skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting experiment, but it all comes down to an effect at "p < 0.05." That's potentially a 1-in-20 chance of it being a meaningless fluke. Which given the very relaxed statistical standards in most behavioral studies isn't too surprising, but I thought in the "replication-crisis" era Nature at least would have more stringent requirements.
The commies wanted to build a society based on principles like equality but then some people turned to be more equal than others and corruption became so deeply rooted that it still plagues ex communist states today, 30 years after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
When you see startups blow millions a year on AWS spend because its "easy", when you could do the same on dedicated hardware for 1/10th or even 1/100th the price, it always shocks me.

Yes, queue the comments about "Total cost of ownership", past the point where you cant afford an OPs person(s) (which you will eventually need for AWS anyways) AWS is a money-sucking black hole.
As have I, going on 17 years now. The vast majority of programmers do not need this.
> Haskell doesn't really have the problems that are commonly associated with operator overloading.

Nobody said it did. People said that it has its own brand of problems with operators looking something like >>+@*<>> peppering your code.
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"In recent weeks, Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones has drawn national attention for vowing that his deputies will never carry Narcan because he doesn’t want them playing the role of paramedic."

This is one of the sickest, most disgusting, most disturbing, most inhumane things I have ever heard. I guess police are not satisfied with just shooting unarmed people, now they have to let sick addicts die. So they can save $50, an amount that would be even less if it could be negotiated by a program like Medicaid or Medicare. At least it finally confirms the fact that a lot of police, like Jones, would rather stand around, do nothing, and let the people they are supposed to serve and protect die while they watch. What a sick, disgusting mother fucker. No, there's isn't a word in the English language that even begins to describe this lowlife. And the give this piece of shit a fucking gun? I wonder how many he's murdered so far without impunity?
My immediate thought was more along the lines of companies that were built for acquisition -- either for the team or a technology (without business model).
> > you need to convince people it's a good idea

> Not when it really is a good idea

If you do IT at a company that isn't a tech company, you're usually going to be stuck in a situation where you have to convince a non-tech-head to make a technical decision that seems right to you. Since you don't have four years to teach them everything that got you to that point, you're going to need to give them high-level details.
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Sure :)

It really varied, depended a lot on the culture of the company itself. Some shops do anything their devs want while others simply ignore them and do whatever some exec decided to do.

The that interested me most was finding the reason why. Sometimes it was ridiculously silly.
>The one bright spot in the OSX/Dok outbreak -- There isn't much good to say about this rather sophisticated malware except for one thing: It's spreading through phishing emails and requires the user to download and run an executable to install it. As long as users aren't falling for the phish there's nothing to worry about.

The typical scare mongering about how OS X users are not immune, etc etc, and in the end it's just another trojan like always...
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What software development methodology/practices do you follow at work? Does it work well?
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Indeed - I can recall a time when I poked fun at a peer, and the peer got the joke and laughed, but his sycophants were outraged on his behalf.
>So either he has to engage in another endless discussion on the merits of the subject matter, or he has to shut the discussion down.

My question is now:

Why does it have to be an endless discussion on the merits, vs shutting the discussion down?

You can have a firm discussion on the merits without shutting it down.
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My guess is the second consists of pretending to do the first, so 'dishonesty'.
Well, there's a certain logic to it: The long version of the word, Mathematics, is a regular plural. So is it so strange for the shortened version Maths to also be a regular plural?

Edit: I was imprecise with my phrasing above, I really meant to say 'takes the form of (a regular plural)' instead of 'is' - I don't know if it is or is not technically a plural - the point was only that the shortened word 'Maths' follows the same form as the long version, which seems logically consistent.
Interesting perspective, but he assumes that everyone's experience will be his own. First of all, he was in LA. I don't know of many success angels down there.
>The commies wanted to build a society based on principles like equality but then some people turned to be more equal than others and corruption became so deeply rooted that it still plagues ex communist states today, 30 years after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.

So? The US also wanted to do the same (build a society based on "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"). The French too during their revolution. As did countless other revolutions besides the "commies".

Didn't end that bad for most of them, in fact that's how the modern world was build.

Would you rather we still had Kings and Pharaohs lest "some people turn to be more equal than others"?
Do you really think your MacBook firmware was not flashed in China?
How bout requiring opioid makers to pay for needed Narcan doses?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14734527

OpenBSD doesn't suffer the terrible churn and break-and-change-everything syndrome that makes the Linux UX so miserable. I can't compare it to FreeBSD, but I think OpenBSD can be more attractive for its focus on the head of development.
Interesting - I wonder what dependency they could have that prevents its use on MacOS. I run it on both Linux and Windows just fine. At the end of the day, it's just a Python program.
> It’s not the man’s fault – [...]

