skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it is cultural? You often also hear animal cruelty stories from their zoos:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/169fyr/chinese_zoogoer...
> It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty--a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid--not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked -- to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.

The problem is that in the current system (based on publishing as much as possible quickly and at prestigious conferences) there are few incentives to do this. Instead people learn to game the system. Academics need to relax a bit, but they can't, since there is so much competition.
Sure, something the site this was posted on is extremely guilty of as well (see the article I linked at the bottom of my post).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the BBC were right in this case, but the difference between the reality and the headline was not as far as many, it was corrected (very slowly), and the conclusion wasn't something they created, but drawn from the paper.

None of that makes it right, but it's worth asking why is this the particular example of 'fake news' this site wants to point out? The clear answer is because they want to imply that the opposite is true, or that anyone suggesting good things about women must be wrong.

Arguably, if what they are saying is right, it shouldn't matter what the source is, except this article is overblown for the matter at hand, doesn't address the wider issue of this happening with papers all of the damn time (with papers of all types), and has some obviously leading segments designed to imply stuff.

This article is obviously a small part of their agenda to scare and infuriate male readers, by making it look like 'SJWs' are a bigger issue than they are.
I would like to take you on that bet. I also wonder if you have ever been to anywhere in Europe.
Thanks for the detail, it is interesting --

but it just drives the point that we live in completely different worlds - I cannot turn down Windows using customers (or I could, but I'd have to start a new business), and you apparently can. I believe the vast majority of developers live closer to my world than yours.
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I'd like to add Airplay issues to your list please. Airplay used to be magic and extremely dependable. Now it just randomly cuts out on me, things don't work first time around 30% of the time. It takes a number of goes sometimes to get things to work the way they did the day before. Its a nightmare.
When people say "the latest nutrition" they mean "the latest broscience I read on reddit."
well, it is not very different from what Google Expander does - https://research.googleblog.com/2016/10/graph-powered-machin...

our data sets have massively grown over the laat few months and now need a bigger solution. I think we will start off with a hosted solution like EMR - performance is not super critical right now (batch mode training)... but developer productivity is key.
It was a niche mobile app (one time sales) that plugged into something larger and the market just shifted into a different direction. Even if I would've kept working on it, it would've died.

Looking back, I probably lost $250-300k there that I could've gotten if I would've sold it.
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Macbook/Macbook Pro/Macbook Air keyboards are probably the highest quality laptop keyboards I've found (I have 2x cherry red mechanical keyboards at home). Every other laptop keyboard I've tried feels like _garbage_ in comparison.
No, that would've not been worse.
There is also:

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This subject is something the data science/ ML world need to take very seriously. I am constantly passed snippets of google analytics as 'proof' something on the website worked with no analysis of what else could have caused it. With pay per click you get some very sulky looks when you say 'how much of that result do you feel is caused by people clicking the ad that would have clicked the search result if the ad wasn't there?'

Taking a tangent to talk about the style rather than content here.

To me the sign of the true greats in the world of thought are not just those who make new discoveries or have new ideas, but those with the amazing power to communicate those ideas without jargon. Feynman, a Nobel laureate, is often remembered for his teaching as much as his discoveries. His books are very funny too.

I remember, when I was college age, a friend telling me they were writing a paper on Existentialism. They kept trying to explain it to me and I felt like an idiot, I couldn't get the meaning of 'existence precedes essence' or whatever, and became sure that philosophy was for smarter people than me...until I picked up a copy of 'Existentialism and humanism' by Sartre, whose idea it was in the first place, and it is not full of jargon and the ideas are perfectly simple. I then read some Camus novels, which actually changed my life(!) and again the ideas are perfectly simple. Their greatness is in their challenge to the norm, the idea that we have everything the wrong way round.

Now I treat anyone who uses jargon unnecessarily (and it can be a useful shorthand at times) as someone who is trying to appear part of something they are merely a commentator on, or who is trying to keep the uninitiated out. I have so much more respect for people who can communicate in plain English. Feynman was a master, as is Orwell.

Startup culture has some really annoying forms of this. Despite my interest and involvement in technology I am actually foremost a finance professional although I do less of it each each day. When you want to stay solvent you need to forecast your cash flows, not f* around with 'burn rates'. Verbalisation is a special form of rubbish. I heard a sportsman saying he was 'hoping to meddle in the Olympics', when I presume he meant '...win a medal'. I especially hate language that is not specific, 'bi-weekly' means both 'fortnightly' and 'twice-weekly' for instance. I can only conclude that people who use too much jargon are pseudo-intellectuals.
> in Germany, data privacy is a basic human right

This! Seriously, there's moral relativism and there's squabbling whether a human right "would be nice to have". They/we don't call it a human right lightly. It's to shine a spotlight on something very important that people otherwise don't realise.

