skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons that taxis are licensed is that they're supposed to pick up everyone and anyone. Uber and Lyft don't seem to have that problem with race (AFAIK) but there are two other situations where people have trouble:

(1) small children, where you need a car seat (or two)

(2) people with disabilities - service animal, wheelchair, etc.

Analyzing the data would hopefully show whether people had to wait for 2 hours.

Also, as a substitute for race, it might be possible to see if certain areas are under-served or not served at all. Perhaps drivers are avoiding picking up in Harlem.
why does it matter whether or not he knew what would happen if he shot the drone? i'm not exactly sure what relevance precognition would have to do with this.
No, I play Android: Netrunner.
Does anyone scrape the HN Hiring threads for data on how many of them offer remote?
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To me, that graph looks like the tech industry transition from hobby to industrial/business tool. Pre-1985, there weren't many colleges even offering computer science degrees, so any data from that era could easy fall apart due to small sample bias.

I don't think anything necessarily "happened" to women in tech. You could just as easily say that as computer science became a more established field, men swarmed it because it was interesting to them.
What if he would have used a water hose to spray the thing down. Spraying water on your own property is legal.
We lose the serendipity of random discovery while wandering a bookstore, but have gained the serendipity of random discovery from hosts of friends and strangers sharing thoughts and suggestions through many different literary (and not-literary)-focused channels online.
I do performance management for Fortune 500 company. Literally two weeks ago we began redesigning the model.

It may sound that it would be difficult to change what has been going for years, but there are several factors that make it easier than it seems so:

- Normally performance management process is managed by few people even in companies sized in 10,000's of employees. Even if ultimately the decision is made by HR executives, it is easier to make such decision when there are so few directly involved people. These people are normally part of corporate, and they just provide the process for local HR that usually has no real say in how performance management is done.

- Both corporate HR and local HR are tired of this too. We have been hearing these points for long time. Every single year enforced/recommended (amongst other points) distribution brings heated discussions yet nothing is done. Executives hear this.

- Talent Management system vendors are becoming more flexible and allowing different models for performance management. Such system is needed, but no one would ever sign up for developing it themselves.

In overall, I think it is a matter of time till this spreads. Promoting the wrong people or blocking the good ones is very expensive.
Author here. I wanted to back up my gmail attachments to Dropbox automatically. I ended up writing my own attachment downloader. Sets its download directory to Dropbox and runs it in a cron job/Task Manager task to periodically download the attachments.
Xbox One will be a 'full-featured' DVR for TV
Ideally when people use the employment-population ratio they are using the prime age employment-population ratio. This only includes workers age 25-54 which ideally filters out changes due to demographic shifts.
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Why don't agencies use fMRI instead of something as unreliable and questionable and discredited as polygraphs?

I'm not sure you'd use fmri as widely as polygraphs are today, but maybe for targeted investigation they'd be a useful tool?

There are claims of up to 90% accuracy[1] while not perfect, are better than polys.

[1]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-lie-detector/
Yes, but it doesn't help me code better. How it does help is using chess as a problem space. Chess is such a beautiful game to write code for because it's tightly constrained and strategically flexible. For example, one of my side projects is a chess game where each player is actually a team of players who're all playing the same game - everyone on Team White enters a move, and the most commonly entered move is the one that actually gets played, then Team Black do the same, and so on. There is so much you can do to mix coding and chess.
Do you mean email verification service providers or our vendor recommendation service?

If it's the former, there are good guys not-so-good guys in the email verification space and that's the primary problem we're trying to solve with Alfred Knows. We secret shop a short list of whitehat vendors we recommend plus users provide additional feedback on their experience which validates or contradicts our opinions.

If it's the latter, you must be under the impression that Alfred Knows is some sort of lead generation service; it's not. The companies we recommend would never receive the contact or project details of any user however the user may receive a small discount, and we may receive small a referral commission, if a user transacts with a vendor we recommend.
See also my name :)
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I play online. There are worse vices.