> [...]the issue that drives the success of the egg freezing industry has never been employer’s attitudes to motherhood, but instead, men’s. Even if it’s something that only strikes us as it becomes a reality, women know there is a time limit on our fertility. But it’s as if men are encouraged to ignore this icky truth, to look away as if from something obscene.

I fail to recognize how it's somehow a man's responsibility to recognize a woman's "time limit". It seems like this author is pining for some kind of Patriarchy Lite where men's primary goal in dating is to inseminate a woman for the sake of her eggs, and not so much for his own benefit. Just like nearly every one of these sorts of articles I've read, it fails to take into account the perspectives of men in the "man deficit". I can speculate to almost no end on why women might believe that there's a "man deficit", but I won't because plenty of men perceive a deficit of women, both in terms of archetypes and availability.

In summary, the author is sexist and views men as failures for not providing enough sperm for women's eggs, failing to take into account how in any way how such a setup benefits(or fails) men or why men would even agree to get married in the first place. The view that women have of fatherhood that this author is implying is much more twisted than how she thinks men view motherhood. Seriously, I'm supposed to take pity on women in the dating pool because their biological clock is ticking and therefore sacrifice my own desires? Hah.

> And here you have the men who learned at school to lose interest in a girl if she texts back too quickly.

I've never heard of this. Has anyone else here? Maybe this is specific to the UK? Seems pretty bizarre as I can't imagine boys in school teaching each other not to get together with girls.
If the problem you are solving doesn't map to being embarrassingly parallel then you will indeed have problems. This is not restricted to just "real-time", or more technically streaming DBs. Coordination has high overhead no matter what DB you are using.

Also, I don't see how their design avoids hot keyspace issues. Traditionally this is the main problem with partitioned designs because you move the problem one level up to properly designing the key that will be used to distribute the load across partitions.
Are any of those things issues at Angel stage?
There was once a CEO, and he was a fan of Apple, especially he liked Steve Jobs. So much so he wanted to imitate Steve Jobs. Out of all the excentric qualities Steve Jobs had, this CEO picked only that of being asshole. I imagine it was frustrating thinking here they are immigrating the great Steve Jobs and yet the company didn't grow, employees were quitting, customers were leaving because they never got features they were promised and so on.
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Fractional reserve banking doesn't really exist anymore. There are reserve requirements in many countries, but they exist in order to prevent the banks from holding too many liquid assets, rather than putting a ceiling on the amount of loans it can make.

But in Canada and the UK, the reserve requirement is zero.
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Yeah, there's obviously a cost involved. It's not something I'd want to do more than once within a project.
You vote for the parties in parliament. Then a government gets formed based on which party got the most votes. It's quite similar to Germany, which isn't a monarchy. However, the president of Germany is elected by Bundestag members and electors while the Queen is queen through birthright.
Is Sublime itself written in Python? Or is it mostly C++ with some Python hooks? If the latter, it'll be quite limited.

Leo is all Python, and you have access to all the internals. I'm sure there are design decisions in Leo that will make changing some aspects hard, though.
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In 2003 I had a perl script to query the job boards for keywords , scrap the result and send out an application email with CV attached to it (I took care to send one application to a single email). I think this was a legitimate form of spamming - at that moment the local job market was very bad.
Just a quick reminder folks, marriage is a cornerstone, not a capstone. You build your lives together.
Numberphile has a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbZCECvoaTA
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Good point. I've only spent a limited amount of time in startup space but it seems this intention is usually considered more as a possible path rather than an intention. It's a common accusation but seems outlandish and unnecessary to me.

If anyone thinks this is wrong, please say so. I'm interested.
"Pi Zero-based open-source mobile phone (that you can assemble for 50$ in parts)"

50$ for parts and 5000$ for your time. Oh well.. I'm sure some nerds will be excited ;-)
> McKinsey does have a pretty good understanding of where enterprises are investing time and money for strategic initiatives.

Isn't this just looking at investments in different areas and compiling a table?
All knowledge is social, because it exists in the heads of humans. The processes by which we communicate it to one another are unavoidably social. And this can change both the meaning and (especially) the choice of which knowledge is considered important.

