skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "multiple bites at the apple", so to speak, in terms of grading. It's simply not fair to the rest of the class.

Isn't it? If everyone has equal opportunity, how is it unfair if some don't take advantage of that opportunity? I can see a distinction with, say, paid outside tutors, as not everyone can afford to use their services.

Rather than unfair, I say that it detracts from one of the (implicit, and not always acknowledged) goals of schools: certification.

Teaching clearly benefits from the rapid feedback. Certification, on the other hand, is harmed by the ability to redo, because it also becomes a measurement of diligence and conscientiousness as well as skill. Even so, the consumers of grades (employers and graduate programs) are looking for diligence and conscientiousness, perhaps even more so than demonstrated skill.
The quarterly is fantastic. Lapham was the former editor of Harper magazine. I was hooked when I first read this: http://laphamsquarterly.org/future/trust-issues - love at first sight.
The company nixed from the crowd selected funding fellowship was offered the investment but directed it to charity instead.
No they said "vim is intuitive, once X." Which is a different statement. It means "X => vim is intuitive," which can also be true when the antecedent (X) is false if going down the material implication route. Here X is "once you understand the characters."

I think what's happening is that even if we agree on definitions of intuitive, what I'm trying to add is the context around the "vim is intuitive" statement that it is scoped in. It is scoped by the "... once ..." qualifying fragment after it.

Also I'm not really saying what you should or shouldn't do. I'm saying try, because it could be fun; I want to see what happens when you take it there, sort of as a "hmm hey can we try this?" situation. It isn't as much a convincing as a "hey here's how I understand what he said--what do you think of that?" situation. More about going away with things to think about than "cool, I think I'm the person that won this argument." You're welcome to not try this, and I'll walk away, it's totally fine.

FWIW I agree that the unqualified "vim is intuitive" wouldn't be reasonable to say. I'm just trying to explore the nuance.
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>If the accusations against Google are true, the company has clearly offered exemptions to its 40-something founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and its 64-year-old executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

Stopped reading there. The author doesn't understand what average means.
I don't know much about it tbh. tptacek and a few others have spoken extensively about bug bounties on HN. I'll try and dig up a few of their past comments.

Essentially what the argument comes down to is that a one off bug to exploit a company like Facebook is actually not worth very much to anyone on the black market because the bug is likely only valid for one company and that company will likely patch the bug very quickly. This leaves the attacker with a very narrow window to exploit the bug.

Attackers on the black market paying for exploits are looking to make money from those exploits. If there is only one place they can use the exploit and perhaps only have a few days or even hours to use it how much would it really be worth? The exploits that pay big on the black market are ones that are enormously widespread and less likely to be fixed quickly.

If I can find better, more detailed, explanations I'll post them here. Maybe tptacek can link to his past comments...
its been a while since i last visited this site but i noticed the only real thing that makes it easy for them in my case is my language settings. I preferred English language before my native language which must have been so odd that my browser is unique among all they have tested...
A subset and some very well-to-do SV personalities who should have no tangible connection to Gawker but seemingly are much invested in its future, hmmmm?

With good fortune it should end in a battle of fisticuffs.
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That's what "income inequality" is a shortcut for. I apologize, I of course meant "the disturbing increase in income inequality". I didn't intend to advocate for absolute income equality :)

Which trajectory is sustainable? One where housing prices don't significantly outperform income growth, where the price range allows people of all ends of the spectrum to find housing, and where the inventory isn't constrained as much by regulations that only serve the purpose of "ensuring property values".

> Lol, there is no question about that. The real question is how?

I'm curious - if there's no question about that, your "why would they want housing prices to go down" doesn't make sense. What do I miss?

I want them to go down now & controlled because I'd like a controlled descent. It seems you agree on that :)

"How" is a surprisingly tricky question that, among other things, depends on local economics. The solution for LA will look different than the solution for SF. (And SF is in a deep pickle. I'm glad the LA problems are not quite as bad yet)

Affordable housing projects (and financing them) will play a key role. But they're far from the only part - we'll also need to talk about densification, fixing blighted neighborhoods, simplifying the permitting process.

There will need to be changes to the rent control system, meaningful fixes to minimum wage, improved public transit, fixes to the nonsensical zoning system... And Prop 13 needs to die a fiery death.

Many of these changes are going to be somewhat painful for existing homeowners, but the inevitable collapse if we don't address this will be more painful.
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Pretty much, yea (they usually look you up by SSN though).

