skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... and perhaps [Chrome's aggressive caching] simply is driven by the desire to collect more information to provide you with more relevant ads."

The whole article loses credibility with me because of that one statement. Surely this guy knows that a local DNS or document or image cache is not being used to provide the Google mothership with more data to improve Adwords performance, right?
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Once Amazon and big e-tailers figure out they're being crawled for profits or to the detriment of their sales, you can bet they will restrict access and charge a fee. Seems like a good idea, and I'm sure many of us have thought of the same idea, but it's easy for any of the big guys to easily block their crawler whenever they wish. Crowdsourcing works to a certain extent but that's what deal sites are for.

I remember a real estate startup crawling listing prices from many real estate sites for maket analysis. Needless to say, that startup was shutdown quicker then you can you say "doh!"
To be fair, you'd just making a different set of people resentful, those who know they could negotiate a better deal, and they leave to start their own venture. If people feel like their wasting time, ie. getting paid less than they know they could earn, because they're folded into a salary level system, they're going to leave.

Frankly making salaries public knowledge is an egregious invasion of privacy, and a security risk.
OpenTok on WebRTC now supports Firefox
If you make your living by writing, the only product you deliver to the world is your written word. I wasn't belittling journalism, I was simply stating what it is. Words can and do have a profound impact on the world. Language is arguably the most important invention in the history of humanity.

Yes, journalism often involves research, editing, and countless other tasks, but the end product, is the writing that is produced as a result of those processes.
The Dribbble Challenge
1. Most people aren't Usain Bolt or some other high level athlete. 2. Most of them are on some sort of steroid, hormone or peptide and 3. What is "portion control" if nothing other than an unscientific way of saying "hit/eat your macros"?

I do have a saying, if your only go is "not be a fatass", then sure, there are many, many suboptimal ways to approach this problem. However, if you care about more than just not being a fatass, there is more to think about. Not much more, just a little bit. Overall, though, it is REALLY easy to get this right if you just can articulate your actual real goal.
Instead of attacking the NYT, why not just let another paper do the same test with the same car?

There may be an issue with that particular car, the journalist could be bias or the battery may just not perform well in cold weather. It’s hard to tell without additional testing.

I don’t see why all the focus is on who said what. Just re-run the test a few times to try to repro. That’s what I’d do if someone had an issue with a piece of code I’d written.
technically your example is incorrect unless the same attribute name is used quite a few times. Regardless, premature optimisation is the root of all evil, especially in places that are highly unlikely to be a bottleneck and even more so when it's used to remove valuable documentation.
First thing something would do with this: integrate it with Google Glass. While nodding your head or tapping a touchpad on the side by your temple might be awkward, discretely swiping up and down with your had would be more natural and less obvious.
I agree with this. I was recently amazed when a front-end developer came up with a google query that had much better results for a problem I was having.
IIRC, the offramp from the highway was .3 miles from the beginning to the first turn, so if Broder missed even one of the turns, .6 miles is pretty easy to get to.
Is this not open source?
Typically customers handle this through some type of waiver system. Generally at the initial visit in an organization a patient signs a ton of releases that state that the parent organization allowed to share patient information as needed through the course of treatment. Most people want to share their information, but there are systems in place to restrict access as needed by law/best practices. Patients can opt out of data, and some data sharing systems support this through various technical choke points. If you were a nurse at one organization, you may not want people snooping through your medical records at another medical organization. The Direct Protocol supports this through pseudo-anonymity of accounts.
The article makes a point that the decision to take away remote working privileges is probably based on data that Yahoo had about their remote working employees. He's suggesting that remote working wasn't working for them, so they nixed it.

But this is the issue I take with the article and the action from Yahoo - remote working isn't a "it does/doesn't work for them/us" type of thing. Remote working either does or does not work, and you are either doing it correctly or doing it incorrectly. Since there is evidence out there that shows that remote working can be just as effective as in-office working (and, in many cases, more effective), I'm left to assume that Yahoo was just doing it wrong.

I do not believe that the concept of remote fluctuates in its performance so greatly - the concept is sound. It's the implementation that is flawed - implementation at companies like Yahoo. There are ways to do it right, and there are ways to do it wrong; Yahoo chose the latter.

So, now the problem is this: when you find that your company has been failing at something, do you try to fix it or do you choose to cut it? Many things that Yahoo has been failing at, in terms of business, have not been cut. Instead, they're trying to fix them. When it comes to benefits for the employees, however, they're more than willing to cut those benefits.

In my mind, the correct action isn't to cut the remote working program, but to find what you're doing wrong and fix it. Cutting the program is only going to demoralize employees and make the company seem less desirable to future talent.
How I got 10,000 likes for my Facebook Page in 4 weeks?
Mullav is good anonymous VPN. I will check the conference video, thanks.
> What made you want to avoid use a slider?

