skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been off grid the last 3 weeks. Could you throw in some words I could google up?

//Thank you.
It would be as easy as saying "I have a job" or "my grandmother gave me $2,000 for rent and necessaries". It could be done by a self represented person easily. And again, the person who has property seized from them always has drugs... police are not just randomly taking money. Drug legalization is another another matter (I am pro, FWIW), but for now it remains illegal.
Also from today: http://qz.com/548985/whats-wrong-with-finland/

>The Finnish economy is 11% smaller than its 2008 peak, making it look more like Italy or Spain than the stronger “core” countries of the euro zone. According to the latest monthly estimates, Finland’s economic output shrank by a daunting 2.6% in September versus the year before, the worst result in more than two years
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Yep, it is. I have reported the bug to Mozilla, hopefully they will be able to fix it.
I agree with you on both examples. Education and housing.

But I wouldn't conclude it is government intervention that causes the problem. It is the wrong type of intervention. IMHO.
Right, edited parent.
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This sort of phenomenon can be seen lots of times throughout the past decades. Anytime oil falls below a certain price, it becomes cheaper to pay to keep the ships running offshore under the assumption that oil prices will increase in the near term.
But here they want to insert an unsorted list into a sorted list, which must take the same time as sorting.
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You can write bad code in any language.
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Surface/volume ratios are responsible for a lot of other things in nature, like the size/metabolism of mammals compared to the mean temperature of their habitat. (Eg, even within the same species, larger specimens are typically from colder climates)

EDIT: go figure, they have a related article: http://noticing.co/on-size-and-metabolism/
If no one cares, no consultant will be hired or respected. The team is saying that this is not a critical item for them.

If I may suggest,

1. Do all the tests need to be fixed? (i.e. how valuable are those particular tests?)

2. Can some of the broken tests be turned off?

3. Seek to understand the priorities of the others and understand how to make tests more relevant to them.

4. Seek to understand which tests deliver the most critical value.

For example,

1. "Mark" complains about working late on reproducing a bug. Can you help him create a test case that reproduces his bug reliably so that he can test a fix faster?

2. "Jessie" complains that tests are hard to maintain and she has too many other things to worry about fixing tests. Ask "Jessie" to help make ONE test easier to maintain.

3. "Jane" complains that the tests just test trivial functions and if they break the tests are broken, not the actual code. Turn off trivial tests.

4. "John" complains that "all" the tests are "always" broken. Turn off the broken tests so that people get used to seeing "green" so that "not-green" becomes unusual.

5. The CEO wants features fast. Work on understanding how to communicate the idea of consistent forward code velocity. You have to use their language to communicate to them. If the CEO is worried about a funding target in the next 2 months, it is difficult for them to care about something that only delivers value in 3 months. (I like testing and I would not care myself about tests in this case)

A failure to communicate != Stupid.

A failure to communicate == not understanding the other party's priorities.

A failure to communicate == not understanding the other party's language.

--------------------------

Lastly, tests only fit in well if there is a DEVELOPMENT PROCESS that values testing. Does the company have any process? (ie. Scrum, Agile, Kanban?)

If the company has no process, then any talk about tests is the wrong conversation.
I think there are two components to this:

First, HIPAA requirements are in part IT requirements. Every single hospital works really hard to comply with these, because there are huge fines if they don't. Some of the problems with hospital IT security might be due to defects in the already quite onerous HIPAA specification.

The second is that hospitals are extremely low-margin institutions. Most hospitals (even the really big ones) just break even, especially if they're teaching hospitals or serve poorer areas. IT security doesn't really produce any revenue.

I agree it's a problem. This needs a systemic solution–who would pay for IT fixes? Reimbursement is declining and government payment sucks. Most hospitals are in crisis mode as it is.
We used elastalert on a project and it did the trick: https://github.com/Yelp/elastalert
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Ask HN: SaaS+experts flavor of startups?
A few years ago when I founded Lokad.com, I would have described this business as B2B SaaS for inventory forecasting. However, nowadays, pure SaaS is only a tiny fraction of our business: we primarily sell a combo SaaS+experts with a very hands-on approach.

I am wondering how this flavor of software company gets commonly named or described?

What Lokad does would be akin to buy an AdWords package where Google would also provide an in-house expert to entirely run the account. Since we do inventory optimization, Lokad does not have the obvious conflict of interest that Google would have, but other than that, the degree of technicality involved is not dissimilar to what you would expect from managing an AdWords account.

