skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do find it odd that teachers would rather be judged based on one or two people observing their classroom and ignoring actual student output, rather than raw numbers.

As a developer I'd much rather be evaluated on some metric I could optimize for (I think some metric measuring feature value/bugs/fix rate/etc...), rather than just my manager watching me code/debug a couple of times per month.

Okay, I really don't understand this mindset. You'd really prefer it is, say, 1/3 of your salary was determined by the number of lines of code you wrote? Or the number of bugs you closed? Or some equally inane metric that only loosely correlates with your actual performance and can be easily gamed?

What am I missing?
You have a category problem. Science's ability to seek causal explanation to phenomena is why it functions. You can't selectively reject theories just because they conflict with religious belief.

By the way,Einstein's quote wasn't in the context of defending the intrusion of religious dogma into the scientific method. Einstein called his religion 'a cosmic religion' and described himself as agnostic.
His IP address and later his MAC address were blocked. The situation was analogous to walking into a public mall and then specifically being kicked out and told to not come back. Should you come back anyways it is trespassing despite being a public space.
Cities affect surrounding temperatures for thousands of miles
This is really sad to hear.

I knew Michael in college, and his problems were quite evident to those around him, even then. At the same time you just knew in your bones that he was a good person (better than most of of the people around him), and in possession of a keen and fierce intellect, besides.

It's such a waste of resources to keep someone like that locked up. He's a good man. He needs help and he needs love (and perhaps also medication). But he doesn't need to be in jail, and he doesn't need to have his name dragged through the public records like that.
So there's a stupendous expansion in sales of mid-range and low-range Samsung/Android devices, an Android-first carrier affiliate says Apple is stupid, people with Android phones want Android apps, and marketing dilettantes are tired of seeing the rabble using -their- status phone.

Doomed, Apple doomed. Sell sell sell. Steve Jobs dead. Flop doom flop sell doom.
as there's only really one implementation of this concept common use

Function composition really isn't that uncommon.
You should not use '*' in dependencies ever! As history changes your app WILL break.

app.configure is also no longer needed. Just configure everything at the top level. If you have different config based on environment, use an if statement or some flag off the process.env
I agree with your comments on DMCA. Good thoughts here.

As for stating the truth -- how I don't care if people downvote my opinion, observing how HN is filled with a majority of wanna be's and know it all's and very few do'ers, or encouraging startups with similar views to support my comment -- it isn't necessarily "baiting" for votes. That's colorful language meant to incite dissent, and for that I applaud your salesmanship; but, I actually find your PS to be a bit sanctimonious and churlish. But -- we all have a choice to up/down vote based on content or presentation of someone's comment. I guess I just care more about the content.

And for that, I give you an upvote.
Thanks! This gave me some great ideas for how I can use this method in my own deployment process. The only exception is that many times I need to sync content both downstream and upstream.

For example, in one case I want up-to-date content from production down into dev for an enhancement I'll work on. In another case I'll want to create content in dev before publishing on production. Most of the time I actually do have domain specific URLs in the content so I'll need to use a different method to migrate content between environments.

Great post!
There was a similar story in Texas:

https://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/former-u-of-texas-stud...
What the Small Player Can Expect When Using a Lobbyist
And this is why I never post sarcastic jokes to Hacker News. :P
Basically I think this is some sort of screwjob being done on him. I too know that deep down he is a good person, he is just going through a bad time in his life.

I am glad I could inform you on his situation, maybe you can order him something in jail? I ordered a snack pack that contained Atomic Fireballs in them because that is one of his favorites.

Yes he shouldn't be in jail, he should be in a mental hospital and be given his medicine he was denied and be treated for his mental illness so he can recover.
Yes, Steam works fine. However, Steam games are patchy. I've got at least half a dozen which no longer work because of W8. I tried all the fixes drummed up by the Steam community all for naught.

Reinstalled Windows 7. BAM everything works exactly how you'd expect. Hell, it's refreshing not having a fullscreen start menu which takes 2 seconds to start using due to the fade in effect and disorientation you get from transitioning to "Metro" from "Aero."

I whole heartily believe Windows 8 is a waste of money and time for desktop. It should've removed Aero and been Tablet only.
"It is a shame that the human race tries to progress without the active help of a approximately a quarter of the world population."

"Yes, some people in countries dominated by islam do fight for their freedom of conscience and for science to prevail. ."

These two contradict themselves.
So replace a metric with 0.1 correlation with one having 0.0 correlation?

Two problems with this:

1. The other metric almost certainly doesn't have an 0.0 correlation, but we don't know that for sure since the data wasn't released for whatever reason.

