skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The averaging of absolute values in the article's context is happening around a mean of 0(averaging the variations). In general, one would average the absolute values of the difference from the mean.

Yes, it would be silly to convert a -20 to 20 if the mean isn't 0.

The advantage with STD is that it is easier to compute relative to MAD in a situation like a random walk. For instance when one has a +1, -1 equal probability one dimensional random walk, so the mean is 0, X = sum of X_i, E(X²) = n is straightforward, whereas computing E(|X|) is not so easy.
Gather round and I'll tell you a tale of how to lose at the credit card game.

When I turned 18, I got my first credit card. I asked my father "good idea?" and he said yea, good to build up credit. Ok then. A week later, my new card with a whopping limit of $750. Never having experienced not paying with cash I had, it gave me an odd thrill and I went out to eat with my friends and joked "It's like free money!" And despite knowing better, it certainly felt like free money because the numbers didn't change in my bank account. Sure I knew I'd have to pay it off, but whatever, I'd do that later.

Now, like all good citizens, I spent the first couple years always paying off the balance I owed. Nor was it long before credit card offers came to me and I said "hey good to build up credit" and signed up for them. My next big one had something like $1500 limit and I was 19. Soon enough, I was doing great -- my credit was high & debt low -- looks good for credit.

Well, soon enough I was in Boston going to college and working part-time. One day at work, I got another one of these offers and thought "why not?" This time was special though because it asked me what is your household income -- not my income. Well.. my parents didn't make much but we weren't poor either, so I added together the incomes and said my household income was $150k. I felt a bit mischevious putting it down -- was it the truth? What was going to happen? Would they check to see if I made that much?

No, instead, they were more to happy to oblige and gave me (a 20 y/o) a new credit card with $12,500 limit. Holy shit! I thought to myself, I have a LOT of free money! Over the course of the next 4 years in college, I would eat out whenever I pleased and generally kept my credit under control, but slowly & surely my credit usage was rising. Fast forward a few years after that, and I have a total credit line of about 30k -- all maxed out. Was I being outright financially foolish ordering $100 bottles of Chardonnay at the club? Not at all. Was I being financially negligent ordering whatever small thing came my way that I wanted? Yes -- because I could.

So then you find yourself in deep debt, and what do you do? You start paying the minimum off and then re-using that credit. Do you care so much about paying it off? No that seems like an eternity away, paying the minimum is easier. Do you know it's wrong? Of course. Do you care? Not as much as you should.

This my friends is how you lose at the credit card game and end up just paying fees to bank execs. It can be fun, but I do not recommend.
Sure, straight white cis men can say "Oh that's all just political" but for someone who's gay, black, transgender, or female these issues effect nearly every aspect of your life. Every situation is viewed through that lens. Things like casually mentioning something you did with your spouse last weekend might not be "political" to you, but it is to me.
"One important caveat: The index includes the cost of household goods, clothing, food and transportation, but it doesn’t include the cost of shelter. This is a huge household cost, of course, which may make the ranking less meaningful. In any event, this helps explain why some expensive U.S. cities, namely San Francisco, don’t rank higher in the index."

"_may_" make the ranking less meaningful?? Practically meaningless would be more accurate.
I turned down a candidate with only support role experience. Wasn't because of the role itself.

He didn't know how to code.
When you click the link to "Israeli Heroes" after reading the article, it should really turn your stomach. Shame on you, Apple.
Coursera Scala Specialization
none that I'm familiar with.
I saw it here first as well. It's made a number of appearances: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fwww.mtholyoke.edu%...
Needs a ><> https://esolangs.org/wiki/Fish

!v"hello, world"r!
>l?!;o

I love 2d languages.
> But if you mean pissed off about Google using it's position of power to arbitrarily decide what technology "wins" and "loses" - people are pissed off.

