skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gelman's own book (with Jennifer Hill) also has some good, practical techniques on causal inference. [0]

Morgan and Winship's Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research [1] is also really good. Be sure to get the second edition; it's much better than the first.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Regression-Multilevel-Hierarc...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Counterfactuals-Causal-Inference-Princ...
No, VTech cannot simply absolve itself of security responsibility
I don't agree. What happens if the customer tries to force you to do something that compromises your integrity as seen by other customers and regulators?
Someone will acquire them. The brand and employees are worth a billion dollars, in my opinion. Local is a very difficult market to crack.
> it's literally the only tech company anyone utters within the same breath as extortion or mafia.

I see you aren't familiar with reputation.com
I always assume a random metal box left unattended on the street in SF will be broken apart and turned in for scrap metal within about an hour. Technically the half life of such things varies but downtown it's about 5-10 minutes.
A large part of the insurance industry does not like the Zenefits business model (free software to be your broker), so I'd bet regulators are presumably getting a lot of pressure from the insurance lobby to do something quick.
I assumed that meant "products", as in 132 unique insurance products, rather than 132 belly buttons insured (phraseology in the health insurance industry).
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I'd consider a Ubiquiti AP or a MikroTik. Both make solid devices for routing and wifi. Especially MikroTik offers some nice all-in-one devices. Never had a problem with them.
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I have to disagree here.

"fancy names == people think bulletproof" is not a credible criticism.

Now "Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control" is a fancy name!!! Pretty sure no-one with a clue thinks a product named like that is bulletproof, and its probably got significant logic/nodes etc

I apparently have the opposite experience to you. I'll often find complex distributed systems that are painful to troubleshoot when they misbehave, and find it refreshing on the other hand when someone is just using Redis, because typically THAT system is working a lot more predictable.

If people are too inexperienced to realize that ALL systems have tradeoffs, and not read up on what those are (because apparenly the name is fancy) then they'll get burned. Antirez does a pretty good job of explaining and documenting where he sees Redis limits to be.

Arguing that everyone should be home-baking their own failovers until of learning the limits of well-known ones our there doesn't seem like responsible advice.
Your fancy carousel cube thingy is not working in iOS, which does not inspire confidence.
Thank you for writing this article. I believe you have good ideas in it. Regards, Ryan.
Not Just a Death, a System Failure
> even if he had a startup neutron source

In the words of my [nuclear engineering] professor: "criticality is a property of the system and is independent of any external source." 1kg of uranium isn't enough to form a critical mass, period. Nothing else really matters and adding a source doesn't change that. It's possible this person built something that experienced induced fissions, but a self-sustaining chain reaction (i.e., a reactor) is not.
er no, #1 should be #1
No, you're not locked in to using the default Mail app anymore. Since iOS 8, mail app developers can write a share sheet extension and you can access their mailer wherever you can access system share sheets.

And you're not really stuck with Xcode anymore than you're stuck with Visual Studio on Windows. You can use the command line tools to do everything yourself, it's just more difficult. You can also obviously write apps in Java or even Electron, which is very popular these days.

As for Siri not using your custom music player, that's unfortunate. But integration often comes at the cost of extensibility, and while Apple has the former nailed, they are still clearly working on the latter.
Someone clearly lives in the US... Probably in the Bay Area.

edit: just tested Apple Maps with a couple searches I did in Google Maps yesterday. Searched for the carrier shops for the two biggest carriers in my country. First search took me to Australia. The other ones found nothing in my city (there are probably at least 10-20 of each carrier in this town) and zoomed out to country level. Still completely and utterly useless.

That said, I'm no big Google Maps fan either, they have a lot of data issues as well. I tend to use a local app which works much better for public transit and car navigation, and has a nice category drill-down for POIs which works around a lot of the issues with free-text search
Downvoting is hardly persecution. It just means someone doesn't like your comment. They don't owe you an explanation and the site's author has explicitly stated one is not required. Think of what would happen if every downvote of a low-quality comment had to come with a polite note justifying the action. Noise explosion.
In case anyone's wondering, there was a reason for the Erlangomania: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
Saving money is never a bad thing and is solid advice. But honestly I think it is a little basic for what you are asking.

Having lived through the dot come bust and other economic failures I have found that making sure you stay valuable and relevant are the most important factors. Someone pointed out making sure you are valuable to your current employer by taking on the parts of code that everyone dreads. That is good, so is just making sure you are a team player and are pulling your weight and pitching in wherever you can to make sure things stay on track. In the past, I jumped on a support desk, or stayed late to stuff mailings with sales staff etc. When people see you are willing to help make the team successful even outside your defined role and that you are showing loyalty most good people will return the favor. BTW -- all the things I did when times were less then ideal was what made being an entrepreneur easier, because sometimes you just have to suck it up and clean the bathroom before a client visit, or after depending on the situation.

