skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree completely with this.

One of the problems I've seen ith TDD is that the team decides on a metric of minimum code coverage of x%. Now, in order to achieve x, a large number of basically useless tests end up being written simply for the sake of getting the coverage number up regardless of how poorly thought out those tests are.

That's not an inherent fault of TDD, of course. My point is that the mindset that seems to follow it leads to dumb things like that happening.
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Actually I think the article does address these points:

"For all the talk about drug incarcerations driving up prison populations, drug offenders comprise only 17% of state prison populations and explain only about 20% of prison growth since 1980."

"Perhaps drug incarcerations are relatively short but ultimately trigger much longer sentences for future non-drug crimes via repeat offender laws. The available data make it clear that prior drug incarcerations do not seem to play any important role in future non-drug incarcerations."

They also acknowledge that prior contact with the legal system owing to minor drug offenses might increase the probability that police will choose to arrest someone for a non-drug crime, etc. but that such effects are invisible to their approach (i.e. they may exist, but they can't tell from the data they have).

It does not seem to me that the authors have an agenda to excuse the "war on drugs" so much as fully understand the contribution of drug enforcement to our huge prison population.

Bear in mind that the 17-20% of prisoners who are in for drugs on their own would constitute the entire prison population based on incarceration rates before 1980.

If it's not (just) low level drug crimes, what is it? Is it the prison as poorhouse / cash cow model which has been exposed in Ferguson Missouri (and is common across the country?)
I see what you did there. You might be able to a/b test what's converting better because you might loose some people entirely because they don't want to give away their email without first seeing a sample and then forget about it anyway. Thanks for the info about the fee, I definitely bookmarked your service for later use ;).
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As a data point - I'm one of the people Patrick mentions. I like his writing a lot and would be very happy to see an 8k word essay from him every Friday.

He's on my very short list of 3 or so people who do email marketing particularly well.

One of the other people on that list, incidentally, writes 200-ish word emails every day. I read everything she writes too. There's not a single optimal solution here.

(I'm also very much looking forward to playing the game after reading that post. Given I'm not a professional programmer, I have very little desire to become one, I'm very happy in my current jobs, and I suspect Stockfighter is going to kick my ass until I can wear it like a hat, that's of dubious business value to Starfighter, but I guess I'll probably also recommend it to some folk who may be of more value...)
Maybe it's from the length of the message or the general impressiveness of the project, but the first thought that came to mind was, "Wow, I'd have to be unemployed to have enough time to work on this - there's no way I could tackle these challenges in the real world otherwise."

Worse, if this is something that's designed to showcase one's technical skills to potential employers, I don't imagine there's a way for the system to distinguish between "took a long time solving challenges because just not smart enough" vs. "took a long time solving challenges because have a day job and a life outside of work/tech".

Since this is designed, essentially, to showcase how smart someone is to potential employers, assuming solving time is a factor, it's almost better not to compete until you know you'll definitely have lots of time to devote to it, because otherwise there is the risk of taking too long and looking not-good.

I'll add it to the long list of "things I really, really wish I had time for" - or I'll assign it to clone #1023 once that becomes viable :-/
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Oops, that was a convention from LSAT forums. It means "not". I changed the comment to just use "not" instead because it's clearer here, thanks.
It's often simpler than that.

You have a corpus of knowledge that you need to dig through. Cases are interconnected by footnotes (i.e. case X referenced precedent set in case Y [and succeeded]). The relative strength of referencing a case is predicted by the number of references made to it [successfully].

The biggest use of highly-paid, entry-level law grads was to run from case book to case book, chasing down all those footnotes and getting photocopies of them.

Digitizing them (i.e. OCR, make them searchable) and turning footnotes into hyperlinks basically negates the entire point of those entry-level grads.

So, no use of predictive algorithms or fancy ML - just PageRank applied to a set of case books.
I have plenty of experience with lawyers who graduated from high-ranked law schools. I won't claim to speak for everyone, but at least in my experience, discussing moral considerations or moral consequences of the law with them is like talking to a wall. Something happens to them in law school: they concern themselves with only what can be argued in court and precedent, probably because they must in order to do their jobs. I have heard so many different paraphrases of the quote "right and wrong don't have anything to do with the law or a courtroom" from so many different lawyers. I can only imagine the moral hardening that must take place to work in a the kafkaesque legal system that generates so much horrible injustice every day almost by design and sleep well at night; the claim of a lack of ability to moral reason is not really an attack on the character of lawyers, but rather a cry of sympathy for people doing adapting as they must to survive and still work in the field.

