, do not self sabotage, emphasize your value as a mate so that your partner will be able to emphasize it to themselves and their friends. Hopefully you will see something in your counterpart, if you do, don't go out of your way to snuff it out - instead invest in it - what's wrong with focusing on his/her eyes and not her ears?

On the other hand, neither side likes a jerk, don't be horrid, don't be rude, be kind, be sensible, be gentle.

Don't quite be yourself, but mostly be yourself. Be the self you wish you were - the movie version of yourself crossed with your mothers version of yourself.

Then - see what happens.
And sadly, HN is full of them. They don't even feel the irony.
Isn't this the problem of dating in general?
Another good indicator is, that in Germany Bild and the Huffington Post reported about it. You generally want to avoid to write a story based on these two. Everybody knows, that Bild consists of sex, hate, tits and the weather forecast as the Ärzte put it in a song mocking people that get their information from that paper.
Red seems like a very ambitious project to be completed by a single developer. I've only briefly looked at the syntax, but it seemed to me that it's not very clear. The excess use of brackets is visually confusing.
Perhaps you have your causation backward: perhaps the mission was planned to last only months due to power limitations.
When those clothes belittle an entire class of people. It sends a message to his female peers that he views them primarily as objects, and as human being second. If he wore that to my office, he would be rightfully fired on the spot.
"Rent control has been tried in so many different American cities and by and large is considered a failure in any city it is implemented"

[citation needed]

I think what you meant to say is that rent control is widely considered a failure by certain rich people who want to maximize their profit-seeking behavior without regard to societal cost, and economists of particular ideologies, who generally are unable prove their claims about real-world rent-control systems. Most other people like it, which is why it sticks around.

The people who complain about rent control in San Francisco, for example, have yet to provide evidence that it's doing anything but lowering prices here.

There's a lot of heat in this debate, but very little light.
> They're meant to get high schoolers without much (if any) formal science training to the level that they can safely maintain, operate and repair the specific electrical and electronic components used in Navy fleet applications.

The key here is "maintain, operate and repair".

Army training manuals are generally great for that.

They are not a resource to learn design from. If someone's objective is to learn how to make things, they're a very bad place to start.
It's not the same thing. In Python this is a run-time error. The code you posted is parsed and compiled to byte-code just fine. Then, depending on the time, a new function is created dynamically at run-time or a NameError is raised at run-time.

In Python and other dynamic languages the compilation part is very simple, the code is parsed (the grammar is very simple) and converted to byte-code. Then the byte-code is executed. Things like function and class definitions happen at run-time, not at compile-time.

In Perl 5, the line between compilation-time and run-time is very fuzzy. It doesn't have a simple grammar that you can use to convert Perl to op-code. You can run code at compilation-time and change the way the compiler interprets things.
This is just a set of political predictions. There's no reason such policies must exist in the future, except for the wealthy people pushing them.

For example, a country could pass some laws: "For all corporations over 10 employees, no more than 3% of their revenue may go to paying, directly or indirectly, independent contractors. Fines for violating this law are infinite. No more than 3% of employees may be scheduled for less than 40 hours per week. Fines for violating this law are infinite."

And boom, we've eliminated the phenomena of part-time, work on demand, transient workforces. Companies would quickly adjust to a new reality of 40-hour full-time employees. They would start doing things like investing in training, to make sure they have the best employees possible.

This is a policy choice, not some inevitable law of nature. Currently the people making the policy are choosing to promote part-time and work on demand. That's not a law of nature; that's politics.
What level of maths are you exactly looking at?

Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/) has great resources for all levels of maths up until the first year of university - easily the friendliest and most comprehensive set of classes and topics for maths until that level

MIT Open Courseware (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=mathematics) has many courses that you can pick from and start to learn from. For these it doesn't hurt to see what textbooks they're using (if any) and purchasing them and going through the problem sets yourself.

The great thing about maths, is that until you get to the very high levels, many problems can be checked against pre-made answers.

Hope this helps!
Finally, the most accurate reactions come from the web itself: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=166912491

> study invalid. no control for calories at all.

> Why are calories not counted on any of the individuals?

> Free reign is not a way to go about doing a study. They might very well have, we don't know. We all know cocoa has weight loss properties (Theobromine), but to do such a poorly constructed study was pointless.
'everyone'?

I don't recall being fooled into thinking this.