Its supposed to only yo the "right" people (some kind of accreditation process), but there was that story recently where a credits reporting agency was selling the data directly to some identity thieves...
I would love to hear the line of logic where if we all paid and got paid for everything in crypto currency would have spared you from the housing bust?
GPG grey dedicated a __great__ 3"59 video on this subject

https://youtu.be/eE_IUPInEuc
You should never have to apologize for delivering value - that's ultimately the purpose of technology. If it's the cleanest/simplest solution to a given requirement, implement it and move on - don't worry about trying to appease cargo cults. Technology should be used as a tool to deliver the best value you can within a given set of requirements. End users don't care how many Internet points from fashionable tech du jour you collect along the way, all that matters to them is the end user experience, invest your energy towards that.
> cursory look didn't yield anything particularly interesting

I think that's to be expected. If it was full of easy find critical information, it would mean they filtered what's being released. This way, it's simply a dump of everything - now it's for others to dig for anything interesting.
Can you give an example? Sometimes it cannot find what I am searching for, but I have never thought it was intentional.
Of course those streets are wide by (some) Chinese standards where they build entire blocks with 10+ story buildings meters apart.
Buddy. Give the 'the left' stuff a rest. We're talking about a libertarian going way out of his way to attack a (horrible, tabloid) press organization here. Same guy bankrolled/backed one of the biggest private enablers of security state overreach in the country. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy.

Also, as far as you deciding what 'the left' thinks and then feeling superior to them for it.. I mean, whatever floats your boat, but it's not exactly the path to enlightenment.
Wow, I had no idea they were doing close to $200m a year - congrats to them.
Very interesting! I founded ReSchedule Med (https://reschedulemed.com) to solve scheduling problems that residency programs have. Our solution is quite different but it's so cool that you've worked on a medical scheduling app- quite the niche space.

I'd love to chat! Email is in my profile if you're interested.
Notification filters are already a feature of verified accounts.

http://sproutsocial.com/insights/verified-accounts-using-twi...
I support codes of conduct, for multiple reasons stated and not in this thread.

I do not support putting words into someone else's mouth, particularly on socially explosive (hence the discussion in the first place) or ideologically driven issues.

Asking if someone's ever been harassed is one thing. Stating point blank that they haven't, crosses a line. Your interlocutor knows their personal history. You don't. Don't presume. It's a cheap shot, often derailing.
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>Because the Bay Area has the best job market in the world for software engineers, by a huge margin.

A margin in what quantity exactly? I doubt that Bay Area salaries are high enough to compensate for the insane housing costs.
When you say you typically work 8am to 5pm, are you actually working for that entire 9 hours? Like, if I randomly popped in and checked on you in that window of time, how many times would I actually catch you in the middle of something?

One thing I've learned about people is that they like to say they work 10 hour days, but they do about 30 minutes of valuable work. Does that describe you?
Were you talking about Thiel or Denton? It seems like you were talking about Thiel, so yes, I was correcting you.
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Miners majority decides only with soft forks. A hard fork is a consensus protocol change, the economic majority can split even without the majority of miners (of course it is nice to have the miners on board as well).
Maybe a "hello world" tutorial where the goal isn't to explain anything just to touch a few key places quickly. Along the lines of five or seven steps each one 5 to 7 word sentence.
Limbo is another good platformer, it's fairly short like braid and you'll die a lot but it's very forgiving, mainly placing you to right before the moment you died.

A few more suggestions are:

Fez:
Similar to braid, it's a very well done puzzle platformer with a unique gameplay mechanic.

In braid it was time travel, in fez it's warping the perspective of the level to reach places you couldn't.

It has a heavy pixel art style and lasts longer than braid just because of the crazy number of secrets hidden everywhere.

The level warping affect might feel strange but after 20-30 minutes your brain will just accept it and you'll be able to move along.

Antichamber:
I'd consider this a mix of braid meets open-world portal.

It's first person, but each area has its own little mechanics you'll need to learn to get through it.

Don't worry about the harsh looking visual style, it was much less than I thought once I started playing.

Portal:
Since I've mentioned it, portal & portal 2 for obvious reasons. Often considered "THE" first person puzzle game.

Hyper light drifter:
An unusual one, I'm putting it here not because of the gameplay, but because of the art and story.

This is an atmospheric top down exploration game with short difficult fast paced combat segments that are very forgiving, doesn't matter if you die you can just try again or walk away.

The art style is super vivid pixel art and its story is just like braid where you don't quite get it until the end then you'll end up watching an explanation video on youtube and preceed to go "Aah" for the next week.
That went way over your head, didn't it?
>You can intuitively figure out that d/foo is

"delete the first found foo"

Makes more sense to me than "delete everything until the first found foo" at any rate.

Intuitiveness is subjective.
They impact it.