> This is not even touching on the fact that all the data these US companies mine of European citizens is also accessible by the NSA

Well in a way, it does. Total surveillance by governments that openly admit you have zero rights in their eyes (as do their citizens, by the way, many times, even on HN ...) is one of the many terrible implications of the existence of these databases.
I'm in a similar position to Patrick, so I feel semi-qualified to answer -- not in his place, but as someone who's gone through the same thing.

I lived way out in the sticks, in a village with one convenience store, no train station, one bus stop, and a grocery store 30 minutes down the mountain.

Life there was simple and great; I enjoyed my job, the stress was low, rent was low.

I moved to Tokyo in search of better opportunities, which I found. Stress was high and I reacted by eating too much; as a result, I'm about 40 kg heavier than I was in my old location. Additionally, the stress has taken its toll on my sleep quality, my finances, and my health in general. Among other things, people remark that I lose my temper far more easily now than before and also that I seem much more moody than before; I'm also on antidepressants now.

Despite all of that, Tokyo is a wonderful city and I love it a lot. The job, stress (and related health issues), and finances completely aside, Tokyo is an amazing place to live. If you think of any given locale as having X number of doors in any given category (food, shopping, opportunities to meet people, business opportunities, etc.), then my old location had perhaps 5. Tokyo offers literally millions upon millions. It's a megacity and perhaps quite unique in its density and variety of neighborhoods, all of which contribute to an opportunity to live a really interesting, varied, and international life in one place.

While I could transfer my dislike for my current environment at work to Tokyo itself, I think it would be unfair to do so; as unfair as it would be to transfer my like for the life/work I had in my old location to the location itself.
The Rickroll should be fixed.
If you are a programmer/designer you can get a 3 year freelance visa in Berlin, Germany. I currently live in Berlin with that visa.

Your standard of living in Europe will vary. Sure, some places offer free healthcare (not exactly free - see taxes), better public transportation, and decent quality food at lower tier supermarkets. That's all great. On the other hand, you'll likely take a huge hit in salary and pay higher taxes. That does make a difference in lifestyle. A personal anecdote: in NYC I paid $2500/month to live alone in a decent apartment in a vibrant area (East Village). That's a lot of money! In Berlin I paid $700/month for an apartment of similar quality, but because salary and taxes are so low, I wasn't able to save nearly as much as I did in NYC paying high rent, a lot of money for quality groceries, etc.

There are other benefits of living in Europe like 30 days of vacation, ample maternal/paternal leave, and some financial security if you lose your job. That said, it's harder to get these jobs. Because of the risk companies need to take when hiring new employees (ie paying for all the benefits above), there's currently a huge workforce of temporary employees. Everyone is aiming for the seemingly elusive "permanent contract."

I say make the move. You'll learn a lot about the world and yourself. You can always move back to the US.

FYI this comes from the perspective of a software engineer turned entrepreneur turned software engineer.

Berlin freelance visa: https://service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/305249/en/
While that is true, the guy who said it was unlikely was guilty of the same crime. They both need a "citation needed" response.

I personally remember enough cases like Steven A Cohen and Galleon and the Gerson-Lehrman group[0], that I assign the probability "likely" to that claim, so if someone says "unlikely" I ask him for his reasoning because I might need to update my estimates. I was not trying to say it is wrong, just understand his reasoning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerson_Lehrman_Group#Controver...
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I had the same problem. In addition to regular exercise, try doing these stretches for once or twice a day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdNS95hpL-o (they are fun too! Perhaps get a group together at your office to stretch together once a day)

These exercises work to move your body back toward perfect posture, undoing the damage caused by sitting, typing, etc.

