skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how little epistemological support

An introduction with links (caveat Frontline): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/forensic-tools-wha...

Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009), Summary: https://www.nap.edu/read/12589/chapter/2 This https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581003/ puts it in more recent context.

> arson spread

For example: "Progress" In Fire Investigation: Moving from Witchcraft and Folklore to the Misuse of Models and the Abuse of Science[2](PDF; not as good as the title; depressing) from [3].

> how little interest there is

One challenge is the forensic expert "system" is extremely heterogeneous. In funding, honesty and integrity, professionalism, research, oversight and regulation.

> how important is this kind of evidence in most trials

And since most "trials" are plea bargains, how important in pleas?

And the US plea bargain system is its own pit of systemic dysfunction.

[2] http://www.firescientist.com/Documents/PROGRESSIN%20FIRE%20I...
[3] http://www.firescientist.com/publications.php
I texted a GIF from my Pixel and it was really blocky, even at the highest setting. It doesn't look bad during playback or when uploaded to Photos though.

Is this an MMS issue or something?
This is a great answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14816423
The main failures of Piaget's work is that it assumes a smooth progression in reasoning facilities with age and secondly, that its notion of formal operations rests too much on deductive logic. But humans do not really reason logically: affirming the consequent and denying the antecedent are fallacies often encountered. However, as the 19th century logician Peirce once stated, Not the smallest advance can be made in knowledge beyond the stage of vacant staring, without making an abduction at every step.

A famous counter-example is an abstract selection task which adults fail with high probability. Yet, when a structurally identical set of rules are given to ~9 years olds but couched in the language of permission, the children are able to pass with high probability. Stating the rules in terms of what the individual has experience with (or altering the linguistic phrasing) significantly increases the probability of solving much more than adjusting the age. So we have that on one hand, people develop capacities sooner (and more unevenly) than his theory supposed and that on another, some stages of reasoning aren't ever reached.

amasad is wrong to imply that the field has not progressed beyond the ideas of Piaget. Although, people do often get the important parts of Papert's ideas wrong by focusing too much on the computer part of computer-based learning. The computer should be a means to an end, a tool to help the learner explore more possibilities, make the abstract more graspable and amplify one's ability to ask better questions.
Just did it, thanks so much!
“Let’s Stop Using Ankle Bracelets to Monitor Offenders”, Says Its Developer
And the links look different than the non hyperlink text. Sure,they look like highlighted text, and some people might not like that (I do), but at least they look different! Many sites nowadays make you guess where the links are.
"Will you stop saying we can't do product now?"
This is definitely part of it. They had a location in Orlando. The only companies here large enough to be able to train entry level coders are the exact same companies who wouldn't hire a junior without an accredited degree in a relevant field - basically large military contractors.

The consultancy I used to work for passed on quite a few Iron Yard candidates because we were too small to have a place for them.
I'd love to specifically describe what wouldn't be published. However, last time I wrote about one of them on HN I was very quickly flagged.
Baawaahhh!!!!
That sums it up pretty well. I took a pay-cut to work at TIY. I did it for reasons other than money, obviously. But it's hard to find senior engineers who:

1. Are willing to put their career on hold to teach

2. Are capable of communicating in that capacity

3. Can deal with the intensity of a code-bootcamp for very long
>Because the BindgenUnionField is zero sized, a pointer to it is a pointer to the beginning of the struct

Is that a stable assumption?
The high level idea is that it's a redistribution mechanism, and then reclaimed via. taxation. For example, say everyone gets a check for $1000 each month. This is just like getting money from anywhere else - you have to pay taxes on it. If you're making $3000/month from your other jobs, your income is now $4000/month, and you pay taxes accordingly. People with higher incomes would ultimately subsidize people with lower incomes. So a basic income could be implemented without changing taxes, or even with lowering taxes.

Some benefits of basic incomes:

- Social programs are massively inefficient and politicized, whereas just sending everyone a check each month would be much simpler.

- If automation rapidly reduces the demand for workers, you could end up with a large group of unemployed people who just experienced a big change in standard of living. This is how revolutions happen.

- You raise the floor of where a person can fall. That is, you ensure that everyone can afford basic food and medicine. This in turn I suspect would mean less crime, due to a less desperate population.

Potential downsides:

- There are people who can't take care of themselves, and we'll still need social programs for them.

- If basic income is too high, people who would otherwise work will stop working, and if it's too low, it's not effective. One risk is that we see changing lifestyles - for example, if you wanted to spend your days biking around the country, you could easily do that on $1000/month. I know some people who would be happy with a laptop hacking on OSS all day - maybe good for society, but perhaps not for the GDP.

