skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. I'm surprised where this discussion has headed.

Of course the kids didn't rebuild the ABS census system in 50-some hours, and I don't think the sensationalism in this article is meant to be taken so literally. The purpose of the hackathon project and of the article is more likely to help the average person understand that the ABS could have built this in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost, and given the technically trivial task at hand, it shouldn't have failed.
AFAIK this is a pretty common belief among those who are both Christian and gay.

Citation?
While I agree with this sentiment if they are doing all of the post processing and data operations in band and not off in separate queues then the architecture was wrong to begin with.
Collect data => add to queue => process later.
It doesn't matter how long that process later step takes as people only care about being able to submit their census and their government not looking like a laughing stock.

This exercise is about performance not things like security clearances.
I'd never seen a mercury-arc rectifier before. I'm going to guess those couldn't be deployed outside. Apparently there were still some in use until 2012, though.

Can't imagine the clean up effort if the glass breaks.
I carefully avoided saying that it wouldn't be sexism if the sexes were the same. At least, I tried to, although perhaps I edited badly. I started out with a longer example including reference to the US Census's definition of Hispanic as an ethnicity rather than a race and including North African's as White, but decided it was too confusing and ended up "wouldn't you want to know".

(There are situations where the sex of the judge might be interesting in discussing the sexism once it was established, but not in determining if it exists.)

Yes, and not only for discussing, but to have any reasonable chance of working toward a solution. I think the "fix" almost certainly depends on the cause of the prejudice, which I think almost certainly depends on the sexes of the parties.

Similarly, with "racism", mutatis mutandis.

But that's the question, right? What stays the same, and what changes? And in this case, do you think that "racism" is a helpful diagnosis?
I ran a similar study a while back - I was curious to see if the YC incentives for startups (Azure credits, Amazon credits, Digital Ocean credits, etc.) were significantly swaying founders to use a technology stack.

You can find a quick analysis of registrars and DNS providers here - https://www.gra.pe/?p=77

You can find architecture analysis here - https://www.gra.pe/?p=36

Interesting stuff.
An ai that will just think logically will do something that samaratin did in person of interest.
Link to spreadsheet? =)

I'm always curious to see how others have modeled this decision.
Eve finds NeuroMama, a worthless stack of nothing but shady documents, and importantly, without a significant number of shares available to borrow. She knows how to manipulate markets and doesn't care much for legality. Eve buys a significant position in NeuroMama over a period of time. She can do this cheaply, but slightly drives up the price.

Alice sees that the stock price has increased and this puts it on her radar of companies to investigate. She sees that NeuroMama is a worthless stack of nothing but shady incorporation papers. Alice thinks the stock value will decline. She goes to her broker, Bob, to borrow shares so that she can short sell. Bob calls around Long Island and locates some shares belonging to Eve for Alice to borrow.

Alice offers these shares for sale. Eve buys up a significant portion of them and puts them back on the market for sale at a massive markup.

Eve calls back her shares. Alice is required to return the shares to Eve. But Alice has sold those shares, so she must buy them back. She tries to find anyone to buy them from. Unfortunately, Eve is the only one selling, so Alice must pay Eve's price.

The only money that has changed hands is between Alice and Eve. There was no $34B, only a small fraction of the shares changing hands at highly inflated prices. If Eve is caught she'll need to disgorge her earnings to Alice.
Your analogy is better if the books or articles are written by the same users, like eg research papers and the editors (like Springer) dont allow the writers to even share their articles on the web.
> The article gives a real name in literally the second sentence.

Actually, the article literally does nothing of the sort. Check it for yourself. It mentions Applebaum's name in the first sentence and no names in the second.
I remember my biology teacher's description of photosynthesis: "If you have a river of gold running through your backyard, you don't care how much of it you splash all over the place when you carry the buckets full back to your house."
Not much more was needed than an editable Adobe PDF form and a web server that accepts POST data.
I think you are the one over-reacting really. Marco spent some serious effort investigating something interesting to him and discovered a hole in some important software infrastructure. We can argue about how important the hole is, but there's no doubt it's a hole and filling it in wouldn't inconvenience anybody.