I think categorizing it as winners and losers is wrong. As much ribbing as google gets, I think very often, they are using their position of power to make the internet more secure and functional. They won't get it right every time, but I'm happy to see them try.
Norton (commander)
My apartment accepts payments by card, but they pass the processing fees to the renter so it costs like 3% extra, which more than cancels out the CC rewards.

My last apartment had the same option, so I think it's pretty common.
Ask HN: What is an open-source alternative to Google Home?
I'm wondering what type of technology can be used to build something like Google Home without the privacy concerns from Google or the government listening.
Reasonable concern. We have a basic FAQ, but it does not say anything about integration (which is actually pretty simple and require only to add our js script). Will try to fix it.
SF's Diversity Numbers Are Looking More and More Like a Tech Company's
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-19/goldman-p...
Fascinating. Robert Moses and his car-heavy vision of the future was a seriously misguided effort. My guess is that a lot of the current squalor around the city leads back to his desk, too.
There's nothing here to indicate that; not retroactive commentary at the end, nothing. If (s)he's trying to make a joke to make a point, (s)he's doing neither.
I've started to phrase it as "give as much detail as you'd like", because I like the insight into what they deem important and are interested in.
Previous discussion available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723133
Well, it isn't truly end-to-end if Mallory is at both ends with you.
While that may be the case for citizens of the DPRK the story it is certainly not true for Americans who visit. They are charged and arrested for their crimes, sentenced to a decade or more in prison, and then released and deported within a year or two. It's a story that we've seen play out many times: Kenneth Bae, Matthew Todd Miller, Laura Ling, Euna Lee, Merrill Newman, etc. Nothing new nor interesting, must be a slow news day.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that, for most visitors, Manhattan is basically midtown--and they've certainly seen pictures of the financial district even if they've never gone down there. Even for a lot of residents, Manhattan effectively ends at around 100th Street or so. (I've been going to Manhattan all my life and even lived there for a summer and I've never been north of Central Park except to drive into the city and to visit The Cloisters once.)
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Novice

http://yiap.nfshost.com/esoteric/novice/novice.html
But again what if he needs to take a shit? I don't know about you, but I can't do my business and wipe well in less than 3 minutes, so the trucks stand there. Then there's the ~30min lunch break, that's 10 trucks just idling in the worst case scenario. Then just plain human interaction.

It's not just a factor if he can possibly fill every truck by himself, there are other human factors to consider. You need at least two men manning the station all the time for the autonomous trucks to refill there + maybe a spare guy for regular folk who come to visit.
Ya, I've seen these. It seems like the fee would likely be more than the value of the reward making it a losing proposition? Just wondering if the OP found a better way.
That's as clear as mud. What does a -20 vs. a 20 mean? That it was colder at noon than at midnight?

Assuming that there was some sensible definition (e.g. deviation from the past mean temperature, which is not at all what was stated) then "average deviation" has two obvious interpretations. Re-labeling "standard deviation" or "mean deviation" would not be helpful in this case, and the -20 and 20 values STILL don't help the case.
Engaging developers by playing games based on work
I usually prefer median absolute deviation on real world data. It's more robust than either SD or mean absolute deviation.
Dear Google: This is about as evil as you can get.
As many flaws as the major labels previously had, they did discover and nurture artists. Internet radio is not going to discover a random lounge cover singer in the middle of flyover US. You are not going to have an internet radio station that features random unknown artists that has widespread reach. The bar to discovery is much higher and arguably requires less on the music end and more on the promo end than it has in the past. This leads to more of the chaff rising to the top.
Well it's now becoming acceptable English to verb nouns (a different transform), adjectivize verbs and nouns, and noun verbs. We have been doing this for centuries.

I run. (Verb)
I went on a run. (Noun)
I move at a fast run speed. (Adverb)
I went to the run start location. (Adjective)

That the constant turnover of technical concepts and terminology has accelerated the use of these transforms is not an issue special to Agile anything, nor does it imply anything about good or bad practices.