This tends to cause problems with referer-refereant confusion. And people are not very good at spotting intrinsic or assumed knowledge. I learnt quite a lot about this from a guy who was trying to apply computational linguistics to chemistry papers; it turns out that even in this highly artificial environment the reader needs to infer things about chemicals mentioned from their pre-existing (socially constructed) knowledge.
What's with the fake obfuscation? Any reason to avoid saying simply "I worked for Disney"?
Zooko was talking about doing KYC/AML at the exchange level. He did not suggest to weaken the Zcash protocol:

https://mobile.twitter.com/zooko/status/863506504518914050
Is eul an electron app?
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There are cases for more performance as well, e.g. C's qsort vs C++'s std::sort - for the latter, the comparison function can be inlined (e.g. default less operator).
Thanks for that very good advise.

From what I hear, folks (not only here at HN) aren't really looking for speed, instead they look for features. I'm starting to look at performance less and less as something to strive for and more and more just a confirmation that the architecture is healthy.

Say my benchmarks are correct and I do in fact beat my closest competitor by some measurement. I'm thinking I should start utilizing that performance to achieve higher relevance, donate it if you will to that cause instead of the speed cause.

To me though, Lucene is not so much of a competitor as she is a role model. Well maybe she's both. My real competitor, some day, will hopefully be Elasticsearch. I've used versions 2 and 5. I'm underwhelmed.
Docker can distribute the software needed to run the job well, which is definitely part of the issue and something I should use more.

However, I also have in mind a pipeline of scripts where one script may be a prerequisite to the other. Condor has some nice abstractions for this by organizing the scripts/jobs as a directed acyclic graph according to their dependencies. I was thinking other batch systems might support this as well. But some of my challenge comes in learning how each batch system would run these DAGs. Each one will have some commands to launch jobs, to wait for a job to finish before running some other job, to check if jobs failed, to rerun failed jobs in the case of hardware failure, etc.

It seems like the DAG representation would contain enough detail for any batch system but there may be some nuances. For example, I tend to think of these jobs as a command to run, the arguments to give that command, and somewhere to put stdout and stderr. But Condor also will report information about the job execution in some other log files. Cases like this illustrate where my DAG representation (or at least the data tracked in nodes) might break down, but I haven't used these other systems like PBS enough to know for sure.
Another thought is that their best defense against an attack from South Korea is to keep the USA out of such a war, and that having the ability to seriously hit the USA is the easiest way to guarantee that.

They didn't need that ability earlier because they always had a big brother (always at least one of the USSR and China) that would do that "seriously hit the USA" part for them, if the USA supported South Korea in attacking them.

Nowadays, they can't be that sure about that support anymore. The USSR is gone, Russia has its own problems, and China seems to only support them because they don't like giving the USA more influence, not because they share a view on communism. The logical (in the logic of deterrence/arms races) conclusion is that they need their own capability for doing that.
If this is backed by a list of words and definitions, it seems easy to expand to other languages and subjects. Do you have any plans to do this?

If you have two friends right next to each other one could start a game, and share it via QR code on screen.
I think it is misleading to label "expected to be responsive within 24 hours during the work week" as "managed synchronously as if co-located". Sure, there are even looser arrangements that can work great for some contexts. And it's absolutely the case that norms vary. But "within 24 hours" more-or-less puts all timezones on the same footing and is pretty far from co-location.
I think you're right that in those instances you won't be able to spare feelings. My comment about "not making the other person feel bad about it" is probably wrong in that sense, since you can be empathetic and it still may result in the other person feeling badly (like in your examples).

Though I think those cases should be the exception to the norm.

As far as empathy getting in the way - I think in the firing example while managers often feel an urge to be empathetic in a misdirected way (i.e. "this decision is hard for me too") true empathy would be recognizing that if you were the one being fired there is no good way to state it and however difficult it is for you to fire them - it doesn't compare.

I guess to reframe it, it's more about thinking about how the other person will be affected and doing the best you can given the circumstance.
The trading domain knowledge can be found from various online resources. I used to make a 200+ slide powerpoint on the technical analysis aspect of trading but it is probably irrelevant now as markets had changed much since the introduction of algorithmic and high-frequency trading.

I was writing that script for Amibroker platform (https://www.amibroker.com) but I believe the market leader is probably something like MetaTrader (https://www.metatrader4.com). Also, for developers or software engineers familiar with Python, Quantopian might be something you'll enjoy using (https://www.quantopian.com).
This is cool. Always worth spending some time setting up psql.

