skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see citations in your other comments, nor sentiments that clarify controlling for factors identified as occupationally non-relevant. If you're advancing the idea (which I deduce from your other comments) that people who are diverse insofar as they have separately relevant attributes which the individuals themselves perceive as incompatible and deleterious, then I have no argument about it, and can admit I don't know anything about the research specifics in that sub-problem of management. But you should explicitly spell out that this is your claim. Furthermore, that's an internal problem, not the problem of rejecting people at the hiring phase for being a bad "cultural fit". For example, if you don't write tests, "move fast and break things", and feel strongly about that, but we have mission critical code and clients who will drop us for competitors if our software is buggy, you're flat out not going to work here. The "diversity" you bring will be objectively bad for the company, barring some proven god-like irreplaceable ability to deliver value on another front.
We did not ship often! Quality is more important to me than being able to quickly fling rubbish out of the door. Anyone can do that.

For audio hardware, you don't want to be grabbing software + firmware updates multiple times a week. You might be on tour with the hardware and changing it whilst on the road is likely a no-no.

I am now at a place where we ship daily, sometimes multiple times (different branches). The emphasis on decent code and quality is now higher than the previous place I worked. The codebase here is also incredibly vast by comparison.

We can still add features quickly but it is of little use if it is of poor quality. What's the point of bad software even if it is quickly shipped?
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> You are really asking to be bullshited

The question is rhetorical, so what does this matter? It is part of a job interview. It is not a VC pitch. If this confuses a candidate and they answer a question not asked I would not hire them. Interpreting and following instructions are important skills.
Do you think the amount of contracts available has changed over your career?
> Large numbers of people getting poached from academic programs by industry.

You say this like someone who thinks academia deserves those people and industry is "stealing" them.
Yeah, I had to try to find it myself as well. I believe this is the one:

http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2017/09/18/gutjnl-2017-3146...
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Unable to find a standard measuring scientific claims and attempting to find such a measure or at least be able to express what such a standard might be.
There is a Weechat plugin.

https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script
> I threw that in there because the healthy options in, say, Queensboro Plaza, Jamaica, or Staten Island aren't better than downtown Columbus (Ohio), so "New York" really meant something more specific.

I very intentionally said "New York", not "Manhattan. I would take the options in Jamaica, Queens over Columbus, Ohio any day.
> Does The Atlantic think people are just going to lay down and die when it comes?

It's a definite possibility [1]

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/06/11/318885533/su...
So creative, Martin! Is this inspired by those 'futuristic' human machine interfaces in movies, such as 'Minority Report'? Was this inspired at all by small devices, like Apple Watch?
I'd be curious to know more.
No offense intended, but I've seen this same posting here the past 3 months with the same description. Several people (including myself) have reached out to learn more and received no response. I'm sure this has drawn a good amount of interest, but I'm curious: has anyone actually received a reply?
This is an argument against inflation. The fact that an invisible hand can manipulate the value of wages further weakens labors bargaining power — a power which has been nothing but eroded over the last 50years. Sorry, I feel employers should at least be honest and upfront with their employees when they’re cutting wages.
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I couldn't agree more. It would be great if people working in software would gain some collective consciousness and start organising. They are such a valuable part of the economy right now that any demands they make could really have a good chance of changing things.
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Are you suggesting that "cultural fit" and "interpersonal skills" are so well defined and bounded that they are completely distinct, and definitely do not overlap?

I remember hearing about a study that success in engineering graduate school is better predicted by the GRE writing scores than by the math scores. So could general communication ability be more important than engineering ability when it comes to job performance (on average, across all people & jobs)? Is it possible that both "cultural fit" and "interpersonal skills" are both trying to get at whether someone is a good communicator who emphasizes getting along with the people around them?
Let us be a little bit fair to the researchers who adopted the p=.001 or p=.0001 uncorrected approaches. Their approach wasn't completely unreasoned, and was even justifiable at one time given available methods.

