skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a smartphone case that looked robust in the picture, but was kinda cheap and didn't perfectly fit the phone, so I noted that in my review.

It's just a dinky review, you're not supposed to do a full product breakdown. If everyone thought of amazon reviews this way and just gave 30 seconds for a review for every item, then there would be no automated review problem.
There's a difference between lack of clarity and fraud.

Bronte Capital discussed Single's Day, Alibaba / China's equivalent of black Friday. Taking Alibaba's claim of 278m package deliveries at face value, he compares the scale of infrastructure and employees required for Amazon plus Amazon Logistics/UPS/Fedex to deliver significantly fewer packages than Alibaba's claim to Alibaba's infrastructure/employees. The conclusion appears to be that what Alibaba is claiming is largely impossible and the numbers are very wonky.

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/09/job-interview-ques...
This does not address the core complaint from the breach[1]:

> 18F’s use of both OAuth 2.0 and Slack is not in compliance with GSA’s Information Technology Standards Profile, GSA Order
CIO P 2160.1E. The order allows information technologies to be
approved for use in the GSA IT environment if they comply with
GSA’s security, legal, and accessibility requirements. Currently, neither OAuth 2.0 nor Slack are approved for use in the GSA IT standards profile.

> ...

> The OIG makes the following recommendations:

> 1. GSA should cease using Slack and OAuth 2.0 until and
unless they are approved for use in the IT Standards Profile.

> 2. GSA should ensure that 18F complies with GSA Order CIO
P 2160.1E.

Is 18F no longer using Slack or any other OAuth 2.0 integrations? That would be a shame. Are they working with GSA and the Office of Inspections and Forensic Auditing to clear Slack/OAuth 2.0?

[1]: https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/Alert%...
[ Obscure Reference, Apologies ]

I can't help but be reminded of the Carls Jr. self service kiosks in the movie Idiocracy.
Maybe you could game their gaming of the system by ordering the product on multiple accounts and writing bad reviews of it and get all of they sent you for free.
Should I be using rustup instead of multirust, then?
Average scores should trend towards the center. I'm not sure if it's an example of the central limit theorem (I think that deals with different distributions tending towards normal), but you'd expect IMDB scores to trend toward the middle.
Types that aren't dense numpy arrays.
My guess is that the lure of cash is so deep that it clouds original goals. I get a waft of it every now and then and it takes every ounce not to fall into that lure since getting out of that mentality is really, really hard.
The only thing the app did was: list the chores; pay the kid. Without the payments the app was a list app.

Not really going to pay the bills.
When the author compares the number of CPU instructions that sprintf compiles to in both C and Julia, he fails to take into account dynamic linking in C:

jmp	__sprintf_chk

I would guess that another few hundred instructions run as a result of this jmp. Thus, the difference in the number of instructions that C's sprintf and Julia's @sprintf compile to are not as drastic as the author makes it seem.
You could probably hide it pretty effectively during a normal pull request to fix an existing issue. As long as they aren't greping for the string anyhow. If he's going to use tools to to search a PR for the string, you'd have to obfuscate it. There are plenty of string and / or byte array manipulation techniques to sufficiently hide something like this as long as it's masked by an otherwise real PR.
I wrote them and begged them to release "Prompt" for Windows. Pretty please. They politely said "no."
If tourist guides in the Yucatan are anything to go by there basically was little to no jungle back in the Mayan days - it had been chopped down pretty much in full to make room for cities and corn fields.
Was it really a potshot at Go? Maybe I read it incorrectly but what I thought was being said was that all the "modern" features that Julia/Python/other newer languages have are not available in Go (think stuff like list comprehensions). I don't think that's a potshot as it's not really a negative, just a difference in design. Go doesn't have those features and many times does not want those features, and there is nothing bad about that and nothing bad about stating such.
Evernote is more or less the only player in this space. I'm delighted for them to have some competition to keep them hungry :)
Sold by and fulfilled by? I'd imagine if Amazon sold it, not just fulfilled it, they'd be very interested in knowing that and looking into it. Unless Amazon's really totally given up...

