skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also instantly thought of this when I read Aaron's post. It is a bit dishonest not to credit this famous promulgator of the idea.

more from Feynman, via

"Cargo Cult Science", adapted from a commencement address given at Caltech (1974)

quoted at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in "cargo cult science." It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid — not only what you think is right about it; other causes that could possibly explain your results; and things you thought of that you've eliminated by some other experiment, and how they worked — to make sure the other fellow can tell they have been eliminated.

Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can — if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong — to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it out, then you must also put down all the facts that disagree with it, as well as those that agree with it...

In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Quite a few RFCs published on April 1st are to be considered with somewhat of a grain of salt, cf. RFC 1149 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt)
I was sure we would be mentioning Blender UI :)

Well indeed, not very noob-friendly and not very respectful of UI conventions.
However, it is reckoned that once you get use to it, it is very efficient :

No modal screen. The screen is divided. You can adjust your workspace depending on your current task. Tweaking parameters is very easy thanks to well designed widgets.

If you try, remember that you should leave your left hand on the keyboard (like a fps) and use the keyboards shortcuts.
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With a webapp, you only download the images for the page that is being shown, not all the images for all the pages.
My first programming job was for a boss who (we believe) had Asperger's. He was great and the job was great. I mean, he was a bit weird. But so what.

Anyway, it's a serious condition, but beneath it is a real person who may be a great person. Or not. Just like everybody else.

I think it's more likely that the guy got interviewed by an anti-social jerk.
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I'm an embedded consultant at a small firm of young guys. We use subversion, git and mercurial internally. We have project management tools, bug tracking and issue management, scheduling and time tracking and version control. We use VMware and VirtualBox to keep versioned installs of operating systems and toolchains. We're up to speed on the latest languages and frameworks, and we use whatever is right for the task at hand.

Our customers do not, in general, have any of those things. Many of them have no central version control (independent teams sometimes have subversion setup for themselves). Those who have it are usually using CVS, and usually don't use it very well.

Embedded is a field of "old fogeys" still. It isn't taught in school, it isn't advertised very well, and the companies who do it don't offer the cool perks that web companies do. A lot of these companies are running into problems where a large portion of their engineering force is retiring, and nobody is available to replace them.

This is more likely to be the case with our big customers than the smaller ones. The small ones usually have at least have some people pushing for modern project management, though it's often not implemented across the whole company.

Many of them got into the field when microcontrollers were extremely limited and C compilers were unreliable -- most of them learned assembly and used it for most of their career. There is still a tendency for the older ones to not believe us when we say their project can be written in C. Ten years ago, they would have been right.

Obviously, you can't generalize an entire industry as being "way behind", but many embedded firms just haven't progressed the same way those in other industries have.

Also, it's critical to realize that it has nothing to do with the engineers not being smart. They tend to be quite brilliant, in fact. But many of them are electrical engineers with a background in analog electronics, physics, and math, instead of modern software development.
For a real example, though not for manned flight, check out Orbital's Pegasus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(rocket)
I don't think that's practical. In an industry with very few players, it could work, but there are tons of small banks, credit unions, and online banks. Do you really think the big banks could convince every single one of them to just accept their share of the pie and stop trying to compete?
That actually explains my interviewing experience pretty well. Every job that I've been hired for I was sure that the interview did not go all that well.
You, sir, have just found the perfect nickname for my girlfriend.
Fair enough.

The reason I brought it up is because the Israel issue affects me personally since I try to maintain an Israel boycott. There is a growing group of boycotters around the world. Things are already hard enough with Intel having a big facility over there. This new facility by Apple is big news to us.
Any idea when the Google Data API and Data Feed Query Explorer will be updated to let us retrieve these new metrics?
Definite nightmare. And apparently I'm NOT the only one having this issue - there have been at least two other users affected, based on a posting on Crashplan's FB wall.. here's my screenshot of it.. http://jeffreydonenfeld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/...
The implied assumption (not you, the credit industry) that I value a relationship with a bank more than my friends is incredibly wrong.