There were mainly two approaches to multiple comparison corrections: Bonferroni and setting an uncorrected threshold. People here might say, well yeah, use Bonferroni.

However, Bonferroni is really only appropriate when comparisons are independent. Voxels (3D pixels) which are adjacent are highly dependent, and indeed the brain is generally correlated. This dependency makes Bonferrnoi correction (very) inappropriately conservative. Given the average dependence of voxels, some researchers estimated that the average number of true comparisons might be on the order of hundreds to a few thousand. In practice, researchers corrected with Bonferroni, either found a really strong effect, or reset using uncorrected threshold. Some reported results using both. People who read the results interpreted results that way too. Bonferroni = reliable, uncorrected = provisional

The contribution of the salmon study and other research papers is that they truly demonstrated that the typical uncorrected thresholds in use were insufficient to control false positives.
Microsoft claims 99.999% reliability for its newer Surface devices
Uber has solved the economic calculation problem except for that little detail that it loses billions of dollars ever year.

In fact, any business that can make a profit without subsidies has solved the economic calculation problem, at least on a smaller than nationwide scale. Maybe if Amazon in 20 years has vertically integrated enough that it is the only business operating in the country and it replaces money with just telling everyone what to do and the whole thing operating on pure faith in Amazon's benevolence it would have solved the economic calculation problem.
Probably worth distinguishing between the "cybernetics" of control loops and mechanical control systems, which is still very much a thing, versus "organisational cybernetics" and similar attempts to automate human organisations.
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Correct, but in all honesty, I totally forgot about it.
One voice does not equal the system, but in any the push by some to bill for clinician performed US is largely driven by a need to generate funds to justify to administrators the purchase of a $70k device.
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iCloud isnt safe though [1]

[1] https://www.popsci.com/apple-cares-about-your-privacy-unless...
What about Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and the other major members of the military industrial complex? Many companies get nearly all of their revenue from government contracts.

In any case, they’re getting money in exchange for services or goods rendered to the government. SpaceX can at least claim to have provided a very valuable service, for a very good price.

Compare with programs like the F-35, among many other crimes against the American tax payer.
I have had temporary bans on the ACM for opening 8 papers in a new tab. ACM can't handle the me.
The market for autonomous vehicles (land, air, water) alone could become larger than the entire IT industry in 2000.

When you include robots for industry (e.g. Sewbots, Warehouse robots, ...) and household (e.g. Aibo, Amazon Echo, ...) it is clear that the markets are potentially much larger than their current sizes and will grow with improvements in AI.

Recent papers in AI and Deep Learning have shown that it is possible to train robots to adapt to unpredictable environment and human interactions. This will realize many new potential applications in the physical space over the next decade.

Although the fundamentals are the same, the variations are legion and could become highly complex as the environment dictates. It takes a few years at least to become an expert in the field with experience in practical applications. Not everyone possesses a cognitive toolkit necessary to become one either. There will not be an oversupply of experts in AI and ML within the next five or even ten years.
I haven't used it much but from the pricing page it seems affordable enough. There is also a calculator at the bottom for big apps where you can estimate how much it will cost for the plan at scale

https://firebase.google.com/pricing/
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I don't have handy documented examples of private individuals successfully manipulating the market with news, but supposedly during the '07 crash the banks had the rating agencies keep the ratings for the collapsing subprime MBS's dishonestly high long enough for the banks to get out of their subprime MBS positions. Not exactly the same but very similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis#Inacc...
A while ago, I wrote this little macro which does the same thing in racket:

(define-syntax (-> x)
(let ((arg (cdr (syntax-e x))))
(foldl (λ (l r)
(if (identifier? l)
#`(#,l #,r)
#`(#,@l #,r)))
(car arg) (cdr arg))))

Same ideas showing up again and again. Pretty cool, I guess.
I use NATS in production. Kafka and NATS are almost complete opposites. One is a durable, partitioned queue; the other is a no-persistence message queue.
AT&T admits defeat in lawsuit it filed to stall Google Fiber
Apple's business requires physical presence. Google's largely doesn't.
What's wrong with taking photo of your monitor?
There were some pretty decent warning signs the British Empire was over, the American Revolution being a good one.