(I dropped prime when they blacklisted competitors' products: Chromecast and Apple TV.)
> John Chanos, president of Kynikos Associates,

Spotted the professional cynic.

(Brilliant, making money out of it. The forerunner was famously dirt, live-in-a-barrel, poor. But with the balls to ask Alexander to "stand a little out of my sun.")
$130 Oculus clones from China are here
> you do not have a successful company until your small team is on fire...

One of the things I loved - positively loved - about the Starfighter team, is that when the servers were crashing over the Christmas holidays, there were times when the team said (paraphrasing, from memory) "We've implemented some fixes & done what we've can, but now we're going home to enjoy Christmas with our families and children".

I love that. It's not worth impacting your kid's Christmas just to keep your servers slightly more efficient. I certainly wouldn't want recruiters placing me with companies that would throw me into death marches. I feel the Starfighter team have quality of life in their DNA, and I trust that the clients they work with are handpicked to also be great places to work. Flip that too much & I think Starfighters would lose their value proposition, may as well try another recruiter.
No, the admins' cars.
Startup Lessons Learned from Playing Dota
Death is why we get stuck in the old ways of doing things. I mean death of passion, dreams, soul...
Also "the" Turing test requires you to be actively probing for evidence it's a bot. Though this "no suspicion" Turing Test is certainly progress.
Books I read a decade ago in political science classes and couldn't remember who did the studies or proposed the theories. http://www.brill.com/middle-class-and-democracy-socio-histor... looks like it might discuss the topic, but I don't know what perspective it takes
You Need a Skull PIllow in Your Life
Ah, I think my brain got led down a "garden path", a concept I just learned had an official name from yesterday's Parsey McParseface announcement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
> Why should I write a review? I have nothing to gain.

Unfortunately I'm now of that mind-set as well.

A few years ago I was in the top-500 of reviewers on Amazon UK, based on 'helpful votes'. I only reviewed things that I had bought for myself and focused on items that had no or very few existing reviews.

Then two things occurred quite quickly:

1. I learned that many top reviewers were receiving free samples as part of Amazon Vine. I asked myself: why am I spending my time doing this without recompense? They were churning-out multiple reviews per week and I was doing perhaps three or four a month, but it still felt unfair.

2. People starting aggressively scoring reviews negatively for subjective reasons. I remember an airline stewardness marking as 'unhelpful' my review of a book because she said I had insulted her airline. Amazon weren't interested in reverting down-votes like that.

I drifted away from Amazon reviewing after that and in time I have also drifted away from Amazon. They never fostered their community of honest-amateur-reviewers ( with, say, a Gift Card at the end of the year ) and they're paying the price now.
I thought this was common knowledge. Private Eye had a good write up on some similarly egregious practices a couple of years back: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/08/09/london-is-t...

I wonder how long until the banking industry gets the disrupt it so desperately needs.
A distributed list app, actually, which is more functional and builds a network of users. It's possible to move out of monetary plans from that point to a bulletin board at least. Which can be free or $2 to download.
>if you didn't pay to read it, you probably read an advertisement.

But your own comment (that I'm replying to) isn't one, and we're not paying for it - you're speaking to us frankly and off the cuff (and if anything, against your own interests on those other sites) because of the informal club-like forum that this is. In the end I and any other readers here are giving you all due weight. in exchange everyone else speaks frankly about stuff they know about. You can read stuff here that probably posters are explicitly prohibited by their employers from posting. some guy from (insert whatever state agency here) can probably post from a throwaway but still waaaaaaaaaaay in contravention of whatever their policies are, and with only a little bit of indirection.