People who inflict enormous amounts of suffering upon others as part of their jobs (prosecutors, cops, prison guards, criminals, judges) develop these attitudes as a defense mechanism.
What a contentless article, "Work harder! Grumble grumble grumble." We all know that none of these VC "gurus" are actually cleverer than the rest of us, but yet we give them an audience for empty posts like this because their job is (hilariously) to maintain the VC guru image.

I just don't get why these "insightful advice" posts ever gain traction.
No the bullies are AllSIM, CERN and the University.

CERN or possibly the University employed the student. They are the relevant party.

AllSIM are almost ridiculous with this speculative invoice.
"People will call it immoral until they can afford it."

-- blindcavefsh on Reddit
I'm getting that same thing too! Not sure what's going on.
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I don't see the point.
Yeah it did seem like the weakest reason, but I guess the idea is that you generally could be sued if you just took the picture of a random businessman and revealed he was going somewhere other than he told his boss, but if you otherwise had a good reason, you'd be okay. But my initial reasoning was, "you don't have an expectation of privacy against being seen as you leave an airplane".

I was confused more about the first question (a school board restricting public schools to those who had been resident one year), because I was trying to reconcile my answer with "well, I know state colleges can charge different rates to in- and out-of-state students" and "well, I can see [this level of] education being a fundamental right in a state constitution, I don't know if being one at the federal level".
I think that's exactly why it's a great documentary. I adore Banksy's work and kick myself every day for missing out on the stuff he sold in NY during that stay in NY. I live in CT, a short ride away. Anyway, it's sad but fascinating to see how other people perceive his work, even if it's completely negative and disrespectful.
Why not? That's the environment of these works.
No it is not safe to do so -- as I have already explained in detail. And yes for the uptenth I read the article.
Honestly for this one I do not remember since it was two years ago, but I'd start over at http://arxiv.org/, which is a treasure. Granted most are research papers, but even those will link to overview papers, of which the one I link to is an example.
Counter-anecdote: I got the email, was excited to see that Starfighter was launching soon... but was annoyed that I couldn't quickly skim the rest of the email to get the "tl;dr" version (the basics of what the challenge will involve, or if there's anything else I need to know about the launch, etc). I've been cutting down on my RSS reader lately because there are a lot of things I want to read and there's not time to read them all; I wish the emails were more respectful of my time. Just including a clearly-marked summary, followed by the long version, would make me far happier.
My order came back saying that I had bought 0 shares. And the quote from the exchange now read “500 shares available at $120.”

Maybe I don't get the full picture, but it sounds like you have to poll via REST API to query the book? Modern exchanges just give you a feed of updates (adds, deletes, trades), so you don't run into situations like this. You can just check the feed to see what happened.
The fossil fuel industry folks, and the politicians they fund, are the ones who politicize this issue. Please don't turn this into a "liberals said, conservatives said" thing. If there wasn't a ton of fossil fuel money on the line, there never would have been any public confusion or discussion about AGW--the science would simply have been acknowledged and we've have moved onto engineering solutions.

(As for the "conservatives prefer better environment for business.." you ought to look at how well the economy has done under liberal vs conservative leaders all throughout the 20th century to gain some insight into which political leanings are better for the economy, of which business is, of course, a major part.)
Thanks for posting this. Crichton was my favourite author when I was a young boy (I still remember how engrossing Sphere was for me) and to this day I had no idea that he tried his hand at programming.
You say a vast majority can't, but then go on to say that a lot can.

What do you define as "a lot"? What do you define as a "vast majority"?
+1 on Zapier! I'm a big fan of the service and platform. With YC news a more tech-focused crowd their web interface for building integrations is really effective. Point-n-click for most stuff, and you can fallback to JS should you need to get more creative.
What a great comment. People who don't understand this fact will be surprised when decriminalizing drugs won't halve the prison population. The author'd like to fix the problem of mass incarceration, and correctly points out that focusing on only one of the causes won't fix it.
Comments like this (and predictable moderation of my comment) are what makes this whole discussion a religion. You profoundly and completely missed the entire context of my comment in your zeal to, you think, denounce anti-warming. It is tiring, pedestrian, and ignorant.
> Last year we had an unusual cold summer...

...which was still "0.5°F above the 20th century average" for the contiguous 48 US states[1]. From looking at the temperature graph[2], only about ten years between 1900-1980 was hotter than 2014.

The fact that this is perceived as an "unusual cold summer" should give you a pause.

As usual, there's a relevant xkcd for everyrthing: https://xkcd.com/1321/

[1] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/201413 : "In 2014, the contiguous United States (CONUS) average temperature was 52.6°F, 0.5°F above the 20th century average, and tied with 1977 as the 34th warmest year in the 120-year period of record."

[2] http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/weather-...

