skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat :)

I'm also reminded of http://davegrey.net/tagged/pixel-art and http://iotacons.blogspot.com.au/ wrt small pixel art drawings from pop culture. It's amazing that you can capture character in so few pixels sometimes.
Woah.

What do you think actually went down, there? "Hey, of course, let's just implement the StopHandler::HumanStopSign() subroutine, thanks for the report!"?
Ya I was hoping that was not the case anymore. I have a temporary work around that adds a dropshadow view on the layout file while the layout-v21 file does NOT have the dropshadow view. Which seems to work, but I wanted to see if there is a better "Best Practice".
Well he did say that it would reject a fairly high amount of good candidates, but, given your attitude, I'd say it would get this one right.

Not sure why you've latched onto GitHub, he said it could be any one of the four. The principle is obviously just about demonstrating work that you've actually done. I'm pretty sure that's reasonable and not cause to go off on hipsters. Yes, there would be some qualified candidates that would not be able to show those things for various reasons, and that is probably the reason for the high estimate of false negatives, but presumably the decision-makers would be permitted to use common sense to make exceptions.
I have a background in physics and various areas of mathematical software development. I also worked on an Innocentive DNA analysis competition a couple of years ago. I thought I had some interesting ideas but was not able to achieve competitive results in the time frame of the competition. If you'd like to discuss your ideas my email is in my HN profile.
wow!

Works great on an Acer C720 chromebook. Fantastic!
Make a prototype of Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Plot_summary
Most places utilize cubicles. The open floor plan eliminates those cubicle walls and re-arranges the desks to face each other (or replacing several desks with larger conference tables).
When we applied to YC, the three of us only had enough money saved up for two of us to quit our jobs. So two of us quit and Chris kept working in a cubicle and split his paycheck 3 ways. Even that plan didn't give us enough money to work on Wufoo full time because we needed all 3 of us. So that 2 of out 3 plan resulted in 2 of us making a web development magazine that we'd sell and hopefully make enough money for the 3rd one to quit.

The idea behind the magazine was that I calculated we could run it in a way that half the month could be spent on that and the other half on working on the software we wanted to build. I'm pretty sure that play would have taken forever to execute.

So we actually really needed that $18K that YC gave us AND the 3 dedicated months to blow everything off and only work on the software. Very different times back then.
You might be interested in http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/performance.php?... and http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...
true that, no one has time to sit there all day and answer questions on StackOverflow to get a top rating. The checklist is a best way to weed out so many great developers.
Thanks for the offer - I will be in touch.
You've got to really want a job to go through that bullshit.
maps.google.com is also getting progressively slower. I continually wait on Google Maps to load while in another tab on Bing I am already finding directions.
hardly worked at all on my PC with 3 gig of RAM.
"the fact remains that we had a Classic ASP application running on Linux and we didn’t have to pay anybody for the privilege." [0]

Commercial reasons dictated why Wasabi was created and retired. Bravo Joel.

[0] http://jacob.jkrall.net/wasabi-the-parts/introduction.html
Do any of the cloud environments allow an offline mode? e.g. for use on long flights
I should add that anyone who wants to get in touch with me can via my HN profile.
I'm really not trying to bash YikYak, I have a lot of respect for them actually. My point is maybe they are so well funded it's clouding their judgement. I have to think there are more effective growth channels.
Winning what game? I can't find solid numbers about bug-tracker marketshare, but if I type "FogBugz vs" into Google, it throws up Jira as the first result. If I type "Jira vs", FogBuz doesn't show up -- I get Rally, Trello, TFS, Redmine, and Asana first.

FogBugz definitely used to have a lot of mindshare, but...
This is Google we're talking about. I think they will spend time to generalize this situation as much as possible.
LinkedIn is basically an overblown resume, so that doesn't really make a different, try without LinkedIn and resume and see how many people bothering to contact you back.
Once upon a time I had an apple ID, which I lost the password for. Many updates and machines later, it still lingers on somehow, and I cannot prevent that ID from showing up for updates and Mac App Store logins. It's a huge pain in the ass, just another drop in the "I hate Apple" bucket, and for that reason I sympathize with this rant.