- It could be used just to inflate down peoples standard of living slow enough that there's not a revolution.
Not for medical issues. You, or I, or anyone else on here doesn't get to say she doesn't have PTSD. That's up to a doctor.
Its really nice. One important thing to note is that it is just the UI and you need to have the mongo in the path to get it work.
The entire purpose of notifications is to bring urgent and/or time-sensitive things to your attention. If you're getting notifications you don't want, it's on you to turn them off.
I like my Herman miller aeron. Buy one used or refurbished.
http://www.apollo.edu/
Typical response from a man is that I'm a great catch; she just doesn't know that she wants me. Once she's had sex with me she'll marry me.

It's worse than that. For various reasons, some men are actively more interested if you reject them. It is a little bit like the principle that running from a bear will incite its chase instinct.
This article got so many upvotes just because it's wrotten by Twitch's founder.
Point 3 is overly pessimistic, but firing is a lot more difficult than not-hiring, so there's good reason to be careful.
> I don't want my phone to fill up with battery-guzzling nagware

...Then don't? You control what you install.
The sad thing is that all higher level education in the U.S. is for profit. 30 years ago you could go to an average state college for $4,000 a year, that cost is roughly 10x as much.

Where has all the money gone? Take a look at the salaries of school presidents, administrators, coaches, even professors, especially their pensions and benefits programs. Its as if all our non-profit institutions are really profit hungry corporations in disguise, and the "shareholders" are the administrators who control them.
I know the US is not the world but since we are discussing Iron Yard, it's worth pointing out that the private sector in the US is almost exclusively at-will employment.
> Information is no longer power, information is a threat.

Information is still power, you have just pointed out that information dissemination is much more democratized than it has been in the past.

Those who choose to peddle snake oil or completely fabricated news have always had a platform ("yellow news" of the Hearst publication hayday), it used to be guarded by very few gatekeepers. Now, the internet is rife with blogs posing as news corps, "satire" sites that don't bother to try to be funny, social media full of what used to be chain letters, and {AM radio, podcasts, YouTube videos} of fringe conspiracy theorists. These people always had a channel for their information, only those fringe channels weren't widely subscribed. Now, InfoWars / Alex Jones and ABC News have the same footprint on social media, making lesser informed information consumers think they are equally acceptable options.
Case in point: plain HTML gmail is more far responsive than both Inbox and regular AJAXy gmail.
Reader view is a good start but it needs to be extended. As a user I want to be able to turn it on universally and opt out for certain sites, or at least make it the default on some sites.

When I rebuilt my blog (http://flukus.github.io/) I tried to build it with reader mode in mind but it's hard, there are some hidden heuristics to trigger it's availability, you need a paragraph with at least 67 characters or something like that. So the articles work in reader mode, but the index doesn't. It doesn't work at all on file:// paths, so not great for proof reading.

As a developer I'd love to be able to put a meta tag in the page to always turn it on. There are a million other ways they could improve it too. I hope this is the future of the web.
You cannot access internet information from the evm. All data must be in the blockchain. Any transaction, ie smart contract execution, must be on immutable data inside the chain.
Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen* and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!

-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
reminds me of this joke from a lecture Lawrence Krauss gave in 2009 of his work in 'A Universe From Nothing':

> it was made after the discovery that on a log log plot everything is a straight line(o)

i'd recommend the entire lecture, but definitely at least check out the anecdote this joke bookends

it is about hubble's original 1929 embarrassing failed attempt to calculate the rate of the expansion of the universe(i)

(o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&t=18m25s

(i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo&t=12m55s
Central limit theorem only yields normality when the source distributions have defined variance, otherwise they go to levy alpha.
Except that people are generalizing from that to all humans, starting with the subtitle of the article we're discussing.
LOL. Have an upvote.
http://blog.theironyard.com/2015/07/02/the-iron-yard-strateg...
Normally, if you deal with money, then you try to be extremely careful, right? You have to care much about security, verify that your app is not vulnerable, make an audit etc.

And I think that even beginners know that you can't trust users' input - you have to sanitize it. And under no circumstances you want to execute it!

But here it is the opposite, isn't it? You basically give users ability to run any code within your application (blockchain). And you give them very insecure, confusing and badly designed language.

To me it is an epitome of insecurity. It is like giving a shotgun to a child!
It is absolutely unacceptable that anyone can revoke any domain's cert by presenting a fake private key that doesn't cryotographically match to the cert.

