skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What am I referring to is the scenario where you can apply for a job, and rarely even expect to hear back from a potential employer, as the total number of people also applying makes that impossible. This, I don't think, is very different from other areas of the country.

Right, I think that is a function of resume spraying, to be honest. I agree that it is pretty common.

Note to employers! You can stand out by treating applicants as human being and simply replying 'no, it doesn't seem like a good fit' when someone applies for a job. I love what Zapier does, for example--they respond to everyone.
As (I think) the third person you mention above, I totally agree---and thanks for the great work keeping the tree in good state.
I was thinking the same thing. Looks like the writing of someone posting to a drug forum blacked out on benzodiazepines.
Scratch or Snap are exactly what you are looking for. Squeak is one level beyond that.
If they specifically asked for "powerset" that might be considered a gotcha question, but a powerset is another way of thinking of binary enumeration[0], which isn't that rare.

[0] by that I mean both the case of counting in binary, as well as enumerating all the ways you can have or not have some things--you might care about that when considering all the interactions of config flags you might have to deal with.
you are right. even 1 million is a very tiny number.
This is a good initiative because LuaJIT development has been mostly halted since May 2014, when the following note was added to the LuaJIT Open Sponsorships page:

"The main LuaJIT author (Mike Pall) is working on unrelated projects and cannot accept new sponsorships at this time..." [1]

Since then, Mike has only made bugfix commits to the project.

I really hope that the features mentioned on that Open Sponsorships page start happening after these news, and CloudFlare seems like a good candidate to me: even without knowing how much resources they're ready to offer, I'm willing to bet it will be an improvement over the current situation.

Everyone was surprised when LuaJIT seized the position of "fastest scripting language in the west", and it would be awesome if they could manage to keep that status - or has it been taken over by Javascript already? JS implementations have been improving dramatically thanks to the competition between browsers, and V8/SpiderMonkey are implementing features from LuaJIT's TODO list right now (I'm thinking about vectorized SIMD instructions). A lot of people use benchmarks as a major factor for choosing a scripting language, and I'd rather see more projects using Lua/LuaJIT rather than JS as a scripting language. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Go LuaJIT!

[1]: http://wiki.luajit.org/Open-Sponsorships
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What if China ran their war ships into Mexico gulf just like U.S did in Southern China Sea?We shall think it is quiet fair because in the "public" ocean?
Are video games not art then?
If you think Egyptian mythology has a problem with the name clash imagine this software incubator (also called Isis) [1]

"Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 09:30 to 11:30

Isis Innovation Ltd, Ewert House, Ewert Place, Oxford OX2 7SG, United Kingdom

The Isis Software Incubator is running its spring 4 week accelerator programme starting March 23. During this time several of our ventures will come in for 4 full weeks of working to progress their ventures and participating in different training sessions we’ve put together for them. For the first time we're opening up our doors so you can join them for these!"

[1] http://www.eship.ox.ac.uk/startup-marketing-1-isis-software-...
> If they all stand to profit from it and have influenced democratically elected governments to participate in it specifically without the people, doesn't it actually make corruption the more plausible cause?

What makes you think they have influenced democratically elected governments "specifically without the people"? In the US, 49% think it is a good thing, and 29% think it is a bad thing [1]. In most of the other countries involved, support is higher (see same link).

> Wait, wait, hold the phone. I forgot that giving government officials money is free speech now. Carry on.

Spending on TPP is greatly exaggerated [2].

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/23/americans-fa...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9968057
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There are 187000000000000 million gallons of water in the Pacific Ocean, meaning that "radioactive waste" is 2.1 x 10^-10% of the body of water itself.

The waste we're talking about is HTO --- tritiated water --- which is a low-energy beta emitter that has intrinsically low bioavailability, because it is literally just water and is eliminated quickly.

Before developing an opinion about how terrifying this radiation leak is, a good number to have handy --- exercise for the reader --- is over the 12 year half life of tritium, assuming 400 gallons pumped into the ocean every day, for 4384 days, what percentage of the background radiation of the Pacific ocean are we talking about elevating it to?

Another number, which will not make you feel better about the world, is what elevation to background radiation is produced by the coal plants it would take to offset all the power produced by nukes.

Finally: if you believe that HTO leaks from TEPCO are, or are going to be, responsible for mass die-offs of marine life, you're going to have to account for the fact that we basically carpet-bombed the oceans with HTO during the insane nuclear weapons testing of the 1960s; nothing TEPCO is doing will come close.
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I'm waiting! Application says 'In-progress'...I am refreshing like I did my admissions responses for college, ha.