I built a political survey app once, and we started out using sliders to measure both (1) issue importance and (2) agree/disagree. It was way too fiddly, and no one cared about degree of accuracy. Every iteration of the UI we gave the user fewer choices. By the end I was pushing for just "agree" and "disagree" or even "agree" and "next question," but we never took it quite that far.
> to refer to UX... tropes (what word would you use here? Motif?

Probably 'pattern', I guess. I agree, I think it's a very practical new usage which doesn't introduce much ambiguity elsewhere, so I'm all for it.
Technically correct, however the brake booster only activates when you are braking, in which case the engine is either spinning down to idle or idling. I am not certain of this, but I think this means it is essentially "waste work", because the engine would be idling anyway, and the power drain of the brake booster is not significant enough to warrant feeding the engine extra gasoline.

This is distinct from things like A/C, which place a non-trivial amount of load on the engine even at idle, and often require things like a higher idle speed while engaged.
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." I think Nasrudin?
Any real world application for these algorithms will have the graph embedded in some kind of coordinate system. Euclidean distance is a popular heuristic given how it maps to the real world idea of "distance".
Let me clear that up. The biochemistry of obesity is not trivial, but knowing what to eat to control your weight is not hard. It just takes some research and self experimentation. It's empowering when you figure out how certain foods affect you. I'm at a point where if I want a six pack again, I know exactly what to eat and for how long. I understand the makeup of most of the foods I eat and understand the consequences of eating them, how they will affect my blood sugar, which ones trigger my asthma and eczema, etc. When you throw out all the bullshit spewed out by mainstream health media, and take human anthropology into account, it is amazing how quickly you realize how much we've been duped into thinking it's all about calories.

If you're on a Standard American Diet and don't get fat (or skinny fat), you'll most likely get some other disease caused by inflammation, like cancer, Parkinson's, or Alzheimer's. There are always exceptions though, like genetic outliers, people who produce high amounts of salivary amylase, and high level athletes who burn through all that sugar.
> There is no discernable difference between the correct answer and an incorrect one,

For non-experts in forensics vs statistics can an average jury member make better decisions about expert level results in forensics compared to statistics/math? It is possible that statistics and math are just less common knowledge and most jury members would then be able to discerne finner differences in forensics then compared to statistics. If this is the case though there is nothing incorrect about the tool, statistis which seems to be implied in the original article, and it is just a lack of common understand that in theory if correct would allow for a new tool to be used.
I think ultimately the Chromebook Pixel is going to be great for windows laptops. Google's main goal here seems to be not to actually sell any laptops, but to set a benchmark for reviewers. In every review of any windows laptop right now, the benchmark for build quality is the macbook pro, but reviewer's opinions generally seem to be that the MBP is a sort of pie-in-the-sky thing that windows laptops shouldn't even have to aspire to be. now the another laptop of this quality exists, it should be a bit more of an expected standard rather than an upper bound.
Under ordinary circumstances a half mile would be nothing. But when the car is telling you that you have zero miles of charge remaining, the half mile could be the difference between getting an uneventful charge and getting a dramatic story about the car dying within walking distance of the charging station.
"from the perspective of "stupid, bad customer, misunderstanding my product/service again.""

Exactly. And further to that point it's the golden rule. He who has the gold rules. The NYT has the audience and the ear of the public. That's the gold.

"mark of inexperience and immaturity"

The test for this of course if anyone after this experience would follow the same path as Musk did (Musk or someone simply knowing about this). If the answer is "no" then a lesson was learned which dovetails with "inexperience".
What's the sample size for that survey? Howard Stern sent someone wandering through the streets of one of the poorest parts of New York, and found a bunch of idiots who either didn't know who the president was, or thought that Mitt Romney would win the election solely because he is an African American. That doesn't mean that everyone in New York is stupid. Any survey that supposes to represent a national opinion should involve at the very least, several million people.

I'm just a bit taken aback, because that's such a ridiculous and idiotic view to hold. It's almost as stupid as believing the holocaust didn't happen.
Is this the part?

"When Beard (1990) compared the PRF traits associated with impostor feelings in men and women, he found differing patterns which suggest that, though both male and female impostors are high in defendence and untrusting of others, they may respond differently to this perception of threat from others in achievement situations. For females, impostor, feelings had low correlations with impulsivity and need for change, consistent with the usual description of impostors as cautious and unlikely to engage in risk-taking. For males, on the other hand, impostor feelings were associated with high impulsivity and a strong need for change, as well as a low need for order. Beard (1990) speculated that, instead of dealing with their sense of inadequacy in the withdrawing style typical of females impostors, male impostors may tend to compensate by pushing themselves in a frenetic manner in order to prove their competency."
If he actually intended to say that why didn't he just say it? The fact that he leaves us guessing is puzzling.
I'm excited about Glass but this article is atrocious. The first sentence made my roll my eyes and groan.
Noncircumstantial evidence is evidence which directly supports the point for which it is introduced, without any inference required.

