skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not claiming any degree of accuracy in the estimates, just that without tricking yourself in to think you're being rigorous you can achieve pretty much the same results. I outlined the mechanism that I think these 'counters' are actually achieving results by in spite of their atrocious data collection.

I can't believe people are defending such poor data collection practices. You'd be all over it if someone else was selling their results based on such inaccurate data but in this case it's fine?

If you're going to call it counting you need to be accurate.
Yes. I was originally /u/cperciva on Reddit, but forgot the password for that account a few months in and created /u/perciva.

And yes, I'm coming to the end of my fourth 3-year term on the Senate, and about to submit my nomination papers seeking re-election for a fifth term.
Hopefully they can do it in many countries later on in the future
SREcon '16: 3 good sessions on SRE
None of our technicians drive tow trucks. You can see some of them, and their reviews here: https://www.fiix.io/mechanics
It wouldn't surprise me - a lot of the stuff they use to identify a malware source just isn't that accurate. Anyone can buy a server from the other side of the world, anyone can put strings in another language into malware and anyone can target a source country starting from a specific provider or VPN.
No, you're not understanding the context in which to apply this; this isn't something you do at the app level, it's something you do at the feature level. The app is always well structured and well factored, but when adding a feature, you start dirty, get it working, then clean it up, and then optimize it if required, then move on to the next feature. This model works for all sized projects, all the time. The point of doing things dirty is to avoid premature architecture/abstraction which is a bad habit many programmers have.

Now if you have the experience to know beforehand what abstractions you need because you've done this many times, of course you can start cleaner; you do things dirty when you're unsure of what abstractions you might need and don't want to get hung up in trying to invent an abstraction before you know you need it.
I think Microsoft may be wildly underestimating the amount of goodwill this sort of thing costs them. Windows has been steadily losing ground to OS X, Linux, iOS and Android, and a big part of that is its reputation for being the platform stuffed with ads in places they don't belong. (Because of malware and OEM crapware, mostly). What happens if you're an OS X user considering switching back, and you look over someone's shoulder and see these ads? You conclude that Windows hasn't escaped its terrible past.
Accounting is complicated. For example, let's say you buy a box for $50, pay it right away, then sell the box and deliver it on December for $100, but the buyer only pays you in January.

Then you need to publish your results for this year. How do you do it?

P&L statement:

Revenue: $100

Costs: $50

Profit: $50

Cash flow statement:

Cash from sales: $0

Cash paid to suppliers: $50

Net cash flow: -$50

So you had a negative cash flow, but was profitable.
This is a great idea. Google is like on Aderall lately.
Great service, Great Company, Great Leadership.
If you collected statistics about immigrants on college campuses and immigrants in the back of a squad car you'd find they got here from very different places and on very different visas (or lack of visa).

In fact, if you were to collect samples of natural born American citizens in the same two sets of places you'd reach the exact same biased conclusions about Americans.

What conclusions are you referring to, in particular?
What version of Node.js is currently running in Cloud Functions for Firebase? I assume it's LTS?
Ask HN: What are opensource/SAAS products for building ChromeWebStore-like site?
I want to build a website (the less coding the better) where people could submit their extensions for my application.

Minimal required features are:
* sign-in
* submit extension info (name, description, screenshot)
* browse and rate other extensions
* moderation
There's a board game called "Robot Turtles" that's designed to teach programming concepts to kids. I was initially pretty skeptical, but our preschooler loves it.
According to article, lack of confidence was NOT the issue in play.

So this is more about you making assumption
I am generally sympathetic to your view that a lot of women do things that actively alienate men, but you come across here as having baggage and just wanting to vent, not discuss the actual points of this actual article.

So, I think this is sort of the pot calling the kettle black.
> Having personal political opinions has nothing to do with Wikileaks impartiality.

No, but it is real suspicious.
Yes, now I don't have to buy a reserved EC2 instance for my web site. This will finally push me over to the Google ecosystem.
Running MONITOR in production can severely affect performance, by 50% per monitoring client according to the documentation.

twemproxy independently exposes some statistics, it's probably safer to do it that way.
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the phrase is made as an accusation. "you benefited from privilege" which means "you have unearned advantages" which means "you don't deserve what you have".
No idea - I'd like to think they have plenty of skin in the game still.
There's no scenario, just people claiming luxury smartphones are essential tools for living. Don't but words in my mouth or erect straw men.
> The narrative that illegal immigrants are all criminals is deeply flawed and inaccurate.

