skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloning can be extremely dangerous especially if password stealing is the objective of the clone. Phishing is usually the goal for website clones.
Just buy a baseball bat and threaten to hit people if they don't give you their money. Way better returns than the stock market.

Of course, you won't be able to enjoy that money in prison.
I would posit it--cheekily--as

> They're just taking copyright law seriously. :-)
>interview.io's interviewers are presumably trained to be more objective and stringent on the criteria.

The common thought is that bias is an unconscious and unavoidable thing, hence the voice masking. If that's truly the case, all the training in the world doesn't help.
It gets really hard sometimes. Take the following issue as an example: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/1528

Later in the issue, someone jumps in the discussion and trashed all over everyone. That same person hopped on every blog post, ever medium post, every discussion, gitter, everything. It was bordering on harassment. I don't maintain that project so it's easy for me to ignore, but for the people involved, it must have been pretty rough.
That's going to be really great for embedded projects.
My guess is simple things like the url showing up in server logs etc.
> Git?

It's relative to other VCS systems in this case.

> Vim?

As a primary editor, I get the dislike and confusion from non-power users, but for a command line editor, it's just so much better than anything else.
Does the frequentist view really claim that infinite sequence nx/n always converges, for all possible runs? That is obviously false. The laws of large numbers only state that probability that the limit of nx/n is equal to 1/2 is 1. This is because all sequences are equally probable and there are overwhelmingly many more sequences that limit to 1/2 than sequences that do not. That is different from saying that the limit is always equal to 1/2, because there are these exceptional cases of low measure like HHHHH..., HTTHTTHTT...
We're running Oracle on NFS volumes, and some MySQL databases also with no problems whatsoever.

It'll never be as fast as local disk but the flexibility it provides is very nice.
Amazon Inspire
Now, y'all have me paranoid that I'm missing mail. I don't think I have been...buy maybe so.

And, now that you mention it, GMail is faster, and I can chew through mail at a much, much faster pace. But, the smarts built into Inbox means I can safely ignore a lot more mail (about half ends up in Promos and Finance and Social categories; all ignorable until I'm looking for something specific or expecting something), which is maybe a worthwhile tradeoff. I don't have to go as fast if I only have half as much mail to think about.
Repeat rate is a vanity metric
thats some of problem.

once they are a money spigot they don't need the capital market.

when they are money burning they are too risky for what we consider acceptable for a stock listing (though biotech seems to be an exception for some odd reason)

there are no 'safe' way to deploy capital that returns 6%
Whoa, TIL that they added issue templates! That's pretty awesome. That should indeed help cut down on some of the administration work required when answering issues.
Honestly, the only thing I'd change is to only do this for accredited universities, so people have to go through a real educational institution and not a degree mill like the University of Phoenix.

Other than that, this is brilliant. Not only would it get more smart people into the country, but it would also make it much harder for companies to exploit foreign-born workers. Under the current H-1B system, a company can say "you're going to work 12 hours a day every day for substandard pay, and if you complain or step even an inch out of line, you get to go back to your home country". Green cards would put a stop to this exploitation.
There's a difference between your computer multi-tasking and you multi-tasking.

Right now, I have two shell windows open, textmate, and two browser windows open -- one in jenkins, one in aws. But they're all related to the project I'm actively working on.
Typical federal student debt payment is ~$300/mon assuming 6% interest, 10 year repayment, and >$30k of debt. With less than $35k income, that payment drops.

You have to make some really poor decisions about where you live to be spending every dollar on rent and student loans assuming you have a job that does not pay minimum wage.

Making investing a priority can be hard, but it is far from impossible at that age. Even a small amount early on will far out weigh a much larger amount invested later. It is important to communicate that instead of telling people they probably can't do it.
I think your point, about people using VPNs in situations where their personal computer is more valuable than the VPN connection, is well taken.
I love how Bert Bos' homepage pretty much uses CSS to the fullest extent possible (as it should) https://www.w3.org/People/Bos/
I don't know about cues in spoken English, but you can find relevant articles about written text from this page:

https://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/best-practices-for-eth...

Read under "Inferring Gender from Content".
I would do both simultaneously and partner with someone that has experience programming and give you feedback on the idea and your programming.

Starting to learn programming from scratch would be a little bit difficult since there are so much to learn. Having an idea in mind would be your compass. Given that big picture idea, having someone to guide you to learn the area to help solve piece of the puzzle would save you lots of time. Depending on your idea, what you learn in programming might be quite different.
"...it appeared that men who were modulated to sound like women did a bit better than unmodulated men and that women who were modulated to sound like men did a bit worse than unmodulated women..."

