skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Explain to me again why if you're British you're less likely to have a bias?

You won't fear being deported.

>Ah, so it's not that British citizens don't have a bias, it's that they have a bias in the direction that interests you. Very different.

Not so black and white.A lot of British want the EU, but not for economics, that's far too drab and requires genuine research and care.

We want easy access to foreign lands where we can get drunk, and bask in the sun.

On a side note, I don't really believe it will be useful leaving the EU. I would prefer reform and greater decentralisation. Even if it is failing, we can't promote positive reform from the outside.
Ask HN: Is it possible to learn web dev/programming from videos?
Can you learn mainly from video tutorials? There are a lot of seemingly great paid ones out there and some also free ones. I'm having a hard time with reading but seem to be able to grasp concepts from videos fine.

I need to hear that I can learn enough mainly from videos to be employable as a web developer/software engineer.

I don't have a problem reading small amount of text like the description of what a function does and I can read Hacker News.
I wouldn't read much into the downvote. People tend to get tired of what has been coloquially termed the "middlebrow dismissal" which plagues HN a bit. No doubt your comment was misinterpreted as such.

If we're lucky, we'll see some open source on this, but probably only in as far as it directly makes the game more fun. Or harder. You can likely mod the game quite a bit though, as the Content folder is full of plain text code. (I'm assuming .cso files are compiled glsl code?)

And thanks for the reminder for Quadrilateral Cowboy; I have no idea why I don't have this in my library yet. I don't think I've heard anything negative about it from anyone, and it looks like an absolute blast!
>> that you should explicitly disadvantage them to make up for your biases.

I don't know where you've had your implicit bias training, but mine was nothing of a kind.
This was worth reading for the team names alone! Awesome.
Joint Statement from the DHS and DNI on Election Security
I always liked the architecture but just hated implementation and holdovers from prior business. Another goodie was how the DOS, etc subsystems are similar to the current container craze. I just wish BeOS advantages got merged in there early on. They buy them or something.
Entirely possible. It may have something to do with the fact that I'm getting sick of CL users insisting that CL is the only real lisp.
Suiron – Machine Learning for RC Cars
Calling a diet that people can't follow "effective" seems like a fine exaggeration to help maintain a nutritionist practice but impractical for any other purpose
Yeah, 12 engineers is a lot, for anywhere.

Plus, how does hiring a team of 12 work any differently than interviewing 12 candidates and giving offers to the qualified ones?

Methinks "Developers for Hire in Chattanooga" would be more useful.
You can learn almost anything from the videos, but you have to do your part. You have to code. A lot. No way around it.
If the lawsuit is to be believed, it's a stack ranking system with some unusual twists - most notably, the part where higher ranking managers can arbitrarily change ranking scores of anyone under them, bypassing their direct managers. He gives a specific example where scores of several people were decreased from above with no explanation, and seemingly no clear basis other than gender.
Surely you must be joking?
Azure IoT Loves Open Source
I really like MSP. I haven't been through there in a long time, but I remember it being pleasantly decorated, none of the gates were too terribly far away (looking at you, DFW), and it was overall relatively quiet compared to DEN.
Judging by the tags, it recognizes this as a street sign (which is great and amazing), and yet says it's "not a photo".

A photo of a street sign is definitely a photo ;-)

https://keegan.regaind.io/p/v5bCFkeRRYSvendxCM73yA
I did not say "simple" negligence, that is determined by others who know the specifics of this case.
So, Yammer circa 2010?
"I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda" I don't work on this team so I have no clue to say anything 100%, but given that the LinkedIn deal has not closed yet I see no way how that can be true.
Thanks, I like the idea of setting a rigid time frame for analysis.
If you believe that the only thing Bill Gates did was stay out of the way, you've clearly not read even a cursory survey of the history of computing. It's so dismissive I'm a little agape.
Most of the nutrition comes directly from seawater if they're smart, see SEA-90. I use it for most of my hydroponic plants.
I'm not sure any introduction to Feynman can be complete without this letter he wrote to his wife: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-love-my-wife-my-wife-...

(Warning: you may end up with something, ahem, in your eye...)
Don't think so, unless I'm misunderstanding what you have.

I basically mean replacing your animated camera with the cube, but still using a [fixed] orthographic camera to look at the face of the solid as the cube cuts it away.

I tried using your scripts but Meshlab on my system really doesn't like the data and refuses to produce any output :(
It has something to do with Eternal September, which is also Burning Man's "problem".
> the way to solve a 'shortage' in labour is to raise wages.

I wish that was happening in health care. We hear that we have a shortage of people in EMS, but our wages have been stagnant for years. Happening a lot in nursing as well. Keep hearing about shortages, but there are new grads that can't find jobs. Although some of those "shortages" are self-caused too. Not everyone is going to be able to find a new grad nurse job right there in the SF Bay Area. Sometimes you just need to take that job in Sacramento to get things started.
More learning, less time
Language wars are just another religion, so I agree.