A few salient elements:
- the Lokad team is, by far, the No1 user group of our own software.
- client discussion typically starts by defining relatively open goals.
- we "negotiate" a lot of the business trade-off with the clients.
- the client may almost never touch the app if only to download results.

We are not consultingware, the app is multi-tenant and fairly packaged. We are not a consulting agency either, as the business remains dominantly a software business (high ratio of developers, etc).
Well I think anyone who only has 1 language and refuses to ever learn anything new is not that helpful.

I try to be 90% scala, but I hope I get other stuff a fair shake...
Tons (if not all) of gun laws exist in the US that are unconstitutional. You many not know this as a UK citizen but the gun industry in the US is very regulated, e.g. creating a gun from scratch by yourself and selling it to someone else is illegal.
If that's true, that's great. I would love to see more (well, any) black leaders talk about police brutality in general, and not in relation to race. Do you have any links? In truth, every time I've seen anyone speak in front of TV cameras about the police, it's always about race. Maybe it is selection bias. But somehow, I don't think so.
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I realized this a long time ago about the problem with poverty: zero times anything is still zero. So no, $1000 will never be the same as $0. Yes, the system will adjust via inflation, but not to $0. In fact, a proper BI would act as a kind-of self-correcting cornerstone for the rest of the economy.
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I'm "hardly anyone". Despite some misgivings on security policies, it's extremely convenient to have a "Steam for apps". At the end of the day, homebrew is the same thing, except it uses the command line and it doesn't remunerate developers.

I have an issue with the concept of MAS as a monopoly (the same I've had with Windows Update), but MAS as a tool is undoubtedly a good thing.
The community revived it
https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan
TensorFlow (by Google): open-source library for machine intelligence

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532957

http://tensorflow.org/
IT and software engineering jobs in the US, Canada and the UK.

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Don’t shoot us for the staffing agencies, please. We’re very well aware that nobody likes them. On the back-end we have everything to eliminate them from the search results. We cannot implement this functionality on the front-end yet for various reasons.

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As well, we realize that employers need to be educated. Eventually we’re going to fix the problem with employers not posting pay rate, posting junk ads, programming assignments, tests and insane interviews and we may go as far as outlawing third-party agencies.

At this stage we’re still in start-up mode and cannot be picky as far as job posters are concerned but our ultimate goals are above. Please, take a look at our site and apply for a job if you need one. And we would appreciate technical feedback again, especially how our site looks on tiny and huge screens.

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Same here; haven't found this to be the case at all.
ORFEL: super-fast detection illegitimate promotion in online recommendation
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I'm probably going to get downvoted a lot for this, but this is probably the exact feeling people on the other side get that causes them to go to Syria and take up arms and join isil.

Edit: To be 100% clear, I'm by no means sympathizing. Rather, I believe that understanding an adversary's motivations can help resolve a conflict.
I pay $70 for AT&T's UVerse GigaPower fiber (300/300 right now) in Austin. The only reason we have that option though is due to Google Fiber making everyone up their game. Even Time Warner offers reasonably priced 300/20
How are those changes radical or controversial?
More in-depth investigation by the Washington Post from 2014:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...
Along the same lines, but slightly different emphasis (fixed precision for accounting): http://roboprogs.com/devel/2010.02.html
Shopify registration requires you giving them your social security number[1], DOB besides the regular basic PII for tax purposes. Since Sello is a service by Shopify, it's very likely Sello would required the same (haven't tried it yet).

Good luck giving out your most private PII in exchange to sell just a few things online (it makes much more sense if this is your full time job.) For others, Craigslist/eBay/Etsy etc. are probably better off.

PS: these 3rd party e-commerce platform are increasingly becoming the main targets for data breaches from cyber criminals.

[1]: https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms-payments-us
Yes yes yes, I know how to represent an IEEE value. It was an interpretation error: the linked article shows a zillion variants of numbers with a leading significant of 0.3 (i.e. all the leading zeros are significant) while the posted string above did not.
@tommoor is making reference to Google and Microsoft releasing open source versions of their deep learning toolkits. Interesting that Google did not release a distributed version but Microsoft did.

As this stuff is more accessible, more people play with it, and perhaps more interesting learning apps emerge from that additional use. Hence, birth of the machines.
Or imagine any user, techie or not, trying to open Keynote to give a presentation and getting that error message.