For the USD to collapse and not take the rest of the world with it, there would have to be some sort of global currency diversification that diminished the centralized power of the US in the global economy.

To continue the British Empire analogy, there would have to be some currency "revolutions" around the world. If the USD tanked, would Euros be able to replace it? Pounds? Yen? Yuan?

All of the countries tied to those currencies are heavily invested in US debt and many of their fortunes are tied to the US consumer.

That paradigm shift may be coming, but it seems like it's still a ways off to me.
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in jannes' and hk__2's defence, that Wikipedia category page looks very incomplete. I'm sure the number is far higher than 24.

Perhaps it's HN apophenia but Google's record of discontinuance does not seem insignificant - it is valid for anyone to be skeptical of their ability to maintain any newer product in the medium term.

That said, I think anyone who's followed Firebase closely since the acquisition should have reasons to have more confidence in their commitment in this one particular case.
I’ve worked extensively in C++ for cross platform on iOS and Android. It’s well supported - you cal C++ natively from Obj-C and use JNI patterns for Java. Cocos2d-x is a cross platform game engine built on C++ as well that has wide adoption and is production ready.

I also have not run into any task yet I haven’t been able to accomplish in C++ (threading, etc is well documented and you have a few options)

I’ve actually written a UI framework on top of Cocos2d-x (essentially C++ and OpenGL) which we use in production that has also been robust and allows us to just write it once and compile for iOS and Android.

C++ is definitely verbose but it is also very flexible and IMHO.
Pinged you last week but never heard back.
He only ever wants to cut the social state. Nothing else. His agenda is clearly that the real moral "good guys" of the United States are big business, and everyone else should basically subsidize them, being mere hangers-on.
Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode braille characters
I use Spacemacs and have the following in inside my .spacemacs in the dotspacemacs/user-config functions:

(require 'cider)
(setq cider-cljs-lein-repl
"(do
(require 'figwheel-sidecar.repl-api)
(figwheel-sidecar.repl-api/start-figwheel!)
(figwheel-sidecar.repl-api/cljs-repl))")

Then I just use figwheel to manage my cljs projects (I think this is the default now for reagent and luminus projects, it's also the default for re-natal for react native development in cljs). Life is pretty good and I have a nice debugger via Chrome.

I prefer the debugger in CIDER (which doesn't work for cljs) to the debugger in Chrome, but the Chrome debugger is decent (and it's what I'd have in Javascript anyway). There is a nice chrome extension to help with clojurescript eval in the browser/debugger called dirac: https://github.com/binaryage/dirac
> Kafka is terribly complex to run

I read this quite often, but we run a relatively small kafka cluster on GCP and it's pretty much hassle-free. We also run some ad-hoc clusters in kubernetes from time to time which also works well.

What exactly have you found complex about running Kafka?
If you set up a web server for anything in the last few years you would have picked up something about SSL. Even if you just skim the rationale before copying the configs from Mozilla.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Modern_com...

If you used git, you probably even did a rebase. Or at least tried to. Or at least saw it as an option.

These aren't obscure university topics.
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They would be paid for the picture at a fair market value and if not and found out some lawyer is going to get rich off of enforcing this rule. I am sure lawyers would turn this into the new ambulance chaser.
Can you explain me what is the current status in dollar terms if I want now to send 5000 dollars from my bank account to your brother in ukraine, when does he have usable it in his local currency, how much disappears on the way in transaction costs and how long exposure I have to BTC price?

How does that compare to e.g. paypal?
No, it does fine with screens. The problem you're encountering is that we don't have any Google Fonts in the MyFonts library currently. The app can only return fonts that we have on MyFonts.
elvish looks a bit like powershell
I don't understand the argument that it's bad because it leaks the IP address to a third party. So would embedding any other resource hosted on a different domain - from JavaScript CDNs to images. No one is suggesting these should be blocked, right?