I see this in Chicago. Graph price of single family 3 bedroom home and 3 bedroom condo. The prices track. The SFH is worth about double... When condo prices fell in 2008, SFH prices fell too.
Because you use them to filter. The way you compare if a value is in the filter is different from strict equality.
Usually 7am to 8pm every day, including Saturdays (I only get Sundays off)

I'm a really hard worker and I'm really smart so I like the long work hours. When I see people coming in before me and leaving after me, its a nice reminder of what a good employee I am.
Fortune says $1b in cash:

http://fortune.com/2016/07/19/unilever-buys-dollar-shave-clu...
Outside of whatever bounty Facebook chooses to offer for it, this vulnerability has a value on the open market of, perhaps, $50.
No, there isn't. Even the people who participate in the grey market for exploits (sales that aren't overtly prohibited by law and for which participation would be unlikely to make you an accessory to a felony) are very quiet about it.

But, a good starting point might be the analyses people have done on the Hacking Team leak.
Yeah, you might be right. Maybe there should be third axis in the left/right divide? Left|right|stupid.
People always say this but where would you go to find such a buyer? If you could find someone who would purchase it from you, would you process to then sell it to them?

If you can't find a buyer and/or would most likely be unwilling to commit a crime, it's a moot point.
> WhatsApp might have the HN crowd sympathy on this

Not mine. But Brazilian courts, with their over-arching powers, have even less sympathy; Brazilian bureaucracy, with their disregard for individual freedom, have even less sympathy; and lawmakers, with their disdain for those without as much command of the laws, the least of all my sympathy. That someone is not doing their every bidding - oh, I'm sorry, not treating them "the proper way" - is something that must be hard to muster. I guess their contempt made them blind to what makes sense and what doesn't.

Brazil doesn't get a free pass in something no one else in the civilized world is asking for.
Then do it. Facebook has a great security team, but it's a huge product with a lot of code churn, and there are plenty of shits and giggles left to find. Hang up a sign on Twitter or here, something credible that you can't get out of simply by changing your name to "admiralfred" or "commodorefred", that says you'll pay $6,000 for a Facebook CSRF.

You'll get a taker. Nobody other than Facebook is bidding for these bugs, and you're promising to be the high bidder for a lot of them.
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Well, bitcoin has a much better track record... No political forks that undo transactions. One or two bug fix forks.
Because you have to waste time reading it, and because they tend to force people to sugarcoat everything they say so that someone doesn't get "triggered" [1]. They also encourage SJWs (social justice warriors) to waste other people's time with various crap, for example the Node.js pronoun scandal [2].

[1]: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Trigger_warning

[2]: https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun
Unilever Buys Dollar Shave Club for $1B
It's not really geospatial; you just have multidimentional indices and an intersect operation. I'm not dissing you, indices like that can be extremely useful and tricky to implement!

That said, why only 4D? 5D is very useful, but no one seems to support it :( (x,y,z,time,value)
According to the JRuby dev repo[0] the truffle branch[1] was merged into master and blog[2], Truffle may be bringing cexts back and higher performance to JRuby. If this could be ship production-worthy as default, it would be awesomesauce!

0. https://github.com/jruby/jruby

1. truffle-head possibly took its place as most dev seems to be on master

2. http://blog.jruby.org/2014/01/truffle_graal_high_performance...
Why not include insignificant terms in the regression? Maybe because they're insignificant?

I understand what the regression is doing. The authors understand. You do not, though.

You've already admitting not to having a background in stats, yet you keep throwing around words like "significance" and "model fitting" without having the faintest clue what they mean mathematically. I'm sorry, but I can't fit several semesters of undergrad-level stats in these comment boxes.
This is why some one us have been calling the crypto-cultists...well cultists for some time now.
>have you had blood tests done to check your omega-3, omega-6, and c-reactive protein levels?

I've had blood tests done but i am not sure if these were tested. I am reasearching these now and will get this done if not already. Thanks for the pointer.
Theres also this place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island which is disputed by Canada and Denmark. Apparently the Danes leave a bottle of schnapps for the Canadians and the Canadians leave a bottle of Canadian Club and a note saying welcome to Canada.
If investors in stupid investments lost their money - all the way from investment banks down to individuals who made bad home purchase decisions, I'm pretty sure homes would cost less today. My point is that interventions have unforeseen consequences which hurt some people (typically the responsible ones).
That's odd considering the potential monetary damage of such bugs can far exceed $10k.
> wanting to flex their muscles

It's exactly what this is. Trying to show off and make people bend over backwards.

Sad that it usually works with less fortunate people and companies that can be swallowed by a mountain of bureaucracy and undecipherable legalese. That a company is standing up for it should be cause for celebration.
That's exactly what I'm asking for: a clearer explanation.

I don't believe the paper's conclusion, but I don't understand your criticism of it. If you're saying the estimated curve is inappropriate, a better argument would be that they should include more terms of the work-hours Taylor expansion to get a better fit. Or perhaps there are confounding variables left out of the model.
This response explains everything about your stance. Thank you.
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Thank you, I'm very glad to read this.

