skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...there's a lot of history and context around the form of argument from patriarchy in spaces where men are discussing the issues that affect us.

There is not. This is a shortcoming born of inexperience and youth. Your context is too small, you're not perceiving things at any scale much beyond your own few personal experiences.

I have to say you're really going above and beyond with the contempt you add to it. What are you trying to accomplish, this way?

You pretend to be so reasonable, but this is tone policing, a logical fallacy, a thought-terminating cliche.

Your position is contemptible and no one owes you good manners over it. Do better. Step up your game. Make an actual argument to persuade me - to persuade anyone - that you actually have a clue what you're talking about.
If one variant beats another, even with very few observations, the data DOES support that one is better. It's just that you might not be very confident that one is better.

The key to understanding this situation statistically is by reframing the way you think about tests away from an all-or-nothing NHST, and toward either confidence intervals, or bayesian estimation.

That is, some kind of measure of (loosely) uncertainty around a parameter (or entire model) of interest.
Ask HN: Which data collection software should I use?
Hey,

A group of non-profits I work for is currently trying to implement a data collection system and benchmarking a set of tools. However, we're having trouble finding the Right Tool for the Job(TM), every single solution we've tested has at least one major flaw.

Our criteria:

- Complex features (branching, different types of questions): everything using XLSForm is great

- Secure data storage out-of-the-box

- Easy modification of submissions by admin, data export and analysis

- Forms can be publicly filled

- Different levels of rights for admin accounts

- Simple UI

- Usable through webforms and Android at least

- FOSS preferred

Some of the tools with their flaws:

KoBoToolbox[0]: mostly great, can be quite buggy (sharing with new admins, UX on Android, data export), no submission modification

Ushahidi[1]: linear forms only, export of data is buggy

OpenDataKit[2]: very flexible, but UI and use by non-techie admins are challenging

Martus[3], Enketo[4], ONA[5], DataWinners[6], twine[7], mFieldWork[8]: mix of linear forms, specialized for medical data, or expensive

I'm also exploring alternatives:

- End-to-end encryption software on Google Drive: should allow us to abide by the data protection laws while using Forms for data collection and Sheets for analysis. Cheap, but security needs to be checked.

- Using the KoBo API to insert a simpler interface on top of KoBo: takes time and potentially creates data security issues

I'd be very interested if you could point me to a better tool or to solutions that mitigate the flaws I've raised, even to a relevant discussion group.

Thanks ;).

[0](http://www.kobotoolbox.org/)
[1](https://www.ushahidi.com/)
[2](https://opendatakit.org/)
[3](https://www.martus.org/)
[4](https://enketo.org/)
[5](https://ona.io/home/)
[6](https://datawinners.com/)
[7](http://twine.unhcr.org/app/)
[8](https://mfieldwork.com/)
I think many of us are willing to pay more taxes and I think we show that by voting pretty overwhelming Democrat and or progressive.
The problem is that the companies that "went agile" just added some cargo cult practices they learned by some Agile consultant /in addition/ to the old practices you describe.

You know, I am sure many of those Agile consultants that big companies hire don't even know what the Agile Manifesto is.

Agile is not agile.
If you have a functioning liver, then you're fine. There are also some popular "detox" methods that can themselves be harmful [0]. Legitimate detoxes are done for people who are opiate-dependent, and a few others (who probably have a malfunctioning liver from their substance abuse and are consuming large quantities of substances that are toxic) [1].

[0] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-detox-scam-how-to-spot-...

[1] internal medicine fiancee who sees a lot of those patients
When someone decides a config file needs two different serializations and a daemon, I'm reminded of https://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html.
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Large commercial ships already have INS backups and it can be spoofed just fine using carry-off attack. Spoofed signal gradually diverges from the correct signal and inertial navigation can't spot the difference.
But more people will choose to use free systems if they get better documentation (that is tailored to average folk, not computer enthusiasts).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_rights_(economics)
Agile doesn't work with cars because you can't deliver value incrementally by designing additional features. Producing a brake pad this week doesn't help if the chassis is still unfinished. Similarly having the entire car except the brake pads complete doesn't deliver any value. It's all or nothing.
>You would think languages with lots of declinations allow for smart puns too, right?

The article doesn't try to argue that richer declensions make puns impossible, just that it makes it harder. I would definitely agree with that.
https://www.mooc-list.com/tags/python has a list.

Do you mean Udacity rather than Audacity?

Personally, I would read the reference manual, the library manual (a MUST), write some programs, and read some other people's programs. Python is a simple language.

Reading other people's programs is a good way to apprentice when learning a new language. The Python Cookbook(s) and the 3rd edition of Python in a Nutshell make good reading.