If you have interest in starting your own thing, there is nothing wrong with doing so. Minimize current expenses, pay off as much of your debt possible while you are a FTE and save some cash up. While you are still working start your side business and take some time to get it right. Starting a business in a downturn is many times quite successful because many businesses look to outsource projects, minimize new head count etc.

One last point, many times enterprises use downturns in the startup sector to snap up talent that they have been squeezed out of getting. So usually enterprise hiring remains pretty robust for the first 12-18 months that I have seen. And this time around if there is a bubble in the startup side, enterprises are sitting on some of the largest cash reserves that I can remember seeing, so who knows how that will work out.
I'm not saying it's not possible. I've seen some incredible HTML5 and WebGL games/tests with limited modern browser support. Unfortunately our clients (large children's entertainment companies) require their games can be played on every device in every browser. Sadly, it costs us more to do less in so many environments.
At the risk of stating the painfully obvious, "gun crimes" refers to crimes committed with guns (murder, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, etc.), not to violations of gun prohibition.

In that case, one could argue that "drug crime" isn't really violation of prohibition laws but the crimes committed to feed the habits of addicts or crimes committed while under the influence of drugs.

In reality it's both. Gun crimes are shootings and non-violent violations of firearms regulations. Possession of an unlicensed machinegun is a gun crime.
Hm, that's odd. I have a Paypal business account and I've been seeing the new layout for at least a year now.

Are you using PayPal pro? I'm not, since AFAIK the only difference is the website redirect + accepting the full credit card information.

You can take payments in person without having a Paypal Pro account, just their swiper reader.
You might be looking for the culture that surrounds state of the art networking tech.
Okay, so it's not the Javascript $FOO of the week then, good.

As long as it's not overly hot like machine learning, talk to your suitors. If you think you'll get a durable increase in quality of life/freedom/stability then consider a move.

I would call stability being able to say "Yes, this company and my job are likely to be here 10 years from now.", even if you don't intend to stay for 10 years.
Try not to pull an icarus
Talk to them, and get informational interviews with hiring managers. This is an opportunity to learn what/how they are doing, if it's related to your field. And to make some connections.

At the least, connect with them on linkedin. Those will come very handy when you're actually looking.

[me: I run http://InterviewKickstart.com in NorCal. It's very common to be heavily recruited by first-party tech firms over here, both big and small]
The way we position our bodies dramatically influences -- and is influenced by -- our subconscious. This article has a lot of really interesting applications in psychotherapy of the body influencing the mind!

This article reminds me of a book I read a few years ago, Joe Navarro's "What Every Body Is Saying" [1]. If you're in the business of working with people more than programs, this book might be useful, but even if not, a lot of it was a good intellectual curiosity. There were plenty of things that I got to try noticing and playing with on my own body; for instance, how I hold my hands in any given situation (palms out? palms in?) is a good indicator of how comfortable I am, and it's an interesting experiment to "force" myself to place my hands somewhere other than where they naturally lie, and just lightly observe how it makes me more or less comfortable. (If you're bored in a meeting, I highly recommend giving it a try.)

Thanks for this link.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/What-Every-BODY-Saying-Speed-Reading/d...
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if you like IntelliJ, there's always AppCode:

https://www.jetbrains.com/objc/
I used this one for a while:

https://teuxdeux.com/
Apple Maps, in many ways, is more usable than Google Maps when it comes to directions / heads up on turns and such. Unfortunately, it's still missing a glaring feature for me where I can't get it to ignore toll roads or highways when calculating directions. Even if I manually jigger it to avoid the road I want to avoid, it still "corrects" and tries to send me on that road.

They need to get some more of the driving GPS features figured out and I'll switch over entirely.
>> Because they chose a model where the businesses who pay them are also the businesses being reviewed

> Crazy when you think about it.

Who do those guys think they are, Moody's!!!?
When I look at some of the fundamental differences between lisp and the mainstream languages (like everything-as-expressions and explicit scoping of variables and functions), I realize that Lisp is centuries ahead of its time. How long is it going to take mainstream languages to implement explicit scoping like let and flet? 75 years after lisp was born? How long for everything-as-expressions (which gives code a logical structure and eliminates the need for throwaway variables)? 100 years? 200 years? Will we even have programming languages by then?
> But now you're talking way more work, and yet another IR.

