skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you think different rates of weight loss would have different effects? I'm not aware of any studies that say that. Also the hypothesized reason weight loss maintenance is so hard is changes to leptin level which related to absolute level of body fat, not rate of body fat loss.
Lower interest rates cause people to wait for a lower rate, higher rates cause people to take out loans before the rate goes up again. CBs did the worst possible thing with no historic evidence it would work, as usual.
Even worse, all the outraged folk say you shouldnt bother trying to find it - guess its not worth forming our own opinions

https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/893324341630218241
Give a general machine learning algorithm a long enough string of 1s with a few missing, and it will have no clue what fills the missing digits. ML is inherently incapable of matching human cognition.
systemd, i.e the init system is quite good.
I mean compared to sysvinit and upsart it's a pleasure to write unit files.
they are way more understood than any sysvinit script.
I even think that just the declarative language is probably one of the best. it is better than windows services, where one need to use some kind of installer/wrapper that exactly uses what windows provides (and is unflexible in configuration), than upstart the syntax was a little bit wierd and sysvinit... well if you weren't a bash scripter it was really really hard to write a good init script.

i also like journald, logging is a pleasure now, even to syslog, and other syslog servers.

well what I don't get is timedatectl i.e systemd-timesync and many more. they are mostly not needed for init itself and already had a really really good counterpart.
I am not a web developer type, but making inferences based on the absence of plugins seems morally wrong.

The image hack also seems quite imperfect. What if the internet connection craps out in the middle of the page load? You're going to act on that in js and decide the user is bad? Edit: re-read the article and it seems that case would still work. But deciding the user is bad based on some arbitrary metric still seems like something one should have care with.

Edit: downvotes confirm web kids don't give a damn that you use flawed heuristics to determine someone is "bad". Some will copy paste this into their project and the unfortunate user who happens to have a less common configuration will be screwed.
Do you also use OCR?

Because I guess you could defeat webscrapers by making the HTML structurally totally different from what is visually present in the browser window.
It depends on the target audience. For Google (and for most people) the goal of Headless Chrome is to offer an easy and feature-complete way of automatically testing websites, e.g. for performance (PWA are all the craze) and bugs. For those folks, it doesn't matter that you can detect the Headless Browser, it only matters that it's working like the regular one 99% of the time. This is a huge step-up from previous technologies like PhantomJS or laborious solutions involving webdriver and many moving components.

In some cases they don't even want it to behave exactly like the regular browser. As soon as your website uses any client-side state (cookies, IndexedDB, HTTP caching, service workers, local storage) you want to have to an easy "give me a clean and isolated browsing session" switch like Headless offers.

People scraping the web are not the target audience of this.
See I'd happily pay three dollars a month to get my iPad on the network. That seems like a reasonable fee.

I don't expect to use my iPad (or anything else) away from Wi-Fi all that much, so that may be part of the issue. If I thought I'd use it more $10 may seem more reasonable. Like if I traveled a lot.
I think people using their real names on FB really helped. It made it much easier to find people and connect.
If they test for weed, they should have to test for alcohol too. Especially the day after the company golf tournament.
Or maybe different things are different, and pointing at facebooks unlikely story to make a case for ubers long-term chances or broad claims about what engineers do or dont know is just as lazy as shunning uber without substantial insight into the field.
As the article notes, the problem is how much longer weed stays in the system compared to other drugs.
> There is also no way to disprove that without observing beyond the universe, which may get a bit dicey.

My high school physics prof had the best answer to "What is beyond the universe?" --> "Surely if we ever find something outside of the universe, we will be smart enough to call that the universe too"

He was referencing the idea that universe contains everything by definition.
> Given that our brains are composed of neurons, which are themselves, in essence, specialized cooperative single-cell organisms

Don't humans to a degree fulfill this role; the mass behavior of the species (recently) acting as form of brain with emerging self-awareness of the galaxy/universe; since we study it, and are also part of it?
From what I've read I've always got the impression that cell networks are one of the things the US is furthest behind in. Even when we are more or less technologically up-to-date, the customer experience part is still terrible.
I don't think it'll need to
Google senior engineer wrote manifesto against diversity, employees are furious
Linux has Electron compatibility already. On desktop there is no good reason to worry about "native" control performance.

And considering that React Native can barely seem to keep the controls in sync on iOS and Android [0], trying to throw in a tiny minority platform like Gnome makes no sense at all. Better to build controls for raw X or even an OpenGL UI implementation. It's not like it's impossible to do the latter. [1]

In fact, VS Code already runs mostly everywhere, has gotten a huge amount of community mindshare in an amazingly short period of time, and at this point I couldn't imagine ever using gedit for...well, anything, really. Why would I?

P.S. Not a downvoter.

