skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you and what really takes the cake away from taking their research as reliable and valid is not only that they skimmed over any kind of educational background and programming concepts (for the sake of the argument I'll assume that they consider them as granted) but calling out loud that engineers that work for Microsoft are worse than the rest is to my eyes a sad generalization that is used just to pinch nerves and win smiles from people who consciously and for reasons of their own don't like Microsoft products (myself being one of them).
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Certainly there are better ways to build rapport than saying things like "I'm in the sort of sustainability space around kind of bringing synergistic value-add to other people's work around this kind of space" though, aren't there?

Human interaction already has plenty of social rituals that serve no purpose than to build rapport. Why pass ritual gum flapping off as practical speech?
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I think this survey is dumb. How do we know the first question is not really a "do you think the light-skinned engineer is better than the dark skinned one?"

Also: Any potential client that would rank an engineer's quality based on his programming language alone, is a client to stay away from. These would be the execs who read a magazine in a flight and suddenly think they know how programming works.

So who cares if your language (assuming you are a one language person, which is a different topic onto itself) is perceived as "bad"? There are many world-class engineers that code in shitty languages, or languages that are full of shitty programmers. Programming language alone proves nothing.

I think all of this is just some more skippable junk being added to the web.

For the sake of argument, let's assume that yes, you are perceived to be a better programmer based on your language. What happens after that very first impression? Can you show yourself to be an incompetent ass after stating your flashy language? What if you smell bad? What if you have an annoying voice, or an obnoxious laugh?

Junk, I tell you! This is useless junk.
Consider what your audience wants to know, not what you want to say. Try to avoid metaphor or analogy.

"We recommend games based on what their friends play. Someday books and movies." = good

"Our EC2 based cloud platform combines social dynamics for consuming a range of media types. Like facebook for apps." = bad
I read "not paying a dime" as referring to their net with the labels

In their business plan, they take a loss for licensing up front, but eventually net positive by licensing the data back to the labels.

Contrast with, e.g., Spotify, who nets a loss with the labels.
Who you send them too, other than your lawyer doesn't protect them from discovery. See Jwz's rant on the badattitude list [1] about lawyers and discovery and companies having to pay after the fact. Talking to people face to face is good, both from a legal protection standpoint and from a relationship building standpoint.

[1] http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html
I tutor my 4 year old daughter in math using Singapore Math texts (http://www.singaporemath.com/). We are working with the kindergarten books and I think my daughter is doing OK. I think that everybody who values math education should do something like that with their children. The gain is just too big to ignore. My daughter is already thinking about addition and while she doesn't yet remember the addition facts she has no difficulty posing word problems as addition problems.

The books are not very difficult for parents to understand and give you a baseline that you can follow very closely. Also, I hope that since it is unlikely that my child will do the same book in school I do not run the risk that the she will refuse to do math in school since she has already done the book.

Since you have the book you can set the pace based on how difficult the lesson of the day seems for the child. You can do one page per week or 10 pages per day (both these things have happened to me). Of course there can be several levels of understandings of the same lesson and in my case I usually am happy with the lowest level. To correct for that I do sequentially 2 different books that have the same material (Singapore Math provides multiple books for the same level). I skipped some chapters about weights and volumes since these seemed too involved for my daughter (3 at the time), but I have done everything else that is on these books.

I must say that until now this has been a wonderful experience for me. I have never needed to ask my daughter to do math, anytime she sees me free she asks for it herself. And almost always I am the one who tries to cut the lesson short, making sure that next day she will want to come back wanting more.
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> the company has no license

Did I miss this part? Source, please.
I started the day off sympathizing with them because I thought Ben was not right in saying they ripped off the name. But now Freshdesk has proved that many of the commentators here are right. They are spammers and they even spam your Google Docs. See the screenshot here. http://twitpic.com/7p0m3o
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This is my experience.

I've lost friends to sudden deaths -- usually accidents. It's a bolt out of the blue, but it's over quickly and there's rarely much suffering.

I've lost family "after a long illness" as the news reports say, and the roller-coaster of misdiagnoses, initial treatments, exploratory surgeries, continued uncertainty of diagnostic monitoring and procedures, hope for treatment advances, false hope from charlatans and quacks, relapses, remissions, and the final, inevitable, unstoppable, and increasingly debilitating decline, tears people, families, and communities to pieces.