So it's hardly as simple as you suggest. yeah you have to read through the bullshit, but this has always been true everywhere. caveat emptor.
I love these type's of posts. Very raw, very honest. Sure it's a pitch for their new business but they deserve the free ad since they got me to read to the end.
AWS is a pretty popular service ;)

Amazon cloud drive is fairly performant and a good price. I use it as a backup repo. Amazon prime shipping is also pretty great and the prices are pretty decent usually. They're also the biggest cross platform ebook vendor with the most selection.
the original has the sample interaction with students, so its definitely worth switching, otherwise its the same copy apart from butchered title.

SMH is a bottom of barrel source. Changing a story title to something more click-baity, sums up the entire Fairfax network and Australian news media in general.
I'm surprised that decades after the first Smalltalks came out, the Smalltalk people still have not understood how big a deal that is.
Thanks for the detailed response. I hope that my post wasn't too harsh, the intent was mostly to attract attention to the current issues not to undermine the great work that you and others have been doing. I'm glad that many of the issues that I mentioned are being addressed. Maybe I'll give Julia another go in some time =).

The question of syntax is subjective of course. From the set {C-like, Python, MATLAB} I'd definitely like to see more influence of the first two and less from the last one.
> Unless you are building a lifestyle business, you do not have a successful company until your small team is on fire.

I was a "founding employee" of a very successful company and I don't think I would have ever classified anything as being "on fire". I also slept 8+ hours a night because I like sleeping and never worked on the weekends because I like enjoying weekends. The company did well because when everybody came to work they were ready to come up with great ideas and execute them quickly.

I don't think your comment is complete off-base, I've met a lot of people who "play startup" and spend time doing things that aren't actually helpful to their company but feel like they are (going to conferences, perpetually talking to investors, etc). These people probably aren't going to be successful. However, it also isn't true that the only way to succeed is to ignore everything else in your life and devote yourself fully to your startup.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't work 80-100 hours at your startup if you want to. If that is bringing you personal satisfaction and you are efficient at it than more power to you. But that lifestyle is not a requirement for startup success.
Runkeepe secretly tracking at all times and sends data to advertisers
Try writing to Chomsky. He's well known for replying personally to his email. I know that for a fact, he replied to one of mine once (not about language )
So change the review, get your refund, then change the review again to write about what happened.
Not sure Idiocracy is that obscure.

Just wait for Starbucks to catch up to the movie...
Code in separate libs then this inside #ifdefs.

#pragma comment(linker, ...)
Does anyone know of a ultra low power lightweight laptop. I am dreaming of someday working remotely while backpacking and would like a small laptop I could charge off solar panels.
You'd have to rely on a ball of jumbled crap somewhere in the PR though - maybe if they don't wrap lines or something you could slip it in?
Central limit theorem assumes that events are independent and random. Which is not the case. (For one, there is a selection bias in that people would only review/vote on a product of they strongly like or strongly dislike it)

The lack of trend toward the middle implies that the scale is not great. But there is no incentive to fix it.
1. Create issues for items I need fixed on my github repos.

2. Offer a $100 bounty to people who can trick me into getting some string into my projects. The easiest way to "trick" me of course is to hide it inside of a PR which fixes a real issue.

3. Find and remove the string before merging the PR. I've had one of my issues fixed for free. Rinse and repeat!

Bonus Round: Stage an announcement on twitter and have someone cleverly trick me into including the string on my website (which I was totally going to do anyway). Post clever trick to code geek social media and reap the sweet free viral marketing and hackers trying to earn a Benjamin.
__sprintf_chk is shared between all calls to sprintf which is not true for Julia.
Don’t blame the framework: my experience with AngularJS and ReactJS
A former Googler just launched www.nickel.co, which is an app for kids to manage their allowance. Their backing bank is Sutton Bank.

My guess is one of the partners that they were referring to is CorePro (http://corepro.io/) which was spun out of SmartyPig (https://www.smartypig.com/). Their backing bank was Lincoln Savings Bank.

One of the consumers of CorePro was Qapital (qapital.com). It seemed like recently, they switched models from Lincoln Savings Bank's individual account to Wells Fargo's custodial account.