Keep your grammar nazi-isms out of my Agile critiques please!
Old https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723133
> Apparently google has an Ethicist.

Well, had. From his bio snippet at the bottom: "Ex-Design Ethicist & Product Philosopher @ Google"
Absolutely nothing, if your video site is still using flash you are already way behind the times.
I.e. an index of:

"The most expensive cities in which to hold down a job, while living out of your car in a free parking lot."
And yet often one of those office parks will be the one that executive management works in, and everyone who wants to get ahead in their career will prefer to work in that one. And everyone who wants to do business with your company will want to go visit that office. Etc.

There is still a huge value to proximity. Sure, you can replace talking formally about a work problem in person with teleconference. You know what you can't replace with teleconference? Going out for lunch. Going out for drinks. Running into someone. The "vague" social schmoozing which is officially not important but in practice can be when all kinds of things get done, informally.
Probably wishful thinking. Here is an analysis done that shows wealth lasting 7 centuries http://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11691818/barone-mocetti-florenc...
Lesson on Pivoting: Why We Sacrificed Our Goal for the Business
Design for Mobile: App UI Best Practices Part 2
Just give HTML5 another 10 years to catch up. I am sure it will be ready by then.
I can't access the article:

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Barely anyone opts in. Which means, effectively there is no security takes place in practice.

The idea is, our conversations that are not public, are private. Even if we're discussing some boring grocery list and not a top secret plan to take over the world.
>There are many working class people who have unconscionable commutes into Manhattan partly because of NIMBY zoning laws.

It's partly because of NIMBY zoning laws, but I'd say it has more to do with our awful public transit system. It's bad enough trying to head downtown within Manhattan on the Lexington Ave express -- commutes from the outer boroughs can be measured in hours. There are no plans for new subway lines (excluding the 2nd Ave subway, which isn't even fully funded) and city council won't approve true bus rapid transit.
You're a lot more likely to think starting a company is a good idea after a few beverages.
Student debt isn’t delaying millenials from buying homes
People dogpiling into a few coastal cities is itself an example of "Diversity Breakdown" and it is pretty obvious that groups that have their own self-interest in mind: women, blacks, people born in the U.S., people older than 30, are leaving the party.
They may or may not be in this thread, but pg mentioned years back that there are often a lot of suspect new accounts pushing official lines on stories involving China.
ElectricFlow Takes Bronze at the 2016 American Business Awards
I don't know if that shows what you suggest it does. Using lead tainted water for irrigation is also harmful because plants will transmit that lead to people though their diet. Further, lead sticks around in contaminated soils and accumulates over time.

In that context, every lead source ends up becoming increasingly important.
If a country spends i.e. 100MW of electricity, how much does it need to be able to produce to be safe when the circumstances aren't favorable for max production?
Or will we always need non-renewable sources for this issue?
Uhh, I havent heard of that... I thought the thing was over in 2013!? It would be an utter embarresment for greece if they really pushed this any further.
What's the Bottom Line About Link Building, Traffic and Sales?
Best 404 page ever?
How do you make this profitable with a 2.5% service charge?
"What does this mean for video"? It means I won't ever have goddamn McAfee Antivirus try to install itself on my computer when I update Flash.
Even Psychologists Respond to Meaningless Rewards
Apparently google has an Ethicist.

I'm not sure if I should rejoice that Google has one, or be worried that Google has just one.
But why call it technology?

On the bright side, the profit from hijacking your brain goes to sending their kids to "low-tech" schools[0] Hurray for computer human symbiosis after all[1]

[0]http://www.educationnews.org/technology/silicon-valley-tech-...