I've also seen cases where the end was known, but treatment brought, at a relatively low cost and with little dread or pain, an extra six months of a life that was happy and full of love. In that case, not so bad.
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>I don't think so, at least not in a violent way.

Well, it is really hard to imagine how something/somebody can surpass Cro-Magnon in the ways of violence. On the other side, only violence can keep the Cro-Magnon at bay as Cro-Magnon willn't allow to be peacefully surpassed.

>"but only a buffoon thinks that man can be overleapt"

yep, the 20th century history is littered with such failed over-leap attempts. Curious time we live at - the previous attepts of "leap"-type [necessarily forced] transformations of humans and society are finished and no new is initiated yet. Is it quiet before the storm? I don't believe that we learned the lesson.
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I do that all the time, but not because I don't want to look stupid. Usually it's because they're talking about something I'm just not interested in, but I don't want to be rude about it.
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I love the "Big Bang" episode where Howard raises the topic of the Drake equation. Sheldon immediately rattles it off, first the equation itself, then a rapid-fire explanation of each term in the equation. Sheldon loves that thing. Of course it turns out that Howard has adapted the equation to his own purposes, namely determining how many sentient human females willing and able to mate with Howard exist within the greater Los Angeles metro area.
For starters, people should at least try to master enough maths to be able to master their own personal finances. That most people chose to neglect to do so and instead gave 100% trust to their bank advisers might be one of the causes for recurring economic crisises(es).

Also while I can think of several jobs you might be able to conduct without knowing maths, performance in most of them could nevertheless improved a lot by knowing maths. I imagine running your own business without knowing maths is also a recipe for disaster, so by deciding against maths, you automatically settle for loan slavery for your life.
A planet's chemistry is influenced by it's size, distance from it's star, the the types of supernova that happened in the region where it formed etc. However, I don't think there is going to be all that much differences between basic planet chemistry. Due to basic physics we are never going to find a 'natural' planet that's 95% pure silver. (Someone could presumably make one though.)
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Can you provide a link? Best I can find on T-Mobile is "First 100 MB at up to 4G speed" for $50/month.
This module pales in comparison to the previous module write up of Dnode. Sure this is helpful, but not exactly something everyone must know of. I find optimist and Dnode (actually a lot of SubStacks modules) to be more noteworthy. One thing I will say is at least this utility module is well documented.
I upvoted both of you because you each raised some interesting points. The thing that piqued my interest was the analogy of "feeling" math like you "feel" music.

Early in high school (late 1980's mind you), I decided to take up percussion to play in our award-winning marching band. I started out on cymbals, but that was too simple. Then, I worked on the rudiments of percussion/snare drum. I had to work hard on the "math" of the musical notation, but I soon realized that I had a feel, an "ear" for complex percussion rhythms. And it jived with my already attuned ability in singing. There was something natural that "just clicked."

I see this same pattern in African spiritual music performed by people with no formal education. There's a natural mathematically knowledge they possess without any formal math education.

To me, music is just a higher abstraction of math. One that people with no math education can appreciate without even knowing why.

It's only when educated in math, that the "resonation of the soul" takes place. And I'll superficially agree with the reasons of the other commenters about why the education is lacking.

My point is that we don't have to teach them to feel anything about math. Some people will grok it at a deeper level than others and come to that realization on their own. But I think the overall analogy to music is pretty good. Mozart grokked music theory better than anyone alive today, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate his genius (given no formal training). And I couldn't integrate an equation today (15 years out of college), but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate math in my life.
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So very near equivalence in sales (which look even closer if you take into account the fact that iOS has been on the market about 30% longer than Android) is an argument for consumers "overwhelmingly demanding" the tighter animation scheduling of iOS?

I'd say if anything this argues for a total absence of correlation with user experience, no?
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The Batman Curve is not the solutions of a single equation.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BatmanCurve.html
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And what is "content-rich content" anyway? The "translation" is still meaningless without domain-knowledge, but is now far less factual. I guess the content is now less content-rich!
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iOS has the advantage that all apps go through an approval process. If someone is doing lots of work on the main thread and blocking the UI, the reviewer can catch it and suggest to the developer to make their code suck less.
Neat, vncsnapshot would be a cool way to get output out of multiple browsers too. :)
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The other side of the same coin, for the curious: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1495
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I have used geometry a lot in programming, actually - usually when it comes to games programming. Of course you might not need it for standard web development, but I think enough of a case could be made to include it in a preparation for CS.