Slightly less flippantly - the assertion, conclusion, and title are wrong.
Why? This cursory Google search https://www.google.co.in/search?q=death+per+terawatt seems to say nuclear has less kills per terawatt-hour than coal, though obviously quantifying deaths from all these power sources is hard.
It's called professionalism. And unless you're a porn star or strip club owner, this isn't appropriate attire.
Mandoc: becoming the main BSD manual toolbox [pdf]
It's difficult to understand why anyone would ever pay any attention to nutrition "science". Everything is wrong. TFA complimented the meatheads on some bodybuilding site for their skepticism. People who pay very close attention to their own habits and results are probably going to be more right about their own nutrition than all the scientists in the world put together.
I agree with your description [1]. However, I disagree with this:

> If Google contract out the development of blue sky ideas to small companies or individuals and that yields products like gmail, that would be a sign. So far though, it's in house or acquisition (a form of contracting?) for really important things.

Blue-sky research is the classic example of the sort of stuff that is particularly hard to build a market around, hence most such research is publicly financed (shielded within universities and government labs) or privately financed by huge, private pseudo-governments like IBM, Microsoft, Bell, etc.

The fact that venture capital has allowed the market to compete with firms for certain kinds of "short term blue-sky research" (i.e., research that is very high risk, although still relatively short time-to-payoff) is certainly a great development. But that doesn't mean we should expect other blue-sky research to be the first area where the technological suppression of transaction costs allows markets to displace firms. Rather, it seems to me that the conventional wisdom is still mostly correct, and we should expect work that is more easily measurable than research to be freed from big firms first.

See also economist Robin Hanson for arguments and data that typical firm size will increase in the future, technology not withstanding:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/09/expect-bigger-orgs.htm...

[2] I wrote a similar comment once, doubtlessly channeling Coase: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/...
I'm glad that I don't work in your office. Any kind of work environment that is that intolerant is a huge red flag.
That's actually a terrible way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
At least he didn't lose his job over it.
If Mozilla was a-political, Klabnik couldn't work there if Brendan couldn't. He can, and Mozilla isn't.

Actually, the politicalization of Mozilla means that everything technical will lose priority over time.
At first my lighter side responds by thinking these newspapers are just shooting themselves in the foot. But then I realise that there really is a market for this kind of trashpaper. Fortunately, there is also a market for movies [1], that expose the slime behind these publications.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/03/george-clooney-f...
> Google will store your website and WiFi passwords (along with your emails and pictures) in plaintext on their servers

You're going to need to qualify that statement.

> Mozilla utterly destroyed the security of their sync system

You're going to need to qualify that statement.
It's a pejorative term meaning "social justice warrior", almost invariably intended as an insult. In my experience, there's no well-defined meaning to the term (it covers a lot of ground), but it does send a pretty consistent message about the person using it.
How about an OPML file we can upload it feedly?
I would like to see or hear more regarding the theory slides - in particular on the objective being a piecewise polynomial, and the distribution of weights using random matrix theory. Anyone know where I could find more?
I think putting a nuke on a rocket makes everyone nervous, not just the Americans...
Yeah, there's so much great content here, sometimes I too seem to not get to the purely tech stuff. You may be interested in lobste.rs. I've found that they have nearly the same tech content, but lobste.rs is tech only.
To clear this dispute in a scientific way, I created a word document in Word 2010 (Windows 7) with a badly drawn graphics and exported it to HTML:

> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B654HhgdE0ZTRktjSERNS3pxd00...

Note that the generated HTML5 source code

- contains VML code
- will not render correctly in any modern browser
- If you want to be able to render it in IE11, you have to press F12 (Developer tools)
and change from "Edge" to compatibility to version 7 (or even 5) of the IE engine.
Then it will be drawn "correctly".
Mobile MVP vs. Web MVP and why you shouldn’t build both
http://mikolalysenko.github.io/l1-path-finder/www/
Are they married though? Gay marriage is legal and if they aren't, boyfriend isn't "gross" here.
> CDDL is and was created with the purpose of being GPL incompatible, because Sun did not want Linux to be able to use ZFS and DTRACE

Not true at all.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/31ny87/i_am_the_cto_o...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=youtu.be...
Computer algorithm picks history’s ‘most creative’ paintings
Is there a volume summary of research papers or recommended book(s) for DNN?
The language and the environment are certainly at fault to a high degree due to the lack of standards.

1) Breaking JS up into small files actually makes it less readable because then you have to guess at the context that the JS is running in. Without static typing, it's impossible to reason about certain blocks of code without going to find blocks of code that exist in other files and so on...

2) JS devs have to use ninja tricks because without a strong standard library they have to keep reinventing the wheels that should have been included.