I would gladly take a bullet for some of my friends. I would watch a banker drown with no guilt whatsoever on any day.
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and it's not only background tracking, it's also objects tracking : http://youtu.be/2AvQiOf2IGA
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This list misses "Everything", the instant file search engine. It's the app I miss the most on Linux and OS X. (http://www.voidtools.com/)

Everything's secret is that it taps into the file system journal to instantly know about any file name change. On *nix systems "locate" needs to manually rescan the whole HD to update its database, so you can't use it to quickly find a recent file, and Spotlight on OS X is just a joke when it comes to finding a file by its name. (Or when you simply want to know where a file is)
Here is some actual data comparing ethnic groups. It does indeed conclude that blacks are more likely to exhibit risky financial profiles than whites.

http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/wp/wp1992/wp92_7.pdf

However, the study also concludes that for a sample of black people statistically identical to whites, the approval rate is only 82% (compared to 90% for whites).
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another thing that irritates me about these claims of a shortage is that almost all of the companies doing the hiring take pride in their challenging interview process and acknowledge a high rate of "false negatives" - ie., that that they are very conservative about making an offer, and that this does result in a "no offer" to developers who probably would have worked out.

I made this point in a previous thread, and ended up in a lengthy debate/unrelated-parallel-point-making back and forth with someone who pointed out that there's a good reason to set up a hiring system that results in false positives - bad hires are so destructive that it's worth losing out on good hires to avoid the occasional really bad one.

I agree, and I think that companies should be allowed to have as high a standard as they please, and accept as many false positives as they like. I just think that if a company has decided to be selective and accept many false positives, then they've more or less decided to put themselves in a difficult hiring position. Sure, it may be worth it - I certainly think it's worth it. But if that's the case, why on earth is it newsworthy that hiring is difficult? Especially if you aren't offering far above market rate pay?
Comparing Israel to North Korea is a nasty, partisan political statement, not a reasonable part of an HN discussion about Apple.
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A resume farm is an entity that collects (farm) resumes. The job postings are most likely taken from other sites. Salaries are inflated to make you want to submit your resume.
An Internet with SOPA would be an Internet without reddit
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That's funny, I didn't even notice it. Banner burnout, I suppose.
At the risk of completely derailing the discussion, sometimes the UI simply just needs to be learned. People who are unfamiliar with elevators would have no idea how to use one.. there's no instructions anywhere, just a panel with numbers. If you aren't familiar with those bathroom faucets that turn on when you put your hands under them, you'll spend a few minutes just staring at it looking for a knob. Eventually, it catches on.

You are right that there's an initial curve, though, and I don't know how to deal with that other than just through the painful experience you described.
I'll qualify myself by saying I've done a lot of ecommerce, roughly $1.5M on my own ecommerce stores over the last few years.

Also, I am probably your target customer. Married, 3 kids, gift giver.

At first glance, great idea and great execution. I like the design, and the concept seems to make sense. It gives you a sort of "aha, that is smart" moment. I felt like you need to move your Get Started button under the 1-2-3 steps, where I actually decided I wanted to get started.

In addition, the gift choices look like good ones. Limited choice, high quality, decent value for the price.

Now let me tell you why I probably won't convert, and maybe you can apply this to other customers: I naturally feel inclined to put this decision off until later. The idea of making these choices now and forgetting them in a few weeks is a bit scarry. Will I remember what she's getting on V-day? Birthday? What if I find another great present later and buy it, then this seems like an awkward side gift? Could I get a better deal if I just pick these up at a florist myself? The jewelry seems pretty inexpensive, is it any good? Ahh I think I should just put this off. Too much thinking when the deadline is so far away.

</thoughts>

So, I don't want you to respond to these thoughts, but consider what they mean for the business and your conversion rate. The best way to increase conversion is to understand the target customer.
Ah yes, I missed that. Hiring 6 people of decent quality will take a long time.
Interesting. That study was only shortly after the FICO scoring system was introduced, so I'm curious if anything has changed.
I used to be pretty good at it. It is a style meant for using the application and nothing else. It is extraordinarily efficient.
Public money for public office.

Although the logistics are hairy to work out, I think that the most important reform that could be made would be banning private contributions to campaigns entirely, and making every candidate equally funded through tax funds.

Every candidate should have an equal voice, and should not have to sell their souls or pander to large donors in order to be competitive in their campaign.
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I don't have answers about any of this; really, I just having growing questions.