In any case, if you're doing anything in consumer FinTech, the technology/product is the easy part. Banking partnership, customer acquisition, and unit economics is the hard part. Focus on solving the hard part first before building the technology.

Edit:

One thing that they could have done for an MVP is a bring-your-own-bank-account model.

1) Parents would open a bank account for their kids (or the kid may already have their own bank account)

2) Integrate with Plaid Connect to get ACH info.

3) Use Dwolla ACH API (free) to transfer funds between parent's bank account to kid's bank account. (The downside of this is that this is a 2 legged ACH transfer which may take up to a week -- but for this use case, it shouldn't be a problem.)

This will get them the same value proposition that they would have had with bank integration. Once they prove out the demand, they can then optimize:

1) [Reduce ACH lag] Use an actual ACH processor that will handle the transfer between accounts. The downside is that this is expensive.

2) [Reduce ACH cost) Use a real bank (Wells Fargo, Chase, Citi) as an ACH processor -- this cuts out the lag in transfers. The catch to this is that to work with these banks, they want to see sufficient activity

3) [Eliminate need to bring your own bank] Partner with existing bank to provide account opening service. If you can prove sufficient activity and traction, many regional banks are interested in a lower cost customer acquisition channel and innovative products. Alternatively, use custodial accounts and they can earn float on the deposits.

What they were trying to do is jump to #3 before proving out the demand. Secondly, banks are approached all the time by startups to do these types of "partnerships". To banks, unless you can show traction or sufficient volume, it's not worth their time to work with you. The large banks (WF, Chase, etc) don't see much business from this area. The small banks don't have the resources or risk tolerance to do this. So you need to find the sweet spot of banks to establish these relationships. There are a number of regional banks that are willing to work with startups (tip: scout the ToS of these fintech startups to see who they have partnership with)

I'm not sure what their monetization strategy was going to be, but the unit economics here don't really work out for low deposit amounts.

(I've spent a lot of time research this area in FinTech)
> Something is not clear to me. How do you know that a false positive is, in fact, a false positive?

Bob has a full body MRI. THat returns some shadowy spots on his lungs. He's asked if he used to smoke (he did), and if he had any childhood illnesses (german measles, measles, chicken pox, etc) (he did).

Are those spots early cancer? Or are they just scarring from the childhood illness?

One way is to cut Bob open and have a look. Or jab him with a massive biopsy needle. Except, now you know that this one spot isn't cancer, it was a scar. How about all the rest? That one biopsy increased Bob's risk of harm.

> What's the argument for not testing in the first place?

Testing often doesn't give any useful information. It often gives wrong information - people who have a disease are told they don't have it, and people who don't have it are told they do have it. Many of these people then go on to have treatment. All treatment carries some risk of harm.

You need to know if the benefits of testing (especially of testing a large, mostly healthy population) outweigh the risks of providing risky treatment to those people, some of who will not have the disease.

You also have to see what happens if you just don't do anything. Prostate cancer is a good example here. Some people will die of it - they have an aggressive cancer that will kill them rapidly. But many people will die with it - they have a slow growing tumour, and they'll die in old age from something else. Treatment for prostate cancer is pretty harsh.
I believe that author's point was the size of the resulting generated code, which is fair. The original intent of making it a macro was to get a faster version of printf. However, as it turns out the major time sink in printf is not the formatting, but converting binary into decimal, so specializing on the format string doesn't actually help.
I liked how the Template Numerical Toolkit implemented one-based indexing:

// Construct matrix. Elements are not initialized.
// To initialize all elements to zero use
// Matrix<double> a(2, 2, 0.0).
Matrix<double> a(2, 2);

// Assign elements to first row using
// Fortran-style one-based indexing.
a(1,1) = 0.5; a(1,2) = 1.0;

// Assign elements to second row using
// C-style zero-based indexing.
a[1][0] = 1.5; a[1][1] = 2.0;

-- http://www.b-a-h.com/software/cpp/scppnt.html
This also doesn't make a lot of sense for the candidate. Why do a ton of free work (a "game") if I'm going to have to spend a bunch of time in a technical interview anyway?
"Violent gun crimes are nearly non-existent in rural settings."