The real tragedy of being human is that no amount of intelligence can save you from being religious.
What if piracy was never invented and we all just paid our dues. What a happy little libertarian utopia.

>Would that be true if software piracy became the norm decades ago?

How many decades ago? I built my first computer and installed pirate Windows and Photoshop versions back in 97. Warcraft had questions you had to answer during installation that were answers from the lore in the manual. Do you think people in the 80s with the first personal computers would see their friend use a new software and then wait 4-6 weeks for their own floppy disk to arrive in the mail?
This was in my Amazon cart before my original post!
This was in my Amazon cart before my original post too!
This should serve as warning to anyone relying blindly on cheap cloud to keep themselves up and running.

This also remind me of importance of offline tape backup. Google still uses tapes[1], yet some of the companies have started thinking they can eliminate tapes and move their backups to cloud.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM
Which you can store as two 32 bit integers, or one 53 bit integer. Nothing requires native 64 bit.

64 bit is nicer than 32 bit, but it's scarcely more necessary than 128 bit numbers.
Another alternative is the seawater they're getting comes loaded with nitrates already from fertilizer runoff or naturally-occuring sources of nitrate leaching.
he was trying to be funny (and stick a knife in liebnitz), anyway. Voltaire's definitely got the "biting satire" down pat.
Motivated pupils might be interested in Octo, a high-level assembler and IDE I wrote which targets the CHIP-8 virtual machine:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo

The documentation includes tutorial materials aimed at complete novices:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo/blob/gh-pages/docs/Begin...
> And of course there's the standard argument that while BM should have leverage, they're also so wedded to the site they're essentially a captive audience.

Then they should move. Really. Moving it even once would bring the local authorities to heel.

Montana and the Dakotas have a lot of space. I suspect some Indian tribes might be very enthusiastic about hosting something like Burning Man.
I was quoting from this Atlantic article, which easily could have misinterpreted the science (I admit this is common):
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/treating-c...

Here's the original paper:
http://www.psych.uncc.edu/pagoolka/seminar/jofpain2009.pdf

Most of the confidence in my post comes from personal observation. I don't claim that should be convincing to you--but it is convincing to me.
It is worth noting that the inventors of this particular type of visualization for wind data were Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg (former IBM, now Google, as far as I can remember). A pity that they are rarely mentioned.

http://hint.fm/wind/
How much is it? I can't seem to find that info.
Just like the SAT.
Good points! I agree that fundamentals are important and make many things easier in the end. I can see that it may be difficult for someone self taught to focus on those and be patient before jumping into that framework everyone is talking about. It is worth it though in the end.

I also like your note about accomplishments. This is really important to feel proud about things you've accomplished. Finding joy in these small completed projects may motivate you in going forward. There's no point in feeling worse.

Everyone started somewhere and it is very likely that most of the brilliant programmers also made simple things in the beginning (and most probably were very proud of them :)), but yes - fighting your doubts is very difficult.

I feel like we should try to find someone who will give us a positive feedback to soften the frustrations. This may not even be a specialist in the field - show what you've done to a friend or family - added bonus: they will be likely even more impressed. We tend to be overly critical about ourselves, so it is useful to search for feedback from others.

Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts!
Well these are mostly intended, but are kind of leftover of the phase where we had no user authentication implemented. You can still delete pictures from your profile (https://keegan.regaind.io/profile), that will remove them from Hall of Fame as well.
Your ribbon shows there by the way! (ribbons are implemented as one time events which depend on your user status, and are not stored alongside the picture. maybe we could fix that)

Thanks for the report tho, I'll see what we can do for reenabling the hall of fame button after the first show!
This is certainly one of the more peculiar incidents of late.

It's been my impression that the US and Russia conduct various sorts of covert mischief such as this, but it's usually under the radar.

"Hacking" an insecure email server configured by campaign volunteers or other non-technical people is not exactly what would qualify as a "state sponsored attack".

(edit: if you disagree please explain why rather than simply downvoting)
Are you based in Paris? That's great!
I think we can agree that the guy at 2016 IAC ruined BM this year.
Not necessarily.

If your candidates are 80% men and 20% women, and your hires are 80% men and 20% women, your process isn't discriminatory. DIscrimination is still happening, but it's somewhere before you in the pipeline. Some would argue that you have an ethical obligation to "reverse discriminate" to mitigate it, but that's much more ambiguous than plain discrimination being bad.

On the other hand, if your company goes from 80%/20% to 20%/80% in 2 years, it's the difference that is very suspicious. Either you're deliberately discriminating (possibly "reverse discriminating"), or the distribution of candidates changed that much, or you have removed glaring discrimination that existed before.