What makes you think every abstraction layer has to be an IR? There's a reason we moved away from "assembly language" looking things: so we can think at a higher layer of abstraction and not worry about how a machine implements it.

> A developer wants to develop the code they wrote.

Again you're looking at it the wrong way. The generated C code _is_ the developer's code. An amplify-C developer would generate C code with the very purpose of looking at it. And the reason it has to be C and not an "assembly language" looking thing is that it has to be 'human readable'.

This is an entire approach quite orthogonal to the previous two approaches:

- shoehorn hand-picked fixed abstractions (like OO, templates) on top of C using cryptic syntax (the C++ approach)

- working at a higher layer and never having to deal with C but instead generating IR for a virtual machine (the Java, Perl, Python, LLVM-client, approach).

It turns out both approaches have turned out to be quite unsatisfactory for game programming. If you don't like this new approach, so be it, but unless you have an evidence of how game-programming is thriving on top of a VM model, you have to give them a break.
Wow, there are soo many resignations happening this week! I am stunned. Anyone have articles on how this happened and what it means?
I'm not a very interesting person.
I know about the arrest warrant -- but my information is that he Swedish system is somewhat different from ours, and that technically speaking, he still hasn't been charged yet:

This arrest is for an alleged crime in Sweden as the procedural stage before charging (or “indictment”). Indeed, to those who complain that Assange has not yet been charged, the answer is simple: he cannot actually be charged until he is arrested.

http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-...
> They are losing money at an incredible rate and no where near profitable. They are losing money at a rate of about $100MM per year, and having to raise the same.

Do you have a citation for that? I couldn't find anything when I tried searching.
DHS isn't trying to hide a grocery cart sized steel box with "Property of DHS" stamped on it?

Welp, I'm shocked.

But really, I get your point. Why is it that everyone is acting like this was some shady move? I'm sure DHS is more than capable of installing whatever without anyone knowing.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/csiro-head-larry-marshall-def...

The man has a PhD in physics but he believes in water divining. The second of these may have had more to do with qualifying him to head up the CSIRO than the first.
http://www.skeptics.com.au/2014/12/04/bent-spoon-to-csiro-he...

I don't know if this is the right thing, but I'm just going to assume it is 100% wrong based on a bozo who believes in water divining being in charge of Scientific research and having stated he wants water divining researched by real scientists.
Thanks for the link, but it is in the article. On news.mit.edu articles, when they do include links to papers, the links are presented in the "RELATED" list on the right side. They don't always remember to give links to papers, but they are better about it than the press/news sites of most universities.
Except that here, it really is a huge problem. There's nothing to "play up" when you're being formally investigated for a massive number of Class B felonies.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/25/zenefits-under-investigatio...
I was literally just checking the status of my pre-order for Navdy.

https://www.navdy.com/

It seems they are shipping by the end of March this year. They claim to integrate with Siri and Google Now.

>"We know people are loyal to their brands and virtual assistants, from Siri to Google Now, and we’re making it effortless to access them during the driving experience."

http://blog.navdy.com/october-updates/

I will be interested to see how this product fairs in comparison.
Does that mean I tell them I'm not really looking to move, but request a chat with a hiring manager to better understand the field / their org / projects / etc. rather than a formal interview?
I agree with you, but you're being argumentative. No one here is saying that we should stop unit tests because they can't find all the bugs.

Instead, the focus should be on what else we can do to improve the bug detection rate. This is an area that needs further research (and I would start with the observation that the quality of the unit test varies dramatically depending on who writes them).
I predict that Parker will join YC as a part-time partner. This may shed him in a negative light, but it does not erase the things he has accomplished in the last few years. Zenefits became a billion-dollar company that scaled its sales efforts at a record-breaking pace. Startups can learn a lot from him about building a sales machine.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-...

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The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy.

"Hi, this is Mike from Yelp," the voice would say. "You've had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You've had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those."

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This only affects Street View which Google has abandonded in Germany.
All of this is very confusing. There are a ton of chips on a motherboard, each one with its own firmware. For instance, I doubt you'll find an SSD or HDD that's production worthy and has open source firmware.

That being the case, I doubt there's much to this effort, if the focus truly is security.
I had a very similar experience to you. In an employment contract, I asked for--and got--an amendment to an IP provision to remove wording suggesting that I was performing an IP transfer to any personal work prior to employment not listed in Exhibit A. The employer even told me that the wording I suggested might be better wording to use in their standard contract.
I agree that it's far too many, and far too much effort to completely disable.
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FYI: The laws of the State of Utah and those of Washington are not interchangeable at your convenience.
On the other hand, downvoting isn't really supposed to reflect dislike or disagreement, but rather a comment that is rude, lacks substance or, is otherwise against the guidelines. Unfortunately this rule seems to be pretty universally ignored on HN these days.