2. The metric with 0.1 correlation (or whatever the number is)... keep in mind the context. What is the correlation with? Test scores, something that can be and is often rigged, and is at best tangentially related to the ultimate goal which is inherently qualitative in nature. I think the comparison to programming is instructive. If you had 1/3 of your salary determined by the LOC you wrote or the number of bugs you closed, you would game the system and maximize your salary, even if you weren't providing value by doing that and even if those naive metrics did very weakly correlate with performance in some big study prior to implementing the monetary incentive. What would be gained in that scenario?

If you are advocating that we should use the school principal's opinion rather than VAM, why do you believe opinion is superior? Do you have evidence that principal's opinion has a higher correlation with student outcomes than VAM?

One of the points made in the blog I linked to is that it's unfortunate that they didn't release that data. And as I said above, it's not straightforward to assume that these weak correlations are actually meaningful in practice.
Sorry about that. I was clearly so proud of myself for getting my keyboard to do the two dot thing on top of the Ö that I forgot the most basic link of all. Updated now.
are you kidding me, did anyone notice the date? This is from April of last year 2012 http://www.reuters.com/search?blob=bitcoin
Refactoring is probably the one area where good IDEs shine the most.

I was expecting to see some advanced Emacs / vim or whatever texteditors or IDE support for refactoring Go code.

Not just manual extraction of common behavior into a tinier interface.

But I'm more and more impressed by Go and may give it a try one of these days.
How does your 25y China research made the Chinese character wrong?

It should be 中国研究 but you said 中文研究, which means Chinese text research.
The example the article gives isn't a general C problem, it's a common bug in some (mostly older) C/C++ compilers. As you point out GCC does not have this bug.
Didn't even read the story as soon as I saw it was an economist article. It's a complete rag written by hipsters, there's a reason no article has writing credits.

Here's an older yet excellent argument and slash piece why the economist is a piece of trash http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=10127&...
Why F#
The base model Kindle with ads.

I take the train every day and using an iPad 2 to read is really inconvenient and invites theft. The Kindle fits in my coat pocket, is a delight to read with (sitting or standing), and no one wants to jump you for an e-reader.
You will never win by directing your anger at the people who are just responding to the incentives provided by the system.
Nice spam if you are a moron not checking the date and realizing that it's just some Bitcoin fan trying to create 'hype'.
In other words, the reason to use it is if you're already using it.
How Acquiring a Website Can Be a Faster Path to Profit
The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. - Albert Einstein. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscienc... for a reference.
s/ in software anymore//
I just updated the application with the full screen feature. ;)
Catholics believe in evolution. With the catholic interpretation of the bible, science is generally seen as the how and the religious side as the why.
I'm so hoping you're just out-parodying the parody and not taking this seriously.
Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes relaunches The New Republic
> "I bought an Android phone to differentiate myself from the superficial drones carrying iPhones."

If they really wanted to be different, they should buy a Windows Phone...

Its hard to say where the truth is. There should be some fatigue over iPhone, but the Android alternatives aren't "good", who wants a second rate phone even if everyone else has the first rate one? Will people start wearing offbrand northpeak jackets because northface jackets are too popular?
This implies that they are only being paid for their added value, when in real situations they are often getting all of the benefit as they are in control of the customer relationship at that point; if a system like redis allows you to build something really complex and profitable with only a few days of effort (whether it be another developer tool or a website for end users that allows you to comment on cat pictures), when it took antirez an immense amount of time to build redis itself, then the question is whether the value you got for your profitable business is really yours to have, or whether "by all rights" a good chunk of it should have gone to antirez (who then might use it to cause more open code to exist, such as working on redis).

In this case, honestly, antirez's opinion seems to have an internal contradiction. On the one hand, he is perfectly fine with someone taking the things he's done, forking them for their purposes, making something theoretically valuable out of it with minimal effort, and then sequestering all of the value. On the other hand, his article clearly states that what he feels is missing in the world of open source is that the people who make the systems that people rely on to build their empires don't get paid for it, and don't get any money in return to pay their time to maintain their software. As someone who made this same mistake on various occasions, this really seems like someone who has caused their own problem: giving something away for free under the least restrictive license possible, and then wondering why they are unable to hold on to any of the value from it.

To quote his article:

> In my opinion instead what the open source does not get back in a fair amount is money, not patches. The new startups movement, and the low costs of operations of many large IT companies, are based on the existence of so much open source code working well. Businesses should try to share a small fraction of the money they earn with the people that wrote the open source software that is a key factor for their success, and I think that a sane way to redistribute part of the money is by hiring those people to just write open source software (like VMware did with me), or to provide donations.

