skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you compare the US to developing countries. If you want to compare us to other countries, compare us to developed countries.

Yes our median and mean incomes, disable incomes, household wealth etc... are high.

But those values aren't very evenly distributed at all. Just look at average household wealth by race. You'll find an enormous discrepancy. (I was actually shocked when I looked at this. I knew it was bad, but not that bad)

We have a huge number of people doing incredibly well, and a huge number of people barely getting by. The social programs other developed countries offer go a long way towards easing the burdens of that 2nd group.

You can point to Finland and say that yes they have $16k less in disposable income, but they have universal health care (which you already pointed out), they have paid family leave, they have worker protections, better unemployment etc...
I can't imagine what sort of revolution would render economics to become capable of reliable prediction.
The most needy who barely survive on minimum wage? That's not compassion for the most needy, it's exploitation of the most needy and government safety nets.
If you're wanting to do ML text processing using python (ala NLTK) I recommend: http://textblob.readthedocs.io/en/dev/index.html
More context can be found here: https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Bones...

This scan (photograph?) is linked from here: https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Taraw...
I thought function level were limited to backus languages, and that factor was part of stack based, at best concatenative.
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Correlations does not imply causation. There were many more relevant but "invisible" variables, which, probably, related to some genetic factors, like ability to sustain exposure to the cold water, ability to calm oneself down to avoid panic and self-control in general, strong survival instinct to literally fight the others, etc. The variables you have described, except the age of a passenger, are visible but irrelevant. And pure luck must have a way bigger weight and it is, obviously, related to the genetic favorable factors, age, health and fitness.
A lot of large companies are starting to gap the breach between manual test and dev. While part of this is writing automated tests for each feature, a large part of this is writing tools and frameworks to help with testing, debugging, and operations.

I've worked in a few "tools team" job descriptions. I personally enjoyed it. By being internal tools, it allows you to iterate faster and do more interesting technical things than could be publicly released. If you are working for an open source company, these tools can be very useful for other companies and are of great value when released.

Look for job descriptions that have tools, devtools, etc in the title, or any senior test automation roles where this would likely be most of your job (making the shared parts that everyone else uses).

Good luck!
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Why do most apps use Internal Browsers?
Facebook and Twitter has been using internal app browsers for a longer time, but now even Google Hangouts started doing this. Why do they choose to prefer an internally baked browser?
Well, it looks like google is the one saying they're fact-checking, and people trust google.
I believe it is about hiding illegal actions. (Whistleblowing) I don't think WikiLeaks has ever dumped data that exclusively contained irrelevant info about normal and legal actions.
Its incredibly frustrating that these folks keep going through funding cuts, engineering staff are constantly keeping an eye out for a wave of layoffs. Frustration doesn't begin to describe it. Science comes to a halt every time there's a change in federal administration, those who make the science are the ones at the short end of the stick.
That's only partially the case, authoritarian regiems are also very good at indoctrinating their population which means that it's near impossible to break through, just look at N. Korea.

They are also as you said control the media which means you control the narrative, wikileaks would have 0 impact if the media would not have picked their leaks up and run with them, the amount of people who access that site and read the information directly is negligible.

Also since the regiems not only control the media but also the medium e.g. the internet good luck at breaking through, if it's truly a walled garden state there is very little you can actually do, and with the right amount of force and preemptive control over the narrative even a full external media blitz won't really help you.

There is a difference between transparency and abuse, wikileaks is walking a very thin line, and it has passed it several times by refusing the curate information which does not score them any points.
Assange's crusade against clinton does also not sit well with many people even if they mostly agree with his ideology, his latest interview on Real Time with Bill Maher about a month ago did not score him many points when he confronted Bill about his donations to the the democratic party.
Nice haha. I was just going to call it the BrainF interpreter with references to prototypes A-E. Ill say I put 256 "brains" in each FPGA or ASIC. I'll reference the performance of various machine learning algorithms. I'll have comparidons showing speedup over a Core 2 Duo I with less watts.

Fast-forward time some to see it becomes a post-mortum, legacy system, or acquired by Novell as their entry into AI. They promise it will be the success of Netware all over again. Audience at conference pauses at the ambiguity of that statement unsure if they should cheer or charge out the door.
> Also why not just improve aiohttp's performance…

Have you read aiohttp's code? there have been some discussions about improving its performance, there is basically no immediate bottleneck, the whole thing just performs poorly. I hate to say it but sometimes it's just better to start from scratch.
Yes. We basically pay people based on 1 metric.