Either way, you need more numbers to judge.

Oh, also - this all makes sense if we're talking about a sufficiently large sample. If it went from 8 men and 2 women to 8 women and 2 men, I wouldn't be comfortable making any conclusions - on a sample that small, I would expect individual differences to dominate.
For pointing to a location in 2-dimensions, a mouse is hard to beat with a keyboard; when locating a point on a map to someone, do you say "Start at the bottom left, then up two inches and over four inches to the right" or do you just point?
I'm assuming we'll get a level creator and community levels, just like all of Zachtronics' other games.

Somebody might build an OS emulator of the "hardware," as did happen with TIS-100
I feel that what you describe is largely a pedagogical fault of the community though: most of the people who understand the topic gained their education in a particular way, and just haven't thought very hard about how they might make that process better using new technology. This isn't to call anyone out, of course, because that exact process happens to literally every field, and even within mature fields as new paradigms or technologies are developed.

I think there's a lot of room for mathematics education to be revamped to be more iterative and exploratory, which I think would make it appeal to a wider audience. I think that the mathematics community is actually beginning to pick up on this, with the publishing of python notebooks which contain increasingly sophisticated models as you read in to them and provide controls for readers to manipulate the parameter space of the models to explore the consequences of claims, theorems, etc. I think this kind of exploration of the numbers is a better way to learn a lot of ideas than the way I was taught in class, particularly things like statistics, where you can see distributions change as you manipulate parameters.

I figure that in a few years, as people my age who were mostly taught using older methods, but got a little exposure to explore-via-computer learning in university mature, we'll see an increasingly "internet-y" version of teaching methods appear, where there's a mix of video lectures, reading materials, discussion posts/blogs, and interactive models.

Computer programming and hobby crafts are among some of the first fields to make that transition, traditional academics are somewhere in the middle of the pack, and specialized topics like data science are keeping pace with the wider academic community.

tl;dr: I think your point is really just a temporary pedagogical fluke, as we take time to transition our teaching methods.
Your interpretation also disagrees with the interpretation, and explicitly stated goals, of RethinkDB itself:

https://rethinkdb.com/faq/

> The RethinkDB server is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The client drivers are licensed under the Apache License v2.0.

> We chose to release the client drivers under the Apache License v2.0 to remove any ambiguity as to the extent of the server license. You do not have to license any software that uses RethinkDB under AGPL, and are free to use any licensing mechanism of your choice.
So now that the confusion about SVLUG closing has been removed and nothing serious is going on, this reminds me of exciting times loooong ago, when Marc Andreessen spoke at SVLUG and then Netscape had buses waiting outside to drive everyone (who didn't want to drive themselves) to San Francisco's "Sound Factory" for the Netscape (open source) release party [0]. I also remember Linus Torvalds as speaker. At one of the meetings I won a SCSI card - which I gifted to the "student network" of my (German) university, a network created by and administered by students in 1994, connecting several thousand students in dormitories to the 155 Mbit ATM backbone of the university. I don't remember a time without high-speed Internet all the way to my room, it's always been there...

Since I moved out of the Bay Area in 2004 I don't have any more recent memories :)

[0] http://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/1998/details.html
Not all ports of Acme/Sam require X.
You comment does strike a cord with me. At the end of the day it is about shipping code.
Don't buy things that are part of your core business. (If your business is creating a word processor, don't buy a rich text box control)

Do buy things that are commodities and outside of your domain specific expertise. Accounting software (assuming you aren't an accounting software company). CRM software. Rich text controls.

Build things that give you a competitive advantage over other companies in your sector.
They teach you and allow you to practice skills highly relevant to programming.
Emotions are the universal distraction.
Yeah it's super harsh with street signs or that kind of large text on pictures. The protection is there to avoid saying really silly stuff on utilities bills and other kinds of paperwork. I'll add this example to the ones we should accept.
Gimpel Software used to run "Bug of the Month" magazine ads showing code with subtle C++ bugs that would be caught by their Flexelint linter. Here is their Bug of the Month archive (2002-2012):

http://www.gimpel.com/html/bugs.htm
The "Siri which planes are above me" made the journey worth it for me. Really pretty neat.
Absolutely. No ISP should allow a packet with a spoofed IP leave it's network.
We (as in PocketSuite) are really focused on the small / service business market. There's a huge opportunity among small/solo business owners selling their time and services, so we are laser focused on that market as of now. Most software that has been created has catered to enterprise companies, so our mission is to bring those efficiencies to the millions of professionals in the U.S. and abroad first and foremost.
That sounds like a good idea. I've got to check out Octo some time...
Ah. Sounding off at the Nth annoying person, when you let the first N-1 slide. Been there...
First point is kinda weak (Overfund Planned Parenthood Organizations) in terms of limiting population. This is probably the most important factor in saving our planet. How about limiting everyone to only one child per family, and not how China did it. I'll go one step further and recommend we have testing for potential parents to see if they are fit for having children. I mean we need a license to drive a car but anyone can have a child? Our society needs more in place to ensure kids have the best of everything.
That's an interesting hypothesis that brain games are too specific.
> This is middle management, and the ratio is roughly 50%.