Good luck to you and the others. Wonder how many people applied in total?
this is exactly the case. had i just remember what a power set was instead of say something dumb like "all the n-k combination of these children something someting" it would have gone much better.

and yes, it was a hard tree question.
Your users don't care about rules, and rules need manpower.

If your rules prevent you from keeping your software secure, you don't have enough manpower to do what is in your user's best interests.
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I completely agree. The exceptions, however, would be if it has enough utility as water for example, similar to Search. All things considered, it certainly must be useful to the masses.
Why sad? XFree86 and GCC had HORRIBLE code, first thing done in forks was to delete 70% of code.
Stock options are not part of the median income.

I agree. What I'm saying is that average income might not have risen, but median income has. To suggest wages in general have stagnated isn't true.
Well, it's not that difficult to fix it in ZF.

If you define S to be S = {x in U: x not in x}, then it simply means S is not in U.
LOL, point and click. More like press F3 and type LOOK UNDER THE BRIDGE

Oh, they were the good old days and to your point about humour, the responses from Space Quest to text commands it didn't understand were a perfect example: "Pardon me. This program is too stupid to glean your desire from such a wonderfully crafted sentence. Please try something else."

http://spacequest.wikia.com/wiki/SQ3_transcript
What idiotic tech term should go to Room 101?
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I second the renting a desk. I rent a desk in a coworking space and it's been great. It's a mile from home, so the commute is very light.
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Avast free, but NOT for the antivirus. It has a really convenient software updating utility which will make you far more secure than any antivirus feature ever could.
The only thing? I think the Norks might have something to say about that...

Ironically tho' if they did achieve their wildest dreams and conquer the South they would be more, not less, vulnerable, because they wouldn't have any Western ally to hold to ransom anymore.
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A large portion of lower Manhattan is also landfill -- the same portion that recently flooded during Hurricane Sandy.
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The question is, is President Xi willing to risk military conflict to enforce whatever new lines he draws on the map? I don't think he is. As we saw the air zone China drew that overlapped Korea, Japan and Taiwan, it was promptly ignored by all countries and when the US stealth bombers were flying China was silent.

An actual combat that results in Chinese loss would be detrimental to the continuity of Xi's party and the Communist Party itself. The risk is far too great for the small gain it gets. Chinese leadership operates on a cost/benefit analysis, I don't think anything has changed.

So the only logical conclusion is that Xi, along with his anti-corruption campaign to take out his foes, is using brinkmanship to further his popularity and distract people from internal problems that could lead to massive unrest. Economic downturn would certainly be a threat and war drumming has been a common political tool used by many different countries at different points in history.

A military conflict that would be launched by China so far away from it's coastline makes no sense where US has dozens of nearby bases in different countries and logistic support on it's own and from host countries to sustain a prolonged naval warfare. If there was a war, China should pick it's coastlines where it has anti-access/area denial weapons (allegedly) and opposing force would not risk their assets. It would be a nightmare in terms of logistics for PLAN if they did launch some provocation so far away from the mainland. The island building is a clever way to provoke without risking it's military.
Some sort of game where you design, build, and manage dams, canals, and water usage for a small coastal country might be interesting and let you take advantage of the terrain and simulation aspects of the engine. Plus you could find out what happens when CA really does run out of water, ha ha.
> Ones involving love, religion or ideology?

Outside of mythology, I can't think of any in the first category; most of those that are traditionally described in the second or third were about groups control of land of material resources, though the basis of the claim to that control (or at least the propaganda to get people to fight for it) may have been based on religion/ideology.
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Two other great philosophical questions are: Where do we humans find meaning? And, what is the basis for morals and ethics? How do we determine what actions are right and wrong?

And Camus said that the one truly interesting philosophical problem is suicide.

http://www.camus-society.com/myth-of-sisyphus.html

Set theory isn't going to answer those questions at all.

Indeed.
This is probably one of the issues with being a the aforementioned super-smart / super-productive leader: they can take all of that load if needed.

Should they? God no. No one can run that workload as a volunteer for a decade+.

But I can see how the default reality probably bends towards "Well, someone left and we need this job filled" -> "I'll just temporarily add that job to my workload" -> "It'd be more effort to move that job's responsibility to someone else, so I'll just keep doing it."
It seems like the argument being made here is that perhaps the systemd developers are afraid / unable to innovate in the kernel, which is in fact the overall system-wide daemon and parent to all processes.
I can't help but see a Final Fantasy Tactics clone.
Let's hope so?
The UI is rather reminiscent of Teenage Engineering synth UIs: https://www.teenageengineering.com/products/op-1/modules

Nice looking, overall
Do you also have that much memory? The dataset would need to be loaded into memory at all times recognition is used to be useful.