Also, when we did the "congruent triangles" stuff in school, it was actually the most "graphical" way of conducting mathematical proofs. It was a very fun way to practice doing proofs. I don't even remember how much we continued to prove stuff in other parts of math. And again I think knowing about conducting proofs is useful/essential for CS.

Could it be that you never had the congruent stuff at school? Our teachers mentioned that there are alternative ways to do geometrical proofs (I think with mirroring and projections?), so your teacher might have chosen another route. Because the congruency stuff is really easy to remember imho, it seems likely you never actually heard about it.

Summary of "the congruency stuff" off the top of my head: two triangles are congruent if the have either three equal edges, or two equal edges with an equal angle between them, or one equal edge and two equal angles. (equal meaning same length for edges). I think that's it :-/ (it's late...).
It's pretty standard for CEOs and executives of publicly traded companies to delete all email -- not just locally, but ensure their entire email system, backups, etc are set to expunge an email entirely from the system as soon as they delete it.

Mainly for this reason.

Case in point: Eric Scmidt http://gawker.com/5505606/gmail-overlord-always-deletes-his-...
Why 3.2? It's the initial, somewhat broken iPad release. 3.1.2 or 4.0 are better minimum targets than 3.2
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Lots of great Science Fiction has started with that question. Eon comes to mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_%28novel%29
I've had this same argument when I hear project managers talk about what the "ask" is. I don't think "request" is a complicated word.
Or more specifically, customer experience.
Well, so do I (since I worked on the Newton). :-)
Exactly. I tend to assume that any email I write might eventually wind up permanently plastered on the net somewhere. Face-to-conversation is not only safer but a lot more satisfying.
Doesn't the quadratic equation pop up all the time if you try to solve equations? Which you might do now and then, if you could remember how to solve equations, which is probably also a negative for most people :-(

But definitely for personal finance I think quadratic stuff might pop up now and then. Exponential stuff definitely pops up...
This couldn't be more true. Your typical grandmother is about as confused about modern TVs as you can get. They get bewildered when the TV "stops working" because they pushed a button that did something they can't figure out how to un-do.

A typical remote has about fifty buttons on it. I have several and there are buttons on it I have never used, nor can think of any conceivable use for them in the future. Why do I need DVD buttons on my TV remote when it doesn't support the PS3, for instance?

When people shop for TVs the most important thing, even beyond picture quality, is can you figure out the menus? What use is a super high-def 120hz screen if it's running your television shows all stretched and blurry anyway because you have the wrong aspect ratio selected?
There are two issues with extended text entry on an iPad: the lack of tactile feedback, and the tradeoff of typing and viewing ergonomics. They've added tactile feedback, but you still need to keep the iPad near horizontal in order to type on the screen.

I've got a bluetooth keyboard/case/stand made by Zagg (branded by Logitech), and although I haven't tried the TouchFire, I would prefer my current setup. A side bonus is easy accessibility to all characters—I don't do any programming on this, but I write LaTeX and Markdown regularly, so making curly brackets or asterisks easier is a nice plus. I thought I would benefit from the increased screen real estate (when using a bluetooth keyboard, the on-screen keyboard is hidden), but in practice I don't think it actually helps.

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Wow... thats a really comprehensive, meaningful comment. Finally came to know whats so "unorganized" and "unpolished" about Android. I upped your post, but it was good enough to require a verbal vote of appreciation!
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> Mom would LOVE the services of a local cleaning lady for a day.

But where can you find an American-made cleaning lady these days?
"I love how he gives himself credit for managing to guess 10 correctly. These tests are mostly multiple choice!"

Well he obviously is really bad in maths, so he might not have realized he was due to have some random hits :-)
"There is no liquidity reason that explains why there's plenty of money available to seed concepts and not enough money available to A rounds."

Is this true? I'd have assumed that most seed funding is provided by smaller investors who are investing personal funds while venture capital is using institutional capital.