Less seriously, why would you skip over the song? - it's a lovely little song and my only problem with it is that it's an earworm that I find myself internally singing all the time. "John didn't do any research .... da da da". Of course John always does some research anyway. Now if only John would occasionally concede a point or give the other two some credit, maybe just once, life would be perfect.
It's obvious there's a lot more to a Government project than stands out. A project I was involved with had burnt more than 54 hours just in meetings and project management before anyone wrote a line of code.

But you can extrapolate a lot of the build into a more "Government approved" environment, and you still come in demonstrating that a modern type of environment can be done a lot cheaper than census, which was their goal.

They've said a lot to the average non-tech about what you can achieve.
It works fine; you just have to know up front to not just click "yes" for everything during the sign-up process. Not a big deal for people who already know how GPG works, but the whole point of Keybase is to make it easier to use for people new to crypto, and that audience can't be expected to understand that the default settings are a terrible idea.
Silicon Valley CEO who allegedly kicked girlfriend 117 times gets 1 year in jail
Maybe someone pwned their server?
Actually that was the original goal of Google Video, which never got much traction and was discontinued eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Videos
TA-65 Pharmacokinetic Study
Good picking! Will fix that up right now. Thanks! :)
BTW, what does one have to do to get fully statically linked executables? The binaries I've created with go get SOMETHING are linking against libc, but I remember that go doesn't rely on the system libc. Has that changed? For instance I just installed git-appraise, and it's a dynamically linked executable. What am I doing wrong?
Also, I'm assuming Datanyze used the publicly facing domain of each of these websites (very similar to what I've done). What you'll notice is a lot of these startups have APIs or apps that have very different domains than the ones being used for their landing pages. I spoke to the folks at Bizspark about this and Azure adoption is pretty high (I believe these are private numbers).
I don't see why youd need to have any sort of website/outward facing material for this. If you can really do what it says on your about page, then just trade!
In my opinion, valarauca's comment is the correct place to start looking at the context, here. V. started the conversation in a way that could easily be construed as an effort to discredit Thunderf00t.

To me, Computerex seems to simply be saying "Thunderf00t has sufficient general knowledge of science to make his debunking videos worthy of watching".

You mention 'special standing', which suggests an 'all or nothing' approach to categorizing people's status and knowledge, rather than a more reality-accommodating recognition that expertise and knowledge are a matters of degree.

Mdorazio did not state what you say they did, they instead asked a leading question in which words were placed in another person's mouth. Further, Mdorazio would be incorrect to state that "from the perspective of mechanical engineering and fluid dynamics, he is in fact an average Joe on the street." because the average Joe on the street, relatively speaking, is not as equipped as Thunderf00t to understand issues of mechanical engineering and fluid dynamics. I'm not saying that Thunderf00t is or is not properly equipped to make each criticism, just pointing out the problem with 'all or nothing' style thinking here.

You would be right to question whether Thunderf00t has sufficiently advanced and detailed knowledge to make each and every one of the criticisms that he makes, but this would depend on the specific criticism and the specifics of Thunderf00ts knowledge.

As it happens, not even having a PhD in fluid mechanics would guarantee that the critic has the relevant knowledge, nor is thinking through the problem correctly.
Wait, how many states just had their voter ID laws declared racist shite by the courts? How many of them had Republican controlled legislatures?
To add to this - what they probably did was run an nslookup or dig against the domains themselves. And whatever IP resolved for those domains, they checked who owned that IP space. With a CDN, it won't show AWS, it'll show the CDN.
Because bond prices move in the opposite direction of equities (generally)? Also, you're not just collecting interest off those bonds since prices move based on the market's interpretation as to where future interest rates are going. I'm sure my explanation sucks, but if the economy starts to improve, the expectation is that rate will go up, so bond prices fall. And the inverse.