This cannot be the basis of a rational policy, because it's false. Gun violence is much higher outside of cities. Please go to this site and set the stats to "Intent of injury: Violence-related" and "Mechanism of Injury: Firearm".

https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/cdcMapFramework/mapModuleInterf...
Even more clever...
I'm not sure that's true, if the Prediction accounts for the fact that many people with a high value never get the disease. But that's only possible with sufficient data showing a negative correlation.
Industry-specific trade publications can be good, especially if they have an online forum. And, sometimes more helpful than asking when you don't know how to guess the proper name is to scan the posts for abbreviated terms you don't understand. For example, "ERP", "CRM" or a place that people are the tools such as "hn".
> You can't even run 2 instance of the same app on OS X

Sure you can. Pass the -n flag to /usr/bin/open, e.g.:

open -n /Applications/Xcode.app
I don't know if you noticed, but you made a slight change in topic.

DanBC's comment was that there are cases where workplace sex discrimination is allowed, because they are part of the primary purpose of the company.

For example, the Playboy club can decide to only employ women as hosts, and require them to wear bunny costumes. This is a requirement for the type of service the Playboy club provides.

On the other hand, Hooters cannot refrain from hiring men as hosts, because Hooters is primarily a restaurant. (I apologize for not knowing the UK equivalent for this example.)

Wearing high heels is not a requirement of secretarial work, so this exception does not apply. But a company can still regulate clothing even if not part of the job requirement.

In Sweden, where I live, it is not (I believe) legal to discriminate based on sex for the dress code. That does not mean there is a "harmonised unisex dress-code." For example, a few years ago the temperature in Stockholm was so warm that the male underground operators wanted to wear shorts. This is not allowed by the dress code. It is allowed to wear skirts, which is what they did. (See for example http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid... ).

Under that framework, you should have been allowed to wear sandals and low-cut tops, and the women should be allowed to wear a suit and tie.
Why not C using GPU acceleration as the time spent coding would probably be the same?

As someone who does that sort of thing I can assure you it isn't. And when I do use C and GPU acceleration, doing so via cython and pyCUDA (and the myriad of libraries that build on cython and pyCUDA) saves massive amounts of time and effort.

That being said I do agree that writing fast python is quite different from writing python, probably more so than in most other languages.
Even worse are movie ratings on iTunes. Though from reading the reviews I can't tell if they're fake, or written by twelve year olds that will watch anything that moves (and I'm not entirely convinced it even needs to move). Regardless, bad slasher flick that went straight to the DVD sale bin? Four stars!!!!111! The plot was paper thin, and the acting was terrible, but I still loved it!!! I've watched it like eight times1111

Thankfully, iTunes displays Rotten Tomatoes ratings.
> If you do end up going the angular route, i'd probably think long and hard about starting with 1.x instead of 2.

Thanks for bringing that up. This was next on my list. 1.x or 2?! I feel that angular 2 is gaining more attention and probably better(I haven't read much), I would stick to angular 1.x.
I wrote Hello World for my relay computer- only 27 lines (uses self modified code, same as Jack!):

http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/example-code.html
If he's using github to merge pull requests, you might be able to hide it in the details section (2nd+ line) of one of several commit strings. People might check the commits, but github usually hides all but the first commit message line. Not sure if this would count as 'part of the software project' though.
Python really doesn't (and cannot) address many of the design goals of Julia. At least as I understand them (and I'm not a Julia user). Whether or not Julia has/will achieve them either is a separate issue.

Python can be a very useful mess for this sort of work (numerical analysis etc.), and is succeeding at that quite well. In fact, that's it's main challenge to something like Julia. Not design, that ship sailed a long time ago. But practicality and availability of packages and bindings. Once you get too far ahead in that, it's hard to justify using any other platform for "real work", rather than because it's fun to hack on.