Microsoft and HackerRank Add a Live Code Editor Into Bing

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft's Bing search engine now includes a live code editor, allowing programmers to edit and execute snippets of example code and see the results in real-time. HackerRank announced the new educational tool on their blog, calling it "a streamlined alternative" to Stack Overflow's sites and programming sites, and sharing a video of the new feature providing results for the search "quick sort Java". "In addition to learning how a certain algorithm/code is written in a given language, users will also be able to check how the same solution is constructed in a range of other programming languages too," says Bing's Group Engineering Manager for UX Features, "providing a Rosetta-stone model for programming languages."

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Corporate data grab

[NotInHere]

Rosetta code does http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Ro... exactly this. It is freely licensed under the GNU FDL.

Microsoft just wants you to hand over your code, train their AI, and then live from the results of the AI. Similar to how google's "map creator", where your "creation" (the google map) is owned by google, all rights reserved.

I'm okay with the statistics based stuff google is doing for its search results, but if these companies want people to work for them, they should hire them, or they should release the results for free as well.

Otherwise its the same kind of arrogance where nestle goes into some indian community that lives perfectly fine, builds a well that's deeper than any other wells, and which dries up all already existing wells, and now starts selling the inhabitants their own water.

Re:Corporate data grab

[110010001000]

Yeah. It's exactly the same as Nestle selling American Indians bottled water. EXACTLY! That was my first thought too. Hey, what about Nestle drilling wells on Indian land? That is JUST LIKE what Microsoft is doing! How does Microsofts lawyers not see this injustice?

Re:Corporate data grab

[toonces33]

The thought comes to mind that people could "seed" the their AI with really bad (or even non-sequitor code) - kind of like what people did with Tay.

Re:Corporate data grab

[tomp]

Have you looked at the service agrement? It says exacly this:

To the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and others, to protect you and the Services, and to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content,

Re:Corporate data grab

[exomondo]

Microsoft just wants you to hand over your code, train their AI, and then live from the results of the AI.

Yes, what a terrible thing information aggregation and sharing is. Just look at Slashdot, taking your comments, populating their website and living from the results!

works about like I expected.

[danda]

I tried the example search: string concat c#. worked as expected.

So then I tried a very common operation in any programming language these days: json encode c#

To my complete lack of surprise, no example was given. only blue links, as always.

In other words, the examples seem limited to trivial things only. The remote code execution is cool... i guess.

Pulled down?

[paskie]

I don't see it. Nothing comes up for "quick sort java", "string concat c#" or a plenty of other stuff - just blue links. With Chromium or Iceweasel; do I need Edge or something to see it? Or did they pull it down already?

Re:Pulled down?

[sr180]

I'm guessing that you are outside the US. This is most likely US only.