I'll generally re-upvote any reasonable post that I see has been downvoted simply due to expressing a contentious opinion, even if I also happen to disagree.
Seems to drive Spotify on my OSX without me doing anything special... ?
It was such a widespread issue that they had a lawsuit filed against them. Not sure what happened to it eventually.

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/08/05/imessage-android-lawsuit...
Do you work in a larger company? This is crystal clear (if you know what to look for) vs. the usual generic communication that happens in larger companies around these types of changes...
The blockchain is a consensus protocol.
It's generally accepted in the Free Software community that right now we've still got a long way to go before we get free firmware for every embedded microcontroller. FSF will still certify a device as "Respects Your Freedom" if the only proprietary code on there is firmware for secondary processors that isn't intended to be updated regularly by the user.
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I can't actually see your email address unless you put it in the about section; e-mails in profiles aren't visible.
Quebec, once again, is a special exception.
I have an old MacBook 4,1 (w/ Core 2 Duo), 4 GB RAM, lying around with the latest version of Chrome on it. It's usable, but not snappy, and you can't have dozens of tabs open or it will get sluggish fast. You have to clear the cache and restart Chrome too often.
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But no software even close to Visual Studio, that's the point.
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The argument isn't one of severity, but of responsibility so your comment doesn't really address the argument being made.
This is one of those moments where I wish there was a nice way to express sarcasm. I hope your comment was meant to be delivered with it. A lot of it.
As a former Zenefits user, and after contentiously conversing with Parker a few times on social media then soonthereafter reading how the company flouts laws and regulations while feigning simple ignorance of them, I'd say the buck certainly stops with him.

He needed to finally accept that his company has some serious internal issues that have cost a not-unsubstantial amount of people a lot of time, money and grief over the years, including some of my own employees. The company certainly has a lot of promise, but was managed the wrong way from day 1 and it needs someone with some real experience to right the ship if they are to stay viable.
It's very much also supposed to reflect those.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
It is is bit off-putting that you think anything that you downvote will only respond with "noise explosion".

Groupthink much?
Roll your own database migrations
I also use AdaWay from the F-Droid repos
thank you for this reply, really puts things into perspective.
Can you consider that the change wound have been (in utilitarian terms) detrimental?
>he only crime you can commit with a drug is a violation of prohibition.

Also DUI, Minor in possession, providing controlled substance to minor.
Typical of products and services marketed toward lawyers, law360 requires a silly subscription to read content that is largely already public info. Maybe the trade secrets that the Reuters journalist stole have something to do with the secret of convincing people to cross the paywall of this obnoxious publication! Anyway, here's a Google Scholar link to the opinion, which is self-explanatory:

https://goo.gl/Vzq0XG
Nice! Would love to know more about it. I've had a pretty poor experience so it really could be just me. Would you be up for sharing what the laptop model+specs are?
I've decided too keep this opinion to myself. So a year from now when the bubble has burst, I'll get to lay down a nice "told you so" to the world. And you can rise with me as my second in command and we will rule a post bubble world, the carnage of the bursted bubble landscape will be ours till the end of time!
The issue is, I went to the "What is Lanes" page, clicked on each of the features to see a description and got...nothing of value. The feature became bolded and crossed-out, and that's it. No video loaded, no text appeared.
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It's a PST-JITB: Portable Security Theatre Jack-In-The-Box.
What, exactly, is groupthink? If everyone had to explain their every downvote, the site would be unreadable.
I was unable to try using it. I tried to type my name to no reaction. Then i clicked it and it asked me to sign up. There's not even a demo or any third party login support. Not ready to create an account and password for something that isn't even explained or demoed.
If your landlord fails to enforce the lease agreement, you can probably use that to get out of the lease. Our complex recently had people complaining about this very thing and they have started getting much stricter about it thank goodness.
Other people have provided good answers, but I'm just gonna add another link explaining Y Combinator ``Why of Y" by Matthias Felleison[1] , which is so far my favorite explanation.

https://xivilization.net/~marek/binaries/Y.pdf
There are more riddles to be discovered

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_...

Utilizing scanning electron microscopy, they discovered mineral compounds and air bubbles in samples of the limestone pyramid blocks that do not occur in natural limestone.
I was thinking the same, but it is earnings season in a down market...
Interesting posts from Avast explaining how they supply data to their marketing analytics product from their AntiVirus products:

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=171725.0
https://blog.avast.com/2015/05/29/avast-data-drives-new-anal...
Receiving SMS is usually free, even while roaming