I don't disagree with you. Particularly with 2-income professional families (or ambitious younger people in challenging jobs like startups), there clearly is very little emotional and mental energy to spare for this level on non-voting, day-in/day-out political engagement.

But with that said, I have in my own extended family seen the extent to which conservative churches often play aggressively political roles in organizing and putting lots of political pressure on politicians. As busy as we all feel, somehow they still often manage to find the boots on the ground for this kind of stuff.

I hate to get all Oprah / the Secret on this topic, but I'm inching towards thinking that this entire topic is about confidence, primarily. Most us of in internet land seem to have a certain exasperated resignation that things can't get better, only worse. It seems like a deep seated belief. It's hard to find the energy to fight when you assume you're fighting a lost cause, regardless of how worthwhile. I'm not sure how much of that is self-fulfilling - maybe no one can.
Your company interview training included "horns and haloes", right?
There's always a discussion about quality and relevancy. What I find most interesting here is that 'cute animal pictures' are specifically called out as off-topic in the guidelines, and cat pictures hold such a strong connotation of lack of content to me.

And then, 130 points puts it at 5th or 6th rank of the front page, sorted just by points (at the time of this post).

</snob>
The Flickr discussion made the same point. The conclusion was that pictures of cats are meant to be amusing rather than literal expressions of a single IETF standard.
It's a honeypot article. Upvote it and your upvotes count less. Flag it, and your flags count more.
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This is actually the first time I've heard of Blender, and...wow. Every once in a while the free software scene totally blows my mind, and these folks really seem to have the big-name tools in their sights.

It's been a long, long time since I understood 10% of what a production-class modeling and animation tool can do, but maybe someone here knows:

How does Blender compare to Maya, for example? What would this project need to achieve before folks would start switching?
I'm interested in which particular comments you think demonstrate a lack of tact, and how you would improve them to be more tactful, if you have the time.
Exactly. Pseudoscience has two sides: emotion-based mindless acceptance, and emotion-based mindless rejection. Wozniak's hotheaded web article demonstrates the latter type.

And the term "Anecdotal evidence" is often used as smear word to ridicule what otherwise would be called direct observation. It's an old dishonest politician ploy: if you can't rebut observations, try to discredit the observer.

In my own case I found (during school days, cramming for finals) that I'd fall into a weird fast-cycling sleep schedule with no hours-long sleeps and no apparent sleep debt over a term of weeks. I suspect that conventional sleep research would label this insomnia: needing constant catnaps of 5-30min duration, and complete inability to sleep nights. Most important: it took many days before the fast-cycling appeared, and once this rhythm took hold, no alarm clock was needed. When I required a nap, extreme grogginess came on suddenly and I almost had no choice. Immediate dreaming as soon as my eyes were closed. ~10 minutes later, bam, I'd suddenly wake up fully with no grogginess. Hours later the cycle would repeat. Also it took me days/weeks to escape it and regain the ability to sleep for more than a half hour. I found that strange mental effects did eventually appear, but only after many weeks. This wasn't 'sleep debt,' more like mild sleep deprivation psychosis.
I second this. "Everything" feels magically fast and is the most overlooked Windows app out there.
But back in the early days of the Internet, the hassle/quality/price ratios were not the same, so I suspect that would not work as well these days.

For a start downloading a full CD would be quite a faf back when most people had dial-up or something else slow as their main connection method. Costly too if you were in a country/area where there were no plans that didn't result in you paying per minute for time on dial-up.

To keep the download size manageable you'd have to use a relatively low bitrate, which would probably mean most people could tell the difference between them and the CD, especially with the older compressors with psycoacoustic models inferior to those used today (giving the choice on dial-up: high quality some time later today, or low quality sooner).

Being able to download a track, at a high enough quality that you can't tell the difference without breaking out a spectrum analyser, in a matter of seconds means the number of people paying for the CD because that is easier is going to fall drastically. The number of people buying other merchandise of tickets for live gigs might remain more constant though: physical delivery and "being there" can't be refactored by a fast connection in the same way.
None of these actually issue the HTTP status code claimed: they're just linked to pages with images.