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html
20% is not that much. It's a sign that they are being "not shut out" as much as it is that they are being included.
Still risky. Given PRISM, I wouldn't bet on the safety of any unencrypted data residing in Google's servers.
The law exempted canned and bottled sodas. It was targeted at things like the Big Gulp, and movie theater sodas, where the small size starts at about 24oz.
They used the word "change" in the paragraph before the one you quoted. I think by "observation" in this paragraph, they mean "x_i - M(x)" as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_absolute_deviation: the difference between the current value and some measure of central tendency (mean, median, mode). It's not explained well, but if you make this assumption, the article makes sense.
That helps give NY its grit. If you want some pink little buildings, to to Miami Beach.
I have seen some of the most excruciating fake-agile organizations you can imagine. I am 100% on board with efforts to criticize that.

But even the critics seem to get blinded by methodology. Methodology is only a second-order effect. The real issue is cultural and structural. If your culture is all about command and control, your agile methodologies will keep mysteriously not helping.

Debating methodology is quite beside the point. Some organizations are just structurally waterfall, deep in their bones, and can't be salvaged without massive social upheaval. You don't fix them by changing what people do, you fix them by changing how people define their relationships to the organization and each other.
I hope you don't leave the house without your dazzle makeup [1] to defeat the facial recognition cameras.

[1] https://cvdazzle.com/
Uber riders are paying up to 9.9x on low battery
Somewhere, somebody at Google bemoaned:

I told you we should have bought Sun!

Buying Sun is literally cheaper than this lawsuit. Oracle is so ridiculous.
Offtopic ad. PDF: [1] is quite fine on Windows and has no arbitrary restrictions. But the general point holds.

[1] https://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html
If you think that Jersey City or East New York are representative of the areas around New York City, then you don't know the region well at all. Along the commuter train lines extending out of the city you will find many of the most beautiful, safest, most walkable, best-educated (with good public schools), most politically-engaged, and community-oriented towns in the country.

Yes, there is a massive disparity of wealth in New York City, and in the region generally, and that definitely has an impact on the livability of many places within the region. The suburbs of New York are among the most wealthy communities in the US, but several of NJ's cities are among the poorest; unfortunately, there is also a racial component to that disparity that must not be ignored. To really live well in the NYC area, unfortunately, you must have money, which makes living here very hard for many young people starting out. But beyond a doubt it is easier (and cheaper) to live well around New York City and still be an hour's train ride from downtown than it is in San Francisco or LA. And only in this region do you still find successful adults who don't even have a driver's license, let alone a car.

I don't know Tokyo, so I can't comment on the direct comparison you made. But I would suggest that every urban area in the world has its disadvantaged neighborhoods, and if you are comparing the wealthiest parts of the cities you have visited to the poorest parts of the NYC region, then that is not a fair comparison.
I've worked at a couple of startups staffed with younger people that encouraged drinking onsite - in one example they even provided the beer and liquor for "Wind Down Fridays".

Shortly after I came aboard that particular place they had to put some restrictions on it, as people had been inviting friends to join in, and others were found passed out in stairwells and in the lounge. It was like living in a frat house.

I barely lasted three months in that toxic, cult-like environment because I am not a big drinker and I'm more interested in doing good work than pounding back brewskis with the bros. I just didn't fit in and knew I never would.

I'd say there is a serious problem out there.
The initial usage is correct; credit card companies could care less about customers who pay off their balances every month, because such customers generate negligible revenue and are thus on the whole a nuisance.
IMO it's not that black and white.

If google didn't agree to the ContentID system, Viacom would have most likely been able to strip them of their safe harbor status.

And that means the end of Youtube.

Yeah, something needs to be done, but having humans review takedowns just doesn't work at this scale, and if they aren't extremely over zealous about taking things down, they will be shut down.

Google is under the thumb of Viacom and other big media companies, and there really isn't anything they can do about it except agree or close up shop.

(Mind you, I think that there are definitely ways that Google can improve the situation, and that they should be pressured to do so, but it's not as simple as saying they are "evil")
Thanks for sharing, I figured there would be some type of issue with the download portion in other browsers. I'll see if that works in Chrome too and then maybe edit so more people can use it out of the box.
Will 90 Become the New 60?
A number of people are saying the same thing, but I'll just respond here.