Python comes in two variations these days: Python2 and Python3. Python3 would be the best choice for a new learner.
"I think whoever pays for the officers salary should be the "product owner" of the police department"

Like what, the local governor/censor/consul/manor lord?
> Besides Donald Trump, there isn't and hasn't been even the slightest possibility of a meaningful [word used neutrally] political upheaval

Be reminded that we had a revolution less than two and a half centuries ago.

And a very tumultuous last few decades. I think that MLK represented a very real possibility of meaningful political upheaval.

> 2) American police have a much longer history of dealing with, and adapting their policies to the governance of, high-violence subpopulations like (southern) Italians, the Irish, and Africans.

This is obviously true. The current character of professional, paramilitary police in the USA is traceable in no small part to slave patrols.

Another difference is that the command structure of American police is different even than other common law countries - police (as distinct from sheriffs) are ranked in a paramilitary totem rather than a constabulary structure, have wide discretion in contrary to Peelianism, and in some cases are afforded greater arrest powers than the citizenry at large.
> Even if engineers believe do not believe its going too fast (superficial review, lack of manual testing)

If the engineers are speaking up and are actively ignored, then the business's feedback loop is broken. The things in the agile manifesto need buy in beyond the people writing code.

> scrum master end up make it happen as his job is to make sure "sprint commitments" are met

The whole idea of using the word "agile" is to allow commitments to be re-evaluated. Respond to change, don't rigidly follow a plan.

If someone is mandating a rigidly adhered to practice of scrum, and doesn't allow teams to adapt that process to the individuals and interactions at hand, it's not agile.
Check out the one with David Krakauer of the Santa Fe Institute
It's still unclear to me how their technology is different. Did they just slap the Elon Musk brand/allure on regular boring machines for SpaceX/Tesla's own use?

edit: Well I guess they have a pretty clear FAQ on their site, but I'm wondering if the small tunnel diameter can be used for anything other than cars. Would subway cars fit?

https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/
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I am on maternity leave and was recently informed that my position has been eliminated. Company is in CA. My role is Director Level. Was employee 4 of 9. Have been at the company 11 months, 1 year would have been day of return from leave and day options vested. My role was the only one eliminated. I was offered 1 week severance or accelerated vesting of my 1 year options. 1) How legal is this move on their part? and 2) What is a fair severance package for this level and under these circumstances?
I was wondering if I was the only one who thought the book was terrible. Once I made it past the first third (it was tough, but I didn't pay for the book so I just read it on my phone when I was bored) I was able to enjoy it for what it was.. mediocre fanfiction.
I feel like this also tips the hand of someone trying to track Vlad down. All you have to do is set up gps devices in/around major Russian areas (Sochi, Moscow), and when you start seeing anomalies, he's probably nearby.
Good code can be understood just by reading it. That is practically impossible with binaries.
We're living in crazy times when Jordanians, Iranians, Palestinians, and Israelis can all come together to open a new Synchrotron, but I'm excited to see it happening. This really will be great for building up science in the Middle East.
All you are really saying is, people belive in something (because its hard to believe in nothing). That doesn't explain the type of believe they hold.

While anarchy has to be the default assumption, its hardly the commonly accepted notion of the status quo. It seems much more comfortable to assume that everything is in order of a personally profitable higher purpose.

Whereas conspiracies are usually attributed to a lack of moral and socially intollerable consequences.

I mean, how are conspiracy theories comforting instead of scary? Instead, conspiracies and anarchy alike are scary because of a lack of cooperation.
"If your car engine stops running, you're not going to fall to your death for lack of speed."

You know, to even get your private pilot's license, you have to pass a simulated engine-out. Fixed-wing craft are perfectly capable of gliding without power.
> random access by codepoint is generally a bad idea because codepoints and graphemes aren't synonymous.

That's a good point.

>If you need indices into UTF-8 strings, then you can record them by decoding the string.

Sure but the context is that I was responding to "If you use a rope or tree representation (like most editors do these days), random access is O(log n) at best, in many implementations typically O(sqrt n) or even O(n), whereas concatenation string is O(1).".