I hack the game by playing crappy openings to get people off-book. If I could play nothing but Chess960[1], I'd be happier. Chess is buggy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960 "... The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable, compelling players to rely on their talent and creativity."
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I'am programmer, no time for games.
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Yes god forbid someone be expected to show "professionalism" in a professional environment.
DigitalOcean restricts the use of their nodes as a platform for a CDN like yours. IMO, I find the latter restriction unfair but ToS is ToS. Make sure you have a plan B.

Good luck!
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I have several sites with them and have never had an issue. How long ago was this?
I downloaded the first year dataset and didn't get very far in my analysis... but this was the first result, which was kind of pretty:

http://i.imgur.com/ov6K6mt.jpg
That's weird, I'm getting 2-3s with an empty cache, and a bit shy of 1s with a primed cache. Pingdom reports 3.41s from San Jose, California (I'm in Central Europe).
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What kind of books do you read? I can't imagine reading a technical book in less than a week.
I've never understood the 'imperfect information' thing when discussing chess. Chess _as played by people_ is full of hunches, uncertainty, prejudice, intimidation. Just look at how Kasparov played or Lasker, to see how important psychology is to chess. Or go down to Washington Square Gardens and play under the glare of dozens of people tutting at your every move.

It's so much more than an abstract problem.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by people having to "monitor their own speech." You should think about what you're saying before you say it, right? You should consider if what you're saying is offensive to other people, right? That's just part of being a decent, responsible, adult human being – in my opinion.

Honestly, saying that anything you do will be offensive is a weak evasion of personal responsibility. It's like saying that you might as well eat Big Macs for every meal since all food can be unhealthy, under certain circumstances. While the premise is technically true, the conclusion is flawed. It's a spectrum, with behavior on one end being better than behavior on the other end.

To your last point, of course some rando who's offended by my statement should haven't the right to police me or take down something I wrote. But they do have the right to respond to what I wrote, point it out to others, argue with me, criticize me for it, etc. And I have the right to argue back, ignore them, or even – as crazy as it sounds – consider if their feelings might be sincere and worth me reevaluating my statement.

Anyway, this became longer than I intended. I'm just trying to say that, to paraphrase Carl Sagan, as fellow creatures inhabiting this pale blue dot, we have an obligation to deal kindly with one another. The fact that some people are jerks doesn't obviate that.
Yes, that was me being dumb. Fixed.
"You cannot do / say X because you're skin color / gender / sexual orientation Y" is racism / sexism, end of. "Affirmative Action" (which is doublespeak for "we prefer minorities") is racist/sexist too (and often referred to as being reverse racism).
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A lot of inventive legal options -- compressed air blast, bean-bags and slingshots -- would be effective on low-altitude drones.
I quite rapidly change every position in my life. I don't even sit in my chair the same way for long. If I don't find a good fit right away, I immediately pivot to something that delivers more value.
What about when the bullet falls back on the ground?
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There are two problems with ISIS and surprise:

1. The internet is not (in my guess) as ubiquitous in the Middle East as it is in more developed societies. If you want to monitor everyone in that environment, you're limited to Stasi style personal informants.

2. As information flows up to policy makers, it's transformed, shaded or obscured to fit the world views and agendas of the agencies and individuals "analyzing ans summarizing" it and passing it up.

Total Information Awareness is not for policy makers, it's for spies and law enforcement.
Reverse racism is used (in my experience) to define racist behaviors taken as a response to "original" racism. Examples include quota systems at universities, or otherwise discriminating against whites/majorities in the name of social justice.

It's racism, but with a modifier to make it clear what's being talked about. I don't know why you're trying so hard to make it "not a thing".
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10003740 for one with numbers.
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Yes and No.

I'm a fairly terrible player, I played for a local team when I was younger and had the time (bottom series, sub).

I'm certainly a better programmer than a chess player.