There is no standard for how to write readable Javascript and there is too much flexibility. Isaacs, of Node.js fame, writes horribly unreadable code IMO due to the fact that he does not use semi-colons and he tends to put punctuation on the left. However, he swears by the fact that it's more readable...to him.
agreed.it is almost to the point that we as citizens might be better served by software that gathers data and outputs it in article form instead of counting on journalism majors with mortgages to assemble and relate the facts.
Heads up I'm not familiar with these kind of sites. But to quote the Adultfriender hack article of last month:

Among the 26,939 users with a UK email address, for example, there are just 1,596 who identified as female: a ratio of one woman to every 16 men.[1]

[1] http://www.channel4.com/news/adult-friendfinder-dating-hack-...
What I really want to know is why there's this huge gap in the data set in the 18th century. Surely humans didn't just stop painting for 100 years or so?
No, but in societies with more freedom like the US and the UK there generally tends to be more propaganda, because in those societies the government can't use force to coerce the population. They need people to agree with the official line, so they have to use the media to print stories like the Sunday Times'.
This is an old idea. Not sure why people are trying to give credit here where none is due.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714766
I'm not sure I understand your comment.

Specifically, Red is a dialect of Rebol, not Lisp. And after a quick glance through the docs (or I guess the Rebol docs they recommend using), and the Wikipedia pages for Red and Rebol, it doesn't seem any more Lispy than Ruby or Python.

Also, the easiest way to get a lot of libraries would be to have easy C interop. At this point there are far more C libraries available than Go libraries.
I have a humble idea not tried yet in match making, no profiles, no personality tests, just one simple fact I won't disclose. I don't need money, I can do it all myself, what I need is users.

How do I get users once my MVP is ready?

Perhaps a cofounder expert in marketing is the right solution?
https://github.com/SteveRabin/JPSPlusWithGoalBounding
Thanks for your comments. Are you pulling eventbrite events? Might be a regional thing but don't find many entertainment events on there compared to other sources. Appreciate we might at some point be competing, but might be good to have a chat.

How are you finding using venue IDs, rather than names, in urls in terms of SEO?
Would have been earlier than that. I subscribed to Comcast in Mountain View in 2012 and received IPv6 addresses.
Ask HN: 20, Programmer, Germany. Moving to Silicon Valley, What Should I Know?
I want to move to Silicon Valley within the next 5 years.
What should I know about moving there, and about tech jobs? What languages and skills would you suggest I should learn?

Maybe someone who did the same, how did you do it without failing too hard?
Hack Cancer to be held in London
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Yea, we're incredibly intolerant. Men and women in equal roles, with equal pay, and a healthy diversity of cultures, ideas, and religions. Everyone feels comfortable suggesting an idea, or challenging a preconceived notion. The only real rule is Don't be a douche. You wouldn't like it.
Precomputation takes O(n^2) complexity so this is great for static environments like Starcraft maps where the units don't evaluate units in their path finding.
> Oh right, better to have folks born on the wrong side of an arbitrary line continue to live on $3k/year in order to make sure American wages continue to rise from $40k to $60k. Be honest - your actual complaint is that reducing inequality sucks when you are at the top of the heap.

Which is why I found it so funny that Bernie Sanders complains about Vietnamese workers (he even called them out by name!).

I'm used to seeing race-baiting from politicians of all stripes. I just wasn't used to seeing it from self-described "actual socialists".
I think the most scary thing is this and IA in the machines :/
Thanks for your feedback. The landing page needs work, thanks for pointing that out. If you have time to check out the rest of the site and let me know your thoughts it would be appreciated. Thanks. https://goongoout.com/uk/hampshire/portsmouth/
Have you mastered algebra and trig? If not, do it. Khan Academy is great for this. Watch the videos and do lots and lots of problems. In learning math, there is no substitute for working through lots of problems.

After this, I suggest learning some discrete math and proof techniques. The book How To Prove It is great. It will teach you logic, set theory, how to write proofs, and how to invent proofs. Learning this first will help you actually understand calculus when you study it next.

For calculus, MIT's OCW course is really good. Pick up a standard book like Stewart, do a lot of problems, and try to understand the proofs of all the theorems. Or if you'd really like a challenge and some more theory, pick up Spivak's book.
Someone has never heard of chubby chasers XD

Some people actually prefer heavier people. So, no, that doesn't actually solve the problem.
I noticed that, too. I've obviously not got the numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if Google Play wasn't number two to Spotify right now in terms of subscribers. To not mention it at all is a strange oversight.
Your Cars Are at Security Risk, Warns Kaspersky
> There's a lot of heat in this debate, but very little light.

An ironic statement given the 3 paragraphs that preceded it...
If you need users, then you do need money. The online dating app scene is insanely competitive. The last one to go naturally viral was Tinder, but the odds of duplicating that success are infinitesimal.