Decoding the string is O(n); not O(1) (if GP meant "concatenation string" as in a string where the text is concatenated into a single buffer - if GP meant "concatenating a string in a rope or tree is O(1)" then I'm off on a wild tangent).
S'not the same to read about it. If you're interested in documentation writing I recommend looking for some of Apple's older stuff on archive.org to see what it's like. I don't see much documentation written in their kind-of extended style these days... A lot of documentation seems to be either terse or tutorial-y, there's not much that tries to focus on the concepts relating to / the purpose of a given feature.
even better: lie, cheat, steal, and hurt those who are ten steps ahead of you. they're the ones with all the money.
How a single line of code changed my life
This all looks spot on from my experience, except I have this nagging voice in my head that says the methods they are criticizing, seem to be exactly what the airline industry has done for decades in the wake of plane accidents. The result has been an ever-improving safety record, without preventing normal operation; although it is a pain to get through security at the airport, people do in fact continue to get from here to there. So, how do the methods they criticize here, differ from the airline industry's, or if they don't what's the flaw in this analysis?
Picketty ignored the effects of WWI and WWII because they were so destructive of capital they made his case look weaker.
The car industries are already fairly automated and have been for decades:

https://cdn.holmatro.com/files/thumb/c/a/Industrial_Tools_Ap...
There is a way to use automation to liberate people. It is my life's work (in progress) to figure out how to do this.

To me, this comes when we make automated machines whose purpose is to provide for human survival, and we make those machines open source. Groups of people purchase the machines, and through ownership they receive the benefits of automation rather than an elite ownership class.

I've written several essays on the topic on my website, and have a discussion board where people can discuss the ideas in more detail.

You may enjoy reading The Machine:
http://tlalexander.com/machine/

Or The Corporation:
http://tlalexander.com/corporation/
Eventually things will restructure so that the wealth of automation is redistributed. Not 100%, risk takers should still be rewarded. But something like universal income.

The transition will be tumultuous though, as most transitions are.
Not by any definition I've seen. There's always the notion that hft techniques have always existed and there is some validity to that but usually when referred to in a modern context it relies on qualities that make speed of light (hence colocation) a limiting factor.
After leaving the startup I had founded, I had the option of earning a six figure salary and a senior position at another company. I passed this up to go back to college. I love math and physics and always regretted not finishing. I’m still in the midst of this so it’s hard to tell whether it’s the right decision.

Being the dumbest guy in the room, and knowing so is probably good for you in the long run.
"Watson" was a Jeopardy playing bot.

The main trick behind Watson is to take the various systems (parsers, search, et al.) and hacks (constraints imposed by the rules of jeopardy) needed by a jeopardy playing bot and put them all together.

So, in some sense, you could say UIMA is what Watson did -- because it allowed a lot of flexibility for researchers to combine their efforts. Ranking and filtering becomes of ultimate importance in a system like that because at some point you have to make a decision. However, it is terribly reliant on the other modules at least getting somewhere in the ballpark -- and the ranking is also not, by itself, anything impressive.

So, it's an interesting case of how far you can get by just setting a single goal and slamming everything together -- but as it turns out, for every new domain you wish to apply something like that to, that magic ballpark is hard to reach without a significant amount of engineering & research effort to come up with new systems/hacks combined with a lot of relevant data. In other words, just like any other adhoc AIish system with a particular goal. Change the goal, change the system.

So, of course Watson was oversold, it was a PR and Sales effort from the beginning. Sort of like AlphaGo or DeepBlue -- you might be able to find one or two interesting ideas in the bowels of such a system -- but the system itself is not a generic one.
When plants like Nissan's in Sunderland (UK) have worked out how to make well over 500K cars per year incorporating a luxury brand car (Infiniti Q30), a mid range crossover company cash cow (Qashqai) and an electric car (Leaf) safely with a strong track record of keeping workers safe there is simply no excuse for this at all. No worker in modern day manufacturing should be concerned for their safety at work, ever.

I am a fan of Tesla and Musk but this line in the email pasted in by thsowers irks me and signals to the underlying issue:

"Managers must always put their team’s safety above their own"

No Elon, every employee's safety is equal and is more important than your TACT time.
You mean the massive 18 weeks of funding they got for their capital needs?
Haha I just noticed your username could be a reference too.

And thanks, that's awesome to hear! A lot of parts of the app are definitely a work in progress, and its tough to make appealing looking meal plans that also consistently hit arbitrary nutrition goals. But we're steadily making progress. Never been to Tasmania, but I'll be sure to let you know :)
They want us to believe that so nobody finds out that the Kremlin has that flask of antimatter stored in the basement.
Senior developer, preferably in the payments space, preferably with payment processor integration experience. Both not mandatory though.

Tech is .NET/C#, Python/Django, HTML5, ARM asm and C.

There is a team that does most of the work but the job involves taking high level dev decisions, solving issues the team gets stuck on.

It is not very easy to explain but it is a very diverse position which brings you to China, US, Thailand, Aus, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, India and Europe.

Next to that we are looking for team members who work remote but will do not mind to reside and work in Thailand 3-4 months of the year.