That said I follow the game, love to play and the surrounding community of players so there is that aspect to it.
Sounds like your philosophy is being a bit of a dick
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Right, and the iteration over pixels is hidden in plugins themselves. Complex filters though are difficult or impossible to build since there is no granularity and in fact gathering or scattering of arbitrary memory locations is very awkward.

Anyone who has used Shake or Nuke knows that working with essentially a domain specific interface is an enormous benefit.

I think there is a lot of value in learning from compositing systems as well as Houdini when writing software - namely being able to freeze data in place and iterate on one data transformation at a time.
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If you are disabled, native-American, female, or a veteran, you can make quite a bit of money just by being 51% owner of a company that submits contract bids and subcontracts the actual work for anything they might win out to someone else.

Awarding of government contracts is explicitly discriminatory. The practice just creates figurehead companies, and all the same people end up doing all the same work, at a far greater cost, but without any more pay or benefits to the workers that might possibly boost productivity.

You don't want to look too closely at that business. Keep taking the blue pill. You absolutely do not want to even get a rough estimate of the ratio of money that goes to people who just know the right people versus the amount that goes to people who actually perform necessary and useful tasks.

Just don't go to work in that sector if you can avoid it. Ignorance is bliss.

I have literally overheard government employees saying to one another that they can't convert contractor-employees into government employees--potentially saving tens of millions of dollars out of the budget--because the exact people doing those specific jobs, with more than ten years of experience in doing those jobs, who would be more than happy to continue doing them, would not even show up on the first page of candidates due to "preference points", and they could not extend a reasonable offer to them anyway--which would be the exact amount they already earn doing that job--thanks to the rigid pay schedules. The system is broken by design, and there is an entire class of trough-feeding middlemen that benefit, without offering any sort of meaningful contribution. That's the very thing that Eisenhower warned us about, and the Reagan administration was probably the last that could have stopped it. But they chose to accelerate it instead. So now, barring some sort of catastrophic rebellion, it's here to stay.

That's why I'm somewhat amused by the furor over the Manning/Snowden leaks. There's already more than enough info to make you lose your faith in government forever, freely available as public records. No one even bothers to look at those, because they are mostly quick cures for insomnia. It's just like John Oliver said: the public has no way to relate to it on a personal level. For the classified leaks, you have to couch it in terms of the NSA looking at your dick pics. For the stuff already out there, freely available to anyone who might want to read it, I'm not sure there's a way to do that. There are so many legal ways to unethically convert public funds into private pocket money, and so many people doing it without a shred of shame or remorse, that there's really no way to psychologically connect to it.
I used to play chess competitively (rating 1900+ fide), and play on internet sometimes. I think playing chess will not help to improve someone's programming skills (except if he specializes in building chess engines), but chess tends to attract the same kind of persons who go into programming.
I've 1841 Elo in Blitz on Lichess, would be happy to play with dear HNers there: http://en.lichess.org/@/kushti
Because they are no more or less useful. Here's a link to one of the best headlines Wired ever ran:

http://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon/

Essentially, even a stinking dead fish will show positives in an fMRI. And yes, these studies have really rocked the fMRI field and called into doubt many experiments.
I'd agree that there is a pretty long way between him tossing the ball and the audience catching and running with it. I take his purpose to be to exhort the viewers to challenge their own thinking and their own purpose, rather than trying to achieve a specific improvement.
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Why buy some travel guide that's out of date as soon as it's published when you can go to the LP Thorn Tree forums?
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The same "facts" could have been stated in a very different way. For example, I could tell the story like this:

"An employee complained about sexual harassment at Github. The confirmation of some of her accusations by an independent investigator led the CEO to step down."