Request URL:http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/404
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200 OK
Business folks have over-simplified Jobs' contribution to everything by making it seem he single-handedly was responsible for anything.
It depends on location, in Arizona, 115k for senior is looked at as good, in the Bay Area its crap
I'm only guessing but I can see how someone would view him as being overqualified.

Leading from that, someone who is overqualified for their current job is probably bored and looking for a new job.
What type of development do you do primarily? For web dev, a mac is still the best choice in my opinion b/c you can VM to test all browsers.

I think hardware-wise, most laptops have more than enough power for local development needs. What's more important to me is screen size/quality and keyboard quality. In general, I plug in when I'm at home, so even these qualities aren't a deal breaker.
I'm fine with banning corporate money in politics as long as all groups are banned from giving money (e.g. unions). U.S. Citizens should be able to contribute individually in a non-tax deductible manner as they want to a candidate directly or a registered political party, but no other group or person. The obvious exception would be the political parties themselves (new tax status or maybe it exists now).

I would also like all public money pulled. We have a budget crisis and need to stop all non-essential spending. If you cannot convince people to give you money then you are not going to convince anyone to vote for you either.
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That's funny, how did HBGary get Palantir's site license for Kapow Katalyst if they had nothing to do with them?

http://leaks.anonamegame.com/aaron_hbgary_com/13188.html

How did they get a pt-themis-bcc@palantir.com forwarding address?

You call them vague allegations, but they look like facts to me. "In error" meaning "oops we got caught", or, facetiously "oh dear did I push the plan and scheme and conspire button again?"
The correct way to handle this is to email an authenticated link that prompts password setting on the store.
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Persistent cookies can easily be cleared. IP address limitations might prevent legitimate users behind firewalls, while allowing others to vote multiple times if they have access to multiple computers.

I've looked into the problem for my own voting site (https://modernballots.com/) and I haven't found a good way of doing this for public polls where anyone's allowed to vote.

The solution I developed was to just create the option for private elections that require invitations to vote in. This has its own issues (most notably the distribution of invitation keys), but it's worked so far.

Long story short, there's no good way of doing what you're looking for unless you're willing to accept the risk of false positives, false negatives, and the problems that come with both.
<script>document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].className += ' js'</script>

here, in <head>. Can co-exist with conditional IE classes a là HTML5 Boilerplate.
Total Commander is, hands down, the best file manager out there. Nothing really comes close in terms of speed and customization.

Quite honestly, it's a big part of the reason I still keep a Windows station at work (along with an MBP and an Ubuntu box).
how is this different (hidden encrypted partition) from say truecrypt?
This answers the #1 objection to using CUDA instead of OpenCL: vendor lock.

What it doesn't answer is who's going to write the compilers and if they will ever happen.

But it does prove NVIDIA is still a player in the many-core game and that there are still a few more rounds to go before there's a winner.
The reason companies can't hire good people is because good people already have good jobs, and many of these companies suffer from "sticker shock" when they see how much money good developers are already making.

I recently interviewed at a major online retailer and cloud computing provider (heh). The person interviewing me said, "wow, you're the best person of the last 50 we've interviewed". They followed up by making me a shit offer. If you want me to move to a different state to work for you, I want a 25% raise and an extra week of vacation. Not a salary match and two fewer weeks of vacation. Their justification was "it wouldn't be fair if you negotiated a better offer than other people on your team".

That's why you can't hire people.
It's awesome to see that 30 conferences have adopted an anti-harassment policy in the last year, largely because of Ada Initiative's efforts!
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The System Documentation section of erlang docs has well written getting started guides: http://erlang.org/doc/ -- they were the only reference we had before these silly books started showing up a few years ago.

(implied: i was erlanging before it was cool. you probably hadn't heard of it back then.)

Just remember to learn Erlang in layers. Vague order of learning: base language/runtime, APIs, more runtime, more APIs, concurrency, behaviors, nodes, more APIs, multi-nodes, ports, drivers, nifs, ...
The snark and smarminess set his point home more effectively.
Anything's possible in the world of government contracting.
The bits about queries by ID being faster haven't been true for the past couple years. getElementsByClassName and most uses of querySelectorAll are just as fast. Very few DOM queries end up using Sizzle at all.
Interesting fact: Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS movement, is getting his masters degree at Tel Aviv University.
You should not use W3Schools for reference, take a look: http://w3fools.com/