Not what they produce, but how good they are at convincing other people to give them money. Whether it's by building a product, being very good-looking, or asking for a handout. (Sure you can say that we pay people based on what they produce if you argue that a homeless man is producing good feelings when you donate to him, but I think that's a bit silly).

Obviously this is always going to be the case to some extent in a free society, but we should definitely do more to help those who don't happen to be good at convincing other people to part with their cash.
And my point is that there is no such thing as a "solved" task for estimating.

They're estimates. They're not called "certains", "definites" or "numerical solutions" because they are none of these things.
Bitmessage is mostly used for "chans" and they are insecure. Basically, when you send a message to chan, everyone who knows about this chan can decrypt the message. So the message is essentially not encrypted.

Streams are not implemented, so bitmessage does no scale.

As you can request a list of neighbors from anyone you can easily attack network by constantly reconnecting closer to the message sources. For example, you can track down all active users of some particular chan.

Freenet project did a lot of work to protect against opennet attacks, and bitmessage completely ignores it.
Neat idea, but doesn't it run afoul of Apple's allowed apps? I seem to recall something similar that was taken down for allowing "dynamic programming" to be done. Maybe the limitations imposed by the language limit the scope enough? I could be completely off the mark, maybe I'm remembering wrong.
You underestimate the selfishness of people. Knowledge of upcoming situations is not the issue. Rather it's the "it's more important for me to get where I'm going than it is you" that keeps people from merging until the very last second.

Source: US roads. All day, every day.
Start using lots of generics and see how fast Delphi compiles.
That might be worthy of a HN post of its own!
LOL Silicon Valley
I can rent 1BR appartament in Rome or Milan for 600-700 euros/month.
Much less in a smaller city.
I have friends living close to Como lake that spend 500 euros for a private house with private garden.
To be sure, as someone who is good a greenfielding and hoisting startups, I would never want to be a CTO. Hire people above me, make "cofounder" just a particular percentage of equity and maybe a salary band, an enhancement on whatever my title is. Of course none of this protects me from getting Blaine'd and pushed out, but I figure that's always the case.
That was a null byte issue, fairly different.
Listary is another good one for this, and it chains search results with common actions. From any explorer window or desktop you can just start typing to find stuff.
I had a similar desire to learn another language (after 20 years of Java and JavaScript), and Python was definitely on the list. What helped me decide was to look at the projects and tools that I used or wanted to use (and potentially contribute to) and then see what language they're written in. In my case, I'd been doing a lot of Docker and Kubernetes work, so Go was a natural choice.

If I'd been more interested in "Big Data", then Python (or, if I wanted to stay in the JVM world, Scala) would have been my choice.

Either way, Python and Go will be around for many years to come.
Similar in spirit to Pico-8 (desktop), or Petit Computer (DS)?
Ideally we'd use nothing besides ourselves, but dice is a good idea.
The article is a preview of Marc Levinson's upcoming book, An Extraordinary Time, which looks at the post-World War II economic boom as a one-time historical event. It reminds me strongly of several of the themes of Robert J. Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth, released earlier this year, though that book covers a much larger time period: 1870 - 2015.

Various reviews suggest Levinson does address a few topics I've found poorly treated in the past -- the obsession of the US Federal Reserve over inflation in the late 1970s, and a general lack of understanding of both economists and politicians at the time (see Kirkus Reviews). At the same time, I suspect that as with Gordon, I'll find Levinson's book missing crucial elements.

Bio: Marc Levinson is the former finance and economics editor at the Economist and the author of five books, including The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. He lives in Washington, DC.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marc-levinson/an-...

http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465061983

http://www.marclevinson.net
Merging late, and using both lanes to their fullest actually improves overall congestion (per Washington state, Minnesota, and others.) Merging early can lead to differential speeds between lanes, which encourages lane changing, which causes a general slowdown for everyone.

Use those lanes and zipper at the end!
Why are anti-aliased lines specifically a high-end feature? I thought that anti-aliasing was done by over-sampling and then down-sampling, so all drawing primitives would work with it uniformly.
You're forgetting to sum over all the visible stars in the sky, which just brings us back to Olber's Paradox.

Think of it another way—if you're in an oven at 5800K, there is no arrangement of matter you can put inside that will not eventually come to thermal equilibrium.
Counterintuitive counterpoint from just a couple days ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-me...

Summary: last-second zipper merging is actually better in many circumstances.
nine_k's remark was about the general effect of raising the minimum wage. You seem to be talking about Walmart deciding to pay more to their workers, a completely different issue.
Linear Digressions: http://lineardigressions.com
Simplified and easy for beginners.