NOTE: The ID shows up in the "ID" field next to password and I cannot change it by clicking. Why the hell would you design a UX like this Apple. Huge fail.
Fred Hebert, author of Learn You Some Erlang has a new postscript to the book about the new way time will be handled in Erlang 18+ :

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/time

(BTW, there's also a talk from Erlang Factory by Lukas Larsson on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsc2MyP8p8&list=PLWbHc_FXPo... )
If the currently settled Sikhs are moving up in the labour market (and integrating well into Italian society), couldn't they just open up immigration to a new wave of immigrants to start the same journey?

Eg there are lots of Sikhs left in India who'd be happy to tend Italian cows, and other people Sikh or not all over the world.
What surprises me is how many people dislike cover letters. When I go through applicants, a decent cover letter demonstrating some enthusiasm about the company and a unique point or two is appealing.
Neat :)

I definitely need a right-click colour picker (or shift-click) to work more easily. Can I suggest cutting back your GUI, removing that 3d look, or if you like it too much, then making the pixel art pictures also be 3d like that.

Also your palette is way too saturated. Check out something like http://androidarts.com/palette/16pal.htm for a much nicer set of colours.
None of which makes me care. From the beginning, the relevant question has been, when will I be unable to get an IP? And every time the answer is "real soon now". Yet the price of an extra IP on linode (for one example) has not budged from $1/month. You'll understand if this doesn't inspire much concern.

For the record, I make the same complaint every time. Always the same response. "Those were warning signs, but now the end is nigh!"
> λx.x can be written as λ.0

Reading the wikipedia entry, I thought it would be written as λ.1
'regedit' is not a special tool on windows. It's in every install of windows and you can use it open any registry file.
Also.. installing on windows, it just says 'installation failed, contact the author'.

No idea where I'm supposed to look to find the installation logs, doesn't tell you where they are...
John Cook is pretty well-known for doing this sort of thing: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/top/

His blog is always a good read to boot.
Can also highly recommed the M50x model, if just for the interchangeable cable.
I respect that they have a tradition that considers religious practice most valid when it occurs in the world[1].

Many other religions have strong ascetic and/or monastic traditions, and they tend to consider those practitioners to be, in some sense or other, the holiest. Retreat from the world tends to be the advised path for the purest, or at least most successful, pursuit of religious study and practice.

Not the Sikhs. They're like, "Pft, that sounds like religion on easy mode. No thanks, I'm going to have a job, a spouse, and kids, and still manage to practice my religion well, because I'm not a wimp." This despite their religion featuring all the usual the-world-distracts-you-from-salvation warnings.

[1] See #6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism#Prohibitions_in_Sikhis...
Yeah, the image is still user-hostile and generally unnecessary.
Same experience here--that .dir-locals.el was absolutely crucial.

In case anyone is wondering how to turn on language pragmas with stack ghci in emacs, I did this for the project I'm working on, because I need OverloadedStrings turned on:

((haskell-mode . ((haskell-indent-spaces . 4)
(hindent-style . "johan-tibell")
(haskell-process-type . ghci)
(haskell-process-path-ghci . "stack")
(haskell-process-args-ghci . ("ghci" "--ghc-options" "-XOverloadedStrings")))))
Hypothesis: good candidates with good resumes get hired by Google, everyone else only can interview the bad candidates with good resumes or other candidates with bad resumes. Therefore selecting for good resumes reduces your chance of finding someone good, unless you're the best employer out there.
Oh, this thing is ancient!

