skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that this conduct is improper and should lead to the loss of their chairs (and retractions, if any paid "research" ended up in scholarly journals), you're also missing something important about science when you say:

> Those very conflicts of interest would, under normal circumstances, force folks to question the nature of the research and the quality of the results.

The fact that someone has a conflict of interest should be stated, certainly. But we should always question the nature of research and the quality of results. In one of these cases, it doesn't even seem that a research paper was being purchased but simply an essay, which presumably would not be cited by anyone or even considered a presentation of facts by other scholars. But in any case, we shouldn't assume someone's research is honest and valuable just because he doesn't seem to have an economic conflict of interest. There's a lot of bad science done with deliberate intent to deceive that involved no such conflict of interest at all.

The bottom line is that science is not being nearly tough enough on itself, and the results are what you'd expect: a lot of bad papers that are either useless and irrelevant or full of lies, errors, and fabrications. Reporting conflicts of interest might help a little, but it shouldn't be used as a cover for gullibility.
I've been in interviews where over half the questions were legit non-programming puzzles, and the rest were algorithms. Most interviews are heavy on tool-specific questions. I've had only two interviews where I've been asked to fix a bug in code and in those circumstances I wasn't able to actually run the code. Getting even remotely close to building something would be so supremely memorable that I would have a hard time believing I built an entire thing before I noticed.
Outrage is a choice, and it isn't one made by those who are willing to have an adult discussion about a topic.

I think MLK's strategy is the absolute gold standard for promoting intelligent discussion around social issues. Outrage won't solve anything, other than to silence dissent. And what a terrible world that would be to live in.
I wish people would understand the zipper merge and that people shouldn't form a long line since that pushes the congestion further back possibly through intersection and traffic lights causing gridlock which pushes the congestion to streets going perpendicular to the road with the merge. The problem is people think you're "cutting" if you stay in the non-blocked lane up until the merge point and then won't let you in.
You do realize that I just took a line from the article, which took a line from South Park, right?
Snowdin: the elf that leaked the naughty list
VIDEO: Hostage Taker Kills Himself While Talking to Cops
Not really though, last year they had Randy play Lorde for the whole season. And they've been doing 2-3 episode stories for a while. Even in this season the Yelp episode was off topic from the main plot.
Venezuela election: opposition coalition secures 'supermajority'
I wonder how much of LA will be covered? it is a gigantic area. I do hope they go up to the Pasadena and San Marino areas...
Well, with the exception of shows like The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and the like but I agree overall.
I think there are a lot of engineers on here who only express a single language style.

In the business world I see writing style changing depending on who one is talking to - a trait I don't generally see in engineers. Who knows the mind of the originator of bitcoin.

Also, Wright can have a few drinks and click to send a sloppy message without much thought. However any time he purportedly posts as Satoshi he probably re-reads it 100 times with his heart pumping at 150bpm and takes as much care over his writing as the potentially fictional Satoshi. The author of bitcoin would surely be clever enough even if his natural language skills were poor.
Have you considered that maybe it just isn't quite as simple a problem as you imagine?
This comment reminded me of Stuhlinger's letter: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
IIRC, San Jose is under consideration but not official as of yet.
I'd like to say to everyone starting out doing math with computers: You see that old book of numerical recipes or physics problems done in Fortran? Yeah, those are pretty damn good recipes. Do you need some weird function, like a gamma function or hypergeometric function? Maybe you want to minimize a function with simulated annealing or you want to design a Chebyshev filter? You can dig up a library somewhere or you can just look in that dusty old book on the shelf.

There's a C version but the Fortran version is easier to find.
So literally 300 seconds worth of internet for $100/month?

edit: B b blah. 2,400 seconds.
> What exactly are you going to expose? How should the build system interact with this?

The case of AST is relatively clear. You create a library module, or a standalone program, that takes source code and generates an AST. The AST could be in JSON format, s-expression (that would be my choice), heck even XML. It's better if the schema adheres to some standard (I think LLVM AST can be studied for inspiration, or even taken as standard) but even if it's not, that's a problem orthogonal to that of monolithic vs modular. Once you have an source-to-AST converter, it can be used inside a compiler, text-editor, build system, or something else. These are all "clients" of the source-to-AST module.

I'm not too sure about semantic-analysis since I'm studying it myself at the moment. All I can say at the moment (without expert knowledge of formal semantics) that once AST is used in more and more tools, semantic analysis would follow, and hopefully conventions would emerge for treating it in a canonical fashion. Short of that, every "AST client" can roll their own ad-hoc semantic-analyzer built-into the tool itself. Note that it would still be way more modular than a monolithic design.
I don't understand how people are able to put so much emotional energy into their views on South Park.

It's satire, if you don't enjoy watching it.