^ antirez: If you really believe this, why not encode it into your license? You could easily say "if you want to use this for a project larger than X or making more than Y, you have to be willing to hire me in a support capacity". Alternatively, why not use one of the existing "tried and trusted" open source business models, such as "redis is awesome, but it is under a restrictively-free license; if you wish to use it for a purely selfish and commercial purpose, you thereby must contact me to get a special re-licensing of this program for your purposes, the royalties from which can be used to pay costs associated with redis, hire people (including myself) to work on redis, and generally can compensate the community for the success that using our product will bring you". Yes: the (A)GPL is the common license used to cause that to happen.
This is awesome. Took me a little while to realize that this was satire... I made the mistake of clicking on the video tab.
Michael Moritz: Perspective on Apple amid the clamour
Terrible startup idea. There are too many vowels in the name.
And zero photo filters.
TBPP2012: Andres Glusman of Meetup.com on “Getting to Here”
Please, let's not turn this thread into a tit-for-tat of Einstein quotes.
This looks like a father and son operation in Chicago.

You got many Mom and Pop operations like that who have technical skills but don't have a lick of business sense or business experience. It is ironically the main reason why so many Dotcom startups and Dotcom companies fail.

I figure they were in a hurry to add that link and so they rushed the job and botched the link back to their web site. Then maybe they were locked out of editing the web site because someone changed the password to the account they were using. I figure someone will erase their notice and nobody will know the difference. The only evidence will be this HN thread about it.

But seriously they need a lawyer to review their contract and find a way to collect on the money. Unless the client is filing bankruptcy (there is a cycle to it where a debtor can collect and cannot collect in the process of a bankruptcy but it is so complex only a lawyer can figure it out). Writing about it in public may even violate the contract in the first place if not some laws as well.
I rememebr when I was about 13 years old my friends and I used ICQ to chat online. One of my friends had an acquaintance who thought it was amusing to 'hack' their chat client. It wasn't particularly complicated or malicious, but she would do it persistently every night and this made it impossible to chat. We knew who it was because they would quite openly brag about it. But we also knew who their dialup ISP was. So we faked an email written by the ISP telling this person to stop what they were doing or legal action would be taken etc. We just changed the 'from' address in the email from a throaway hotmail account. They could have easily worked out that the email was fake, but we figured they would be so mortified that they wouldn't get that far. We were right. The problem stopped immediately and never happened again.

I can't help but think that this category of solution would be useful here, although there is a fine ethical line to tread...
>I didn't mention anything about the war on drugs. I'll spell out the analogy though: Anything worth trying once for, is worth trying twice for.

The context of the case is the war on drugs. That's the pretense for the government trying to steal his hotel, and I get the analogy. The problem is the premise. Even if everything worth trying once is worth trying twice, that doesn't do anything to prove you were right the first time, without which trying again is just compounding the error.

>Judges throw out cases on non-obvious reasoning all the time.

And is that what happened in this case? Because it seems like in this case it was "obvious" that the government was trying to take this man's hotel because it had no mortgage, they expected him to have insufficient liquid assets to successfully contest a seizure and when law enforcement seizes assets they get the resale value added to their budgets.
> However, regardless of what the goal is, you still haven't given an way to game the system apart from "teach kids to read [words/sentences]".

Sure I have. You ignore everything that is not tested. This gets you children that pass the tests. But it ignores all the other work that schools should be doing, and it reduces education to the worst, least inspiring, mechanical drudge work.

> I don't know off the top of my head whether the latter should be learned by 3rd grade. Ultimately setting the goals of our educational system is up to the various bureaucrats in the school system.

They can't agree. That's why I listed nonsense words in one of the requirements. There's an argument about whether phonics or whole-word approaches are better, even though we have good research showing that phonics is better. And so when you look at phonics methods (include nonsense words in the tests), you get disagreement in the phonics camp, and you also have all the non-phonics people piling on.

But this should be easy to discover, right? We have millions of children learning to read each year. We randomise them, we set up a control group, we give other groups different methods. Then we test. (assuming we can get agreement on what and how to test.)

I can't imagine any politician agreeing to that.
If this kind of effect is still being studied, is there some hope that it is correctly compensated when measuring planet temperatures?

From the article, it looks like the known effect is the urban heat island effect, which I assume is modeled correctly when predicting global warming. This new effect has about the same magnitude, but affects a much wider area.
When civil cases are used instead of criminal cases it seems particularly disgusting that the government can even appeal a decision in favor of a private citizen.
... as people generally don't like pictures of them being taken of them while they are in the bathroom, we actually do have laws that state that it is illegal to do so; past that, your analogy doesn't hold: we don't require all software to be submitted to a central archive so as to enforce GPL.
Learnings from my first digital interactive art installation
Calm down, it is a harmless folksy anecdotal comment on two technologies (ironically trademarked by the same company).