[0] A friend is working on a project that's run into a number of "bug on Android, not on iOS" that, once patched, became a "bug on iOS and not on Android" issue. Rinse and repeat.

[1] https://kivy.org/#home http://www.fltk.org/index.php
http://www.americansealantsinc.com/388-electronic-grade-sili...
Earth connection – a lazy Saturday afternoon cartoon
Move-Fast-And-Break-Things Facebook Posts Its July 2016 Diversity Numbers
These are mostly hypothetical use cases.

And that's my big problem with Bitcoin advocates. I ask, "How is Bitcoin creating value today?" And 98% of the answers I get are, "Tomorrow will be amazing!!1!" I have received that consistently for eight years.

Strong fundamentals don't include "might be amazing one day". I too enjoy science fiction, but...
Life is all about choices. You can choose what you do next.
It seems your only choice is always programming, of course you get bored.

Try something new and exciting, maybe extreme sports?
Ha! I actually like the audacity of a (theoretical imaginary) candidate saying that. If everyone in the room is feeling that same pain (it's a buggy piece of crap) they might even appreciate it and laugh. But on the other hand it's still rude and would still raise a warning about the candidate, just like you're basically saying.
What about girlfriend/boyfriend ? How is your love life ?
OK. Good of you to apologise.
Related: On Being the Right Size

https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
This has been proven false several times. Men and women are also biologically different. This doesnt mean they're limited in capability but that they have slight natural biases. Why is this such a hard reality to accept?
The issue gets even more interesting when you factor in working from home.

Is it wrong to smoke weed while "on the clock" in your panties on the couch? Perhaps if it compromises the deliverable but if the employee is productive, efficient, and timely - should it matter if they are st0ned or not?
Startup Avalon “Draws Sword” to Slay Consumers’ Biggest Dragon – Savings
Also when you can listen to music or podcasts from the watch, they have to be preloaded. If there is an episode that you didn't download and put on the watch or you want to listen to a streaming music service… you're stuck unless the phone is there.
There are lots of high-end restaurants, because every celebrity chef in America seems to open an outpost there. But if you're familiar with the originals, the Vegas versions tend to be overpriced tourist versions with limited menus. There are some great restaurants to be sure, but it's kind of a dice roll.

We've gone off the strip for sushi, Korean bbq, Thai, and Ethiopian and had good luck; I don't know enough about greater Las Vegas to judge it. But the strip is bad.
While I would like to change my login name, the important thing is that it's not used anywhere else. This means it does not get in the way of my self-expression, and also that nobody who I talk to through the system can harass me by repeatedly entering wrong passwords.

Come to think of it, that also serves as a counterexample to one of the article's pieces of advice: using an email address as the users login. Steam used to work that way, which is why I have to log in using a string which is an email address I don't use anymore.
Poor choice of title. It may be the first direct-drive or non-linear elevator, but rope and cable-free hydraulic elevators have been in service for decades.
> First of all, what evidence?

You might be interested in this blogpost which cites 27 different peer-reviewed scientific papers supporting an argument that social priming can explain much of observed gender gaps in STEM (and another 9 more scientific papers just to flesh out the argument): http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/picture-yourself-as-a-s...

> "Make sure it has less to do with computers"
> someone felt that it's a sexist remark

Ignoring for a moment whether that's "sexist", can we agree that if those 27 scientific papers are to be believed, such remarks directly hurt women in computer science who would otherwise be do better?
I use the pin pad to unlock my watch when I don't have my phone nearby, it works fine. I'm not going to say it's a great experience, but it's OK.

I agree I'd be more likely to use Siri or the Contacts app on the watch.
The former isn't a decision to be taken lightly. It's also not a good idea if you're not in the right place mentally. Think of a company as an automobile that drains your emotional gas tank. If you start out with a low tank, you're going to have a bad time.

Side projects however are great provided you enjoy the experience and don't let it turn into a job.
> I'd sort the data in order.

Yeah, I liked Julian Montoya's design the most because its vertical layout immediately conveys a hierarchy of data (though the gate number is omitted). The other designs, while aesthetically novel, required my eyes to jump around to gleam meaningful information.
This open up a flood of nostalgia for anyone else?

Apple, Youtube, and Amazon especially.

All sorts of feels.
I don't even use weed (or any other drugs), and I wouldn't work anywhere that required me to be drug tested. I expect to be treated like an adult. Likewise, I'm not going to produce a note from a doctor if I'm taking sick leave.
Been wanting something like this for years. I have a bunch of old speeches and radio shows I'd like to transcribe. They all have "terms of art", and noone at Google would tell me how to train their API to adapt to my use case. Too bad I missed this Beta; hope you allow more people in soon.