Then don't.

If you are truly worried about peoples views being strongly influenced by the content of South Park, then your opinion of peoples intelligence is far less than mine. It's for entertainment, and the viewer ship knows this.
Set your network firewall to drop all packets not originating from Cloudflare's IP blocks?
I used one as my primary device for 2 years. It worked fine. All I needed was voice, sms, a browser, mail reader and a modem (wifi tethering). I had bought a dev device for $75.

Somewhere in the FF OS 2.x series, an upgrade seriously made the keyboard unusable, and I never knew where to turn for bug trackers / support. I had also tried to make IPv6 work, experimented a bit with the app system.. I'm an average programmer, but I participate in a few large projects.. Firefox has always been a mystery to me, with lots of code names and hard to use bug tracker.

Huge fan of Mozilla otherwise, so hurts a bit to say this.. other than that, it was a functional phone for 2 years.
> Q1. AOL still has a dial-up division?

Of course they do. Scamming old people is one of the ways Internet pays for itself.
Dale Brown books are one of my guilty pleasures. Actually, Silver Tower was the first sci-fi book I remember reading when I was a kid. He went to military thrillers after that one and I've read all of them too. But Silver Tower and Old Dog are still two of my favorites.
the pupils, or my perception of the pupils, don't seem to be focusing or moving naturally.
That's why I clarified "scripted." (Or "procedural" would be the more technically correct term.)
> We cannot know what his original view on climate change might have been.

Does it matter? You don't have the right to demand that everyone agree with you, even if you're right. We don't burn people at the stake or try to silence them for disagreement. Please stop trying to create unanimity; it's not healthy.

What we should punish people for: lying to Congress, taking or offering bribes, doing dishonest work while in the public employ. All of those apply, and any should be sufficient, at a bare minimum, to justify firing these professors. However, thinking that climate change doesn't exist or isn't anthropogenic is not a crime. Saying so is not a crime, either. And I'm damned glad of it!
Good to know.

Thanks!
I'm truly sorry that you think libertarian philosophy means not caring for your fellow human. The very reason I reject the "we'll stomp you in the throat until you comply" authoritarian approaches of the left/right is precisely because I care about others.
Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend [pdf]
It entirely depends on the kid.

Nova did a series on the formation and geological history of North America, and the local station happened to air it following their Sunday morning children's programming. My six year old sat through each episode entirely enraptured with it, and he asked all sorts of questions after. My younger kid, not so much.

I know Cosmos is going to be above his ability to completely understand, but I think it'd probably keep his attention and prompt questions.
Dos Arrest is excellent but expensive.
I need to know, is "generic" code for "white" here? Or is it something else?
Also, Mozilla already had some IM support (XMPP, twitter, and yahoo, I think) in Thunderbird / Instantbird. IRC too, but that's a different sort of messaging.
What, no SW UCS kits? Lame!

They have the original Technic sets though, that's pretty awesome.
>> Privacy advocates also worry that to carry out its hacks, the FBI is using “zero-day” exploits that take advantage of software flaws that have not been disclosed to the software maker.

I imagine that's not the only attack vector. I would be surprised if FBI / CIA / NSA don't seek (direct or indirect) commit access to popular open source projects.
It's a valuable exercise. My favorite example is that for the same cost as the Iraq War, the USA could have bought Canada.
> it should be illegal to not disclose such conflicts on interest when testifying under oath

Would this qualify ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress

or

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
Obviously, they're using the same information that's helping you calibrate your campaigns to add to the hive-mind, so they can further data-mine. You're sacrificing the anonymity of your end-users in doing so. Obviously they're offering it so that they can refine their profile of you more accurately to sell ads / direct more relevant traffic to you better. I'm not an industrial engineer but I've been reading about it for the last few weeks. I turned off Adblock for a while and even with my Opt-out plugins(a,b) I started getting ads for $4,500 Fluke multimeters. The combination of one's search history plus a fairly comprehensive history of the sites you visit(b) to a terrifying degree, but at the same time, the average business with only a few million dollars a year going towards both sales and marketing can't really approach Quantcast and ask for access to their API.

a: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
b:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/do-not-track/ckdcp...
b: I don't have the study off-hand, but IIRC some guy after finishing his masters from Stanford wanted to assess how much information Google had re: an average users browser history. The findings, based off Common Crawl data of the top 100k sites + presence of GA.js yielded something like ~> 75% of the web was tracked (not to be confused with how much of an end-user's traffic is tracked, that number will be far higher) based on sites with a GA.js history factoring in Referer tags. Those were unweighed numbers, i.e., I bet more than one out of two 45 year old woman's traffic can be analyzed to a 95% degree of completely entirely based off of Pinterest, Facebook, search history and the outbound links from her e-mail.
Upvoted because I don't think you should be silenced for your believes, but I disagree with you.