I never said storage is the limiting factor, in fact, I even said you need a significant amount of "space and memory".
Thanks for the tip. I'll take that into account next time.
So, Where's My Water 3D? :)
Agreed. I was never a Kings Quest player but I loved Space Quest with a passion. One of those very well written experiences that I enjoyed as a kid, then when I went back years later picked up all the jokes that went right over my head...
That's exactly what would happen: the US would not freak out about it.

Russia was just busy flying bombers 40 miles off the coast of California last week. Last time I checked, we haven't declared war on Russia for it. They regularly do the same thing with their navy in various ways, whether off the Atlantic or Pacific coast, or near Cuba / Florida waters.
This article is inflammatory, in bad faith, and in many places blatantly incorrect.

I appreciate a lot of suckless work, but I don't see what this is adding.
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Seriously? Inaccurate FUD.

systemd is the best thing to happen to Linux lately. We're finally going to get stateless systems and verified boot. It takes an actual idiot to not understand the value of these things.
A rewrite (even a small one like moving from Python 2 to 3) costs dev and test time, and makes it difficult to do any other work simultaneously. It's not going to happen unless it has some value (perhaps, for example, they wanted to use the new builtin async syntax of Python 3.5 instead of rolling their own).
Impatiently waiting for an engine + API docs that I can download and play with. :-)
Isn't twisted largely superseded by asyncio?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html

I had to build a simple LDAP proxy recently, looked at twisted and asyncio and went with asyncio/python3. For that use-case, it was a perfect choice.
QBasic was the first programming language I learned, so I was curious:

> How is it different from QBASIC?

> Unlike QBASIC, Small Basic is based on .Net and can consume (not produce) "Objects".

> It supports distinct Operations, Properties and Events.

> It doesn't have GOSUB :)

So this looks like an Object-Oriented QBasic. Awesome!
Parcel (https://www.fromparcel.com/) attempts to alleviate these issues. When you sign up with Parcel you are given an address to ship your packages to and when the packages arrive you receive a text asking you what is the most convenient time to drop it off at your home. It is $5 per package.

Unfortunately it is NYC only for now.
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There has been a significant investment in creating resources for teaching programming with SmallBasic; these wind up being more important than the tool (or even choice of language) itself!
I love this kind of experimentation!
In an attempt to grasp how toxic the water is, wouldn't it be more effective to measure levels of cesium 137 instead of overall background radiation? I don't care what background radiation the entire Pacific has, I care if the sushi I'm eating has ionized, cancer-causing particles in it.

"Michio Aoyama’s initial findings were more startling than most. As a senior scientist at the Japanese government’s Meteorological Research Institute, he said levels of radioactive cesium 137 in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean could be 10,000 times as high as contamination after Chernobyl..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/asia/concerns-over-m...
In this discussion on HN, I hope that people of both sides will permit everyone to have their own opinion on systemd without becoming as emotional or angry as the last time. Topics about systemd tend to get out of hand way too fast and often. In the past I've been blamed for saying I really dislike systemd but my arguments were not even read. The same thing the other way around: I've seen people who dislike systemd flame the people who do enjoy it. Let's just not repeat that kind of discussion; we can do better.

Getting emotional about something is not always a bad thing, IMO. But let's just respect that different people hold different opinions, especially with something as controversial as systemd. Let's just aim at being constructive here.
Which edition do you have?
Windows 8, Pro, Enterprise, or RT?

I did the upgrade with Win 8.1 Pro and the choice to reset default program options was pretty clear.
Unfortunately it looks like a lot of the links are broken. At least, I don't see the connection to what the first link about logind has to do with udev.
Oh man, I never had one of the red text hintbooks, but I do remember paying my parents back out of my allowance to call the 1-900 hint line a few times.

It's amazing some of the things that don't exist anymore in this modern world of internet and gamefaqs.
I have theory in my mind , I hope I can find an answer for it in HN.

I always wondered about how companies like Redhat and Samsung driving open source project . The way they pushed systemd to Linux community . The way Intel developer designed Gnome 3 for touch screen rather than Desktops .Is it true ? for example Company X by recruiting most of lead maintainer of project Y , They almost take control of its direction .

Is this feasible scenario ?
Is this is what happened around sysmted controversy ?
There seems to be a fundamental logical error in the explanation given here:

"As the court recognized, the reasoning of Dirks compels this conclusion. The Supreme Court ruled that to be liable a tippee must know that the insider leaked the information in breach of a duty. The Court in Dirks also held that breach of a duty was established if the insider received some personal benefit in exchange for the leak. Logically, therefore, proof the tippee knew there was a breach of duty means proof the tippee knew that the insider received some personal benefit."