Java is a technology (including web plugins) that has received a lot of criticism from the community. Just recently the Department of Homeland Security had to chime in and recommend that users disable Java due to security concerns. MySQL has always received criticism due to various issues.
I think I liked it better when phones weren't a thing so you didn't have ridiculous lines of thought like the above.

Yeah, I did.
Free Mobile Marketplace “Vendly” Wants To Be A ‘Twitter For E-Commerce’
True enough. Strachey '67 after all...
I'm surprised the article didn't address the possibility that there was some mental illness involved. I assume the woman was in her early or mid 20's, an age where schizophrenia can manifest.
The fact the Gabe was attacking W8 is because of Metro, not Windows 8 itself. I blame the sensationalist media from manipulating it into what it became.

The real threat is Metro, not Windows 8. It is the anti-freedom, walled garden that everyone should fear.
Well they could have done a lot worse.

Like posting pictures of Goatse and Lemon Party on the main page of their client's web site. It would drive away potential customers and ruin their reputation.
NTSB: “No Obvious Anomalies” in Dreamliner Backup Battery
Wow, that's pretty ridiculous. You'd figure after a few months they'd tell me, right? Is that also why I get "Unknown or expired link" all the time and every page always takes 15-20 seconds to load? I noticed when I logged out that issue went away. I always just assumed the forum was really poorly designed. :o)
You are right it is totally meaningless. The similar argument that science is particularly suited to the religion of western europe suffers from similar flaws and is generally overdrawn.

It isn't really accurate to describe science "as flowering in muslim lands" when in reality the patronage of rulers with disposable income was far more important than any religious beliefs. Simply spending money won't create a healthy respect for science in a culture that doesn't respect it.

The timidity that the article describes is still very pervasive. I don't see an easy way out for many of these societies. Simply changing government policy or spending more money can be counter productive and serve as a crutch that hides the real problem.
Twitter Is Finally Preparing To Release Its Advertising API In Q1
It's really slick YT front-end. You should also (unobtrusively) include your TangleTube's [1] functionality in Toogles.

[1]: http://tangletube.com/
But how will he be Right On The Internet then?
Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish US
I doubt it.

How could anyone refactor something like this in Python

getattr(myobj, 'myprop', None)

Where mypropis dynamically generated?
Some other scientific terms of arabic origin: Algebra, Zero, Cipher, Azimuth, Zenith, Nadir, Chemistry, Alkali etc.
I went with case studies for sites & software projects, but those aren't always easy to come up with.

It definitely tends to be less of a visual portfolio than a designer's.
My ATM won't complain about an invalid pin until it actually communicates with the bank, at the very end of the transaction (after choosing checking/savings and the amount).
> A very common pattern in Scheme and JavaScript (...) is to use closures to encapsulate state. Thanks to Python's scoping model, this is at best a pain and certainly unnatural.

It is also unnecessary. Python has normal classes, so you can contain your state within objects rather than stackframes.
Marc Andreessen On The Future Of The Enterprise
If you're building REST APIs with Express and MySQL, check out this project I'm working on called Epilogue: https://github.com/dchester/epilogue

With Epilogue, once you define your models (with Sequelize), from there it's easy to get basic CRUD functionality and endpoints in a few lines of code.
> > "I bought an Android phone to differentiate myself from the superficial drones carrying iPhones."

>

> If they really wanted to be different, they should buy a Windows Phone...

A phone shouldn't be something that defines you as an individual.
Shh, that isn't helping the persecution complex any!

Seriously, both religious and scientific folk need to get over themselves on this schtick. Policy moves forward at a glacial pace because culture abhors all change, and regularly seeks the path of least resistance.
Alchemy is a more obvious one than chemistry :)
Hackers take over sentencing commission website
Do you have a reference confirming that this is true for packaged apps? I couldn't find anything that says one way or the other.
This article was riveting. It's rare that I read such a long piece, but it's really well written. Particularly when it occurs that disturbingly, I have no better way to check the veracity of the words here than anyone else would of the words written by "Nasreen". Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell.
I kept thinking if her emails were as batshit crazy as the author states, why not just post all of them online. Buy a domain and make a big public display of what a whackjob this person is. Allow her to publicly hang herself.

I suspect, as suggested in the comments, some or all of this is possibly fabricated for book sales? Otherwise, many of his responses don't make much sense. I think most would very quickly, and correctly, attempt to sue for defamation.