Illegal immigrants are, by definition, all criminals.
Hah, definitely. Just ordered some rolls of 120 Velvia and Provia today for my Mamiya, in fact.
I don't know if London would be a good choice due to Brexit. Maybe Amsterdam instead.
And I can agree with that. I don't agree they they are impartial politically.
Firebase offers a lot, but it's no longer the only game in town that offers a sorta-serverless baas. Here are some compelling alternatives (I'd love to see a complete list of the best Firebase alternatives):

- https://www.syncano.io

- https://www.graph.cool

- https://www.backand.com

I'm omitting things like feathers.js b/c the most attractive feature of Firebase-like tools is not having to manage your own server/database.
Nothing about "active command and control servers" is strongly attributable.

They aren't signing them with Russian government certificates or running them from Russian government IPs.

They're buying servers or VPN connections on public providers. The notion of "strong attribution" in and of itself is basically impossible in the field of malware unless someone steps up and shows you the source. Those are things anyone can do. They're only doing a probabilistic analysis assuming no one else knows them, which makes many very large assumptions - like no one else wanting to fake Russian malware.

He comes off quite partisan in my opinion - his Twitter pretty much confirms it as he compares Wired to Brietbart. I wouldn't listen to a word this guy says on the topic.
I'm curious more generally why would somebody use Lambda at all? Surely its far more expensive than running on your own servers (or instances), no?
> Google Drive and Dropbox have shown in the past that they're fine with you storing copyrighted content, you just can't share copyrighted content through their platform.

Is there some kind of reference you can point at to support this pretty wild claim?

Even if true, this seems the kind of informal policy that could change on a whim.
>I obviously think that Chaffetz's comment was roughly as idiotic as you'd expect from Jason Chaffetz

And that time Obama made a similar argument, you thought he was just as idiotic as well right?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/07/chaffetz-hit-for-...
This is a stale thread now, but I have to share this.

At my first programming job (certainly not my first job, but first in technology) I had a female manager who was incredible. She and I were the only women in the group with 15 or so men.

She was highly respected by everyone in the group for her leadership and technical expertise, and she managed to juggle leading her team with being a great mom to her kids. She showed me that as a woman there was nothing standing in the way of my career, and that down the road balancing family priorities was possible.

I'm grateful everyday for her example and the lessons she unwittingly taught me. Hopefully one day I'll be as awesome as she is!
Efficiency certification going to be regulated pretty soon for safe flight permit so this would open a pretty big market for services, training of certificators and our novel universal efficiency benchmark, we think.
I'm curious does Canada require bachelor degree for this type of visa or not?
When I was a boy in the 80s it was still common. My parents didn't smoke, so I loved going on planes, or into restaurants & hospitals (!) to smell smoke. I'm sad that we've lost that culture.
And you solve that problem structurally. Saying boys will be boys is not how you fix things.
I of course do not have any say over other people's feelings, and I think it's obvious that asking someone to strive for something is not the same as forcing them. But the belief that women deserve equal rights is also not just a feeling, it's a core principle that you either agree with or you don't. What I am recommending (not demanding) is that people try to separate feelings and principles, so that your morals aren't determined by who has been nice to you recently.
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Given that current jail conditions are dismal as best, I see no reason for private companies to not offer for-pay incarceration services that solve these problems. This is no different than private companies offering delivery services because USPS sucks, or private transportation companies existing because bus infra simply isn't good enough. If a judge considers these options prison-like enough, then I see no reason they cannot exist.

Does it suck because not everyone can afford it? Sure

Does that mean we should just screw everyone equally simply to claim we're fair? IMHO no. Not unless you also want to close down UPS, FedEx, and Greyhound. And not unless you are willing to come out and openly say that YOU consider rape, abuse, and neglect to be an official part of our rehabilitation strategy (because that is all that county and federal prisons excel at)
It's silly that they have a system that pressures you into lying.
This is what I instantly thought of too. Will be keeping a close eye on this!
who is "a woman" and "a man"? statistics are not the same thing as individuals.
I'm not using Snap either.
I was excited for a second, but nothing has changed from what was there already...$300 credit that can be used within 12 months. Am I mistaken?
I like it, but I would primarily use it from my phone. Currently your styles break on anything smaller than an ipad.

If you cleaned up mobile a bit, I'd use this.
I don't argue that statistical analysis can be distorting, in fact, of course it can be. All data collection of any sort is at best a limited picture of what we think is reality. But that doesn't make aggregates useless because outliers exist. Just because Stanford freshman swimmer Katie Ledecky is faster than some Olympic gold medal-winning mens relay teams [0] doesn't invalidate the observation that the average man is a faster swimmer than the average woman.

In the GP, I don't think he's making a "well-considered" call for "greater clarity." He's using the fact that because he lacks self-confidence, that focusing on women as a group is bullshit, as if the purported problems that women face are only substantial once it can be proven that all women are worse than all men.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/katie-ledecky-is-the-pr...
That is why I said "with moderate success". It's not 100% reliable, but mostly good enough for basic cases. Twitter, for example, used to do an NFC normalization and count codepoints to enforce the 140 charcater limit, and this was close enough to or exactly right for enforcing 140 graphemes in probably 98% of text on Twitter. They can no longer do this because some new emoji can consume 7 codepoints for a single grapheme.
Yeah, you know what ol' saw applies here?