Still cool.

https://github.com/SiPlus/WebQuake

There is a node.js multiplayer server included in the repo that works half-decent. :)
State Department Computer Glitch Creates a Visa Nightmare
Please read the rest of the post, it addresses your concerns. If we're unable to stay on topic I cannot continue this conversation.
Maybe we're good at differentiating humans with authority vs. humans without. But there's a much simpler social-engineering tactic for rerouting traffic that both humans and autonomous cars will fall for. I'll summarize it like this: road pylons are $8 at Home Depot.
Redmine is the best for small to large team,wish it is Not ruby though.
...defaults to install to AppData??

How do I get rid of this crap now?

No entries in the Windows Programs listing. IMO They really need to think if this is a 1.0 ready release for windows...
Software engineers are lazy (pt. 3)
Has anyone actually repaired their screen with it? For me, it just didn't work; after four hours or so, I simply gave up.
(Sony LCD screen, really high-quality, a few stuck pixels in a specific area)
The talk discusses the machine count at the 20-minute mark. 40 machines for the log queue, 5 for the psql, and 100+ for the consumers.
Might be worth watching this first, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE
One could argue that the heuristics are for what a Muslim looks like. In that sense the tragedy is that that Sikhs don't really have anything to do with Islam at all. That most Americans think of a beard and turban as a fool-proof indicator of the person being a Muslim of course shows a lack of consideration.

How relevant moderates are to extremism is a separate question (and one that is largely orthogonal to the religion itself) but it's fair to say that no matter how little a moderate has to do with extremists, someone who isn't even a member of their religion in the first place is about as undeserving of hostility as it gets.

I would argue the greater tragedies are that ethnicity frequently gets conflated with religion (which really serves no-one, unless your religion is incestuous) and that most people are too ignorant of other cultures than their own to tell them apart.

Heck, there are still Americans who have a hard time accepting that Obama isn't Muslim just because he's not white (as if non-white Christianity hadn't ever been a thing in the US).
I'd be suspcious of anyone who wasn't ok with violence against Nazis...
And that's great for them! As a big company they can afford the lawyers to deal with regulations, and the scrappy upstart competitors can't.
Not yet if it's a Yesod project, because yesod devel is tightly coupled to cabal-install.
Today on PH: Simply Travel Booking for Slack Teams
This comic is awful, and appears misinformed about fundamental aspects of TPP, like, who the participants actually are (it repeatedly invokes China, who is not a party to TPP).
Qualifying with "close relationships to" is misleading, as every company using Rust is welcome to sign up to receive new versions of the compiler to run against their codebases to test for regressions. See the email address in my profile if you'd like to add your company to our list!
Well, the task of writing the compiler was given to an intern, so I would guess it was an experiment that ended up working well enough that became their strategy for supporting Unix.
Couldn't you have gotten ~$18K as a personal loan from a bank? Even if everything failed, working off that level of depth would have been easy in a silicon valley corporate job afterwards.
Nice! I made a "joke" key value store that uses HFS+ xattr file system attributes https://github.com/radiofreejohn/xattrkv

In the process I found a bug in one of the Darwin syscalls. Still not fixed :(
Certainly was. I kind of fell into my startup without really intending to start a business (I gave a pitch and someone literally wrote out a check on the spot and said go get to work), but I wonder if more founders would be better waiting and building up more capital before starting? If you only need 18K and three months full time then this should be within the reach of almost all founders especially if you are building a business where profitability is within relatively easy reach.
In general, I still think growth trumps revenues/profits for most growing companies. The fact is, making money off a delighted user base is easier than building a delighted user base. However, I do think making money is important as a demonstration that this team can make money on this product/service. Also, I think zero revenue works a lot better if there is at least a view to how this thing is going to make money (surprisingly, this isn't always the case)(and if "advertising" is the answer, needs to be better thought out).
I suppose the fallacy is where the attributes are irrelevant to the argument.

There's a somewhat related comment I'd seen recently which I've found useful:

Nota bene: a fallacious ad hominem only occurs when an accusation against the person serves as a premise to the conclusion. An attack upon that person as a further conclusion isn't fallacious and may, in fact, be morally mandatory.

https://plus.google.com/+StevenFlaeck/posts/EP88WvFohWr

That's not quite what I'm doing here: I'm leveraging the attack on credibility to discount further statements from ESR. But for numerous reasons of psychology and general reputation, if not a strict formal logic sense, there's a strong rationale to this.