Many of us have personal grievances, and if the words of these folks should be believed, than mine are as real as theirs. Yet I do not expect the world to change to fit my narrative.
Some people have good service with Verizon FiOS but many people do not have it and do not have access to good service, at least according to the NYTimes article about the situation.
The vaping enthusiast community have known about this for over a year. The popular vendors have pretty much all converted their recipes to avoid being the black sheep who still ship diacetyl.

I'd love to know why this story is being pushed everywhere now - is there a bill / legislation coming up somewhere important?
> I don't understand how people are able to put so much emotional energy into their views on South Park.

I think you might be overestimating the amount of energy that is put into having an opinion on the Internet. We're not exactly sending hand-written letters via pigeon. It takes seconds-to-minutes to state a view.

> If you are truly worried about peoples views being strongly influenced by the content of South Park, then your opinion of peoples intelligence is far less than mine. It's for entertainment, and the viewer ship knows this.

Putting consumerist entertainment on a pedestal is unjustified. What one thinks is entertaining is a reflection of their views on society. Being for entertainment does not strip a commodity of its social context.
A lot of people switch to vaping because they're half-assing quitting.

I quit smoking 10 years ago, cold turkey. You either give a shit about your health, or you don't.

I don't care if I get down-voted, or appear negative. Sack up, quit the stupid stuff.
Seriously, there's a large number of applicants who apply for programming jobs, have had programming jobs in the past, can talk about their programming work, but are actually unable to write code.

Fizzbuzz is an absolutely necessary filter, or you will accidentally hire these people.
Which hash did he use?

The change you link to has the same SHA-256 as the first option both before and after the change.

Did he use something else?

I'm curious to know your thoughts on the scenario whereby another hash would be chosen for him by the software, and whether or not he may have chosen a specific hash?

This is potentially a good line of enquiry with more info
"Hello" (videochat) is pretty neat, imho. You can share tabs, video/voice and chat. It's great for training users. All you have to do is send an URL, and it works in Chrome too.

It's based on HTML5, but because of how webrtc has to punch through firewalls, it uses one of their partners to initiate the connection (Telefonica?). After that it's mostly peer to peer.
Back button is blue.
The font used is just a shocker.
It's ridiculously slow to load data
I can't see my own "threads" view.
"I've never had the pleasure of working at a company where this was even attempted, would [present company] provide opportunities in this regard?"
Work-hire test works for positions that requires failry narrow skill sets. You need iOS 2D game developer or nodejs to MongoDB plumber or single page JS app developer? Sure it would work beautifully. However most companies are not looking for such very narrow skill sets. Companies look for people who are generalists at heart and can be specialized in given area with little ramp up on demand . One week you might write build script and other week debugging Rails and yet another week fixing javascript in UX. When doing these tasks, it's not expected that you already know all these tools and platforms. You will have some ramp up time of 1 day to a week. But the key is that you should be able to move around stack, across projects and get shit done given reasonable ramp up times.

Also a lot of experienced programmers are generalists as well. You might have been C++ system guy in your past life, worked on JavaScript couple of years back and now working on Hadoop backend. You may not remember all the nitty gritty details of past platforms and tools but you can ramp up on demand.

So this 2 hour work-hire test that narrowly focuses on specific tools and platform won't work for vast majority of programmers who haven't branded themselves in to one narrow area. Also remember that a lot of programmers at places like Google, FB and Microsoft work in highly proprietory environment with their own internal build system, platforms and tools. They are likely not familiar with everything that's latest and in fashion. However they are very smart people, can change gear easily and, most importantly, ramp up on demand very quickly.

Yet another big issue is that work-hire test usually fail to measure hardcore computer science problem solving abilities. Sure, you are good at fixing some iOS bugs but can you figure out how to do driving directions on maps or may be scale email system to 100 million users? Now I do agree that lot of jobs don't require hard core CS but many do. And for a startup, it's usually impossible to tell if your future 6 month down the line will hing on having someone with hard core CS skills.
You better stay away from beer then...
I completely agree that regional adjustments should not be made. A single and uniform monetary amount should be given to all. Otherwise a runaway effect is bound to happen. The places people most want to live (say Hawaii), are more expensive-- if you get to live there AND get more $$ to do it, you will get more people there. Of course then, it gets even more expensive and so on.
Good point! OP here, and this was one of the worst things (imo) when dealing with auto. Why the hell would it strip off reference qualifiers??? No clue man, no clue.
Rovio Says It Has Tripled Revenue for Games in the Amazon Underground Appstore
> How would you feel if Hawkings were a Christian, and he would take money from the Pope and then wrote a report on how he saw Jesus in the black hole?