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Lots of men have a shitty time in the workforce, in life, or whatever, and individually they probably don't do as well as a given woman. But that's not the point.

None of these broad trends mean anything when you look at an individual. The individual is a molecule in a gas.

(And I can't quite figure out why someone would read a piece on trends and immediately go to "but what about MEEE?" ... the whole thing is based on large-scale data, not the individual, so what about you? Nothing about you. This isn't about you.)
The biggest argument against vape is lack of tests regarding sold liquids. Cant remember which polyphenol is cited. otherwise vape liquids are still said to be hundred of Times less concentrated in carcinogens.
My experience with TripleByte is worse than I have had with recruiters emailing me.

I tried going through TripleBytes process and answered the programming quiz. Then TripleByte changes their policy stating that I must do a project before I can proceed. I stopped the process there.

Then after awhile when I try to login and try again after a few months it says that I am in some kind of pending state which I can't get out of. I gave up on the service after that.
Here's what I want: To take my car to a gleaming, state of the art repair facility with every tool I could ever need, staffed by auto mechanic "coaches" who will help me repair my car myself.
As a concept "privilege" is useless except as rhetoric to get what you want against your supposedly more privileged enemies.

I think your defending language is sloppy here: ""Male privilege" doesn't mean "your life must be great", it means on average you have more and better opportunities that may or may not result in a better life."

That's not what it is supposed to mean at all, it's supposed to mean men on average (not you as a man on average) have better opportunities etc., and that on observing that you are a man, knowing nothing else about you, I can infer in a bayesian way that you are more likely than not to have better opportunities etc. There are many things I can infer depending on what my priors are and what I learn about you. But when dealing with individuals, priors on such broad factors like race/gender/religion become useless very quickly since you learn so many more specific details about the individual that are far more important than those broad attributes. Additionally not all attributes have the same distribution. So what if the average man has more opportunities etc. if when you look at the distribution no individual man fits the average? Distributions matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet

Drilling into the concept, "privilege" is nothing more than "attributes" we happen to find external positive correlations for. There are many, many such attributes, people are multi-dimensional complex beings, and there are many attribute combinations that interfere both constructively and destructively. What annoys me more than "privilege" advocates focusing so much on broad attributes like gender (and trying to instill feelings of guilt -- you might not do it but it is very common) is ignoring the equally valid concept of "detriment" (except sometimes in the special case of having "not this privilege"), i.e. attributes for which you can find negative correlations. Note that many attributes have both! Being tall is nice because you can reach high things, but sucks because flying anywhere is basically mini-torture. And there are many more positive and negative correlations I can list, just for being tall. This gives me prior information for inference when I observe a tall person, but my inferences should not be very strong because of all the other attributes I don't know about or am not considering.
Dude, what are you talking about? That triangle you outlined is virtually all of East Menlo Park that isn't office space. Anything south of 101 is not EMP (and generally pretty nice).

Have you been in the area in the last 30 years? There hasn't been a homicide anywhere in Menlo Park since 2012.
People far outside of the exclusion zone where harmed, though generally in minor ways. Further, the improvements in cancer treatment have reduced the number of deaths expected which makes analysis even more difficult.

However, a larger consideration is the economic damage from Chernobyl caused a even more indirect harm. Now, some of this was arguably an overreaction. But again, the cleanup effort is a large part of why the direct harm has been so small. Without that it's a very different situation.
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> I don't know a single person, and I know a good number of Trump voters, who is opposed to legal immigration. What many people, myself included, are opposed to is the illegal part

If you are only opposed to the illegal part and not the immigration part, it's relatively easy to fix: just better align the supply of visas with demand. There's a number of obvious things you could do to achieve that:

(1) Keep by-category caps but eliminate per-country caps within each visa category entirely, or

(2) Keep existing caps, but allow immigrants qualified in existing immigrant visa categories to pay an (initial and annual) additional fee to skip the line and get a "supernumerary visa".

(3) Allow people who aren't barred entry but who aren't qualified in a y existing immigrant category to pay an (initial and annual) additional fee to enter on a special visa.