Or: the narrator has been shown unreliable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credibility

Traditionally, modern, credibility has two key components: trustworthiness and expertise, which both have objective and subjective components. Trustworthiness is based more on subjective factors, but can include objective measurements such as established reliability.
How renting became the new homeownership
Facebook only hired seven black people in 2013, latest diversity report says
It seems to me, as an outsider, that Joel's reason for avoiding a rewrite at any cost is because so many rewrites have failed. Perhaps it's better to prefer steady, step-by-step progress over a giant leap that might be a leap backward in the end. What is often forgotten in these discussions is that, because Fog Creek had talented programmers, writing Thistle and eventually Wasabi was just another series of steps on the road, not a giant leap as a rewrite would be.
Their point is that cyborg gear is evolving at Moore's Law pace, so any implants that you put in will be obsolete in a couple of years. Not to mention that hardware degrades quickly in a hot, moist, corrosive environment. This is at odds with more "traditional" body modification like tattooing, which lasts a lifetime.
The path of least resistance would have been to write the ASP-to-PHP transpiler, check in the PHP, and stop there.
Good to know, thanks.

It's still odd for software to only work when launched from a specific directory, but not necessarily a critical security vulnerability then.
It's not a matter of correctness or incorrectness; it's a judgement about the relative costs. I have experienced vastly more inconvenience as a result of breakage caused by well-intentioned updates than I have ever experienced as a result of malevolence. As a result, I habitually disable all auto-update systems and do whatever I can to prevent my machine from trying to update itself. So what's really been gained? I have the stability I want, but the supposed security benefits of the incremental update process are lost. In practice, hacker attacks trouble me about as much as terrorist attacks, while system breakage resulting from library updates is common and hard to fix.
This is Michael, co-founder of Livecoding.tv
Could you give more details of the issue you faced?
Which username? Could you please write me an email: michael@livecoding.tv

Thanks!
I assume someone took manual control because it started to move right after.

This is why I believe self-driving cars will always need a human to take control whenever unusual situations arise, just as planes with autopilot still need a pilot's attention.
Oof, that's my mistake, I didn't notice that the indexing system TAPL uses starts at 0, while Wikipedia starts at 1. I'll add a note about that to the post now.
Yeah, was a fun show and Wolfram explained things well.
Was nice to see such him in action.
Coding Autodidactism – Teach Yourself How to Code
I don't think I know anybody personally, whose response would be, "I know, let's write a compiler to translate our VBScript into something that runs on Unix."

Yeah it was an odd strategy, I agree. But on the other hand, translating one scripting language to another doesn't sound sound that unreasonable either.

From the article:

The super obvious answer is to tell unix customers to install Chilisoft ASP. Boom. Done. Except it costs more than FogBugz does.

I remember hearing of Chilisoft ASP. Never used it, and I have no idea what it cost. I'd be curious if they attempted to negotiate any kind of discount for Chilisoft ASP, maybe locked to FogBugz somehow. Compared to running FogBugz on ASP, which I'm guessing would have required at minimum a Windows Server and a SQL Server license, you'd think some kind of deal could have been arranged.

The other thing I'm curious about is how many Unix installations of FogBugz were sold? From what I've seen, customers who are willing to actually pay for a bug tracker would not blink about buying a Windows server to run it, if that's what it required.
> Blind spirituality: Superstitions and rituals should not be observed or followed, including pilgrimages, fasting and ritual purification; circumcision; idols & grave worship; compulsory wearing of the veil for women; etc.

This is probably one of the things that surprised me the most. Other religions put these things first, Sikhism just bans them outright. You'd think a religion that doesn't reinforce its importance with obtrusive rituals wouldn't survive but here it is alive and kicking ass.
Wow. I'm in the Denver metro area, nice neighborhood, 2BR 2BA for $990 per month.