The author admits it's not statistically significant, but nonetheless it somewhat makes sense, if you take human nature into account.

If there's any bias in the technology field, it's probably that males are assumed "smarter", but women are still liked and desired.

So, if a female is not answering questions as sharply, but is masked as a male, the bias is to deduct extra points. If a male is answering Q's while masked as a female, the interviewer is pleased and awards extra points.

Just my theory, but it seems to fit. Again, though... a very small sampling.
The Bottom Billion is a good book about the factors that make the poorest regions in the world, of which Sub-Saharan Africa is the largest block.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Billion
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why is this locked down?
I do like sending and receiving letters because they are personal. The envelope is hand-written and the correspondence is, too. Machine created snail mail kind of defeats its own purpose.
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Thanks -- that is interesting to hear.
But we live in the best of all possible worlds!
I'd be more interested in quantifying productivity and seeing if there's a systematic discrepancy between productivity and gender. Either the market is accurately pricing talent or there's a delta to be exploited.

I think if a paper was released tomorrow that said "female programmers 30% undervalued as observed by double blind coding challenge" head hunters would fix that problem overnight.
Collision probability and birthday paradox
So your counterparty makes money on 90% of his trades and is down 30% for the year? He must feel like a schmuck.
I've used CMake + C++ for several years professionally. I know it well enough to know that I don't want to use it if I don't have to. The other aspects of C++ just aren't compelling enough to suffer CMake. In other words, even though I already know C++ fairly well, I would rather abandon it entirely and start fresh with Rust than "invest" more time into CMake. My hobby time is too limited to spend it on frustrating tools.
I think that you're right that he probably gives some feedback, but as far as I know he has no official involvement with it anymore. He sold it to Conde Nast and then later left the company, although being a founder must carry some weight with the staff still.
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Commit click and impression botnot fraud?

That's not a real, legal, thing. "Click fraud" is just what some businesses term interactions that they might not pay for.

There is no legal, or moral, requirement to only click links if there is some chance that you will increase the income of some "advertiser".
Including the humans who took the risks and did the work that built that company.
John Ratey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ratey), the professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who wrote Driven to Distration, recently published a book called "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" (http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-B...).

Spark details how high-intensity cardio (like sprints or interval training) put your brain chemicals in balance in part by generating BDNF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_fact...), which as Ratey describes, it's like "Miracle-gro" for the brain.

Last year my stress levels were getting out of control from working too much. At the time I was running at least two miles every day so it's not like I wasn't exercising. But then one day I changed from running a couple miles to running 50-yard sprints, as fast and as hard as I could push myself. The first day I only ran four sprints, but I felt euphoric the rest of the day -- the best I had felt in years. So I tried it again a couple days later, and sure enough it worked again -- I felt amazing.

So then I had to find out why this worked -- why a few sprints were so much more effective than running several miles. I started Googling and eventually found Ratey's book -- it explains the entire biochemical process of what's going on and why sprinting works.

It's an eye-opening read. Each chapter covers how high-intensity cardio affects things like stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD. I have ADHD but haven't taken anything for it in years (since I was in college), and I can attest that sprints not only fixed by stress levels, but my ADHD symptoms were almost non existent.

Here's a key point that Ratey makes throughout the book that completely changed my perspective on things -- he says that instead of thinking of exercise as something you should do to look good and build a healthy body, you should instead think of exercise as the key to building a healthy brain:

"We all know that exercise makes us feel better, but most of us have no idea why. We assume its because we're burning off stress or reducing muscle tension or boosting endorphins, and we leave it at that. But the real reason we feel so good when we get our blood pumping is that it makes the brain function at its best" (http://www.sparkinglife.org).

In the book's introduction he goes on to say, "Building muscles and conditioning the heart and lungs are essentially side effects. I often tell my patients that the point of exercise is to build and condition the brain."

In fact the brain exercise routine he recommends is similar to a weight workout routine, in that you have to push yourself hard one day, and then take a day off to let your brain recover, just like in weight training. Another key is when you sprint, always put everything you have into it. Run as fast and as hard as you can so you are constantly pushing your body and your brain past their limitations -- this is the key to growth.

Reposted from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323019 (2013)

Also see: "How exercise boosts brain health" (http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-exercise-boosts-brain-health)
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Annecy 2016
I would think a general service would be a no-go but legal letters, eviction letters, credit denial letters, credit dispute letters. possibly birthday cards for clients.
Same material at a16z: https://a16z.com/2016/03/07/all-about-network-effects/
> And if being black does correlate with recidivism, what is the algorithm supposed to do?