This makes me wonder how easy it would be to social engineer getting Symantec to revoke a third party's cert, even if you don't have the private key, just by having a talented person on a phone with faked outgoing caller ID via SIP trunk. See: Mitnick's Art of Deception book for examples.
This title is a very strong exaggeration. It's actually feasible for someone to start working on Artificial Immortality right now, but this article is just talking about making a chatbot that sounds like his dad.
Well, after all, he worked for the FBI.
I feel about the same, why should private car ownership be subsidized? See:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/driving...
You realize you linked to an article refuting an opinion I did not put forth, right? Having fiduciary duty to shareholders doesn't mean maximizing current stock price at any cost and I very specifically said that it does not.

The article you linked touches on this.

"Delaware (like other states) applies the business judgement rule to protect directors of corporations that reduce profits and share price when directors claim this will ultimately help the corporation."

Things that help the corp do increase long term shareholder value. If you limit "shareholder value" to mean "current stock price", then sure, that's not fiduciary duty. But that's a really shallow view of shareholder value.
I would need to know what the actual task is, but isn't that obvious? If I ask adults "What's 2+2" in a language they don't understand and I ask the same question to children in their native language, the children will look smarter than the adults.
Not directly relevant to the article, but I love Bret's previous work in UX and data visualization[1].

[1] https://worrydream.com
The links that others have provided are good, but the way I think about this is basically that the scale of a process basically sets the order of magnitude at which it occurs. We tend to think of processes that have a particular scale, which makes power laws somewhat unintuitive (even though there are also lots of scale-free processes in ordinary life, too). So, cars have a natural scale, since they have to fit people inside them. So the distribution of car sizes is pretty limited --- you aren't going to find cars that are microns long, and you won't find cars that are kilometers long.

But if something can happen at any given scale, the distribution must operate very differently. The distribution can't pick out any favorite size to work at --- some fraction of events must happen at every possible scale. So, if we're looking at the distribution of stellar luminosities, then there will be some stars which are as bright as the Sun, some which are 1% as bright as the Sun, and some which are 100 times as bright as the Sun. And since the star formation process doesn't have any preferred scale, then the number of Solar luminosity stars to stars which are 1% as luminous as the Sun must be about the same as the number of stars which are 100 times as bright as the Sun to the number of Solar luminosity stars. it's perfectly fine for the distribution to prefer dimmer or brighter stars because this doesn't end up introducing a preferred scale --- it just tilts the slope of the distribution (which is a line on a log-log graph).

I'm not a mathematician, so I'm not sure if these statements are true in any rigorous sense, but in practice scale-free processes tend to produce power laws in the universe.
Well said! I grew up reading Sherlock Holmes, and enjoyed it, but I recently revisited some stories and was enraged by how much general BS there as in all the inferences. Just a bunch of ridiculous (often not even true) stereotypes slapped together and an infallible hero spouting them.

The books would have caused a thousands kinds of outrage had they been written today.
A "churn" metric would show if a given piece of code is getting changed frequently. That can identify hot spots in the code.
While I agree with the idea that the CIA abuses power, techniques that enable effective communication are a HUGE advantage. Knowing how to write in a way that other people can actually understand (and take action on) is absolutely advantageous (as is any other technology that reduces miscommunication). Of course at this point in time you can take a course like Little Red Schoolhouse and come away with many, many practical actions you can take to improve the clarity of your written communication, so probably in effect is has already been declassified.
Cool man, I'll be trying this out.
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I didn't attack you personally, I commented on the content of your comment.
Announcing the Winners of the Media Lab Disobedience Award
Sad to see Alexandra Elbakyan didn't make it!
Any iOS guy interested in partnering on a journaling app with a unique twist?
I would take care of the backend and frontend but I need someone who does the iOS app.
If interested shoot me a message or email so we can discuss.
Nassim Nichalas Taleb doesn't have many nice things about the bell curve in his Black Swan book.
There are a great number of excellent reasons not to be in Detroit, as a business or an individual. The taxes are outrageous, the government is corrupt, the people who could afford to leave have all but left, the infrastructure is even worse than you'd expect given the ratio of revenue to services. 90% of murders go completely unresolved. That is, out of every ten people killed, and there are a lot, the perpetrators in nine of those murders will likely walk completely free. I don't know how anyone gets by, except perhaps in the gated communities, and in the communities which have organized more closely despite the odds. Even there, the shallow/immediate opportunities are effectively gone.