Talking machines: http://www.thetalkingmachines.com
Interviews and detailed explanation.
Title inflation is a thing making "CTO" almost meaningless, as documented elsewhere. Technical cofounder skills are not the same as CTO skills, so either they can be promoted into the gig when the company grows big enough to need CxOs or they can hire someone with the experience, desire, or greater aptitude.
Depends: do you /need/ to know who they are? Or do just you need to know they aren't some bot? Depending on what you are doing, your going to have to think of whats appropriate and keep in mind: the more you collect, the more secure/oversight you'll probably need.

I've been thinking on this on my app, and I don't really need to know who they are, in fact I would prefer they couldn't use whatever they normally go by on other sites (prevent name squatting, spoofing, etc), that there clearly is no assumption by username/handle you are communicating with is who you think they are. So minimally I would want:

User Name (handle)
Email or Text number (verification)
Login password

Now, thinking on no previous usenames, to reduce the instance of actual user name/handle I plan to require a first and last user handle with one of either being a name from a supplied list of generic names, the other something they come up with.

The list of names would include stuff like this:
'Coyote' ,'Crazy' ,'Desert' ,'Doc' ,'Dog' ,'Farmer' ,'Forrest'

In answer to your question, if it was a different app I'd do something completely different. You have to get in the mind of your audience and your revenue source of what would be appropriate.
My pitch will target the enterprise DB, embedded, and military markets. I'll package it as something for highly-concurrent, real-time programming. Give them a language like ParaSail or Chapel that compiles to BrainFuck. Keep getting subcontracts to use it in criticsl, long-term projects. Eventually, the sham will come out but BrainFuck will be To Big To Fail (TM). Also leverage patent on key innovation forcing uptake of BrainFuck for at least 20 years.

I'm not sure it's worthy of a Bond villain but it's a start. ;)
this $500 a day is for a CERN INTERN. Not CV heavyweight with FB salary.
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The security community has been doing much more than this for free for like 25 years. This exact attack was documented and demonstrated about 15 years ago.

There used to be no such thing as getting paid for security bugs and exploits, yet there was no shortage of free published research on mailing lists and other ascii-friendly distribution channels, including exploits and walkthroughs.

Early example: http://phrack.org/issues/57/9.html
Given that Pivotal wrote and then donated ownership of an entire containerised cloud platform, built from scratch, before any of Mesos, Kubernetes or Docker existed, I feel like we've done some fairly heavy original engineering.

We estimate every story. Sometimes hilariously wrong (Diego was a classic example of a research-heavy project blasting past the initial gut-check estimates and improving in accuracy as it matured).

But a lot of the time well enough to allow for useful business decisions to be made by ourselves and other members of the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

The reason that I keep saying that useful estimation is possible is because I do it every single week. Hundreds of my peers in Pivotal and partner companies do it every single week. Hundreds of client developers do it every single week.

But I hear that it's impossible. So I guess I'll change my résumé to read "Wizard".
You don't have to learn BASIC. Trust me, it's imperative programming 101. There are just 15 keywords or so. You'll get the hang of it in 5 min.
Anyone suppressing a work based on ethical judgments is practicing censorship. They could be acting on the authority of a state or religious institution, they could be removing immodest young adult fiction from the shelves at a children's library, or they could be moderating the content of a web site. Web sites are new, but the concept is the same as it's always been.
Part of my issue here is that saying I mentioned. I've experienced first-hand a couple of times where a mathematician tells me something is or isn't possible due to theory X or whatever, and then when practically applied, they've been wrong. So when someone is smug due to something in their head that doesn't have a practical demonstration, I'm suspicious from the outset.

Maths itself may be pure and correct, but it isn't the maths being smug at the dinner party :)
Very little of the scrutiny is any good at all. It's riddled with mood affiliation and confirmation bias. The incentives simply are not with thoughtful, considered analysis. It's too easy to create moments for people to be swept up in, and to use the tools of persuasion to raise the persuader's stock. Where social media could be an agent for reason, it had not taken that role very much so far.

Take the stories around Ferguson - I think Alex Tabbarok won the internet the day he released "Ferguson and the Modern Debtor's Prison" but that point of view only appears in other references to the situation sparingly if at all.

I just have to flatly disagree with the idea that better information leads to higher confidence in conclusions - there's simply no way that can be true unless the subject is inherently trivial or unless some methodological advance has made the previously intractable tractable. More information means more uncertainty unless you're dealing in convergent statistical situations.

What's needed overall is for more people to listen with respect and genuine curiosity to people with whom they disagree.