Take a look at Vanguard's bond fund (BND). It went from $80.5 to $84 since January 2016. That's a 4.3% return over 8 months and it wasn't because of the interest the bonds pay. It was also at ~$84 back in 2013. As the economy improved the price dropped then went back up again.

Basically, bonds provide a way to diversify to an asset that is not correlated with equities. Investing in bonds reduces your overall return (vs. just equities), but it also reduces the risk level. If you find that sweet spot you can optimize for slightly reduced returns at a much lower risk. This is standard Boglehead theory.

Folks who know more than me can correct my explanation.
When I was searching for jobs, could not just believe the startup offers. $35K - $45K in Vancouver. I would have felt like a slave working for that kind of money in Vancouver. Albertan co-op guy would easily earn double that. I have not researched other nuances of this situation, but it put me off that scene entirely. Unfortunately, great white north will keep bleeding talent.
>Sony were advocate of writing assembly in an excel spreadsheet

What was supposed to be the advantage of this over a traditional plain text assembly language? Using Excel macros to generate code?
Cards Against Humanity's diabolical plan to 'drive Trump nuts'
CGO_ENABLED=0

Otherwise it will dynamically link glibc in case of CGO code.

Note: the race detector does not work without cgo enabled.
He said he'll be using it so I'm curious what needs a curses-like gui if webpack spew doesn't.
I'm convinced that stcredzero is intentionally misdirecting you into arguing about logical fallacies. Based off of her/his other comments in this thread, it doesn't appear that she or he cares much about them. stcredzero's viewpoint is clear and not focused on policing the thread from logical fallacies.

I would say it's a fallacy to harp on logical fallacies; it's not as if everyone has infinite time to convert all arguments to syllogisms. The common list of logical fallacies entered Western culture from the ancient Greeks but shouldn't be taken with religious fervor.
> It's absolutely payback, I'm saying I don't have a problem wiht it. I think gawker is getting exactly what they deserve.

cool. just don't say you (thiel) advocate for free speech when you do that.
Go generally links to libc to use the system's getaddrinfo-- some OSes override it to do special things with dynamically discovered hosts on local networks, interfacing with LDAP/AD, etc.

If you use `CGO_ENABLED=0 go build`, it should make a statically linked executable.
> using a modern device

How are we defining modern here?

I'm pretty certain my Nomad Jukebox 3 supported VBRs fine, and that's coming up on 14 years old now.
It's definitely necessary for some people. I'm allergic to NSAIDs, though to differing degrees. Really bad hives (to the point of needing epinephrine) from aspirin, less severe reaction to naproxen.

I can tolerate a single pill of ibuprofen, maybe 2 in 24 hours but that's it. I don't take acetaminophen frequently, but it is one of the only things I can tolerate for pain (sinus/tension headaches mostly).
AdWords comes in fourth with 130

Any reason for this?
The faster compilation time & speed up is quite real in our real life prod application.

From Go 1.6 to 1.7:
Test suite (CI), from 3:34 to 1:48
Docker image building, from 3:05 to 1:50

https://twitter.com/mattetti/status/763913903600349184
Ah makes sense now, thanks for illustrating it so clearly.
My answer is a metaphor:

When we plan to climb a mountain, we aim for the top and focus on everything that's required to get there. It takes real experience to also plan for the trip back down.
Maybe I'm missing something, but if you spill a bunch of food all over your floor, you're supposed to sweep it up right away, before people step all over it and make a huge mess; that isn't something that's supposed to wait for a regular cleaning. At least, that's how normal people live.

The Roomba can handle a few stray peas here and there. I think you're underestimating it. But if you're making a huge mess on your floor every day, then it's not really meant for that, though you might want to look at why you're making such a mess in the first place; is someone in the family a huge klutz or something? I have hardwood floors on the first floor and barely do any cleaning at all, mainly I just sweep around the litter boxes more often. It just doesn't get that dirty, even with 3 adults.
Looks like perfectly ordinary, old-style, prototype-based ES5 to me? Formatting is a bit idiosynchratic, of course (e.g. lines starting with comma).
> Probably because you have 10 years of experience?