Algorithms don't think for themselves, and AFAIK, the COMPAS algorithm has not been touted as one of those self-healing types. We wouldn't know either way because the algorithm is kept secret even though it is broadly applied in the public justice system.

But let me get this straight, you'd be OK with an algorithm just using the heuristic of "well, he's black, so give him a -0.5, because that's what blacks tend to do" to avoid the complexity of identifying possible confounding variables that are correlated with being black? That's actually illegal in many contexts (judicial system, housing, employment).
not quite patterns, but preferences :)

https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Pawn Storm APT Group Targets Thousands Google Accounts
Is the current definition of broadband still 4Mbps? Or did the FCC manage change it to 25Mbps? 4Mbps shouldn't still be considered broadband in 2020, when we'll have 1,000 Mbps 5G wireless.
Don't see it anywhere, but ack has been such a big improvement on grep for me, particularly once I aliased a few ack --with-flags
Wide and Deep Learning: Better Together with TensorFlow
This is one of those cases where the HN discussion turned out to be better than the rather lightweight and topical article, so as an experiment we'll try turning off the user flags and software penalties it was otherwise getting.
I'd like you to give me one example where a Google app bypasses the intents system and uses another specific Google app for a task. One example.
I don't want sortition to replace our two-house electoral system. But I would like to see more regular people involved in politics. Maybe we could replace a part of the parliament seats with "public" seats (i.e. have 30% of the lower house filled with a sortition-based draft)?

Doing it this way means that you can still guarantee a continuity of government, and replace the sortition seats every six months (maybe with voluntary term extension). You'd not replace general electoral voting, but the article doesn't make a strong case that it's really broken anyway.
That's a really great way to look at it, thank you :)
Yeah, projecting a 2d desktop onto the surface of a sphere is I guess pretty neat, but not a great use of 3d space. Why not have applications be actual physical objects you can walk around? Why do they need to have 2d view ports? What if you could pick an app up and turn it to the side to change settings on it with physical sliders and knobs?

Just sort of pie-in-the-sky-- imagine a programming language that worked like a 3d spreadsheet, where your functions where literal 3d objects you could wire together, and the parameters had physical affordances so you could adjust them...
Thanks, super nintendo chalmers!

- ebay security team
Bad stats make me angry. It's a rolling theme on my blog, though usually I focus my ire on people trying to make people buy more stuff on the internet.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2015/no_free_samples.html
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2015/ab_testing_segments_...
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/crunch_conf_2015/s...

Now, most of the folks pushing bad stats are simply not understanding the subtleties of a complex field. PP, in contrast, did understand and ignored the results they got. Yep, that's dishonesty in my book. What would you call it?

I have no idea what you are talking about with "machine learning" - it's a synonym for "statistical analysis", leaning a bit in practice towards external validation of models without regard to internal validity. Which is, incidentally, what PP was trying to do.

If you want to draw some fine line where a random forest is machine learning but a Cox model isn't, be my guest. I'm sure that's a great reason to ignore PP's own analysis.

And you can't stand that they went out and talked to people...

No, I can't stand that they cherry-picked anecdotes to push a conclusion that's the exact opposite of what their own analysis claims.

Now if you want to criticize the analysis, go ahead. But that's not really a good way to defend PP - after all, if the analysis is bunk, doesn't that discredit the whole article?

um, there's an actual Constitutional process to adjust things in our judicial system that shouldn't just be overridden because statistics

If you want to make that argument, do it. But that's not the argument PP made.

As for my own biases, I'm pretty open and honest in my beliefs in the power of technology. I also back up my claims with math that actually agrees with me, unlike PP. Do you have any objection to what I wrote beyond the fact that you dislike the tone, and might define "machine learning" slightly differently than me?
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physical mail api:

https://lob.com/

https://www.trypaper.com/
> Honestly, the only thing I'd change is to only do this for accredited universities, so people have to go through a real educational institution and not a degree mill like the University of Phoenix.

University of Phoenix is an accredited university.
I see the primary 'Advisor' to Wallarm is the primary author of Naxsi, so perhaps this is a commercialization of the Naxsi firewall product.
With an increase in immigration and a cheapening of robotic workers and kiosks... where is this decrease in unemployment and increase in labor-force participation going to come from?

I mean, there is "always" going to be jobs for plumbers and spots for artisan made stuff... but those jobs aren't going to replace the amount of jobs that will be lost when $15 becomes more expensive than iRobot...
To provide a specific example, some women have severe vocal fry / creaky voice. Its a socially transmitted thing like valley girl speak from decades ago.

I can only imagine how weird that sounds autotuned in a deep bass artificial voice. Imagine the movie line "I'm Batman" with vocal fry.