I stopped using these in November due to travel. My back and shoulder pain returned. It took about 7 days of consistent stretching for the pain to go away again.
There's also one for the Amiga 500:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVAvDbzXFk
A perjorative term for people that take a lot of courses is "badge collector". Usually for people more interested in the credentials than the material.
He is in Russia? What do you expect the FBI to do, kidnap him and smuggle him out of a country they have no jurisdiction in? Better question is why did the State Department cancel his passport on his way to Moscow knowing very well that he still could hold the key to an encrypted trove of highly sensitive documents
I think that might be the way to do it. At least, it is what I do; I don't even try anymore to find unbiased news, I just get many news sources of which I know how they're biased.
After Peter Higgs won his Nobel Prize he said some great stuff on this subject, the idea that he wouldn't be allowed the time to do work like his anymore. Please google at your leisure.
I understand but it is really messed up that people even consider that moral. I'm sorry but I can't get any "a bit more" out of killing indefense animals for pleasure. It's just irrational. I believe these thirsty people for blood are just one step away from killing people. There's definitely something wrong in their heads.And the vast majority are white middle-class gun lover (nationalist) people. There must be some correlation.

If you feel like killing something, play some cod, jeez.
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The problem with her is that she lies constantly, she isn't technically aware enough to make those kinds of claims.
I second the recommendation. The documentary talks in detail about the differing views on intellectual property between Western countries and China that is mentioned in the article.
Do remote work for US company...
Nice, thanks for being responsive! I agree it's a great concept, sorry if the critique came across as harsh.
Agreed, if you buy it then it is your own responsibility to know that it requires more than just the money for the phone.

Then again, some people buy expensive cars and are surprised about the high price of spare parts.
I guess many consumers like to pay a big amount of money for a single product, and not a big amount + 10 small amounts for a product that needs multiple other products during its life.

Its like a phone case, we all wish it wasn't necessary to have one, but many people buy cases because the phone needs it to stay nice/safe. And I don't think there is a solution readily available that makes phone cases abundant for those people.
Glenn Greenwald eviscerates this WaPo article https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-...
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What a patronizing, miserable article. I found this a very unpleasant read.

Which is kind of a shame, because he does touch upon a very good point.
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I never said that the BBC was right with what they posted - clearly it has issues.

My issue is that they examine this one case in isolation in a way that is clearly meant to be misleading. I am not 'inventing an enemy' - please go look at the other posts on that site - there is a continual drip of articles about feminism, making feminists out to be crazy and aggressive, all of them highly misleading.

This is just another example. Instead of 'oh look, another story where a journalist finds a bit of research and publishes with a massively overstated headline' it's 'those feminists are at it again, trying to trick us!'. They could have picked out a ton of these stories, or focused on the issue of research in general, but instead they pick this one because it suits their message.

You can ignore the context completely, but it's clear what this is in context. If a paper constantly put on giant pictures of convicted black people (and only black people) on the front page with gory descriptions of what they did, we would call that out, because while technically true, it's clearly misleading.

Likewise, this site constantly pumping out articles that imply that feminists are some kind of boogeyman out to get you is attempting to push an agenda, and that context matters when judging this article.

I'm not saying "it's not that bad" - it's a real issue. I'm saying that it's not as bad as the article portrays, because it portrays it without the wider context that this happens all the time with all sorts of research.

Fake news is a term I hate because it's so easy to throw around. I don't really like it being used by any 'side', because it doesn't help. Just as with the 'fake news' itself, calls of 'fake news' just get brushed off with "mine can't possibly be, I trust this source".

The solution, as always, should be making the damn point about why it's wrong. Yes, getting people to listen is a problem, but falling back on screaming a catch-phrase doesn't seem like it'll help more.
Np, glad someone's playing it. I was loling when I started a game and rickroll started playing.
I don't expect the em-drive to work, but the parent post has a point. We've had repeated experiments yielding unexpected results. It's worth an inquiry; if nothing else, to thoroughly explain what went wrong so the same mistake is avoided in future experiments.

Outright dismissing new ideas, no matter how far-fetched, is very much the antithesis of the scientific principle. You mustn't forget that everything we take as indisputable fact today, was an outrageous far-fetched theory at some stage.

It was barely yesterday that Barry Marshall was ridiculed for proposing that stomach ulcers are bacterial, because everyone 'knew' that bacteria can't survive in such an environment.
Isn't the idea of having volunteer super-employees exceeding the regular production literally Stakhanovism?