Some of y'all ought to relocate your companies out of the monoculture to somewhere sensible. We have Boulder if you want things to be a little expensive.

Do you really need to be near Stanford?
The Mayor vs. The Mogul – On Michael Bloomberg
Do you seek out KKK marches and assault them with bricks and bats then?
This is very bad news. I have always highly valued resumes as a very effective candidate filter. It works as follows: I take the pile of resumes, shuffle them thoroughly an divide roughly in half. The pile to the left goes in the bin. I repeat this process until I have the luckiest candidate's resume in my hand. This is the type of guy I want to associate with: one on whom fortune smiles, repeatedly.
Are they stuck or dead pixels? My understanding is that if a pixel always appears black, it's "dead" and there's no help with that.

I got few pixels unstuck by using similar apps and massaging the screen, but recently I got one black pixel which doesn't react to anything.
Looks like the Howard.
No, not because of his politics, but because of (among other elements) his political argument methods.

If ESR would pose credible arguments and facts, exhibit critical thinking facility, not stoop to denigrating his counterparts, etc., I'd find his points of view more substantive.

But he does none of that, and, rather, the opposite.

I do seek out contradicting evidence, among my mantras (and a conspicuous posted note to myself) is "seek to disprove". I've changed my mind and/or views on a number of significant points and in some cases major views over the past few years. I do that based on evidence and argument, though. It's not a casual process, and doesn't happen easily.

But being able to admit I'm wrong is a large part of it. Also: not insisting on being wrong (valuing belief consistency with time over consistency with observed reality).

Questioning everything is, however, rather exhausting. Developing heuristics for when to start digging in to apparent bullshit claims helps a lot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28ge14/on_nons...
> Why should anyone pick Rust over Swift when Swift will be able to do everything Rust can do

Because Swift can't do everything Rust can do. It's missing its biggest features.
Yes, this is my experience exactly with PressureNet[1]. The SDK is terrible. And they know this too, because I just found the android-maps-utils library on GitHub [2], written by someone on the Google Maps Android team. It's a library of additional, critical features that the Maps SDK should have built in, and it's made by Google! So why aren't these features in the SDK?

Example critical feature: Place text on a map. Supported method of doing so is to create Bitmaps on the fly using the drawText() method to compose your dynamic image. Ridiculous. So this new library supports simple features like that, but why isn't it baked into the SDK? Argh.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...

[2]: https://github.com/googlemaps/android-maps-utils
My gut is also saying "Do it!" but don't want to do a stupid move. Could you please tell me more about your thoughts about market, VC funds and etc.
> And obeying directions for traffic, even if you desperately want to obey, only really works when you can assume that other people on the road follow them as well.

This is the key. In the end, the concurrent intelligent-agent-based system that is driving works because all the agents have a mutual goal (to have traffic proceed smoothly so they aren't stuck in it), and so will cooperate to fulfill that goal even without any central authority dictating behavior.

"Traffic" as a whole works as well as it does because every node in the system can intelligently compensate for the failures of the nodes around it, and can decide to cooperate—in a span of seconds—with another driver's compensation strategy.

I would guess that the majority of the Google automatic chauffeur's high-level behavior isn't explicit, but rather "arises" from implicit subroutines about following the flow of traffic. For example, if there's an accident in the middle of a six-lane road with roadside parking, the car could be programmed to notice cones and avoid them, and to notice people directing traffic and follow them—but then it might get stuck, because there's no single "lane" open any more. Or it could just be programmed to notice that up ahead the lanes are merging together and driving half-way between the middle- and right-hand lane—and so, to follow the flow of traffic, it should merge too.

In other words, if all the automatic chauffeur's friends jumped off a bridge, it would likely be a pretty effective optimization for it to jump off too.

(Though I'd hope it was taking the hint mostly from regular cars; a pack of driverless cars following one-another's lead could turn out badly if the one at the head of the pack is malfunctioning.)