It would have to be the case that a breach of a duty can only be established if the insider received some personal benefit in exchange for the leak, in order for the conclusion to hold.
China is free to try to negotiate the establishment of navy bases anywhere in the world they see fit. And so is the US. The US has vastly more allies globally than China does, and that's the difference. Few countries trust China enough to establish long-term military arrangements with them. Whereas the US has been part of NATO for decades, and has been openly protecting Europe for decades - and the Europeans welcome it.

You think Germany wants China to set up a large military base in their country? How about South Korea or Japan? Of course not.
That would be interesting...Actually when I first started I wanted to achieve the visuals of Tactics Ogre programmatically.
http://www.impulsegamer.com/psp/tacticsogre02.jpg

The only problem is that there is a good deal of content production and balancing that goes into such a game - I want to build a "simple as possible" game in the short term.
Seems like an interesting concept to me, but you have the possibility of a system that can be gamed. You are asking for someone to find bugs created by someone else. You can't really verify that the two people are not the same person or that they are not colluding with each other.

I might be naive about this, but look at Homejoy. They shut down because they had a system that could be and was gamed.
I still use python 2 because I'm not the best programmer and most stack overflow answers are python 2 based (although more and more are for both now-a-days). I wouldn't be opposed to using python 3, but see no real reason to do so.
Just this past week, I needed/wanted to pick up a package at distribution centers. One was FexEx, other UPS. All they really needed was photo ID, doortag, and signature.
> 8x ctrl + alt + del
> In systemd you press eight times Ctrl+Alt+Del to trigger reboot.

Like many of the other points, this one is plain incorrect.

> When the user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del more than 7x within 2s an
immediate reboot is triggered. This useful if shutdown is
hung and is unable to complete, to expedite the
operation. Note that this kind of reboot will still unmount
all file systems, and hence should not result in fsck being
run on next reboot.

Systemd is reboots your system quickly if you press it multiple times. Ctrl-Alt-Del still reboots your system.

> floppy group removed
> Because we know what is right to know about groups. This is just one example of the mass of group name dependencies systemd is adding. See sinit for how to not need such dependencies.

WTF? systemd is removing an obsolete group, not adding one.

> systemd-pm
> Power management is required on boot up.

You're right in this one and it's a GoodThing(tm). Hopefully we might see better hibernate and sleep support.

> factory reset
> Welcome to the Windows OEM world: Factory reset for Linux! Of course it is in your init process.

Yes, all features of Windows are BadThings(tm).
Maybe you should talk to some middle-eastern people and tell them the U.S. isn't a real threat?

My point being that this never-ending blame game won't solve anything.
You can get them all on GOG too, along with all the other Sierra classics:

https://www.gog.com/mix/sierra_quest_games_1

https://www.gog.com/game/quest_for_glory
I quote you: "I predict Japan will try to push forward and claim the disputed islands with the support of uncle Sam."

Which islands were you thinking about? Japan has three notable territorial conflicts: the Kuril islands with Russia (controlled by Russia), the Senkaku islands with China (controlled by Japan) and the Takeshima islands (controlled by Korea).

Of these three conflicts the ones with Korea and Russia are largely under the radar: most Japanese people I know aren't even aware of them. Though I think the reverse is not true in Korea... And Japan cannot "push forward and claim" the Senkaku: they are already controlling them.
Soon actually - I can't give a release date but source should be going out in the not TOO distant future. :)
I wish you would explain how advertising is "inherently immoral".

But before you do, I'll explain why I disagree.

Advertising is selling ideas. You are selling an idea right now. Just because your idea doesn't make you any money doesn't make it any more inherently moral or immoral.

The old cliche, time is money, is basically true. People are trying to maximize their time and more specifically, the value they get from their time.

That's why a cheeseburger commercial works! People like cheeseburgers and they consider the value of their time to be maximized while eating one (versus not eating or eating something else).

If there was no food advertising at all, do you really think people would eat so much differently? I'm sure they would care less about the brand. But are some cheeseburgers more evil than other cheeseburgers?

Also, do you not think people get better and worse at self-control? The advertisers are adjusting their "attacks" (quite a harsh word) because the same marketing doesn't work forever. People adjust their defenses. They develop new weaknesses and strengths.

When I was young and broke, advertising NEVER worked on me. Now it works on me all the time because I have money to spend. I hear McDonald's commercials all the time but I hate their food (except the fries), so I don't go there.

The companies who produce advertisements and the share holders who pressure those companies are made up of regular people. Those people are trying to maximize the value of their time just like you are. Their advertising messages serve to do just that.

That's not "inherently immoral" in my view.