The effect of social media so far has been decidedly uncomfortable, especially in the Middle East. Perhaps that is the Islamic Protestant Reformation, with social media playing the role of printing press, but I doubt it - people who know Islam much better than I claim it's actually riddled with deep apostasy and not the kind that seems overall a positive thing. Ignoring deeply normative Koranic instructions for the application of Islam in favor of violence ( perhaps even war-crime-shaped violence ) cannot be a good thing.
The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton
I browsed the tubes for a bit and couldn't find anything but the following, which is a Feature Request comment under Backend[1] mentioning a "controlled backdoor", possibly added by this contrib[2]. It reads as follows:

at the cost of getting scorned, but dead serious: a controlled backdoor, with an automatic audit trail, to be used by lawful agencies for keeping us safe. Bitcoin by design supports criminal activities, which undermine the community. A community messaging system should have a way of cleaning itself.

1. https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Feature_request_list#Backend

2. https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/14skywalke...

Probably not the example mentioned by Parent, though.
Which book do you think is a better introduction to computer science?
It would definitely be interesting to see comparable data around Trader Joe's or even Whole Foods.
I tried to pay in several of these shops. Most didn't even had the functionality to pay with card. The only one in my sample where I was able to get to the payment form had redirected me to the proper payment gateway.
Why does he keep referring to PNAS as "PPNAS?" It's clearly the former, and I don't know what the latter stands for.
They removed that clause a few years ago :) You can now load code at runtime as long as it's sandboxed. JS inside a UIWebView, for example, is widely accepted.
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There is a very important notion from The Sciences of the Artificial book by Herbert A. Simon, that the visible (to an external observer) behavior of an ant (its tracks, if you wish) is not due to its supposed intelligence, but mostly due to the obstacles in the environment.

Most of the models mimic and simulate (very naively) that observable behavior, not its origin.

When people cite "the map is not the territory" they mean this. Simulation is not even an experiment. It is mere an animation of a model - a cartoon.
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I see no mention of a couple of super-obvious factors. First, the USA has let monopolies back in. During the immediate postwar period, there were tons of regional companies in just about every market. Now, there's a few national or multi-national. Almost complete lack of competition results. Second, the rise of "permission culture" and the idea of "intellectual property". Just going ahead and doing it versus looking around to ensure that you're not infringing is costly in time and money, especially when you have run everything past a legal department.
It's the 'zipper at the end' that most people mess up. I call them 'button people'.
Well, the name of the chan is the key, so assuming you use a relatively strong password-style name and then keep that name secure, the chan will also be secure.
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There is a strong idea from pubic choice economics which makes the claim that the externalities from regulatory or political capture must be considered. It isn't. Arlie Russel Hochschild just finished a treatise in which she claims that Louisiana state government is completely captive to oil interests. I would not be at all surprised that this were true.
...Well, we can compile TIS-100 programs to BF, and then run it on your 256-core machine. Then the question will become, "Have you heard of anyone running BrainFuck in production, other than Nick P's BrainFuck-as-a-Service platform of questionable longevity, or Qwerty's TIS-100-as-a-service running atop the former?"
http://i.imgur.com/YsbKHg1.gif

Joke aside, very nice interview, even I'm not an US citizen. Considering that all political discussions (on TV) in my country are about throwing as much shit as possible to the other side, this Penn interview feels pretty much like poetry :)
I don't know if OP is the developer of the app but I would be interested in knowing if they wrote their own interpreter. I've done a minimal BASIC interpreter in swift as fun project - https://github.com/jdmoreira/foobarbas it would be cool to discuss specifics and compare the implementation.
How convenient that he flew from Hong Kong to Latin America (where, exactly?) and his connection happened to be in Moscow. I mean, I live in Moscow and I don't think you can directly fly to Latin America from here...
All of this goes on to confirm my belief that social science is a hokum.
Oh, this is apt. Apt I tell you!
>If Fiske etc. really hate statistics and research methods, that’s fine; they could try to design transparent experiments that work every time. But, no, they’re the ones justifying their claims using p-values extracted from noisy data, they’re the ones rejecting submissions from PPNAS because they’re not exciting enough, they’re the ones who seem to believe just about anything (e.g., the claim that women were changing their vote preferences by 20 percentage points based on the time of the month) if it has a “p less than .05” attached to it. If that’s the game you want to play, then methods criticism is relevant, for sure.
You the tax payer are already paying for this in the form of food-stamps and social programs that allow companies to benefit from well-fed, capable workers, while paying less than living wages.