>The only time this would be a problem is if the bootleg trailer were uploaded before they uploaded the ContentID data, and Fox wanted to then upload the ContentID data and have it removed automatically. I can't see why they would do this, however, since presumably they are reacting to the bootleg upload in this case, and can then simpply issue a manual takedown request.

Fox can issue a manual takedown, but they shouldn't need to. That's the entire point of the deal Youtube cut with the major studios that created ContentID. Fox uploads the videos they own, and then Youtube/ContentID finds all the infringers so that Fox doesn't have to pay a person to do it themselves.

This issue is obviously a special case where a clip from a video game, apparently sourced from Youtube, was excerpted in a network TV show. The network TV show - which is obviously protected - set off ContentID flags. Fox didn't set out to upload a Double Dribble clip to ContentID. This is an edge case.

The article then spuriously goes on to about the DMCA, but there's no evidence presented any DMCA takedown whatsoever. I don't even see any evidence of human intervention at all. If I had to guess, there's a setting in Fox's ContentID: If from Family Guy, block entirely.

It's unfortunate that this happened. It shouldn't have happened, but this is what inevitably happens when a technical solution (ContentID) is used to solve a social problem (piracy).

There should be an easy remedy for the video creator, and he is free to pursue copyright charges against Family Guy for using his video game clip in a TV show, if he thinks he has the rights to that clip. (I have no clue on that one.)

But this is a mountain being made of a molehill. Nobody's rights are being infringed. This is the deal you make when you sign on with Youtube: the big studios have the most power. They're only one player; if this deal irks you (and there are definitely legitimate reasons it would) there are plenty of other ways to host video.
I've had this conversation a good few times and I quite like "could care less" - to me it implies more choice on the part of the speaker. I COULD care less. I have that capacity. I actively choose not to.

Although this is definitely not how people usually use it.
The project looks very good from a technical standpoint and very useful but ...

WARNING -> NO OFFENCE

...even linus himself would have a hard time reaching the level of obnoxiousness of this guy.

WARNING -> NO OFFENCE
In a world where we're ranting about Flash (a non-standard, closed-source web plug-in with a few ad-hoc, reverse-engineered, quite-possibly-illegal alternative implementations) being buried and replaced by a web standard---even a web standard primarily driven by a handful of web development incumbents, but a standard nonetheless---we are truly through the looking glass.
Just to be clear, this isn't exactly right. Population loss in the rust belt is widely misunderstood. Most of those cities didn't lose people; they just moved them out of their urban core. St. Louis, as a region, for example, has grown slightly over the last 40 years. But a whole bunch of people have been doing a whole lot of moving around the area over that time.

You don't have to lose people to get blight. You just have to build new houses and abandon the old ones.
It's nice for the ability to fire anyone for just cause.... "They were drinking on the worksite."
3 developers were advocating a total rewrite and a pivot to a different stack.

Those were not good developers; ie, there are some skills they were clearly lacking.

I've lived through the opposite situation as you: management left the company, and we continued to release for the next few months without any management at all.

The key, I think, was that the managers had pushed the decision making down. Everyone took turns being scrum master......so when the next sprint came, we elected a new scrum master and carried on.

Fred Brooks pointed out that with a group of competent programmers, any development methodology can work. The best development methodologies help programmers become self-sufficient (teaching them the skills if they don't have them), instead of trying to micro-manage.
FWIW, I don't think this kind of culture is by any means exclusive to startups. There are pretty hard-drinking (not-software) engineering departments within much larger companies.
ah, some how that wasn't so clear.
Clever idea, but how do you distribute load across your front-end servers (or whatever is your actual public facing service)? Do you still rely there on a load balancer or round-robin DNS? I guess I'd be concerned about how to scale those instances in response to demand..