(BTW, seriously, who uses Fahrenheit in scientific discourse?)
No we know that they used the word him and his. This does not as we have already established identify the student's sex.
Over 1,000 parts of the A350XWB are 3d printed using a specific resin (called ULTEM 9085) with interesting properties for the purpose of building an airliner: it's light, strong, and FST (flame, smoke, and toxicity) compliant. [1]

Replying to another post, it might not be very high volume, but it certainly isn't prototyping: it's in production in a very heavily regulated sector. More impressive to me than mass producing for example 10,000,000 key holders a month.

[1] http://3dprint.com/63169/airbus-a350-xwb-3d-print/
Assuming HR hasn't boarded up all the side doors.
Good on you. Don't be rude, but don't beat around the bush, and maybe someone will understand eventually.
Interesting comment having positively nothing to do with my comment. That you fail to understand that speaks volumes. Of course, you're the one who conflates 135 years with 14 billion years, so not unexpected.
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I'm not a professional in this field, but my understanding has always been that most climate models have predicted that while the general trend in global temperature will continue to go up - in most individual smaller climates the seasons will tend to be more extreme in both directions, i.e. colder winters and warmer summers - in most places averaging out to warmer years.
Why Are Some Non-Technical Founders Unwilling to Learn About Technical Concepts?
Founders who describe themselves as "non-technical" that I meet or consider themselves the business side of the equation are unwilling/flat-out refuse to learn basic technical concepts relating to their startup. Even if it's just the bare minimum - some JavaScript, basic understanding of the relevant server requirements for their company, etc. It's confusing to me, especially when they talk about finding an awesome engineer to be their technical co-founder not realizing that awesome engineers want to work with those who think like engineers and are educated about the technical side of things.
Its hard not to like Stripe as a company.
Many crimes are driven by poverty. Looking at only drug-related charges is short-sighted. How many crimes are committed by young men whose fathers were ever incarcerated for a drug-related charge?
So apple can now count money they pay to work on their compiler as a tax deduction?
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Maybe if you explained a little more, I could actually have a shot at understanding what you think the problem is.
There's a typo in the heading "Chrichton" should be "Crichton".
Organic is a big point in favor of indoor farming. Animal pests can be discouraged by displacing the air in the grow room with 90% N2 + 10% O2 + 0.15% CO2 [1] whenever humans or pollinators don't need to be present. Weeds can be controlled by ensuring that live weed seeds cannot enter the facility.

[1] Lower oxygen may lead to root stress. Flooding-adapted species, like rice, could make do with less during sunlit hours. Higher CO2 can damage some plants. The 90:10:0.15 mix of N2:O2:CO2 is probably as hostile as you can make it to animals without damaging the plants in some way.
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Are they being solved or are they researched?

"You can observe a lot by watching."
The people he's telling to grind are those that have millions in funding. So you work hard, pay yourself, and if it fails you had a great job and a great experience, and you can go get a better job than you could have when you started.

Sure, you worked harder than someone who has a boring 9-5, but you're not turning yourself an indentured servant until the end of time. Your only risk is the additional time/effort.
someone made a mach-o lib for ruby:
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"Is the primary sex ratio the same in all human populations at all times?"
At least the secondary sex ratio naturally varies in human populations, being lowest in African's and somewhat higher in most others, see [0] and many other references.

Meiotic drive can effect which embryo's survive [1] & [2]. It's an intragenomic conflict where one copy of a gene is passed on to offspring more than the expected 50%.

[0] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_20.pdf.

[1] https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/a-common-variant-l...

[2] http://www.unz.com/gnxp/human-uniqueness-is-not-unique/
The diminishing returns affect all future hours, not the marginal hour. If you're tired all of your work will suck until you recover. That marginal hour might damage your ability to work more than the gain from working that one hour.
Hoping to meet women, or develop a talent/skill that they can use to impress women they meet elsewhere.
If we get this right, it will hopefully be the case that we eventually have so much content that most people won't ever get through all of it.

I don't think you have much to worry about in chapter 1, though.
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We want it to be playable by people who have demanding commitments like families, jobs, etc. This affects our level design (the first six will actually time out after 30 minutes; they're beatable with the right script in seconds or minutes after you get it working or by hand in ~10 with play at least as good as mine) and how we go about executing on the business.

Ultimately the mechanics of our matchmaking come down to "Starfighter spits a heck of a lot of signal about you at Thomas/Erin/Patrick; we try to decide if it makes sense to introduce to to clients and, if so, to which." All of us are working parents. We will certainly not penalize people for prioritizing piano lessons over being one of the first 5 people to crack a new level.