Obviously, if what one has a problem with is immigration and the "illegal" part is a smokescreen, then one will be less likely to support reforms which address illegality without aiming to reduxe overall immigration.
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I failed the 3rd round interview because I hadn't studied garbage collection. C# handles it for me, I could have learned, I just hadn't prioritized that yet and folks want to say now you aren't very senior. I was told I could apply again, but haven't been offered a chance to even after a couple of follow ups. The problem that ultimately stumped me in the 3 round was the exercise of drawing a spiral in a console window. Sounds easy, but when you are timed and nervous, almost impossible. After I bombed the 3rd round knowing the rejection was coming, I ended up successfully implementing it in Excel and VBA. Good coders are like a snowflake and I think TripleByte doesn't have a business if they buy that.
Quickening and impeding the heart just makes it work harder to get the same job done. Why wouldn't we think this has similar effects to mild exercise on long term CV performance?
The $300 previously only applied for 60 days.
Not specific to inmates, but in general, yes, investors are willing to make money from buying unwanted life insurance policies. http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/07/unwanted_policies...
With the EPA soon gone I think life in the US will be quite unbearable for a lot of people.
You are so wrong here. Trump beat the entirety of the Republican and Democratic machine with a totally new playbook in American politics.

He didn't have a traditional ground game in states. He didn't spend money on the traditional unit of persuasion, the 30 second ad spot.

He ran a very lean, very virtual campaign. He used guerrilla tactics to get free media, quite masterfully in my opinion.

Compare Trump to Bernie Sanders. Sanders outraised Hillary and spent more on 30 second TV ads. He ran a traditional, better funded campaign and lost.

Trump took on every incumbent and broke every rule and won.

Sam is right here and his comment was insightful.

You sir, are engaging in very reactionary politics, and have no right to tell Sam Altman what he should or should not do.
Ah, I guess the benefit of "pushing" a tab shows in stateful applications or something, so it keeps the same "state" on the new device? Or, does it keep the same distance scrolled down the page so you can pick up where you were?

I'm confused because I open desktop session links from my mobile all the time and I'm curious if there's features I'm missing out on by pushing from one device to another, instead of syncing.

For example, if I open Chrome, I see the tabs open across all my other computers[1] and I usually just resume relevant tabs from there. It keeps me logged in, but sometimes reverts things like filters or sorting (on-page JS) unless it is part of the URL. It doesn't scroll me where I was in a page either, which would be nice.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/MgPCMy2.png
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Yea sorry, what i meant was encryption keys should (generally / always) be stored client-side...
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I didn't even bat an eye. This was probably because this is completely sensible and logical in a libertarian/anarchist society. The concept is expanded in other works of dystopic fiction.

You pay for the best jail you can afford. If you are found innocent, your accuser/prosecutor has to reimburse your costs. If you are found guilty, you have to pay restitution to your victims (or their still-living representatives), and the justice service provider handling your case will take whatever measures may be appropriate to protect their subscribers from you after your release. If you can't immediately make restitution, there may be a supervised work program around that will help you finance your jail boarding and court judgments. Or maybe the judge will work out a deal to reduce your weregeld bill, perhaps in exchange for something like submitting to a specific torture, or having a warning tattooed across your forehead.

If you're a really hard case, you just get named outlaw, and someone kills you for the bounty.

For most people, instead of paying taxes to a county, you would pay a subscription fee to a company that provides all-in-one security, dispute resolution, arbitration, rehabilitation, and property and casualty insurance. You might pay $99/month to a reseller agent of Brinks Allstate, and your neighbor might pay $119/month directly to Alfa Pinkertons through their website. If your kid's bike gets stolen, the cop-adjuster comes by to take your report, helps you file your claim, and determines whether it would be cost effective to investigate and prosecute. If they do, and it turns out your neighbor's cousin was operating a bike theft ring out of their garage, the Alfa Pinkertons arrest him, put him in their jail, and provide him with defense counsel. Brinks Allstate and Alfa Pinkerton have a pre-existing extradition agreement in place, engage Wopner-Brown-Scheindlin as their arbitration subcontractor, who in turn sub-subcontracts some jurors from YourPeers. (You might also need to have a separate justice provider through your workplace.)

After the neighbor is found guilty, he has to pay back the cost of reimbursing the bike owners. Perhaps a few of them are willing to buy their stolen bikes back with [a portion of] their insurance money. Until his checks clear, he stays in the Alfa Pinkerton jail's sweatshop, working off that debt at $X/hour. After he's out, he goes right back to being that creepy guy living above your neighbor's garage, and his credit score goes back up with that "RESTITUTION PAID IN FULL" line on his report.

As bad as this all sounds, our actual, real-life criminal control system is in some ways worse.
Beyond the policies, there's also a signaling problem. I know several people who have taken a pass on U.S. jobs because of the uncertainty and growing anti-immigrant rhetoric. And they definitely don't trust the average American not to lump them in with targeted groups by virtue of being brown.
It literally contains the excerpt I quoted from it. I don't think the section you quote contradicts that. Graham is also fairly critical of a number of other assertions in the WL press release.