> I need integrate this into our pre-production environments like yesterday!

Please feel free to share your experiences. The integration story here clearly needs more work, and it would be quite helpful to know where to focus.
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Dollar Shave Club Bought for $1B by Unilever
I don't believe it's illegal to sell vulnerabilities.
That's great, never heard of that before. When I search for that term, the first hit is a Reddit thread where the first commenter expresses his desire to "drop-kick" people who do it. Strong emotions! Maybe we can create this world after all.

I wonder how many actual wars in the past have been started because someone didn't like how the border looked on a map. It has to be non-zero.
Now that's just unnecessary.
Sure it is, since my argument for weakening of international institutions is that the USA did not lead by example.

My analysis of russisn motives was pretty much “they did what they did because the USA prooved that they were an expansionist empire, with the goal of extending their influence on the world by expanding their area of influence without compromising ideologically“

I hold the USA to a highest standard, first because they have the means to lead, and second because they have extracted enough value from the world that a bit of compromising is just fair. But even though I feel that the USA are expected to be better than the rest, they never deceive in being much worse than anybody else: military interventions, lies, wars, political medling, ... everything goes.

The UN is indeed a joke, and the USA is mainly to blame. You are happy about it, and I think it's just a pitty.

What do you expect the world to look like in 200 years? Do you really buy that nonsense about perfectly isolated national identities, hapily trading with each other? How do you solve “tragedy of the commons“ kind of problems, without a supranational authority strong enough to force solutions on members? Or is the market fairy working for you there too?

Global problems must be solved by compromise.
I'm not saying it's incorrect, it's not a well known acronym outside Turkey though. It could be "Turkey's ruling party" then in light of your comment. But it's ok if everybody's ok with it, just my thoughts.
I'll take that bet timeboxed to the end of 2016.
I glossed over the trailing space on the plus sign and read it your way first too, FWIW.
Or into the buildings above. Could the heat be used to pre-heat cold boiler water in buildings? Of the low efficiency (but no carbon?) electric could run LED lights or other small electronics. There would be a loss in converting to electric and a loss converting back to heat.
Agreed. Bitcoin gets the philosophy right. A fork for bug fixes is a completely different matter than for rolling back transactions.
If you do it in a language specific way, you would probably need to catch those TC exceptions when calling into functions of your language. That is very easy to do, as every Truffle language controls how its functions get called in a foreign languages.
What numbers matter here? Usage? Traffic? Referrals? This article makes it seem like revenue?

Just for the heck of it I just grepped the log on my one server. It's got about 200 different domains, mostly smaller sites. About 600k hits today. ~5,000 referrals from Google, ~200 from Bing. Strangely enough there seems to be about 11,000 hits from Bingbot and only about half that from Googlebot crawlers.

I'd be interested in hearing how those numbers compare to other sites.
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I use Bing whenever I'm dissatisfied with Google's results. Bing has always returned worse results in this case. YMMV.
I don't use it because I am turned off by the name, strange I know. It's a hard word to speak and it is a meaningless word.
China's cavalier attitude towards smog and environmental pollution is destroying the planet. I could never live there because you can't even see 50 feet in front of you in Shanghai; I've heard Beijing is much worse, but I wouldn't dare ever visit because of health reasons.

Here's a photo outside of my hotel during my stay in Shanghai:
http://imgur.com/xW9SoZP.jpg

Surely, people don't want to migrate to urban areas in part because of the smog.
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MS Edge supports WebM, and that's basically the current version of Internet Explorer.
I'm pretty sure a first year security engineer at Facebook gets paid a lot more than $5k too. They're not your employer, they don't owe you money, if you want to mess around looking for security vulnerabilities in your free time it's good of them to pay you at all.

I fully support Facebook paying bug bounties, but let's compare apples to apples here.
If it's a government buying the exploit, they wouldn't care about recouping the cost. Hence why a large sum is feasible.
After Prop 13, housing is a net loss. Or so I'm told.

I think it's more of a NIMBY thing. People can agree that California needs more housing, but fight to the death against it near their house.
You wouldn't think that if you used vim. I don't want to turn these comments into a vim tutorial so I simplified it a bit. But in the framework of vim, d/foo and what it does is totally intuitive and easy to figure out on your own. With vim when you learn a new command it applies to all the movements you know and vice versa.

EDIT: rereading my comment, I should have said "/foo moves to the first instance of foo in the document" to correlate how / is a movement just like w is a movement (w is "move by one word")
Would you believe I've just spent 25 minutes trying to figure out how to respond to this, and I still don't know.

I suppose that means you win.
I use DDG as my default at home, Google at work and Bing on my phone. My main complaint is the inability to restrict searches by date from their mobile version.

As others mention the name is just godawful. Chanandlerbong.com would be an improvement.