I won't commit to "I'll never look at time between a level is first opened and when it is solved" but, as somebody who has fed his family with code for as long as I've had a family, that strikes me as being among the least interesting things I could possibly learn about an engineer's ability.
So why not just use:

gevent.joinall([gevent.spawn(call_get, get_client_for_key(key), key) for key in keys])

gevent uses epoll/kqueue in the background as well; as far as I know, no threads are spawned or locked. Is there some kind of fancy scheduling going on in rb?
I've added an experimental branch with SAN support, but I haven't had a chance to test it fully yet; any feedback would be appreciated.
Is it really the case that out of this startup batch that "25% of the companies are on a trajectory that could lead to a multi-billion dollar company"? I haven't really looked at this batch, but I highly doubt that 25 out of the current batch have that ability, just on common sense and past performance.
Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw access are essentially required to look up relevant cases. (to rile your fairness sensibilities, look into how much of a near-monopoly is enjoyed over public info there). That can be, IIRC, thousands/month.

Then, depending on your area of work, you've got issues like software to record and cite websites, continuing legal education requirements, etc.

Not the most expensive profession in terms of base costs, but not cheap either.
> I don't think it's called global warming anymore, it's called climate change.

This is because warming is only one component of the problems we're facing as a result of pollution. See for example ocean acidification.

> Besides, I don't understand why it's ok for liberals to make fun of conservatives using "extreme snow" during winter as an argument against climate change but that liberals using exceptional heat during summer as an argument for climate change is ok.

The funny thing about snow is it actually can be a result of warming temperatures. At higher latitudes, warmer weather leads to more snow. So that's a starting point that higher temperatures don't necessarily mean less snow. But furthermore, if you have scientifically gathered data that says there's a trend towards warming, it's reasonable to look at heat waves and recognize them as part of a larger problem, since it's supported by data.

However, if you pull out anecdotes that contradict the data, you're trying to muddle the issue and make it look like the data is invalid, even though you have no basis for that conclusion.

> Conservatives prefer having better environment for businesses which will boost innovation. Maybe there's some middle ground in there.

This is a non-opinion. A mix of taxing polluters and subsidizing non-polluting industries is the solution. Having a better environment for businesses boosts profits, not innovation.

Taxing pollution forces businesses to find ways to profit without polluting. That's innovation.
Thanks for pointing that out, should be fixed now. :)
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Nope, not significant at all, you can lease a reasonable, "uberable" car for way less than $200/month (which already includes depreciation).

If the car is used on Uber for (a very conservative estimate) of 20 hours per week, ~150 hours per month, that's about $1/hour in asset costs. Let's say maintenance and what not costs another 50% of that plus another 50% of whatever, we're still talking $2/hour in asset costs, which is far less than minimum wage.
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The author is a social scientist writing for the academic literature, so the idea that he might amend or abridge his results to avoid "muddying the waters" of a policy debate seems extraordinarily dubious to me.
I stand corrected - I was unable to watch the playoffs, but was at a party where someone had cable for the actual Super Bowl.
The feed is hooked up via a websocket to the UI, but not persisted anywhere on the client side. From my eye's perspective, the cancel never registered. If I had had wireshark open I would have seen it. (I encourage folks who understand why this is not desirable to build their own trading UIs using our provided e.g. websockets.)
You're doing exactly what Forbes wants you to do: fear mongering. Privacy policies are legal liability waivers. They are not statements of intent. There is absolutely no indication whatsoever that Spotify is harvesting your data and selling it to third parties to make some money on the side. That is a ridiculous assumption, and you need to provide damn good evidence if you expect me to even begin to consider that.

What any REASONABLE person would assume is that Spotify is simply doing what everyone else does, which is track your usage of their product in order to better target ads.
Apparently they didn't run the marketing of the contracts by the attorneys.

I don't know much about law, but a lawyer told me that law isn't black and white. It's gray. So, bulletproof probably goes against that.
> Out of curiosity, why did you put your blog on the .xxx domain?

Maybe it helps to point out how silly it is to filter based on the TLD.
Does nobody find it strange that neither Google nor Mozilla were able to determine what proxies and software broke with pipelining? In their controlled experiments pipelining worked fine. Pipelining worked fine in Opera, and in Mobile Safari, and Android Browser, and pretty much universally in Firefox as reported by users that enabled it.

It's a fair bet that the reason these companies didn't find out what was causing the very few failures was because it was due to SuperFish or other illicit software. Some people's computers having malware isn't a good reason disable pipelining.
I think you're looking at Starfighter as a much more adversarial thing than it's designed to be. From what they've said, it's my impression that it's supposed to be a fun challenge that demonstrates marketable skills, not a pop quiz. I don't think they intend to grade you on whether you spend all your time on it or do it casually or whatever.