Circumstantial evidence is evidence which requires a logical inference in order to support the point for which it is introduced.

That is roughly how evidence is explained by judges to juries in courtrooms.

For example, the victim's blood on the defendant's shoe is noncircumstantial evidence because it directly supports the point that the defendant was present in the vicinity of the victim's body. However, finding at the crime scene a brown fiber which is same type of fiber used to stich the defendant's very expensive, limited edition gloves, would be circumstantial evidence because you have to logically infer that the fiber found comes from the defendant's gloves. Alternatively, finding gloves that are identical to the defendant's gloves is also circumstantial evidence unless there is other evidence showing conclusively that those particular gloves are the defendants, i.e., footage of the defendant leaving the gloves there or something.
If you think of idiocy as a "terrible and grand flop" it turns out that the only way to truly fail in a massive scale is to execute in a massive scale and, for that, you need money.

You might also wish to consider the impact of bureaucracy in decision making. Big blunders usually have non-technical people making terrible calls.
> Among the Machiguenga, word quickly spread of the young, square-jawed visitor from America giving away money.

I get the sense they tested the game with (for the local economy) large amounts of money in small towns, where participants probably already knew each other.

That's a very different scenario than most American iterations I've known of the game, with college students who probably don't know each other playing for relatively small amounts of money.

Nickle-and-diming your random classmate out of 10 cents is very different from taking a week's pay that could have gone to your neighbor.
There is a huge difference though - when your engine is cold, an ICE still has as much fuel in the tank as last night, but an EV has 'lost fuel'. That's something new.
Asus announces FonePad, a budget tablet
shrug I work at a US nonprofit, so the salaries of all our "key employees" are legally required to be public knowledge. As I understand it, this is also true of all H1-B recipients. You seem to be over-reacting.
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Ask HN: How to regain interest in Programming?
I have been fired as a co-founder of a now very successful startup company that I have spend all my energy and time building.

And after being fired, I took full-time programming jobs on 3 other companies that eventually fired me and leave a very bitter experience and now so reluctant to take new jobs because I'm afraid that it would turn out to be the same fate as my past 4 work.

And everytime I got fired, I gradually lost my heart on software development.

Now I'm not finding any work and would like to start my own software company, but I'm still carrying this heavy burden of loss and failure in my heart, and just want to do nothing and lazily lay in my bed.

Any advice?
The experiment is flawed. $100 means a lot more in Peru than in the US. If the experiment was conducted in Peru with $1 would the subjects there be more inclined to be fair? Another factor is that college students who are the usual subjects in the US are not as concerned about money as subsistence farmers.
making websites without sounds - isn't :E
The hell screen painted on the side of the tech company employee carriage
CircleCI Raises $1.5M To Test Web Apps
Yeah, pulled straight out of a content farmer's ass.
I'm just saying it's not necessary to think about "macros" until you get to an advanced level. Even then, it might still not be necessary, unless you have specific goals like competitive body building or marathon running.
Reading this only magnifies the unmitigated disgust I feel towards Carmen Ortiz and her subordinates. Unfortunately, the only constructive thing we can do is make an example of them, just as they tried to make an example of Aaron.

Help put their records as prosecutors on-line where everyone can see them.

http://www.plainsite.org/asymptote/

The goal is a page like this for every prosecutor in the country:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/attorney.html?id=69049
Makes me wonder then why Googles presses so much on academic CS knowledge during their interviews.
> I'd say the problem for mainstream users is that some apps are too targeted: it may be both effective (and the most cost effective way to advertize and reach your audience), it's also creepy to many users.

This was Target's realization, was it not? They were doing super-specific targeting and analytics, like sending coupons for pregnant women (to the ire of a teenage woman's dad,) and later switched to "hiding" the coupons in irrelevant coupons so the pack looked more generic.

Personally, I'd much rather receive the focused coupons. I'm not going to stop a company from learning about me unless I go paranoid, so I might as well receive insight as to what it thinks it knows.

Five minutes ago I thought that Amazon, Netflix, and Pandora simply couldn't nail my tastes, but perhaps they're in some long game of not creeping me out and knowing that I'll return _some_day_.
Privacy is one reason, but not a very good one. For the "Open Tabs" sync, privacy is a very good reason.
I think the third paragraph explained their thinking:

While they offered a relatively short sentence,
prosecutors were absolutely determined to get a
felony plea and some kind of prison time, according
to sources cited by The Huffington Post. They wanted
those results because they believed it would justify
their bringing charges in the first place, according
to HuffPo.
Haskell books will certainly not hurt. You won't need monads right away and you won't feel lacking certain Haskell powers if you don't read RWH right away, but in the long run, it will make F# more enjoyable. Of course OCaml books, ML books, and Clojure books will always help too, as will Scala ones.
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Just gotta wait out ten years to see the revenue. Which is why traditionally it's big corporations that could handle investing into advertising of the youths.
Interesting. I read the initial articles with the data pulled from the car, the first few reviews of the car, and a couple of other articles, but I wasn't aware that his data was being contested.