It's completely ridiculous and has me vowing never to buy (or get for free) anything from the Mac App Store again. Unfortunately I have little choice on iOS.
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So direct democracy then? That presents it's own problems like the majority being in favor of something horrible, like the internment of muslim citizens after a terrorist attack.
Civil Forfeiture and the Supreme Court (2014)
How is Syria a legitimate threat to national security of the US? (not rhetorical)
I love the point about the Oplog.

There are a few equivalents for common SQL DBs (see LinkedIn's Databus for Oracle and MySQL), but in general, getting access to the write log is really hard. Even though it's sitting there!

It would be wonderful if there were some kind of established API or library that would let you parse the MySQL write log without doing hideous, fragile operations that change from version to version. Sure, change the format, but at least version and document it!
Quick, edit out the preemptive complaint so you can see what people think about what you say instead of what they think about the whining.
I second this.

Focus on understanding the VALUES of the other people. If you feel the tests are important you have to get the others to see how the tests are valuable in a way that they value.

"Fast feature delivery" -- show how tests can deliver faster feature delivery ( it may be that the current tests actually slow down feature delivery )

"Late nights/Missed dates with SO" -- show how tests can reduce late nights and get the person home.

"Reliable schedule", etc...
Its quoted in Wrath of the Kahns, not sure the original source.
An interesting topic, indeed. Check out this gem from Knuth, "The Dangers of Computer Science Theory": https://books.google.com/books?id=QUgmsMm5LcAC&lpg=PA189&ots...

(Sadly, I can't find a free PDF. I've sen this in Selected Papers on the Analysis of Algorithms--you can get a used copy from Amazon for a few dollars.)

"Is there any area (outside of numerical analysis) where mathematical theory has actually helped computer programmers?"

Ironically enough, he mentions bubblesort's performance as better in theory than practice for the most part. :P
People have been claiming to own the moon for over 250 years
I've seen this happen with Yoink! on my machine, I assumed it was a bad update and just kept going... after 24 hours without Yoink, I was so annoyed that I deleted it and redownloaded it, and after a couple of failures starting eventually it worked. Glad to see developers are not at fault!
I don't know twitter is "just a website" and it's helped change lots of things all over the world, so......
Does anyone know what specifically he was accused of doing?

If he had ties with Western intelligence his detention is understandable (I don't support death penalty in this case, nor Assad, and it would be cool if they released the guy to the West, I'm only saying it's understandable if he was active in opposition spheres). Just because a person is a "hacker" doesn't mean they weren't involved in trying to violently overturn Assad's government.
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I think his intention wasn't so much to say this is a positive thing but rather to cynically (and humorously) point out that "rights" are a human construct and susceptible to all of the associated weaknesses in practice.

You can claim a right to something and if you can get enough people to agree with you, you can enforce someone's claim on the right to something. But it's not like there's a natural force that ensures, compels, or mandates these rights.

I guess my point is that taken less cynically, rights (as we understand them) only exist in practice as long as you can demand them and have sufficient power (whether through numbers or threat of force) to keep them. The sad reality is that without the continual effort to maintain these rights, they can and will be taken away.
What do you predict?
OP was asking about the instructions, not the file. The instructions are on the page.
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It was a good thing, until it turned out that every app you get from it can simply expire with no warning.

I used the Mac App Store because it really is just very convenient. But I also thought it worked. Now I see that it doesn't, so I will not be obtaining software from it again.
We (the people) should probably be at least one of the governments.

I don't know how these decisions are actually made, but I would think there'd be at least one government with one military team that would willingly rescue him.

If anyone is in the military, what's the feeling when these kinds of things happen? It seems like there should be brave people volunteering for those kinds of rescue missions where someone really needs their help.
> As the nation moves farther and farther to the right

What country do you live in? Surely it can't be the US, who has been enacting very leftist policies for a while now, who has had a leftist president for almost eight years now, whose youth is advocating for a self-identified "democratic socialist" for president, and the country where the most popular republican candidate by far is a centrist RINO.
> In contrast, 1/3, 1/6, and 1/7 are all repeating decimals because their denominators use a prime factor of 3 or 7.

doesn't 1/6 use a prime factor of 2 as well?
Yeah, this comment shouldn't be downvoted so much even if it is offensive to some people.
I refuse to accept this as a forgone conclusion. Clearly there is a place for a healthy, helpful police force in modern society. It's probably not even that far from what we have - the key being the "broken windows" policy applied to the police themselves, and some critical changes in policy (making it illegal to lie about the law, or to coerce behavior based on a misrepresentation of the law). And of course, reforming the justice system to give citizens the kind of justice our founding fathers intended to give them.