You truly can not expect many with another option to choose Detroit as it stands. My family on my mother's side grew up there, and it seems it's really breaking their heart to see it today. My mother holds on to hope that the artists will somehow "save" Detroit, which could be somewhat true. I'm of the opinion that nothing will save Detroit until it is so bad that the politicians no longer get anything for their corruption and excess.
Have you ever looked at the definition of assault and sexual assault? Because those words have meanings, and typically definitions of sexual assault include groping as an example. Not just "sexual harassment and a stressful situation".
Or you know, instead of that content-less juvenile rant, we could actually talk about the merits and the disadvantages of JS as a platform like real software engineers.

For example you've missed facts like:

1) Javascript as a language is not really that worse or better than any other popular language. C++ has its complexity issues, C has its undefined behavior and foot-guns, PHP, Python and Ruby have their share of warts, Java has slow progress and the crappy over engineering ecosystem, etc.

It's a dynamic language with crappy coercion rules and a few bad decisions, but also great expressiveness.

2) Javascript has great vendor support, and the fastest dynamic JITs and interpreters bar none, not from one, but for 4 major vendors (Apple, Google, MS and Mozilla). Python, PHP, Ruby, et al don't even come close, even with things like PyPy.

3) Javascript is the default language of the web, the most popular delivery platform today.

4) Javascript has huge library support and tons of packages.

5) Javascript has incorporated lots of advanced concepts (for popular, non-academic languages), from generators and proxies to async/await.

>Then Google released Chrome with V8, some people thought this meant JavaScript was cool now, and it's snowballed from there.

Webkit, v8 and Mozilla's JS JIT were released within months of each other, and have been in work for years before. So this has nothing with Google releasing v8 -- the industry in general wanted faster JS execution. In fact TraceMonkey (Mozilla's JIT) was the first to be released.

If any Google action was relevant to this, it was the popularization of AJAX (which MS introduced) through apps like Gmail that set the future direction for the web.
Home Depot is an illegal market place.
>> Any jobs list which has Python above Javascript and Java has to be flawed.

What data are you looking at to backup this assertion?
I thought they had enough funding to hire just about anyone.
It's a shame that so many Brits visit Spain yet remain culturally ignorant to some things there. I think in connection to believing that Spaniards have siestas every day for hours we also casually imply that Spaniards are lazy in every regard by repeating the "mañana" quip.
> Something like 3 decades of cultural development have trained developers that the most important risk they face in hiring is accepting someone underqualified, rather than passing on someone who is in fact qualified.

I blame the easy investment cash that is often given based on the surface impression your company can make than on its efficiency and GAAP numbers. This promotes overhiring and reduces the role of a single developer to a point where the professional duties take a vanishingly small amount of time, so the efficiency (and hence aptitude or experience) is no longer an asset, while the ability to entertain the earlier hires becomes one of the most important requirements.
Training junior developers is something I enjoy & think I'm good at.

I actually looked at working for a boot camp once. To do so would have required more than a half pay cut. If I'm going to do that it will be as an underserved public sector educator, not a for profit company.
Fingerprint identification: advances since the 2009 National Research Council report https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581003/ has a recent summary.
It's not utter nonsense. I've seen it happen time and again in multiple jobs.

Right now at my current employer "we" are about to embark on replacing our entire data pipeline with a very popular queuing system designed to process hundreds of GB or more of data per day. Our current pipeline moves a few tens to hundreds of MB per day (not second, minute or hour) from the point of intake to our internal data stores. There are two reasons as I see it for the choice: resume driven development by the "architect" who proposed it (and management who want to put the management portion on their resumes) and laziness to address other issues regarding why there are delays at certain points in the pipe.
Everything about the blockchain is a test now, it's just the investors who mindlessly invest hoping for a quick 5x is making it bigger than they should be.
A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum
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They were. They've done a lot for and been very active in the tech scene around town, so I have no idea how successful/unsuccessful their other campuses have been.
you're right there is a lot of tooling/layers

if it helps, Apollo has Redux built into it so you don't need a store. With this I reduced the size of my small app quite significantly by removing reducers, actions and the store files.

I've been using React + Apollo + GraphQL on the frontend and Graph.cool as a BaaS which has been great so far.... admittedly I'm a beginner (starting from my experience as a Java developer 7 years ago)
Apple sold $6B worth of Apple Watches in it's first year. Sales increased when they released the version 2 watches. The rest of the market may be hurting but Apple is crushing it with theirs.
What you are missing is that diet can affect metabolic rate. If eating equal amounts of different food causes weight loss, technically energy consumption is now less than expenditure but it is the change in expenditure that matters.

It is true that it is harder to overeat on a high fat, low carb diet, though.