I'm just saying generally, if it is proven that a journalist intentionally manipulates a product review, that should probably be the end of his career. As I stated, a proper investigation is always important before any action is taken.
One of my favorite books, Managing the Professional Services Firm by David Maister, talks about how professionals of all kinds tend to need acknowledgement and recognition of their accomplishments, and as soon as they accomplish one thing they move the goal posts further out. I don't recall whether he invokes impostor syndrome explicitly, but that's what it sounds like. No matter how accomplished/experienced you are, you always have a further goal and are seeking proof of your expertise.
i'm asking in advance for a little indulgence as I trot out my language snobbery:

I had to check that the blogpost wasn't an April 1st submission because the entire premise of writing a toolchain to get cross-platform compatibility out of Visual Basic has get to be April Fool's material. The fact that the language is interpreted from VB into other languages that might generously be described as "partially good" (like JavaScript and PHP) just takes this whole thing over the top.

in other words my mind is blow (as per Atwood's comment) that the goal of cross-platform compatibility wasn't achieved in a sane way, like just using Java or Python.
Note that "huge" and "infinite" are not the same thing.
They did control for that by offering an incentive that was only a few days' wages. "The stakes Henrich used in the game with the Machiguenga were not insubstantial—roughly equivalent to the few days’ wages they sometimes earned from episodic work with logging or oil companies."

EDIT

$100 isn't necessarily a few days wages for those who are working in a well paying full time position but for a college student that could mean a few days of going out.
Dell XPS13 Developer Edition still not available in Europe (German)
02/25/2013 03:01:15PM	DoubleMalt: "Wie kann ich in Österreich http://www.dell.com/Learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop bestellen?"
02/25/2013 03:01:31PM	Mittel (Jana_Biddermann): "Herzlich Willkommen im Chat."
02/25/2013 03:01:44PM	DoubleMalt: "Guten Tag!"
02/25/2013 03:01:50PM	Mittel (Jana_Biddermann): "Das ist leider weder in Österreich noch in Deutschland oder der Schweiz möglich."
02/25/2013 03:02:03PM	Mittel (Jana_Biddermann): "Die Linux Variante war lediglich in den USA verfügbar."
02/25/2013 03:02:23PM	DoubleMalt: "Von der Homepage:

The laptop is now available in the following additional countries: United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, Austria, Denmark, S. Africa and Israel."
02/25/2013 03:03:08PM	DoubleMalt: "Also ist das eine Fehlinformation?"
02/25/2013 03:03:26PM	Mittel (Jana_Biddermann): "Ist leider nicht der Fall. Geplant war es früher, wurde aber nicht realisiert."
02/25/2013 03:03:41PM	Mittel (Jana_Biddermann): "Ich leite den Hinweis mal ans Marketing weiter. Danke dafür."
02/25/2013 03:05:52PM	DoubleMalt: "Diese Ankündigung ist nicht mal 10 Tage alt ..."
02/25/2013 03:06:17PM	Mittel (Jana_Biddermann): "Okay. Wir machen folgendes:"
02/25/2013 03:06:35PM	Mittel (Jana_Biddermann): "Geben Sie mir mal bitte Ihre E-Mail Adresse. Ich lasse das abklären und gebe Ihnen Bescheid."
02/25/2013 03:07:04PM	Mittel (Jana_Biddermann): "Aktuell ist intern noch nichts bekannt geworden, dass das XPS mit Linux auch in AT oder DE verfügbar sein soll."
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Why I won't be taking United Airlines again
What about 'opinion' pieces, for example? These are explicitly for things that are not verifiable.
BP goes to court for Deepwater Horizon oil spill
If it really was just to justify the whole circus then the outrage towards the DOJ is warranted. It's silly to let pride and spite ruin someone's life.
Bump firing the rifle would be inaccurate if the shooter went through the whole clip with one or two pulls. This stock attachment allows for reasonably accurate burst firing.

A gunman with an automatic weapon will not necessarily waste all of his ammunition with continuous, inaccurate fire. With very little training, he can learn to burst fire. This capability blurs the line between a military and civilian rifle.

There is a video of the stock in action here [1]. It seems to me that someone with limited training would still completely outgun a regular police officer armed only with a pistol.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLt8-Wf7r0