Can you clarify: does your API allow me to run the transcriber, pause it when I see an error, tell it what the corrected text is, then continue with that correction taken into account?
I'm curious on what makes the security worse. The rest, I can see. Though, I have to confess I have been more critical of the whole headless browser binary push than I'd care to acknowledge. I just feel like this is solving a problem that didn't actually exist anymore. Selenium has worked solidly for quite a while. And, you almost certainly should test in multiple browsers/scenarios.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-prover

The Little Prover
Written by Daniel P. Friedman and Carl Eastlund

https://the-little-prover.github.io

J-Bob

J-Bob is our little proof assistant, available on Github. For an introduction to J-Bob, see Appendix A of The Little Prover.

J-Bob is available for ACL2, Scheme, and Racket
Making Big Data User Friendly for Small Businesses
There is something you can do - keep the candidate up to date with what's going on. If the candidate has to write a sodding bot to pester the company, that's a sign the company has dropped the ball on communications.

I've been there. Had coffee with start up boss when unemployed, was good. Had chat with current senior Dev, was good. Ask about discussing further, nothing. Chase, nothing. 2 months later I have a different job, I see boss at event, we wave across room and the next day he emails asking if I'm still looking. No. How is this a professional way to deal with someone?

In contrast, good interviews have always told me clearly when things would happen and have stuck to that. It only takes a minute to communicate well, and it really pays off.
I'm assuming the plan is a sunk cost because I already have the necessary one for my cellphone.

The only question for the watch (or any other device) is the additional fee for that and any extra data I might end up needing.

I think the fact that it cost $20 to put my phone on the network (not including any data costs) is already stupid. But it's too late there.
When software projects fail, it's natural to think "wow, if only we had organized things in this way...", or "if only we had a more accurate schedule...", but it's just a way of ignoring the elephant in the room: your developers weren't up to the task. Think about it this way: if your developers knew about all of the issues that would result in a failed project and a) didn't tell you or b) didn't quit if you ignored their warnings, then what kind of professional developers are you employing ?

This micro-management of the entire software development process is completely unnecessary and contrary to every bit of real-world evidence that we have about what has made certain software projects successful, and others not. Ambition, drive, and a penchant for excellence is what makes great software, not a bunch of managers pushing along a group of mediocre developers like cattle.
As a sysadmin, I like systemd. The built-in service watchdog is really nice, and I like being able to override service file options without replacing the service entirely.

I haven't seen many vulnerabilities in the PID 1 part of systemd that concerned me. The last vuln I recall was the UID parsing issue, which isn't really exploitable.

The systemd-resolved vuln was pretty bad, but that's an optional component that I've never used anyway. (It's not used by default on Debian.)
There are two elements to almost every crime in the US criminal justice: conduct and intent. Without provable intent, inappropriate conduct is often excused. Without inappropriate conduct, predatory intent is almost never prosecutable.

Your first case has both prohibited conduct and intent (actually, with or without the intent to sell the data, I think deliberately breaking into a factory is itself criminal).

Your second case does not.
Did it work? It sounds like you made all of the correct conditions, but that seems like an incredibly difficult environment for you to succeed in.
Also your blog has some good points (like fixing the VCR or tracking down the malware in the PHP). BUT the hiring process is what it is, flawed and stupid as that may be. Most companies will not take the time to assess us as entire people with rich histories etc. We are assessed in the context of the need they have that we can meet. Your descriptions of how your OCD affects your interview performance are fair. But it lieu of a strong interview, you should have coherent examples of you writing usable code and being awesome.

I mean this nicely: You cannot simply sell your story and your conviction that you will be great. You are already great. You have to sell the programmer you are now.
Very few companies that use technology are technology companies.

Is there no open-source standard for authentication and user-data management? Do companies really need to roll their own each time?
> Designers, however, seem to discard all of that, caring only about how trendy the damn gradient is. I was even called ignorant and 'noob' by a designer, one that I fought to recruit a week earlier, because I suggested making numbers readable, something he deemed old-fashioned and would ruin his master-fucking-piece.

I suspect a lot of designers are really just designing for dribbble/Behance portfolios so they can finally climb the ladder to Art Director.
I'm not expecting it to be free, it just seems like a very high fee for what the watch would do.

Remember I'm already paying hundreds a year for my phone and the shared data plan. $10 a month just seems like a lot to add an additional device, especially if I end up needing to buy more data too.
> It's a good list and these points are indeed very bad signals. When you break it down most points fall under the category of basic professional courtesy and it's shocking how rare that is. Most people that I interview and give prompt and honest feedback really appreciate it. You do have to deal with the occasional rude response however - it's the cost of being a professional.

This is very true. Interviewing is critical for basically every company, but the actual interview process sucks for the employee who actually is doing it. A lot of companies, and startups especially, don't have the discipline or foresight to realize this and instill in their employees that professional courtesy is important, even if the actual interviewing process is annoying and that professional courtesy is likely to be "wasted" on somebody you won't hire.