I have no problem with uBlock blocking requests to the CSP report-uri if the domain in question is on the user's filter list (I'd probably consider it a bug if it didn't do that), but that's not what is happening here (before this was fixed, that is).

The Tor-captcha-thing was about leaking the origin IP of the Hidden Service, so I don't see how it's similar.
In the past, the closest "universal" study/work that to me fit the topic was:

"Why most published research findings are false"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15602364
PPIs are also linked to 50% higher death rate:

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/popular-heartburn-drugs-link...
For a couple of years, the only thing that worked for me was mega-huge doses of PPI's. After several pH studies, endoscopies, and other tests confirmed that I don't have abnormal reflux, food allergies, gluten sensitivity, or anything else, my doctor(s) and I found after years of trial-and-error that a combination of H2 blockers and a low-dose of antidepressants mostly controls my symptoms, which are probably caused by an overly-sensitive gastric nervous system.
For low volume my recommendation would be to just use a traditional relational database configured for high availability.

If you want to use Kafka and need disaster recovery capabilities we typically recommend using Kafka Connect or other similar tools to replicate the data to another cluster or persistent storage system such as S3.
Wow, this is awesome! I wish the data I want to send here wasn't so sensitive. How can I run this on-premises?
Paradoxically, I cured my reflux with betaine HCL (with pepsin) and digestive enzymes.

I found that when I eat meat and/or when I’m stressed, my body doesn’t naturally produce enough “good” acid. This leads to a build up of reflux because the meat is essentially rotting in my stomach, which creates awful “bad acid” reflux.

Instead of the drug(s), with every meal, I recommend taking one capsule of betaine HCL (with pepsin) and one digestive enzyme capsule.
I recall a congressional hearing where a person from SpaceX stated that Couldn't figure out why ULA rockets cost $422 Million while SpaceX rockets only cost ~$90 Million. Methinks there are some established players pulling their congressional strings. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/air-force-budget-rev...
Implement.js – bringing interfaces (and much more) to an interface-less language
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That argument is presented for context in the introduction. The entire rest of the article is about debunking it:

> The central canard of these attacks is that John McCain did not, in fact, add "Section 1615" to the Defense Authorization Act, which is now being finalized by a conference between the House and Senate. This clause does not exist at all in the Senate language. Rather, it was inserted into the House legislation by US Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican from Alabama.

> Two sources familiar with the legislation told Ars that Rogers added Section 1615 specifically to benefit Aerojet and its AR1 rocket engine.

> "The purpose of the provision is simple," one Washington DC source said. "Instead of the Department of Defense continuing their open-ended, market-friendly risk reduction investment across several providers to enable Russian-engine-free launch capabilities, Rogers wants DOD to fund Aerojet to build AR1 to be inserted into Atlas V." In other words, the language benefits Aerojet by favoring its "drop in" engine solution over building a completely new Vulcan rocket.
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> complicated software that they dropped tons of money on without fully understanding. And now they're using the insights from that software

A complicated software telling cops where to start looking for suspects - what could possibly go wrong?

Political and racial profiling as-a-service.

> I hope police are able to use data within reason

...how? You either trust the software and follow the "insights" or not.

>> "Palantir’s customers must rely on software that only the company itself can secure, upgrade, and maintain."
> This is a weird thing to include. Were they hoping for open source?

In most countries the whole legal/judicial system is designed to be fully transparent and thoroughly auditable to ensure fairness and impartiality.

Even at the cost of having a lengthy, expensive (for the tax payers) and sometimes ineffective process. History shows that quick and cheap justice is no justice.

Do you see the problem with having closed source software telling cops which person / neighborhood / company investigate first?
Absolutely, we used store-and-forward semantics when I used Kafka at a previous company to guarantee zero message loss (for data getting into kafka). Now that kafka streams provides exactly once semantics, you're in an even better spot to achieve this.
Apple's documented history of working with the NSA to undermine the privacy of its users: PRISM. Tim Cook struck that deal with the NSA and remains CEO today.