Edit; much easier to fill but we also are looking for a front end app/web dev with a lot of feel for design for the UK, Gatwick area.
yes, so our ONLY solution is collective punishment against the entire population and anyone happening to be visiting the country.

thats not intended to be a strawman argument, it is intended to be hyperbole because the current outcome is indefensible.
Section 702 authorizes surveillance of non-US persons located outside the United States for foreign intelligence purposes, so it is not at all what you think it is ("warrantless spying on millions of Americans"). The courts so far have not challenged the constitutionality of Section 702, only whether the implementations of specific programs comply with its rules.
cc65 has a whole page on how to deal with the fact that it's a single-pass compiler with hardly any optimization [1]. It's almost more like a macro assembler than an actual compiler.

http://www.cc65.org/doc/coding.html
Sounds like you know a lot more about this than I do.

Have you considered leasing as a way to reduce risk for operators? So, rather than mining operators needing to take the risk of standing with outdated hardware, you — as the manufacturer — would take on that risk by allowing mining operators to stop the lease if it becomes unprofitable.

This changes the incentive structure so that you stand with a loss if your hardware becomes obsolete.
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> meaningful [word used neutrally] political upheaval

There's the potential for a lot more people to get killed, now the tactic of driving cars into crowds has been borrowed from Islamist terrorist by white supremacists.

> governance of, high-violence subpopulations like (southern) Italians, the Irish, and Africans.

There's your racism and colonialism right there. You could call it hegemonic and imperialist as well if you like.
Ah - I had not considered SendGrid.

From an absolute security perspective, using some sort of hash or similar unique ID then referencing a database seems like the strongest solution.

But you are right, at large scale encoding the data in the URL plus some sort of HMAC would provide strong security with no database overhead, which I'm sure becomes significant at scale.

Might be interesting to try and reverse engineer their approach. Hash algorithms have a rather long history of being proven weaker than hoped... Especially down the road this could lead to some interesting possible exploits, mostly if the link was related to some kind of account a little more sensitive than meetup.com

Thanks for clarifying my thinking on this matter...
Don't you mean the german company Eisenmann should pay more than $5/hour?
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I interpreted that sentence differently: managers are not the ones on the factory floor getting injured. By reporting injuries, they may be concerned for the safety of their career, and think by covering them up they'll avoid black marks on their record.
They don't lose $180m per week though, do they? They have income to offset a portion of their capex? Or did I misinterpret the article?
I disagree with your assessment because I haven't been exposed to extreme feminist philosophy but rather I'm speaking from my experience as a woman in tech, who loves to code, from the wisdom of my personal journey.

Ok women are more likely to like doll houses as little kids - but I don't know many women working with doll houses as adults?

Women are completely capable of doing anything they want to do. Professions like doctors and lawyers are now split 50/50 between the genders and they were long thought not for women.

And it's my experience that the by far and large reason they don't enter tech is because they think it's boring, not for them, don't understand what they can do with it or how it can appeal to them. Coding is just a tool. Period. Biological influences are not compelling enough to comvince me if anything.

I think they are very controversial if they are used to influence company policy - because they are too abstract, tenuous and there are too many other factors at play. On top of all that, I just don't think it's appropriate for a workplace to be going there.
Explaining Ridge Regression as adding noise to small data
As I recall, they go for 2x smaller diameter tunnels. This gives 4x less dirt to move. Beyond that, they aim to get something like a 2x or 3x improvement by switching to electric and being better about strutting walls and boring at the same time.
The 4x less work done 2x faster should be about an order of magnitude better.

The reason they can go for smaller tunnels is using 'skates' as opposed to letting people drive. 'Skates' are kinda like a bus for your car. As the environment is controlled, the skates can be controlled by self-driving technology a lot easier. The added precision and control allows for smaller 'roads'.

That is the argument from Musk as I understood it.
To point out the obvious: people who most badly need to understand this are not able to understand what it means.

We need some approach like Not Sure talking with plants.
> He feels that the words, once translated into German, have less power. They have to travel through a surface that delays true reception of their meaning. I guess it’s the same for me when I write in English. The delay between writing in English and wondering how the same would translate into French makes me able to say things I might not have dared to say in French directly

There is an interesting effect where we tend to be more rational and less emotional in our second language: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

> In general, we suggest that the increased psychological distance of using a foreign language induces utilitarianism. This shows that moral judgments can be heavily affected by an orthogonal property to moral principles, and importantly, one that is relevant to hundreds of millions of individuals on a daily basis.
> and would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well

It's 'caring theater'. He thinks he is the President meeting with people getting the purple heart for service. Such utter bullshit. [1] [2]

[1] The fact that he says he wants to be personally involved in the process is what puts it over the edge. I mean he is running how many companies?

[2] And to front run any legal or PR issues. Create an emotional block for the harmed to take things a step further. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer".
He is definitely trying to instill leadership by showing that he is "one of them": http://blog.startwithwhy.com/refocus/2015/07/management-vs-l...