We're now year three+ after the general market downturn, which means deleveraging, wealth destruction and a preference for liquid asset classes (i.e. look at Treasury yields) shrinking the availability of institutional capital available for VC funds. And isn't this exactly what we are supposed to see in this situation? Smaller and knowledgeable investors pump up the bottom end of the market because it offers a much better return than sticking cash in anything else?
Handy, but I don't see the point in this being anything to do with CoffeeScript until it's an extension to the syntax itself.

It currently seems to be a simple addition to the Function prototype for Javascript, and happens to be written in CoffeeScript (why for something so small I've no idea).
While I have no desire to do it, It could be transformed into polar coordinates and then combined into a single Fourier series to piece it together.
Took a moment for it to pop up for me with Firefox.
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Add to this picture the fact that there are hundreds of millions of devices, every iPhone/iPod touch is 3.5" at an aspect ratio of 3:2 and every iPad is 9.7" at 4:3.
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I knew someone who worked at GCHQ doing the kind of work they are hiring for with this.

He was constantly looked over for promotion, and after some time pushed his superiors to explain why.

After some back-and-forth it was revealed to him 'off the record' that in his psychometric testing he had a "too great a sense of right and wrong" and didn't fit the profile for promotion.

He shortly left the service.

Consider carefully if this is the kind of place you really want to work.

EDIT: I'm a British citizen if that adds anything to the above comment.
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So, I'm living in a country that has public health care too, worse than Swedish, but oncology is pretty well funded.

I also have "fight for life at all cost" experience, though only with animals (I provided a kitty foster home, and through that assisted in a vet clinic somewhat). It's not like with humans, but enough.

I have also seen my grandfather's last days, so maybe that influences me somewhat.

If I ever get cancer, barring some incredibly lucky circumstances when it's completely resolvable, I will avoid treatment. The suffering is not worth it, and the pressure on the loved ones is not just financial.
I love it, slow-playing intelligence is the best. I have a ton of respect for those with world-class intelligence and the ability to refrain from constantly showing it off.
One problem with the approach you've pointed out is very very specific selectors. This really couples the structure of your HTML to how it displays. This works well for a while, but on bigger projects it has fallen down for me every time.

I've been finding that keeping my selectors no more than 3 deep is a good balance. It also forces me to abstract container styles into re-usable bits, and name things properly instead of exploiting the structure of the HTML.
I know next to nothing about Ontario, but don't they have at least a few great universities? I know there's Waterloo and U of Toronto. Are they not big enough to provide a good pool of talent?
Can't a developer dream? :p
Only if we're lucky.
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Actually the main reason I have seen in practice is that banks still use a lot of legacy software in their core banking systems and many of the green screen mainframe programs have things like maximum password length of 10 characters or no punctuation (alphanumeric allowed). Of course eminently solvable but still surprisingly common.
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I agree, I don't think school systems deserve the blame. They're shouldering what might be considered an unrealistic burden, but this is a potentially major way to improve performance - by recognizing the differences that lie within students and getting 'single-mother-on-welfare' to perform as well as 'book mcbook III'.
I use VoIP all the time, Callcentric. I've never had problems using my iPhone and Acrobits (using G.711u and G.711a audio codecs) and making calls to US/Canada numbers. As long as my WiFi connection is good then the call is great as they use the same Tier 1 carriers everyone else uses in the US. If you're having problems with call quality it's probably an issue with your connection.
This comes up every time passwords are discussed, and it's a bad idea. A password sent over a secure channel is fine. A hashed password sent over a secure channel is generally fine, though more complicated. A password sent over an unsecured channel is not fine. Neither is a hashed password sent over an unsecured channel.

Hashing the password before transmission gains you basically nothing. Hashing on the client side simply means that your hashed password becomes the effective password. Anyone who could theoretically sniff the password could also sniff the hashed password and perform the same kind of impersonation or man-in-the-middle attacks. You're introducing a bunch of complexity (and breaking compatibility with clients that don't, e.g., support Javascript), and you're getting nothing useful in return. And yes, you could implement some kind of challenge-response and basically try to reimplement a secure handshake and auth, but you'll probably get it wrong because security implementations by laypeople are generally quite broken, and at the end of the day, you should just turn on SSL and do it the way that works.