(edited to note, I see three people simultaneously cited vocal fry as an obvious experimental error and one tried to derail with the standard citation needed technique, so its probably a pretty serious issue)
I wouldn't say this is surprising. If you can extend your horizon, you can weather downturns that reduce your asset value, buy while demand is low, and simply wait for the cycle to reverse. Real estate shows the same pattern. The problem is that not everyone has the means to simply extend their horizon.
This is a nice idea but seems like political correctness taken to the extreme.
What would a VR file manager look like to you, for example?
Why would they care how you play as long as you sound better than everyone else? You're auditioning to make music for them, not to be their student.
So we all realize technical interviews serve no practical purpose and should be quietly abandoned

We don't really know that at all. Technical interviews are an invaluable tool in finding people who can write software and be collaborative co-workers.

A lot of software developers on the receiving end don't like them. Part of that is because a good technical interview pushes you out of your comfort zone and forces you to show that you can think through problems. Not all developers appreciate being taken out of their comfort zone.

The other part of the problem is that some technical interviews are conducted clumsily. "Code FizzBuzz, go!" As with the rest of the interview, skill of the interviewer matters.
> I can't imagine a realistic scenario that doesn't require the implosion of other nations to embiggen America.

This has happened! In the past 30 years, no less.
> It uses shades of red for what are objectively not bad outcomes (return greater than inflation is red, real return between 3 and 7% is pink). IMO that's misleading.

Not sure if I'm reading it wrong, but the key shows <=0% as red, 0-3% as pink, 3-7% as biege.
I am a holder and, as a small stock market investor, this study is gold to me.
As a holder, the worst years are the first decade, after that, the interests become explosives.

The difficulty to be a holder is to spend less on the present to get return in a future. Human being is definitely not good on this.
"The project is composed of several parts: a virtual machine (dubbed "Nock"), an operating system ("Arvo"), a programming language ("Hoon") and a peer-to-peer network ("Ames")."

You can introduce any one of those and possibly survive. Doing all four at once? You're doomed. Sorry.
A skim should clarify the security claims as much as needed - it's a complexifying of encryption schemes in order to accommodate third-party communications escrow.

Any communications-auditing regime relies on detecting and preventing steganography. This can be immediate successful, but is an endless escalation that should cause honest people (ie those who aren't trying to restrict communication) to focus on node security.

While an IDS can indeed benefit end users, its same functionality can be implemented as edge software - either on the nodes, or if worried about nodes being already compromised, then a separate "network processor" domain. The only point of needing a centralized IDS is the centralization - top-down control.
72% in U.S. say driving must be preserved
The thing with his position on allowing university graduates to stay and work in the US is that he only said it in the book. I've never seen him say it in a public speech, which makes sense given that the majority of his audience seems to have been blue collar workers who would not be so thrilled with the idea of immigrant students taking well paying jobs while they and their children are stuck in a rut.
Is anybody studying the reasons behind the huge gender disparity in roofing, welding or kindergarten teaching? I think there is a tremendous gender bias in those and other fields that is going unstudied, because nobody cares or because those fields aren't as cool or important.
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In the clips the modulated female ended up sounding like an effeminate man, which raises a whole other set of questions about bias.
I'd appreciate if you could expand on that, because I share the same concern as GP. It seems to me that the index fund has to sell a lousy company at a low price (since it's being delisted) and buy a strong one that's being included in the index. Whereas the index, being just a number, can magically perform the swap without taking a hit.
I'm still trying to figure out the benefit that "serverless" architecture offers over a simple Apache + PHP + Sqlite setup. PHP isn't my favorite language, but it's deployment story seems as good as a lot of these "serverless" solutions once set up (which takes 5-10 minutes on Ubuntu).

Unless you need the scaling potential of the "serverless" platform, or are completely unwilling to setup/maintain a simple $5 a month VPS, I don't see much benefit to the platform lockin of a specialized service, when there is a boring but predictable way to achieve the same thing, with the same (or possibly less effort).

Once PHP is set up the process seems like it would be:

1. write your page to accept the query parameters or post data and return the results (the page is the function essentially).

2. Use SQLite for storage (either per user or per "function" maybe?). Other storage options are also fine, but SQLite is pretty simple and flexible.

3. Deploy the .php file using scp or sftp to your /var/www/whatever directory.

At this point you're done and can call your "function" via http.
I might be misunderstanding Urbit (quite easy it seems), but this idea of selling off what is essentially "land" seems to go against some of the ideas that it pushes - i.e. the democratisation of the web. Also, they appear(?) to have sold off rather large chunks/the address space seems small, is it going to need a "v6" to bring it out of beta like the internet did?
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