Most organisations above Dunbar's number have some level of unacknowledged problems in the "formal" system. It ends up not being as productive as the formal figures would indicate. So people use the informal system to back-fill their quotas. This means the informal system isn't available to increase visible-to-management production, because it's already being used to make up for the deficiencies of the formal system.
Ask HN: What alternatives to the ELK stack are there?
I'm looking for a simple logging visualisation/analysis tool to run on a light server (512MB, 1 CPU). Installing the ELK stack is too much for this I think, and I was wondering what alternatives are available?
PETA approved.
Just the same, cars can be driven almost bumper to bumper, at arbitrarily low speeds, in ten foot wide lanes. The realities of wind and minimum forward speed and prop wash dictate that aircraft will need a lot more clearance than a car does. I'm sure it will depend on the particular air vehicle and the rules of traffic in the sky, but I for one would have to be convinced that aircraft can give better throughput than a road can. On the face of things, I'm not sure that's the case.
Maybe I need to add a "I give up" button to the question, and if each player hits it, move on to the next question.
I can only speak for myself, but it can be hard or impossible to talk to others without having a good reason to do so - i.e, that person being necessary to your current mission ( work ).
Skin colour, religious and sexual preferences ... One can only hope the next dictator shares your lack of imagination.

Also it's a bit of a bizarre argument that tech companies are doing data collection on such a massively intrusive scale, we should really look at the government databases first because they're already more than enough to screw us over with? It's not even a "but they're doing it more!" ...
It's a legit comment. S/he is a long-time, thoughtful commenter.
Wait, what? It seems like this person is projecting their own problems on everyone else.

The realization that you're not a genius and that there are more competent people around and that programming is often not research but actually engineering, you should have that realization in your late teenage years or early twenties when you go to university or work hard on acquiring computer science skills.
And then you still quit and get better conditions elsewhere and realize you should've left long ago :p
> Do we actually want flying cars?

Agree. Not every improvement in technology is actual progress. Let's skip flying cars and wait for teleportation.
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The hardest problem is going to be noise, and electric propulsion is not the solution. Rotating blades are very effective noise generators, and the only alternative we have to rotating blades in some form or other are rockets.
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> Now that I have Google Fi I'm kicking myself for not getting the cell radio builtin as Google will send you a data only SIM for free!

Oh, I forgot Fi would send us this, thanks!

> I think MBP's build quality is nicer but otherwise I get twice the machine for the same price and get to develop on the same OS as my project primarily targets (Linux).

I just looked at the X1 carbon specs and my 3 year old MacBook Air is faster than the base model carbon and I spent about the same amount of money.

The build quality is huge for me as I spend 50+ hours a week directly-on or with peripherals cabled to my laptop. If I wanted, I could install a Linux on it, but really, OS X just works without having to fuss with it (e.g. trying to get the touchpad feel anywhere near as nice).

As for writing Go, isn't cross-compilation pretty good? I spend most of my time writing in VHLLs (js, python, etc) and OS X is (still, even after some iOS-direction changes) quite good as a dev environment -- spinning up a VM for when I need to compile something lower-level and test on a target OS is trivial.
Let me echo the issues with iOS since the upgrade to 7 with an example from my children. We decided when my youngest was 3 to buy both girls a new ipad mini. This allowed them to watch shows. Sometimes but not often we'd also let them bring the ipad on walks (if you have not had kids don't judge). I was amazed at how well our girls figured out how to load a movie or show. It was pretty easy for my 5 year old to figure this out. My 3 year old struggled but after a few times showing her where and how to click she got it. A few weeks/months go by and ios7 is released. The new "flat" (cough invisible UI) is released into the wild. I am from the always upgrade generation because it's exciting so we upgraded everything. my 3 year was very very upset. Simple things like finding the video playback icon were now nearly impossible, even my 5 year struggled. Well, the worst possible outcome for us was my 3 year throwing the ipad in frustration down the street (literally we were on a walk). It gave me a whole new perspective on UI change. I believe Apple has improved since ios7 a lot - however many deficiencies remain that make the UI challenging - the multiple touch / 3d touch features. For us specifically, the distinction between a show or movie that is downloaded vs one that is not is crazy confusing and having to navigate into settings to switch between showing movies that are not on the device and ones that are has led to near repeat incidents of smashed ipads... I'm not sure what the right answer is for Apple... they have put themselves into a hard position for "fixing" things. Many people have probably become accustom to the new designs and features so a rollback is not what's needed. I believe they are mostly doing the right thing at this point which is to refine and improve, i just hope they can fix the extremely confusing itunes interface...
myself was looking at the lg g5, mainly because it has recent android, as android hardware rarely receives updates. there's the pixel, of course, but that rear bulge :(
How is knowing something different "smarter" ? Its just another domain.
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