But I do think it is a useful (bad) signal, because a company that doesn't have the foresight to create a decent interview experience probably is dropping the ball in other critical areas and should be avoided.
There's also a weight issue. The longer the shaft, the longer and heavier the cable must be, and the more tension and stretch. In some buildings, there may also be structural issues militating against an open shaft running the entire heightof the buldng.
I'm working on it.

I believe the future of UI will be like Tinder or Akinator, where your browse through results and apply constraints to the search space by answering simple yes/no questions.
You are correct that narrowly speaking, it is false to say that "all evidence" points in any one direction.

However, your claim that there is a "overwhelming", "clear scientific consensus" is lacking in citations, your one broken link to what I assume was supposed a scientific study and one link to a pop science blogpost (which links only to other posts on the same blog and not any actual scientific papers) notwithstanding.

In fact the overwhelming scientific consensus is that the opposite is true. Check out this blogpost with working links to 22 different peer-reviewed scientific papers on how social priming can differentially affect how men and women, or white students and black students, etc perform at various academic and cognitive tasks (there are actually 27 links to such papers but 5 are broken; there are also links to 9 more scientific papers besides, just to flesh out the argument): http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/picture-yourself-as-a-s...

I challenge you to find working links to 22 different peer-reviewed scientific papers arguing that women's underrepresentation in STEM is not due to systemic discrimination but is explained wholly by other factors such as innate psychological differences.

In fact, I'll give you a head start. The blogpost I linked to already links to 6 such papers, so if you can find 16 more, I'll concede that maybe there isn't the scientific consensus I thought there was.
It would be interesting to read the manifesto in full. Does anyone have a link?
I use it for anything that doesn't involve programming or markup: to-do lists, clipboard, relatives' birthdays, etc.
The argument over static and dynamic typing is so boring at this point. It's semi-intellectual "bike shedding". Practically speaking it doesn't make much difference one way or the other.

I wish the industry as a whole would get over it and focus on bigger issues.
What i love about these things is i have to think about back then

What phone was i using?

When did i last buy a roll of film?

First amazon order and what was it?

First online order?

When did i get rid of landline?

When did i stop using aol? When did i get gmail?
AFAIK Gedit is GPL, at least, I'm not sure how this guy can sell this software while not violating the license at the same time.

What violation?
Jira

The Greenhopper plugin was a joy to use, 10 years ago.

Jira Agile is an atrocity, especially in an enterprise environment. About 5% of the time you'll actually be using it to help you do your job. You'll spend far more time answering questions and doing risk analysis, etc, etc all at the request of some random person you've never met who needs reporting on some random bit of information that is of no consequence.

It's used as a reporting and tracking tool now, not a tool to handle development flow.
This is not the kind of thing you develop for "research". It's extremely boring code that is essentially just a user interface for seeding HTML trojans across a botnet.

This thread gives the impression that people not in the field see some sort of mystique to malware research and development. Malware isn't vulnerability research or exploit development. Most of the malware deployed in the real world is code that virtually anyone on HN could develop, from first principles without any additional research.

That's not true of exploit development, which can be extraordinarily difficult and almost always depends on specialized insider knowledge. There's lots of research reasons to work on exploit code. But that's just not true for the kind of malware we're talking about in this case.

This is important to understand, because the premise of the story is that prosecution over banking trojan malware is having a chilling effect in the industry. It is not. Very few people in the industry build stupid-looking PHP interfaces to HTML injection on botnet victims, not because it's illegal but because it's pointless and dumb and you wouldn't learn anything from doing it.
> On desktop there is no good reason to worry about "native" control performance.

I take it you've never used a Java Swing application.
Can't we get rid of the boarding pass altogether?

I mean, I'm always carrying two things around the airport: my passport and the boarding pass.

I think this can be reduced to one thing: just my passport, by letting the airport deal with boarding electronically.
I feel like in order for agile (and devops) to work, you have to at least half invent it yourself, before realizing what it is. If you try to just impose it on a team, then it get a little cargo cult-y and people don't understand why they're doing it.
You don't need a pull up resistor to have a tri state bus.
Reminds me a bit of the "caustic design" papers in recent SIGGRAPHs in that they're both optimizing a lens's shape so that it produces a particular output lightfield -- although the hologram needs to incorporate diffraction and produce a much more constrained lightfield.

(Caustic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R00IvqcI9jU&feature=youtu.be... )
The issues are more EMU (Eurozone) than the EU?
I hadn't heard of her, or defend Europe, or this controversy, or anything. Watched the Patreon explanation video, which seemed pretty damn convincing, objective, and evidence-based to me.