Sounds different, doesn't it?
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I guarantee you don't need the "middle" pack for a two-dev shop. Either use their hosted solution, host your own CE, or spend $390 a year to get the EE code with minimal support.
We do a little bit of everything! I tried to pick the best tool for each purpose as I was building the early prototypes, and we've segmented the system to make that easy to develop on. We are looking for people comfortable moving around as much of the system as possible.
The best way to tell if some company actually gives a shit about the above is to ask them what they are doing about it.

I interviewed at a company once where the answer to #1 is "we do 4-day work weeks and make sure people are actually working 32-hour weeks instead of 40-hours-in-4-days". They seemed like they actually gave a shit.

Ditto diversity - companies love to talk a lot of smack about hiring women and racial minorities, but ask them about actual programs, policies, or structures in place to pursue this goal and... crickets.

But yeah, in most places the answer to "what are you doing about these things you allegedly value" is "absolutely nothing".
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I do enjoy chess: http://www.chess.com/members/view/play2draw

There really isn't much overlap between chess and programming. Programming is closer to an artisan craft than a sport.

I mean, sure, you can probably find a few strands which connect the two somehow, but really you could probably draw other weak connections to things like swimming or football or weight lifting, or for that matter even other unrelated subjects like painting or singing.
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Regardless of its origin (cf. the etymological fallacy), the term has come not to mean "rule by the adept", but rather rewarding accomplishment and efficiently using people's talents. It is a worthwhile ideal to strive towards regardless of how 'fair' things are in the real world. The complaints about the term are very far fetched, and require a huge number of ideological assumptions to even make sense.
The risk of loss of cargo and loss of vehicle is one of the things which I think will keep low altitude drones from becoming a widespread delivery vehicle, at least in places where firearms are plentiful.

Aside from that, the faa and industry, et al, need to quickly come to grips with their proliferation and need to establish parameters, whether licensing, insurance, privacy protections, etc, before things escalate and retaliation stunts people's appetite for drones.
No, I think we were on agreement on that point. You said, "If market use were the main concern you could probably argue for Java or C# (although I think starting with a class-based language locks you into the wrong mental model)."

I took your main argument to be that Ruby is a bad first language to teach kids and Python is a good first language to teach kids.

I was agreeing with you on Java/C# not being a good choice. I disagree with your opinion on Ruby being a bad first choice. I thought your argument was also that Python was a good (better than Ruby) choice. I actually agree that Python is ALSO a good first choice to teach children with; I do not believe it is a better choice than Ruby; rather I would say they are equally well suited.
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The best way to monetize open source it to sell optional plugins and services around your core open source product. This isn't always possible though - It depends heavily on what your project does and how it's designed.

Generally; open source platforms, frameworks and operating systems are easy to monetize because they are at the base of the software stack - They own the environment in which people build apps.

Libraries and modules, on the other hand, are difficult to monetize because they are only small parts of an environment over which they have no control.
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I think it might be an interesting approach to run a kickstarter-style campaign for each major software release, and once the goal is reached, release the software with a normal open source license. Nothing would stop other developers from forking the software, but if the author was providing enough value, I believe people would contribute.
Houdini especially since he deals with any kind of data, it's almost the Lisp of computer graphics. Some tutorials are mixing geometry, analog signals (audio), discrete signals (user inputs), through Houdini's builtin operators. Never seen such versatility. I always say this should be taught in programming classes (both for UX, ergonomy, programming paradigm).

And the virtual + freeze is also very present in audio production software. All this things that are close to memoization, laziness are present there.
"One of the reasons that taxis are licensed is that they're supposed to pick up everyone and anyone."

Which is clearly violated thousands of times per day. Sure you can call 311 in NYC but very few people do.
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I've often found that nation-specific metadata is often difficult to scrape - the entire internet assumes that everybody is American, and then just handles non-Americans with error-messages at the last step.

The author of this blog would find a very different functionality for his bot if he were located in, say, Australia.
Talks about class privilege for Asians.
Interestingly, if you use the second method and chose a point somewhere on the circle, and then select a random direction (instead of another point on the circle) you'll get the same 1/3 answer.