In my psqlrc I also have a bunch of "macros" (unfortunately no parameters in psql) for common stuff like transaction handling and SET ROLE / RESET ROLE, lock monitoring etc.: https://github.com/hollobon/psqlrc/blob/master/psqlrc.conf
Some of it only works on <=9.4.
I disagree that these three things are the same: “that sucks!”, “you’re doing it wrong!”, “only an idiot would…”. Sometimes you really are doing things wrong, and I'd regard being told so as a kindness. The situation where I've seen it most commonly is when someone is learning to speak a language. If you don't correct them, they'll continue making mistakes. When someone corrects me I give serious thought to what they're saying.

In my last job I had lots of hour-long arguments with coworkers on different topics, many of which I ended up conceding the point. I'm incredibly appreciative of them having taken the effort to help me understand the their views, and convince me otherwise.

I think there's a lot of stigma on disagreeing with people. But I don't see why that should be the case. If you have an argument with someone and you both end up leaving with a better understanding of the problem, why is that a bad a thing? I've had plenty of discussions where I fundamentally disagreed with someone, only to go and later drink a few beers them. Just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean you hate or dislike them, and there's no reason to take it personally. It's fine for someone to hold different views than you own.

An example of this are hate-speech laws, which I'm thankful that the US doesn't have. Personally, I consider them horrible mistakes, but I respect that others disagree. FWIW, the reason I disagree with hate-speech laws is that I think you should be able to openly speak your mind on any topic, because it means you can have a discussion and learn from it. If you can't have an open discussion about some topic, you might never be presented with the opportunity to rise above whatever might've lead you to some terrible belief.

I've certainly said a lot of stupid things online, and every time I've been called out on them I think I've grown and learned a bit. I have no doubt I'll continue saying stupid stuff, because in many cases I won't know any better, and I fully hope that others will call me out on it.
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I think it's funny, at least in this case :D.
Seals what? People talking about big ideas that are hard to solve?
I would argue that the first computer verified proof in some sense changed the mathematical aesthetic.
Do you want a secession? Because this is how you can get things to a secession. The law of the land applies to everyone, and the only way to have a law applicable equally to two groups with conflicting interests is to force one or both of them to sometimes do things they don't want.

A half-way solution is a confederation, Switzerland-style. Weak central government, large variation in laws between cantons. Good luck trying to pull power back from a central government, and make people of California agree that people of Alabama should be allowed to live according to their [add derogatory terms] principles, and vice versa.
While its nice that people consider the needs of other people, it also sends a social message.

To make a comparison, what if a IT company which had a similar ratio of male employees to female as this mall has female visitors to male, would make a "girlfriend waiting area that is designed for women"? Would it be a considerable and thoughtful idea, or would it be perceived as sending a sexist message?

Can't it be both a sexist message and a thoughtful and considerable act that benefit people directly?
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> While economics has issues, this is an unfair assessment.

It's the truth.

> Entire nations base economic policy based on much economic theory.

Sure. Just like in the past entire nations based their economy/society on religion.

> That is as predictive as you can get, betting with real stakes.

No. That's called "gambling". It isn't predictive. It isn't science.

> Choosing good or poor economic policy results in predictions either way.

You are mistaking what I mean by "predictive". I meaning in the sense of science where assertions are made and if it fails, the theories/laws are gotten rid of. It is empirically and predictive based where you can test it.

Imagine a religious society. A priest says, if everyone prays to god, then we will have a great harvest. Everyone prays but we get terrible harvest. What's the priest's response? People didn't pray hard enough.

Economics is the same. If an economic model fails, they blame politics/the people/weather/whatever. A socialist/communist economists will cling to their beliefs and say no "true" form of socialist economics system has been created yet. There isn't a "test" to definitively show on or the other. That's what I mean.
Not really.

Burner phones should be cheap and off the shelf.
You can use a custom rom, with an open radio.
If Qualcomm, QXDM/QPST to modify radio rom settings including modifying ESN/MEID/IMEI/Bluetooth Serial, etc.

You pick a off the shelf model that's easy to unlock, and flash.

You customize your own rom, and flash it. You eliminate all possible vectors of "hacks" e.g. oem apps and downloaded APK'.

Then the telecom service itself is where it'd e most vulnerable, in fingerprinting your geophysical location and such.

You can modify the GPS, to throw it off, sure. That's already done with rooted devices and you can eve thrown in a few mile obscurity, but, the tower location will ultimately pinpoint you through triangulation.
> at the time of these negotiations, generating sales equal to the size of the deal every month and generating after-tax profits close to the size of the deal every quarter.
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