I was learning git a decade ago, and all it took was at most two days of
reading. And yes, this includes the idea on how to rewrite commit history
(actually another one, very low-level; I don't expect anybody to ever think of
this way for the task).

I didn't have StackOverflow or plethora of tutorials on web that are present
today.

> Git is a mess

I keep hearing that, but once upon a time (seven? years ago) I tried learning
Mercurial, this paragon of usability, and I couldn't figure out one of the
simpler things: how to setup a repository to merge changes from two other
repositories without specifying full paths.

Given that, either I'm very smart, because I picked up git so quickly, but
so-praised Mercurial "is a mess", or I'm very stupid, because I couldn't
figure so simple Mercurial function, but then what does it say about people
who can't read the fsckin' git docs?
Right, and there are also other externalities the government "captures" and turns into inputs for homo economicus. For example, the "cost" of dumping toxins in a river, or assassinating a competitor's CEO.
Ask HN: How do you recognize an experienced Android developer?
What skills/knowledge should I as an interviewer look for in an Android developer to determine whether they are experienced? What kind of questions should I ask, specifically technically?

And on the other hand, what can I as a candidate discuss to show that I am a senior Android developer with not just years underneath my belt but a wide variety of knowledge and experience?
Some are better than others in those regards. Most of the ones I listen to, I listen to for entertainment - so I don't mind some meandering. And decent podcast apps will give you reasonable skip options - I will frequently skip intros and outros (I'm looking at you, 99% invisible; I have never cared what your boy has to say.)
I suggest giving Ruby a try too. I find it great for both web dev and local automation scripts. You can do pretty much anything you can do in bash but with clearer and shorter code. I've been writing all my non-trivial automation code in Ruby for years.

Rails is just a popular web framework for Ruby, there's a lot more the language can do.
I'd wager dollars to donuts that women with lower pain tolerances and more willing to treat pain with drugs, would also be less capable of raising children. They'd also be more likely to report their children as suffering from ADHD, simply because they can't deal with the child.
If the exercise was about performance, they could just point at google forms. They didn't. You said:

> The purpose was to show that it can be done better and cheaper than what IBM and the Australian Government came up with in FIVE years vs 2 students in 24ish hours.

Neither did ABS spend 5 years on the webform, nor the guys implemented everything that IBM and ABS did in 24h. They did something completely different. These guys got to skip all of the complexity of the solution and did the easy part in a weekend. You're also presenting the easy parts only. Even "add to queue => process later" is easy only if you want to show notification on a small site. Add all the assurances you need for the census and it's a multi-day task on its own.

Basically we're reliving the times of "why is Twitter going down all the time, I implemented Twitter in RoR in a weekend, look"
> How would it cope with a Denial of Service attack though? “Fine” – “it would have racked up a bill, but it would have survived”

Uhm... so an unbound AWS bill... that doesn't sound "fine" to me.
millennials will recall these services the way I recall kozmo.com and urbanfetch, but without the rosy glow of nostalgia.
There is an active project sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation called PyWikiBot that I've been a contributor to and user of for over a decade now. If you want to do anything and everything with Wikipedia, look no further than: https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core
The Pentagon Needs You to Help Them Take Down Small Drones
I would like to see an attempt at an 'elementary' proof of the Ramanujan pi formulas
Here's the Neuromama Recruitment Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZhI5zRJ8zw

Wow.
I'm referring to the article. I presume that if Apple ends up supporting MLLT ID3 tags natively based on Marco's request, he'll feel free to switch his podcast to VBR without guilt. (Even though this will cause problems for all his non-iOS11 listeners.)
Bodybuilder Goes Crazy and Bashes the Presidential Election
A bit of context for foreign readers. Every 5 years a mandatory national census is undertaken by Australia's premier data gathering agency, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). For over 100 years the census has been completed on paper forms delivered and collected by government employees.