Can you cite any sources for said ratio, for middle management in IT?

I'm genuinely curious - I don't know the numbers, but I also find it hard to believe, just on the basis of the distribution that I've seen in various places where I worked.
The difficulty will be understanding context. Was blurr intended for effect? Same with a fuzzy picture, or a dark one, or one with no apparent subject, or was it informational only, etc.
Does emacs support sam's structural regular expressions language?
We do! We're at Agoranov near Luco, feel free to drop by if you want to have a chat :)
Yup, PDX is by far my favorite airport on the west coast.

I've yet to see another parking lot as neat as PDX. There's an ultrasonic sensor above each spot with a red/green LED that shows if the spot is open(green for clear).

Makes it incredibly easy to find out if there's an open spot down a parking lane.
It's about blocking non-spoofed attacks.
I worked at a MicroAge during the heyday of Xenix, selling any system we could get our hands on. We even had some weird System/36?/38? variant because IBM was still trying to keep the PC from killing midrange sales.

Hard to believe but we had three different UNIX offerings: Microsoft Xenix, AT & T 3B1/PC 7300 and what sold by far the best: Altos systems. We sold the hell out of 4, 6 and 8 user Altos systems because everything was connected to cheap dumb terminals. The Xenix systems could not come close at the time for speed.

But then Novell commoditized cheap networking and file sharing on the PC and that was that. The PC had far more software selection and despite the price difference offered Lotus 123 which took the industry by storm.
> no concept of door to door travel time

Yup, we should have a luggage drop wagon on board of the BART, and the BART should drop us at our gate. Obviously that implies the BART is also a giant TSA irradiation oven (Want to opt out? Well, there's the taxi).
oh man, the postscript. :(
I would be entirely comfortable in an interview explaining my thought processes and if I stumble into a whiteboard interview again I will try to do that. The result couldn't be worse than my previous result.

With regard to your other two points I either wasn't clear or you took my comments too literally. Be that as it may, let me clarify.

I do form my entire impression of the problem and various solutions entirely in my mind, without the aid of external memory. However, and this is important, that evolves out of research. During research I build something like an intuitive understanding of the problem. Along the way I consider possible solutions to the evolving problem, solutions by others or that happen to occur to me. Eventually, usually at night when it's quiet, I have an insight, which often turns out to not be quite right. Rinse and repeat until I have something that seems good. At which point I will sketch out some data structures (as struct or object like things, or simple diagrams) and some pseudo code to operate over the data. If that finds a flaw in my idea I go back for more rinse and repeat cycles.

When I say "just enough information" I mean just enough for any engineer with sufficient experience and background to fully understand the problem and solution. I don't leave anything out, I want feedback and I don't want the feedback to be "huh?". By "sufficient experience and background" I am leaving open the possibility that there might be someone in the group who doesn't quite get it, but to tell the truth most good solutions to most problems turn out to be reasonably simple, simplicity is one of my target criteria. Simple solutions are easier to implement, less likely to have bugs, and if the solution is both simple and good the performance is likely to be at least acceptable as well.

Better? :)
> If your candidates are 80% men and 20% women, and your hires are 80% men and 20% women, your process isn't discriminatory. DIscrimination is still happening, but it's somewhere before you in the pipeline. Some would argue that you have an ethical obligation to "reverse discriminate" to mitigate it, but that's much more ambiguous than plain discrimination being bad.

I'm not (right now) interested in ethical obligations to discriminate or reverse discriminate or anything. I'm interested in hiring the best candidate for the job.

If your candidates are 800 men and 200 women, and you need to hire the 100 best candidates from that pool, you have very little to believe that the 100 best candidates are roughly 80 men and 20 women. You have even less reason to believe that if you have a suspicion that there's discrimination happening in the pipeline.

So if your goal is hiring the best candidate for the job, you shouldn't look at the ratios of demographics coming out of a known-biased pipeline at all. If you end up hiring 80 men and 20 women, you should have your own reason why four times as many men than women were in the set of best qualified people.

If your goal is some vague social-justice politically-correct nonsense like ending reverse discrimination, then you care about putting the blame on the pipeline and slavishly following the numbers it gives you.
The Kung Fu Arcade (Retro Music)
US Officialy blames Russia for recent political hacking
I thought he said "Spanish" meaning "a local source", not "a source in a language other than English"
At the end of the day its about solving problems. No one pays a programmer to "ship code". If that problem is solved by someone elses code, use that perhaps.