The same way I feel about all such claims: if they can't be independently reproduced, they're garbage. The more bizarre the claim, the easier it should be to disprove it. Authors who publish outlandish claims that cannot be substantiated by others will be first disgraced and then, worse, ignored.

Hawking and the pope aren't relevant to your example. All that matters is that someone claims he saw Jesus in a black hole. It's not even clear that such a thing is a falsifiable claim, and if it weren't, it wouldn't be accepted for publication anyway. But even if it took the form of one, it would be immediately disproved and that would be the end of it. It's the claim that's important, not who made it or who paid him to do so.
> You see that old book of numerical recipes or physics problems done in Fortran? Yeah, those are pretty damn good recipes.

If I don't have that book, what's a good one to get?
While it may be possible to tell competance easily this way, one thing I found difficult to tell without live coding is someone's ability for architecting components. One recent hire at work is competant at coding, but for a senior engineer, weak on designing API for a UI service to generate components, as well as weak on unit testing (which in this instance, turns out to be somewhat linked).

How would you screen such a person out?
You are being overly pedantic when it comes to _science_ and I say this as a trained scientist. These guys are testifying before congress as experts when they are pedaling their credentials for money and burying their briber's identities. They should at minimum lose their jobs, have any research redacted from journals and possibly face jail time.
There are other possibilities. Maybe they'd still work, but at a lower paying job than they'd be willing to take before. Or perhaps a couple might get by on one income.

An income with no strings attached increases freedom. It's not easy to predict what people will do with it, but if you believe that people can generally make sensible choices, they're likely better off than before.
I think porting code from one language over into another is one of the better ways to learn a new language. Especially older, lower-level code. I've probably learned more from rewriting an old school project ray tracer in three or four different languages, or grinding away at utilities to load up Quake and Wolfenstein 3D assets based on the ID code, than I have in my actual day job.
Thank you for this, is there anything similar for getting better at math/problem solving? Right now I'm going through the art of problem solving series but I would like to incorporate more.
Go-fuzz –– Randomized testing for Go
I'm looking into replacing GA Premium ever since Easylist blocked GA tracking for Adblocked users and self-hosted Piwik seems like the best solution. I'd be well into the billions.
That's actually the plan... And then maybe join a SV start up because money doesn't matter anymore...

Going to be tough to do as an enterprise Java developer though. =P.
Plus most of the time aircraft are worth actual money so people have an incentive not to let them rot. Of course, that's not always true.
Nobody is calling for an end to astronomy spending, let alone ending blue sky research. But there are always efficients that must be debated. Spending a billion on one telescope (or one LHC) must be weighed against spending 100-million on each of ten. There are certainly discoveries that do need the bigger microscope, but there are a great many areas of science that are underfunded. Seeing a billion go to one device should be a red flag warranting serious debate.

There is also a Freudian aspect to any "worlds biggest" project. They are a magnet for waste and competition totally outside the arena of science.
Well when we see vulnerabilities that can be traced back to boneheaded security, it seems reasonable to have some extra concern. Like when Sony decided to roll it's own crypto implementation for the PS3 and forgot to use different random numbers in one part, leading to the root private keys for the device being broken.
You're the one who started with the advertising analogy. I just combined that kickoff with the tendency of government to ratchet power and control once granted. You may think it's a slippery slope, I just see a logical basis for assumption.
> But LeBron James just inked a deal that could see him earn that much for bouncing a ball.

And he absolutely deserves it, 100%. He's created and will continue to create that much value past his basketball career and it's only right that he sees a return from all the value he will create.

I only hope you're half-joking about that statement because otherwise it's incredibly misguided.
How one woman made a ‘tricorder’ that could change medicine [video]
I assume this happens already. It's unlikely that with so much money at stake, only one party is doing the dirty. Same applies to any issue where a lot of money is at stake.
Living in the middle of nowhere in a lower middle class family, I can't thank AOL enough for all the free trials they sent our way. It was my introduction to tech.
They have other checks surgeons can operate. Basically an apprentice system where the expert watches the student and doesn't pass them till competent. You don't get to do it by bs'ing in an interview.
He has discussion about that hack here:
http://spritesmods.com/?art=mechctr&page=2

Seems reasonable enough to me.
I'd rather say that the support is not uniform. The most left wing party supports unrealistically generous basic income plan, some people in the (right wing) government parties support a much more modest plan (that might actually end up downscaling current system or not) or at least support running this planned test. However, no one has any idea if they have a majority support in the government parties, and there's also opposition to "giving everybody free money", "it will bankrupt the state".

I understand that the greens also have their own, different basic income plan.

The moderate left wing party (social democrats, in opposition) and the unions oppose all basic income projects; they built the current welfare system.
This is the one I'm talking about: http://numerical.recipes

There are others.