Political interference by prior governments who cut funding and left the department without a boss for 12 months. Change of leadership, no re-funding and the newly appointed ABS leader over promises savings while implementing a new online census without a backup plan. At the same time (this is the real story) decides to collect names and addresses of every person completing the census to link these previously anonymous data gathering.

New code, untested systems and an expected audience of 15 million people logging on, most likely after dinner around 1930 EST. The system experiences load, the site admins panic, make mistakes then pull the server off-line. At the same time politicians and other stake holders deride ordinary Austrians who question the name-gathering issue. As the service goes off-line and people try to enter the census, the site is down, the PM reports on twitter everything is good just before 1930. The ABS continues to auto-tweet the service is working. Australian gold medal swimmer at the Olympics derides convicted Chinese swimmer of drug use. Australian politicians blame Chinese for hacking. [0]

72 hours later the service was still down. The census requires around 95% completion to be useful. 10M AUD is spent and we have around a 50% completion. The Australian security services investigated the alleged hack and found the administration and contractor (IBM) to be at most fault.

An all round cluster-f*ck.

I saw this claim yesterday (https://twitter.com/peterrenshaw/status/764991292828815360) and had a quick chat to Austin (SWE) and Adam (Organiser/AI & Neural networks) asking for them to write a summary of what they did addressing both non-technical for the benefit of very non-technical press and political wonks as well as a technical article that explains the assumptions made and addressing how the ABS may have technical reasons for not using third-party computing services. As far as I can tell this article is the general non-technical article by Adam.

[0] check my twitter feed for examples of articles explaining the buildup: https://twitter.com/peterrenshaw
Good point! (Cog Psych shows that we don't really multi-task.) I've always been partial to beds and couches for reading ... and especially in the very early mornings ...
Oh yeah, the D1 Mini also has a very low quiescent current (25uA) RT9013 regulator, so it should be much better for use on battery power than the nodemcu with the LM1117 which uses 5mA! That's 200x less current wasted!

Also the dropout voltage is only 250mV compared to about 1V for the LM1117. You couldn't use a LiPoly battery to power it with an LM1117 because of the high dropout voltage.
I think they should let him go with no penalties other than a stern lecture, and the same should go for anyone who accidentally mishandles classified information.

Yes, this would be bad for our national security. But it's the morally right thing to do if we're going to let Hillary off the hook. It's wrong to hold people to totally different standards; if she gets leniency, everyone in trouble for the same thing should get the same leniency.
Except... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770552/

The short of it: NSAIDs inhibit chemical processes the body uses to heal more thoroughly. Also, they tend to act on the kidneys and can "cook" them if you take too much.

TANSTAFL
You are making many improper assumptions. My case is not "median", the distribution of rents and prices are often not the same, and the relationship between rent and price can vary significantly between locations within Seattle at any particular point on those distributions.

The breakeven mortgage based on my rent by my best calculation would be around $700k, depending on a number of factors. For better or worse, places like I rent sell for much more than that. Having been looking at condos all over Seattle, the relationship between price and rent vary significantly by location.
What kind of role were you seeking? Even without context, those numbers immediately jump out as "....what?"
InfoSec – Case study: In-Q-Tel
“The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority”
You may wish to check out the (free) books Logic, Programming and Prolog (http://www.ida.liu.se/~ulfni53/lpp/) or Learn Prolog Now! (http://learnprolognow.org).

Personally, I find declarative logic programming to be a great tool in domain analysis -- it's a powerful technique to document and prototype domain rules. I've never used it as an actual business rules engine, but I always feel like I should explore Prolog/Datalog or answer-set programming as a possible solution.
I got very nice error from their search engine, revealing a bit where they get results from :)

http://pastebin.com/RnsB33Ea
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