Technologies ability to record interactions and play them back later has already had a (positive) impact on police behavior, and I can only see that getting better.

I also think that technology will revolutionize the justice system - I've been thinking a lot about what a distributed, remote jury trial system would look like, especially when there is excellent sensor data surrounding any contentious event.
In the US 150+ years ago democracy meant "rule of white men." I'd say it has improved in that regard.
6502 assembly is surprisingly popular as a learning platform.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213806
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It would be a lot easier to argue against execution if we weren't in the habit of remotely executing people without trial. Presumably the Syrians have designated him an 'unlawful combatant' or some such pretext.

Also, we are not going to war in Syria. The Russian government has been quite clear that they are allies of Assad.
As someone interested in Scala but barely having used it, how do Scala's generics differ from C#'s reified generics? I've always found it difficult using generics on the JVM in comparison to the CLR because of boxing. I did a preliminary search but couldn't really find a good comparison between C# and Scala generics that was up to date.
Firefox's Reader View tidied it up nicely.
Indeed. If you got the App Store from the App Store, that would be a bit of a catch-22.

The expired certificate was part of the receipt that gets generated for an App Store app to indicate that you have the right to use that app on your computer. Stuff that ships with the system doesn't need this and so doesn't have receipts.
"flying to Syria and taking up arms"

meh... why not? everyone else seems to be doing it.
Some friends spent time volunteering at a charity in Russia in the early/mid 90s. When they went out, the charity had just been given an entire army base. Everything was left except the weapons – equipment, uniforms, personnel files, the lot.

If that's what a charity managed to acquire through official means, it's quite scary to think what others might have got their hands on.

And my friends got some very warm hats.
there is a community maintained fork https://github.com/CanCanCommunity/cancancan
>Applying a statistical analysis to sales data, he demonstrates that the majority of any successful brand’s sales comes from “light buyers”: people who buy it relatively infrequently. Coca-Cola’s business is not built on a hardcore of Coke lovers who drink it daily, but on the millions of people who buy it once or twice a year.

Having not read the book referenced, I haven't seen the data. But this seems to go against the Pareto Principle AKA 80/20 Rule which suggests 80% of your sales come from 20% of your (heaviest) customers, and against my own anecdotal experience as a marketer.
You think a shooting war between the US and Russia, or nuclear brinksmanship between Ukraine and Russia, would be preferable to what's happened instead?
As anyone who's released an app knows, the real problem is Apple's excessively bureaucratic certificate and provisioning processes.
If.

There's three kinds of debt. One is corporate. A company took on debt to buy some equipment. That can be mis-investment, but it's usually pretty good.

Second, there's personal debt. That counts both mortgages (usually worthwhile, unless you buy more house than you need) and stuff like credit card debt, where you're still paying for Christmas five years later. So, some is worthwhile, some not so much.

Third, there's government debt. This can be used effectively to create infrastructure. The problem is, though, that it's allocated not by a careful cost/benefit analysis. Instead, it's allocated by politicians. This kind of debt therefore has the highest propensity to be sheer waste.
Yep. Being at work all day gives me enough group social interaction. Then at home I just like to be alone with my wife. I am an introvert, so being out with people drains my energy. I like people, but only need it a bit.
How is it any different than having binaries on the App Store that anyone is encouraged to install, with no way to know what hidden features are there in any of them?
"Poison" is a rather tendentious way to describe that

NB...The words in my signature didn't come from a random sampling of the dictionary...they were from a screen grab of HN moderation tools...

On the topic of changing subjects, no not really.

Those words are outrageously inflamatory.
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Speaking of preposterous titles, don't forget "United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Casks of Coca-Cola" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty_Barrels...), in which the vigilante-ish first commissioner of the FDA tried to remove the caffeine from Coca-Cola. (The company had already removed the cocaine.)
The oral history is quite interesting and in depth. It really helps to get to know him. Thank you for sharing.
What is the logic to responding to security disclosures like this? In the reddit world this is called shit posting. Security bug A affects product B (or c-f) someone always responds at least I use g or h on z! Thus, I am immune from this particular security issue! Genuinely interested in why anyone bothers posting this non-sense.
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Oh I wasn't questioning the value of the Mac App Store. As a tool for installing free apps it's fantastic. However as a developer if you want to make money off of an application the Mac App Store is all but useless. Even if your app makes it into the top charts your profits will be almost non existent. The user base for the store is simply far too small.

Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/05/07/redacted-mac-app-profits...